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Asylum Interviews in Southern Italy: Narratives, Credibility and Consequences

Flora Di Donato — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:16:11 +0000

Interviews between asylum seekers and territorial commissioners are an essential part of the asylum application process in Italy and many other European countries. In most cases, decisions are based mainly on what applicants say during these interviews, rather than on documentary evidence. As a result, asylum authorities evaluate whether the

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Taking a Second Look: Post-Dissertation Reflections on My Dataset

Mathis Schnell — Wed, 21 May 2025 07:30:20 +0000

After finishing my PhD dissertation, I was somewhat disappointed not to have exploited the full potential of my dataset. In other words, months of work can result in valuable datasets that remain largely unexplored once our PhD dissertations are complete. Yet this data holds great potential for further analysis and

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The Problems of Protection: Lessons from Migrant Vulnerability

Bridget Anderson — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:18:00 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic showed we are all vulnerable in a crisis, but also that crisis can deepen inequality. The virus infected (and continues to infect) regardless of race, class and passport, and this is precisely what exposes race, class, and passport as the inequality-producing mechanisms they are. Migrants – or

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A Comparison of EU’s Approaches to Imminent Mass Influxes

Ayse Yildiz Demir — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 07:30:53 +0000

Over the last decade, European countries have faced mass influxes mainly due to internal conflicts and wars. The European Union (EU) has responded to these challenges with a diverse set of approaches. Two distinct strategies stand out: EU readmission agreements for managing irregular mass influxes from North Africa and the

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What’s Sex Got to Do With It? Migration Studies Meets Sexualities

Calogero Giametta — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:30:36 +0000

Migration research has historically conceived migrants as heterosexual, and rendered gender and sexual identity invisible. It is only recently that the intersection of queer and migration studies has produced critical knowledge about the heteronormative structures that govern immigration institutions. Queer migration studies emphasize the theorization of queer migration histories and

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