Dec 17, 2019 | General content |
Blog post written by Aryadne Waldely, a Fulbright Scholar at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility of The New School, in New York City, and a PhD candidate at the Law School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Previously, Aryadne has worked for the Protection Unit of the UNHCR in Brazil after several years working as a lawyer, consultant and researcher for different non-profit organizations, such as ActionAid, Caritas and Earth Child Institute.
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Dec 10, 2019 | General content, Global Compact on Refugees |
Blog post written by Tsion Tadesse Abebe, Senior Researcher, Migration Programme, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Selam Tadesse, Junior Researcher, Horn of Africa Programme, ISS.
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Nov 19, 2019 | General content |
Blog post by Samantha Velluti (LL.B., LL.M, Ph.D), Reader in Law at Sussex Law School, UK, where she also convenes the European Law and Policy research group (ELPRG). Dr Velluti’s research focuses on legislative developments in EU asylum law and the judicial activism of the European Courts from a human rights perspective.*
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Nov 5, 2019 | General content |
This blog post is an excerpt from the recently released book ‘Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump’ by Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia. Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is the Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Founding Director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State Law in University Park, Pennsylvania, and author of ‘Beyond Deportation’.
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Oct 8, 2019 | General content |
Blog post written by Matt Oliver Kinsella, an RLI Research Affiliate currently undertaking a PhD with the Human Rights Consortium at the University of London, in collaboration with the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI), Uganda. This piece was originally published on the International Refugee Rights Initiative blog.
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Oct 2, 2019 | General content |
Blog post by Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad (PhD Candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Max Walden (Research Assistant and PhD student under the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘Indonesia’s refugee policies: responsibility, security and regionalism’).
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Sep 26, 2019 | Global Compact for Migration |
This blog post summarises points from a workshop entitled “How can the Global Compact for Migration be owned and used?” Hosted by the Refugee Law Initiative, the workshop brought together academic researchers and non-governmental actors to unpack ownership and implementation of the GCM. The summary was written by Kathryn Allinson and Katharine T. Weatherhead, Queen Mary University of London, in order to share knowledge and views on issues which will impact the GCM’s future.
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Sep 9, 2019 | General content |
Blog post by Emilia Larrachea Formas (UIC Barcelona), a Chilean lawyer who started her doctoral research “Women, Peace and Security in refugees” in 2016. Emilia is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Law Initiative.
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Sep 3, 2019 | General content |
Blog post written by Mohammad Qasim, lecturer at faculty of law and political science, Gharjistan University, Kabul, Afghanistan
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Aug 27, 2019 | General content |
Blog post written by Juliana Guerrero, a political science and law student at the Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. Juliana is a research assistant at the Center for Global Studies at Universidad de Los Andes, focusing on international development and is doing an internship with the Refugee Law Initiative. She holds a certificate from the Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from American University as well as a certificate in International Criminal Law from Leiden University.
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