The Consequence of Misinformation for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Opinion Piece I have the privilege of being a volunteer caseworker for a charity called REFEO (Refugee Education for Equal Employment...
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Kelly Gillespie
- Feb 21
- 5 min
The Burmese Refugee Emergency: A Gendered Perspective
In contrast with developmental initiatives, armed conflict across the world has exponentially increased, expelling 68.5 million people...
Navya Khanna
- Jan 15
- 3 min
How Graphic Novels and Comic Books can Humanise Refugee Experiences
There is a trend of indirect representation of refugees and migrants in the media. More often than not, the media chooses to represent...
Pauline
- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Unfolding Humanitarian Emergency in Belarus and at the Channel- Opinion Piece
Thousands of forced migrants and refugees were hoping to cross the Belarusian-Poland border into the European Union (EU) and are...
Tom Hunt
- Nov 22, 2021
- 5 min
Police Brutality Against Refugees and Forced Migrants in Greece Has Become an Everyday Affair: What
As some refugees settle and find employment in Greece, they can find it very challenging to adapt to its culture, language and social...
Isabel Molinos
- Nov 15, 2021
- 5 min
Education: a fundamental right unavailable to many A celebration or a call for action?
Education has been considered a fundamental human right since Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came into force in...
Juliette Howard
- Nov 8, 2021
- 12 min
The underestimated importance of leisure to improve forced migrants’ wellbeing
In the past months, the Covid-19 pandemic and its enforced lockdowns have highlighted the importance of recreational activities in...
Tom Hunt
- Oct 31, 2021
- 4 min
For Greece’s Refugee Population, the Route to Secure Employment is Far from Easy
As refugees and forced migrants struggle to find asylum in Greece mainland and its islands, it continues to experience an unprecedented...
Juliette Howard
- Oct 18, 2021
- 9 min
Beyond ‘Saving Lives’: The Hidden Agenda of Migrant Information Campaigns
‘Saving lives’: the official but ineffective humanitarian rationale for information campaigns. For the last 30 years, Western countries...
Lauren Warden
- Sep 26, 2021
- 4 min
Immoral borders:Looking beyond borders and the nation for global justice
Global justice cannot be detached from migration and bordering. To achieve justice for all, a truly critical theory of migration needs to...
Tom Hunt
- Sep 1, 2021
- 4 min
The Greek Mainland: A Refugee Crisis Unfolding Before Our Eyes
Tom has recently arrived back from two months volunteering with refugees at a food distribution NGO in Thessaloniki. He tells us about...
Navya Khanna
- Jul 19, 2021
- 4 min
Deconstructing EU's Virtual walls and its Harsh Reality
The situation of refugees in Europe has garnered global attention. Increasingly strict pushback measures have seen many successful...
Navya Khanna
- Jun 8, 2021
- 5 min
Does India Need a National Refugee Framework?
"If Myanmar gives us citizenship and recognizes our Rohingya identity we will return." -A young Rohingya refugee ( Human Rights Watch)...
Aaliyah Burns
- Apr 18, 2021
- 5 min
Book Review: Maya Goodfellow ‘Hostile Environment: How Immigrants become scapegoats’
By Aaliyah Burns The Government repeatedly says that the UK has a proud history of supporting refugees & asylum seekers. However, this...
Ethan Burn
- Mar 14, 2021
- 4 min
Lesvos: a Mental Health Crisis
Resignation syndrome occurs amongst refugee children because the psychological trauma they have experienced is often so severe that their pr
Maozya Murray
- Mar 7, 2021
- 4 min
Stories for Justice: Redefining the Migrant ‘Crisis’
Giving a platform to refugee tales can be an effective way to engage people’s natural and customary care for each other.
Corin Ranson
- Feb 21, 2021
- 4 min
Debunking the 'pull factor': How many deaths will it take for a humanitarian migration policy?
Recent research has contradicted the ‘pull factor’ hypothesis, showing that there were significantly more migrant crossings and deaths...
Lizzie Bonsor
- Feb 7, 2021
- 4 min
Significance of the ‘Border’ in Refugee Belonging: A Case Study of Kuldip Nayar’s Partition Crossing
The question of belonging emerged as a central issue in the days following Partition and equally affected those who migrated...
Corin Ranson
- Jan 31, 2021
- 4 min
North Korea’s defector-activists: imagining a unified Korea
Sun Mu, the artist whose name translates to ‘No Borders’ Sun Mu defected from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea,...
Ollie Fox
- Jan 24, 2021
- 5 min
Asylum seekers ‘living in limbo’; the hostile reality of the waiting game for UK refuge
This week, we have seen four men commit suicide at the Napier army barracks in Folkestone, Kent. The barracks are currently being used as...