Dr. P.E. (Polly) Pallister-Wilkins
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
Photographer: onbekend
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
- Room number: B9.04
Postal address
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Postbus 15578
1001 NB Amsterdam
Contact details
Social media
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Profile
About
I am a political geographer and associate professor teaching across international relations and conflict resolution and governance, with a PhD from SOAS, University of London.
I specialise in the intersection of humanitarian intervention, border controls and mobility injustice working on what I term 'humanitarian borderwork' that builds on previous research into humanitarianism, border policing and the political sociologies of walls, fences and security barriers.
More recently I have been researching the role of race and racism in humanitarianism and the possibilities for decolonisation.
My work therefore broadly sits in the borderlands between Political Geography, International Political Sociology, and Critical Security/Humanitarianism Studies with a regional expertise focused on the Mediterranean, specifically Greece, and the Middle East.
Author of Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives (Verso). Winner of the International Political Sociology Book Award 2023.
Research expertise
- Humanitariasim
- Borders
- Mobility
- Injustice
- Race
- Racism
- Decolonisation
Research methods
- Qualitative methods
- Ethnography
- Participant Observation
Projects
Eur-Asian BorderLab (Horizon Europe Twinning Programme)
EMiC - Externalizing Migration Control (Swedish Research Council)
Publications (more on 'Publications' tab)
2025
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins and James Smith (forthcoming 2025) 'Humanitarianism in the genocide,' Public Anthropologist.
2024
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2024) 'Humanitarian Border Policing' pp. 220-233 in Handbook on Border Criminology, Mary Bosworth, Katja Franko, Maggy Lee and Rimple Mehta eds., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press.
- Hannah Owens and Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2024) 'Sustaining and complicating hierarchies of race and class in humanitarian protection,' Critical Studies on Security, https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2024.2418709
2023
- Katharyne Mitchell and Polly Pallister-Wilkins, ed.s (2023) The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism. London: Routledge.
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Hanno Brankamp, Elisa Pascucci, Lisa Ann Richey, James Smith, Lewis Turner, Tammam Aloudat and William Plowright (2023) 'Humanitarian Futures' pp. 292-304, in The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism, Katharyne Mitchell and Polly Pallister-Wilkins ed.s London: Routledge.
2022
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2022) Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives. London: Verso.
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2022) 'HuManitarianism: race and the overrepresentation of 'Man',' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 47(3): 695-708 https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12531
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2022) 'Whitescapes: A posthumanist political ecology of Alpine migrant (im)mobility,' Political Geography 92, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102517
2021
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2021) 'Saving the souls of white folk: Humanitarianism as white supremacy,' Security Dialogue, 52(supplement), 98-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/09670106211024419
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2021) 'Alter-geographies of Everyday Externalisation: Shattering EUropean Attempts at Policing Mobility?' Geopolitics https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.2008735
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Anastasia Anastasiadou, Alexandra Zavos and Evythimios Papataxiarchis (2021) Protection in a Hostile Environment: An on-the-ground study into protection practices in Lesvos and Athens. AdMiGov Deliverable 4.1, Amsterdam: UvA
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2021/2022) 'Hot spots, debilitating life,' Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 40(1): 6-8.
2020
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Anastasia Anastasiadou and Evthymios Papataxiarchis (2020) Protection in Lesvos during Covid—19: A critical failure. ADMIGOV interim report (deliverable 4.1.), Mytilene: University of the Aegean. Available at URL http://admigov.eu/new/protection-in-lesvos-during-covid-19-a-critical-failure/30
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2020) 'Moria Hotspot: shelter as a politically crafted materiality of neglect,' in Structures of Protection: Rethinking Refugee Shelter, Mark E Breeze and Tom Scott-Smith, ed.s. Berghahn Books.
- Paolo Cuttitta, Jana Häberlein and Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2020) 'Various Actors: The Border Death Regime,' pp. 35-52 in Border Deaths: Causes, Dynamics and Consequences of Migration-related Mortality, Paolo Cuttitta and Tamara Last, ed.s. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
2019
- Marieke de Goede, Esmé Bosma, and Polly Pallister-Wilkins, eds. (2019) Secrecy and Methods in Security Research: A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork. London: Routledge.
