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Dis/connected: Using refugee relationships and networks to rethink refugee agency
Refugee camp residents weave unique social networks across varied institutional spaces just as non-mobile individuals do; mapping these networks can provide insight into dynamic and intersecting cultures and systems.
Should Refugees Govern Refugee Camps?
Which ethical prescriptions should we follow when considering a world that is non-ideal, and thus a world in which refugees do not reach liberal democracies but are confined to life in refugee camps for the foreseeable future?
Activism and the Agency: The Palestinian refugees’ UNRWA campaigns
Palestinian refugees have continually demonstrated their agency by resisting the confines of their situation – with surprising degrees of success. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) provides an instructive case study.
Refugee-led Organisations: Collective action for collective assistance
When most people think of collective action, they likely think of citizens mobilising for various ends or states and other transnational actors addressing problems. But what do we see when we examine refugees as agents of collective action themselves?
Rethinking the Politics of Food and Hospitality
It was not the first time that Syrian refugees offered me tea and sweets, but the place they did so this time surprised me. We were seated on camp beds in an abandoned military barrack turned into a make-shift shelter, surrounded by barbed wire.
Rethinking Voluntary Returns from North Africa
Sub-Saharan migrants trying to reach Europe have been subject to mistreatment in North Africa. This situation has led many migrants to return home, sometimes assisted by international humanitarian return programmes - but how humanitarian are they?
Rethinking Refugee Registration
Refugee registration is often perceived as a mundane and straightforward exercise but my research in Kenya shows this is not always the case. Instead, registration has important implications for state power.
Rethinking the ‘European Refugee Crisis’
The trigger for the so-called European refugee crisis is not the arrival of an – albeit unprecedented – inflow of refugees into the EU. The causes in fact lie much deeper.
Rethinking Refugee Choices in the Dublin System
Refugee responsibility sharing has been an ongoing topic in debates on asylum in the EU, but consideration of the role that refugees as actors ought to play in it is neglected.
Rethinking the Common European Asylum System: Protection or containment?
The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) was set up to create a fair and efficient common asylum policy across the EU. However, my research suggests instead that the CEAS is premised upon containment policies.
Rethinking Refugee Women's Power and Vulnerability
Public and humanitarian discourses on refugees in the Global South often present women as highly vulnerable. The logic of vulnerability behind such aid, however, prompts questions; its focus risks portraying women as passive - although they are not.