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21-01-2024

A joint workshop between 2 ERC AdG Projects

A joint workshop between 2 ERC AdG Projects

Vital Elements and Postcolonial Moves (VIE) and Solidarity and Migrants Routes (SOLROUTES) with the participation of MOBS (Mobilities Imaginaries and Solidarities across the borders – PRIN/Italy), 29 February 2024 – Zarzis/Tunisia

28-12-2023

A Short Field Trip to Basmane: An Experience of a Diversely Lived Community and Cultural Spaces in Izmir

A Short Field Trip to Basmane: An Experience of a Diversely Lived Community and Cultural Spaces in Izmir

During a short field mission to Izmir, Turkey, post-doctoral researcher Rassa Ghaffari visited her colleague and local partner Lülüfer Körükmez, who is currently working on her first thematic antennae.

12-11-2023

Au-delà de l’Europe, (re)penser la fabrique des solidarités sur les routes migratoires africaines

Au-delà de l’Europe, (re)penser la fabrique des solidarités sur les routes migratoires africaines

Call for papers for the panel "Beyond Europe, (re)thinking the creation of solidarity on African migratory routes". The pannel is part of the next Meetings of African Studies in France (REAF) which will be held in Nice from July 1 to 4, 2024.

24-10-2023

Scientific Cooperation Agreement and the Four Ethnographic Antennae

SOLROUTES has signed five scientific cooperation agreements with local research centers in three crucial transit areas in Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey and a fourth one in Belgium with the aim of promoting scientific cooperation and achieving the objectives of the SOLROUTES project.

16-01-2024

Anatomies of power in the everyday

Anatomies of power in the everyday

The University of Parma will host the 2nd National Congress of the Emancipatory Social Sciences Network 'Anatomies of power in the everyday' on January 17-19, 2024, where three SolRoutes researchers will present their work in different panels on borders, people on the move and creative methods.

13-12-2023

Ethnographic fieldwork on solidarities, routes and migrations in Tunisia

Ethnographic fieldwork on solidarities, routes and migrations in Tunisia

In the framework of the SOLROUTES agreement with IRCM and CETUMA, Professor Queirolo Palmas is undertaking ethnographic fieldwork on solidarities, routes and migrations in Tunisia between 7 December 2023 and the end of January 2024.

07-11-2023

SAB Member, David Brotherton, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Brotherton will receive his award at a ceremony during the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology in November.

15-01-2024

Between the sea and a hard place: Encounters with sub-Saharan African migration in Sfax in mid-2023

Between the sea and a hard place: Encounters with sub-Saharan African migration in Sfax in mid-2023

Our doctoral student Michela Lovato has co-authored a research essay titled "Between the sea and a hard place: encounters with sub-Saharan African migration in Sfax in mid-2023" as part of the VILMOUV workshop. The essay was written in collaboration with David Brotherton (CUNY) and Nick Dines (Un. Ca' Foscari di Venezia) and is based on an ethnographic experience carried out in the city of Sfax in June. The essay sheds light on the challenges and aspirations of migrants in the region in the face of rising anti-migrant sentiments. It specifically focuses on migration mobility and urban spaces in Sfax.

02-12-2023

Ethnographie filmique et méthodes de co-production narrative autour des migrations

Ethnographie filmique et méthodes de co-production narrative autour des migrations

On November 30 and December 1, 2023, at the University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, Prof. Luca Queirolo Palmas presented his paper on film ethnography and methods of narrative co-production around migrations (Ethnographie filmique et méthodes de co-production narrative autour des migrations) during the conference on visual sociology of colonial and postcolonial dominations (Sociologie visuelle des dominations coloniales et post-coloniales).

24-10-2023

Fieldwork Research Activities. The First Nodes

Fieldwork Research Activities. The First Nodes

The second phase of the Solroutes project is already underway, with the PhD Solroutes researchers settling in four established ethnographic antennae in Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey and Belgium and conducting the following fieldwork research activities:

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