Marta Esperti
@martaesperti.bsky.social
#PhD candidate @univ-spn.bsky.social Fellow researcher @icmigrations.bsky.social Lecturer @univcatholille.bsky.social & @Institut Catholique de Paris Former lecturer @sciencespo.bsky.social & visiting academic @ox.ac.uk Alumna @ehess.fr cum laude
#PapaFrancesco segreto. Il “team Bergoglio” con cui il Papa mappava mafie e crimini contro i diritti umani nel mondo: magistrati, religiosi, giornalisti, politici, premi Nobel, Onu. Tra nemici e i “piani” per salvare vite. @nelloscavo @Avvenire_Nei www.avvenire.it/attualita/pa...
Diritti umani. Francesco e le ong che salvano i migranti: storia di un'amicizia
Il Papa si occupava concretamente del rispetto della dignità delle persone, specie dei più fragili, anche attraverso una rete informale e varia di “consulenti” che segnalava dossier su irregolarità...
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C’è la destra Usa dietro l’emergenza migranti a Ceuta? Il finanziamento da 40 milioni al Marocco e quell’articolo che aveva «previsto» tutto https://www.europesays.com/it/612262/ di Federico Fubini Trump si è subito posto da baluardo contro i clandestini. Tutti gli indizi di un…
C'è la destra Usa dietro l'emergenza migranti a Ceuta? Il finanziamento da 40 milioni al Marocco e quell'articolo che aveva «previsto» tutto - Italia
Trump si è subito posto da baluardo contro i clandestini. Tutti gli indizi di un possibile coinvolgimenti degli Stati Uniti
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Irene Vega's Bordering on Indifference has won three @asanews.bsky.social awards! 🎉 - Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award, @asamigration.bsky.social - Ida B. Wells-Barnett Distinguished Book Award, Crime, Law and Deviance Section - Latina/o Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship Book Award
Register for our mentoring luncheon by this Friday, July 10th: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Saturday, August 8th at Tang Pavillon, near the ASA venues!!
ASA International Migration Section Mentoring Lunch
We are organizing a mentorship lunch for graduate students and faculty on Saturday, August 8 at 12:00 PM at Tang Pavilion (65 W 55th St, New York, NY 10019, United States). This lunch is off-site, so ...
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Register for the IM section mini-conference, Migration + Crisis, on Friday, August 7th at CUNY Graduate Center:
💡 If you're attending #ASA2026 in two weeks, and my book, Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...), has been in your book pile, now might be a good time to pick it up so you can make the most of this session, Monday morning at 8 am!
If you're looking to chat with editor Elizabeth Ault at #ASA2026 in New York, check out our Meet the Editors page for details on how to request a meeting! buff.ly/8zjVjwp
There’s still time to reserve your spot at #ASA2026, the year’s can’t-miss gathering of sociologists! Make time for Sunday’s (Soc)ial Circles, featuring fun and interactive guided discussions organized in small groups to help you meet new people! Register today! https://bit.ly/3NmR2hD
1/4 For years, I studied how maritime rescue in the Central Med can turn into biopolitical containment. Then, I experienced that exact same mechanism firsthand within the humanitarian and legal establishment. I wrote about the "Architecture of Salvation" open.substack.com/pub/martaesp... 👇
The Architecture of Salvation: The Symbolic Violence of Institutional Rescue, Governance Feminism, and the Reclamation of Feminist Agency
A critical sociological inquiry into institutional rescue, governance feminism, and the reclamation of feminist agency. (French and Italian versions follow below)
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1/2 🎞️ “Il muro di gomma”, 1991, diretto da Marco Risi, scritto da Andrea Purgatori, Sandro Pettaglia, Stefano Rulli. Je ne saurais dire à quel point ce film compte pour moi, et combien il résonne intimement avec les étapes et les engagements de ma propre vie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyo9...
Il Muro di Gomma - FILM 1991
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The COMPAS team recently participated in @imiscoe.bsky.social's 2026 Conference in Girona. We spoke to those who presented to find out why their research topic matters, what they hope audiences took away from their talk, and what they gained from attending 🖊️ www.compas.ox.ac.uk/article/imis...
1/3 My analysis about an important article by Pietro Malesani for Altreconomia: The Greek case is not an exception. Across Europe, the criminalisation of solidarity has become an increasingly important technology of border governance. 👇
Avant-dernière Suite dans les Idées sur France Culture. L’heure de commencer à faire les valises en nous penchant sur l’Italie comme laboratoire de la confusion politique. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
L'Italie, laboratoire de la confusion politique
De la "disparition des lucioles" à l'extrémisme du centre, de Pasolini et Sciascia à Berlusconi, Meloni et jusque ici : ce que l'Italie des années 1960-1990 nous dit de notre présent.
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#VendrediLecture 📚 "Rome, promenades sociologiques" de Marco Cremaschi, professeur d'urbanisme au CEE, parait aujourd'hui aux @editionsscpo.bsky.social La Ville éternelle au-delà des cartes postales ! 👉 www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/fr/book/?gco... @scpo-research.bsky.social
« Violences faites aux femmes et droit pénal : l’impunité en question », Johanna Lenne-Cornuez, Nicolas Nayfeld. Lutter pour des poursuites plus efficaces et équitables, mais aussi pour des poursuites féministes @raisonspolitiques.bsky.social @cairninfo.bsky.social shs.cairn.info/revue-raison...
