Migration & Mobility

A Renewed Migration Contract Post-Covid: What Next for Migration Governance in the Mediterranean?

A Renewed Migration Contract Post-Covid: What Next for Migration Governance in the Mediterranean?

2020 has seen not only a fundamental disruption to mobility and migration due to Covid-19, but also the acceleration of ongoing processes and pushing forward with policy pathways that existed before the pandemic in the Euromed region.

 24 September 2020
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The pushbacks of migrants at the Ceuta and Melilla borders with Morocco

Lecture Inmaculada González, associate professor at the Cadiz University, moderated by Diego Boza

 4 May 2023

Irregular migration in the Mediterranean: border policies and gender spaces

Lecture by Sebnem Koser Akçapar, Full Professor in Sociology at Ankara Social Sciences University, on irregular migration.

 2 February 2023

Choke, push-back and disperse: displacement as a political technology of migration governmentality

Conference by Martina Tazzioli, lecturer in Politics and Technology, Goldsmiths University of London and Juan Carlos Triviño, senior researcher at GRITIM-UPF.

 17 March 2022

Highly Qualified Migrations from Southern Europe in Times of Crisis: Gain or Waste of Brains?

Conference by Yvonne Riaño, associate professor at the Institute of Geography of the Université de Neuchâtel. Moderated by Thales Speroni, postdoctoral researcher at CER-Migracions.

 3 March 2022

The Politics of Climate Change and Migration: a Sociological Interpretation

Conference by Gerard Delanty, professor of Sociology and Social Political Thought (University of Sussex) and Juan Carlos Triviño, senior researcher, (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

 24 February 2022

Young people with a Migratory Background in the Mediterranean

Conference by Francesca Lagomarsino, associate professor (Università di Genova) and Romina Tavernelli, researcher and co-director of the Master’s degree (Universitat de Barcelona).

 2 February 2022

Beyond Networks, Militias and Tribes: Rethinking EU Counter-Smuggling Policy and Response

The EU’s stated commitment to counter the negative impacts of migrant smuggling activities constitutes an opportunity to rethink the traditional approaches to smuggling.

 11 May 2021

Capturing Irregular Migration by a Macro-Sociological Lens: 12 Steps Process from and through North Africa to Europe

Irregular migration is a complex phenomenon on which each country develops its vision. A change of perspective can displace all narratives to turn irregular migrations into regular ones and, therefore, provide policies to “leave no one behind”.

 6 May 2021

Sea Rescue and International Protection: Towards a New Legal Framework Based on the European Pact on Migration and Asylum?

Joana Abrisketa, analyses the legal tensions that may occur when a ship is rescuing a group of migrants at sea and reflects on the recent European Pact on Migration and Asylum (2020).

 18 March 2021

Mediterranean Migration Governance: Looking at New Policy Paths

Strategies to address Euro-Mediterranean migration have been predominantly directed from a European and state-focused point of view. Carmen Geha and Gemma Aubarell discuss new paths of multilevel governance.

 11 March 2021

Integration and Transnationalism in a Comparative Perspective: the Case of Albanian Immigrants in Vienna and Athens

Using the comparative study of the integration model of Albanian migrants in Vienna and Athens, Eda Gemi (New York University of Tirana) explains the weight and the connections between integration and transnationalism.

 28 January 2021

Socioeconomic Impact of Operations in the Mediterranean

The port of Barcelona presents an innovative strategy that makes it the main Euro-Mediterranean logistics hub. Santiago García-Milà presents the role of the port, a service infrastructure that is directed to a wide hinterland.

 14 January 2021