Refugee Studies Without Refugees: Some Methodological Reflections
Blog post by Dr Claire Walkey who has recently completed a DPhil at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
(more…)Climate refugees: reflections on a category that seeks recognition
Blog post by Sabrina P. Vecchioni. Lawyer and member of the Interdisciplinary Network of Human Rights –REDii. Between 2012 and 2018 she worked as a defense lawyer for asylum seekers and refugees in the Commission for Integral Assistance and Protection of Refugees of the Public Ministry of Defense in Argentina.
(more…)Coronavirus and Border Guards Powers
Blog post by Dr Elif Mendos Kuskonmaz, University of Portsmouth and Professor Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary University of London.
(more…)The Rohingya Refugee Crisis, International Justice, and Rethinking Solutions
Blog post by Brian Gorlick, a human rights lawyer and tutor on the ‘Gender, Sexual Identity and Age’ module in the RLI’s MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies. Previously he worked with UNHCR and the UN Secretariat for over twenty-five years. He currently lives in Bangladesh.
(more…)Ground Zero of the Second Largest Migration Exodus in the World
Blog post by Enrique Jose Garcia who was born from Cuban parents and raised in Venezuela until he moved to the US to attend University at Boston College. He started his career as a beverage entrepreneur and recently started a master’s degree at London School of Economics in Public Administration, concentrating his studies on Social Entrepreneurship. He currently writes part-time for a UK-based publication on Economics and Entrepreneurship in Latin America.*
(more…)Should India deport Rohingya refugees because its ‘soldiers are fighting at the borders’?
Blog post by Sreekar Aechuri who is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in law at National Academy of Legal Studies And Research (NALSAR), India. He is interested in the field of human rights and is a member of the NALSAR Legal Aid Group (N-LAG).*
(more…)A Milestone in Latin America Protection System: Brazil recognizes 21,000 Venezuelans as refugees in landmark decision
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.
(more…)The Global Refugees Forum should support Ethiopia to create more jobs to address its high unemployment rate
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.
(more…)The securitisation of asylum and immigration in European discourse and practice: the case of Italy
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.*
(more…)Rejecting Refugees: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
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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