Borders and control regimes: rethinking space, power and differences
The artificial and contingent nature of borders and frontiers is the central theme that will guide this talk. We will discuss mobility, physical, administrative and symbolic barriers, technologies and racial profiling, and how borders have become decisive in the production and reproduction of inequalities and asymmetries. The aim will be to critically analyse the recent radicalisation of mobility governance practices, with a focus on deportations and the criminalisation of migrants.
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Prof. ass. Anna Casaglia
Anna Casaglia is Associate Professor in Political and Economic Geography at the School of International Studies and the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (Italy). She holds a PhD in Urban and Local European Studies from the University of Milano-Bicocca (2011), with a dissertation on the divided city of Nicosia. Her research focuses on critical border studies, political geography, migration and security, climate mobility, and the geopolitics of borders. She works at the intersection of feminist, decolonial, and critical approaches to bordering practices, with particular attention to the Mediterranean and European border regimes. She has been President of the Association for Borderland Studies (2023–2025) and serves on the Steering Committee of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on Political Geography. She is a member of the editorial collective of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geography and of the editorial board of Geopolitics. Her recent publications appear in journals such as Political Geography, Geoforum, Environment & Planning C, Geopolitics, and Journal of Borderlands Studies. She is the author of Nicosia Beyond Partition. Complex Geographies of the Divided City (2020). She teaches courses on Political and Economic Geography, Geographies of Security, and Critical Geographies of the Anthropocene.