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The current Colombian administration’s response towards Venezuelan migration: A clash between a liberal rhetoric, foreign policy and domestic politics

Manuel Alejandro Núñez Ochoa. Migration Studies MA alumnus (University of Sussex) and former Associate Resettlement and Complementary Pathways Officer.  The Colombian response to Venezuelan forced migration has undergone significant changes since the administration of Gustavo Petro took office in 2022.

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From Mahidol to Sussex: A Doctoral Fellow’s Global Research Experience

Ken Calang, Mahidol University and Doctoral Visiting Fellow, SCMR Ken Calang, a PhD candidate in Multicultural Studies at Mahidol University, recently completed a Doctoral Visiting Fellowship at the University of Sussex. From February 3 to March 28, 2025, he was

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Queering migration and asylum judgments

Nuno Ferreira, Professor of Law at the University of Sussex; Maria Federica Moscati, Reader in Law and Society at the University of Sussex; and Senthorun Raj, Reader in Human Rights Law at Manchester Metropolitan University What if we queered judgments

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Lessons from Cartagena: what can the world learn about migration governance?

Esteban Octavio Scuzarello, is a doctoral researcher at the European University Institute, Italy. His work focuses on forced displacement in South America. The 1970s and 1980s are remembered as turbulent years in Latin America, marked by coup d’états, political persecution,

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The True Cost of the 2022 World Cup: How Qatar’s Migrant Workers Paid the Price

Ellen Hughes is a third-year undergraduate student studying Anthropology and International Development at the University of Sussex. The Kafala system, a sponsorship-based labour structure prevailing in multiple Middle Eastern countries, has long been criticized as a tool for exploitation, with

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The praxis of research about queer migrant lives: an Iranian case study

Moira Dustin; Nuno Ferreira; Kamran Matin; Mehran Rezaei-Toroghi; and Isabel Soloaga – University of Sussex Does an academic, theoretically framed, multidisciplinary research project have anything to contribute to migration policy and practice in the context of discrimination and violence based on

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A European language detection software to determine asylum seekers’ country of origin: Questioning the assumptions and implications of the EUAA’s project

Cecilia Manzotti, Doctoral Researcher, School of Law & SCMR, University of Sussex (UK) In 2022, the European Union Asylum Agency (EUAA) reported that seven European Union (EU) member states (Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Denmark, Sweden and Finland) and Switzerland,

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