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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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.…
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
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Posted in Migration Research
Migration Research and ‘The Other’ Europe
Florian Bieber (University of Graz, Austria), Kathy Burrell (University of Liverpool UK) and Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University, UK) Migration scholars should pay greater attention to migration research that focuses on Eastern Europe as a site of diverse but also…
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
Starmer’s ‘Island of strangers’ takes a page from Trump’s migration policy book. Spain shows a different path is possible
Caterina Mazzilli, ODI Global and Gonzalo Fanjul, Fundacion por Causa and ODI Europe With the presentation of his White Paper on 12th May 2025, UK Home Secretary Keir Starmer has been the latest to join the anti-immigration epidemic sweeping across…
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