Evgenia Iliadou @iliadou.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I’m feeling very thankful for the invitation to speak at 'Unseen and Unprotected: Modern Slavery in the Shadow of Migration' at Cambridge. I spoke about borders, vulnerability, and exploitation, but what really stayed with me were the people, the warmth, care, and openness of the conversations. 261
Evgenia Iliadou @iliadou.bsky.social · 14/01/2026📢 A gentle reminder that there's still time to submit abstracts for our Special Issue proposal on 'Temporalities of Crisis: Rethinking Borders, Migration, and the Politics of Exception'. We welcome interdisciplinary, critical, reflective contributions & would be very glad to read your work.👇 065
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouKate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Hey #CrimSky #Criminology #AcademicSky - It would be great to get a book review or two from within criminology, particularly #prison people. #Sound and #Detention is a cross disciplinary edited volume with sound studies and #Musicology as well as criminology: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...bloomsbury.comSound and DetentionIn this book, over 40 contributors collectively tune in to how sound-and its absence-can function as a source of power that enables isolation, control and harm,… 075
Evgenia Iliadou @iliadou.bsky.social · 12/11/2025📌What does it mean to research responsibly in spaces of displacement & crisis? My new blog, 'Research and Responsibility: Lessons from Lesvos', reflects on ethics, extractivism & epistemic colonialism in border research. www.mdx.ac.uk/mdx-voices/r...mdx.ac.ukResearch and Responsibility: Lessons from LesvosDr Evgenia Iliadou a Visiting Fellow at the Middlesex University Graduate School shares research about the refugee crisis in Lesvos 194
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouDr Kajsa Dinesson @dinesson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025There is still time to get your abstract in! See details below - and please share with your network 👇🏼 021
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouSteve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025The European Society of Criminology is normalizing war crime, crimes against humanity and genocide. We demand action from the ESC: please sign the petition to end complicity and circulate widely @europeangroup.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.comDemand action from the ESC: petition to end complicityWe, criminologists and criminal justice scholars, are alarmed by several recent decisions by the European Society of Criminology Executive Board and Eurocrim local organizing and scientific committee ... 01820
Evgenia Iliadou @iliadou.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I am delighted to share my latest publication 👇👇 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... 1/ This idea has been in my mind for a long time. It draws on long-term ethnographic research and personal experiences on Lesvos, where I have lived and have family and friends.link.springer.comEpistemic Colonialism, Extractivism, and Epistemic ResistanceThis chapter explores the Greek island of Lesvos as a site of academic extractivism, epistemic colonialism, and, therefore, epistemic struggle. It argues that Lesvos, once relatively unknown and under... 1163
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouVictoria Canning @vcanning.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Army advertisment in #Liverpool city centre - 'You belong here' Just as the government buys 12 nuclear warhead jets 021
Evgenia Iliadou @iliadou.bsky.social · 16/06/2025“I kiss the ground where she fell. I feel like I’m walking over her body every time. I never got to bury her. I carry her grave with me wherever I go" untoldmag.org/i-carry-thei...untoldmag.org“I Carry Their Grave Wherever I Go": Gaza’s Endless Grief and Unknown Bodies - UntoldWith Israel not allowing DNA tests in Gaza, families guess who to mourn. Children disappear into rubble. Parents are left clinging to memories, not remains. 050
Evgenia Iliadou @iliadou.bsky.social · 11/06/2025It was a privilege to deliver the keynote at the Migration and Technologies of Un/Bordering Conference at the University of Surrey last week, where I spoke on the unfolding of digital border controls used to manage irregularised migration in Greece. 161
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouSteve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Had reason to forward this today. A great moment, in my opinion Anything is possible! @oubucu.bsky.social @vickyblake.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @janetnewsham.bsky.social @iliadou.bsky.social @profgrahampike.bsky.social @david-whyte.bsky.social braveneweurope.com/steve-tombs-...braveneweurope.comSteve Tombs - Good Bloody Riddance - Brave New EuropeThe UK University Strike may have been deferred, but it produced many successes and raised an awareness of the assault on higher education in Britain. Awareness of a problem is the beginning of a conf... 032
