In this IMISCOE blog post, Ana Margheritis discusses the recently published JIRS special issue titled "Migration Crisis with Adjectives: Towards a New Conceptualization and Assessment of Institutional Responses to Migration Crises across World Regions". Read here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

🤔Wait, what do you mean you use refugee paintings and social media in legal research?
📌In a fresh article published #openaccess in Ethnicities, I explain how I explored refugees’ visual artifacts to understand their experiences with migration management in Lesvos.

More here👉🏼 doi.org/10.1177/1468...

Publication Alert!

New Special Issue titled "Migration Crisis with Adjectives: Towards a New Conceptualization and Assessment of Institutional Responses to Migration Crises across World Regions", edited by Prof. Ana Margheritis, is now published in the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.

🚨Happy to share my new #openaccess article "A Creeping Crisis of Migration Management? Institutional Responses and Implications for 'Access' at the EU's Physical, Legal, and Social Borders" in Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, part of SI "Migration Crises with Adjectives".
🔗 lnkd.in/drEMQWUb

It’s hard to overstate the scale of irresponsibility involved in cutting limits on greenhouse gas emissions. This is criminal—and we’ll all pay for their rejection of reality.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

The IPC warns:

"The worst-case scenario of Famine is rapidly unfolding in the Gaza Strip amid relentless conflict, displacements, and extremely limited humanitarian access."

"Acute malnutrition has surged across the Gaza Strip, quadrupling and reaching Famine threshold in Gaza City."

Arrived in Seoul yesterday, looking forward to attending @ipsa.org #IPSA2025 World Congress! Tomorrow at 17.30 I will present the first paper from my postdoctoral project. 🇰🇷🗼

The paper delves into the justness of the EU green transition from the perspective of migrant workers in the Finnish Arctic.

4 tyttären isä Sameh Saftawi:

"Rukoilkaa puolestamme ja toivokaa meille nopeaa kuolemaa. Koska tämä on toiveemme nyt. Tai katsokaa puoleemme myötätunnolla ja auttakaa meitä pääsemään pois tästä maasta."

Kuolemaa... vai pelastusta? Kumpaa palestiinalaisille on luvassa, riippuu meidän hallituksesta!

Join us for the relaunch of our Online Café on Monday, 19 May at 16:00 CET!

🔹 A one-hour informal space to connect, share ideas & published work

🔹 Featuring presentations by @bossoloji.bsky.social and @pau-palop.bsky.social

📍Venue: Webex
unine.webex.com/meet/great.u...

Let’s (re)connect!

The 36th Helsinki Summer Seminar 'Re-thinking Public/Private Divide' hosts an excellent group of speakers, including @jdamh.bsky.social @mjdurkee.bsky.social, and Elisabetta Morlino, in Helsinki 25-29 August 2025. Read more about the Seminar www.helsinki.fi/en/erik-cast... Registration link below

Now out and #openaccess in issue 30(2): ‘Now You See Me’: Refugees Looking Back at the EU’s Border Camp Watch in Lesvos by @bossoloji.bsky.social and @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social

Download and read for free:

Save the date! We’re organizing a launch seminar for ‘JUST-BOUND–Justice Beyond Boundaries’, a key research focus within the REBOUND - Just Green Transition project.

📆 17 April 2025
🕚 11.00am to 12.00pm EEST
📍 Porthania building @helsinki.fi center campus, P545 & Online

More info👉🏼 lnkd.in/dfcnzqJR

States manage refugees not only through physical borders, but also legal and social borders. In my doctoral thesis, I examined the EU's external borders from refugees' perspectives. I spoke with @anssibwalya.bsky.social for @helsinki.fi Yliopisto magazine.
Read more👉 www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/p...

First ever conference as a doctor! Yesterday I arrived in Chicago to attend #ISA2025 @isanet.bsky.social on March 2-6.
I will chair a session on the politics of migration and asylum & present my forthcoming article on the EU’s migration management crisis.
Now exploring the city before the big event.

Our article “‘Now You See Me’: Refugees Looking Back at the EU’s Border Camp Watch in Lesvos” with @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social is now available on vol. 30(2) @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social!

We explore refugees’ struggles against the visuality of border watchers in Lesvos.

doi.org/10.1080/1465...

I don’t have qualifications to work as a lawyer in Finland, but you can contact the Refugee Advice Centre. They may assist you with your case. www.pakolaisneuvonta.fi/en

One week, one article from my doctoral thesis
4️⃣ How art and social media transformed refugee movements in Lesvos

I explore how refugee-produced paintings and social media content in Lesvos reflect struggles vis-à-vis rising hostility and silencing & challenge these.
www.fmreview.org/digital-disr...

One week, one article from my doctoral thesis
4️⃣ How art and social media transformed refugee movements in Lesvos

I explore how refugee-produced paintings and social media content in Lesvos reflect struggles vis-à-vis rising hostility and silencing & challenge these.
www.fmreview.org/digital-disr...

The NYT describing military occupation, the mass ethnic cleansing of two million people and the shredding of what’s left of international law :

Aw thank you so much, Dr Sormunen! 🥹🤗

As of January 28th, I’m officially a Doctor of Laws (with distinction) from @helsinki.fi.🥹🥹

Super chuffed to have completed this milestone after a very challenging journey. Now moving to the next phase as a postdoctoral researcher in the REBOUND project at Helsinki Law Faculty.

One week, one article from my doctoral thesis:
3️⃣ Narratives of Agency: Understanding the Refugee Experience through Paintings at the EU’s External Borders

I explore how refugee-produced paintings in Lesvos represent border experiences and struggles & become refugees’ voices.
doi.org/10.18357/big...

One week, one article from my doctoral thesis:
2️⃣ ‘Now You See Me’: Refugees Looking Back at the EU’s Border Camp Watch in Lesvos

In this article authored w/ @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social, we explore how refugees challenge Greek authorities’ bordering in Lesvos on social media.
doi.org/10.1080/1465...