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Martina Tazzioli

Martina Tazzioli

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Political Science

D-Index
36
Citations
4511
World Ranking
709
National Ranking
20

Overview

Martina Tazzioli is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has a primary focus on social sciences, particularly within the fields of sociology, political science, and international relations. Their research addresses topics predominantly related to migration, refugees, and integration, covering diverse aspects such as migration health, trauma, global security, public health, labor dynamics, exile studies, transnational identity, and sex work.

The scientist's published work includes several articles in reputable journals, with notable examples including:

  • "Who is a Migrant? Abandoning the Nation-state Point of View in the Study of Migration" (2022), published in Migration Politics
  • "We Closed the Ports to Protect Refugees." Hygienic Borders and Deterrence Humanitarianism during Covid-19 (2021), published in International Political Sociology
  • "Choking without killing": Opacity and the grey area of migration governmentality (2021), published in Political Geography
  • "Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint" (2021), published in Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • "Rethinking the biopolitical: Borders, refugees, mobilities..." (2021), published in Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

Martina Tazzioli has also published a book titled Border abolitionism (2023) through Winchester University Press. This work contributes to their research focus on borders, migration governance, and political theory.

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Political Geography
  • Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • Foucault Studies
  • International Political Sociology
  • Environment and Planning D Society and Space

Collaboration is an integral part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • W. B. Walters
  • Maurice Stierl
  • Nicholas De Genova
  • Sverre Raffnsøe
  • Bregham Dalgliesh

Martina Tazzioli's scholarly output shows a sustained engagement with critical migration studies, governance of borders, and biopolitics, reflecting varied interdisciplinary approaches across the social sciences. Their work is cited in academic discussions concerning migration policies, humanitarianism, and political theory.

Best Publications

  • New Keywords: Migration and Borders

    Maribel Casas-Cortes;Sebastian Cobarrubias;Nicholas De Genova;Glenda Garelli

  • Containment beyond detention: The hotspot system and disrupted migration movements across Europe:

    Martina Tazzioli;Martina Tazzioli;Glenda Garelli

  • The temporal borders of asylum. Temporality of control in the EU border regime

    Martina Tazzioli

  • Containment through mobility: migrants’ spatial disobediences and the reshaping of control through the hotspot system

    Martina Tazzioli

  • Europe/Crisis: New Keywords of "the Crisis" in and of "Europe"

    Martina Tazzioli;Nicholas De Genova

  • The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders

    Martina Tazzioli

  • Autonomy of Asylum?The Autonomy of Migration Undoing the Refugee Crisis Script

    Martina Tazzioli;Nicholas De Genova;Glenda Garelli

  • Border displacements. Challenging the politics of rescue between Mare Nostrum and Triton

    Martina Tazzioli

  • Biopolitics Multiple: Migration, Extraction, Subtraction:

    Claudia Aradau;Martina Tazzioli

  • Governing migrant mobility through mobility: Containment and dispersal at the internal frontiers of Europe

    Martina Tazzioli

  • The Sight of Migration: Governmentality, Visibility and Europe’s Contested Borders*

    Martina Tazzioli;William Walters

  • Migration, solidarity and the limits of Europe

    Martina Tazzioli;William Walters

  • Challenging the discipline of migration: militant research in migration studies, an introduction

    Glenda Garelli;Martina Tazzioli

  • The Humanitarian War Against Migrant Smugglers at Sea

    Glenda Garelli;Martina Tazzioli

  • Spy, track and archive: The temporality of visibility in Eurosur and Jora:

    Martina Tazzioli

  • Double opening, split temporality, and new spatialities: an interview with Sandro Mezzadra on ‘militant research’

    Interview By Glenda Garelli;Martina Tazzioli

  • Refugees’ Debit Cards, Subjectivities, and Data Circuits: Financial-Humanitarianism in the Greek Migration Laboratory

    Martina Tazzioli

  • “We Closed the Ports to Protect Refugees.” Hygienic Borders and Deterrence Humanitarianism during Covid-19

    Martina Tazzioli;Maurice Stierl

  • Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings

    Martina Tazzioli

  • Who is a Migrant? Abandoning the Nation-state Point of View in the Study of Migration

    Stephan Scheel;Martina Tazzioli

  • Confessional Subjects and Conducts of Non-Truth: Foucault, Fanon, and the Making of the Subject:

    Daniele Lorenzini;Martina Tazzioli

  • Crimes of solidarity: migration and containment through rescue

    Martina Tazzioli

  • THE DESULTORY POLITICS OF MOBILITY AND THE HUMANITARIAN-MILITARY BORDER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. MARE NOSTRUM BEYOND THE SEA

    Martina Tazzioli

  • Shifting Bordering and Rescue Practices in the Central Mediterranean Sea, October 2013–October 2015

    Glenda Garelli;Charles Heller;Lorenzo Pezzani;Martina Tazzioli

  • Introduction: Mediterranean Movements and the Reconfiguration of the Military‐Humanitarian Border in 2015

    Glenda Garelli;Alessandra Sciurba;Martina Tazzioli

Frequent Co-Authors

William Walters
William Walters Carleton University
Claudia Aradau
Claudia Aradau King's College London
Vicki Squire
Vicki Squire University of Warwick
Jef Huysmans
Jef Huysmans Queen Mary University of London

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