Evgenia Iliadou

Grateful for the connections made and really looking forward to continuing these discussions in the future.

I’m feeling very thankful for the invitation to speak at 'Unseen and Unprotected: Modern Slavery in the Shadow of Migration' at Cambridge. I spoke about borders, vulnerability, and exploitation, but what really stayed with me were the people, the warmth, care, and openness of the conversations.

📢 A gentle reminder that there's still time to submit abstracts for our Special Issue proposal on 'Temporalities of Crisis: Rethinking Borders, Migration, and the Politics of Exception'.

We welcome interdisciplinary, critical, reflective contributions & would be very glad to read your work.👇

Sound and Detention In this book, over 40 contributors collectively tune in to how sound-and its absence-can function as a source of power that enables isolation, control and harm,…

Hey #CrimSky #Criminology #AcademicSky - It would be great to get a book review or two from within criminology, particularly #prison people. #Sound and #Detention is a cross disciplinary edited volume with sound studies and #Musicology as well as criminology: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...

This piece builds on my recent publication 'Epistemic Colonialism, Extractivism, and Epistemic Resistance', where I explore how to move towards accountable, decolonial research practices.
#ResearchEthics #DecolonialResearch #MigrationStudies

Drawing from my fieldwork on Lesvos, I ask how research itself can reproduce the harms it seeks to expose by silencing, extracting, or appropriating migrant voices under the guise of 'knowledge production'.
#EpistemicJustice #BorderCriminology #Zemiology

Research and Responsibility: Lessons from Lesvos Dr Evgenia Iliadou a Visiting Fellow at the Middlesex University Graduate School shares research about the refugee crisis in Lesvos

📌What does it mean to research responsibly in spaces of displacement & crisis?
My new blog, 'Research and Responsibility: Lessons from Lesvos', reflects on ethics, extractivism & epistemic colonialism in border research. www.mdx.ac.uk/mdx-voices/r...

There is still time to get your abstract in! See details below - and please share with your network 👇🏼

Demand action from the ESC: petition to end complicity We, criminologists and criminal justice scholars, are alarmed by several recent decisions by the European Society of Criminology Executive Board and Eurocrim local organizing and scientific committee ...

The European Society of Criminology is normalizing war crime, crimes against humanity and genocide. We demand action from the ESC: please sign the petition to end complicity and circulate widely
@europeangroup.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social

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3/ It also proposes ways to think about epistemic resistance-how knowledge can be produced ethically and collaboratively, without perpetuating harm.

I hope this contribution resonates with those working on borders, migration, epistemic justice, and knowledge production.

2/ During this time, I witnessed not only the unfolding refugee crisis but also the impact of over-researching on already vulnerable communities.

The article also reflects on my own experiences of extractivist practices, appropriation, and silencing within academia during that period and beyond.

Epistemic Colonialism, Extractivism, and Epistemic Resistance This chapter explores the Greek island of Lesvos as a site of academic extractivism, epistemic colonialism, and, therefore, epistemic struggle. It argues that Lesvos, once relatively unknown and under...

I am delighted to share my latest publication 👇👇

link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

1/ This idea has been in my mind for a long time. It draws on long-term ethnographic research and personal experiences on Lesvos, where I have lived and have family and friends.

Army advertisment in #Liverpool city centre - 'You belong here'

Just as the government buys 12 nuclear warhead jets

“I Carry Their Grave Wherever I Go": Gaza’s Endless Grief and Unknown Bodies - Untold With Israel not allowing DNA tests in Gaza, families guess who to mourn. Children disappear into rubble. Parents are left clinging to memories, not remains.

“I kiss the ground where she fell. I feel like I’m walking over her body every time. I never got to bury her. I carry her grave with me wherever I go"

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They make the journey more perilous, and fatal. They never address the root causes that force people to flee—conflict, persecution, dispossession.

Many thanks to Nerina Boursinou, Dr Christina Verousi and Prof Venetia Evergeti for organising this important event!

From drones to biometric databases and AI-powered surveillance, these technologies are reshaping how borders operate. They frame people on the move as risks to be managed, not lives to be protected.

It was a privilege to deliver the keynote at the Migration and Technologies of Un/Bordering Conference at the University of Surrey last week, where I spoke on the unfolding of digital border controls used to manage irregularised migration in Greece.

Steve Tombs - Good Bloody Riddance - Brave New Europe The UK University Strike may have been deferred, but it produced many successes and raised an awareness of the assault on higher education in Britain. Awareness of a problem is the beginning of a conf...

Had reason to forward this today. A great moment, in my opinion Anything is possible! @oubucu.bsky.social @vickyblake.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @janetnewsham.bsky.social @iliadou.bsky.social @profgrahampike.bsky.social @david-whyte.bsky.social
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Now had the pleasure of these 500 pages. Wonderful page-turner, wholly scholarly with a novel-reading feel. Great achievement to document one example of the engrained corruption of the British state @paddyzemia.bsky.social @miketqub.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @niaolainf.bsky.social

Thanks to the editors of @verfassungsblog.de for publishing this new short essay, somewhat bleak, but it did give me the privilege of linking to work by my better half.

verfassungsblog.de/in-the-grave...

Please do consider signing the petition and forwarding this message @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @iliadou.bsky.social @frasoliman.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @inquest-org.bsky.social @debcoles13.bsky.social

Rights groups urge Starmer to dial down anti-migrant rhetoric Exclusive: 136 organisations tell PM to stop using ‘demonising language’, after his remarks before crime summit

📢Language matters!

We've joined over 130 human rights organisations to call on the Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer to stop using language that demonises migrants.

Racist and hostile rhetoric has dangerous consequences, including violence and abuse.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#Love is nothing without action.
💟 Love is in the way we show up for one another.
💟 Love is how we speak out for our neighbors.
💟 Love knows no borders.

Take action now to Protect Immigrant Families & Restore Legal Access! www.change.org/p/protect-immigrant-families-restore-legal-access-programs

"Understanding the impact of trauma on children"... What do they see? What do they hear? I am conscious of the increasing cases of Domestic Violence/Child Abuse worldwide. They need our protection.

Introducing FORTRESS EUROPE, my new documentary podcast on Europe’s increasingly violent borders. Out now on Apple, Spotify and the rest. Rating and sharing helps us expand our audience!

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📢 New Publication Alert!
I’m excited to share my latest publication on the continuum of immigration detention and violence in Greece
👉 Read it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or questions about the chapter.
#ImmigrationDetention#BorderViolence

Hope it's clear to everyone what this is and means, and where we are heading to. In the 1930s, many people preferred to pretend that nothing was going on, and we all know how it ended.

#CallForAbstracts
🗓 Deadline: 3 March 2025
Special Issue: "Fear and Looting in the Periphery: Approaching Social Harm in Southern Europe."

Calling academics & activists in critical criminology, geography, abolitionism, and transformative justice.

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

CFP: UNDERSTANDING MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE - One Day Conference 28 May @qmul.ac.uk.

How and why do miscarriages of justice happen and what do we understand and learn (or not) from them?

We welcome submissions on any relevant topics, such as #PostOffice #CCRC, #SJP

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