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2019) 'Im/mobility and humanitarian triage,' pp. 372-383 in Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migrations, Katharyne Mitchell, Reece Jones, and Jennifer Fluri ed.s, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press.
2018
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2018/2020) 'Hotspots and the geographies of humanitarianism,' Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 38(6): 991-1008 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818754884
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2018) 'Médecins Avec Frontières and the making of a humanitarian borderscape,' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(1): 114-138.
2017
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2017) 'An interview with Polly Pallister-Wilkins: Mediterranean as a Humanitarian Border,' Meltem: Journal of the Izmir Mediterranean Academy 2: 91-96 http://www.meltemizmeda.org/YuklenenDosyalar/Dergi/210220180323_Meltem-No.2,_Sayfa_91-96.pdf.
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2017) 'Humanitarian Borderwork: actors, spaces, categories' in Reece Jones, Corey Johnson, Wendy Brown, Gabriel Popescu, Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Alison Mountz and Emily Gilbert 'Interventions on the state of sovereignty at the border,' Political Geography 59: 1-10 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.02.006
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2017) 'Humanitarian Borderwork' pp. 85-103 in Border Politics: Defining Spaces of Governance and Forms of Transgressions, Cengiz Günay and Nina Witjes ed.s, Springer.
2016
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2016) 'Personal Protective Equipment in the humanitarian governance of Ebola: between individual patient care and global biosecurity,' Third World Quarterly 37(3): 507-523.
- Julien Jeandesboz and Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2016) 'Crisis, routine, consolidation: the politics of the Mediterranean migration crisis,' Mediterranean Politics 21(2): 316-320.
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2016) 'Interrogating the Mediterranean 'Migration Crisis',' Mediterranean Politics 21(2): 311-315.
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2016) 'How Walls Do Work: Security Barriers as Devices of Interruption and Data Capture,' Security Dialogue 47(2): 151-164.
2015
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2015) 'Bridging the Divide: Middle Eastern walls and fences and the spatial governance of problem populations,' Geopolitics 20(2): 438-459.
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2015) 'The Humanitarian Politics of European Border Policing: Frontex and Border Police in Evros,' International Political Sociology 9(1): 53-69.
2014
- Julien Jeandesboz and Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2014) 'Crisis, Enforcement and Control at the EU Borders,' pp. 115-135 in Crisis and Migration: Critical Perspectives, Anna Lindley ed. London: Routledge.
2011
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2011) 'The Separation Wall: A Symbol of Power and a Site of Resistance?' Antipode 43(5): 1851-1882.
2010
- Polly Pallister-Wilkins (2010) 'Anarchists Against the Wall: A Post-Structuralist Challenge to Zionism,' pp. 213-228 in Rebels Against Zion: Studies on Jewish Left Anti-Zionists, August Grabski ed. Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute.
