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31/07/2024

On the occasion of Migrant Workers' Action report on the journey of Sierra Leonean migrant domestic workers to Lebanon. The research report is the second part of MWA’s In-Focus research series aiming to provide an in-depth understanding of the contexts in sending countries leading MDWs to travel to Lebanon as well as their experiences under the Kafala system in Lebanon. Find the report in the link below👇

Action for Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon.

30/07/2024

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26/07/2024

What questions should we ask when establishing shelters in response to forced displacement? Madeleine Lebovic worked with the German Red Cross to establish two shelters in Essen, Germany, and highlights the need for beneficiary protection and dignity in her article linked below.

By Madeleine Lebovic

24/07/2024

Rosario Rizzo Lara in her article below shows the different resilience strategies, individual and collective, that migrants with precarious status and asylum seekers deploy to face and resist the implementation of restrictive immigration policies by Mexico and the US.

By Rosario Rizzo Lara

22/07/2024

‘Alternatives to Detention’ program is meant allegedly to reduce the number of people held in detention centres and be a 'more humane' path for immigrants. Under real life terms though, these alternatives merely propel electronic incarceration, violations of human dignity, stigmatisation, emotional and physical harm, and furthering risks of actual deportation. Isabella Irtifa explains here: https://shorturl.at/RS1CD

19/07/2024

For some, a pilgrimage to the holiest sites of Islam in Saudi Arabia may signify the fulfillment of one of the five pillars of Islam as they chant La’back Allah Huma La’back (O, Allah, I’m here!). For others, it could be the pursuit of the honorific title “Haji Sahib”. For the poor Pakistani deported labourers, however, Umra is a creative strategy to circumvent the restrictive Saudi border regimes and earn sustenance (rizaq) for their families. Full story here👇

By Ismail Khan

17/07/2024

What does it mean to eat on our own? As migrants, oftentimes we face the imperative to greedily enjoy our traditional dishes on our own, even when they are meant to be shared with family or friends. In the flash fiction piece “Beef Rib Soup with Rice,” Laura Isabel (Laurisa) Sastoque Pabón engages in this ritual of exile through Marta's eyes, and in the process, transgresses the boundary between body and food.
Full story here: https://shorturl.at/pIYQW

15/07/2024

How do Chinese entrepreneurs perceive, articulate, and navigate their racial identities in relation to Ghanaians? Moreover, how do these racial subtleties influence their aspirations and day-to-day experiences, particularly in the context of 'bosshood'? Although seemingly depicting the economic and social superiority of Chinese business people in Africa, underneath lies a complex reality underpinned by intricate dynamics of racial interactions. Full story here: https://shorturl.at/3WpN6


Photo-cover: Waldemar on Unsplash

11/07/2024

In recent years, the term ‘climate migration’ has increasingly gained importance in international discussions surrounding the climate crisis. Vani Sharma and Anaelle Deneuve show the crucial role that the media plays in framing discourses around migration, particularly climate migration, as a national security issue. Full story here👇

By Vani Sharma and Anaelle Deneuve

09/07/2024

Coloniality is still traceable across spaces of persecution and protection for Rohingya refugees. Yasmynn Chowdhury explores here, how lingering colonial debris gives rise to cyclical reproductions of (non)belonging and denials of epistemic agency which follow Rohingya across borders. Through these painful experiential refrains, systems of refugee protection and their apparati of knowledge production may inadvertently permit the persistence of a preventable continuum of suffering. Full story here👇

By Yasmynn Chowdhury

07/07/2024

How do (post)colonial lineages connect with migratory trajectories framing experiences of medical practice? Simon Fern provides a brief overview of themes emerging from research involving interviews with 121 immigrants in Spain. Thinking about the different healthcare experiences immigrants experience necessitates reflecting on how (post)colonial connections underscore medical practice and migratory trajectories. Full story here👇

By Simon Fern

24/06/2024

Despite the general transformation and growth of Information and Communication Technology, uptake among refugees, and especially young urban refugee women is lower. To what extent can digital literacy training equip young urban refugee women to a status of self-reliance? Shem Siteki explains here: https://shorturl.at/pmqUt

22/06/2024

Contrary to the double victimization of the Chinese American community during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the deterioration of racial injustice, the scenario of the Chinese immigrants' experience with the pandemic in Iowa, one of the whitest states in America, stood out. Shu Wan elaborates on how they aligned with the local community members of different racial and cultural backgrounds in the fight against the pandemic. Full story here: https://shorturl.at/7vEMJ

20/06/2024

Where feels like home? Sharmeen Azeem reflects on how 'belonging' is fostered among among Afghan refugees living in Edinburgh. She sheds light on how refugees make themself 'at home,' but also the challenges they encounter during the integration process.

By Sharmeen Azeem

17/06/2024

🥁🥁🥁Our much awaited issue with the Oxford Migration Studies Society is out! We are thrilled to share with you our freshly published pieces, straight from the Oxford Migration Conference 2024 on Transformation and Resilience. Browse them all👇

We invite you to join the debate at the Oxford Migration Conference 2024: Transformation and Resilience, via a special issue by the Oxford Migration Studies Society and Routed Magazine.

