Outputs
Briefing Papers and Reports | Journal Publications | Podcasts and Videos | Short Articles and Commentaries | Website Blog Posts
Briefing Papers and Reports
Refugee Reception and Integration
Mediterranean Migration Research Programme Policy Briefings, July 2017
Improving Policy for Search and Rescue of Migrants in the Mediterranean and Identifying the Dead
Mediterranean Migration Research Programme Policy Briefings, July 2017
Dynamics of Migration Across the Mediterranean
Mediterranean Migration Research Programme Policy Briefings, July 2017
Civil Society Responses to the 'Migration Crisis'
Mediterranean Migration Research Programme Policy Briefings, July 2017
EVI-MED Mapping Refugee Reception in the Mediterranean: First Report
EVI-MED Project, June 2017
EVI-MED Project, December 2017
Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Final Project Report
Crossing the Med Project, May 2017
Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Second Evidence Brief
Crossing the Med Project, November 2016
Final Report: Destination Europe?
MEDMIG Project, November 2016
Research Brief 03: Boat migration across the Central Mediterranean
MEDMIG Project, September 2016
Research Brief 02: Understanding the dynamics of migration to Greece and the EU
MEDMIG Project, September 2016
Missing Migrants: Management of Dead Bodies in Sicily. Italy Country Report (long)
Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016
Missing Migrants: Management of Dead Bodies in Sicily. Italy Country Report (short)
Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016
‘Like a part of a puzzle which is missing’: The impact on families of a relative missing in migration across the Mediterranean. Report on the situation of families
Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016
Dead and Missing Migrants: The Obligations of European States under International Human Rights Law. IHRL Briefing
Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016
Missing and Dead Migrants at Sea: The legal framework in Greece. Greek Legal Briefing
Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016
The Italian legal framework for the management of missing persons and unidentified dead bodies, and the rights of the relatives. Italian Legal Briefing
Mediterranean Missing Project, September 2016
Documenting the Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean: Spaces of Transit, Migration Management and Migrant Agency
Documenting Migration Project, September 2016
Missing Migrants: Management of Dead Bodies in Lesbos. Greece Country Report (short)
Mediterranean Missing Project, August 2016
Missing Migrants: Management of Dead Bodies in Lesbos. Greece Country Report (long)
Mediterranean Missing Project, August 2016
Missing Migrants in the Mediterranean: Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis. A summary report.
Mediterranean Missing Project, August 2016
Missing Migrants and Managing Dead bodies in the Mediterranean. A briefing note.
Mediterranean Missing Project, June 2016
Death by Rescue
Precarious Trajectories Project, 18 April 2016
MEDMIG Research brief 1- Unpacking a rapidly changing scenario
MEDMIG Project, 22 March 2016
Overview of Project Findings relating to family reunification
Crossing the Med Project, March 2016
Crossing the Mediterranean by boat: Evidence Briefing
Crossing the Med Project, 16 February 2016
Policy brief on unauthorized migration to the EU
Crossing the Med Project, 28 October 2015
Journal Publications
Crossing the Eastern Mediterranean Sea in Search of 'Protection'
by Dallal Stevens and Angeliki Dimitriadi. Published in the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, August 2018.
by Nick Vaughan-Williams and Dr Maria Pisani. Published in Social & Cultural Geography, August 2018.
Mobile Solidarities and Precariousness at City Plaza: Beyond Vulnerable and Disposable Lives
by Vicki Squire. Published in Studies in Social Justice, July 2018.
The politics of evidence-based policy in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’
by Martin Baldwin-Edwards, Brad K. Blitz & Heaven Crawley. Published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, May 2018.
by Nina Perkowski & Vicki Squire. Published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, May 2018.
Seeking refuge in Europe: spaces of transit and the violence of migration management
by Leonie Ansems de Vries & Elspeth Guild. Published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, May 2018
by Heaven Crawley & Brad K. Blitz. Published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, May 2018
by Dr Vicki Squire. Published in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, March 2018
Health Challenges in Refugee Reception: Dateline Europe 2016
by Michael Strange, Vicki Squire, Anna Lundberg. Published in Politics, August 2017
Hotspot Politics-or, when the EU state gets real,
by Joe Painter, Evie Papada, Anna Papoutsi and Antonis Vradis. Published in Political Geography, March 7, 2017.
Unauthorised migration beyond structure/agency? Acts, interventions, effects
by Vicki Squire, Crossing the Med Project. Published in Politics (early view online).
