Our post-doctoral researchers Lena Richter and Sophia Schönthaler are participating in the first annual conference of the Euro-Mediterranean Network on Migration, taking place from April 22–24, 2026, in Sousse, Tunisia.
As part of the conference program, they presented the blog series “Think Med”, outlining its current status, introducing the first published articles, and sharing the next steps for its development within the broader Euro-Mediterranean dialogue on migration.
Think Med is a blog series developed within the EuroMedMig PhD Network and hosted on Mobile People & Diverse Societies, the Eurac Research blog dedicated to migration and mobility. The series is grounded in a shared conviction: that the Mediterranean is not merely a backdrop to contemporary migration, but a constitutive space through which migration is produced, governed, experienced, and contested. In public and policy debates, the Mediterranean is often framed as a site of crisis and emergency. Think Med starts from a different premise. It approaches the Mediterranean as a historically layered, politically charged, and socially relational region, shaped by long-standing connections across its northern, southern, and eastern shores. This does not mean reproducing myths of harmony and diversity. Rather, thinking from the Mediterranean requires taking its asymmetries of power and mobility, its colonial legacies, and its everyday practices of movement, labour, care, and belonging seriously.
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