Rossella Marino
@rossellamarin.bsky.social
Post-doc at UGent. I teach critical theories and research EU-funded migration management in The Gambia. From Torre del Greco. I'm also a singersongwriter if you're interested
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Working on an essay about Assisted Return (AR) for the Federal Agency for Civic Education (@bpb.de) and reviewing the latest research. Excellent mapping of AR programmes across the EU by @rossellamarin.bsky.social et al. & @lukasfuchs.bsky.social (@dezim-institut.de). Highly recommended!
June 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Working on an essay about Assisted Return (AR) for the Federal Agency for Civic Education (@bpb.de) and reviewing the latest research. Excellent mapping of AR programmes across the EU by @rossellamarin.bsky.social et al. & @lukasfuchs.bsky.social (@dezim-institut.de). Highly recommended!
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2/3 In our latest #blog post @rossellamarin.bsky.social and #MustaphaSallah consider the mixed reactions of Gambians, who resent their government for accepting the deal but try to enter the scheme for lack of better alternatives.
March 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
2/3 In our latest #blog post @rossellamarin.bsky.social and #MustaphaSallah consider the mixed reactions of Gambians, who resent their government for accepting the deal but try to enter the scheme for lack of better alternatives.
Trump's politics is appalling from every point of view. People made vulnerable by (neo)colonialism deserve immediate help with their predicaments. But I read too many supposedly reasonable people regretting USAID cuts *without saying* that decolonisation is needed over manufactured dependence. 1/3
February 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Trump's politics is appalling from every point of view. People made vulnerable by (neo)colonialism deserve immediate help with their predicaments. But I read too many supposedly reasonable people regretting USAID cuts *without saying* that decolonisation is needed over manufactured dependence. 1/3
In 2025, my partner, whose name is Mustapha, has been given a 'French' name at the French language class: Thèo
January 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In 2025, my partner, whose name is Mustapha, has been given a 'French' name at the French language class: Thèo
A reflection on occupying the 'central' position in our societies and universities, where equating radical justice with anti-woke sentiments means reifying the superficially nicer kind of fascism that liberals embody
Rossella Marino on LinkedIn: Many have already said that 2024 has further revealed the limits of…
Many have already said that 2024 has further revealed the limits of liberalism in the West. Rather than egalitarian and rights-based, Western liberalism is the…
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January 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A reflection on occupying the 'central' position in our societies and universities, where equating radical justice with anti-woke sentiments means reifying the superficially nicer kind of fascism that liberals embody
Btw, I'm on Substack:
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
The tragedy of New Year's
the question of where to start the revolution, and how (part 2)
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January 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Btw, I'm on Substack:
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
How many other academics are feeling worthless at the Xmas table? I find it so hard to confront family over their unreflexive beliefs without sounding patronising or outright crazy.
December 25, 2024 at 10:39 PM
How many other academics are feeling worthless at the Xmas table? I find it so hard to confront family over their unreflexive beliefs without sounding patronising or outright crazy.
Maybe it's time for me to come back to this platform?
Let me start with sharing this post I wrote together with Ngozi Umah for Statewatch and migration-control.info on the detrimental effects of Frontex's involvement in reintegration after deportation in The Gambia and Nigeria: tinyurl.com/533kxx62
Let me start with sharing this post I wrote together with Ngozi Umah for Statewatch and migration-control.info on the detrimental effects of Frontex's involvement in reintegration after deportation in The Gambia and Nigeria: tinyurl.com/533kxx62
Statewatch | Frontex’s increasing role in reintegration policy and its effects in West Africa
The externalisation of European border controls to Africa has received substantial political and critical attention. The same cannot be said of “reintegration” policies, ostensibly designed to support...
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November 27, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Maybe it's time for me to come back to this platform?
Let me start with sharing this post I wrote together with Ngozi Umah for Statewatch and migration-control.info on the detrimental effects of Frontex's involvement in reintegration after deportation in The Gambia and Nigeria: tinyurl.com/533kxx62
Let me start with sharing this post I wrote together with Ngozi Umah for Statewatch and migration-control.info on the detrimental effects of Frontex's involvement in reintegration after deportation in The Gambia and Nigeria: tinyurl.com/533kxx62
I have a youtube channel!
I talk about "voluntary" returns here. Please check it out: youtu.be/3OZ462UlY2s?....
I talk about "voluntary" returns here. Please check it out: youtu.be/3OZ462UlY2s?....
December 16, 2023 at 10:35 PM
I have a youtube channel!
I talk about "voluntary" returns here. Please check it out: youtu.be/3OZ462UlY2s?....
I talk about "voluntary" returns here. Please check it out: youtu.be/3OZ462UlY2s?....
That time I was judged through a positivist lens by the selection committee of FWO despite being clear about my post-positivist stance. Discrimination against non-hegemonic epistemologies in academia and grant allocation must stop.
December 4, 2023 at 11:37 AM
That time I was judged through a positivist lens by the selection committee of FWO despite being clear about my post-positivist stance. Discrimination against non-hegemonic epistemologies in academia and grant allocation must stop.
American terrorists.
For those who want the primary sources on Kissinger's statements, policy stances, and directives regarding violations of both international and domestic law, the National Security Archive has this handy compilation (and many other valuable documents) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary
A Declassified Dossier on HAK’s Controversial Historical Legacy
nsarchive.gwu.edu
December 1, 2023 at 10:10 AM
American terrorists.