Flags Flying Up a Tial Mast: Reflections on the Hotspot Mechanism in Mytilene
by Joe Painter, Anna Papoutsi, Evie Papada and Antonis Vradis. Published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, November 8 2016
Death as the border: Managing missing migrants and unidentified bodies at the EU's Mediterranean frontier
by Iosif Kovras and Simon Robins, Mediterranean Missing Project. Published in Political Geography, 55, 40-49. November 2016
Managing the unmanageable? Understanding Europe’s response to the ‘migration crisis'
by Heaven Crawley, MEDMIG Project. Published in Human Geography 9(2), 13-23. July 2016
Migrazioni e morte sulle coste libiche. Il caso di Zuwara
by Nancy Porsia, Precarious Trajectories Project, Intrasformazione, 5(1), 113-122. April 2016
Flussi e riflussi. Le pratiche mutevoli della (non-)assistenza e del controllo dei confini europe
by Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, Precarious Trajectories Project, Intrasformazione, 5(1), 140-171. April 2016
Ebbing and flowing: the EU’s shifting practices of (non)- assistance and bordering in a time of crisis
by Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, Precarious Trajectories Project, Near Futures Online. 21 March 2016
Palermo Open City: From a Mediterranean Migrant Crisis to a Europe without Borders?
by Leoluca Orlando and Simon Parker, Precarious Trajectories Project, Near Futures Online. 21 March 2016
Crisis or Zemblanity? Viewing the migration crisis through a Greek Lens
by Yannis Christodoulou et al., Transcapes Project. Published in Mediterranean Politics, 21(2), 321-325. March 2016
Podcasts and Videos
Brad Blitz at the Europeam Parliament
EVI-MED Project, June 2017
Crossing The Med interactive on line map
Crossing The Med Project, May 2017
Nando Sigona on Migrant Journeys
by Nando Sigona, MEDMIG project, March 2017
Mediterranean Missing Project Film (Subtitles available: Arabic and Italian)
Mediterranean Missing Project. November 2016
Ann Singleton on findings of Mediterranean Missing Project
Mediterranean Missing Project. Published by ICRC, September 2016
Simon Parker on child migration research and policy challenges
by Simon Parker, Precarious Trajectories Project. Published by UNICEF Office of Research, September 2016
Transitory Lives Documentary Teaser
Transitory Lives Project. July 2016
Short Articles and Commentaries
EU’s Efforts To Prevent Migration From Libya Does Not Respect or Value Lives
Crossing the Med Project, The Globe Post, September 2018
Asylum processing centres in North Africa would merely mask the EU’s migration failings
Crossing the Med Project, The Conversation, 29 June 2018
Why the EU’s Approach to Curbing Migration Is Doomed to Fail
Crossing the Med Project, World Politics Review, 11 July 2017
Debunking myths about why people migrate across the Mediterranean
Crossing the Med Project, the Conversation, 30 May 2017
Border Control and the Precarious Lives of Migrants in Italy
MEDMIG Project, Border Criminologies, 12 December 2016
MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 3 November 2016
No direct flight: new maps show the fragmented journeys of migrants and refugees to Europe
MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 2 November 2016
After the Calais Jungle: is there a long-term solution? Views from France and Britain
MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 24 October 2016
Humanitarian Corridors: beyond political gesture
Crossing the Med Project, openDemocracy, 17 October 2016
Flights to Italy for refugees offer a humanitarian way forward for Europe
Crossing the Med Project, the Conversation, 5 October 2016
Spaces of transit, migration management and migrant agency
Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 30 September 2016
Refugees, displacement and the European 'politics of exhaustion'
Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 30 September 2016
Post-humanitarianism in situ: Moria in flames
Transcapes Project, openDemocracy, 29 September 2016
Theresa May, this is not a ‘crisis of migration’, but a crisis of inhumanity
Precarious Trajectories Project, openDemocracy, 24 September 2016
Barack Obama says the refugee crisis is a ‘test of our humanity’ – is Britain failing it?
MEDMIG Project, The Conversation, 22 September 2016
Fleeing Europe?
Crossing the Med Project, openDemocracy, 3 August 2016
Mourning the dead while violating the living
Precarious Trajectories Project, openDemocracy, 30 June 2016
Warfare on the logistics of migrant movements: EU and NATO military operations in the Mediterranean
Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 16 June 2016
Selling Up, Settling Down: How a Turkish neighborhood adapted to its Syrian Refugees
MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 14 June 2016
City Plaza: A way forward for the European ’migrant crisis’?
