Ali Ali, Michael Collyer, Priya Deshingkar, Anne-Meike Fechter, Melissa Gatter, Linda Morrice, Ceri Oeppen, Judith Townend and Tahir Zaman, SCMR, University of Sussex Refugee Week has been celebrated in the UK since 1998 around World Refugee Day, June 20th. This…
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Community as a Superpower – Research in action.
Tagged with: community, refugee week, research, SCMR
Posted in Migration Comments, Migration Research
Posted in Migration Comments, Migration Research
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…
Tagged with: Asylum Seekers & Refugees, LGBTQI+, queer migation, SOGIESC
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
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…
Tagged with: Asylum Seekers & Refugees, Iran, LGBTQ, migration, SOGIESC
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
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,…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Asylum Seekers & Refugees, European Union Asylum Agency
Posted in Migration Comments, Migration Research
Posted in Migration Comments, Migration Research
The ‘Muslimification’ of Muslims: why political conflict over Islam makes us blind to transformation towards diversity
Paul Statham, Professor of Migration, SCMR Director Do you think that Islam is a threat to the British way of life? UK Population 30% yes; Conservative Party members 58% yes Do you think parts of many European cities are under…
What can regret in migration decision-making reveal about policy failures?
Dr Caterina Mazzilli | ODI Global When Aida (not her real name) joined her husband in South Africa, she could not believe that that was what she “had come here for”. She said, “the first business we were doing was…
Borders, belonging and ballots: the electoral marginalization of self-settled refugees in Tanzania
Leonard Chimanda, Postgraduate Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences: School of Law Until refugees acquire the nationality of the host state or return to their states of origin, several years can pass. In that period, what are the avenues of political voice…
Posted in Migration Comments, Migration Research