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Luna Vives
@lunavives
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Political geographer & AssociateProf at Université de Montréal #Migration #Borders #SAR #EU #Canada #Geography #Justice #fedi2022 // She/her.
StatewatchThe 12th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨
This edition covers:
• Efforts to expand Frontex’s mandate
• Growing concerns over the EU’s digital border systems
• Dutch and Belgian governments threaten to undermine EU's new migration "solidarity" system
• The latest moves on Safe Third Country rules, deportations to Afghanistan and the EUAA’s incoming Syria update
And much more, here: https://buff.ly/GK3RMMW
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇On a ride on #Montreal 's newly opened REM light-metro line, I learned that the builders discovered crates full of explosives.
They'd been cached in bedrock in a century-old tunnel around the time of the Spanish Flu, and then forgotten.
Here's the view through the 5-km-long tunnel...
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El Salto🗃Opinión | "El 48% de la ultraderecha y de la Generación Z ignora o niega el asesinato de García Lorca."
🖋Francis Reina Corbacho.
https://elsal.to/45136
El 48% de la ultraderecha y de la Generación Z ignora o niega el asesinato de García Lorca
El sondeo de 40dB para El País y la SER también revela que una cuarta parte de la juventud aceptaría el autoritarismo. Además, el revisionismo sobre el golpe del 36 se dispara en la ultraderecha: el 60% culpa a la República.
Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎Happening TOMORROW! Curious about the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean? Geographer Luna Vives discusses search and rescue operations in her book "The Gates of the Sea."
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/book-event-in-the-gates-of-the-sea
Book Event: In “The Gates of the Sea” Geographer Luna Vives Examines Migrant Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean
Please join me on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, from 2:00–3:00 PM EST for a virtual discussion with fellow geographer and longtime friend Luna Vives about her new book The Gates of the Sea. If you’re interested in understanding how borders reshape humanitarianism, and what it means to resist from within, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
Book Event: In “The Gates of the Sea” Geographer Luna Vives Examines Migrant Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean
Please join me on Tuesday, October 28, from 2:00–3:00 PM EST for a virtual discussion with Prof Vives about her fascinating new book.
Book Event: In “The Gates of the Sea” Geographer Luna Vives Examines Migrant Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean
Please join me on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, from 2:00–3:00 PM EST for a virtual discussion with fellow geographer and longtime friend Luna Vives about her new book The Gates of the Sea. If you’re interested in understanding how borders reshape humanitarianism, and what it means to resist from within, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
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"Je l’ai déjà écrit et je n’ai pas changé d’avis : ce qu’on appelle la « capacité d’accueil » est en réalité une question de volonté politique et sociétale. Le concept n’a aucun fondement scientifique. C’est d’abord un concept politique à géométrie variable que l’on brandit surtout lorsqu’on veut justifier une incapacité d’accueil."
Derrière les chiffres, des humains : https://lp.ca/kbQP5d?sharing=true
In #Montreal next weekend?
Join me for the launch of my new book, "The gates of the sea", at the anarchist book fair!
Where? Bâtiment 7
When? Saturday Oct 18th at 11 am.
In #Montreal next weekend?
Join me for the launch of my new book, "The gates of the sea", at the anarchist book fair!
Where? Bâtiment 7
When? Saturday Oct 18th at 11 am.
The Trump administration is paying children in ORR custody (essentially detained children) $2,500 to get out of the country. Many of these children have no where to go, have no family, and are here seeking protection. Our immigration system is broken but this is NOT the way to fix it.