Crossing the Med Project, openDemocracy, 14 June 2016
“The hegemonic powers of the EU have gone one step too far”: On governing borders and the right to move
Transcapes Project, Verso Books Blog, 8 June 2016
Lampedusa - Red Letter Days and Hotspot stories from Europe’s border
Crossing the Med Project, openDemocracy, 7 June 2016
Concentric cages: the hotspot of Lesvos after the EU-Turkey agreement
Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 30 May 2016
Humanitarian Space and Border Management in Lesbos
Transcapes Project, openDemocracy, 23 May 2016
Scholars support UN Refugee Global Compact: open letter
ESRC Mediterranean Migration Research Programme, openDemocracy, 10 May 2016
Britain is to take 3000 children by 2020...Generous? Think again
MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 26 April 2016
Europe’s border crisis as an autoimmune disorder
Crossing the Med Project, Green European Journal, 20 April 2016
The beginning of the end or the start of something new?
MEDMIG Project, Europe's World, 4 April 2016
Allegra Lab: Migrant deaths: explaining variations over time and across smuggling routes
MEDMIG Project, AllegraLab, 4 April 2016
The UK’s plans to prevent migration from Libya show a dangerous unwillingness to learn from past
MEDMIG Project, LSE EUROPP Blog, 31 March 2016
European policy is driving refugees to more dangerous routes across the Med
MEDMIG Project, the Conversation, 29 March 2016
The EU security apparatus designed to fails
Transcapes Project, Verso Books Blog, 28 March 2016
The EU’s Deal with Turkey Is a No-Win Situation
MEDMIG Project, Fortune, 22 March 2016
Migration evidence shows how badly EU needs to rethink its strategy
Crossing the Med Project, the Conversation, 7 March 2016
Upside Down Athens
Transcapes Project, openDemocracy, 29 February 2016
The transience and persistence of the Jungle in Calais
Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 27 February 2016
The EU hotspot approach at Lampedusa
Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 26 February 2016
Hotspot system as a new device for clandestinization: view from Sicily
Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 25 February 2016
Mediterranean migration crisis: transit points, enduring struggles
Documenting Migration Project, openDemocracy, 25 February 2016
‘Who are NATO’s ships in the Aegean really keeping an eye on?’
MEDMIG Project, The Conversation, 16 February 2016
Why the jury is out on the Commission’s latest proposal for a ‘distribution key’ to help solve the refugee crisis
MEDMIG Project, LSE EUROPP Blog, 18 January 2016
EU leaders seek to share responsibility for Migration in Malta
Crossing the Med Project, the Conversation, 11 November 2015
Illegalised Boat Migration, the Shipping Industry and the Costs of Rescue in the Central Mediterranean
Precarious Trajectories Project, Border Criminologies, 2 November 2015
The families of missing migrants and refugees may never know their fates
Mediterranean Missing Project, the Conversation, 1 October 2015
Website Blog Posts
19 – 21 September – Tension in the Moria hot-spot
Transitory Lives Project, 21 September 2016
Messages from Lesbos B’ – Solidarity gives way to intolerance
Transitory Lives Project, 26 August 2016
Messages from Lesbos A’: Radicalisation in Europe through the eyes of Galrim
Transitory Lives Project, 25 August 2016
Remembering the Refugee Crisis
EVI-MED Project, 24 April 2016
Findings on Family Reunification
Crossing the Med Project, 10 March 2016
Italy’s system of Migration Management has been called an illegality factory: this is how it works
EVI-MED Project, 9 March 2016
European Agenda on Migration Based on Flawed Assumptions
Crossing the Med Project, 7 March 2016
EVI-MED Project, 26 February 2016
Europe’s Migrant Crisis: Notes from Athens
EVI-MED Project, 10 February 2016
Observations from Kos
Crossing the Med Project, 2 February 2016
Victoria Square
Transitory Lives Project, 23 December 2015
Transient Populations Transforming the European Political Landscape
Transcapes Project, 2 December 2015
Images and notes from a fieldwork visit to Malta
Crossing the Med Project, 1 December 2015
The hotspot Approach
Transitory Lives Project, 20 November 2015
Valletta 2015: Sharing responsibility for a ‘migration crisis'?
Crossing the Med Project, 11 November 2015
Them Refugees
Transcapes Project, 5 November 2015
Crossing the Mediterranean Sea
Crossing the Med Project, 8 September 2015