This week is Refugee Week – a celebration of ‘the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary’ around the world. These are difficult times for those seeking sanctuary across the Global North. In the UK specifically, asylum is a...
Report by Mette Louise Berg and Eve Dickson RESEARCH BY: Abby, Eve Dickson, Faith, Hedi, Mette Louise Berg, Misbah Almisbahi, Nel, and Sanaa El-Khatib Read report here.
2022. Mette Louise Berg, ‘Anthropological Perspectives on Superdiversity: Complexity, Difference, Sameness, and Mixing’, in Fran Meissner, Nando Sigona, and Steve Vertovec (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This...
Last month, my colleague Eve Dickson and a team of co-researchers, who have lived experience of the asylum system and with whom we have worked collaboratively, shared their reflections on what it is like to live on the meagre allowance that people in the asylum system...
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention; with the 1967 Protocol, the Convention continues to be the bedrock of the international refugee system. The core principle of the Convention is non-refoulement, meaning that a refugee should not be...
