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Briefing Papers and Reports

Refugee Reception and Integration

Mediterranean Migration Research Programme Policy Briefings, July 2017

Improving Policy for Search and Rescue of Migrants in the Mediterranean and Identifying the Dead

Mediterranean Migration Research Programme Policy Briefings, July 2017

Dynamics of Migration Across the Mediterranean

Mediterranean Migration Research Programme Policy Briefings, July 2017

Civil Society Responses to the 'Migration Crisis'

Mediterranean Migration Research Programme Policy Briefings, July 2017

EVI-MED Mapping Refugee Reception in the Mediterranean: First Report

EVI-MED Project, June 2017

Middlesex University Response To Request For Evidence To Support The Modern Slavery Inquiry On Separated Children In Europe

NOBODY DESERVES TO LIVE THIS WAY! An independent inquiry into the situation of separated
and unaccompanied minors in parts of Europe

EVI-MED Project, December 2017

Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Final Project Report

Crossing the Med Project, May 2017

Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Second Evidence Brief

Crossing the Med Project, November 2016

Final Report: Destination Europe?

MEDMIG Project, November 2016

Research Brief 03: Boat migration across the Central Mediterranean

MEDMIG Project, September 2016

Research Brief 02: Understanding the dynamics of migration to Greece and the EU

MEDMIG Project, September 2016

Missing Migrants: Management of Dead Bodies in Sicily. Italy Country Report (long)

Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016

Missing Migrants: Management of Dead Bodies in Sicily. Italy Country Report (short)

Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016

‘Like a part of a puzzle which is missing’: The impact on families of a relative missing in migration across the Mediterranean. Report on the situation of families

Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016

Dead and Missing Migrants: The Obligations of European States under International Human Rights Law. IHRL Briefing

Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016

Missing and Dead Migrants at Sea: The legal framework in Greece. Greek Legal Briefing

Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016

The Italian legal framework for the management of missing persons and unidentified dead bodies, and the rights of the relatives. Italian Legal Briefing

Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016

Documenting the Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean: Spaces of Transit, Migration Management and Migrant Agency

Documenting Migration Project, September 2016

Missing Migrants: Management of Dead Bodies in Lesbos. Greece Country Report (short)

Mediterranean Missing Project, August 2016

Missing Migrants: Management of Dead Bodies in Lesbos. Greece Country Report (long)

Mediterranean Missing Project, August 2016

Missing Migrants in the Mediterranean: Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis. A summary report.

Mediterranean Missing Project, August 2016

Missing Migrants and Managing Dead bodies in the Mediterranean. A briefing note.

Mediterranean Missing Project, June 2016

Death by Rescue

Precarious Trajectories Project, 18 April 2016

MEDMIG Research brief 1- Unpacking a rapidly changing scenario

MEDMIG Project, 22 March 2016

Overview of Project Findings relating to family reunification

Crossing the Med Project, March 2016

Crossing the Mediterranean by boat: Evidence Briefing

Crossing the Med Project, 16 February 2016

Policy brief on unauthorized migration to the EU

Crossing the Med Project, 28 October 2015

 

Journal Publications

Crossing the Eastern Mediterranean Sea in Search of 'Protection'

by Dallal Stevens and Angeliki Dimitriadi. Published in the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, August 2018.

Migrating borders, bordering lives: everyday geographies of ontological security and insecurity in Malta

by Nick Vaughan-Williams and Dr Maria Pisani. Published in Social & Cultural Geography, August 2018.

Mobile Solidarities and Precariousness at City Plaza: Beyond Vulnerable and Disposable Lives

by Vicki Squire. Published in Studies in Social Justice, July 2018.

The politics of evidence-based policy in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’

by Martin Baldwin-Edwards, Brad K. Blitz & Heaven Crawley. Published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, May 2018.

The anti-policy of European anti-smuggling as a site of contestation in the Mediterranean migration ‘crisis’

by Nina Perkowski & Vicki Squire. Published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, May 2018.

Seeking refuge in Europe: spaces of transit and the violence of migration management

by Leonie Ansems de Vries & Elspeth Guild. Published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, May 2018

Common agenda or Europe’s agenda? International protection, human rights and migration from the Horn of Africa

by Heaven Crawley & Brad K. Blitz. Published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, May 2018

Researching precarious migrations: Qualitative strategies towards a positive transformation of the politics of migration

by Dr Vicki Squire. Published in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, March 2018

Health Challenges in Refugee Reception: Dateline Europe 2016

by Brad Blitz, November 2017

Irregular migration struggles and active subjects of trans-border politics: New research strategies for interrogating the agency of the marginalised

by Michael Strange, Vicki Squire, Anna Lundberg. Published in Politics, August 2017

Hotspot Politics-or, when the EU state gets real, 

by Joe Painter, Evie Papada, Anna Papoutsi and Antonis Vradis. Published in Political Geography, March 7, 2017.

