Imagining Borders, Race and Labor in Times of Crises: The Case of Europe

Dr. Lecturer from our Department of Political Science and Public Administration. Dr. Sibel Karadağ (2021/22 Mercator-IPC Fellow) from our Department of Political Science and Public Administration will organize a panel titled “Imagining Borders, Race and Labor in Times of Crises: The Case of Europe” will take place on Friday, September 29th between 10:00-13:30 at Istanbul Policy Center in Karaköy.

Martina Tazzioli from the University of Bologna, Nando Sigona from the University of Birmingham and Itamar Mann from the University of Haifa will be the speakers of the panel.

Program
10:00-10:15 Karşılama konuşması / Sibel Karadağ
10:15-12:00 Martina Tazzioli, Bologna Üniversitesi
Nando Sigona, Birmingham Üniversitesi
Itamar Mann, Hayfa Üniversitesi
12:00-12:15 Kahve Arası
12:15-13:30 Tartışma

About the Speakers

Martina Tazzioli Bologna Üniversitesi Coğrafya Bölümü’nde doçenttir. “Border abolitionism: migration containment and the genealogies of struggles” (2023) adlı kitabın yazarıdır. Göçün Oluşumu. The biopolitics of mobility at Europe’s borders (2019), Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (2015) ve Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration (2016) kitaplarının ortak yazarıdır. Politics Journal’ın baş editörüdür ve Political Geography- Open Research ve Radical Philosophy dergilerinin yayın kurulunda yer almaktadır.

Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Superdiversity Research Institute at the University of Birmingham, UK. Nando is founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Migration Studies (Oxford University Press) and editor-in-chief of the Bristol University Press book series Global Migration and Social Change. His work has appeared in various international academic journals including Sociology, Social Anthropology, Antipode, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Identities, Citizenship Studies, International Migration Review and Ethnic and Racial Studies. He is the author of Becoming Adult on the Move (with Chase and Chatty, 2023), The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (with Meisnner and Vertovec, 2022) Undocumented Migration (with Gonzales, Franco and Papoutsi, 2019); Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ (with Crawley, Duvell, Jones and McMahon, 2017), Within and beyond citizenship (with Roberto G. Gonzales, 2017), The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Fiddian Qasmiyeh, Loescher and Long, 2014) and Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants (with Bloch and Zetter, 2014).

Itamar Mann is an Associate Professor at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law, where he teaches and does research in the areas of public international law, political theory, human rights, migration and refugee law, and environmental law. Since the summer of 2021, he is the president of Border Forensics. Itamar has published in leading journals and edited volumes, and his monograph, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, came out with Cambridge University Press in 2016. Alongside his academic work, he is a legal adviser at GLAN (Global Legal Action Network), where he advances strategic human rights litigation. Before moving to Haifa, Mann was a fellow at Georgetown Law Center, Washington DC. He holds an LLB (Tel Aviv University), LLM, and JSD degrees (Yale Law School). Itamar’s recent scholarship has focused on law and oceans and seas. In particular, on rescue vessels, both seaborne and airborne, with a recent project on how Greece has employed rescue equipment in a cruel practice of abandoning asylum seekers in the Aegean sea.