Martina Tazzioli
@smartitaz.bsky.social
Associate professor of geography, University of Bologna.
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My latest interview with @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the recent uprising in Iran and the wider political context. I’ve tried to offer a measured assessment of the dynamics at play and the limits of easy answers.
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Iran Is Facing Its Deepest Crisis Since the 1979 Revolution
Discontent over dire economic conditions lay behind the protest wave that rocked Iran earlier this month. A US attack will make things even worse for the Iranian people, whether or not it results in t...
jacobin.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:25 PM
My latest interview with @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the recent uprising in Iran and the wider political context. I’ve tried to offer a measured assessment of the dynamics at play and the limits of easy answers.
jacobin.com/2026/01/iran...
jacobin.com/2026/01/iran...
"Governing by debasing migrant lives. Reconceptualising biopolitics and extractivism in migration geography" is now out in @proghumgeog.bsky.social
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Governing by debasing migrant lives. Reconceptualising biopolitics and extractivism in migration geography - Martina Tazzioli, 2026
This article offers a nuanced understanding of the biopolitics of migration, interrogating the ways in which migrants are object of value extraction by being de...
journals.sagepub.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:40 AM
"Governing by debasing migrant lives. Reconceptualising biopolitics and extractivism in migration geography" is now out in @proghumgeog.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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In a new article on the #Portolan blog @smartitaz.bsky.social and #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social stress that #migration has become a key vehicle for #authoritarianism. buff.ly/8ors8j5
#Borders #Asylum #EU #Rights #Asyl #Flüchtlingsschutz #Einwanderung #Politik #Gesellschaft #Rechtsruck
#Borders #Asylum #EU #Rights #Asyl #Flüchtlingsschutz #Einwanderung #Politik #Gesellschaft #Rechtsruck
Portolan
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November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In a new article on the #Portolan blog @smartitaz.bsky.social and #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social stress that #migration has become a key vehicle for #authoritarianism. buff.ly/8ors8j5
#Borders #Asylum #EU #Rights #Asyl #Flüchtlingsschutz #Einwanderung #Politik #Gesellschaft #Rechtsruck
#Borders #Asylum #EU #Rights #Asyl #Flüchtlingsschutz #Einwanderung #Politik #Gesellschaft #Rechtsruck
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Honoured that we were invited by Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra to contribute to their new blog #Portolan! The text by Martina Tazzioli and myself is called “Punitive Environments and the anti-immigration authoritarian commonsense”.
portolan-journal.org?post=punitiv...
portolan-journal.org?post=punitiv...
Portolan
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portolan-journal.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Honoured that we were invited by Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra to contribute to their new blog #Portolan! The text by Martina Tazzioli and myself is called “Punitive Environments and the anti-immigration authoritarian commonsense”.
portolan-journal.org?post=punitiv...
portolan-journal.org?post=punitiv...
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"How are we to understand ... the neo- and hyper-colonial futures through which “peace” and “reconstruction” in Gaza are being framed and implemented?"
portolan-journal.org?post=propert...
portolan-journal.org?post=propert...
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"How are we to understand ... the neo- and hyper-colonial futures through which “peace” and “reconstruction” in Gaza are being framed and implemented?"
portolan-journal.org?post=propert...
portolan-journal.org?post=propert...
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"In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation."
proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...
proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...
Planning Against Palestine • Protean Magazine
In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation.
proteanmag.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation."
proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...
proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...
Bologna against the genocide: today more than 60 000 took the street of Bologna and joined the national strike in support of the population in Gaza
September 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Bologna against the genocide: today more than 60 000 took the street of Bologna and joined the national strike in support of the population in Gaza
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Online first: Martina Tazzioli on value extraction through the debasement of migrant lives. Part of our Frontiers of Value in Migration Governance Special Issue (co-edited w/ @alibhagat.bsky.social & Julia Morris), forthcoming in EPA: Economy & Space.
"The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing” is now out in @economyandspace.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It investigates value extraction by debasing lives, which encapsulates psycho-physical debilitation and socio-economic devaluation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It investigates value extraction by debasing lives, which encapsulates psycho-physical debilitation and socio-economic devaluation
The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing - Martina Tazzioli, 2025
This article engages with current debates on value extraction from migrants and claims that it is necessary to complicate analyses that insist exclusively eithe...
journals.sagepub.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Online first: Martina Tazzioli on value extraction through the debasement of migrant lives. Part of our Frontiers of Value in Migration Governance Special Issue (co-edited w/ @alibhagat.bsky.social & Julia Morris), forthcoming in EPA: Economy & Space.
