Dr Melissa Gatter is Lecturer in International Development (University of Sussex) While a universal experience, the passing of time is not an equal one. For those whose mobility is policed, time becomes more immediately present, almost tangible, as they must…
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LGBTQI+ immigrants’ experiences of in/exclusion in the UK
Dr Sarah Scuzzarello, Senior Lecturer in migration (SCMR and Dept of Geography, University of Sussex) and co-coordinator of GenSeM, Gender and Sexuality in Migration research at IMISCOE. With Golchehr Hamidi-Manesh, Research Assistant. To what degree do the experiences of migration…
Tagged with: Brexit, class, gender identity, migration, race, Sexuality
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
Statelessness and belonging: The case of Saharawis in Spain
By Celia Garcia de Medina-Rosales, alumnus of the Migration Studies MA, University of Sussex (2021/22). Her dissertation was awarded 2022 JEMS Award for the best Migration Studies MA Statelessness, defined in international law as ‘not being considered a national by…
Posted in Migration Research
Somali women refugees in Ethiopia: Who knows best what works (or not) for them?
By Adamnesh A. Bogale, Gender and Migration Expert at the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team. The number of Somali refugees in Ethiopia is 250,719, which…
Entangled identities of second-generation Gurkha Nepali’s in the UK
Safina Bull, University of Exeter, BA Liberal Arts 2022 The paradox of belonging to two places, but at the same time not belonging to either, is something that many people face in a migratory context. Negotiating one’s entangled, intersecting identities…
Tagged with: 2nd generations, Gurkha, Nepali diaspora, transnationalism
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
The politics of Syrian refugees’ economic impact
Claude Samaha is Lead Researcher at Basmeh & Zeitooneh and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team. Policymakers in Lebanon argue that displaced people, particularly Syrian refugees, are one of the causes of the country’s failing economy. Syrian refugees…
Posted in Migration Research
Not a burden: Somali refugees transform Dollo Ado into an onion export zone
Fekadu Adugna is Project Coordinator at the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team. Dollo Ado is a district in south-eastern Ethiopia bordering Somalia to the east…
Posted in Migration Research