M Stierl
Biographic Data
| ID | 47848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Stierl |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Stierl |
| SIGNATURE | STIERL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5979-4632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 567 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Modern Slavery and Migration: A Conversation on the Production of Invasive Figures and Racist Imaginaries
What makes up the figure of the ‘modern slave’ and why does it appear so regularly in discussions over both climate change and migration? In this conversation, Nandita Dutta and Maurice Stierl discuss how the modern slave emerges in their respective fields of research, what political function it plays and what colonial, racial and spatial imaginaries it is embedded in. This figure is not innocent – it marks out racialised others, chaotic places ‘…
Performing geographies of disappearance: Migration and the case of the Saharan knowledge claim
Islands of Solidarity? Migration and Activism in Malta
How does geography shape possibilities for migration-related activism and advocacy? In this article, we investigate this question through a case study of the Maltese Islands. Though located on the edge of the European Union, Malta has long considered itself at the centre of a ‘migration crisis’ in the Mediterranean. Maltese politicians have denounced what they perceive as a lack of solidarity from ‘EUrope’ and argued that they carry a disproporti…
Rebel spirits at sea: Disrupting EUrope’s weaponizing of time in maritime migration governance
In August 2020, a motor yacht formerly owned by French customs authorities set sail in the Mediterranean Sea in search of migrant boats in distress. Funded by the street artist Banksy, the search and rescue engagement of the Louise Michel was meant to prevent both the continuous loss of migrant lives at sea and mass interceptions to North Africa. Assessing her maiden voyage and strategic conception, as well as her operational and political impact…
The evolution of EUropean border governance through crisis: Frontex and the interplay of protracted and acute crisis narratives
Crisis narratives are widespread in migration and border governance globally, including in EUrope. In response, a body of scholarship that critically scrutinizes crisis narratives and imaginaries has emerged. Building on and further extending this scholarship, this article questions the dichotomy between ‘normality’ and ‘crisis’ in border governance. Focusing on four moments in which crises were declared in relation to migration and EUropean bord…
The “Covid excuse: EUropean border violence in the Mediterranean Sea
This article examines developments along the central Mediterranean border, following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in EUrope. In response to the pandemic, EU member states enacted emergency legislation, further curtailing movements across borders. Italy and Malta declared their harbours “unsafe” for migrant arrivals, withdrew rescue operations, and installed offshore detention facilities. Though ostensibly enacted in the name of “saving l…
Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home
Over the past years, we have seen a rise in political mobilisations in EUrope and elsewhere, by and in solidarity with migrant newcomers. This article focuses on specific examples of what we conceptualise as transversal solidarities by and with migrants, and rooted in the city, the focus of this special issue. The examples we explore in this article include: Trampoline House, a civil society organisation which provides a home to migrant newcomers…
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Europe's unsafe environment: Migrant confinement under Covid-19
In this article, we examine border closures and forms of migrant confinement in the EUropean context that have been carried out in the name of safety and protection – of both citizens and migrant travellers – from the Covid-19 virus.Footnote1 While, at the outbreak of the pandemic, cosmopolitan travellers and international tourists were asked by ‘their’ national governments to return home, those already displaced and precariously on the move were…
We Closed the Ports to Protect Refugees.' Hygienic Borders and Deterrence Humanitarianism during Covid-19
This article investigates how the security-humanitarian rationale that underpins migration governmentality has been restructured by and inflected in light of hygienic-sanitary borders which enforce racialised confinement in the name of both migrants' and citizens' safety from infection by Covid-19. Focusing on the politics of migration containment along EUrope's frontiers, examining in particular border reinforcements carried out by Italy, Malta …
Do no harm? The impact of policy on migration scholarship
The mass migrations of 2015 were not merely a watershed moment for ‘EUrope’ but also for the scholarly study of migration to EUrope. With academic expertise and insights becoming much sought-after in the media and political discourse, migration scholarship has gained in unknown popularity over recent years. This current ‘migration knowledge hype’ has particularly benefited scholarship that claims to be of relevance for EUropean policymakers in fi…
