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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García

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Anthropologist (interdisciplinary): (im)mobilities, informality, humanitarianism, migration, transnationalism, networks, social work, sports, humor | Assistant professor at University of Oviedo | first gen, dad, surfer, growing organic vegetables

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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · Dec 12

[Self-promotion] “Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im)mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe” just published with my dear colleague Kristín Loftsdóttir. Please reach out to me if you have no access to the article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Título y abstract del artículo:
Mobility cause lawyering:
Contesting regimes of (im)
mobility in the Canary Islands
migration route to Europe
Ignacio Fradejas-Garc´ıa
University of Oviedo, Spain
Krist´ın Loftsdóttir
University of Iceland, Iceland
Abstract
This article analyses cause lawyering as a critical form of resistance to uneven European
Union (EU) mobility regimes. Grounded in the proclamation of a migration crisis during
2020–21 in the Canary Islands, Spain, when newly arrived racialized migrants in irregular
situations faced different types of (im)mobilization during their transits to continental
Europe, the article shows that cause lawyering is a significant strategy for disputing
exclusionary dimensions of law and policy, and/or (im)mobility regulations when rules are
arbitrarily applied or violated. The case is illustrated ethnographically and follows various
expert lawyers in migration working within formal or informal structures, as well as nonlawyer
allies such as ombudsmen, activists, friends, or migrant families, who facilitate the
navigation of migrant mobilities using human rights and national and international laws and
regulations. The analysis focuses on their actions in practice and shows how they
challenge specific mobility rules within the EU’s mobility regimes, create procedures to
deal with bureaucracies and problems regarding access to legal services, and strategically
litigate individual cases in local, national and supranational jurisdictions. By drawing attention
to the plurality of actors performing mobility-related cause lawyering to challenge
uneven regimes of (im)mobility, the article contributes to the critical work that analyses
practices of migrant resistance by going beyond the portrayals of unauthorized migrants
battling alone against the odds as victims or heroes.

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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · 2d

Ahora mismo en la plenaria del congreso #REPS25 'Evaluación de políticas públicas, práctica basada en la evidencia', con Eloisa del Pino, Fernando Fantova,Joseba Zalakain y José Antonio Noguera.
@tsunirioja.bsky.social

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 3d

Muy contento con la publicación de esta nueva serie de "Theorizing the Contemporary" para Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social, la segunda que hacemos en español. Un lujazo de tema y contribuciones

www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica

Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo...

www.culanth.org

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to see this new Theorizing the Contemporary series now published—the second to appear in Spanish, on a wonderfully exciting topic and featuring a brilliant lineup of contributors @culanth.bsky.social

www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica

Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo...

www.culanth.org

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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · 6d

👋 Invitation to the film premiere of my short documentary "Bracelets" + discussion
⏰ Wednesday 22, at 18hrs (Spain).
👉 hybrid event.Link (code 561029) ewde.zoom.us/j/6730011549...
o en persona en Talent Garden (Madrid).

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Alisse Waterston @alissecc.bsky.social · 11d

Please read this important and powerful letter by Hayal Akarsu the eloquent, committed president of European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).Letter from the president easaonline.org/newsletter/8...

Letter from the president

EASA President Hayal Akarsu addresses the membership

easaonline.org

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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · 11d

I recommend this International Winter Course "Personal Networks: Theory, Methods and Applications" in Barcelona.
Great to create personal network research designs & to analyze personal network data. Useful for graduate students and researchers in social sciences.
webs.uab.cat/egolab/15th-...

15th Personal networks course – egolab-GRAFO

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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · 12d

I am so sorry, Miranda, rest in peace. Hugs to you and your family.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20d

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

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sdartiailh.bsky.social @sdartiailh.bsky.social · 22d

Institute of Anthropology - Leipzig University
Doctoral researcher position (m/f/d/x) with the DFG project “Environ-mental health: Experience, ethics and poiesis of ecological grief amid wounded environments in India” (ENVIRON-MENTAL)
www.arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche/job...

Doctoral researcher (m/f/d/x) bei Universität Leipzig

Founded in 1409, Leipzig University is one of Germany’s largest universities and a leader in research and medical training. With around 30,000 students and more than 5000 members of staff across 14 fa...

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Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 24d

📣#jobalert #hiring
#Postdoc opportunity for a qualitative scholar for 14.5 mo (fte) @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social to work on the political impact of new Russian emigrants on host countries and the RF in the DemEx project: www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
#migrationresearch #sociology

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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · 22d

Stop genocide, free palestine.