Other Publications
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Teaching
Academic year 2024-2025
Block 1
Capita Selecta Conflict Resolution and Governance
Blocks 2 & 3
Humanitarianism in crisis and conflict
PhD Supervision
- Anastasia Anastasiadou
- Leonie Jegen
- Sebastian Carlotti
- Manja Petvrovska
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Publications
- refereed (33)
- academic (21)
- professional (9)
- popular scientific (8)
- recognitions (60)
- supervised theses (1)
2024
- Owens, H., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2024). Sustaining and complicating hierarchies of race and class in humanitarian protection. Critical Studies on Security. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2024.2418709
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2024). Humanitarian Border Policing. In M. Bosworth, K. Franko, M. Lee, & R. Mehta (Eds.), Handbook on Border Criminology (pp. 220-233). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035307982.00023 [details]
2023
- Mitchell, K., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2023). Monopoly Philanthropy and the Humanitarian New World Order. In K. Mitchell, & P. Pallister-Wilkins (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism (pp. 1-6). (Routledge international handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003162711-1 [details]
- Mitchell, K., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (Eds.) (2023). The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism. (Routledge international handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003162711 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P., Brankamp, H., Pascucci, E., Richey, L. A., Smith, J., Turner, L., Aloudat, T., & Plowright, W. (2023). Humanitarian Futures. In K. Mitchell, & P. Pallister-Wilkins (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism (pp. 292-304). (Routledge international handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003162711-25 [details]
2022
Minca, C., Rijke, A., Pallister-Wilkins, P., Tazzioli, M., Vigneswaran, D., van Houtum, H., & van Uden, A. (2022). Rethinking the biopolitical: Borders, refugees, mobilities…. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40(1), 3-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420981389 [details]- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2022). Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives. Verso. [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2022). Alter-geographies of Everyday Externalisation: Shattering EUropean Attempts at Policing Mobility? Geopolitics, 27(5), 1492-1496. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.2008735 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2022). HuManitarianism: Race and the overrepresentation of ‘Man’. Transactions - Institute of British Geographers, 47(3), 695-708. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12531 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2022). Whitescapes: A posthumanist political ecology of Alpine migrant (im)mobility. Political Geography, 92, Article 102517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102517 [details]
2021
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2021). Saving the souls of white folk: Humanitarianism as white supremacy. Security Dialogue, 52(supplement), 98-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/09670106211024419 [details]
2020
- Cuttitta, P., Häberlein, J., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2020). Various Actors: The Border Death Regime. In P. Cuttitta, & T. Last (Eds.), Border Deaths: Causes, Dynamics and Consequences of Migration-related Mortality (pp. 35-52). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt1sgz6.6
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2020). Hotspots and the geographies of humanitarianism. Environment and Planning D - Society & Space, 38(6), 991-1008 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818754884 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2020). Moria Hotspot: shelter as a politically crafted materiality of neglect. In T. Scott-Smith, & M. E. Breeze (Eds.), Structures of Protection?: Rethinking Refugee Shelter (pp. 71-82). Berghahn Books. [details]
2019
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2019). Im/mobility and humanitarian triage. In K. Mitchell, R. Jones, & J. L. Fluri (Eds.), Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (pp. 372-383). (Research Handbooks in Geography). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786436030.00041 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2019). Médecins Sans Frontières and the Practice of Universalist Humanitarianism. In R. Jones (Ed.), Open Borders: In Defense of Free Movement (pp. 141-155). (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation). University of Georgia Press. [details]
2018
- Pace, M., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2018). EU–Hamas actors in a state of permanent liminality. Journal of International Relations and Development, 21(1), 223–246. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-016-0080-y [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2018). Médecins Avec Frontières and the making of a humanitarian borderscape. Environment and Planning D - Society & Space, 36(1), 114-138. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817740588 [details]
2017
- Jones, R., Johnson, C., Brown, W., Popescu, G., Pallister-Wilkins, P. E., Mountz, A., & Gilbert, E. (2017). Interventions on the state of sovereignty at the border. Political Geography, 59, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.02.006 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2017). Humanitarian Rescue/Sovereign Capture and the policing of possible responses to violent borders. Global Policy, 8(S1), 19-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12401 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2017). The tensions of the Ceuta and Melilla border fences. In P. Gaibazzi, S. Dünnwald, & A. Bellagamba (Eds.), EurAfrican borders and migration management: Political cultures, contested space, and ordinary lives (pp. 63-81). (Palgrave series in African borderlands studies; No. 1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94972-4 [details]
