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Contempt, Criminalisation, and No Compassion: The UK’s Asylum System
The right to asylum is one of the oldest legal rights in the world and has been recognised by societies as divergent as Ancient Greece... Read More
Migration, Refugees and Statelessness Interdisciplinary Conference – Tuesday November 19, 2019
Image: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at Zam Zam camp outside El Fasher, Sudan (United Nations Photo) On Tuesday 19 November, the Melbourne Social Equity... Read More
The SEREDA Project: A Reflection on Time and Stories
The Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham is leading the SEREDA Project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, Volkswagen Stiftung and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond through the Europe and Global... Read More
Book Review: ‘Syrian Women Refugees: Personal Accounts of Transition’ – Dr. Ozlem Ezer
“Journeys come in many forms: planned, unplanned, short, long, tiring, comforting, illuminating, legal, undocumented, on foot, by boat, with or without someone waiting at the... Read More
Refugees’ Right to Physical Security: What does it Practically Mean?
The Law When one reads the term “right to physical security”, a basic understanding of what it means usually flirts with the idea of safety.... Read More
Book Review: ‘The Butterfly Refugee’ – Roger Ibn Tyrone
Refugee week (16-22 June, 2019) marks the timely release of the ‘The Butterfly Refugee’, a children’s book and poem written and illustrated by Roger Ibn... Read More
Book Review: ‘Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System’ – Dr. Vicky Canning
Dr. Victoria Canning is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom (UK) who specialises in examining the intersection of gender... Read More
A Review of “Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World”
Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World Daniel Ghezelbash, Cambridge University Press, 2018 The “refuge lost” in the book’s title is literally true in... Read More
Putting Gender on the Agenda in the Refugee “Crisis”
This post was originally published on the Social Sciences Birmingham blog at the University of Birmingham, UK. It has been slightly modified for publication on... Read More
‘Whose voice is louder?’ Safe spaces as responses to gender-based violence in refugee settings
This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at our annual postgraduate interdisciplinary conference on refugee and forced migration research,... Read More