The Art, Aesthetics, and Identity axis of the Research Group on Gender, Identity, and Diversity (GENI) at the University of Barcelona invites researchers and academics interested in the act of listening to present their communications at the International Symposium “Listening: Knowing Through the Body,” which will take place on June 19 and 20, 2025, at […]
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Brussels, March 26 – The MORE research project, coordinated by the University of Barcelona and funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Program, will present its preliminary results at the European Parliament. MORE explores return and readmission policies, analysing the logic that legitimises them as a tool for migration governance and their consequences on the […]
The project MORE: Motivations, Experiences And Consequences Of Returns And Readmissions Policy: Revealing And Developing Effective Alternatives celebrates its first year with a partners meeting in Ljubljana (Slovienia). During the meeting partners presented the preliminary comparative results of WP1, which deepens into the construction of political and policy discourses around returns and readmission, and […]
GENI members Ignacio Elpidio Domínguez Ruiz and Fabiola Mancinelli, currently research for the Horizon Europe project INCA, have recently published a newsletter article in which they analyse the so-called “Rider Law”. Please find the whole article, and more information on the project, via this link.
Our colleague Fabiola Mancinelli has participated in the RTVE programme L’Altaveu, where she has discussed the phenomenon of digital nomads. You may find more information and the video of her participation via this link.
On April 25th, as part of the institutional events for the celebration of Sant Jordi at the Faculty of Geography and History, Fabiola Mancinelli, editor along with Jordi Roca and Olga Jubany of “Categorías Desbordadas,” will present the publication at 7:00 p.m. You can view the full schedule of events on the poster below. Additionally, […]
Within the context of the 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA), its call for papers will be open until January 22nd 2024. Among the accepted panels you will find one focused on the EXIT project, coordinated from the UB: panel 47, Living, leaving and undoing “left-behindness”, whose summary you may find […]
Being “left-behind”? The relevance of inequalities and their territorial dimension has become increasingly prominent in academic debate and political discourse. This issue gained particular attention after the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump in 2016. It is in this context that, at the end of 2022, the project EXIT: Exploring sustainable strategies to […]
On 10 November 2023, the University of Barcelona’s INCA team gave a presentation at the Twentieth Historical Materialism Conference at SOAS (London). The title of the Conference was “The Cost of Life Oppression, Exploitation and Struggle in the Time of Monsters”, and Ignacio Elpidio Domínguez Ruiz presented a talk entitled “Legitimising Casual Labour Relationships under Algocratic Governance: […]
MORE: Motivations, experiences and consequences of returns and readmissions policy: revealing and developing effective alternatives The returns and readmissions policies constitute an essential part of the European Union and its member states’ response to irregular migration. These policies have led to a reduction in pathways to safeguard the rights of migrant populations across Europe. The […]