4th JOINT WORKSHOP – GRABS & GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG
Maureen Freed, a UPCA and UKCP-accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with a particular focus on trauma, delivered an insightful session on Vicarious Trauma.
Balls of yarn
What are the trajectories of those who migrate? What are they like? I was recently asked to contribute my reflections for an arts-based and creative workshop on migrants’ trajectories focusing on the themes of work, family, and housing. I wrote about this influenced by my position and experiences as a male Latino-white, South American with…
Exclusionary policies, vulnerable conditions and the space for violence in France
Only 48% of asylum seekers received accommodation within the French asylum reception system, according to a 2020 report. For many, living on the streets becomes the only option. Without access to housing or resources, they are exposed to extreme precarity, making them vulnerable to various forms of abuse.
“Whatever it takes” but it’s a human rights violation: Chronicles of the UK’s Rwanda Plan
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.
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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.
3rd JOINT WORKSHOP – GRABS & GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG
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.
Isabel Morrell
Hi – I am Isabel (Izzy), and I am a post-doctoral researcher on the GRABS project. My research focus in the GRABS project will be the UK and Greece context. My Politics PhD explored the ways that ‘people (with experience of) seeking sanctuary’ engage with the British ‘borderscape’ and was funded by the School of…
Juan Manuel Moreno
(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…
Jessi Kume
(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…