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Reflections on Refugee Backlash and Gendered Harms
Within a window of 15 hours, I virtually travelled in time zones from GMT -5 to GMT +5. These journeys reminded me yet again about... 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
StepUp.One: Connecting refugees with opportunities that pay
“We need access to education whilst at the camp, we need access to opportunity. In a time when goods and capital move freely, humans are... 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
The EU’s Relocation of Unaccompanied Migrant Children to Safe Havens: A Good Practice?
The COVID-19 pandemic as a ‘ticking health bomb’ has proven to be a difficult time for everyone, but for the Unaccompanied or Separated Migrant Children... Read More
Interview with Ahmad Hakim, Founder and Co-Director of Refugee Voices
Ahmad Hakim is the founder and co-director of Refugee Voices, a new refugee-led community organisation in Australia. It is committed to ensuring that people from... 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 Model Host: The Global North’s Convenient Guide to the International Refugee Burden-Sharing Regime
This article argues that the ‘model host’ narrative is a Northern tool to further perpetuate unequal distributions of global power within the international refugee ‘burden-sharing’... 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
The Greater Manchester Migrant Destitution Fund: Alleviating destitution during the Covid-19 crisis
The Migrant Destitution Fund GM aims to support people in Greater Manchester who are forced into destitution by their immigration status – refused asylum seekers... Read More