Reimagining EUrope through the Governance of Migration
In its own narrative, EUrope conceives of itself as a postnational and transborder project, often through tropes of movement and the transgression of borders. In light of this imaginary, recent mass migrations provoked a serious conundrum. How would the EUropean polity reconcile the dominant idea of itself with its desire to erect barriers to cross-border movements from the “Global South”? This article inquires into tensions between, first, Hunga…
Of Migrant Slaves and Underground Railroads: Movement, Containment, Freedom
This article explores the figure of the "migrant slave" that appears to conjoin antithetical notions-migration, often associated with intentionality and movement, and slavery, commonly associated with coercion and confinement. The figure of the migrant as slave has been frequently mobilized by "antitrafficking crusaders" in debates over unauthorized forms of trans-Mediterranean crossings to EUrope. Besides scrutinizing the depoliticized and dehis…
Amplifying Migrant Voices and Struggles at Sea as a Radical Practice
This article takes the encounters between migrant travelers at sea and Alarm Phone activists on land as a starting point to inquire into recent transformations in maritime migrant mobilities and EUropean and North African attempts to govern them, with a focus on the western Mediterranean Sea. The Alarm Phone, an activist hotline assisting migrants in distress at sea, has been involved in everyday struggles over movement in all three Mediterranean…
Vers une politique de la liberté de mouvement
Si l'unique alternative au régime de fermeture des frontières actuel semble être un régime fondé sur la liberté de se mouvoir des migrants, cet horizon politique rencontre de nombreuses difficultés. Pour tenter de répondre à celles-ci, nous partons des multiples frontières étatiques et sociales dont les migrants font l'expérience à travers leurs trajectoires et indiquons autant de dimensions de luttes nécessaires à une politique de la liberté de …
Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe
Over the past few years, increased ‘unauthorised’ migrations into the territories of Europe have resulted in one of the most severe crises in the history of the European Union. Stierl explores migration and border struggles in contemporary Europe and the ways in which they animate, problematise, and transform the region and its political formation. This volume follows public protests of migrant activists, less visible attempts of those on the mov…
A Fleet of Mediterranean Border Humanitarians
EUrope has created a space of human suffering within which military-humanitarian measures seem urgently required if the mass drowning is to be halted. The framing of migration governance as humanitarian has become commonplace in spectacular border practices in the Mediterranean Sea. Nonetheless, maritime disasters continue to unfold. This article discusses three non-governmental actors, part of an emerging "humanitarian fleet" that seeks to turn …
Everything Is Dangerous: Conduct and Counter-Conduct in the Occupy Movement
How can we conceive of practices of counter-conduct within spaces of resistance? This article examines practices of counter-conduct in the context of Occupy movements that were keen to emphasise their openness, inclusivity, and their manifestation of processes which facilitate non-hierarchical and radically democratic social relations. As they criticised and work to unmake a global order marked by privilege, violence, alienation and extraordinary…
A sea of struggle - activist border interventions in the Mediterranean Sea
In October 2014, on the anniversary of a large migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea, activists in Europe and Africa commemorated the victims and protested their deaths by launching the WatchTheMed Alarm Phone. The Alarm Phone functions as a ‘hotline’ for travellers who find themselves in emergency situations when crossing maritime borders towards EUrope. Its shift-teams offer information, advice and the possibility of raising public alarm, …
Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins
Throughout the world, political mobilizations by refugees, irregularized migrants, and solidarity activists have emerged, demanding and enacting the right to move and to stay, struggling for citizenship and human rights, and protesting the violence and deadliness of contemporary border regimes. These struggles regularly traverse the local and constitute trans-border, trans-categorical, and in fact, social movements. This special issue inquires in…
Contestations in death - the role of grief in migration struggles
