paolo novak
borders, migration, development
sottovoce
- It's already started in Australia !! @migrationscholars.bsky.social
- Join us: 14 November 7pm SOAS BGLT A performance by Ice&Fire, specially scripted for CMDS and its conversation on "Return -an idea, practice, and contested horizon" Register at: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-way... @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @migrationscholars.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social
- "the border separates things and people precisely because they are already intertwined rather than preventing them from becoming intertwined" This is a very good way of phrasing it muse.jhu.edu/article/971352
- Senate statement on Gaza, Palestine - SOAS www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s....
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- This discussion is part of the Global Teach In/out events organised by Migration_Scholars_Global_Network 📍Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London 📆11 November 1pm Join us! and join the network www.instagram.com/migration_sc... www.facebook.com/profile.php?... @migrationscholars.bsky.social
- 📌Return - a two-day workshop exploring the concept and practices of return 📅 Day 1: 17 October 2025, 5:30 pm, DLT, SOAS 📅 Day 2: 18 October 2025, 1:00–5:00 pm, SOAS Bar info and registration ➡️https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/return-workshop-idea-practice-and-contested-horizon
- The asylum accommodation “ problem” is about how the state organises inequality. Hotels, barracks, flats – all are political battlegrounds where the wider inequalities in our society are exposed. www.soas.ac.uk/about/blogs/...
- Reposted by paolo novak"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"
- Milano, hai bisogno del Leoncavallo effimera.org/in-difesa-de...
- Aggressive publishers-driven marketing youtu.be/230--PLGo8o?...
- 0ut today! Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure is a carto-ethnography of the EU border machine told through the buildings that house it. @SOASDevelopment @soasdevtrac @SOAS_CMDS bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of... a thread🧵
- Dont miss Gilbert achcar's new book saqibooks.com/books/saqi/t...
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- "The forum moves beyond documenting destruction to consider how infrastructure is both a tool of domination and a terrain of struggle. it highlights how Palestinians resist infrastructural warfare and how international solidarity movements can intervene in the systems that enable it." 👇👌
- New forum in Geopolitics: Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza How is infrastructure weaponised in Israel's settler colonial warfare and how is it being disrupted by transnational solidarity? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- I have been #nicotine_sober for 44 days and approximately 8 hours and 40 minutes, after roughly 40 years of joyful and committed addiction. Amongst many other contrasting feelings, I feel really sorry for those #academic colleagues whose contributions I have had to #peerreview in this period.
- out in one month ebook at £27.99 or 21quid if you subscribe to the @BrisUniPress mailing list. info and marketing to follow Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
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- very much looking forward to this talk, which will allow me to set in conversation my book with the idea of 'refugee heritage' (anooradha iyer siddiqi, alessandro petti, emilio distretti, and others)
- "emerging jurisprudence of resistance and poetry of liberation provide us with a basis for the kind of critical reflection and engagement we need, from below, in response to the onslaught that seeks to erode and nullify our rights, and the channels through which we express them" 👇
- Reposted by paolo novakVideo obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
- New insights for the #bordermanagement and conflict lecture
- Reposted by paolo novakIf you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
- The idea, the policies, and the practices associated with "return" are full of contradictions. Perhaps this is why "return" is such a fertile terrain of struggle migreurop.org/article3395....
- ...and that's a wrap! Thank you, MSc Migration Mobility and Development cohort of 2024/25!!! @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @tilley101.bsky.social @andynewsham @feministonmarx.bsky.social @annalindley @irisilim @taniakaiser
- first proofs sent back ✅ endorsements are trickling in (and I am delighted) ✅ notebookLM autogenerated podcast ... uhmm ok ☑️ ETA 18 June 2025 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of... @soasdevelopment.bsky.social
- join us next week and the week after for some great talks We kick off with Wendy Pearlman
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- Wonderful book launch yesterday at SOAS CMDS! Download Hassan Ould Moctar'sopen access book, AFTER BORDER EXTERNALISATION: MIGRATION RACE AND LABOUR IN MAURITANIA, if you haven't done so already www.bloomsbury.com/uk/after-bor...
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- When I read articles like this, I am reminded of Don Mitchell's Lie of the Land, where he says: the purpose of landscape is to make a scene appear unworked. Landscape is a social relation of labor, even as it is something that is labored over. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/b...