1/4 Très heureuse de découvrir le nouveau livre de @shoshana-fine.bsky.social et Thomas Lindemann Les questions soulevées par cet ouvrage font écho à certains interrogations qui traversent mes propres recherches sur la gouvernance de la frontière maritime euro-méditerranéenne 👇
EditionsScpo@editionsscpo.bsky.social · 3mo ago« La violence au nom de la loi », @shoshana-fine.bsky.social (@univcatholille.bsky.social, @icmigrations.bsky.social), Thomas Lindemann (@uvsq.bsky.social, @polytechniqueparis.bsky.social) 📖 En librairie le 19 juin www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/fr/book/?gco...
« La violence au nom de la loi », @shoshana-fine.bsky.social (@univcatholille.bsky.social, @icmigrations.bsky.social), Thomas Lindemann (@uvsq.bsky.social, @polytechniqueparis.bsky.social) 📖 En librairie le 19 juin www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/fr/book/?gco...
La violence au nom de la loi - Presses de Sciences Po
Shoshana Fine, Thomas Lindemann - Les auteurs ont enquêté pour comprendre comment le droit peut être mobilisé non pas pour protéger les populations, mais pour les exposer à la violence.
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Retrouvez le dossier sur "Le droit des étrangers. Entre tensions et ambiguités", que j'ai dirigé avec Ségolène Barbou des Places, Antoine Pécoud, Serge Slama &Emeline Zougbédé Mondes & Migrations, 2025, n° 1350 journals.openedition.org/mondesmigrat... IUF @icmigrations.bsky.social
1350 | 2025 De quel droit ?
Le droit des étrangers est au centre des politiques migratoires et suscite de nombreux débats où incompréhensions et tensions cohabitent. Ce dossier interroge les multiples missions du droit censé...
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[1/10] Hélène Thiollet, professeur à Sciences Po, analyse dans Les Grands Dossiers de Diplomatie (n°84, février-mars 2025) la diplomatie migratoire, un domaine influent où migrations et politiques internationales se croisent pour gérer les flux migratoires et les enjeux géopolitiques. #geography
La diplomatie migratoire dans un monde en mutation
Depuis les années 2000, la migration et l’asile semble avoir envahi les discours et l’action diplomatiques. En 2023, l’Union européenne insiste
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A few personal notes to begin a new space for writing and reflection — cultural, academic and personal. 🌿 martaesperti.substack.com/p/some-place...
Some places never truly leave us: where the story begins
For many years, I have written scattered notes.
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Nouveau numéro de @raisonspolitiques.bsky.social, dirigé par la formidable @mlbg.bsky.social : Souveraineté, frontières, migrations à lire sur @Cairninfo ➡️ shs.cairn.info/revue-raison...
Appel à contributions pour la #revue Policy & Politics @brisunipress.bsky.social sur le thème "Power and Politics in the Policy Process" Date limite d'envoi des propositions : 1er septembre 2026 En savoir plus : bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
🔴 Le n°10 du #MagAFSP de juin 2026 est sorti ! Avec un dossier consacré aux "Sujets sensibles sous le regard des politistes" ⤵️ À découvrir et feuilleter en ligne ici : www.afsp.info/activites/le... #ESR #SHS #sciencepolitique
ASA is pleased to announce the 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant recipients. These 25 exceptional research projects by a talented group of advanced graduate students were chosen for their intellectual merit and potential broader impacts. bit.ly/ASA26DDRIG
ASA member Ashley C. Rondini @ashley-c-rondini.bsky.social writes how the rhetorical devices that have been used to stoke fear of trans/nonbinary people are now being invoked to justify surveillance, criminalization, and denial of civil rights. @theprogressivemag.bsky.social
Anti-Transgender Rhetoric Fuels Violence
Amid disproportionate violence against transgender Americans, anti-transgender rhetoric endangers them further.
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Ahead of the next release of UK migration data tomorrow (21 May), researchers from @migobs.bsky.social at COMPAS set out what they will be watching for - from the trajectory of net migration to the use of asylum hotels and a surge in citizenship applications. ⬇️ 🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05...
📸 Migrants return from an attempted channel crossing at night, Marie Godin.
In my opinion Habermas’s legacy remains deeply relevant not because reason has triumphed, but because abandoning the struggle for a principled public sphere leaves democratic life exposed to cynicism, domination and dehumanisation.
Marta Esperti@martaesperti.bsky.social · 2mo ago1/2 A very timely piece by Alex Ross on #Habermas. What remains powerful in Habermas is not a naïve faith in #consensus, but the insistence that #democracy depends on the fragile conditions of public reasoning, mutual recognition and shared institutions. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
1/2 A very timely piece by Alex Ross on #Habermas. What remains powerful in Habermas is not a naïve faith in #consensus, but the insistence that #democracy depends on the fragile conditions of public reasoning, mutual recognition and shared institutions. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age
The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.
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