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Rethinking Refuge from Gender-Based Violence: Persecution for Which Convention Reason?
Rarely consulted, specialist legal regimes developed to respond to violence against women offer an important legal framework for cases of gender-based violence constituting grounds for refugee status.
‘Who could thrive where?’ Imagining resettlement as a cooperative mobility strategy
Mobility is crucial for refugees to leave conflict zones and reach safety. Nonetheless, there are not many regular options for refugees to cross borders and enter third countries. But resettlement is one of them.
Rethinking Energy Economies for Refugees
Energy for refugees is often viewed as a niche sector but in many refugee settings energy plays a huge part in everyday life and work.
Should States Counteract Anti-Refugee Sentiments?
Current widespread anti-immigrant and anti-refugee sentiments are morally troubling from the perspective of liberal democratic political theory. Should liberal democratic governments counteract such views?
Rethinking the Controversies of Deportation
Deportation poses crucial ethical and political challenges to the liberal state. Yet largely overlooked is how deportation is related to discrimination and histories of injustice. How can historical contestations help us rethink deportation today?
Who Counts in Crises?
Defining and measuring populations is a core concern for governments, policy-makers, and many others—particularly regarding migration and mobility. Yet the ‘immigrant’ and ‘refugee’ that many people imagine often does not match up with the reality of data.
Rethinking the Duties of Refugees
Few would contest that refugees have rights or that those rights are often very much under threat in the contemporary world. But do refugees have duties, too, and, if so, what are they?
Smuggling Prohibitions vs. Duties of Humanity
The criminalisation of human smuggling has become central to contemporary measures to combat ‘irregular migration’. In this context there is an urgent need for policymakers to rethink the current definition of smuggling as well as its implications.
Are Reparations Owed to People Displaced by Climate Change?
While political theorists and philosophers alike have begun to consider the claims of climate refugees, they have largely ignored the question of collective rights stemming from the loss of an entire state. What might be owed as reparation?
Refugee Feedback: Sounding out everyday experiences of displacement
Creativity abounds in the various refugee communities living in the Greek capital – and these creativities feed back into host societies, remaking the city through the production of common spaces.
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.