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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
Political Considerations of the Rohingya Refugee Crisis and its Ramifications
According to the UNHCR, over a million Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar, most of them women and children who have almost nothing and... Read More
Refugees writing change: Help launch The Archipelago online magazine
This post has been shared at the request of Kieren Kresevic Salazar, founder of The Archipelago online magazine. We’re deeply committed to our writing… We’re... Read More
The European Refugee Crisis and the Crisis of Democratic Values
In the early days of March I was watching from a distance the situation developing in Greece. A distance that was geographic, myself being away... Read More