"The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing” is now out in @economyandspace.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It investigates value extraction by debasing lives, which encapsulates psycho-physical debilitation and socio-economic devaluation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It investigates value extraction by debasing lives, which encapsulates psycho-physical debilitation and socio-economic devaluation
The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing - Martina Tazzioli, 2025
This article engages with current debates on value extraction from migrants and claims that it is necessary to complicate analyses that insist exclusively eithe...
journals.sagepub.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing” is now out in @economyandspace.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It investigates value extraction by debasing lives, which encapsulates psycho-physical debilitation and socio-economic devaluation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It investigates value extraction by debasing lives, which encapsulates psycho-physical debilitation and socio-economic devaluation
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(1/2) Looking forward to our section with @smartitaz.bsky.social 'S17-Traces of Violence, Struggles and Power' with very promising panels and presentations at the #EISAPEC25 annual Conference in Bologna 🇮🇹 👇
@europeanisa.bsky.social @espol-lab.bsky.social
#InternationalRelations
@europeanisa.bsky.social @espol-lab.bsky.social
#InternationalRelations
August 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
(1/2) Looking forward to our section with @smartitaz.bsky.social 'S17-Traces of Violence, Struggles and Power' with very promising panels and presentations at the #EISAPEC25 annual Conference in Bologna 🇮🇹 👇
@europeanisa.bsky.social @espol-lab.bsky.social
#InternationalRelations
@europeanisa.bsky.social @espol-lab.bsky.social
#InternationalRelations
Glad to see the article “Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself" now out in International Migration.
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special issue on The Digitized Migration
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special issue on The Digitized Migration
“Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself
This paper interrogates the making of digital subjectivities that stem from the multiple data extractions that migrants experience. It argues that the digitalisation of the border regime does not pro...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Glad to see the article “Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself" now out in International Migration.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
special issue on The Digitized Migration
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
special issue on The Digitized Migration
Join us at the Summer School "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma" at the University of Bologna🎉
September 8-12, 2025
centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it...
No fees- deadline June 9
MA and PhD students
Memory Lab - Department of History & Cultures
September 8-12, 2025
centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it...
No fees- deadline June 9
MA and PhD students
Memory Lab - Department of History & Cultures
Summer School "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma"
Bologna • September 8th – September 12th, 2025
centri.unibo.it
April 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Join us at the Summer School "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma" at the University of Bologna🎉
September 8-12, 2025
centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it...
No fees- deadline June 9
MA and PhD students
Memory Lab - Department of History & Cultures
September 8-12, 2025
centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it...
No fees- deadline June 9
MA and PhD students
Memory Lab - Department of History & Cultures
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Translated this crucial new piece by @veronicagago.bsky.social in @radical-philosophy.bsky.social that develops the concept of the "fascistisation of social reproduction":
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...
Veronica Gago · The fascistisation of social reproduction (2025)
www.radicalphilosophy.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Translated this crucial new piece by @veronicagago.bsky.social in @radical-philosophy.bsky.social that develops the concept of the "fascistisation of social reproduction":
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...
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In this article, @smartitaz.bsky.social & I discuss how some decolonial approaches to borders & migration conceptualise colonial legacies by reducing the complex ways in which the colonial past informs racialised bordering mechanisms in the present.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles
Critique concerning Migration Studies’ Eurocentrism and its oblivion of race and colonialism has gained traction, prompting considerable soul-searching in the field as well as calls to decolonise M...
www.tandfonline.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
In this article, @smartitaz.bsky.social & I discuss how some decolonial approaches to borders & migration conceptualise colonial legacies by reducing the complex ways in which the colonial past informs racialised bordering mechanisms in the present.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Happy this article I co-authored with Martina Tazzioli is out & #openaccess! In it, we caution against a 'decolonial redux' in analyses of (Mediterranean) migration & (EU) border enforcement.
@smartitaz.bsky.social
@Scrmjems.bsky.social
@imisosnabrueck.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@smartitaz.bsky.social
@Scrmjems.bsky.social
@imisosnabrueck.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles
Critique concerning Migration Studies’ Eurocentrism and its oblivion of race and colonialism has gained traction, prompting considerable soul-searching in the field as well as calls to decolonise M...
www.tandfonline.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happy this article I co-authored with Martina Tazzioli is out & #openaccess! In it, we caution against a 'decolonial redux' in analyses of (Mediterranean) migration & (EU) border enforcement.
