SOLROUTES in India: Visiting Faculty at Jindal School of International Affairs and Workshop on “Ethics at the Border” (March 2026)

In March 2026, Luca Queirolo Palmas and Federico Rahola (University of Genoa) were invited as Visiting Faculty at the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA), O.P. Jindal Global University (Sonipat, India), for the period 01–20 March 2026.

The visit, hosted by JSIA in collaboration with the Centre for European Studies (CES), created a rich space for exchange around SOLROUTES’ core themes of solidarity and mobility. During their stay, the two scholars led a joint seminar co-organized by CES and the ERC SOLROUTES project, and held meetings with academics and students to discuss the project’s approach and ongoing results.

A key part of the programme was the presentation of ethnographic films produced across multiple fieldwork sites, including Senegal, the Canary Islands, and Mauritania, as a way to share SOLROUTES’ research practices and narrative outputs beyond academic formats.

The visit also included participation in the workshop “Ethics at the Border: Solidarity, Responsibility and Relationality” (16–17 March 2026).

On 17 March 2026, Queirolo Palmas and Rahola contributed with a talk titled “Unsettling routes and solidarity: border abolitionism and marron infrastructures”, connecting SOLROUTES’ abolitionist horizon to wider debates on ethics, responsibility, and relationality at and through borders.

Finally, they took part in CES activities planned for “EU Week” (19–20 March), reinforcing the visit’s broader goal: to strengthen transnational conversations on borders and migration, and to expand SOLROUTES’ collaborations and publics well beyond Europe.