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Absent Tech: Data, Violence and (Non)Credibility at the EU Borders

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 63, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT The digitisation of borders has permeated academic and political debates, the image of ‘digital fortress Europe’ becoming normalised and taken for granted. This ‘taken for grantedness’, however, clashes with the reality on the ground and has important implications for migrants' rights and credibility.
Lucrezia Canzutti
wiley   +1 more source

Present knowledge of the Entomofauna of the Maltese Islands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The Maltese Islands' strategic position in the centre of the Mediterranean basin and in between the Siculo Tunisian sill, always encouraged a number of foreign naturalists to visit and study their local entomofauna.
Mifsud, David
core  

‘Borderizing’ the Island Setting and Narratives of the Lampedusa ‘Border Play’

open access: yesACME (Kelowna), 2014
ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol. 13 No.
openaire   +2 more sources

“Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 63, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the making of digital subjectivities that stem from the multiple data extractions that migrants experience. It argues that the digitalisation of the border regime does not produce data doubles as discrete and intelligible objects of knowledge; rather, it generates scattered digital subjectivities. Relatedly, it contends
Martina Tazzioli
wiley   +1 more source

The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the Maltese Archipelago [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Fourteen pselaphines are recorded from the Maltese Islands three of which are recorded for the first time: Rybaxis longicornis, Tychus jacquelinii, and T. pici.
Mifsud, David, Sabella, Giorgio
core   +1 more source

First data on microflora of loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nests from the coastlines of Sicily [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Caretta caretta is threatened by many dangers in the Mediterranean basin, but most are human-related. The purposes of this research were: (i) to investigate microflora in samples from six loggerhead sea turtle nests located on the Sicilian coast and (ii)
Arculeo, Marco   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Definition of Seismic Vulnerability Maps for Civil Protection Systems: The Case of Lampedusa Island [PDF]

open access: yesThe Open Construction and Building Technology Journal, 2016
The opportunity to locate and quantify the major criticalities associated to natural catastrophic events on a territory allows to plan adequate strategies and interventions by civil protection bodies involved in local and international emergencies. Seismic risk depends, most of all, on the vulnerability of buildings belonging to the urban areas.
Asteris, P.   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Political Economy of Renewables Capitalism: Moving beyond ‘Climate Change’ vs ‘System Change’

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, Volume 56, Issue 4-5, Page 619-644, July-September 2025.
ABSTRACT There is a growing tendency to argue that the capitalist mode of production is fundamentally incompatible with climate stability and that ‘system change’ is needed to prevent apocalyptic ‘climate change’. This position overstates capitalism's dependence on fossil fuels.
Murat Arsel, Alfredo Saad‐Filho
wiley   +1 more source

A review of the Anthicidae of the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean) (Coleoptera) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Based on the study of about 900 specimens collected recently and at the beginning of the last century, information on the Anthicidae fauna of the Maltese Islands is updated.
Mifsud, David, Nardi, Gianluca
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Migration, the Archive, and the Map

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, archiving and countermapping have emerged as popular and powerful instruments to represent unauthorized migrations and criticize contemporary border regimes. This resulted in a variety of political projects involving academics, migrants, and advocacy groups, using archiving and mapmaking as vectors of dissensus and affirming ...
Ettore Asoni
wiley   +1 more source

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