Article Rethinking the ‘European Refugee Crisis’ The trigger for the so-called European refugee crisis is not the arrival of an – albeit unprecedented – inflow of refugees into the EU. The causes in fact lie much deeper.
Article Rethinking Refugee Registration Refugee registration is often perceived as a mundane and straightforward exercise but my research in Kenya shows this is not always the case. Instead, registration has important implications for state power.
Article Rethinking the Common European Asylum System: Protection or containment? The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) was set up to create a fair and efficient common asylum policy across the EU. However, my research suggests instead that the CEAS is premised upon containment policies
Article Rethinking Refugee Choices in the Dublin System Refugee responsibility sharing has been an ongoing topic in debates on asylum in the EU, but consideration of the role that refugees as actors ought to play in it is neglected.
Article Refugee-led Organisations: Collective action for collective assistance When most people think of collective action, they likely think of citizens mobilising for various ends or states and other transnational actors addressing problems. But what do we see when we examine refugees as agents of collective action themselves?
Article Should States Counteract Anti-Refugee Sentiments? rrent widespread anti-immigrant and anti-refugee sentiments are morally troubling from the perspective of liberal democratic political theory. Should liberal democratic governments counteract such views?
Article Who Counts in Crises? Defining and measuring populations is a core concern for governments, policy-makers, and many others—particularly regarding migration and mobility. Yet the ‘immigrant’ and ‘refugee’ that many people imagine often does not match up with the reality of data.
Article Rethinking the Controversies of Deportation Deportation poses crucial ethical and political challenges to the liberal state. Yet largely overlooked is how deportation is related to discrimination and histories of injustice. How can historical contestations help us rethink deportation today?
Article Rethinking Refugee Women’s Power and Vulnerability Public and humanitarian discourses on refugees in the Global South often present women as highly vulnerable. The logic of vulnerability behind such aid, however, prompts questions; its focus risks portraying women as passive - although they are not.
Article Rethinking the Politics of Food and Hospitality It was not the first time that Syrian refugees offered me tea and sweets, but the place they did so this time surprised me. We were seated on camp beds in an abandoned military barrack turned into a make-shift shelter, surrounded by barbed wire.
Article Should Refugees Govern Refugee Camps? Which ethical prescriptions should we follow when considering a world that is non-ideal, and thus a world in which refugees do not reach liberal democracies but are confined to life in refugee camps for the foreseeable future?
Article Activism and the Agency: The Palestinian refugees’ UNRWA campaigns Palestinian refugees have continually demonstrated their agency by resisting the confines of their situation – with surprising degrees of success. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) provides an instructive case study.
Article Dis/connected: Using refugee relationships and networks to rethink refugee agency Refugee camp residents weave unique social networks across varied institutional spaces just as non-mobile individuals do; mapping these networks can provide insight into dynamic and intersecting cultures and systems.
Article Refugee Feedback: Sounding out everyday experiences of displacement Creativity abounds in the various refugee communities living in the Greek capital – and these creativities feed back into host societies, remaking the city through the production of common spaces.
Article Rethinking the Duties of Refugees Few would contest that refugees have rights or that those rights are often very much under threat in the contemporary world. But do refugees have duties, too, and, if so, what are they?
Article Rethinking Voluntary Returns from North Africa Sub-Saharan migrants trying to reach Europe have been subject to mistreatment in North Africa. This situation has led many migrants to return home, sometimes assisted by international humanitarian return programmes - but how humanitarian are they?
Article Are Reparations Owed to People Displaced by Climate Change? While political theorists and philosophers alike have begun to consider the claims of climate refugees, they have largely ignored the question of collective rights stemming from the loss of an entire state. What might be owed as reparation?
Article Smuggling Prohibitions vs. Duties of Humanity The criminalisation of human smuggling has become central to contemporary measures to combat ‘irregular migration’. In this context there is an urgent need need for policymakers to rethink the current definition of smuggling as well as its implications.
