The other day, just before the Christmas and New Year holidays, I met a former social worker. As I am a boring person and never stop being a sociologist, I homed in on a comment she made about the difficulties in reconciling being the person she would like to be and...
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...
In our research for Migrants and Solidarities on ‘Dispersal and deservingness in Northern England’, Mette Louise Berg and I have been working collaboratively with a team of co-researchers who have lived experience of the asylum system. Early on in our group...
Siden COVID-19 rullede ind over Danmark i marts 2020, har der været en række lokale opblomstringer af smitten. I sommeren 2020 var det blandt dansk-somaliere i Aarhus, og i september viste tal fra Statens Serum Institut, at hele 46% af de smittede i en række...
As I write these lines, the West’s evacuation in Afghanistan has ended while tens of thousands of Afghans are fleeing the country, and the central discussion within the European Union is how to avoid them reaching the shores of Europe. For Europe and Sweden, these...
When I first started telling colleagues and friends about Migrants and Solidarities: Negotiating deservingness in welfare micropublics (Solidarities), I was often greeted with the response: “Great project, but what on earth do you mean by welfare micropublics?” The...
