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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García
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Anthropologist (interdisciplinary): (im)mobilities, informality, humanitarianism, migration, transnationalism, networks, social work, sports, humor | Assistant professor at University of Oviedo | first gen, dad, surfer, growing organic vegetables
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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · Dec 12

[Self-promotion] “Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im)mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe” just published with my dear colleague Kristín Loftsdóttir. Please reach out to me if you have no access to the article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Título y abstract del artículo: Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im) mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe Ignacio Fradejas-Garc´ıa University of Oviedo, Spain Krist´ın Loftsdóttir University of Iceland, Iceland Abstract This article analyses cause lawyering as a critical form of resistance to uneven European Union (EU) mobility regimes. Grounded in the proclamation of a migration crisis during 2020–21 in the Canary Islands, Spain, when newly arrived racialized migrants in irregular situations faced different types of (im)mobilization during their transits to continental Europe, the article shows that cause lawyering is a significant strategy for disputing exclusionary dimensions of law and policy, and/or (im)mobility regulations when rules are arbitrarily applied or violated. The case is illustrated ethnographically and follows various expert lawyers in migration working within formal or informal structures, as well as nonlawyer allies such as ombudsmen, activists, friends, or migrant families, who facilitate the navigation of migrant mobilities using human rights and national and international laws and regulations. The analysis focuses on their actions in practice and shows how they challenge specific mobility rules within the EU’s mobility regimes, create procedures to deal with bureaucracies and problems regarding access to legal services, and strategically litigate individual cases in local, national and supranational jurisdictions. By drawing attention to the plurality of actors performing mobility-related cause lawyering to challenge uneven regimes of (im)mobility, the article contributes to the critical work that analyses practices of migrant resistance by going beyond the portrayals of unauthorized migrants battling alone against the odds as victims or heroes.
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🔴 EXCLUSIVA
El gobierno de España abre 2 cárceles de migrantes en Mauritania. Las obras corrieron a cargo de la agencia de cooperación FIAP (Min. Asuntos Exteriores). Ambos centros de detención tienen cunas para bebés.
Vía @elsaltodiario.com
🧵 HILO ⬇️
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El Gobierno de España abre dos cárceles de migrantes en Mauritania
Ambos centros de detención fueron construidos por la agencia de cooperación española FIAP, del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, y reservan espacio e incluso cunas para privar de libertad también a mi...
www.elsaltodiario.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Escuchando a Dolors Comas d'Argemir en el XIX Simposio de Inclusión Social #EAPN hablar sobre modelos de cuidado de larga duración (mayoría personas mayores). Se y nos pregunta: ¿Qué queremos cuando "seamos" mayores?
October 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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📢Call for Chapters "Flavours of Informality: An Exploration of the Grey Areas Between the Legal–Illegal & Moral–Immoral Boundaries". Palgrave Int. Series Political Economy (ed Tim Shaw). Eds: Polese, Fradejas-García, Isaev, Helou. Deadline abstracts: 30 Nov 2025
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(PDF) CfP: "Flavours of Informality: An Exploration of the Grey Areas Between the Legal-Illegal and Moral-Immoral Boundaries"
PDF | Call for Chapters. Publisher: Palgrave-international series in political economy (edited by Tim Shaw). Flavours of Informality seeks empirical... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
ignaciofradejas.bsky.social
Ahora mismo en la plenaria del congreso #REPS25 'Evaluación de políticas públicas, práctica basada en la evidencia', con Eloisa del Pino, Fernando Fantova,Joseba Zalakain y José Antonio Noguera.
@tsunirioja.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Muy contento con la publicación de esta nueva serie de "Theorizing the Contemporary" para Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social, la segunda que hacemos en español. Un lujazo de tema y contribuciones

www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo...
www.culanth.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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acorsin.bsky.social
Delighted to see this new Theorizing the Contemporary series now published—the second to appear in Spanish, on a wonderfully exciting topic and featuring a brilliant lineup of contributors @culanth.bsky.social

www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo...
www.culanth.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
ignaciofradejas.bsky.social
👋 Invitation to the film premiere of my short documentary "Bracelets" + discussion
⏰ Wednesday 22, at 18hrs (Spain).
👉 hybrid event.Link (code 561029) ewde.zoom.us/j/6730011549... 
o en persona en Talent Garden (Madrid). 

