Luna Vives est spécialiste en migration internationale. Elle étudie le renforcement des frontières européennes et nord-américaines pour arrêter la migration non désirée et son impact sur les populations migrantes en situation de vulnérabilité. Ses travaux actuels portent sur la violation de droits des mineur.e.s non accompagné.e.s et sur la militarisation des opérations de recherche et sauvetage (SAR) dans la Méditerranée occidentale. Elle détient un doctorat de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique et un postdoctorat de l’Université McGill.

Refereed Journal Articles

Vives, L. (2021) Death at sea: The dismantling of non-militarized Search and rescue approaches in the Southern European border. Geopolitics. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1973438

Vives, L. (2020) Child migration in the US and Spain: Towards a global border regime? International Migration, 58(6): 29-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12704

Topak, O. and Vives, L. (2020) A comparative analysis of migration control strategies along the Western and Eastern Mediterranean routes: Sovereign interventions through militarization and deportation. Migration Studies, 8(1): 66-89. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mny029

Vives, L. and Sinha, V. (2019) The Discrimination of First Nations Children with Special Healthcare Needs in Canada: A Case Study. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 10(1) (29 pages). https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2019.10.1.4

Vives, L. (2017) Unwanted sea migrants across the EU border: The Canary Islands. Political Geography, 61: 181-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.09.002

Moser, S., Hendricks, M. And Vives, L. (2017) Academia’s moral entanglements in the face of a racist regime. ACME, 16(2): 175-184.

Vives, L. and Vázquez Silva, I. (2017) Migration and transnational mothering: the Senegalese experience. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(3): 495-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1186531

Vives, L. (2017) The EU - West African sea border: anti-immigration strategies and territoriality. European Journal of Urban and Regional Studies, 24(2): 209-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776416631790

Book Chapters and Reference

Vives, L. and Williams, K. (2021) Closing the gap: official statistics on the migration on unaccompanied migrant children across the Mediterranean. In C. Dauvergne (ed.) Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration (pp.125-140). Edward Elgar.

Vives, L. and Sinha, V. (2020, translation) Discriminación en el acceso a los servicios de salud pública de las Primeras Naciones en Canadá: el caso de Pinaymootang. In Lois, M. and Akkaya, A. (eds.) Las luchas por la descolonización en el siglo XXI: experiencias más allá de Europa (pp. 181-210). Madrid: La Catarata.

Vives, L., Mohabir, N. (2020) Postcolonialism. In: Kobayashi, A. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 10, Elsevier, pp. 289–295. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10856-X

Policy reports

Sangster, M., Vives, L., Chadwick, K., Gerlach, A. and Sinha, V. (2019) “Advancing Jordan’s Principle by realizing enhanced service coordination in the Alberta Region.” Calgary/Edmonton, AB: The First Nations Health Consortium.

Sinha, V., Vives, L., Gerlach, A. (eds.) (2019) “Implementing Jordan’s Principle Service Coordination in the Alberta Region: The First Nations Health Consortium.” Calgary/Edmonton, AB: The First Nations Health Consortium.

Vives, L., Sinha, V., Burnet, E., Lach, L. in collaboration with Pinaymootang First Nation and Nanaandawewigamig, First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba (2017). “Honouring Jordan’s Principle: obstacles to access to equal health and social services for First Nations children with complex needs living in Fairford, Manitoba.” Fairford, MB: Pinaymootang First Nation, Canada.