@smartitaz.bsky.social
@Scrmjems.bsky.social
@imisosnabrueck.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@smartitaz.bsky.social
@Scrmjems.bsky.social
@imisosnabrueck.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@mauricestierl.bsky.social and I wrote a piece on
"Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles" , now out in JEMS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
The article intervenes in debates on Eurocentrism in migration studies and its oblivion of race
"Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles" , now out in JEMS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
The article intervenes in debates on Eurocentrism in migration studies and its oblivion of race
Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles
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April 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
@mauricestierl.bsky.social and I wrote a piece on
"Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles" , now out in JEMS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
The article intervenes in debates on Eurocentrism in migration studies and its oblivion of race
"Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles" , now out in JEMS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
The article intervenes in debates on Eurocentrism in migration studies and its oblivion of race
Reposted by Martina Tazzioli
Doing a guest lecture on counter-mapping later this week. Adding this - public.tableau.com/app/profile/... - to my examples. Any other recent mapping projects that might help students think through how to counter-map the current moment?
public.tableau.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Doing a guest lecture on counter-mapping later this week. Adding this - public.tableau.com/app/profile/... - to my examples. Any other recent mapping projects that might help students think through how to counter-map the current moment?
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EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Fiction or Reality? Insights from the Canary Islands by Gustavo de la Orden. @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Fiction or Reality? Insights from the Canary Islands
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
March 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Fiction or Reality? Insights from the Canary Islands by Gustavo de la Orden. @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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🧵ECRE has published a comments paper on the Screening Regulation
Find out all about the Regulation introducing the screening of third-country nationals at the external borders ⬇️
Find out all about the Regulation introducing the screening of third-country nationals at the external borders ⬇️
February 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🧵ECRE has published a comments paper on the Screening Regulation
Find out all about the Regulation introducing the screening of third-country nationals at the external borders ⬇️
Find out all about the Regulation introducing the screening of third-country nationals at the external borders ⬇️
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“When your only recourse is austerity, anti-migrant rhetoric begins to dominate politics as the only explanation for the nation’s self-inflicted economic wounds,” argues @smartitaz.bsky.social | https://buff.ly/3Qf0BO5
Tazzioli unpacks the false logic behind the migration crisis.
#UKPolitics
Tazzioli unpacks the false logic behind the migration crisis.
#UKPolitics
Immigration is not a zero-sum game | Martina Tazzioli
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January 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“When your only recourse is austerity, anti-migrant rhetoric begins to dominate politics as the only explanation for the nation’s self-inflicted economic wounds,” argues @smartitaz.bsky.social | https://buff.ly/3Qf0BO5
Tazzioli unpacks the false logic behind the migration crisis.
#UKPolitics
Tazzioli unpacks the false logic behind the migration crisis.
#UKPolitics
"Bridled Labour and the Making of Migrants’ Route.
Refugees’ Workers at the French-Italian Border" just came out in @journalpariss.bsky.social
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in the article I use Yann Moulier-Boutang's concept of "bridled labour" to politicise migrants' escapes
Refugees’ Workers at the French-Italian Border" just came out in @journalpariss.bsky.social
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in the article I use Yann Moulier-Boutang's concept of "bridled labour" to politicise migrants' escapes
brill.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
"Bridled Labour and the Making of Migrants’ Route.
Refugees’ Workers at the French-Italian Border" just came out in @journalpariss.bsky.social
brill.com/view/journal...
in the article I use Yann Moulier-Boutang's concept of "bridled labour" to politicise migrants' escapes
Refugees’ Workers at the French-Italian Border" just came out in @journalpariss.bsky.social
brill.com/view/journal...
in the article I use Yann Moulier-Boutang's concept of "bridled labour" to politicise migrants' escapes
Reposted by Martina Tazzioli
Recommended reading: Special Issue on "Intersectional Solidarities and Resistances in Face of Violent Migration Regimes" by Sarah Murru, Robin Vandevoordt, Naïké Garny, and A. Tancrède Pagès.
www.digest.ugent.be/article/id/9...
www.digest.ugent.be/article/id/9...
Editorial - Intersectional Solidarities and Resistances in Face of Violent Migration Regimes
Migration regimes affect people’s mobility differently along the lines of their gender, race, class, nationality, age, sexual orientation, and more, exposing them to varying degrees and types of viole...
www.digest.ugent.be
January 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Recommended reading: Special Issue on "Intersectional Solidarities and Resistances in Face of Violent Migration Regimes" by Sarah Murru, Robin Vandevoordt, Naïké Garny, and A. Tancrède Pagès.
www.digest.ugent.be/article/id/9...
www.digest.ugent.be/article/id/9...
Assembling traces of border violence. Counter-mapping as counter-archiving" is now out in EPD journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The piece develops counter-mapping as counter-archiving to account for the continuum of violence that migrants experience drawing on traces
The piece develops counter-mapping as counter-archiving to account for the continuum of violence that migrants experience drawing on traces
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December 11, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Assembling traces of border violence. Counter-mapping as counter-archiving" is now out in EPD journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The piece develops counter-mapping as counter-archiving to account for the continuum of violence that migrants experience drawing on traces
The piece develops counter-mapping as counter-archiving to account for the continuum of violence that migrants experience drawing on traces