Statelessness and the global compacts: initial thoughts on the zero drafts
Blog post written by Tendayi Bloom, a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at The Open University in the UK. (more…)
Deportation of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers from Israel and the legality of relocation/transfer agreements
Blog post written by Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler (University of Reading) who will be chairing the upcoming panel discussion on the ‘Deportation of Asylum Seekers from Israel to Rwanda’, to be held at Senate House, London on Thursday 22 February. (more…)
Terrorism and Asylum: Unravelling the Myths
Blog post written by Dr James C. Simeon (York University) who co-chaired the recent Refugee Law Initiative Workshop on ‘Terrorism and Asylum’, held on Friday 8 December 2017 in London. (more…)
Armed Conflict, Terrorism and Asylum: Global Solutions for Global Problems?
Blog post written by Dr James C. Simeon (York University) and Dr Sarah Singer (RLI), who will be co-chairing the upcoming Refugee Law Initiative Workshop on ‘Terrorism and Asylum’, to be held Friday 8 December 2017 in London. (more…)
The right to freedom of movement for forced migrants in South Africa: a slow retreat?
Blog post written by Nicholas Maple (RLI) who is currently undertaking his PhD on reception policies in southern Africa. He is currently in the middle of an affiliation at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand.[i] (more…)
Refugee Protection in the United Kingdom Beyond Brexit: The Perils of Australian Exceptionalism
Blog post written by Linda Kirk, a Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University and a current Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Law Initiative. Linda will present the first seminar on the RLI’s 8th International Refugee Law Seminar Series: ‘Refugee Law in the New World Disorder’ on 25 October 2017, on the topic of this blog post For full Seminar Series details and to book tickets, please visit rli.sas.ac.uk/events. (more…)
‘Leaving the Cold War Behind’: Crime and Forced Migration in Latin America
Blog post written by Dr David James Cantor, Director of the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), School of Advanced Study, University of London, and senior adviser to the Americas Bureau, UNHCR. The views expressed in this article are his alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the RLI, UNHCR or any other institution. This blog post was originally written for Refugees Deeply where it was published on 4 October 2017. It is republished here with their permission. (more…)
From ‘tolerated’ asylum seeker to ‘accepted’ refugee: Reflections on refugee integration in Scotland
Blog post by Helen Baillot, a researcher and consultant for the Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD) at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. IGHD is a multi-disciplinary centre for research and postgraduate education that addresses contemporary health and development challenges in low and middle-income countries and their connection to global systems and trends. (more…)
Statelessness and the global compact for migration
Blog post written by Tendayi Bloom, a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at The Open University in the UK. Her work explores questions of noncitizenship, migration, statelessness and justice. Her work on statelessness can be found in a recent Discover Society blog series, and in a book, Understanding Statelessness, which she co-edited with Katherine Tonkiss and Phillip Cole. A more detailed treatment of Dr Bloom’s own position on the nature of the noncitizen-State relationship is developed in her forthcoming book, Noncitizenism: Recognising Noncitizen Capabilities in a World of Citizens. (more…)
How should the East Asian countries respond to a potential exodus of North Koreans in case of a Korean peninsula crisis?
Blog post by Naoko Hashimoto, a Research Affiliate of the RLI. Naoko has a number of years’ practical experience in refugees and forced migration issues, as a staff of UNHCR, IOM, and the Government of Japan. She is currently undertaking a PhD research focusing on refugee resettlement at the School of Law, Politics and Sociology of the University of Sussex, as an International Fellow of Nippon Foundation. She holds Master of Studies in Forced Migration from the University of Oxford, and LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of London. (more…)