Eleanor Paynter

Il governo italiano ha escluso la collaborazione nell’attacco di Stati Uniti e Israele contro l’Iran, ma i droni che partono da Sigonella potrebbero essere cruciali per i bombardamenti. Leggi l'articolo di Annalisa Camilli. intern.az/1PHa

La guerra dell’Iran si sta spostando sul mare Con attacchi diretti contro le navi e i tentativi di minare lo stretto di Hormuz: è una mossa che può avere conseguenze enormi

La guerra dell’Iran si sta spostando sul mare

It takes a certain kind of…narcissistic nihilism to look across the country at people self-organizing against something that is generally a fairly good material symbol of the intangible class warfare that has alienated them and say, “what a silly distraction from what *really* matters.” And yet…

Fellow travellers now have until 27 March 2026 to submit abstracts for our edited book project on 'Global Student Movements Against Coloniality'.

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ICE isn't just building detention centers. It's engineering an entirely new industrial infrastructure for mass deportation; modeled explicitly on Amazon's supply chain. Here's the full architecture of what's being built. 🧵

EU to support overseas migrant 'return hubs' The European Union is set to approve a stricter migration policy that would allow rejected asylum seekers to be sent to return centers outside the bloc. Despite serious human rights concerns, supporte...

The EU is set to approve a stricter migration policy that would allow rejected asylum seekers to be sent to 'return hubs' outside the bloc.

Critics raise human rights concerns while supporters claim the plan will deter irregular migration.

Italian minister says dialogue possible with local institutions on repatriations Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi has said he is willing to engage in wide-ranging dialogue with local administrations on a migrant repatriation center in the city of Bologna.

Regarding plans for a migrant repatriation center in the Italian city of Bologna, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said the centers "are useful across all of Italy" and that "everywhere there is the desire to control public security mechanisms."

UNHCR Ukraine Protection Response Update #9 - Annual Update 2025 #Refugees

Albania: Western Balkans — Mixed Migratory Flows Report (January 2026) #Refugees

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Albania has become a testing ground for the #externalization of asylum and border procedures.
A model that risks becoming the blueprint for Europe’s future migration management.

Meloni’s government started filling the deportation center #Gjadër in Albania.

Pressure mounts on EU to propose ‘concrete’ response to energy crisis Countries are growing frustrated with the EU executive’s wait-and-see approach as prices soar.

The European Commission is under pressure from a growing chorus of member countries to deploy emergency measures to tackle soaring energy costs triggered by the war in the Persian Gulf.

need crowdsourcing help #polisky - if your department is not admitting PhD students this cycle, please respond with the department

i already know my department, GW, is not admitting students

Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape: Temporalities, Solidarities, and Affect in Interviews with Ukrainians with Temporary Protection in Italy This article reflects on how “crisis oral history” can illuminate layered, nonlinear temporal experiences of displacement and resettlement. I draw on interviews I recorded with Ukrainians displaced...

New article out in the Oral History Review:

Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape: Temporalities, Solidarities, and Affect in Interviews with Ukrainians with Temporary Protection in Italy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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congrats on the book, looking forward to reading!

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

"Iran’s aim now seems to be not to secure victory but to raise the war's cost to prohibitive levels. What follows is a strategy of endurance and attrition. The Islamic Republic has prepared for the possibility that the US and Israel might opt for direct confrontation."

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Hi! Immigration lawyer here! Mahmood's view of the Refugee Convention as providing temporary protection just isn’t correct & AFAIK isn’t one anyone has ever adopted.

On the contrary, the Convention is clearly predicated on a long-term need for protection.
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Rescue workers carry a casualty of an Israel and US strike on a police station in Tehran, Iran. [Majid Khahi/ISNA/WANA via Reuters]

The Azadi sport complex on the day Azadi stadium was attacked, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Smoke rises over damaged Azadi Stadium following an US-Israeli attack. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Missiles fired by the US and Israel have hit two schools in the town of Parand, southwest of Tehran, amid ongoing strikes on the country. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Israel, US intensify Iran strikes, targeting homes, hospitals, stadium https://aje.news/olna4h

Comps! I think I might have been prepping these lists exactly a decade ago...

1. migration and border studies
2. postcolonial and cultural studies
3. testimony / narrative ethics / politics of storytelling

If you can't access at this link, happy to share -- just lmk
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Applying the concept of “asylum timescape” (Meier & Donà) to contexts of reception, I demonstrate how crisis oral history can create narrative space for making visible converging temporal & affective experiences that shape individual lives & emergent placemaking & counter-temporalizing practices
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This article reflects on how “crisis oral history” can illuminate layered, nonlinear temporal experiences of displacement and resettlement. I draw on interviews w Ukrainians in Italy... & discuss how narrators w temporary protection represent or reflect on crisis time & its affective dimensions
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Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape: Temporalities, Solidarities, and Affect in Interviews with Ukrainians with Temporary Protection in Italy This article reflects on how “crisis oral history” can illuminate layered, nonlinear temporal experiences of displacement and resettlement. I draw on interviews I recorded with Ukrainians displaced...

New article out in the Oral History Review:

Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape: Temporalities, Solidarities, and Affect in Interviews with Ukrainians with Temporary Protection in Italy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The 14th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now.

This month’s bulletin contains details about the EU's newest plan for 'degressive’ reintegration support, other means of ‘incentivising’ self-deportations, and twenty newly-obtained Council documents.

Find the issue here: buff.ly/dmMS8AK

@dandipiero.bsky.social FYI

Devolution, delegation, and digitisation: Accountability gaps in fragmented border regimes Contemporary borders are increasingly fragmented and dispersed, variously through externalisation practices and inwardly through everyday bordering ch…

New paper!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Where does accountability lie in contemporary border regimes?

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!

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Writing tip #1: No matter where you are in the writing process, imagine your ideal audience and write for it – small, large, simple, complex: friends, family, community, scholars, activists, children, theatre-goers, the general public. You pick the combination & decide to whom you want to speak.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war