Practices

A Sudden Bankruptcy of Mobility Capital? The Paradoxical Effects of Pandemics on Human Movement

17.03.2020 , in ((COVID-19 + Mobility, Politica, Practices)) , ((No commenti))
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Between February and March 2020, many people accustomed to being highly mobile witnessed a massive curtailing of their right to travel both across and within countries. Among these measures were suppression of flights, closure of borders, banning of international student exchanges, halting of public transportation, lock-down of entire cities, freezing ...

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Movies of Encampment – A Dialogue About Confined Spaces

18.02.2020 , in ((Esperienze, Politica, Practices)) , ((No commenti))
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Imagine living in a confined space, without a feeling of being “home” and being controlled by institutional actors. With this in mind, two filmmakers tackled the theme of encampment. They joined our recent discussion after the first “On the Mov(i)e” event, sharing their reflections on the conceptualization of encampment and ...

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Social Work Between a Handyman and a Humanitarian Actor?

23.01.2019 , in ((Blog series, Practices, Serie di blog, Social Work)) , ((No commenti))

With increasingly restrictive migration regimes throughout Europe and a ‘race-to-the bottom’- attitude of previously more generous states to only follow the minimal legal requirements set by the European Union, third actors involved in the ‘migration industry’ are often caught in a moral dilemma. States increasingly outsource migration control to NGOs ...

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