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Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social · Sep 9

"The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing” is now out in @economyandspace.bsky.social

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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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Sarah Perret @sarahperret.bsky.social · Aug 25

(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

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Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.
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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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Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social · Apr 30

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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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · Apr 28

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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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · Apr 24

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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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · Apr 17

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...

www.tandfonline.com

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Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social · Apr 17

@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

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

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · Apr 7

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?

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Ana Ballesteros-Pena @anaballesteros.bsky.social · Mar 13

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 @theecre.bsky.social · Feb 7

🧵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 ⬇️

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · Jan 28

“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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Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social · Jan 21

"Bridled Labour and the Making of Migrants’ Route.
Refugees’ Workers at the French-Italian Border" just came out in @journalpariss.bsky.social

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in the article I use Yann Moulier-Boutang's concept of "bridled labour" to politicise migrants' escapes

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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · Jan 13

Recommended reading: Special Issue on "Intersectional Solidarities and Resistances in Face of Violent Migration Regimes" by Sarah Murru, Robin Vandevoordt, Naïké Garny, and A. Tancrède Pagès.

www.digest.ugent.be/article/id/9...

Editorial - Intersectional Solidarities and Resistances in Face of Violent Migration Regimes

Migration regimes affect people’s mobility differently along the lines of their gender, race, class, nationality, age, sexual orientation, and more, exposing them to varying degrees and types of viole...

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Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social · Dec 11

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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