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Maurice Stierl

Selected publications

Book

• Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe (London: Routledge, 2019).

Journal Articles

• ‘Rebel spirits at sea: Disrupting EUrope’s weaponizing of time in maritime migration governance.’ Security Dialogue. Online First: 23 April 2023.
• ‘The Evolution of EUropean Border Governance through Crisis: Frontex and the Interplay of Protracted and Acute Crisis Narratives.’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Online First: 4 February 2023. (With Nina Perkowski and Andrew Burridge).
• ‘“We closed the ports to protect refugees” - Hygienic borders and deterrence humanitarianism during Covid-19.’ International Political Sociology. 2021. Online first. (With Martina Tazzioli)
• ‘The ‘Covid Excuse’: EUropean border violence in the Mediterranean Sea’. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2021. Online first. (With Deanna Dadusc)
• ‘The Mediterranean as a carceral seascape.’ Political Geography. 2021. Online first.
• ‘Europe’s unsafe environment: migrant confinement under Covid-19.’ Critical Studies on Security (2021), 9:1, 76-80. (With Martina Tazzioli).
• ‘Minor Keywords of Political Theory: Migration as a Critical Standpoint.’ Environment and Planning C: Politics & Space. March 2021. (As member of the New Keywords Collective)
• ‘Building transversal solidarities in European cities: Open harbours, safe communities, home.’ Critical Sociology. January 2021. (With Kim Rygiel and Ilker Ataç)
• ‘Precarious Migrations and Maritime Displacement’. In: Peter Adey et al. (eds.) The Handbook of Displacement (London: Palgrave, 2020). (With Vicki Squire)
• ‘Do No Harm? The Impact of Policy on Migration Scholarship’. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2020). Online First: 23 October 2020.
• ‘Re-Imagining EUrope through the Governance of Migration’. International Political Sociology (2020), 14:3, 252–269.
• ‘Of Migrant Slaves and Underground Railroads - Movement, Containment, Freedom’. American Behavioral Scientist (2020), 64:4, 456-479.
• 'Amplifying Migrant Voices and Struggles at Sea as a Radical Practice'. The South Atlantic Quarterly (2019), 118:3, 661-669. (With Nina Schwarz)
• ‘The Struggle of Migrant Women across the Mediterranean Sea’. American Quarterly (2019), 71:4, 1029-1035. (On behalf of Alarm Phone)
• ‘Vers une politique de la liberté de mouvement’, Communications (2019), 104, 79-93. (With Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani)
• ‘A Fleet of Mediterranean Border Humanitarians’, Antipode, (2018), 50:3, 704-724.
• ‘Disobedient Sensing and Border Struggles at the maritime Frontier of EUrope’, Spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures, 4 (2017), 1-15. (With Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani)
•  ‘Comparative Views on European and US-Mexican Border Struggles’, Transas, (2017). Translated into Spanish.
• ‘A Sea of Struggle: Activist Border Interventions in the Mediterranean Sea’, Citizenship Studies, 20:5 (2016), 561-578.
• ‘Contestations in Death: The Role of Grief in Migration Struggles’, Citizenship Studies, 20:2 (2016), 173-191.
• ‘Everything is Dangerous: Conduct and Counter-Conduct in the Occupy Movement’, Global Society, 30:2 (2016), 157-178. (With Chris Rossdale)
• ‘The WatchTheMed Alarm Phone. A Disobedient Border-Intervention’, Movements, 1:2 (2015).
• ‘‘No One Is Illegal!’ Resistance and the Politics of Discomfort’, Globalizations, 9:3 (2012), 425-438.

Special Issues

• ‘Bordering Practices’, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 40:5, 989-993 (2022) (with Suzan Ilcan and Vicki Squire).
• ‘The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins’, Citizenship Studies, 20:5 (2016), 527-544. (With Kim Rygiel and Ilker Ataç)
• 'Struggles of Migration as in-/visible Politics', Movements, 1:2 (2015), 1-18. (With Ilker Ataç, Sabine Kron, Sarah Schilliger, and Helge Schwiertz)

Book Chapters

• ‘EUrope’s border ensemble and the disorder of migrant multiplicities’, in: William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.) Handbook on Governmentality (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023).
• ‘Europas nasse Grenzen’, in: Jochen Oltmer et al. (eds.) Report Globale Flucht 2023 (Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag, 2023).
• ‘Contesting the lethal Mediterranean frontier’, in: Ilse van Liempt et al. (eds.) Research Handbook on Irregular Migration (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023). (With Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani).
• ‘Argumente für eine Politik der Bewegungsfreiheit.’ In: Hänsel, Heyer, Schmidt-Sembdner, Schwarz (ed.) Grenzregime IV (Berlin: Assoziation A, 2022). (With Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani)
• ‘Toward an archive of migrant struggles’. In: Giorgio Grappi (ed.) Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice (London: Routledge, 2021). (With Martina Tazzioli)
• 'Toward a Politics of Freedom of Movement’, in Reece Jones (ed.), Open Borders: In Defense of Free Movement (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2019). (With Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani)
• ‘Civil Society: From Sympathy to Solidarity’, in: Florian Weis et al (eds.): Atlas of Migration: Facts and figures about people on the move (Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung, 2019).
• ‘Excessive Migration, Excessive Governance - Border Entanglements in Greek EUrope’, in: Nicholas de Genova (ed.), The Borders of ‘EUrope’: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017).
• ‘Europe/Crisis: New Keywords of ‘the Crisis’ in and of ‘Europe', edited by Martina Tazzioli and Nicholas De Genova. New Futures Online, Zone Books. 2016. (Member of the New Keywords Collective)