Encampment of the world Natalia Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration New Mobilities and Artivism, 2025 The act of encamping as well as making a residence in tents inside a camp is related to the encampment term. In the study of global migrations, a novel phenomenon emerged in the 1990s: an increasing number of refugee camps, growing in size, and notably, enduring over time. This is referred to as ‘encampment’. This English term is here used as a notion, coined by Barbara Harrell-Bond, the founder of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, and made into a global cartography (with different data sources) by Michel Agier.
Globalization debate Natalia Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration New Mobilities and Artivism, 2025 The origin of the concept lies in the work of intellectuals of the 19th century and early 20th century. An example of this use of the term can be found in Saint Simon when he identified how modernity was integrating the various parts of the world. However, it would not be until the sixties of the 20th century when the word globalization was referred to. Its employment is linked to a stage of economic and political interdependence. The context of this first debate in the 1960s is located in the concerns of social scientists about the interconnection of human events, the development of world system theories and complex interdependence. The idea of globalization emerged to explain the processes by which the destiny of States and people was increasingly intertwined.
Arab Spring Natalia Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration New Mobilities and Artivism, 2025 Global shifts, configuration, reconfiguration change, rupture, regression, reform, revolution and mass protests are all terms often heard when trying to interpret what has happened during and since the Arab Spring. What is generally seen is quite similar to a media report or high-level political science paper – looked at on a regional scale, sub-regional scale or as a particular case study – and is usually nationally framed.
Politics of compassion Natalia Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration New Mobilities and Artivism, 2025 In the 21st century humanitarian responses to challenging crisis have become emergent preoccupations for global societies, which are still using humanitarian tools conceptualized during the mid-twentieth century. In practice, humanitarian aid aims to save lives and alleviate suffering, but it is normally less concerned with upholding human dignity. In other words, humanitarian aid, through assistance and the growing spectrum of protection activities, aims primarily to tackle the effects on human beings of extraordinary circumstances as in the forms of mobilities taken in contemporary border crossing. This entry provides a context in which to examine and think such politics of compassion in global border areas, especially by finding its roots in the concepts of human suffering, politicised pity, and the concept of compassion itself.
Transit border lives and blurring solidarities Natalia Ribas-Mateos Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2025 This article discusses Transit Border Lives and Blurring Solidarities in relation to the main findings presented in the book “A Message to You. A Cartography of Mobilities. Sexual Border Violence, Solidarities, and Global Cities”. The methodology is based on various video debates (videos filmed in the Mediterranean and shown in London and Paris), which reveal the complexities of sexual border violence and contemporary solidarities. The majority of the participants in the debates deflect criticism from themselves by blaming the law, international bodies, and EU migration policies—never themselves—highlighting the need for greater reflexivity. Diversity and diaspora are examined in the context of global cities. The multi-situated, participatory study, which employs a visual anthropology approach and a “grounded research” methodology, raises numerous questions that are also explored in the debates. Topics covered include the selection of fieldwork, with references to other movements such as Black Lives Matter (BLM), Me Too, and cancel culture. The main question of the article involves a recalibration of the meaning of sexual violence in transit within the construction of modernity. It invites us to explore forms of domination—or total domination—in how we conceive extreme violence in places such as borders. Second, it calls into question feminist and diaspora movements in their positioning of women’s stories, examining how politics, sexual violence, and mobilities intersect in the Mediterranean context. The responses are characterized as “blurring solidarities,” a concept that seeks to capture the mixture of actions organized under the umbrella of solidarity while highlighting the tensions between solidarity and neoliberalism. This theme is central in these neoliberal times, driven by the question of whom to identify with (e.g., women, diaspora, Afro-diasporic thought, migrants, and activists) and where the challenge is placed within feminism. How can new research contribute to a renewal of feminist thinking? Briefly, this form of “total domination” in discussions of sexual border violence and feminist responses underscores significant differences and fragmentations within solidarity. Under “transit conditions,” we present “border sexual violence” as intertwined with an understanding of extreme violence, suffering, and solidarity. This cartography of mobilities is also affected by major shifts, such as the sociology of globalization (scales—global cities and border cities, transnational activism, and feminist activism), the mobility turns (social sciences and especially the sociology of mobilities and its connection with global migration), and the nuances of the Afro-topic conception (regarding the multiple forms of integrating African knowledge into mainstream research).
Ageing and the pandemic care triangle Natalia Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration New Mobilities and Artivism, 2025 This triangle of care is analysed through pandemic restrictions in Barcelona during 2020. For the interpretation of the care triangle we identify here: the elderly person, the caregivers – here in their wide variety, from family members to hired workers, especially immigrant women – and thirdly, as the third aspect of the triangle, municipal and health public services.
