by Vicky Man | 15th December 2025
Thesis Title: Dialectics of Resistance between Anti-Colonialism and European Anti- Fascism: TheCase of the Riffian Anti-Colonial Struggle Thesis Abstract: The Spanish Civil War and Revolution is a well-studied topic across the social sciences, with the revolutionary...
by Vicky Man | 15th December 2025
Thesis Title: The entanglement of violence and gender in the Greek Resistance and Civil War Thesis Abstract: Violence during the Greek Resistance and Civil War has been primarily analysed as a political phenomenon, restricting analysis and intervention to...
by Vicky Man | 15th December 2025
Thesis Title: A European Climate Apartheid? – Bordering mobilities in the context of global ecological breakdown Thesis Abstract: Given the EU’s shift towards the normalisation of the far-right in recent years and elections, it is important to pay attention to...
by Jiaqi He | 15th December 2025
Thesis Title: Urban borderlands and minority nationalism: Understanding local approaches to migration in multinational states Thesis Abstract: In an era of rising anti-immigrant sentiment and strict border controls, cities are emerging as spaces where...
by Vicky Man | 15th December 2025
Thesis Title: ‘Where There is Repression, There is Resistance’: Societal Perceptions of Female Political Agency in Violent Resistance Thesis Abstract: My research examines how politically violent women in Palestine have their agency interpreted, contested and...
by Vicky Man | 21st February 2025
Thesis Title: La Strage di Cutro: Narrating From and With the Wake Abstract: This project situates the 2023 Strage di Cutro, the drowning of 94 forced migrants in their attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Calabria, Southern Italy, within global...
by Liisa Matomaki | 28th November 2024
Thesis Title: The coloniality of European border securitisation: An analysis of pushbacks at Europe’s external borders Abstract: ‘Border pushbacks’ describe a variety of state measures aimed at forcing migrants out of a territory while obstructing access...
by Liisa Matomaki | 27th November 2024
Thesis Title: Borders, identity, and gender: The Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement and the limits of Canada’s multiculturalism Abstract: Canada has a reputation for exceptionalism, particularly in its protection of refugees, human rights, and multiculturalism;...
by Liisa Matomaki | 22nd November 2024
Thesis Title: Small State Security Strategies: a comparison of the Baltic States’ security policies throughout independence Abstract: In the context of the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine, conventional International Relations frameworks are put in question, while...