Luna Vives
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Luna Vives
@lunavives.bsky.social
Political geographer & Associate Prof at Université de Montréal #Migration #Borders #SAR #MaritimeRescue #EU #Spain #Canada #Geography #Justice // She/her.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Making my coffee while reading the news and... I think I'm ready for the weekend 😅
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Venez me voir si vous êtes au Québec le 21 Octobre ! 🌟

📚 Lancement du livre The Gates of the Sea

🙌 Avec la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les dynamiques migratoires mondiales et l'École supérieures d'études internationales (ULaval)

📍 Salle GHK-2320-2330

📅 21 octobre, de 10 h 30 à 12 h
October 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
OMG. It looks like I've written a book 😱😱😱

And know I'm out of words 😅

I'll write about it when I find them again. First, let me hide in a corner to shed some tears 🥹
August 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Very excited that this is happening tomorrow in #Montreal!
August 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Calmer in this little corner of Lanzarote looking west, but currents are strong.
July 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Conférence !

🇺🇸 Politiques d'immigration sous Trump 2: Impacts sur les État-Unis et le Canada
➡️ Valérie la Carte, MPI
🗓️ 17 juin 17 h à 19 h
📍Pav Lionel-Groulx C2059 / en ligne

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May 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Contents:
1. History of maritime #SAR
2. Salvamento Marítimo (1993-2024)
3. #Militarization & abandonement in the #WesternMed
4. Stealth militarization in the #CanaryIslands
5. The rescuers' union #CGT: resistance from within
6. Death, resistance, hope
May 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
👉 The Gates of the Sea explores how 🇪🇸 Spain’s rescue agency, Salvamento Marítimo, came to be, and how sea migration is pushing it toward a radical transformation. 🌊🚨

#Borders #Migration #MaritimeRescue #SAR
May 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Proofs! 😱

Knowing that this creature will soon be out in the world, inevitably with some mistakes and typos is deeply unsettling... and so exciting! 💃🏻
May 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Exciting news! 🤩

🚢🌊 My book on migration and maritime search and rescue #SAR in the #EU/ #Spain is available for *preorder*!

📚 Exam copies for educators coming up soon!
🌟 Publication date: Sept 2025

🙌 Thanks @fernpub.bsky.social for making this happen! 🏆

fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/the-gat...
March 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Ma contribution (avec A Banos, C Martel, E Hessek & K Williams) analyse le déplacement des opérations de sauvetage en mer impliquant des personnes migrantes dans la zone de responsabilité espagnole depuis 2015.

#migration #SAR

En #OpenAccess

www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
March 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Little joys! Thrilled to receive a paper copy of the special issue on #Borders (in FR) that I co-edited w/ some of my favorite colleagues. Grateful for this collaboration! 📖✨

W/ Karine Côté-Boucher, @adelegarnier.bsky.social @mireillepaquet.bsky.social

www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
March 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Strange times to be promoting publications, but I’m excited to share this great book, years in the making! I contributed a chapter on unaccompanied children on the move toward southern #EU.

Ed by Andrea Réa (ULB, Belgium), Mamadou Dime (UGB, Senegal), & Bob White (UdeM).

📖OA in April.

#migration
March 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I stopped at my local bookstore on the way home from the office and got myself this 🔥🔥🔥✊️
February 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This beautiful cat puts her paw down when she sees me doomscrolling 🙂‍↔️
February 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
2/ In the #Atlantic #CanaryIslands this transfer happened later (2021-ish) and was done less openly. The relocation of rescue ops was less clear-cut, in part because of the greater number of actors involved and complex post-pandemic dynamics in countries of origin and transit 🤔
December 2, 2024 at 8:11 PM
1/ In 2015-2023, the SP govt transferred responsibility for rescue ops involving migrants to the military ➕ foreign govts. In the #WesternMed, this happened suddenly and openly in 2018-2019, in response to a sudden increase in arrivals & elections where rescue was a main front for the far right.
December 2, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Hello! If you are in #Montreal, join us for the launching of the new issue of Criminologie focused on #borders / #frontières!

I will be presenting a co-authored article using #SAR #rescue geolocation data in zones of migration in the #WesternMed and the #Atlantic / #CanaryIslands. Lots of maps!
November 18, 2024 at 10:23 PM