2016
- Jeandesboz, J., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2016). Crisis, routine, consolidation: the politics of the Mediterranean migration crisis. Mediterranean Politics, 21(2), 316-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2016.1145825 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2016). How walls do work: Security barriers as devices of interruption and data capture. Security Dialogue, 47(2), 151-164. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010615615729 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2016). Humanitarian Borderwork. In C. Günay, & N. Witjes (Eds.), Border Politics: Defining Spaces of Governance and Forms of Transgressions (pp. 85-106). Springer. [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2016). Interrogating the Mediterranean 'Migration Crisis'. Mediterranean Politics, 21(2), 311-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2016.1145826 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2016). Personal Protective Equipment in the humanitarian governance of Ebola: between individual patient care and global biosecurity. Third World Quarterly, 37(3), 507-523. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1116935 [details]
2015
- Mullin, C., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2015). Introduction: The West Asian and North African uprisings and the limits of liberal governance. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 9(2), 151-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2015.1020739 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2015). Bridging the divide: Middle Eastern walls and fences and the spatial governance of problem populations. Geopolitics, 20(2), 438-459. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2015.1005287 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2015). The humanitarian politics of European border policing: Frontex and border police in Evros. International Political Sociology, 9(1), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12076 [details]
2014
- Jeandesboz, J., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2014). Crisis, enforcement and control at the EU borders. In A. Lindley (Ed.), Crisis and migration: critical perspectives (pp. 115-135). Routledge. [details]
2011
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2011). The Separation Wall: a symbol of power and a site of resistance? Antipode, 43(5), 1851-1882. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00859.x [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2011). The anarchists against the wall: a post-structuralist challenge to Zionism. In A. Grabski (Ed.), Rebels against Zion: studies on the Jewish left anti-Zionism (pp. 213-228). Żydowski Instytut Historyczny w Polsce. [details]
2009
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2009). Radical Ground: Israeli and Palestinian activists and joint protest against the Wall. Social Movement Studies, 8(4), 393-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742830903234262 [details]
2025
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2025). In Conversation with Iosif Kovras. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/30-new-episode
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2025). What is…Climate Justice?. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/31-new-episode
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2025). What is…No Man’s Land, and is it as abandoned of life as the name suggests?. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/32-new-episode
2024
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2024). In Conversation with Anna Finiguerra. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/28-new-episode
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2024). In Conversation with Jonathan White. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/22-new-episode
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2024). What is...Academic Freedom?. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/23-new-episode
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2024). What is...Genocide?. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/24-new-episode
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2024). What is...Precarity in Academia? Exploring Migrant Academics' Narratives. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/25-new-episode
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2024). What is…Love and Care in International Relations?. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/29-new-episode
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2024). Why is Sophie Harman Sick of It? Voices: The EISA Podcast - Episode 27. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/27-new-episode
2023
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2023). In Conversation with Uygar Başpehlivan. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/21-new-episode
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2023). What is... the new Voices in IR Book Series?. Digital or Visual Products, European International Studies Association. https://voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/20-new-episode
2022
- Jones, R., Cornelissen, S., Hiemstra, N., Johnson, C., Pallister-Wilkins, P., Yamazaki, T., & Zhang, C. (2022). Editorial. Geopolitics, 27(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2008733 [details]
2020
- Bosma, E., de Goede, M., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2020). Introduction: navigating secrecy in security research. In M. de Goede, E. Bosma, & P. Pallister-Wilkins (Eds.), Secrecy and Methods in Security Research: A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork (pp. 1-27). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429398186-1 [details]
- Jones, R., Cornelissen, S., Hiemstra, N., Johnson, C., Mills, S., Yamazaki, T., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2020). Editorial. Geopolitics, 25(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2020.1688347 [details]
