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...
Destitution [ des-ti-too-shuhn] Noun: lack of the means of subsistence; utter poverty; deprivation, lack, or absence. Destitution is a word I have been hearing over and over in our fieldwork about migrant families with ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF), a...
Den demografiske udvikling bevirker, at den danske befolkning bliver ældre og ældre. I nær fremtid vil flere få brug for hjælp og pleje, mens der samtidigt vil blive færre ansatte i ældresektoren til at udføre plejen og generelt færre i den samlede arbejdsstyrke til...
‘Integration – I think I’m very good with it, I think,’ Ana, one of the participants of my ethnographic research into migrant language education (Zschomler 2020), exclaimed enthusiastically. We were just about to finish a more in-depth interview during which she...
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...
