Martina Tazzioli: Unmaking migrant life. Technologies of suffocation in Europe
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Lecture Series: FORCED MIGRATION
25 November 2026, 2.15–3.45 pm
online
Martina Tazzioli (University of Bologna )
Unmaking migrant life. Technologies of suffocation in Europe [EN]
This lecture offers a broader theoretical framework for contemporary border regimes and examines the actors, infrastructures, technologies and material arrangements through which borders are produced and enforced.
It considers how European migration control is externalised beyond the territorial borders of the European Union and how border violence, mobility restrictions, and struggles over movement unfold across different geographical and political contexts.
Moderators: Mouna Maaroufi and Norbert Cyrus (Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION)
Please register here once for all online events in the ‘Forced Migration’ lecture series:
https://forms.europa-uni.de/form/alias/EUV/forced-migration-lecture-series/
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FORCED MIGRATION – Lecture Series, Winter Semester 2026/2027
The lecture series is organised by the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on forced migration, borders, asylum and refugee reception. It examines how experiences of displacement are shaped by immigration and asylum regimes, legal insecurity, racialisation, gendered and intersectional inequalities, and changing infrastructures of border control and reception.
Combining theoretical debate with empirical research and perspectives from policy, activism and practice, the series addresses border externalisation and violence, differentiated forms of vulnerability and protection, refugee agency and collective action, and the everyday negotiation of institutional constraints. It also considers questions of local reception, participation and support, linking wider debates on European migration governance with experiences and practices in specific national and local contexts.