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouSteve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Now had the pleasure of these 500 pages. Wonderful page-turner, wholly scholarly with a novel-reading feel. Great achievement to document one example of the engrained corruption of the British state @paddyzemia.bsky.social @miketqub.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @niaolainf.bsky.social 043
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouItamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Thanks to the editors of @verfassungsblog.de for publishing this new short essay, somewhat bleak, but it did give me the privilege of linking to work by my better half. verfassungsblog.de/in-the-grave... 05122
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouSteve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Please do consider signing the petition and forwarding this message @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @iliadou.bsky.social @frasoliman.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @inquest-org.bsky.social @debcoles13.bsky.social 033
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouWomen for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025📢Language matters! We've joined over 130 human rights organisations to call on the Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer to stop using language that demonises migrants. Racist and hostile rhetoric has dangerous consequences, including violence and abuse. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comRights groups urge Starmer to dial down anti-migrant rhetoricExclusive: 136 organisations tell PM to stop using ‘demonising language’, after his remarks before crime summit 0153
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouImmigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 14/02/2025#Love is nothing without action. 💟 Love is in the way we show up for one another. 💟 Love is how we speak out for our neighbors. 💟 Love knows no borders. Take action now to Protect Immigrant Families & Restore Legal Access! www.change.org/p/protect-immigrant-families-restore-legal-access-programs 092
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouMacTraff @mactraff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025"Understanding the impact of trauma on children"... What do they see? What do they hear? I am conscious of the increasing cases of Domestic Violence/Child Abuse worldwide. They need our protection. 021
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouAndrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Introducing FORTRESS EUROPE, my new documentary podcast on Europe’s increasingly violent borders. Out now on Apple, Spotify and the rest. Rating and sharing helps us expand our audience! listen.podmasters.uk/FE240910Gree... 0147
Evgenia Iliadou @iliadou.bsky.social · 21/01/2025📢 New Publication Alert! I’m excited to share my latest publication on the continuum of immigration detention and violence in Greece 👉 Read it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or questions about the chapter. #ImmigrationDetention#BorderViolence 061
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouCarlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Hope it's clear to everyone what this is and means, and where we are heading to. In the 1930s, many people preferred to pretend that nothing was going on, and we all know how it ended. 1498
Reposted by Evgenia Iliadoutinainalaina.bsky.social @tinainalaina.bsky.social · 16/01/2025 #CallForAbstracts 🗓 Deadline: 3 March 2025 Special Issue: "Fear and Looting in the Periphery: Approaching Social Harm in Southern Europe." Calling academics & activists in critical criminology, geography, abolitionism, and transformative justice. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...bristoluniversitypressdigital.com 054
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouKate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 16/01/2025CFP: UNDERSTANDING MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE - One Day Conference 28 May @qmul.ac.uk. How and why do miscarriages of justice happen and what do we understand and learn (or not) from them? We welcome submissions on any relevant topics, such as #PostOffice #CCRC, #SJP docs.google.com/document/d/1... 01516
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouPatrick Strickland @patrickobrienstrickland.com · 19/12/2024I wrote a long piece at @inkstickmedia.com about the situation for refugees on Greece's Chios island, the way the journey they take has become more dangerous & violent since 2015, & how border violence/deterrence has failed to stop people from risking the crossing: inkstickmedia.com/after-greece...inkstickmedia.comAfter Greece's Refugee Crisis: The Rise of Hard BordersOn the Greek island of Chios, refugees and advocates say the crisis never ended — it only disappeared from public attention. 03018
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouPetra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 20/12/2024🚨The amazing @theborderchronicle.bsky.social 🦂 is on here! Some of the most in-depth, carefully written, community grounded journalism out there! Follow the work of @memomiller.bsky.social and @mdelbosque.bsky.social www.theborderchronicle.com (Still need a gift? Consider a gift subscription!)theborderchronicle.comThe Border Chronicle | SubstackOriginal Reporting and Analysis from the U.S.-Mexico Border. Click to read The Border Chronicle, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. 1148