- de Goede, M., Bosma, E., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (Eds.) (2020). Secrecy and Methods in Security Research: A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429398186 [details]
2015
- Chauvin, S., Pallister-Wilkins, P., Vigneswaran, D., del Valle, H., & Bonjour, S. (2015). Aylan Kurdi: coming to terms with an image. Web publication or website, Society & Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/aylan-kurdi-coming-to-terms-with-an-image [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2015). Categories and labels in emergency governance. BLIND : Interdisciplinair Tijdschrift, 40. https://www.ziedaar.nl/article.php?id=494 [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2015). The humanitarian policing of 'Our Sea'. Web publication or website, Border Criminologies. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2015/04/humanitarian [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2015). The politics of illegality in the humanitarian borderwork of Médecins Sans Frontières. Web publication or website, Border Criminologies. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2015/10/politics [details]
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2015). There’s A Focus On The Boats Because The Sea Is Sexier Than The Land: A Reflection on the Centrality of the Boats in the Recent ‘Migration Crisis’. Web publication or website, The Disorder of Things. https://thedisorderofthings.com/2015/12/09/theres-a-focus-on-the-boats-because-the-sea-is-sexier-than-the-land-a-reflection-on-the-centrality-of-the-boats-in-the-recent-migration-crisis/ [details]
2022
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E., & Papataxiarchis, E. (2022). European Policy Brief - Protection in the Borderlands of Europe. (European policy brief). ADMIGOV. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8217564
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E., & Papataxiarchis, E. (2022). Protection beyond legal-centrism and contrainment. ADMIGOV. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8219069
2021
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E., Anastasiadou, A., Zavos, A., & Papataxiarchis , E. (2021). Protection in a Hostile Environment: An on-the-ground study into protection practices in Lesvos and Athens. ADMIGOV. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8219028
2020
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E., Pistikos, I., Jeandesboz, J. A. (Ed.), Aivaliotou , E., & Matusz, P. (2020). Operational practices of EU entry governance at air, land and sea borders. ADMIGOV. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8217847.
2019
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2019). Walking, Not Flowing: The Migrant Caravan and the Geoinfrastructuring of Unequal Mobility. Web publication or website, Society+Space . http://societyandspace.org/2019/02/21/walking-not-flowing-the-migrant-caravan-and-the-geoinfrastructuring-of-unequal-mobility/ [details]
2018
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2018). Criminalising Assistance and Solidarity: The ECRI Case and Beyond. Web publication or website, Observatory of the Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Aegean. http://refugeeobservatory.aegean.gr/en/criminalising-%CE%B1ssistance-and-solidarity-erci-case-and-beyond [details]
2016
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2016). Hotspots and the Politics of Humanitarian Control and Care. Web publication or website, Society+Space . http://societyandspace.org/2016/12/06/hotspots-and-the-politics-of-humanitarian-control-and-care/ [details]
2015
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2015). Aylan Kurdi: Coming to Terms With an Image. The child as totemic image in humanitarianism.. Web publication or website, Society+Space . http://societyandspace.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/invoking-the-child-as-totemic-image-pallister-wilkins.pdf
2014
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2014). [Review of: I. Pappé, J. Hilal (2010) Across the wall: narratives of Israeli-Palestinian history]. Journal of modern Jewish studies, 13(1), 130-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2013.874787 [details]
2024
- Bouris, D., Boussaid, F., Bracke, S., Fontana, S., Pallister-Wilkins, P., Bala, S., de Cesari, C., Dekker, M., De Keere, K., Ferrari Braun, A., Gaddam, S., Hamdan, A., Hegazy, M., Jansen, Y., Işleyen, B., Korkmaz, A., Loken, M., Moors, A., Pali, B., ... Vertommen, S. (2024). De ondraaglijke lichtheid van UvA’s neutraliteit. Web publication or website, Folia. https://www.folia.nl/opinie/161096/de-ondraaglijke-lichtheid-van-uvas-neutraliteit
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E., & Pali, B. (2024). What is the point…?. Web publication or website, Security Praxis. https://www.securitypraxis.eu/what-is-the-point/
2016
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2016). Book Review: Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migration at the World’s Deadliest Border. Web publication or website, Border Criminologies. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2016/09/book-review-3
2012
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2012). Fences don't make us safe. Politics.co.uk.
2011
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2011). Criticism of EU-Libya migration policy is too little, too late. openDemocarcy.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2011). Entry Denied: Revolution in North Africa and the Continued Centrality of Migration to European Responses. Jadaliyya.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2011). Playing politics with Schengen. openDemocracy.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (2011). Searching for accountability in EU migration-management practices. openDemocracy.
Prize / grant
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2023). International Political Sociology book award for 2023 for "Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives". https://www.versobooks.com/books/4013-humanitarian-borders
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2018). ADMIGOV: Advancing Alternative Migration Governance.
