Dr Mahdis Azarmandi
Small Group Project
Connecting the Peripheries: Migrant Mutual Aid Networks Confront the EU Migration Pact
With Slađana Lazić & Piro Rexhepi
This project examines how migrant mutual aid networks in Europe’s southern and southeastern peripheries collaborate to confront the new EU migration Pact and the criminalisation of solidarity. Focusing on Barcelona and Tirana, it asks how these networks build cross-border infrastructures of care, protection, and political imagination in a landscape marked by militarised borders and institutional collapse.
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Biography
Dr Mahdis Azarmandi is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Canterbury, within the School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education. Her research sits at the intersection of peace and conflict studies and educational studies, with a particular focus on anti-colonialism and feminism. Her current research examines how colonial and imperial histories continue to shape contemporary global understandings of peace and violence.
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