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouIRIS @irisbirmingham.bsky.social · 16/12/2024✨ A year-in-review thread from IRIS ✨ We asked our researchers to pick just one publication from 2024 and share why it stands out for them. Here's what they chose and why! 🧵 #migration #refugees #socialsciences #diversity #research 11710
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouFrederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024“The prison was seemingly built to induce a sense of placeless-ness. At its centre is a spiral staircase that from the ground floor appears endless… According to the rebel fighters, each wing specialised in a different form of torture. There are no windows to the outside world.”theguardian.comInside the hunt for hidden cells in Sednaya prison, Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’Exclusive: The Guardian gains access to Sednaya jail, where prisoners are rumoured to be trapped underground – as desperate relatives wait for news 0148
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouDavid FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024go.bsky.app/G4NjiPz 144026
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouDavid FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024go.bsky.app/6x2jymf 6519679
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouNoam Leshem @noamleshem.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Don't judge a book etc... but its wonderful to see the cover of my forthcoming book, designed by Annie Leue. The book will be out Jan 3 with @uchicagopress.bsky.social . The cover image, from Northern Sudan, is by the one and only Al Pinkerton 1133
Evgenia Iliadou @iliadou.bsky.social · 19/11/2024{1/3} Hi all! I’m a researcher interested in migration, borders & social harm. My research explores the continuum of border violence, neglect & abandonment across time and space in Greece & Lesvos. It unearths overlooked forms of border violence as well as resilience and resistance to borders. 2495
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouHyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Simple question: What stops us from speaking out against ongoing genocide? Silence has been deadly, weaponised during times of grave atrocity. So too has the failure to listen and the lack of accountable listening. What stops us from speaking out against ongoing genocide? 031
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouJamila • جميلة Hammami 🧿 @jamilahammami.bsky.social · 16/11/2024These migration starter packs are a mix of EU and US. Hope it helps! - Human Rights (ish) Academics (ish): go.bsky.app/QifxUJc - Migration & Borders Volume I: go.bsky.app/TREFo1s - Migration & Borders Volume II: go.bsky.app/SNcmsLQ - Immigration Research: go.bsky.app/Pj3Lv7f 1147
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Palestinian starter pack 521400998
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q 3363557750
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouDorina Damsa @dorinadamsa.bsky.social · 19/09/2024A starter pack with / for those working on border controls, i/mobilty, detention and incarceration, and citizenship. Please tag yourself and others. #bordercriminologies #criminology #borders #mobility #citizenship go.bsky.app/VDkbB72 82414
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouAya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024 Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens. Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors. #menasky, #geosky palestine.araburbanism.compalestine.araburbanism.comPalestine: Spaces and PoliticsIntroductory Curriculum 1015579
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouAri Jerrems @arijerrems.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Working on critical border studies starter pack for @acbsnetwork.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN 126830
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouXander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 14/11/2024An appealing (paid) CFP from Failed Architecture on carceral expansion. The pitch deadline is November 20th. failedarchitecture.com/open-call-ev...failedarchitecture.comOpen Call: Everywhere Walls, Borders, Prisons - Failed ArchitectureFA announces a new special series on the built environment's role in the production of the global periphery. Pitches will be accepted until November 2... 021
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouPetra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 11/11/2024go.bsky.app/TREFo1s Here is the list, please let me know who else is here and who I can add! 263618
Reposted by Evgenia IliadouDaniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I made a little starter pack of organizations doing work on supporting migrants and refugees and advocating for migrant & refugee rights. Surely, I am missing lots of organizations doing great work. Please share, and let me know who to add! go.bsky.app/S8HZX3m 1821761