Luna Vives

South America?

On 13 November, Italy and Albania signed 16 new agreements and reaffirmed their migration deal.

My article out this morning shows the changing land use and population at the site of Itzan in Guatemala, culminating in the abandonment of the population centre at the same time as the "Terminal Classic" regional drought — but with no evidence of local drought
bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

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...

“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.”

#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

60 days of detention and a €10,000 fine for Mediterranea: an unjust and punitive sanction.

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

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...

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...

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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

🚨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...

💔 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

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…

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

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).

Kiran Klaus Patel - A Concise History of the European Union

À paraître en juin aux Cambridge UP

a useful @theguardian.com graphic

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...

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

It's never illegal to claim asylum.

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.

How do you pronounce seattleite so that it doesn't sound like, you know, satellite? 🛰

Asking because I've been trying for the last 5 minutes 😆

Some people don't know when to keep their trap shut.

We don't know each other, but I'm sorry to hear this. I hope it won't happen 😕

Enhorabuena, Gemma! 👏👏👏

Voy a ver si lo puedo conseguir desde aquí...

About I CLAIM YouTube video by I-CLAIM

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...

"Nobody can guess how a person’s life or a people’s fate may be changed by one book, or one poem, or even a single sentence."

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...

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.

”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...

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 …

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...

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...

Flyer for the book The Gates of the Sea with the book cover on the left, a summary and the author's bibliography. Includes the discount code GATES15

🔥 15% off if you order The Gates of the Sea directly from Fernwood publishing! Code: GATES15

Street corner society 🤷‍♀️

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...

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...