Unauthorised migration beyond structure/agency? Acts, interventions, effects

by Vicki Squire, Crossing the Med Project. Published in Politics (early view online).

Flags Flying Up a Tial Mast: Reflections on the Hotspot Mechanism in Mytilene

by Joe Painter, Anna Papoutsi, Evie Papada and Antonis Vradis. Published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, November 8 2016

Death as the border: Managing missing migrants and unidentified bodies at the EU's Mediterranean frontier

by Iosif Kovras and Simon Robins, Mediterranean Missing Project. Published in Political Geography, 55, 40-49. November 2016

Managing the unmanageable? Understanding Europe’s response to the ‘migration crisis'

by Heaven Crawley, MEDMIG Project. Published in Human Geography 9(2), 13-23. July 2016

Migrazioni e morte sulle coste libiche. Il caso di Zuwara

by Nancy Porsia, Precarious Trajectories Project, Intrasformazione, 5(1), 113-122. April 2016

Flussi e riflussi. Le pratiche mutevoli della (non-)assistenza e del controllo dei confini europe

by Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, Precarious Trajectories Project, Intrasformazione, 5(1), 140-171. April 2016

Ebbing and flowing: the EU’s shifting practices of (non)- assistance and bordering in a time of crisis

by Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, Precarious Trajectories Project, Near Futures Online. 21 March 2016

Palermo Open City: From a Mediterranean Migrant Crisis to a Europe without Borders?

by Leoluca Orlando and Simon Parker, Precarious Trajectories Project, Near Futures Online. 21 March 2016

Crisis or Zemblanity? Viewing the migration crisis through a Greek Lens

by Yannis Christodoulou et al., Transcapes Project. Published in Mediterranean Politics, 21(2), 321-325. March 2016

 

Podcasts and Videos

Brad Blitz at the Europeam Parliament

EVI-MED Project, June 2017

Crossing The Med interactive on line map

Crossing The Med Project, May 2017

Nando Sigona on Migrant Journeys

by Nando Sigona, MEDMIG project, March 2017

Mediterranean Missing Project Film (Subtitles available: Arabic and Italian)

Mediterranean Missing Project. November 2016

Ann Singleton on findings of Mediterranean Missing Project

Mediterranean Missing Project. Published by ICRC, September 2016

Simon Parker on child migration research and policy challenges

by Simon Parker, Precarious Trajectories Project. Published by UNICEF Office of Research, September 2016

Transitory Lives Documentary Teaser

Transitory Lives Project. July 2016


Short Articles and Commentaries

EU’s Efforts To Prevent Migration From Libya Does Not Respect or Value Lives

Crossing the Med Project, The Globe Post, September 2018

Asylum processing centres in North Africa would merely mask the EU’s migration failings

Crossing the Med Project, The Conversation, 29 June 2018

Why the EU’s Approach to Curbing Migration Is Doomed to Fail

Crossing the Med Project, World Politics Review, 11 July 2017

Debunking myths about why people migrate across the Mediterranean

Crossing the Med Project, the Conversation, 30 May 2017

Border Control and the Precarious Lives of Migrants in Italy

MEDMIG Project, Border Criminologies, 12 December 2016

As long as people are pushed to flee their homes for Europe, smuggling networks will remain a necessity

MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 3 November 2016

No direct flight: new maps show the fragmented journeys of migrants and refugees to Europe

MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 2 November 2016

After the Calais Jungle: is there a long-term solution? Views from France and Britain

MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 24 October 2016

Humanitarian Corridors: beyond political gesture

Crossing the Med Project, openDemocracy, 17 October 2016

Flights to Italy for refugees offer a humanitarian way forward for Europe

Crossing the Med Project, the Conversation, 5 October 2016

Spaces of transit, migration management and migrant agency

Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 30 September 2016

Refugees, displacement and the European 'politics of exhaustion'

Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 30 September 2016

Post-humanitarianism in situ: Moria in flames

Transcapes Project, openDemocracy, 29 September 2016

Theresa May, this is not a ‘crisis of migration’, but a crisis of inhumanity

Precarious Trajectories Project, openDemocracy, 24 September 2016

Barack Obama says the refugee crisis is a ‘test of our humanity’ – is Britain failing it?

MEDMIG Project, The Conversation, 22 September 2016

Fleeing Europe?

