News

14-04-2025

SolRoutes & OVQ Organize Panel on "Arts of Solidarity" at ESCAPES2025

The SolRoutes project is proud to announce its organization of Panel 12: "Arts of Solidarity" at the upcoming ESCAPES2025 conference, scheduled to take place in Milan on September 11–12, 2025. This panel invites contributions that combine participatory ethnography with art-based methods to reframe how solidarity toward migrants is understood and enacted.

28-01-2025

Solidarity in Motion. Exploring Unauthorized Movements, Routes and Solidarity Networks across Europe at Large

Solidarity in Motion. Exploring Unauthorized Movements, Routes and Solidarity Networks across Europe at Large

This volume represents the first collective scholarly effort of the SOLROUTES project, critically examining the intricate relationship between solidarity and unauthorized migration. Through interdisciplinary case studies from Europe and North Africa, the book introduces innovative methodologies and explores the dynamic interplay between migration flows and grassroots solidarity networks.

03-12-2024

Eroded and Reconfigured: The dwelling infrastructures of illegalised migration along the Belgian-French route to the UK

Findings of the 2nd and 3rd nodes of Belgium’s Ethnographic Antennea, Brown Bag seminar at the Center of Ethnic and Migration Studies – CEDEM, Institute for Social Science Research (IRSS), University of Liège. When: 03 Decembre 2024 Place: Bâtiment 31, Pl. des Orateurs 3, Liège, Belgium Researcher: I. Oubad

13-11-2024

Digital Infrastructures in Contemporary Unauthorised Migration Industry

Digital Infrastructures in Contemporary Unauthorised Migration Industry

SolRoutes' postdoctoral researcher Rassa Ghaffari presented part of her research on Iranian unauthorised mobilities at the Twenty-First Annual Conference of Historical Materialism 'Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them' at the prestigious SOAS University in London, 7-10 November.

19-03-2025

New Study Explores Materialistic Approach to Border Transgression

New Study Explores Materialistic Approach to Border Transgression

Recent publication in the Soft Power Journal, titled "Unsettling Solidarity: Towards a Materialistic Approach to Border Transgression," delves into the complexities of border politics through a materialistic lens.

29-12-2024

New Research Article Published in Mondi Migranti

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new research article titled "Ethnographic Notes on Religion, Magic, and Adventure" in the journal MONDI MIGRANTI. Authored by Ivan Bonnin and Luca Queirolo Palmas, this essay delves into the social dynamics of migratory adventures in Mauritania and Tunisia, as observed through ethnographic field diaries.

29-11-2024

From Tripoli to Sicily

From Tripoli to Sicily

November 29-30, 2024, at the Centro Operatori di Pace in Mazara del Vallo, for a significant event focusing on the rights and challenges faced by refugees in the Mediterranean region.

03-03-2025

SOLROUTES Exhibition: "Arts on the Move. Debordering Europe" - March 14, 2025

SOLROUTES Exhibition: "Arts on the Move. Debordering Europe" - March 14, 2025

The SOLROUTES project is excited to announce a special event showcasing research outcomes through art, travel narratives, and border-crossing technologies. This dissemination day will take place on March 14, 2025, at Palazzo Ducale, bringing together academic perspectives with innovative artistic expressions.

06-12-2024

Routes and route-making in contemporary migration and border regimes

Routes and route-making in contemporary migration and border regimes

A multiple session on “Routes and route-making in contemporary migration and border regimes” was organised by Solroutes researcher Paolo Cuttitta in the framework of the conference of the Società di Studi Geografici “Oltre la Globalizzazione: Transizioni/Transitions” (Florence, Italy, 6 December). The thirteen authors of the nine papers that were presented in this multiple session also included Solroutes researchers Paolo Cuttitta, Michela Lovato, Ismail Oubad and Federico Rahola.

19-11-2024

Comparative and Multidisciplinary Studies on a World of Migrations and Borders

Comparative and Multidisciplinary Studies on a World of Migrations and Borders

We are excited to announce that the SolRoutes team, consisting of Luca Queirolo Palmas, Rassa Ghaffari, and Enrico Fravega, will be participating in this important event.

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