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Migration-Control.Info @migcontrol.bsky.social · 24d

💥📽️Join us for our upcoming film screening+panel discussion organized w/ @brotfuerdiewelt.bsky.social & #AMMODI on:

➡️EU border externalization, fishery policies, and departures along the #AtlanticRoute 🇸🇳 🇪🇺

w/ @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social #SerigneMbayé @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social #PapaSeck

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Olga Rodríguez Francisco @olgarodriguezfr.bsky.social · Aug 4

18 medidas para detener el genocidio en Gaza

Los gobiernos europeos tienen el deber de sancionar, prevenir, presionar, suspender acuerdos comerciales, etc

Las organizaciones sociales y la gente también podemos hacer. Aquí el listado ⬇️

www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

¿Qué podemos hacer desde Europa para detener el genocidio israelí en Gaza?

Las sociedades europeas llevan meses escuchando de sus gobiernos palabras que no se traducen en acciones, mientras siguen la hambruna y las matanzas; he aquí 18 medidas para detener la complicidad de ...

www.eldiario.es

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Ignacio Alvarez-Ossorio @ialvarezossorio.bsky.social · Aug 3

¿Qué podemos hacer desde Europa para detener el genocidio israelí en Gaza? www.eldiario.es/129_bea5b4?u...

¿Qué podemos hacer desde Europa para detener el genocidio israelí en Gaza?

Las sociedades europeas llevan meses escuchando de sus gobiernos palabras que no se traducen en acciones, mientras las masacres y la hambruna continúan; he aquí medidas para detener la complicidad de ...

www.eldiario.es

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Mauro Entrialgo @tyrexito.bsky.social · Jul 26

Sobre posicionarse o no ante un puto genocidio, vuelvo a poner esta del año pasado.

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Raquel Martí @rmartiunrwa.bsky.social · Jul 26

Han muerto más periodistas en Gaza (232) que en la Guerra Civil de US, la Primera y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la Guerra de Corea, la Guerra de Vietnam (+Camboya y Laos), las guerras de Yugoslavia y la guerra de Afganistán juntas.
Israel está silenciando las voces de los periodistas.

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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · Jul 26

Great event opportunity for ECRs working on #migration and #ethnography

thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Early Career Researchers Day 2025

A one-day in-person event hosted by The Sociological Review Foundation for early career researchers, featuring workshops on migration studies and ethnography, taking place in Glasgow on 27 November 20...

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · Jul 26

"If we stop taking world leaders at their word and instead think of Neo-Liberalism as a political project, it suddenly looks spectacularly effective. The politicians, CEOs, trade bureaucrats, and so forth may have done a miserable job in creating a world capitalist economy that meets the needs of a majority of the world’s inhabitants but they have succeeded magnificently in convincing the world that capitalism, and not just capitalism, but exactly the financialized, semifeudal capitalism we happen to have right now, is the only viable economic system. If you think about it, this is a remarkable accomplishment."

- David Graeber

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · Jul 20

Late to this but @economist.com published an editorial that is factually wrong, misleading (not to say manipulative) and presents a convoluted argument about how to build a better international protection system – essentially by scrapping international protection.

First, a couple of facts.

Scrap the asylum system—and build something better

Rich countries need to separate asylum from labour migration

www.economist.com

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ankita @ankikirakita.bsky.social · Jul 19

[A]n anthropology that is always in pursuit of ontological multiplicity and the highlighting of existing dominated and overshadowed modes of existence. [a] mistake to see in the highlighting of such minor realities an intrinsically anti-capitalist act.

www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Critical Anthropology as a Permanent State of First Contact

There is enough of the Marxist that remains in me to make me unable to think of politics without thinking about capitalism.

www.culanth.org

Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · Jul 17

Now even playgrounds are boring

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Teoría Antropológica @teoriantropolog.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Ensamblajes: Revista de Antropología Predoctoral @ensamblajes.bsky.social · May 21

Hoy, miércoles 21 de mayo, continúa el 1er Encuentro de Antropología Joven, organizado por la Red de Antropología Joven de la Asociación de Antropología del Estado Español (ASAEE).

🕕 De 18:00 a 19:30 (hora peninsular española)
🌐 Online, sin inscripción previa
🔗 Enlace: meet.google.com/xkm-bghi-adr

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Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · May 19

Three words (meditate, stop, freedom), make your sentence

Ignacio (Nacho) Fradejas-García @ignaciofradejas.bsky.social · Mar 4

ASAPE (Asociación Asturiana de Antropología y Patrimonio Etnológico) acaba de publicar el informe "Talleres par repensar el patrimonio",con ponencias, debates y un decálogo elaborado en los talleres celebrados en 2024 en Somiedo (Asturias, España) #antropología #anthropology

doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

TALLERES PARA REPENSAR EL PATRIMONIO

El documento recoge las intervenciones, debates y conclusiones que surgieron en el marco de los «Talleres para Repensar el Patrimonio. Espacios de debate y participación ciudadana», organizados por la...

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