LIMINAL

24/03/2026

This is the third and final event of a short series of event organised as part of the “Hostile Environments” project, which aim to collectively re-define some terms that are key to the project. Taking place over 4 days and across multiple locations throughout The Gambia, the event will bring together research participants, scholars, artists, writers and activists to unpack the term “extractive frontiers”. The aim of the event is to reflect from an intersectional lens on extractive practices and their entanglements with im/mobility and bordering practices.

30/10/2025

30/10/2025

In the context of the Days of Mobilisation organised by Refugees In Libya, we warmly invite you to join us for the screening of “Escaping Libya’s Detention Industry” by Forensis Berlin, followed by LIMINAL’s film “The Deportation Chain” and a presentation of our new platform “Aerial Bordering” in Rome next weekend. The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion together with Refugees in Libya, Forensis Berlin, Libyan Justice, and ECCHR - European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, kindly hosted by SPIN TIME LABS.

30/10/2025

We are pleased to publish our research on monitoring Fishmeal & Fish Oil (FMFO) production in The Gambia.

An online report and code repository accessible via our website includes an open, reproducible workflow that applies simple spectral indices to PlanetScope scenes in order to detect artisanal fishing boats operating at Gunjur Bay. Our report outlines how these practices can both assist in providing oversight over FMFO production whilst tracking its effects on artisanal fishing fleets throughout the region.

15/10/2025

Excerpts from our recent investigation “The Deportation Chain” in collaboration with Refugees In Libya and ASGI Italy, published by IrpiMedia and Domani Editoriale. The full investigation will be presented by the LIMINAL team in Rome on Saturday 18.10.2025, in the context of the Days of Mobilisation organised by Refugees in Libya and kindly hosted by SPIN TIME LABS.

22/08/2025

Our Critical Lexicon is now available on our website (link in bio).

In dialogue with research contributors and invited guests, we want to collectively (re-)define a set of key terms that we hope will provide an alternative toolbox to think about the relation between ecologies and mobilities, moving beyond catastrophist and security-oriented perspectives.

It is a collaborative effort to expand the scope of critical inquiry and move towards a more inclusive, care-full theory of migration and environment, not to fixate meaning, but to hopefully open up a space of dialogue across the various practices, sites, communities and languages that the project engages with.

In contrast to the increasing hostility in language and action towards those racialised as other, we strive towards a language that might, in the words of bell hooks, be ‘a place of sanctuary’

Over the next weeks we will be posting some of the terms here. Stay tuned for more!

09/07/2025

Yesterday we published our counter-investigation into the violent death of Jumaa al-Hasan, a 27-year-old Syrian who drowned off the northern French coast during a police operation. For over a year, together with INDEX Investigation and journalists of the Hors Cadre - Maïa Courtois, Simon Mauvieux, Maël Galisson and Valentina Camu - we have investigated the circumstances of his drowning. We managed to locate four witnesses who were willing to share their stories with us – without them, this counter-investigation would not have been possible.

This Investigation was done in collaboration with Disclose.ngo and The New Arab

Watch the full video and read the investigation in English or French: https://liminal-lab.org/work/the_death_of_jumaa_al_hasan