paolo novak
@terminalias.bsky.social
borders, migration, development
sottovoce
sottovoce
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.
May 5, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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.
join us for this exciting discussion
and ask your library to buy this book www.routledge.com/The-City-as-...
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April 28, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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When fencing is not possible, snakes and crocodiles might come to help!!
or so the Border Security Force (BSF) is thinking 😱
Sourav Sarangi might have to update his great film Char - No man's land
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or so the Border Security Force (BSF) is thinking 😱
Sourav Sarangi might have to update his great film Char - No man's land
thewire.in/government/b...
BSF Floats Controversial Snake and Crocodile Idea for Bangladesh Border Policing
The communication was reportedly in line with Union home minister Amit Shah’s direction to achieve ‘operational’ successes along the border. Introducing dangerous wildlife would risk entire local…
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April 25, 2026 at 2:51 PM
When fencing is not possible, snakes and crocodiles might come to help!!
or so the Border Security Force (BSF) is thinking 😱
Sourav Sarangi might have to update his great film Char - No man's land
thewire.in/government/b...
or so the Border Security Force (BSF) is thinking 😱
Sourav Sarangi might have to update his great film Char - No man's land
thewire.in/government/b...
this is a generous review of my book! Thank you @Jasmin Lilian Diab
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Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
Published in Journal of Borderlands Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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April 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
this is a generous review of my book! Thank you @Jasmin Lilian Diab
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November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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...
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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
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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November 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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
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
"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
This is a very good way of phrasing it
muse.jhu.edu/article/971352
Project MUSE - Border-as-Flesh: Towards a Theory of Border Reversibility
muse.jhu.edu
November 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"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
This is a very good way of phrasing it
muse.jhu.edu/article/971352
Senate statement on Gaza, Palestine - SOAS
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Senate statement on Gaza, Palestine
The Senate has published a ‘Senate Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza, Palestine’.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Senate statement on Gaza, Palestine - SOAS
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HAPPENING TODAY at 5pm! Join us at SOAS (SWLT) or via Zoom as @terminalias.bsky.social offers fresh perspectives on the European migration crisis!
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Join us this Thursday for @terminalias.bsky.social's book launch!
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
📅30 Oct, 5pm, SWLT
Register here➡️: shorturl.at/OGUoh
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Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
📅30 Oct, 5pm, SWLT
Register here➡️: shorturl.at/OGUoh
@soasuni.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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
@soasuni.bsky.social
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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!
📌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
📅 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
October 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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!
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
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📍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
October 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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
📍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
📌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
📅 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
October 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
📌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
📅 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
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.
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Hotels, barracks, flats – all are political battlegrounds where the wider inequalities in our society are exposed.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/blogs/...
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...
www.soas.ac.uk
August 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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/...
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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"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.'"
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.
www.msnbc.com
July 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"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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Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
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June 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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0ut today!
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure is a carto-ethnography of the EU border machine told through the buildings that house it.
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a thread🧵
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure is a carto-ethnography of the EU border machine told through the buildings that house it.
@SOASDevelopment @soasdevtrac @SOAS_CMDS
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
a thread🧵
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure; This book examines the buildings used as reception centres for asylum seekers in central Italy to reveal how they reflect the Euro...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
0ut today!
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure is a carto-ethnography of the EU border machine told through the buildings that house it.
@SOASDevelopment @soasdevtrac @SOAS_CMDS
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
a thread🧵
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure is a carto-ethnography of the EU border machine told through the buildings that house it.
@SOASDevelopment @soasdevtrac @SOAS_CMDS
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
a thread🧵
Reposted by paolo novak
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.
June 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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.
"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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New forum in Geopolitics: Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza
How is infrastructure weaponised in Israel's settler colonial warfare and how is it being disrupted by transnational solidarity? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How is infrastructure weaponised in Israel's settler colonial warfare and how is it being disrupted by transnational solidarity? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza: Infrastructure and Global Solidarity
This forum explores the geopolitics of infrastructure in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza, situating the current genocide within longer histories of settler colonialism, spatial control, and tra...
www.tandfonline.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"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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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.
Amongst many other contrasting feelings, I feel really sorry for those #academic colleagues whose contributions I have had to #peerreview in this period.
May 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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.
Amongst many other contrasting feelings, I feel really sorry for those #academic colleagues whose contributions I have had to #peerreview in this period.
out in one month
ebook at £27.99 or 21quid if you subscribe to the @BrisUniPress mailing list.
info and marketing to follow
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Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure; This book examines the buildings used as reception centres for asylum seekers in central Italy to reveal how they reflect the Euro...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
out in one month
ebook at £27.99 or 21quid if you subscribe to the @BrisUniPress mailing list.
info and marketing to follow
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
ebook at £27.99 or 21quid if you subscribe to the @BrisUniPress mailing list.
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🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement.
This is child abuse.
This is state terror.
Worcester police are complicit.
This is child abuse.
This is state terror.
Worcester police are complicit.
May 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement.
This is child abuse.
This is state terror.
Worcester police are complicit.
This is child abuse.
This is state terror.
Worcester police are complicit.
very much looking forward to this talk, which will allow me to set in conversation my book with the idea of 'refugee heritage' (anooradha iyer siddiqi, alessandro petti, emilio distretti, and others)
May 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
very much looking forward to this talk, which will allow me to set in conversation my book with the idea of 'refugee heritage' (anooradha iyer siddiqi, alessandro petti, emilio distretti, and others)