Black Lives Matter Natalia Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration New Mobilities and Artivism, 2025 Since the activist Alicia Garza from San Francisco coined the term, the global ambition of Black Lives Matter does not date from the summer of 2020. As early as 2014, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, created the previous year by Alicia Garza, had explicitly set itself the goal of internationalizing the American movement in a network covering countries like Canada and the United Kingdom. In the origin, Black Lives Matter energized older local anti-racist mobilizations characterized by their own configurations of meaning and practices: ‘Black Lives Matter , Hands Up, Don’t Shoot , No Justice, No Peace , Stop Killing Us , I Can’t Breathe’. The slogan ‘I can´t breathe’ is used as the movement´s protest solonga in demonstrations organized in various cities in the US against racism and police brutality. Protests have spread around the world in the form of a banner against systemic racism.
Introduction to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism Laura Oaso, Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Melissa Moralli Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration New Mobilities and Artivism, 2025 Tthis collective encyclopedic work aims to provide new views, approaches and perspectives that can enrich the ways in which social sciences and humanities contribute to migration research. We have attempted to answer the need to bring together the critical approaches to global mobility that have emerged in migration research and practices, such as the decolonial perspective (Casas-Cortés et al., 2008; Seppälä et al., 2021) and the ‘participatory turn’ in social research (Leavy, 2017). To do so, we strove to engage various voices, experiences and forms of knowledge aimed at provoking social change in a dual manner: epistemologically, and at the level of practices. In particular, we wanted to present those experiences of activism, artivism, solidarity and resistance that have been deployed to challenge social injustices, the violation of civil rights and the right to mobility, and to create new spaces of (self-) representation and citizenship. Although it is impossible to represent an exhaustive universe of these practices and concepts, the Encyclopedia proposes delving into some of them, in most cases directly narrated by those very activists, scholars, artists and journalists who have committed themselves to creating and disseminating forms of resistance and cultural participation in relation to mobility, border crossing, access to human rights and intercultural relations. Therefore, this work is engaged with a specific political goal: that of understanding and challenging structural inequalities that concern human mobility in the global era. In doing so, our hope is that the Encyclopedia will become a transformative device in itself, intended to inspire and support readers to activate their own practices of resistance and social change.
Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism Oso, Laura 1969-, Ribas-Mateos, Natalia, Moralli, Melissa Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration New Mobilities and Artivism, 2025 Necropolis is an artistic activistic project that gives rise to a ghostly cartography. The project emerged upon discovering a database recording the deaths of migrants who tried to enter Europe. This list was produced in the last decades by a network of organisations and activists all around Europe. Necropolis is constructed through the search for and the mapping of the burial grounds of those who lost their lives at the gate of the continent. ּThrough its process, the project joins the goals of the network and makes the information in the database more precise and complete. As such it promotes a non extractivist relation with the source material from which it stems. The project acts as a crossroad for different activists and organisations. Moreover, it engages in advocacy work and pushes legal claims to ensure that the bodies are properly processed, in accordance with the rights of the dead. It aspires to legally ensure that all the possible measures are taken in order to allow the future identification of the dead.
Origins of extreme violence in Palermo: Health (infectious) impact of the trans-Saharan/ Mediterranean route for women on the move Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration, 2022
Women and left in the middle east: The voice of the protagonists: How feminist change occurs in Lebanon: An interview with Azza Chararah Baydoun Communist Parties in the Middle East 100 Years of History, 2019
Security and insecurity at the Border: Notes from the Mexican-US Border when considering the Mediterranean Security Insecurity and Migration in Europe, 2016
Filipinas in Spain: Learning to do domestic labour E. Spaan, F. Hillmann, T. V. Naerssen Asian Migrants and European Labour Markets Patterns and Processes of Immigrant Labour Market Insertion in Europe, 2005
Towards a diversity of migratory types and contexts in Southern Europe Studi Emigrazione, 2002
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Transit border lives and blurring solidarities N Ribas-Mateos Frontiers in Human Dynamics 7, 1478479 , 2025 2025
Making health services work for seasonal agriculture workers in Huelva, Spain A Escriva, N Komposch, N Ribas-Mateos Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems, 55-66 , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Politics of compassion N Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration, 446-448 , 2025 2025
