By Jessi Kume
In April 2022 the UK and Rwanda signed an agreement for the UK to deport people seeking asylum in Britain to Rwanda. The agreement is known as “The Migration and Economic Development Partnership” or simply the Rwanda Plan.
Illustration by Juanchila (CC 2024 Juanchila, Juan Manuel Moreno) commissioned for the ERC-CNRS GRABS project, CRESPPA-GTM, Université Paris 8. This illustration is also published and hosted at https://juanchila.com and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
On November 7–8, the third joint workshop was held at UVSQ, focusing on ethics in research with forced migrants. The event featured the participation of Professor Nando Sigona and Professor Ilse Van Liempt.
(Hola!)I am a doctoral researcher within the Growing Up Across Borders (GRABS) project at the Centre for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA), Université Paris 8. I am currently exploring how centering young irregular migrants and asylum seekers’ experiences can help to understand how migration policies in host countries, and their implementation, tend to perpetuate colonial forms of…
(Hello!) I am Jessi Kume, and I will be writing my PhD thesis in Sociology within GRABS. My research focuses on the impact that borders and border policies have on forced migration. My previous research involved an ethnographic study of the illegal and violent pushbacks along the Croatia-Bosnia-Herzegovina border, part of the Western Balkan migration…
The GRABS team, collaborated with GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG (CGM) team for a series of brainstorming workshop sessions from October to December addressing various topics. The introductory workshop session was held at Campus Condorcet, Université Paris 8. It provided an opportunity for both teams to introduce their research, share experiences, and discuss the integration of intersectional and feminist approaches to…
Glenda Santana de Andrade is a PhD in Sociology, attached to the Cresppa (Center for sociological and political research in Paris), Fellow at the Institut Convergences MIGRATIONS. Currently a postdoctoral researcher within the GRABS’ project and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, she is also a member of the scientific network « Genre & Politiques Migratoires…
Jane Freedman is leader of the GRABS project. She is a Professor at the Université Paris 8 and member of the Paris Centre for Social and Political Research (CRESPPA). Her research has focused for many years on issues of migration and borders, with an intersectional and postcolonial approach. She is particularly interested in the ways…