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October 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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alissecc.bsky.social
Please read this important and powerful letter by Hayal Akarsu the eloquent, committed president of European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).Letter from the president easaonline.org/newsletter/8...
Letter from the president
EASA President Hayal Akarsu addresses the membership
easaonline.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
ignaciofradejas.bsky.social
I recommend this International Winter Course "Personal Networks: Theory, Methods and Applications" in Barcelona.
Great to create personal network research designs & to analyze personal network data. Useful for graduate students and researchers in social sciences.
webs.uab.cat/egolab/15th-...
15th Personal networks course – egolab-GRAFO
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October 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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mirandayaver.bsky.social
New Yorker cartoons nail it again.
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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sdartiailh.bsky.social
Institute of Anthropology - Leipzig University
Doctoral researcher position (m/f/d/x) with the DFG project “Environ-mental health: Experience, ethics and poiesis of ecological grief amid wounded environments in India” (ENVIRON-MENTAL)
www.arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche/job...
Doctoral researcher (m/f/d/x) bei Universität Leipzig
Founded in 1409, Leipzig University is one of Germany’s largest universities and a leader in research and medical training. With around 30,000 students and more than 5000 members of staff across 14 fa...
www.arbeitsagentur.de
October 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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zbrunarska.bsky.social
📣#jobalert #hiring
#Postdoc opportunity for a qualitative scholar for 14.5 mo (fte) @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social to work on the political impact of new Russian emigrants on host countries and the RF in the DemEx project: www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
#migrationresearch #sociology
October 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
ignaciofradejas.bsky.social
Stop genocide, free palestine.
October 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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migcontrol.bsky.social
💥📽️Join us for our upcoming film screening+panel discussion organized w/ @brotfuerdiewelt.bsky.social & #AMMODI on:

➡️EU border externalization, fishery policies, and departures along the #AtlanticRoute 🇸🇳 🇪🇺

w/ @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social #SerigneMbayé @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social #PapaSeck
October 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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18 medidas para detener el genocidio en Gaza

Los gobiernos europeos tienen el deber de sancionar, prevenir, presionar, suspender acuerdos comerciales, etc

Las organizaciones sociales y la gente también podemos hacer. Aquí el listado ⬇️

www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
¿Qué podemos hacer desde Europa para detener el genocidio israelí en Gaza?
Las sociedades europeas llevan meses escuchando de sus gobiernos palabras que no se traducen en acciones, mientras siguen la hambruna y las matanzas; he aquí 18 medidas para detener la complicidad de ...
www.eldiario.es
August 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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ialvarezossorio.bsky.social
¿Qué podemos hacer desde Europa para detener el genocidio israelí en Gaza? www.eldiario.es/129_bea5b4?u...
¿Qué podemos hacer desde Europa para detener el genocidio israelí en Gaza?
Las sociedades europeas llevan meses escuchando de sus gobiernos palabras que no se traducen en acciones, mientras las masacres y la hambruna continúan; he aquí medidas para detener la complicidad de ...
www.eldiario.es
August 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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tyrexito.bsky.social
Sobre posicionarse o no ante un puto genocidio, vuelvo a poner esta del año pasado.
July 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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rmartiunrwa.bsky.social
Han muerto más periodistas en Gaza (232) que en la Guerra Civil de US, la Primera y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la Guerra de Corea, la Guerra de Vietnam (+Camboya y Laos), las guerras de Yugoslavia y la guerra de Afganistán juntas.
Israel está silenciando las voces de los periodistas.
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Great event opportunity for ECRs working on #migration and #ethnography

thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
Early Career Researchers Day 2025
A one-day in-person event hosted by The Sociological Review Foundation for early career researchers, featuring workshops on migration studies and ethnography, taking place in Glasgow on 27 November 20...
thesociologicalreview.org
July 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
"If we stop taking world leaders at their word and instead think of Neo-Liberalism as a political project, it suddenly looks spectacularly effective. The politicians, CEOs, trade bureaucrats, and so forth may have done a miserable job in creating a world capitalist economy that meets the needs of a majority of the world’s inhabitants but they have succeeded magnificently in convincing the world that capitalism, and not just capitalism, but exactly the financialized, semifeudal capitalism we happen to have right now, is the only viable economic system. If you think about it, this is a remarkable accomplishment." - David Graeber
July 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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tobyvogel.bsky.social
Late to this but @economist.com published an editorial that is factually wrong, misleading (not to say manipulative) and presents a convoluted argument about how to build a better international protection system – essentially by scrapping international protection.

First, a couple of facts.
Scrap the asylum system—and build something better
Rich countries need to separate asylum from labour migration
www.economist.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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ankikirakita.bsky.social
[A]n anthropology that is always in pursuit of ontological multiplicity and the highlighting of existing dominated and overshadowed modes of existence. [a] mistake to see in the highlighting of such minor realities an intrinsically anti-capitalist act.

www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Critical Anthropology as a Permanent State of First Contact
There is enough of the Marxist that remains in me to make me unable to think of politics without thinking about capitalism.
www.culanth.org
July 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
ignaciofradejas.bsky.social
Now even playgrounds are boring
July 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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July 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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ensamblajes.bsky.social
Hoy, miércoles 21 de mayo, continúa el 1er Encuentro de Antropología Joven, organizado por la Red de Antropología Joven de la Asociación de Antropología del Estado Español (ASAEE).

🕕 De 18:00 a 19:30 (hora peninsular española)
🌐 Online, sin inscripción previa
🔗 Enlace: meet.google.com/xkm-bghi-adr
May 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM