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04/12/2024

The mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019 shattered the sense of safety and security much of the Muslim community had previously enjoyed in New Zealand. It brought to the forefront the stark reality of Islamophobia and deep-rooted prejudice. Hussain Raissi in this article amplifies young Muslim voices and brings to light that the catastrophic event also saw an emergence of solidarity and empathy from the wider community. Full story below👇

By Hussain Raissi. The primary objective of this article is to challenge the prevailing belief that being part of the Muslim community is fundamentally incompatible with being part of Western societies. This paper contests the widely accepted idea that these two identities cannot harmoniously coexis...

02/12/2024

Since 1948, South Lebanon has served as the frontline for border clashes between the Lebanese state and the Israeli settler colonial occupation of Palestine. Zeina Seaifan addresses current conversations around the internal migration of Lebanon by examining how environmental violence, particularly those related to Israeli aggression, undermines collective identities, active citizenship, and empowerment. Full story below👇

By Zeina Seaifan

30/11/2024

Decent work is a human right for all workers regardless of where they have come from. However, legal and regulatory frameworks in host countries usually hinder the integration of refugees and asylum seekers into the formal labour market, leading them to resort to seeking employment in the informal sector where their rights are not protected. Wafaa Morsi explores why there is an urgent need for a comprehensive approach to tackle informality and develop effective strategies for both workers of host communities and refugees to move out of informality. Full story below👇

By Wafaa Morsi

28/11/2024

Layan Amouri explores here the resilience of Syrian adolescents in Sweden. The article delves into their unique experiences with cultural integration and identity development amidst migration challenges. Discover how these young individuals balance their Syrian heritage with new Swedish norms, highlighting both obstacles and opportunities. Read here👇

By Layan Amouri

26/11/2024

The UAE is host to the highest ratio of foreign-born residents of any country. However, the lived experiences of these immigrant communities are commonly refracted through frameworks of transience, foreclosing any talk of belonging. Most literature further scrutinises and singles out Gulf migrant governance regimes as illiberal. Manal Nadeem interrogates these notions through the perspective of Dubai’s immigrant youth, examining how they leverage urban informality to claim their ‘right to the city’. Full story below👇

By Manal Nadeem

24/11/2024

Why an abducted woman was important enough to name a whole continent for millennia to come? Three women scientists and artists re-write the story of mythological Europe aiming to restore the connections of Europeans with their migratory past, present and future. Full story below👇

By Naouma Kourti, Caterina Cacciatori, Virginia Bernardi. The myth of Europe encapsulates meanings of migration that still have to be unfolded and studied. One of the most celebrated myths is the one of Europe, the beautiful princess of Tyre in Lebanon, who Zeus himself abducted from her city and br...

22/11/2024

'so many eyes stared at me, like I was the strangest thing they had ever seen' Lena Hartz reviews Nadia Umadat's children's book 'The Most Beautiful Thing I Have Ever Seen'. Umadat, social worker based in Toronto, Canada draws on her work-experiences with settling refugee children after having experienced conflict and trauma. The book is illustrated by Christine Wei. More here👇

By Lena Hartz. This is the story of the unnamed protagonist (a little girl), her ‘bossy’ sister and her mother. The book begins with the happy depiction of the place where the girl has grown up. But then the situation changes and the family witnesses the destruction of their hometown. Without us...

29/10/2024

How do youth and civil society-led democratic political regimes usher in political actions that shape migration discourse? Jimmy Hendry Nzally argues that the recent regime change in Senegal is a classic case of how the new breed of youth and civil society is championing democratic change in Africa and that the youth agenda should be reflected in actions of the governments. Full story below👇

By Jimmy Hendry Nzally. The continent of Africa of recent has been witnessing numerous mixed political upheavals. Such as the end of the longstanding dictatorship in 2016 in The Gambia through the ballots, the palace military coup in the case of Zimbabwe in 2017, ongoing protest democracy in Kenya,....

