Luna Vives
@lunavives.bsky.social
Political geographer & Associate Prof at Université de Montréal #Migration #Borders #SAR #MaritimeRescue #EU #Spain #Canada #Geography #Justice // She/her.
Pinned
Luna Vives
@lunavives.bsky.social
· Oct 17
The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe
The Gates of the Sea explores how the Spanish government is reclaiming search and rescue assets to keep migrants out of its territory — and how rescue workers resist becoming border enforcers.
share.google
The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe – Fernwood Publishing share.google/69LQy7nNBwAk...
In memoriam: Claude Raffestin, geógrafo del poder y de las fronteras.
"Palabras de ultramar para un geógrafo...Claude Raffestin (París 8/7/1936 - Turín 25/9/2025)", por Yanga Villagómez Velázquez.
revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GE...
"Palabras de ultramar para un geógrafo...Claude Raffestin (París 8/7/1936 - Turín 25/9/2025)", por Yanga Villagómez Velázquez.
revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GE...
Vista de Palabras de ultramar para un geógrafo…
revistas.ucm.es
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
In memoriam: Claude Raffestin, geógrafo del poder y de las fronteras.
"Palabras de ultramar para un geógrafo...Claude Raffestin (París 8/7/1936 - Turín 25/9/2025)", por Yanga Villagómez Velázquez.
revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GE...
"Palabras de ultramar para un geógrafo...Claude Raffestin (París 8/7/1936 - Turín 25/9/2025)", por Yanga Villagómez Velázquez.
revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GE...
Reposted by Luna Vives
“Our best weapon against encroaching authoritarianism is civic and political pushback that forces accountability and transparency. Authoritarian governments seek underhanded ways to undermine judicial and academic independence, as well as to suppress dissent.”
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Our best weapon against encroaching authoritarianism is civic and political pushback that forces accountability and transparency. Authoritarian governments seek underhanded ways to undermine judicial and academic independence, as well as to suppress dissent.”
Reposted by Luna Vives
#ECREWeekly updates on the UK
▪️Government announces major changes to asylum policy
▪️Another damning assessment of Brook House detention centre
▪️New report makes economic case for ‘fair and humane’ asylum system
bit.ly/4a1JIRM
▪️Government announces major changes to asylum policy
▪️Another damning assessment of Brook House detention centre
▪️New report makes economic case for ‘fair and humane’ asylum system
bit.ly/4a1JIRM
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
#ECREWeekly updates on the UK
▪️Government announces major changes to asylum policy
▪️Another damning assessment of Brook House detention centre
▪️New report makes economic case for ‘fair and humane’ asylum system
bit.ly/4a1JIRM
▪️Government announces major changes to asylum policy
▪️Another damning assessment of Brook House detention centre
▪️New report makes economic case for ‘fair and humane’ asylum system
bit.ly/4a1JIRM
Reposted by Luna Vives
Italy attacks rescue organization Mediterranea Saving Humans for following maritime law! The first ship of the #JusticeFleet faces 60 days’ detention & a 10k fine for bringing rescued persons to land safely. 2 public prosecutor offices even ordered urgent arrival in port. shorturl.at/WB7mW 1/3
60 days of detention and a €10,000 fine for Mediterranea: an unjust and punitive sanction.
shorturl.at
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Italy attacks rescue organization Mediterranea Saving Humans for following maritime law! The first ship of the #JusticeFleet faces 60 days’ detention & a 10k fine for bringing rescued persons to land safely. 2 public prosecutor offices even ordered urgent arrival in port. shorturl.at/WB7mW 1/3
Reposted by Luna Vives
Some good news from the Mediterranean!
Here's hoping that @sos-humanity.bsky.social and @msfsea.bsky.social will be able to carry out their (literally) life-saving work unhindered.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6818...
Here's hoping that @sos-humanity.bsky.social and @msfsea.bsky.social will be able to carry out their (literally) life-saving work unhindered.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6818...
New NGO ships to take up rescue missions in the Mediterranean
New search and rescue ships, operated by the NGOs SOS Humanity and Doctors Without Borders will soon be seaworthy. Humanity 2 arrived in the Sicilian port of Syracuse on Friday (November 14), while MS...
www.infomigrants.net
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Some good news from the Mediterranean!
