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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
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
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
Family Reunification of Refugees in Brazil: Why does it Matter?
Many people fleeing armed conflicts, severe human rights violations, and persecutions are separated from their families. Once they are recognized as refugees, they can apply... Read More
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK
Over 1.9 million cases of Coronavirus have been recorded since the disease began to spread at the end of 2019 – it is now affecting... 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
Why has Maryam left Sweden after four years and 3 months?
This piece was originally published by the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) and has been re-posted with permission from the author.... Read More