27/10/2024

Music connects people, but how exactly does this happen? Charles Mbatsogo interviews Meklit Hadero, Ethio-Jazz Singer-Songwriter, National Geographic Explorer, Host of Movement (Music and Migration, Remixed), award winning vocalist/composer and former refugee whose music has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, NPR and many more. Full story here👇

Interview with Meklit Hadero, Ethio-Jazz Singer-Songwriter, National Geographic Explorer, Host of Movement (Music and Migration, Remixed). By Charles Mbatsogo.

23/10/2024

The paradigm of 'refugee entrepreneur' has long been discussed. Pablo Pastor Vidal examines what self-reliance policies mean for refugees and migrants in the Middle East, using the case of Syrians in Jordan, and how they can bring a paradigm shift by relying on the figure of the 'refugee entrepreneur.' Full story here👇

By Pablo Pastor Vidal

21/10/2024

In the face of longstanding Western media bias and orientalist misconceptions, Palestinians are reclaiming their narrative through social media. Young activists are using platforms to share their daily lives under Israeli occupation, challenging mainstream narratives and fostering a sense of nationalism and community. Isabella De Sinno reports here👇

By Isabella De Sinno

19/10/2024

Social and political narratives see unaccompanied minors in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta not as innocent human beings in need of protection, but rather as threats to social order, cultural integrity and ethnic purity. Bernardo López Marín and Gianmaria Lenti illuminates the ways in which childhood is denied to those young migrants, reflecting broader societal anxieties, political agendas and the existence of a multilayered regime of racialisation, repression, humanitarianism, compassion. Full story here👇

By Bernardo López Marín and Gianmaria Lenti

25/09/2024

During her intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Afroditi Koulaxi travelled to the north-eastern Thessaly region in Greece to record the experiences of citizens internally displaced due to Storm Daniel, a severe weather phenomenon that hit this area in September 2023. Her blog post reflects on the aftermath of Greece’s Storm Daniel and the “climate crisis” narrative that has shifted focus almost exclusively to the role of the environment while masking pre-existing inequalities and systemic failures that have left the region vulnerable. The story of Thessaly’s struggle is a microcosm of a larger narrative, one that demands the shift of the narrative – from climate crisis to climate justice. Full story here👇

By Afroditi Koulaxi

23/09/2024

Globalisation has led to both increased migration and increased xenophobia; from the U.S. to South Africa, countries all over the world are finding ways to exclude and exploit migrants. Akansha Chand argues that responses to xenophobia must address the structural inequalities that leave many migrant communities on the outskirts of society. Read here👇

By Akansha Chand

21/09/2024

Drawing on her family’s experience of migrating from Mexico to the United States, Alexandra Lopez proposes a new concept of “Sanctuary Communities” to help better understand host communities that receive migrants, the policies and practices of integration, and a glimpse into the relationships between different types of migrants. Read her story here👇

By Alejandra Lopez

19/09/2024

A checkpoint is a dispositif of border control crucial to the new mobility regimes. Alethia Fernández de la Reguera argues that the southern border of Mexico checkpoints allow not only for the extension and personalisation of border control, but the materialisation of various forms of violence by state and criminal actors. Full story below👇

By Alethia Fernández de la Reguera

17/09/2024

Focusing on the riverine islands of Assam, in northeast India, Anindita Chakrabarty explores the entanglement between permanence, climate change and belonging. She shows that citizenship legalities in Assam do not account for the precarity of sustenance triggered by flood and climate induced displacement.

By Anindita Chakrabarty

15/09/2024

Chiaki Tsuchida explores the response of local communities in Japan to the influx of Kurdish asylum seekers. This article concludes that the local community strengthens its resilience by a self-help effort from the multi-level approaches; the local government, Japanese-based volunteer groups and Kurdish association. Full story below👇

By Chiaki Tsuchida

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