Crossing the Med Project, openDemocracy, 3 August 2016

Mourning the dead while violating the living

Precarious Trajectories Project, openDemocracy, 30 June 2016

Warfare on the logistics of migrant movements: EU and NATO military operations in the Mediterranean

Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 16 June 2016

Selling Up, Settling Down: How a Turkish neighborhood adapted to its Syrian Refugees

MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 14 June 2016

City Plaza: A way forward for the European ’migrant crisis’?

Crossing the Med Project, openDemocracy, 14 June 2016

“The hegemonic powers of the EU have gone one step too far”: On governing borders and the right to move

Transcapes Project, Verso Books Blog, 8 June 2016

Lampedusa - Red Letter Days and Hotspot stories from Europe’s border

Crossing the Med Project, openDemocracy, 7 June 2016

Concentric cages: the hotspot of Lesvos after the EU-Turkey agreement

Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 30 May 2016

Humanitarian Space and Border Management in Lesbos

Transcapes Project, openDemocracy, 23 May 2016

Scholars support UN Refugee Global Compact: open letter

ESRC Mediterranean Migration Research Programme, openDemocracy, 10 May 2016

Britain is to take 3000 children by 2020...Generous? Think again

MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 26 April 2016

Europe’s border crisis as an autoimmune disorder

Crossing the Med Project, Green European Journal, 20 April 2016

The beginning of the end or the start of something new?

MEDMIG Project, Europe's World, 4 April 2016

Allegra Lab: Migrant deaths: explaining variations over time and across smuggling routes

MEDMIG Project, AllegraLab, 4 April 2016

The UK’s plans to prevent migration from Libya show a dangerous unwillingness to learn from past

MEDMIG Project, LSE EUROPP Blog, 31 March 2016

European policy is driving refugees to more dangerous routes across the Med

MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 29 March 2016

The EU security apparatus designed to fails

Transcapes Project, Verso Books Blog, 28 March 2016

The EU’s Deal with Turkey Is a No-Win Situation

MEDMIG Project, Fortune, 22 March 2016

Migration evidence shows how badly EU needs to rethink its strategy

Crossing the Med Project, the Conversation, 7 March 2016

Upside Down Athens

Transcapes Project, openDemocracy, 29 February 2016

The transience and persistence of the Jungle in Calais

Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 27 February 2016

The EU hotspot approach at Lampedusa

Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 26 February 2016

Hotspot system as a new device for clandestinization: view from Sicily

Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 25 February 2016

Mediterranean migration crisis: transit points, enduring struggles

Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 25 February 2016

‘Who are NATO’s ships in the Aegean really keeping an eye on?’

MEDMIG Project, The Conversation, 16 February 2016

Why the jury is out on the Commission’s latest proposal for a ‘distribution key’ to help solve the refugee crisis

MEDMIG Project, LSE EUROPP Blog, 18 January 2016

EU leaders seek to share responsibility for Migration in Malta

Crossing the Med Project, the Conversation, 11 November 2015

Illegalised Boat Migration, the Shipping Industry and the Costs of Rescue in the Central Mediterranean

Precarious Trajectories Project, Border Criminologies, 2 November 2015

The families of missing migrants and refugees may never know their fates

Mediterranean Missing Project, the Conversation, 1 October 2015

 

Website Blog Posts

19 – 21 September – Tension in the Moria hot-spot

Transitory Lives Project, 21 September 2016

Messages from Lesbos B’ – Solidarity gives way to intolerance

Transitory Lives Project, 26 August 2016

Messages from Lesbos A’: Radicalisation in Europe through the eyes of Galrim

Transitory Lives Project, 25 August 2016

Remembering the Refugee Crisis

EVI-MED Project, 24 April 2016

Findings on Family Reunification

Crossing the Med Project, 10 March 2016

Italy’s system of Migration Management has been called an illegality factory: this is how it works

EVI-MED Project, 9 March 2016

European Agenda on Migration Based on Flawed Assumptions

Crossing the Med Project, 7 March 2016

Migrant Crisis? The Italian hotspot approach is not a solution, but it has been politically effective

EVI-MED Project, 26 February 2016

Europe’s Migrant Crisis: Notes from Athens

EVI-MED Project, 10 February 2016

Observations from Kos

Crossing the Med Project, 2 February 2016

Victoria Square

Transitory Lives Project, 23 December 2015

Transient Populations Transforming the European Political Landscape

Transcapes Project, 2 December 2015

Images and notes from a fieldwork visit to Malta

Crossing the Med Project, 1 December 2015

The hotspot Approach

Transitory Lives Project, 20 November 2015

Valletta 2015: Sharing responsibility for a ‘migration crisis'?

Crossing the Med Project, 11 November 2015

Them Refugees

Transcapes Project, 5 November 2015

Crossing the Mediterranean Sea

Crossing the Med Project, 8 September 2015