Punitive environments and asylum seekers as rights abusers: my analysis of the implementation of the EU Pact in Italy: rosalux.eu/en/2026/puni... @rosaluxeu.bsky.social

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The EU Pact in Italy The road to the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in Italy is quite ambivalent: on the one hand, as lawyers and NGOs have commented, it will be very likely del...

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Danai Avgeri and I wrote a short piece on the forced co-habitation between asylum seekers and citizens in the Greek refugee camp of Koutsochero: altreconomia.it/la-coabitazi... on Altraeconomia

La coabitazione forzata tra greci e richiedenti asilo nel campo di Koutsochero

Nella struttura per rifugiati nella zona centrale del Paese sono stati trasferiti due anni e mezzo fa circa 300 cittadini greci in seguito a un'alluvione. A oggi ne sono rimasti una trentina insieme a 1.500 richiedenti asilo, per lo più sudanesi. Quello che viene rivendicato come un "esperimento mondiale" mette in luce in realtà "il governo degli sfollati", che tratta le persone con disprezzo, riproduce precarietà e lede l’accesso ai diritti

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Middle East scholar @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social says the "extremely precarious" ceasefire between the United States and Iran effectively leaves the Strait of Hormuz under ongoing Iranian control, part of "a fundamental change in the region."

The new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum implies a tactical use of geography and temporality to hamper migrants from getting access to asylum "The Spatiotemporal Disguises of Asylum" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... out in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social

"Iran’s aim now seems to be not to secure victory but to raise the war's cost to prohibitive levels. What follows is a strategy of endurance and attrition. The Islamic Republic has prepared for the possibility that the US and Israel might opt for direct confrontation." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together

The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

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My latest interview with @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the recent uprising in Iran and the wider political context. I’ve tried to offer a measured assessment of the dynamics at play and the limits of easy answers. jacobin.com/2026/01/iran...

Iran Is Facing Its Deepest Crisis Since the 1979 Revolution

Discontent over dire economic conditions lay behind the protest wave that rocked Iran earlier this month. A US attack will make things even worse for the Iranian people, whether or not it results in t...

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"Governing by debasing migrant lives. Reconceptualising biopolitics and extractivism in migration geography" is now out in @proghumgeog.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Governing by debasing migrant lives. Reconceptualising biopolitics and extractivism in migration geography - Martina Tazzioli, 2026

This article offers a nuanced understanding of the biopolitics of migration, interrogating the ways in which migrants are object of value extraction by being de...

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In a new article on the #Portolan blog @smartitaz.bsky.social and #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social stress that #migration has become a key vehicle for #authoritarianism. buff.ly/8ors8j5 #Borders #Asylum #EU #Rights #Asyl #Flüchtlingsschutz #Einwanderung #Politik #Gesellschaft #Rechtsruck

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Honoured that we were invited by Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra to contribute to their new blog #Portolan! The text by Martina Tazzioli and myself is called “Punitive Environments and the anti-immigration authoritarian commonsense”. portolan-journal.org?post=punitiv...

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"How are we to understand ... the neo- and hyper-colonial futures through which “peace” and “reconstruction” in Gaza are being framed and implemented?" portolan-journal.org?post=propert...

"In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation." proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...

Planning Against Palestine • Protean Magazine

In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation.

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Bologna against the genocide: today more than 60 000 took the street of Bologna and joined the national strike in support of the population in Gaza

Online first: Martina Tazzioli on value extraction through the debasement of migrant lives. Part of our Frontiers of Value in Migration Governance Special Issue (co-edited w/ @alibhagat.bsky.social & Julia Morris), forthcoming in EPA: Economy & Space.

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"The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing” is now out in @economyandspace.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It investigates value extraction by debasing lives, which encapsulates psycho-physical debilitation and socio-economic devaluation

"The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing” is now out in @economyandspace.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It investigates value extraction by debasing lives, which encapsulates psycho-physical debilitation and socio-economic devaluation

The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing - Martina Tazzioli, 2025

This article engages with current debates on value extraction from migrants and claims that it is necessary to complicate analyses that insist exclusively eithe...

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(1/2) Looking forward to our section with @smartitaz.bsky.social 'S17-Traces of Violence, Struggles and Power' with very promising panels and presentations at the #EISAPEC25 annual Conference in Bologna 🇮🇹 👇 @europeanisa.bsky.social @espol-lab.bsky.social #InternationalRelations

Glad to see the article “Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself" now out in International Migration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... special issue on The Digitized Migration

“Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself

This paper interrogates the making of digital subjectivities that stem from the multiple data extractions that migrants experience. It argues that the digitalisation of the border regime does not pro...

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Join us at the Summer School "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma" at the University of Bologna🎉 September 8-12, 2025 centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... No fees- deadline June 9 MA and PhD students Memory Lab - Department of History & Cultures

Summer School "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma"

Bologna • September 8th – September 12th, 2025

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Translated this crucial new piece by @veronicagago.bsky.social in @radical-philosophy.bsky.social that develops the concept of the "fascistisation of social reproduction": www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...

Veronica Gago · The fascistisation of social reproduction (2025)

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In this article, @smartitaz.bsky.social & I discuss how some decolonial approaches to borders & migration conceptualise colonial legacies by reducing the complex ways in which the colonial past informs racialised bordering mechanisms in the present. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles

Critique concerning Migration Studies’ Eurocentrism and its oblivion of race and colonialism has gained traction, prompting considerable soul-searching in the field as well as calls to decolonise M...

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Happy this article I co-authored with Martina Tazzioli is out & #openaccess! In it, we caution against a 'decolonial redux' in analyses of (Mediterranean) migration & (EU) border enforcement. @smartitaz.bsky.social @Scrmjems.bsky.social @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles

Critique concerning Migration Studies’ Eurocentrism and its oblivion of race and colonialism has gained traction, prompting considerable soul-searching in the field as well as calls to decolonise M...

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@mauricestierl.bsky.social and I wrote a piece on "Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles" , now out in JEMS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... The article intervenes in debates on Eurocentrism in migration studies and its oblivion of race

Doing a guest lecture on counter-mapping later this week. Adding this - public.tableau.com/app/profile/... - to my examples. Any other recent mapping projects that might help students think through how to counter-map the current moment?

EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Fiction or Reality? Insights from the Canary Islands by Gustavo de la Orden. @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Fiction or Reality? Insights from the Canary Islands

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🧵ECRE has published a comments paper on the Screening Regulation Find out all about the Regulation introducing the screening of third-country nationals at the external borders ⬇️

“When your only recourse is austerity, anti-migrant rhetoric begins to dominate politics as the only explanation for the nation’s self-inflicted economic wounds,” argues @smartitaz.bsky.social | https://buff.ly/3Qf0BO5 Tazzioli unpacks the false logic behind the migration crisis. #UKPolitics

Immigration is not a zero-sum game | Martina Tazzioli

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"Bridled Labour and the Making of Migrants’ Route. Refugees’ Workers at the French-Italian Border" just came out in @journalpariss.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal... in the article I use Yann Moulier-Boutang's concept of "bridled labour" to politicise migrants' escapes

Assembling traces of border violence. Counter-mapping as counter-archiving" is now out in EPD journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... The piece develops counter-mapping as counter-archiving to account for the continuum of violence that migrants experience drawing on traces

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