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Danai Avgeri

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Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Vienna Borders | Mobility | Racial Capitalism | Humanitariasm | Frontier Economies

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Danai Avgeri @danaiavgeri.bsky.social · 27d

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.

Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social · Sep 9

"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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Danai Avgeri @danaiavgeri.bsky.social · May 29

📢 Excited to share my latest article!

In this paper, I explore how humanitarian-development approaches to displacement intersect with racialized practices of containment & economic extraction in Europe's urban borderlands.

It's open-access and you can read it here👇
journals.sagepub.com/home/EPD

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