Outputs (31)

Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure (2025)
Book
Novak, P. (2025). Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18323803

This book offers a fresh perspective on the European migration crisis, chronicling its everyday realities in a central Italian province. Through vivid ethnographic accounts, it reveals how the forces and relations animating this crisis are reproduced... Read More about Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure.

Fronteras (2025)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2025). Fronteras. In Á. Iranzo, I. Ruiz-Giménez Arrieta, & M. Íñiguez de Heredia (Eds.), Manual de estudios críticos: cartografías disidentes para comprender las relaciones internacionales (615-642). Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch

Embedding Externalization (2025)
Other
(2025). Embedding Externalization. London

Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places (2024)
Journal Article
Cobarrubias, S., & Novak, P. (2025). Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places. Geopolitics, 30(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2409857

Over the past twenty years, research into border externalisation has developed a rich spatial vocabulary to understand these bordering practices as well as critical analyses that challenge the often North-centric views towards externalisation. In thi... Read More about Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places.

Shades of carcerality? Reflections on asylum accommodation in Italy, France and the UK (2023)
Digital Artefact
Doná, G., Lindley, A., Novak, P., & Sanders, C. (2023). Shades of carcerality? Reflections on asylum accommodation in Italy, France and the UK

Riots in Knowsley: How the state perpetuates violence in asylum accommodation (2023)
Digital Artefact
Novak, P. (2023). Riots in Knowsley: How the state perpetuates violence in asylum accommodation

The Humanitarian Border, in Place (2022)
Digital Artefact
Novak, P. (2022). The Humanitarian Border, in Place

Re-producing the Humanitarian Border (2022)
Journal Article
Novak, P. (2025). Re-producing the Humanitarian Border. Geopolitics, 30(1), 46-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2105699

Scholarship dissecting the EU humanitarian border has consistently emphasised its productive nature. The enmeshment of securitarian and humanitarian logics produces new forms of control that transform pre-existing techniques and practices; new geogra... Read More about Re-producing the Humanitarian Border.

The Camp, Housing, and the City: On Migrant Camp Accommodation in Berlin (2022)
Thesis
Sowa, C. The Camp, Housing, and the City: On Migrant Camp Accommodation in Berlin. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This PhD thesis investigates migrant camp accommodation in Berlin after the “long summer of migration” of 2015 (Hess et al. 2016). During this time, many camp sites were opened to accommodate newly arriving migrants in the city. The PhD thesis aims t... Read More about The Camp, Housing, and the City: On Migrant Camp Accommodation in Berlin.

The postcoloniality of asylum infrastructure (2021)
Digital Artefact
Novak, P. The postcoloniality of asylum infrastructure. [YouTube]

This presentation takes as its object of analysis and investigation asylum seekers’ reception centres in a central Italian province. It builds upon literature concerned with the logistification of asylum to conceive these centres as nodes of the EU h... Read More about The postcoloniality of asylum infrastructure.