Regional Focus: United Kingdom

Events:

Seminar series: "Refugees in the United Kingdom," Oxford [info]
- The following three seminars will be held on: 1) 16 Jan. 2019: "Transnationalism, return visits, home and belonging: second generation from refugee backgrounds"; 2) 23 Jan. 2019: "Refugees and the UK labour market"; 3) 30 Jan. 2019: "Building inclusive cities: emerging learning from a knowledge exchange with UK cities."

Publications:

"After Arrival, the Problems Facing Refugees and Their Families: A Clinical Legal Response," International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, vol. 25, no. 2 (2018) [open access]

Are Refugees Obliged to Claim Asylum in the First Safe Country They Reach? (Free Movement Blog, Jan. 2019) [text]

"Channel Migrant Crossings: Who is Coming and Why?," The Guardian, 28 Dec. 2018 [text]

*"Editorial: Immigration Derails the Brexit Train," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 19 Jan. 2019 [text]

"The Emotional Impacts of Working as an Asylum Lawyer," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 16 Jan. 2019 [free full-text]
- Note: A postprint version has been deposited in the author's institutional repository, although the full-text is not yet available for public download; however, a copy may be requested from the author.

A “Manufactured” Brexit Migrant Crisis Masks New Risks Ahead (IRIN, Jan. 2019) [text]

Manufacturing Discontent: Q and A on the Legal Issues of Asylum-seekers Crossing the Channel (EU Law Analysis Blog, Jan. 2019) [text]

Migration to the UK: Asylum and Refugees (Migration Observatory, updated Jan. 2019) [text]

"Refugees as/at Risk : The Gendered and Racialised Underpinnings of Securitisation in British Media Narratives," Security Dialogue (In Press, 2019) [postprint]

What Britons Get Wrong about Immigration – and Why Politicians Need to Tell Them the Truth (The Conversation, Jan. 2019) [text]
- References research on misperceptions around immigration.

Why the UK Should Stay within the EU's Asylum System after Brexit (The Conversation, Jan. 2019) [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (19 Dec. 2018)
- Regional Focus: United Kingdom (11 May 2018)

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