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Echoes of the Past in Europe’s Two-Tier Approach to Refugees
They are the lucky ones. A group of female journalists, legislators and judges from Afghanistan who have found a temporary safe haven in Greece and... Read More
Upcoming Event: ‘We don’t want to give away how you hack the system’: An Emotional History of the Department of Immigration and Child Refugees
Dr Jordy Silverstein explores what can be learnt about the place of child refugees in Australian policy history. Presented by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute... Read More
Essay: How should we define refugees?
“A Proper Conception of refugeehood is an important matter” – Shacknove (1985, 276). In this piece, I offer a critical look at the scholarly... Read More
How diasporic Kurdish intellectuals promote internal dialogue to prevent a Kurdish civil war
The major Kurdish groups of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), alongside their followers, are in an overt conflict via... Read More
Coronavirus Reaches the World’s Most Persecuted People: The Threat of COVID-19 in the Rohingya Refugee Camps
On May 14 2020 the first case of the novel coronavirus was confirmed in the biggest refugee camp in the world—Kutupalong, Cox’s Bazar. The refugees... Read More
Fickle nationalism or international co-operation?
On the 23rd of September, two weeks after a fire leveled parts of the Lesvos refugee camp Moria, the EU commission proposed a new pact... Read More
“We are the ‘Asylum Seekers’”: The ‘Joyful Migration’ of Indonesian Gay Men in Paris
I was going to Marseille, France in 2010 to do my doctoral degree. I was conducting research about migration and family relationships through the cases... Read More
Decolonising Kurdish Refugee Studies: The Need for a Critical, Reflective and Emancipatory Approach
Over recent years, with the rise in Kurdish refugees in Europe and the disastrous events in the Middle East, there has been an increased focus... Read More
We must not forget the most vulnerable during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The spread of COVID-19 continues to grow uninhibited. The number of countries in the world that have not been affected by the epidemic is almost... Read More
The Mental health and well-being of the Rohingya in Bangladesh beyond COVID-19
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) [pdf] one in every five people living in areas beset by conflict experience some form of mental health... Read More