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People are focusing (understandably) on the Israeli military AI targeting system highlighted in this article: www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...
But don't miss:
• That AI system is apparently being used to auto-generate targeting recommendations for *junior militants' family homes.*
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But don't miss:
• That AI system is apparently being used to auto-generate targeting recommendations for *junior militants' family homes.*
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December 1, 2023 at 8:26 AM
People are focusing (understandably) on the Israeli military AI targeting system highlighted in this article: www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...
But don't miss:
• That AI system is apparently being used to auto-generate targeting recommendations for *junior militants' family homes.*
1/2
But don't miss:
• That AI system is apparently being used to auto-generate targeting recommendations for *junior militants' family homes.*
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And now, with the motivation and career statements, the reflections on my disciplinary contributions, the drafting of the proposal done, as I FINALLY complete the super-boring reference part, I realise I'M TWO PAGES LONGER THAN THE LIMIT allowed by the grant application. Kill me please.
November 30, 2023 at 1:38 PM
And now, with the motivation and career statements, the reflections on my disciplinary contributions, the drafting of the proposal done, as I FINALLY complete the super-boring reference part, I realise I'M TWO PAGES LONGER THAN THE LIMIT allowed by the grant application. Kill me please.
It's all here.
Richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity | Oxfam International
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November 20, 2023 at 10:22 AM
It's all here.
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Nope. Woke up to more indiscriminate raids and bombing of a hospital, and Biden shamelessly doubling down in his support of this horror. I hate this world.
Praying I wake up to a cessation of the indiscriminate heartless killing of Palestinians and the return of the hostages to their families and loved ones. Just so much heartbreak.
November 16, 2023 at 12:19 PM
Nope. Woke up to more indiscriminate raids and bombing of a hospital, and Biden shamelessly doubling down in his support of this horror. I hate this world.
Forcing myself to complete this post-doc funding application. Clinging on the tiny hope I have that this 10-page overview will not be dismissed on the basis of some arbitrary evaluation of the approximate number of interviews I would conduct in a distant future if I got this money.
November 14, 2023 at 1:41 PM
Forcing myself to complete this post-doc funding application. Clinging on the tiny hope I have that this 10-page overview will not be dismissed on the basis of some arbitrary evaluation of the approximate number of interviews I would conduct in a distant future if I got this money.
Certainly academics are not the only ones talking about colonialism and dispossession. But we do. A lot. What is happening is also due to the fact that we are given funds and accolades as long as our reflections stay in the realm of theory.
November 2, 2023 at 6:05 PM
Certainly academics are not the only ones talking about colonialism and dispossession. But we do. A lot. What is happening is also due to the fact that we are given funds and accolades as long as our reflections stay in the realm of theory.
I have come to talk about the epistemological difference of using onion in Italian and Gambian food with my partner.
November 1, 2023 at 1:31 PM
I have come to talk about the epistemological difference of using onion in Italian and Gambian food with my partner.
For sure there will be no shortage of children ghosts hunting them this year.
While Genocide Biden is enjoying Halloween, the genocidal colonial state of Israel is bombing refugee camps.
And surprise surprise!!! Hamas was not responsible.
And surprise surprise!!! Hamas was not responsible.
November 1, 2023 at 5:33 AM
For sure there will be no shortage of children ghosts hunting them this year.
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I can’t bear it. We are all watching this happen and they will pretend they didn’t know afterwards, if they are ever even held to account.
They have bombed Al Shifa Hospital with the usual human shield argument. They have destroyed all telecom infrastructure. People in Al Arish in Sinai, 75 km away can feel the ground shake under their feet.
October 27, 2023 at 10:36 PM
I can’t bear it. We are all watching this happen and they will pretend they didn’t know afterwards, if they are ever even held to account.
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We all continue to live with the legacies of Europe’s philosophical inability to coexist with difference.
October 27, 2023 at 6:43 PM
We all continue to live with the legacies of Europe’s philosophical inability to coexist with difference.
Following the UN debate. Canada refers to the root cause of the current situation. Dating back to TWO WEEKS AGO.
October 27, 2023 at 7:28 PM
Following the UN debate. Canada refers to the root cause of the current situation. Dating back to TWO WEEKS AGO.
The US is involved in a textbook case of humanity hierarchisation, as Biden questions Palestinians' death count and Thomas-Greenfield criticises the current UN resolution for not referring to the hostages taken by Hamas.
October 27, 2023 at 6:59 PM
The US is involved in a textbook case of humanity hierarchisation, as Biden questions Palestinians' death count and Thomas-Greenfield criticises the current UN resolution for not referring to the hostages taken by Hamas.
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In twenty years I will ask where you stood.
Did you stand against genocide?
Did you stand for an end to occupation?
Did you stand for the humanity of all?
Did you stand for peace and for the right of everyone to live in dignity?
Or did you beat the drums of war?
Did you stand against genocide?
Did you stand for an end to occupation?
Did you stand for the humanity of all?
Did you stand for peace and for the right of everyone to live in dignity?
Or did you beat the drums of war?
October 25, 2023 at 10:51 AM
In twenty years I will ask where you stood.
Did you stand against genocide?
Did you stand for an end to occupation?
Did you stand for the humanity of all?
Did you stand for peace and for the right of everyone to live in dignity?
Or did you beat the drums of war?
Did you stand against genocide?
Did you stand for an end to occupation?
Did you stand for the humanity of all?
Did you stand for peace and for the right of everyone to live in dignity?
Or did you beat the drums of war?