Membership / relevant position
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2023-2027). Governing Board Member, European International Studies Association (EISA).
Media appearance
- Bracke, S., Pallister-Wilkins, P. & Dekker, M. (08-05-2024). 'Kwalijke stap docenten'; Rellen brengen bestuursleden UvA ernstig in verlegenheid [Print] De Telegraaf. 'Kwalijke stap docenten'; Rellen brengen bestuursleden UvA ernstig in verlegenheid. https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1519360&crid=fc3672bd-8290-40f1-a197-bf73b0b389e1&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn…
- Bracke, S., Pallister-Wilkins, P. & Dekker, M. (07-05-2024). Grote verdeeldheid onder UvA-medewerkers door docenten die het pro-Palestina-protest steunen: 'Dit hindert het debat' [Web] De Telegraaf. Grote verdeeldheid onder UvA-medewerkers door docenten die het pro-Palestina-protest steunen: 'Dit hindert het debat'. https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1216510896/grote-verdeeldheid-onder-uv-a-medewerkers-door-docenten-die-het-pro-palestina-protest-steunen-dit…
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (09-05-2022). De Verbranders Podcast Episode 19: Humanitarian borders [Other] De Verbranders Podcast. De Verbranders Podcast Episode 19: Humanitarian borders. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2oGD56ONCEVqRFA7emX4aQ
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (26-04-2021). Dutch University Under Fire for 'Discriminating Against' Degrees From African Universities [Print] Premium Times. Dutch University Under Fire for 'Discriminating Against' Degrees From African Universities. https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1516831&crid=a5642b9c-1866-4de5-b1c7-56b234896f01&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn…
Journal editor
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (editor) (2019-2024). Security Dialogue (Journal).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (editor) (2018-2022). Geopolitics (Journal).
Talk / presentation
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (6-9-2024). Neutrality in Today’s Humanitarian Landscape, Artsen zonder Grenzen/Médecins Sans Frontières.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (28-8-2023). “Open Doors” and “Stranger Natives”: white supremacy, racialisation and governing im/mobilities in African Trusts, WISER, University of the Witwatersrand.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (26-4-2023). Humanitarian Futures, University of the Witwatersrand.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (24-8-2022). Bordering on Inhumane, Edinburgh Book Festival.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (15-6-2022). Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives, Spui 25. https://spui25.nl/programma/humanitarian-borders
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (2-2021). Keynote, ‘The Future of Humanity,’ at MSF-Holland’s 50th Anniversary Event, Medecins Sans Frontieres.
- de Goede, M. (speaker), Bosma, E. (speaker), Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker), van der Molen, A. (speaker), Hoijtink, M. (speaker), Wissink, L. (speaker) & Nyman, J. (speaker) (6-2-2020). Book launch: Secrecy and Methods in Security Research, UvA/Spui 25. https://www.spui25.nl/spui25-en/events/events/2020/02/secrecy-and-methods-in-security-research.html
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (27-11-2018). Humanizing Borders, International Committee of the Red Cross.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (10-10-2018). Im/mobility and humanitarian triage: Spaces, speeds, and types of care in Europe (2015-8), University of the Aegean.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (15-6-2018). Border Deaths, VU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (30-5-2018). Borders, Walls, Rescue, Sandberg Instituut.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (30-1-2018). Humanitarian Borders, Peace Research Institute Oslo.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (14-11-2017). Im/mobility and the making of a humanitarian borderscape, Jean Monnet Network: Comparing and Contrasting EU Border and Migration Policy – Are They Exemplary?, Brussels.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (7-9-2017). Humanitarian borders, externalized migration control and climate migration in the Anthropocene, Aalborg University Denmark.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (25-7-2017). The Politics and Policies of Refugee Resettlement, Concordia University.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (27-6-2017). A new paradigm for humanitarian intervention, University of Catania.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (invited speaker) (27-10-2016). Médecins Avec Frontières: Humanitarian Borderscapes and the ‘Migration Crisis’ in Europe, Invited lecture at King’s College London Border Lecture Series, London.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (invited speaker) (30-5-2016). Invited Keynote Presenter, European Diplomatic Programme (Migration Track) at the Netherlands' EU Presidency 2016, Amsterdam.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (invited speaker) (27-5-2016). Invited speaker, at the Dutch Association for Migration Research Spring Meetings at the Research and Documentation Center of the Ministry of Security and Justice, Den Haag.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (invited speaker) (6-11-2015). Invited speaker: 'The Mediterranean: How to prevent the human tragedies at sea and adopt a viable and sustainable European immigration policy?', European Summit, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (speaker) (30-6-2015). Humanitarian Borders, Spui 25. https://spui25.nl/programma/humanitarian-borders
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (invited speaker) (30-5-2015). Invited lecture on humanitarian search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean, MSF-Holland General Assembly, Amsterdam.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (invited speaker) (10-4-2015). The Politics of Walls, Fences and Borders, Association for Borderland Studies Annual Convention, Portland, Oregon.