Here's hoping that @sos-humanity.bsky.social and @msfsea.bsky.social will be able to carry out their (literally) life-saving work unhindered.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6818...
Here's hoping that @sos-humanity.bsky.social and @msfsea.bsky.social will be able to carry out their (literally) life-saving work unhindered.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6818...
Reposted by Luna Vives
Reposted by Luna Vives
🚨Publication Alert🚨
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility
Abstract. This article revisits the scholarly debates and activist actions around what have become known as ‘humanitarian borders’. The article shows how h
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
🚨Publication Alert🚨
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Reposted by Luna Vives
💔 Al menos 2.002 personas han fallecido intentando alcanzar Europa a través del mar este año; más de 600, de camino a España.
Más dramático aún es saber que estas cifras solo reflejan una parte de la tragedia, ya que muchas personas desaparecen sin dejar rastro. #VíasLegalesYA
Más dramático aún es saber que estas cifras solo reflejan una parte de la tragedia, ya que muchas personas desaparecen sin dejar rastro. #VíasLegalesYA
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
💔 Al menos 2.002 personas han fallecido intentando alcanzar Europa a través del mar este año; más de 600, de camino a España.
Más dramático aún es saber que estas cifras solo reflejan una parte de la tragedia, ya que muchas personas desaparecen sin dejar rastro. #VíasLegalesYA
Más dramático aún es saber que estas cifras solo reflejan una parte de la tragedia, ya que muchas personas desaparecen sin dejar rastro. #VíasLegalesYA
Reposted by Luna Vives
The Indigenous Mapping Collective is a global network of Indigenous mappers that provides Indigenous Peoples, Nations, and organizations with the tools and training to map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize place and space. buff.ly/8laGNaZ
#GISDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#GISDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Indigenous Maps - Indigenous Mapping Collective
We are now known as the Indigenous Mapping Collective. The Indigenous Mapping Workshop is only one part of our global Indigenous Mapping Collective. Our goal has always been to give Indigenous…
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Indigenous Mapping Collective is a global network of Indigenous mappers that provides Indigenous Peoples, Nations, and organizations with the tools and training to map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize place and space. buff.ly/8laGNaZ
#GISDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#GISDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Reposted by Luna Vives
A great pleasure to chat to @drdomdavies.bsky.social about infrastructure, comics, and why using visual essays changes how we observe, think and write about the world.
The podcast is available to listen to on the link here 👇, as well as on the other usual platforms (spotify, apple podcasts, etc).
The podcast is available to listen to on the link here 👇, as well as on the other usual platforms (spotify, apple podcasts, etc).
It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative.
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall
Stream Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall by Thinking Through Infrastructure Network on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free ...
m.soundcloud.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A great pleasure to chat to @drdomdavies.bsky.social about infrastructure, comics, and why using visual essays changes how we observe, think and write about the world.
The podcast is available to listen to on the link here 👇, as well as on the other usual platforms (spotify, apple podcasts, etc).
The podcast is available to listen to on the link here 👇, as well as on the other usual platforms (spotify, apple podcasts, etc).
Reposted by Luna Vives
Kiran Klaus Patel - A Concise History of the European Union
À paraître en juin aux Cambridge UP
À paraître en juin aux Cambridge UP
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Kiran Klaus Patel - A Concise History of the European Union
À paraître en juin aux Cambridge UP
À paraître en juin aux Cambridge UP
Reposted by Luna Vives
Reposted by Luna Vives
Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, & desire that built it. 🤌 >
Counting down the hrs for #OurDykeHistories release tomorrow, my #podcast I've produced with my phenomenal collaborator, #SinisterWisdom!! Preview us here: rss.com/podcasts/our... #lesbian #queer #dyke #trans #bi
Counting down the hrs for #OurDykeHistories release tomorrow, my #podcast I've produced with my phenomenal collaborator, #SinisterWisdom!! Preview us here: rss.com/podcasts/our... #lesbian #queer #dyke #trans #bi
Our Dyke Histories | Podcast on RSS.com
Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, and desire that built it. 🤌**About UsDecade by decade, Our Dyke Histories dives deep into the living, breathing past and present of lesbian, quee...
rss.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, & desire that built it. 🤌 >
Counting down the hrs for #OurDykeHistories release tomorrow, my #podcast I've produced with my phenomenal collaborator, #SinisterWisdom!! Preview us here: rss.com/podcasts/our... #lesbian #queer #dyke #trans #bi
Counting down the hrs for #OurDykeHistories release tomorrow, my #podcast I've produced with my phenomenal collaborator, #SinisterWisdom!! Preview us here: rss.com/podcasts/our... #lesbian #queer #dyke #trans #bi
Reposted by Luna Vives
It's never illegal to claim asylum.
