Dr Thi Bogossian, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Porto, Portugal. Artwork in the gate of Casa Miga, the only LGBTQ+ shelter in Manaus. Photo courtesy of Thi Bogossian. Over the past decades, Venezuela has made…
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Introducing the Nafeer Community Knowledge Lab: A New Partnership for Community-Led Knowledge
Dr Bashàïr Ahmed, Shabaka, and Professor Paul Statham, Editor in Chief, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies In Sudan, Emergency Response Rooms coordinated the distribution of food and medicine supplies in neighbourhoods to places where international agencies could not access…
Tagged with: global South, Knowledge production, migration research, Nafeer Community Lab, Red Sea Researchers Network
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
Community as a Superpower – Research in action.
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…
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
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