This article explores forms of 'grief-activism' commemorating those who have perished on the move, in the waters surrounding EUrope, at physical border barriers or on EUrope's streets and in its detention centres. Contestations in death protest the differential distribution of vulnerability and a politics of division, abandonment and necropolitical violence on which EUrope's border regime thrives. Mobilising both Judith Butler's notion of grievab…
No One Is Illegal!’ Resistance and the Politics of Discomfort
This work attempts to recast conceptions of global/ised political resistance. Instead of following systematic accounts of actors seeking global social transformation, it is shown how a Foucauldian understanding of power and resistance—here developed into a 'politics of discomfort'—can help illuminate more situated and cautious approaches to expressions of dissent. It is illustrated how undocumented migrants, or sans-papiers, with the support of t…
Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins
Throughout the world, political mobilizations by refugees, irregularized migrants, and solidarity activists have emerged, demanding and enacting the right to move and to stay, struggling for citizenship and human rights, and protesting the violence and deadliness of contemporary border regimes. These struggles regularly traverse the local and constitute trans-border, trans-categorical, and in fact, social movements. This special issue inquires in…
A Fleet of Mediterranean Border Humanitarians
EUrope has created a space of human suffering within which military-humanitarian measures seem urgently required if the mass drowning is to be halted. The framing of migration governance as humanitarian has become commonplace in spectacular border practices in the Mediterranean Sea. Nonetheless, maritime disasters continue to unfold. This article discusses three non-governmental actors, part of an emerging "humanitarian fleet" that seeks to turn …
Contestations in death - the role of grief in migration struggles
This article explores forms of 'grief-activism' commemorating those who have perished on the move, in the waters surrounding EUrope, at physical border barriers or on EUrope's streets and in its detention centres. Contestations in death protest the differential distribution of vulnerability and a politics of division, abandonment and necropolitical violence on which EUrope's border regime thrives. Mobilising both Judith Butler's notion of grievab…
A sea of struggle - activist border interventions in the Mediterranean Sea
In October 2014, on the anniversary of a large migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea, activists in Europe and Africa commemorated the victims and protested their deaths by launching the WatchTheMed Alarm Phone. The Alarm Phone functions as a ‘hotline’ for travellers who find themselves in emergency situations when crossing maritime borders towards EUrope. Its shift-teams offer information, advice and the possibility of raising public alarm, …
The “Covid excuse: EUropean border violence in the Mediterranean Sea
This article examines developments along the central Mediterranean border, following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in EUrope. In response to the pandemic, EU member states enacted emergency legislation, further curtailing movements across borders. Italy and Malta declared their harbours “unsafe” for migrant arrivals, withdrew rescue operations, and installed offshore detention facilities. Though ostensibly enacted in the name of “saving l…
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
We Closed the Ports to Protect Refugees.' Hygienic Borders and Deterrence Humanitarianism during Covid-19
This article investigates how the security-humanitarian rationale that underpins migration governmentality has been restructured by and inflected in light of hygienic-sanitary borders which enforce racialised confinement in the name of both migrants' and citizens' safety from infection by Covid-19. Focusing on the politics of migration containment along EUrope's frontiers, examining in particular border reinforcements carried out by Italy, Malta …
The evolution of EUropean border governance through crisis: Frontex and the interplay of protracted and acute crisis narratives
Crisis narratives are widespread in migration and border governance globally, including in EUrope. In response, a body of scholarship that critically scrutinizes crisis narratives and imaginaries has emerged. Building on and further extending this scholarship, this article questions the dichotomy between ‘normality’ and ‘crisis’ in border governance. Focusing on four moments in which crises were declared in relation to migration and EUropean bord…
Do no harm? The impact of policy on migration scholarship
The mass migrations of 2015 were not merely a watershed moment for ‘EUrope’ but also for the scholarly study of migration to EUrope. With academic expertise and insights becoming much sought-after in the media and political discourse, migration scholarship has gained in unknown popularity over recent years. This current ‘migration knowledge hype’ has particularly benefited scholarship that claims to be of relevance for EUropean policymakers in fi…
Of Migrant Slaves and Underground Railroads: Movement, Containment, Freedom
