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

Sandro Mezzadra provides a powerful afterword on "The Digital Borderlands," reflecting on mass immigration enforcement in the US and the role of digital technologies in both surveillance and resistance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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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 · 05/05/2026

Marianna Poyares, PhD presents the notion of "migrant data extractivism," focusing on DNA collection and AI chatbots to show how forcibly displaced persons are exploited for behavioral data. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Kelly Bescherer and Stephan Scheel introduce the concept of "regimes of proof" to explore how states establish legal identities and how these digital identification processes are contested by migrants. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Denise Cogo and Julia Camargo analyze the digitalization of migration governance on the Brazil–Venezuela border, examining how militarization and security narratives impact migrants' access to services. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Ava Zevop and Soline Ballet historicize facial recognition, moving beyond "algorithmic bias" to examine the structural conditions and colonial legacies that organize machine learning around the assumption of race. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Didier Bigo argues that the digitization of prediction leads to a "banalisation of suspicion," where AI-driven profiles rank travelers by "danger level," eroding traditional liberal security. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Paul Trauttmansdorff and Chiara Loschi trace the making of "interoperability" between EU databases, revealing how these large-scale IT systems create multiple, often conflicting, modes of ordering. ·

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

Martina Tazzioli interrogates the production of "scattered digital subjectivities," showing how multiple data extractions generate fragmented digital traces that haunt and disrupt migrant journeys. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Manish K Jha and Anindita Chakrabarty examine the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India, investigating how the digitization of citizenship sorts and segregates "authentic" citizens from non-citizens. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Lucrezia Canzutti highlights "absent tech" at EU borders, arguing that the deliberate absence of certain technologies enables "epistemic borderwork" that erases migrants' rights claims. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

In the Introduction, Çağlar, Novak, Doná, Jha, and Ćuković explore how digital technologies have become inextricably linked to the infrastructures and governance of international migration, resulting in increasingly uneven landscapes of control. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

What stands out is the stellar roster of contributors and the strong, methodologically diverse evidence they bring from across continents. Here’s a quick look at the papers: Here is a quick peek at its content:

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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 · 11/11/2025

(and next time we will try to find a non-cartesian map to pinpoint our activities, promise)

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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 · 20/10/2025

Camilo, I learned so much from your lucid, important and powerful presentation. Thank you so much! Hopefully more to come

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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 · 03/07/2025

That's precisely what border management does. Securing borders doesn't mean being 'anti-immigration.' It means anti-specific-forms-of-. It's about distinguishing between desirable and undesirable types of circulation

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We know that the border crisis isn’t about migration—it’s about the re-production of racialised exploitation, dispossession and hierarchy. The book investigates how this process is granularly produced and constructed in place, and why this is important. #worldmaking #placemaking

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ch 6 "The postcoloniality of asylum infrastructure," concludes that chronicling the border crisis demands embracing empirical unevenness, ontological instability, and conceptual ambiguity. It calls for a postcolonial gaze that provincializes, destabilizes, and places concepts.

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ch 5, "Placing autonomy" revisits the autonomy of migration debate from the standpoint of place, showing how the thrown-togetherness of migrants/non-migrants unevenly constructs asylum infrastructure. #AutonomyOfMigration #Migrants #Embodiment #Borders

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ch 4, "Destabilising coloniality" interrogates coloniality literature from the standpoint of place and illustrates the multiple "afterlives" haunting asylum seekers' reception facilities. The coloniality of asylum is a content-form #deco #PostcolonialStudies #Asylum #Place

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ch 3, "Provincializing logistics" interrogates critical logistics literature from the standpoint of place, and explains why logistical operations are lively, uneven, and unstable #Logistics #EUBorders #Place

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ch2 "The place of asylum infrastructure" formalizes the book's "standpoint of place" articulating Marxist and decolonial geographies via #GillianHart #MiltonSantos and #DoreenMassey. It proposes an ontologically unstable approach to studying borders and their crisis. #SpacePlace

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ch 1 "Buildings as protagonists" argues that buildings aren't passive backdrops but places that "communicate" complex social and political relations. They serve as crucial analytical standpoints for mapping the border and its crisis. #Architecture #SocialGeography

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Introduction: the book's main aim is to offer an understanding of the EU border machine centred on the deeply situated cartographies that explain its emergence, entrenchment and transformations, in and across “places”, and to foreground the unevenness of these processes

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

read the introduction @SOAS research repository soas-repository.worktribe.com/output/436575 buy the ebook for £18 @googlebooks or through @BrisUniPress if you subscribe to their newsletter ask your library to buy the expensive hardback @SOASLibrary wait for the paperback, out next year

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Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure

This book offers a fresh perspective on the European migration crisis, chronicling its everyday realities in a central Italian province. Through vivid ethn...

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This terrain isn’t about countermapping or transcendence—it's about contesting the worldmaking nature of borders from within -through embodied, situated, and relational struggles by migrants and non-migrants alike. This is the worldmaking force of placemaking practices.

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

the standpoint of place dis-entangles the place-transforming nature of worldmaking processes and the worldmaking nature of placemaking practices. it delineates the terrain where border politics unfolds

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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The book conceptualises the EU border machine through a double dialectic—what it calls the "standpoint of place". Throughout its chapters, border crossing and border reinforcement processes are articulated with processes of production and construction of place. #borderstudies

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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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