The Changing Governance of Migration in the Mediterranean and Beyond. 5-6 June 2025 SHUT-MED final conference, for which SHUT-MED researchers have invited colleagues and peers that have been following and engaging with the team in the last two years.
ShutMed researchers continue to actively publish and share the results of their work. Check our dedicated publication page for the latest outputs! For instance, Diego Caballero-Vélez, "Europe Sanitizes, Africa Exposes: The Visual Politics of Irregular Migration", Migration Policy Center, Policy Brief, 25 April 2025. https://migrationpolicycentre.eu/europe-sanitizes-africa-exposes-the-visual-politics-of-irregular-migration/
migration governance
The week between 17th and 21st July 2024 has been an intense conference week for the PI and the vice PI of Shut Med, has engaged and debated their researches in migration and border governance with the extended community of international scholars! Prof. Eugenio Cusumano is attending the 12th Biennial
central mediterranean
On 16th and 17th May 2024, at the Department of Political and Juridical Studies, University of Messina, the SHUT-MED research team met with researchers coming from Italian and European universities in the field of borders, migration, and securitization studies to debate the preliminary research outputs, challenges, and further steps for
migration
Interview to prof. Eugenio Cusumano on Panorama, an Italian news magazine, 18 March 2024. "The new migratory routes lead to the Canary Islands, for hunger and fighting Spain". By Linda di Benedetto. In Italian [translation from the original] Migration flows towards Europe are undergoing significant transformations, as latest
On March 2024, the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels has just published a policy brief written by Diego Caballero Vélez, University of Messina, titled "All Along the Watchtower? The EU and the Geopoliticisation of Migration". You can read it here. The Centre
On 12th February 2024, the Cattaneo Institute interviewed prof. Eugenio Cusumano, PI of Shut-Med PRIN project, University of Messina, for the Institute's podcast "Database - Numeri, parole e analisi sull’Italia che cambia", on the topic of migration along the Central Mediterranean Route. You can listen