This article explores the figure of the "migrant slave" that appears to conjoin antithetical notions-migration, often associated with intentionality and movement, and slavery, commonly associated with coercion and confinement. The figure of the migrant as slave has been frequently mobilized by "antitrafficking crusaders" in debates over unauthorized forms of trans-Mediterranean crossings to EUrope. Besides scrutinizing the depoliticized and dehis…
Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home
Over the past years, we have seen a rise in political mobilisations in EUrope and elsewhere, by and in solidarity with migrant newcomers. This article focuses on specific examples of what we conceptualise as transversal solidarities by and with migrants, and rooted in the city, the focus of this special issue. The examples we explore in this article include: Trampoline House, a civil society organisation which provides a home to migrant newcomers…
Europe's unsafe environment: Migrant confinement under Covid-19
In this article, we examine border closures and forms of migrant confinement in the EUropean context that have been carried out in the name of safety and protection – of both citizens and migrant travellers – from the Covid-19 virus.Footnote1 While, at the outbreak of the pandemic, cosmopolitan travellers and international tourists were asked by ‘their’ national governments to return home, those already displaced and precariously on the move were…
Reimagining EUrope through the Governance of Migration
In its own narrative, EUrope conceives of itself as a postnational and transborder project, often through tropes of movement and the transgression of borders. In light of this imaginary, recent mass migrations provoked a serious conundrum. How would the EUropean polity reconcile the dominant idea of itself with its desire to erect barriers to cross-border movements from the “Global South”? This article inquires into tensions between, first, Hunga…
Rebel spirits at sea: Disrupting EUrope’s weaponizing of time in maritime migration governance
In August 2020, a motor yacht formerly owned by French customs authorities set sail in the Mediterranean Sea in search of migrant boats in distress. Funded by the street artist Banksy, the search and rescue engagement of the Louise Michel was meant to prevent both the continuous loss of migrant lives at sea and mass interceptions to North Africa. Assessing her maiden voyage and strategic conception, as well as her operational and political impact…
Everything Is Dangerous: Conduct and Counter-Conduct in the Occupy Movement
How can we conceive of practices of counter-conduct within spaces of resistance? This article examines practices of counter-conduct in the context of Occupy movements that were keen to emphasise their openness, inclusivity, and their manifestation of processes which facilitate non-hierarchical and radically democratic social relations. As they criticised and work to unmake a global order marked by privilege, violence, alienation and extraordinary…
No One Is Illegal!’ Resistance and the Politics of Discomfort
This work attempts to recast conceptions of global/ised political resistance. Instead of following systematic accounts of actors seeking global social transformation, it is shown how a Foucauldian understanding of power and resistance—here developed into a 'politics of discomfort'—can help illuminate more situated and cautious approaches to expressions of dissent. It is illustrated how undocumented migrants, or sans-papiers, with the support of t…
Amplifying Migrant Voices and Struggles at Sea as a Radical Practice
This article takes the encounters between migrant travelers at sea and Alarm Phone activists on land as a starting point to inquire into recent transformations in maritime migrant mobilities and EUropean and North African attempts to govern them, with a focus on the western Mediterranean Sea. The Alarm Phone, an activist hotline assisting migrants in distress at sea, has been involved in everyday struggles over movement in all three Mediterranean…
Performing geographies of disappearance: Migration and the case of the Saharan knowledge claim
Vers une politique de la liberté de mouvement
Si l'unique alternative au régime de fermeture des frontières actuel semble être un régime fondé sur la liberté de se mouvoir des migrants, cet horizon politique rencontre de nombreuses difficultés. Pour tenter de répondre à celles-ci, nous partons des multiples frontières étatiques et sociales dont les migrants font l'expérience à travers leurs trajectoires et indiquons autant de dimensions de luttes nécessaires à une politique de la liberté de …
No One Is Illegal!’ Resistance and the Politics of Discomfort
This work attempts to recast conceptions of global/ised political resistance. Instead of following systematic accounts of actors seeking global social transformation, it is shown how a Foucauldian understanding of power and resistance—here developed into a 'politics of discomfort'—can help illuminate more situated and cautious approaches to expressions of dissent. It is illustrated how undocumented migrants, or sans-papiers, with the support of t…
