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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Following insightful workshop at IWM Vienna and a more formal international conference in Istanbul in 2022, and much collective work since, our International Migration Special Issue on the "Entangled and Uneven Landscapes of Digitised Migration" is out.

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

join us for this exciting discussion and ask your library to buy this book www.routledge.com/The-City-as-... @MCRG_CRG =================== Please find the webinar registration link here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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

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On the way to the airport - A Theatre Performance by Ice&Fire

A specially curated script for CMDS and its "Return - a conversation" series of events - followed by Q&A

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

"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

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Project MUSE - Border-as-Flesh: Towards a Theory of Border Reversibility

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

HAPPENING TODAY at 5pm! Join us at SOAS (SWLT) or via Zoom as @terminalias.bsky.social offers fresh perspectives on the European migration crisis! @soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I had the honor of participating remotely in this powerful, extraordinarily timely and visionary event organized by Paolo and his colleagues, and look forward to continuing dialogue & collaboration!

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📌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

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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/...

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Five lessons the UK can learn from Italy’s asylum accommodation crisis

Asylum accommodation is a political battleground: drawing on his research in Italy, Dr Paolo Novak shows how the UK’s case reveals that it is never just about housing, but about power, inequality, and...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

"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.'"

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Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.

This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Dont miss Gilbert achcar's new book saqibooks.com/books/saqi/t...

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Drone spotted above the Madleen is believed to be Israeli Heron drone, operated by Greek coast guard. EU / Frontex pioneered maritime surveillance for targeting migrants, with multi-billion dollar contracts going to Israeli manufacturers. Fortress Europe & Zionist genocide are reinforcing violences.

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"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." 👇👌

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 09/05/2025

🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement. This is child abuse. This is state terror. Worcester police are complicit.

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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)

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"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" 👇

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Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Video 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...

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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)

The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

New insights for the #bordermanagement and conflict lecture

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

If 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 image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor
). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

join us next week and the week after for some great talks We kick off with Wendy Pearlman

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SOAS University of London @soasuni.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

📣SOAS Event 27 Feb Book Launch: Between Nation and Community. Join us tomorrow as we discuss the political history of Muslim universities in post-independence India throughout the 20th century, with author Laurence Gautier. Register bit.ly/4kjNjxh

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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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SOAS University of London @soasuni.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

5 books to read this LGBTQ+ History Month 🌈 📚 The SOAS Library @soaslibrary.bsky.social presents a curated reading list featuring books that amplify queer voices, histories, and experiences from around the world. 📚 Read the blog: bit.ly/3Q3n4NI #LGBTQHistoryMonth #Pride

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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...

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Book Review: ‘Picturing the Border,’ by Nadiah Rivera Fellah

“Picturing the Border” collects photographs of the United States-Mexico boundary dating back to the 1960s.

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

(Posted on X in December) What happens when borders externalization hits the ground? We address this question in a @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social SI, finallly in a Volume after a long gestation. Most papers out for a while (2years), but Intro and Epilogue are recent. Sneak peek of the papers 👇 1/

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Geopolitics Journal @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Now out in issue 30(1): Re-producing the Humanitarian Border by Paolo Novak @terminalias.bsky.social Download and read for free:

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Join us for our second thematic seminar series of the year. Over the next few weeks, our speakers will offer insights on political activism, memories of violence, and the afterlives of revolutions 👇👇👇 @SOAS_CMDS

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

📢 Hassan Ould Moctar presents "After Border Externalization", exploring the EU's border & migration control in the GS, with a focus on Mauritania. Join the discussion, chaired by @terminalias.bsky.social 📍SOAS SALT & Zoom 📅 6 Feb at 5pm Register ➡️: shorturl.at/k6YO2 @naomihossain.bsky.social

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sahouraxo @sarahabdallah.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Don’t stop talking about Palestine

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

“We acknowledge that we should have been clearer” comes the apology 45 days late “and that the use of the footage here was intended to illustrate the general disorder, and are happy to correct the record.” Unlike the Christ child We were not born yesterday.

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BBC issues correction over Israel football violence in Amsterdam – after 45 days

THE BBC has finally issued a correction after it showed a video of Israeli football supporters attacking Dutch locals when reporting that Israeli…

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I hardly remember how not so long ago (10 years? Even less) everything (lecture notes, essay/exam marks, memos, photocopies and offprints, whatever the paper equivalent of emails was called, etc.) was on paper!

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