by Mette Louise Berg | 30 Nov 2021
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...
by Mette Louise Berg | 2 Jul 2021
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...
by Mette Louise Berg | 9 Sep 2020
Who do we consider deserving of welfare services and who not? How do we define who should be included, and who should not be included, in our understandings and practices of solidarity? How do we define the ‘us’ and ‘them’ implicit in these questions? The Solidarities...
by Mette Louise Berg | 31 Jul 2019
Mette Louise Berg and Magdalena Nowicka (eds) (2019), Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture: Convivial Tools for Research and Practice. London: UCL Press. Anti-migrant populism is on the rise across Europe, and diversity and multiculturalism are...