Everything Is Dangerous: Conduct and Counter-Conduct in the Occupy Movement
How can we conceive of practices of counter-conduct within spaces of resistance? This article examines practices of counter-conduct in the context of Occupy movements that were keen to emphasise their openness, inclusivity, and their manifestation of processes which facilitate non-hierarchical and radically democratic social relations. As they criticised and work to unmake a global order marked by privilege, violence, alienation and extraordinary…
A sea of struggle - activist border interventions in the Mediterranean Sea
In October 2014, on the anniversary of a large migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea, activists in Europe and Africa commemorated the victims and protested their deaths by launching the WatchTheMed Alarm Phone. The Alarm Phone functions as a ‘hotline’ for travellers who find themselves in emergency situations when crossing maritime borders towards EUrope. Its shift-teams offer information, advice and the possibility of raising public alarm, …
Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins
Throughout the world, political mobilizations by refugees, irregularized migrants, and solidarity activists have emerged, demanding and enacting the right to move and to stay, struggling for citizenship and human rights, and protesting the violence and deadliness of contemporary border regimes. These struggles regularly traverse the local and constitute trans-border, trans-categorical, and in fact, social movements. This special issue inquires in…
Contestations in death - the role of grief in migration struggles
This article explores forms of 'grief-activism' commemorating those who have perished on the move, in the waters surrounding EUrope, at physical border barriers or on EUrope's streets and in its detention centres. Contestations in death protest the differential distribution of vulnerability and a politics of division, abandonment and necropolitical violence on which EUrope's border regime thrives. Mobilising both Judith Butler's notion of grievab…
A Fleet of Mediterranean Border Humanitarians
EUrope has created a space of human suffering within which military-humanitarian measures seem urgently required if the mass drowning is to be halted. The framing of migration governance as humanitarian has become commonplace in spectacular border practices in the Mediterranean Sea. Nonetheless, maritime disasters continue to unfold. This article discusses three non-governmental actors, part of an emerging "humanitarian fleet" that seeks to turn …
Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe
Over the past few years, increased ‘unauthorised’ migrations into the territories of Europe have resulted in one of the most severe crises in the history of the European Union. Stierl explores migration and border struggles in contemporary Europe and the ways in which they animate, problematise, and transform the region and its political formation. This volume follows public protests of migrant activists, less visible attempts of those on the mov…
Amplifying Migrant Voices and Struggles at Sea as a Radical Practice
This article takes the encounters between migrant travelers at sea and Alarm Phone activists on land as a starting point to inquire into recent transformations in maritime migrant mobilities and EUropean and North African attempts to govern them, with a focus on the western Mediterranean Sea. The Alarm Phone, an activist hotline assisting migrants in distress at sea, has been involved in everyday struggles over movement in all three Mediterranean…
Vers une politique de la liberté de mouvement
Si l'unique alternative au régime de fermeture des frontières actuel semble être un régime fondé sur la liberté de se mouvoir des migrants, cet horizon politique rencontre de nombreuses difficultés. Pour tenter de répondre à celles-ci, nous partons des multiples frontières étatiques et sociales dont les migrants font l'expérience à travers leurs trajectoires et indiquons autant de dimensions de luttes nécessaires à une politique de la liberté de …
Do no harm? The impact of policy on migration scholarship
The mass migrations of 2015 were not merely a watershed moment for ‘EUrope’ but also for the scholarly study of migration to EUrope. With academic expertise and insights becoming much sought-after in the media and political discourse, migration scholarship has gained in unknown popularity over recent years. This current ‘migration knowledge hype’ has particularly benefited scholarship that claims to be of relevance for EUropean policymakers in fi…
Reimagining EUrope through the Governance of Migration
In its own narrative, EUrope conceives of itself as a postnational and transborder project, often through tropes of movement and the transgression of borders. In light of this imaginary, recent mass migrations provoked a serious conundrum. How would the EUropean polity reconcile the dominant idea of itself with its desire to erect barriers to cross-border movements from the “Global South”? This article inquires into tensions between, first, Hunga…
