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Davide Schmid

@davideschmid.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in International Relations at MMU | Deputy Director of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence | Critical theory, International Political Economy and European Studies

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Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing.

08.10.2025 07:04 — 👍 11    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Justice for the 97 run this morning in Liverpool with @davideschmid.bsky.social #YNWA #AlwaysRemember

24.05.2025 10:08 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨Research talk🚨
On Wed 12th March at 4pm in Manchester, the Politics Research Group and the MJMCE are hosting
@idanewid.bsky.social for a talk on "A place where freedom means something": James Baldwin's global maroon geographies. Come along if you're in the area, of DM me for info to join online!

10.03.2025 10:47 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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In our new article “Theorising the migration fix” @davideschmid.bsky.social & I continue thinking about how to develop the concept of the “migration fix” as a tool for understanding the complex, often contradictory, relationship between political & economic logics & the the role of borders

10.12.2024 11:44 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Theorising the ‘migration fix’: workerisation and exclusion in the European border regime The contemporary European border regime is shaped by an apparently paradoxical set of developments: while the securitisation of borders and the violent exclusion of displaced people intensifies, th...

The article is available in Open Access here
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

11.12.2024 14:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looking at Germany, Greece and Italy, we find the emergence of a novel set of 'fixes', which refer both to 'internal' and 'external' bordering, that combine a securitised approach with increased emphasis on channelling migrants into domestic labour markets

11.12.2024 14:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In particular, we ask how the apparently contradictory tendencies towards the racialised exclusion of migrants, on the one hand, and the growing reliance of European capitalism on foreign labour, on the other, are articulated in contemporary European politics

11.12.2024 14:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Our new article, co-authored with @gemmabird.bsky.social, has come out this week in New Political Economy! In this piece we further develop the concept of the 'migration fix' as a way of capturing the interaction between different logics in the European border regime

11.12.2024 14:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Free Palestine Reading List for November 29 – December 5, 2024 Publishers are offering more than 20 ebooks from around the world, including several award-winners and many books that are new in 2024, free during READ PALESTINE WEEK (November 29 – December…

There is one more day to check out this fantastic reading list of books - poetry, fiction and non-fiction - on Palestine #ReadPalestineWeek
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04.12.2024 16:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

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21.11.2024 22:42 — 👍 1305    🔁 1416    💬 18    📌 21

I made a political economy & climate crisis starter pack! 💸🏝️⛽️🌲

It’s incomplete - who else is on here?

go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk

16.11.2024 22:13 — 👍 350    🔁 117    💬 82    📌 12

Hi, could I be added to the list please? thank you

17.11.2024 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨If you’re in the Manchester area next Wednesday, come along for a discussion of the book Eurowhiteness and the ‘civilisational’ turn in European politics, with the author Hans Kundnani and comments by @tonihaastrup.bsky.social. More info below 👇

05.12.2023 20:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

@profmusgrave.bsky.social could you add me to polisky please? Thank you!

22.09.2023 20:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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