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It's never illegal to claim asylum.
Quite à propos these days.
the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.
November 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Quite à propos these days.
Autrement dit: en Espagne, personne ne vit à plus de 50 kilomètres d’une fosse commune de l'époque franquiste.
L'extrême droite, c'est effectivement ça.
L'extrême droite, c'est effectivement ça.
L'Espagne, comme l'Allemagne, l'Italie, la France, le Chili ou l'Argentine, a déjà "essayé" l'extrême-droite, pour reprendre une expression chère aux fachos fachés.
Ci-dessous, la carte de toutes les fosses communes recensées des victimes du franquisme. L'extrême-droite, c'est ça.
Ci-dessous, la carte de toutes les fosses communes recensées des victimes du franquisme. L'extrême-droite, c'est ça.
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Autrement dit: en Espagne, personne ne vit à plus de 50 kilomètres d’une fosse commune de l'époque franquiste.
L'extrême droite, c'est effectivement ça.
L'extrême droite, c'est effectivement ça.
Reposted by Luna Vives
Tomorrow we are presenting some of the findings from the @iclaimeu.bsky.social at a policy workshop hosted by @ceps.eu, in collaboration with our partners @enareurope.bsky.social & @etuc-ces.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?si=y4W...
www.youtube.com/watch?si=y4W...
About I CLAIM
YouTube video by I-CLAIM
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Tomorrow we are presenting some of the findings from the @iclaimeu.bsky.social at a policy workshop hosted by @ceps.eu, in collaboration with our partners @enareurope.bsky.social & @etuc-ces.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?si=y4W...
www.youtube.com/watch?si=y4W...
Reposted by Luna Vives
A magazine asked Ursula to write about a book that changed her life. "A book? One book?" she wrote on her blog.
You can read the whole post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/100-a-b...
You can read the whole post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/100-a-b...
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
A magazine asked Ursula to write about a book that changed her life. "A book? One book?" she wrote on her blog.
You can read the whole post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/100-a-b...
You can read the whole post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/100-a-b...
Reposted by Luna Vives
”EU member states have yet to designate areas where they want to build infrastructure along the external borders to host, detain and possibly deport migrants and prospective asylum seekers.” euobserver.com/migration/ar...
EU states stall on border sites for migrant detention and deportation facilities
EU member states have yet to designate areas where they want to build infrastructure along their external borders to host, detain and possibly deport migrants and prospective asylum seekers.
euobserver.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
”EU member states have yet to designate areas where they want to build infrastructure along the external borders to host, detain and possibly deport migrants and prospective asylum seekers.” euobserver.com/migration/ar...
Reposted by Luna Vives
MSF to resume search-and-rescue operations in the central Mediterranean with new ship
Meanwhile, 2025 refugee death toll in the area tops 1,000 following shipwreck off Libya, and Frontex boasts of 22% drop of irregular entries into the EU
thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/m...
Meanwhile, 2025 refugee death toll in the area tops 1,000 following shipwreck off Libya, and Frontex boasts of 22% drop of irregular entries into the EU
thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/m...
MSF to resume search-and-rescue operations in the central Mediterranean with new ship
Meanwhile, 2025 refugee death toll in the area tops 1,000 following shipwreck off Libya, and Frontex boasts of 22% drop of irregular entries into the EU DOCTORS Without Borders (MSF) announced its …
thecivilfleet.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
MSF to resume search-and-rescue operations in the central Mediterranean with new ship
Meanwhile, 2025 refugee death toll in the area tops 1,000 following shipwreck off Libya, and Frontex boasts of 22% drop of irregular entries into the EU
thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/m...
