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In the dominant neoliberal context, the question of decolonization - in its material sense - often remains peripheral to anti-racist politics. However, as radical Black feminist movements remind, the question of decolonization is central... more
In March 2018, Frontex, through Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri, and the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, through Inspector General Fredolin Lecari, signed a cooperation plan for a... more
This article deals with the Finnish-Russian border in light of the European external border control policy and its impact on immigration. The 1985 Schengen agreement removed internal European border controls and external border protection... more
The following thesis will provide a thorough description of the militarization of Greek borders. It will be argued how the process of militarization and its accompanying military ideology has led to the normalization of the use of force,... more
This thesis deals with the EU external border control and its impact on migration policies. It investigates the securitisation of immigration in Finland focusing on Finnish-Russian external border management.
My analysis of the EU's Schengen System after the latest changes making it easier to impose internal border controls. Written for SIEPS (Swedish Institute fo European Policy Studies)
This article conceptualises citizenship in Gramscian terms, as a contested element of struggles for hegemony within civil society. Based on ethnographic snapshots from Cyprus, it is shown how the agency of migrants from the nearby region... more
History Honours Thesis, defended in April, 2020. Graded at 97%, A+.
Using a theoretical framework conceptualising mobility regimes, solidarity, as well as scales and "sanctuary/solidarity cities", this article examines notions of locally scaled solidarity by looking at Hamburg and Athens. We undertake... more
This paper discusses uses and misuses of EU border management models and strategies in the framework of crisis response interventions in the Southern and Eastern neighbourhoods. It focuses especially on Libya and Ukraine, cases which... more
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between January 2012 and June 2013 in eight civil registry offices in Brussels, this article explores how assumptions about intimacy intersect with the moral standards of bureaucrats evaluating... more
Stella Ghervas, "‘L'Europe élargie’ d'après 1989: comment se réorienter dans la pensée?" (Enlarged Europe’ after 1989: What Does it Mean to Reorient Our Thinking?), Questions Internationales, 68 (2014): 94-101. Abstract "Les... more
In this article I introduce a variety of social, political and economic collectivities to analyze ways in which their interactions are influenced by borders as the territorial delimitations of legal authority, or jurisdictions. The limits... more
On April, 17 th 2019 the EU parliament decided to expand the resources of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, the so called Frontex, up to 10.000 permanent corps until 2027. Together with this increase in human resources, they... more
""This paper aims to draw the attention on what is happening along Croatian border areas in terms of everyday life and enquire into the roles and meanings assigned to borders. From July 1st, 2013, Croatia became the 28th Member State of... more
Rapid changes associated with globalization have led to the violent policing of territorial borders across the Global North. In Europe, the ongoing project of constructing a unified identity for an expanding European Union (EU) has... more
The interaction of multiple actors if European Border and Coast Guard Operations leads to a nexus of responsibilities, both individual and collective, positive and negative, direct or indirect, that is hard to disentangle. The connections... more
This article is about changing regional understandings in Europe and how those changed understandings reflect and shape contemporary geopolitical arrangements in the context of the eastward enlargement of the EU. It is argued in the... more
How to write about the many, diverse, politically contested and often highly contradictory meanings of Eastern Europe in a short text? In this article, I approach Eastern Europe from the perspective of the recent (2004) expansion of the... more
In March 2018, Frontex, through Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri, and the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, through Inspector General Fredolin Lecari, signed a cooperation plan for a... more
In the past few years thousands of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East fleeing civil wars or in search of a better life had adventured to the EU. This has lead to the fortification of the communities‟ external borders and growing... more
In _Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures_ ed. by Tania Gentic and Francisco LaRubia Prado (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
Borders not only determine where the territories start and end; but also determine the insiders and the outsiders while regulating entrances and exits. Last century was of great importance in transformation of security and border issues.... more
This study focuses on the intricacies of Turkey's prospective membership in the European Union. It begins with a chronology of EU-Turkey relations and an account of the debate on the future of the European Union, which relates to Turkey's... more
Addressing and conceptualizing the changing character of borders in contemporary Europe, this book examines developments occurring in the light of European integration processes and an on-going tightening of Europe's external borders.... more
RESUMEN del Libro– LA FRONTERA EN EL MUNDO HISPÁNICO Soldados, misioneros, aventureros, delincuentes, burócratas, esclavos, y gente común –mujeres, hombres y niños, indígenas, europeos y africanos– fueron algunos de los arietes que... more
This article explores the emergence of the crime of migrant smuggling and its legitimising narratives as tools of global migration management. We examine the ways in which the language of 'migrant smuggling' was introduced into and then... more
This paper discusses uses and misuses of EU border management models and strategies in the framework of crisis response interventions in the Southern and Eastern neighbourhoods. It focuses especially on Libya and Ukraine, cases which... more
Undoubtedly, the free movement of persons is one of the biggest achievements of the United Europe project already foreseen by the founding fathers of the European Community. The Treaty of Rome in addition to creating a common market,... more
Former Yugoslavia was located on a crossroads of borders, which are characterized by a feeling of melancholy, that is a condition typical of situations where we recognize something as problematical but are neither able to solve it nor to... more
Research into borders and frontiers in the context of European integration has evolved, leading to the question of the shape of the external borders of the EU and their organization in relation to the external surroundings. The approach... more
Despite the bilateral commitment to engage in 'regular dialogue on issues related to mobility, migration and asylum', EU incentives have failed in leveraging Algeria to secure cooperation notwithstanding seemingly converging interests.... more
Despite the bilateral commitment to engage in ‘regular dialogue on issues related to mobility, migration and asylum’, EU incentives have failed in leveraging Algeria to secure cooperation notwithstanding seemingly converging interests.... more
collection no. 001 • Intrastructural Times Roadsides Borderlands are often presented as political landscapes characterized by fixed infrastructures that help to regulate who comes in or out of a country. In this brief essay, however, we... more
Organisé par Stella Ghervas (Université de Genève) et François Rosset (Université de Lausanne) Thématique du Colloque International "Lieux d'Europe": "Difficile à cerner dans son identité géographique, l'Europe exprime son... more
As one of the foremost European writers and intellectuals of our time, Claudio Magris has consistently kept Europe at the center of his work. In addition to numerous volumes of literary criticism spanning over four decades, Italian... more
Since the 1960s, African states have sought ways to overcome the challenges of economic and political integration through the establishment and promotion of regional and subregional organizations across the continent. The different... more
This report will analyse the example of the Polish-German border region in comparison to some other European borders. The co-operation between divided cities in this border region during the COVID-19 time has shown that sometimes a crisis... more
Conference at Stanford University The Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures Prof. Oscar Jané Checa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) 2011, March 23rd Thinking and (de)constructing boundaries: identity and resilience... more
In the early days of March I was watching from a distance the situation developing in Greece. A distance that was geographic, myself being away from the country, but also a distance that was emotional, resulting in a sort of incapacity to... more