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (invited speaker) (3-10-2013). The use of walls and fences in the governing of Middle Eastern populations, Invited lecture at Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Amsterdam.
Others
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (examiner) (31-10-2023). The externalisation of the EU’s migration policies and the contradiction between protection and negation of life: exception, deportation and racism at the Spanish-Moroccan border, (examination).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (examiner) (14-9-2023). Re-making it here: Returnees and non-state actors in the (European) externalisation of return migration management to The Gambia (examination).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (examiner) (17-5-2023). The Politics of Living (In)Security: Zaatari Village, Jordan (examination).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (examiner) (16-11-2022). Aid and Development at the Thai-Myanmar Border: Mapping humanitarianism as a settler colonial construct (examination).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (examiner) (10-11-2022). Frontex in Wonderland: Banal Securitisation and Normalisation in the Field of EUropean External(ised) Border Management (examination).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (examiner) (14-6-2022). Calibrating Care: Migration and Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Border and Beyond (examination).
- van Heelsum, A. (participant), Lemberg-Pedersen, M. (participant), Matusz, P. (participant) & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (29-9-2020). Zooming in on Migration and Asylum #3: Access to Europe: Governing the Entry of third-country nationals in the European Union. With a view to contributing to the discussion on the EU’s “New Pact on Migration and Asylum”, the webinar examines these questions and presents the (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). http://admigov.eu/new/zooming-in-on-migration-and-asylum-webinar-3/27
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (examiner) (15-11-2019). The Land of the Checkpoints: A study of the daily geographies of checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (examination).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2018). Structures of Protection, Oxford (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2018). European International Studies Association Conference, Prague (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2018). SOLIDERE, Athens (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2018). International Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2018). International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) Conference, Den Haag (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (11-2017). Universities Responding to the Refugee Crisis, Beirut (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (consultant) (22-9-2017). Stakeholder Dialogue on Forced Displacement, Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH) MSF-Switzerland (consultancy).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (organiser) (4-5-2017). Humanitarian Mobilities, Amsterdam. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of mobility and humanitarianism to discuss critical issues (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2017). Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Baltimore (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2017). Secrecy and Methods in Security Research, Haarlem (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2017). Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (12-2016). Remapping Europe, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (organiser) & Wissink, L. M. (chair) (18-11-2016). UvA-MSF joint event, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam. "People on the move" (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (participant) (6-4-2016 - 8-4-2016). At the ‘European Workshops in International Studies’, Tübingen, Germany. Organiser of the workshop Human rights, humanitarianism, security: beyond the sovereign politics of life (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (participant) (16-3-2016 - 19-3-2016). At International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta. Organiser of the double panel ‘Consolidating the Humanitarian Border’ (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2016). Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2016). Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. (participant) (2016). Data, People, Objects: The Security Governance of Contemporary Mobilities, Montreal (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (participant) & Wissink, L. M. (participant) (18-11-2015). UvA-MSF joint event, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam. People on the Move (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
2022
- Bosma, E. (2022). Banks as security actors: Countering terrorist financing at the human-technology interface. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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