Martina Tazzioli - openDemocracy

A right to European asylum

Instead of asking what's 'fair' for states, let's ask what's just for asylum seekers

/ 31 Jan 2023

One hundred days of refugee protest in Libya

Refugees in Libya rebelled in the face of widespread detention, abuse, and murder. The UN turned away, and then the crackdown came

By Martina Tazzioli and Maurice Stierl

/ 3 Mar 2022

One hundred days of refugee protest in Libya

Las fronteras del coronavirus: entre la vigilancia entre pares y el "bien común"

El vocabulario guerra contribuye a ocultar el impacto discriminatorio de la Covid-19. ¿Qué podemos aprender del caso italiano para evitar caer en la misma dinámica perversa de vigilancia entre ciudadanos?

By Martina Tazzioli

/ 9 Apr 2020

Las fronteras del coronavirus: entre la vigilancia entre pares y el "bien común"

COVID’s borders: between peer-to-peer surveillance and the “common good"

The vocabulary of war contributes to concealing the differential impact of COVID, which has just found its first victims in the overcrowded refugee camps in Greece.

By Martina Tazzioli

/ 7 Apr 2020

COVID’s borders: between peer-to-peer surveillance and the “common good"

When rescue is capture: kidnapping and dividing migrants in the Mediterranean

EU member states are holding migrants hostage while playing pass the parcel with their fates. It's a strategy that is as cruel as it is deliberate.

By Martina Tazzioli

/ 13 Feb 2019

When rescue is capture: kidnapping and dividing migrants in the Mediterranean

EU member states are holding migrants hostage while playing pass the parcel with their fates. It's a strategy that is as cruel as it is deliberate.

By Martina Tazzioli

/ 13 Feb 2019

Open the cities, open the harbours

Opposing the Italian state’s shipwrecks and the kidnapping of migrants in the Mediterranean.

By Martina Tazzioli

/ 23 Jul 2018

Open the cities, open the harbours

Opposing the Italian state’s shipwrecks and the kidnapping of migrants in the Mediterranean.

By Martina Tazzioli

/ 23 Jul 2018

Crossed boundaries? Migrants and police on the French-Italian border

An eyewitness account and analysis of what it means for French customs officials to force a Nigerian man to urinate in Italy.

By Martina Tazzioli

/ 3 Apr 2018

Crossed boundaries? Migrants and police on the French-Italian border

An eyewitness account and analysis of what it means for French customs officials to force a Nigerian man to urinate in Italy.

By Martina Tazzioli

/ 3 Apr 2018

Migration: the make or break election topic across Europe

When an Italian citizen shouted ‘viva l Italia’ and emptied his pistol into a car of black migrants, nobody called it what it was: racism.

By Alessandra Sciurba and Martina Tazzioli

/ 28 Feb 2018

Migration: the make or break election topic across Europe

When an Italian citizen shouted ‘viva l Italia’ and emptied his pistol into a car of black migrants, nobody called it what it was: racism.

By Alessandra Sciurba and Martina Tazzioli

/ 28 Feb 2018