3005, 2019

Guest Blog: Wider Contexts Behind Filming SOAS Sanctuary Scholarships: Carolyn and Michelle’s Story

By Louisa Brain|May 30, 2019|Uncategorized|0 comments

Guest blog by Anna Sowa. Anna is a documentary film producer and PhD by practice candidate at the London Film School/ University of Exeter. She launched Chouette Films as a green film production company on a mission to produce films for social change with the smallest possible environmental footprint. Based at SOAS, University of London, Chouette Films fuses the worlds of academia and creativity. By harnessing the powerful and expressive language

2305, 2019

Guest Blog: Intimate Traces: Three Palestinian Embroidered Dresses

By Louisa Brain|May 23, 2019|Uncategorized|0 comments

Guest blog by Rachel Dedman. Rachel Dedman is an independent curator and writer based between Beirut and London. Current and recent work include projects for Ashkal Alwan (for Home Works 8) and Sursock Museum, Beirut Art Fair, and Nadim Karam, all Lebanon; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; the Tricycle Theatre, London; and the Jerusalem Show IX. For five years, Rachel was curator at the Palestinian Museum, Ramallah, where she developed three exhibitions and

1504, 2019

Guest Blog: London, Glasgow, Beirut: Three Political Realities, Three Diverging Migration Conversations

By Jenny Allsopp|April 15, 2019|Uncategorized|1 comments

Guest blog by Miriam Nabarro. Miriam Nabarro is a London based visual artist and scenographer, whose practice is predominately socially and politically engaged. She is Artist in Residence in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS and visiting lecturer in Creativity, Development and Conflict. She is a creative associate with 20 Stories High Theatre Company in Liverpool, a team member for Art Refuge UK, facilitating creative psychosocial programmes alongside Médecins du

2603, 2019

Guest Blog: Stories Behind the Statistics in Glasgow: The Role of MILK

By Louisa Brain|March 26, 2019|Uncategorized|2 comments

Guest blog by Gabby Cluness from MILK. MILK is a social enterprise set up to empower and support refugee and migrant women living in Glasgow. MILK runs a small cafe in the Southside of the city providing a safe and welcoming environment. Visit MILK at 452 Victoria Road, Glasgow, G42 8YU. Government and media discussions focusing on refugees and migrants usually revolve around costs and quotas: what will these refugees

0603, 2019

Guest Blog: The Private Sector and Refugee Protection: Beyond the Photo Ops, It’s Time for Checks and Balances

By Jenny Allsopp|March 6, 2019|Uncategorized|5 comments

Guest blog by Suzy Nelson-Pollard. Suzy Nelson-Pollard is a researcher working with the Norwegian Refugee Council based in Panama. She is currently leading a research project on the humanitarian needs of displaced people in the North of Central America, providing bi-monthly situation and response reports to the Regional Protection Group. She has an MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration from the Refugee Law Initiative at the University of London, and

0102, 2019

Guest Blog: Lessons for Brexit Britain: A Short History of Irish Migration Controversies

By Jenny Allsopp|February 1, 2019|Uncategorized|1 comments

Guest blog by Professor Louise Ryan. Professor Louise Ryan is Co-Director of the Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has published extensively on migration across Europe including on highly skilled migrants. Louise is also interested in social network analysis and visualisation methods. Her books include Gendering Migration (2008) with Wendy Webster and Migrant Capital (2015) with Umut Erel and Alessio D’Angelo. ‘Immigration menace’ ‘These immigrants account for

0301, 2019

Guest Blog: Migrants’ Timeless Tales: A Visit to Bremerhaven’s German Emigration Centre

By Jenny Allsopp|January 3, 2019|Uncategorized|0 comments

Guest blog by Dr Hamza Safouane. Dr Hamza Safouane obtained a PhD in Planning, Governance and Globalization from Virginia Tech in 2018. His dissertation was on forced migrants’ journey narratives and was based on semi-structured interviews with refugees and asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan as well as field observations in several reception centers in Hamburg, Germany. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Helmut Schmidt University

0301, 2019

Guest Blog: Becoming Better ‘Border Crossers’? Collaborations and Transformations across the Arts and Social Sciences

By Jenny Allsopp|January 3, 2019|Uncategorized|0 comments

Guest blog by Saša Rajšić. Saša Rajšić is an independent artist and researcher from Karlovac, Croatia. Like thousands of fellow Serbs from Croatia, he fled his country during the war in Yugoslavia and lived as a refugee in Serbia before immigrating to Canada in 2005. Rajšić studied at OCAD University in Toronto and the University of the Arts Helsinki. Recently, he presented his work at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre in

1312, 2018

Guest Blog: Towards Multi-centred Research on Migration: Reflections from Delhi, India

By Louisa Brain|December 13, 2018|Uncategorized|0 comments

Guest blog by Dr Jessica Field. Jessica is an Assistant Professor in the Jindal School of International Affairs at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. Her research focuses on international humanitarian history and forced migration in South Asia. Earlier this year, I joined colleagues from across South Asia and Europe to discuss global migration as part of the LIDC-MLT’s Global Migration Conversations initiative. Attendees were invited to reflect on a few

3011, 2018

Guest Blog: Introducing Kenya’s Migrant and Refugee Artists: Examples of Hope and Creativity

By Louisa Brain|November 30, 2018|Uncategorized|0 comments

Guest blog and artwork by Victor Ndula. Victor is a local and international award winning editorial cartoonist, illustrator and comic artist who lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also a visual artist mentor under UNHCR’s Artists for Refugees programme. Migration if often seen as an unfortunate phenomenon, however, I am a beneficiary of a less tragic form of migration. For me, migration is synonymous with creativity and