• The social worker as border guard: how and why British welfare workers are disposed to control immigration

    A recent study by Reinhard Schweitzer (TransDeM-UAB) and Andreas Streiter analyses how social workers in the UK have become key players in implementing migration control policies. The authors identify the governmental mechanisms that have turned social work into a tool of exclusion, highlighting the impact of funding, the association between poverty and irregularity, and the…

  • Bolstering autocracy, hindering democracy: EU migration externalization policies in Morocco

    We have a new blog post out on Divulga UAB, UAB’s research dissemination platform, in which we explain some of the latest findings on the impact of the EU’s migration externalization policies on reinforcing authoritarianism in Morocco. The post is based on a paper by TransDeM researcher Luisa Faustini Torres, titled Bolstering Autocracy, Hindering Democracy: Local…

  • Call for applications for a 4-year funded PhD fellowship at the UAB

    Our member Irina Ciornei has launched a call for PhD students willing to join the EUBUSINESS project, which will inspect the impact of Next Generation EU funds on economic actors’ support for the EU. The successful candidate will be based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona but will have the chance to collaborate closely with…