I am honoured and thankful to announce my ERC Starting Grant project Reintegrate on Reintegration Governance. Increasing numbers of people are returning to their origin countries after they migrate. This can be voluntary return or a forced removal through deportation. Upon return, how is their reintegration process governed? Do different forms of reintegration governance matter for returnees experiences and outcomes? The Reintegrate project will develop the sub-field of reintegration governance … [Read more...]
New Article: Before disembarkation: Eritrean and Nigerian migrants journeys within Africa
The final article from my Rubicon research project has just been published open access in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration studies. This was the first article I wrote from the study results, but the last to be published! Here is the abstract: This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian and Eritrean migrants on their journeys from their origin country to prior to disembarkation across the Mediterranean Sea in Libya. This paper builds on the work of Vigh (2006) in the social … [Read more...]
New Article: Evaluations of Return Within A Mass Deportation: Ethiopians’ Experiences of Return After Expulsion From Saudi Arabia
Together with Zoe Ogahara and Iman Rajabzadeh, this article has been published in International Migration and will hopefully be part of a special issue on Reintegration that I have been co-editing with Ine Lietaert. The article is open access and available here. Many thanks to the ILO Ethiopia for sharing with us this great dataset and to Aida Awel and Kidist Getachew for valuable comments on the paper. The situation is quickly changing in Ethiopia, but deportations and return are likely to … [Read more...]
Video: Crimes Against Humanity in Libya
For our article published in January in Antipode, Anna Triandafyllidou and I had this video put together that explains the main points of our research. Script: The violence and abuse that migrants face in Libya is widely known. Yet, how do we understand this situation within migration concepts? Are migrants’ victims of human smuggling, of human trafficking, or neither in Libya? In this paper, we look specifically at the experiences of Eritrean migrants coming to Italy via Libya. This … [Read more...]
New Project: WUN Gendering Migration: Women and Girls Experiences of Gender-based discrimination, abuse and violence across migratory stages
I am excited to have received a World Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Fund (RDF) funding for the project: Women and Girls Experiences of Gender-based discrimination, abuse and violence across migratory stages. This project brings together an excellent team of international researchers from: University of Bristol; University of Cape Town; University of Massachusetts Amherst; National Cheng Kung University; The University of Western Australia, Vrie University in Amsterdam, and the … [Read more...]
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