Encampment of the world N Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration, 213-214 , 2025 2025
Globalization debate N Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration, 249-254 , 2025 2025
Black Lives Matter N Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration, 87-90 , 2025 2025
Ageing and the pandemic care triangle N Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration, 36-38 , 2025 2025
Introduction to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism1 L Oaso, N Ribas-Mateos, M Moralli Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration, 1-27 , 2025 2025
Arab Spring N Ribas-Mateos Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration, 42-44 , 2025 2025
lighted in the review of Alicia Garza's (2020) work, The Purpose of Power. For example, in France, the vast mobi-lizations of the summer of 2020, follow-ing the murder of … N RIBAS-MATEOS Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism, 88 , 2025 2025
entry contributes to a deeper understanding of the intricate dynamics that have characterized N RIBAS-MATEOS Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism, 44 , 2025 2025
These treaties tried to synthesize humanitar-ian rhetoric with governmental policies of migration management. N RIBAS-MATEOS Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism, 448 , 2025 2025
Elgar encyclopedia of global migration: new mobilities and artivism L Oso, N Ribas-Mateos, M Moralli Edward Elgar Publishing , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
Civil investigation K Horsti, L Oso, N Ribas-Mateos, M Moralli Edward Elgar , 2025 2025
Transnational guest workers in the 21st century: Gender and the agro-industry in southern Europe N Ribas-Mateos, A Escrivà, D Robins Papers. Revista de Sociologia 109 (4), e3288-e3288 , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
CONVIVIALITY AND MOBILITIES: DISCUSSING POST-COSMOPOLITAN CITIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN N Ribas-mateos, MJ Cabezón-Fernández أفكار وآفاق 12 (1), 157-195 , 2024 2024
Transnational guest workers in the 21st century: Gender and the agro-industry in southern Europe NR Mateos, MÁE Chordá, D Robins Papers: revista de sociología 109 (4), 2 , 2024 2024
Foreword: a critique of Mediterranean Europe as a" migration place" N Ribas-Mateos, J Malheiros Migration Patterns Across the Mediterranean, 11-28 , 2023 2023
Social Mobilization in Morocco: Lessons Learned for a Historically Informed Activism JLM Dieste, LF Martinez, FI Brichs, N Ribas-Mateos ibidem Verlag , 2023 2023 Citations: 4
Aging and the Pandemic Care Triangle: A View from a Barcelona N Ribas-Mateos, E Herrera 2023 Citations: 1
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Gender and migration in Southern Europe: Women on the move F Anthias, G Lazaridis Routledge , 2020 2020 Citations: 613
Una invitación a la sociología de las migraciones N Ribas Mateos Ediciones Bellaterra , 2004 2004 Citations: 260
How can we understand immigration in Southern Europe? N Ribas-Mateos Journal of ethnic and migration studies 30 (6), 1045-1063 , 2004 2004 Citations: 162
The Mediterranean passage: Migration and new cultural encounters in Southern Europe R King Liverpool University Press , 2001 2001 Citations: 161
Security, insecurity and migration in Europe G Lazaridis Routledge , 2016 2016 Citations: 158
The Mediterranean in the age of globalization: Migration, welfare, and borders N Ribas-Mateos Routledge , 2017 2017 Citations: 147
Rastreando lo invisible: Mujeres extranjeras en las cárceles N Ribas, E Almeda Anthropos Editorial , 2005 2005 Citations: 139
Las presencias de la inmigración femenina: un recorrido por Filipinas, Gambia y Marruecos en Cataluña N Ribas Icaria Editorial , 1999 1999 Citations: 135
The international handbook on gender, migration and transnationalism L Oso, N Ribas-Mateos Edward Elgar Publishing , 2013 2013 Citations: 100
Una propuesta de recorrido bibliográfico por las migraciones femeninas en España G Aubarell Papers. Revista de sociología 60, 381-413 , 2000 2000 Citations: 94
Migración y desarrollo: estudios sobre remesas y otras prácticas transnacionales en España Á Escrivá, N Ribas-Mateos Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Estudios … , 2004 2004 Citations: 76
Theoretical and methodological issues in migration research: interdisciplinary, intergenerational and international perspectives B Agozino (No Title) , 2000 2000 Citations: 74
Female birds of passage: Leaving and settling in Spain N Ribas-Mateos Gender and Migration in Southern Europe, 173-197 , 2020 2020 Citations: 73
Empresariado étnico en España J Beltrán, L Oso, N Ribas Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales, Subdirección General de … , 2006 2006 Citations: 72
El debate sobre la globalización NR Mateos 2002 Citations: 71
Intrusos en la fortaleza menores marroquíes migrantes en la frontera sur de Europa MG Jiménez Álvarez Intrusos en la fortaleza menores marroquíes migrantes en la frontera sur de … , 2011 2011 Citations: 69
Integraciones diferenciadas: migraciones en Cataluña, Galicia y Andalucía A Alarcón Anthropos Editorial , 2005 2005 Citations: 68
Las otras migraciones: la emigración de menores marroquíes no acompañados a España MG Jiménez Alvarez, Á Ramírez Las otras migraciones: la emigración de menores marroquíes no acompañados a … , 2005 2005 Citations: 66
Border shifts: new mobilities in Europe and beyond N Ribas-Mateos Springer , 2016 2016 Citations: 57
De la sorpresa a la incertidumbre: abriendo etapas en el estudio de la temática sobre género y migración en el contexto español L Oso, N Ribas-Mateos Papers (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 97 (3), 0511-520 , 2012 2012 Citations: 57