Of Migrant Slaves and Underground Railroads: Movement, Containment, Freedom
This article explores the figure of the "migrant slave" that appears to conjoin antithetical notions-migration, often associated with intentionality and movement, and slavery, commonly associated with coercion and confinement. The figure of the migrant as slave has been frequently mobilized by "antitrafficking crusaders" in debates over unauthorized forms of trans-Mediterranean crossings to EUrope. Besides scrutinizing the depoliticized and dehis…
Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home
Over the past years, we have seen a rise in political mobilisations in EUrope and elsewhere, by and in solidarity with migrant newcomers. This article focuses on specific examples of what we conceptualise as transversal solidarities by and with migrants, and rooted in the city, the focus of this special issue. The examples we explore in this article include: Trampoline House, a civil society organisation which provides a home to migrant newcomers…
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Europe's unsafe environment: Migrant confinement under Covid-19
In this article, we examine border closures and forms of migrant confinement in the EUropean context that have been carried out in the name of safety and protection – of both citizens and migrant travellers – from the Covid-19 virus.Footnote1 While, at the outbreak of the pandemic, cosmopolitan travellers and international tourists were asked by ‘their’ national governments to return home, those already displaced and precariously on the move were…
We Closed the Ports to Protect Refugees.' Hygienic Borders and Deterrence Humanitarianism during Covid-19
This article investigates how the security-humanitarian rationale that underpins migration governmentality has been restructured by and inflected in light of hygienic-sanitary borders which enforce racialised confinement in the name of both migrants' and citizens' safety from infection by Covid-19. Focusing on the politics of migration containment along EUrope's frontiers, examining in particular border reinforcements carried out by Italy, Malta …
The “Covid excuse: EUropean border violence in the Mediterranean Sea
This article examines developments along the central Mediterranean border, following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in EUrope. In response to the pandemic, EU member states enacted emergency legislation, further curtailing movements across borders. Italy and Malta declared their harbours “unsafe” for migrant arrivals, withdrew rescue operations, and installed offshore detention facilities. Though ostensibly enacted in the name of “saving l…
Rebel spirits at sea: Disrupting EUrope’s weaponizing of time in maritime migration governance
In August 2020, a motor yacht formerly owned by French customs authorities set sail in the Mediterranean Sea in search of migrant boats in distress. Funded by the street artist Banksy, the search and rescue engagement of the Louise Michel was meant to prevent both the continuous loss of migrant lives at sea and mass interceptions to North Africa. Assessing her maiden voyage and strategic conception, as well as her operational and political impact…
The evolution of EUropean border governance through crisis: Frontex and the interplay of protracted and acute crisis narratives
Crisis narratives are widespread in migration and border governance globally, including in EUrope. In response, a body of scholarship that critically scrutinizes crisis narratives and imaginaries has emerged. Building on and further extending this scholarship, this article questions the dichotomy between ‘normality’ and ‘crisis’ in border governance. Focusing on four moments in which crises were declared in relation to migration and EUropean bord…
Modern Slavery and Migration: A Conversation on the Production of Invasive Figures and Racist Imaginaries
What makes up the figure of the ‘modern slave’ and why does it appear so regularly in discussions over both climate change and migration? In this conversation, Nandita Dutta and Maurice Stierl discuss how the modern slave emerges in their respective fields of research, what political function it plays and what colonial, racial and spatial imaginaries it is embedded in. This figure is not innocent – it marks out racialised others, chaotic places ‘…
Performing geographies of disappearance: Migration and the case of the Saharan knowledge claim
Islands of Solidarity? Migration and Activism in Malta
How does geography shape possibilities for migration-related activism and advocacy? In this article, we investigate this question through a case study of the Maltese Islands. Though located on the edge of the European Union, Malta has long considered itself at the centre of a ‘migration crisis’ in the Mediterranean. Maltese politicians have denounced what they perceive as a lack of solidarity from ‘EUrope’ and argued that they carry a disproporti…
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