Meanwhile, 2025 refugee death toll in the area tops 1,000 following shipwreck off Libya, and Frontex boasts of 22% drop of irregular entries into the EU
thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/m...
Reposted by Luna Vives
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
🔥 15% off if you order The Gates of the Sea directly from Fernwood publishing! Code: GATES15
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
🔥 15% off if you order The Gates of the Sea directly from Fernwood publishing! Code: GATES15
Reposted by Luna Vives
Gran trabajo de @statewatch.bsky.social editando esta guía sobre privacidad y protección de datos para los profesionales de #inmigración y #asilo: Extralimitaciones tecnológicas contra las personas migrantes. Te lo cuento en @publico.es
#ProtecciónInternacional
www.publico.es/opinion/colu...
#ProtecciónInternacional
www.publico.es/opinion/colu...
Extralimitaciones tecnológicas contra las personas migrantes
Las tecnologías de control fronterizo, bajo el pretexto de la seguridad nacional, priman el beneficio de las autoridades estatales, opacando el de la persona migrante...
www.publico.es
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Gran trabajo de @statewatch.bsky.social editando esta guía sobre privacidad y protección de datos para los profesionales de #inmigración y #asilo: Extralimitaciones tecnológicas contra las personas migrantes. Te lo cuento en @publico.es
#ProtecciónInternacional
www.publico.es/opinion/colu...
#ProtecciónInternacional
www.publico.es/opinion/colu...
Reposted by Luna Vives
If it helps, this blog actually explains in quite some depth why you are wrong regarding the Illegal Immigration Act
righttoremain.org.uk/the-illegal-...
As for it not being illegal to seek asylum, it is specifically prohibited to penalise someone for manner of entry
www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/...
righttoremain.org.uk/the-illegal-...
As for it not being illegal to seek asylum, it is specifically prohibited to penalise someone for manner of entry
www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/...
The 1951 Refugee Convention | UNHCR
The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are the key documents that form the basis of UNHCR’s work. Learn more about them and view the original text.
www.unhcr.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
If it helps, this blog actually explains in quite some depth why you are wrong regarding the Illegal Immigration Act
righttoremain.org.uk/the-illegal-...
As for it not being illegal to seek asylum, it is specifically prohibited to penalise someone for manner of entry
www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/...
righttoremain.org.uk/the-illegal-...
As for it not being illegal to seek asylum, it is specifically prohibited to penalise someone for manner of entry
www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/...
Reposted by Luna Vives
🔴 EXCLUSIVA
El gobierno de España abre 2 cárceles de migrantes en Mauritania. Las obras corrieron a cargo de la agencia de cooperación FIAP (Min. Asuntos Exteriores). Ambos centros de detención tienen cunas para bebés.
Vía @elsaltodiario.com
🧵 HILO ⬇️
www.elsaltodiario.com/fronteras/go...
El gobierno de España abre 2 cárceles de migrantes en Mauritania. Las obras corrieron a cargo de la agencia de cooperación FIAP (Min. Asuntos Exteriores). Ambos centros de detención tienen cunas para bebés.
Vía @elsaltodiario.com
🧵 HILO ⬇️
www.elsaltodiario.com/fronteras/go...
El Gobierno de España abre dos cárceles de migrantes en Mauritania
Ambos centros de detención fueron construidos por la agencia de cooperación española FIAP, del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, y reservan espacio e incluso cunas para privar de libertad también a mi...
www.elsaltodiario.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🔴 EXCLUSIVA
El gobierno de España abre 2 cárceles de migrantes en Mauritania. Las obras corrieron a cargo de la agencia de cooperación FIAP (Min. Asuntos Exteriores). Ambos centros de detención tienen cunas para bebés.
Vía @elsaltodiario.com
🧵 HILO ⬇️
www.elsaltodiario.com/fronteras/go...
El gobierno de España abre 2 cárceles de migrantes en Mauritania. Las obras corrieron a cargo de la agencia de cooperación FIAP (Min. Asuntos Exteriores). Ambos centros de detención tienen cunas para bebés.
Vía @elsaltodiario.com
🧵 HILO ⬇️
www.elsaltodiario.com/fronteras/go...