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Living the Securitized Border: Testimonies from the Central Mediterranean Sea

13.11.2024 , in ((Experiences)) , ((No Comments))

Europe’s borders are not just distant physical barriers but powerful forces shaping how we perceive and manage migration across the continent. “Thinking Outside the Border,” an illustrated booklet launched by doctoral researcher Anna Marino, focuses on this reality. Created with the activist Simone Gavazzi and illustrator Arianna Sisani, the project ...

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Can You Write a Paper in a Day?

06.06.2024 , in ((Experiences)) , ((No Comments))
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In the spirit of a hackathon, we, a team of researchers, launched an ambitious project to write a complete academic paper in a day. While facing challenges such as time constraints as well as difficulties in collaborative simultaneous writing, by the end of the day, we kind of succeeded in ...

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Fading Career Prospects of Mobility Researchers “Stuck” in Immobility?

17.02.2021 , in ((COVID-19 + Early Career Academics, Experiences)) , ((No Comments))
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What happens when you are researching a topic that is suddenly suspended and prone to alter fundamentally in the future? How are the early career prospects of mobility researchers and their sense of purpose when getting “stuck” and isolated in an unfamiliar place? While the “new normal” and its implications ...

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