10/06/2024

📣Attention! Open CfS!
Routed Magazine is welcoming your contributions again! This time, for our new Issue in partnership with the Migration Youth and Children's Platform, the migration constituency of the UN Major Group on Children and Youth. All info in the link👇
📍Topic: Migration in the MENA Region: (Youth) Perspectives,
Policy and Impact
📍Deadline for proposals: 28 June 2024
📍Publication scheduled: August 2024

For more information see here👇

21/05/2024

📣Attention!
📣CfP of interest below.
📣Deadline 27 May.

The recent increase of hate-discourses and anti-migrant/refugee protests foreground the contested nature of individual and collective identities. Furthermore, they exemplify certain narratives regarding migrants’/refugees’ presence in Ireland, and they indicate certain modes of how they are repr...

11/05/2024

Don't miss the Creative Histories of Migration Workshop, organized by the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies, at the Mary Immaculate College, Ireland. Grammy-award winning historian and folklorist, Professor William R. Ferris (University of North Carolina), and leading academics in the field, Professor Martin Evans (University of Sussex) and Professor Ulrike Hanna Meinhof (University of Southampton) will share their insights, along with a very interesting artists' roundtable.
The workshop will lay the foundations for developing further research on the interactions between artists and scholars in the narration of stories of migration, both past and present, in different languages, literatures and art forms.
The launch of the new Bring Your Own Hammer album, My Grief on the Sea, will mark the close of the workshop in Steamboat Music. Info here👇
http://www.ictstudies.eu/icts-webinar-series-spring-2022-creative-histories-of-migration-may-17th-2024-mic-g-08-foundation-building-11am-4pm-ist/

15/04/2024

Proud to re-share our author's and illustrator's for our 5-years, Maite Simard's piece and testimony on the invaluable role that RoutedMagazine plays in times when increasing precarity is accompanied by increasing bordering of any sort.
https://www.routedmagazine.com/distance
Connect with her: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maitesimardart/

13/04/2024

Proud to re-share Elena Iwanski's compelling piece on the entanglements of colonialism with the current practices assumed by the French border authorities in the middle of Indian Ocean, and her testimony on publishing with Routed Magazine.
https://www.routedmagazine.com/moyotte-rejected-asylum

11/04/2024

We are proud to know that our platform paved the way for a PhD researcher to publish her work. We share with you Dipsita Dhar's testimony, and this first published 'tiny piece' of her research☺
https://www.routedmagazine.com/kathu-pattu-bidesiya-folklore-migration
Connect with her: X:

09/04/2024

Proud to share Ka Wang Kelvin Lam's testimony on his experience of publishing with Routed Magazine, and re-share his three articles☺
https://www.routedmagazine.com/visit-home-domestic-helpers-hk
https://www.routedmagazine.com/refugees-hong-kong-covid
https://www.routedmagazine.com/no-family-reunion-this-summer

07/04/2024

Why choose RoutedMagazine as a venue to publish your work? Our author of the compelling piece 'The intersection of gender and marginalised identities on opposite ends of Europe', explains in her testimony of working with RoutedMagazine. We proudly re-share Lana Gonzalez Balyk's article and testimony☺️
https://www.routedmagazine.com/post/the-intersection-of-gender-and-marginalised-identities-on-opposite-ends-of-europe

05/04/2024

Kremena Dimitrova, author of an understudied aspect of migration, that of arts, reflects on her collaboration with Routed Magazine. We proudly re-share her piece, and her testimony☺️
https://www.routedmagazine.com/omc22-comics-decolonial-lines
Connect with her:
www.kremenadimitrova.com
www.linkedin.com/in/kremena-dimitrova

04/04/2024

We are delighted to announce that Seán Binder is the keynote speaker at the Oxford Migration Studies Society conference this May.

📌 Grab your tickets now, here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oxford-migration-studies-society-presents-transformation-resilience-tickets-855896107297

Seán is a strong advocate for migrant rights who was arrested in August 2018 for a number of serious criminal offences connected to migrant search and rescue work he carried out as a volunteer for a humanitarian NGO in Le**os, Greece. Following his arrest, he spent 106 days in pre-trial detention in a Greek prison. He was charged with a number of serious criminal offences including facilitation of illegal entry (smuggling), money laundering, espionage and membership in a criminal organisation.

In January this year, the defendants were cleared of all misdemeanour charges; an important win for humanity. However, this case is far from over. Seán and the other defendants still face felony charges, which if found guilty of, could result 20 years in jail. These possible charges are based on a misrepresentation of the search-and-rescue group’s humanitarian operations as human smuggling by a criminal organization, and mischaracterizes legitimate fund-raising activities by the group, which was a registered non-profit organization, as money laundering. Seán’s co-accused include Sara Mardini, whose story featured in the Netflix documentary film ‘The Swimmers’.

This case represents a criminalisation of solidarity; saving lives is not a crime. The work of the defendants was at all times humanitarian, motivated by the desire to save lives at sea. This case is demonstrative of a wider policy of deterrence of asylum seekers across Europe, in which people are not only criminalised for seeking asylum themselves, but also for acting in solidarity with these peoples.

It is an honour to have Seán speak at our conference, who has at all times worked in the name of human rights and justice. He is currently training to become a barrister.

03/04/2024

Our author of two pieces reflects on collaborating with Routed Magazine, and shares future aspirations. We are proudly re-sharing his pieces and his testimony☺️
https://www.routedmagazine.com/post/late-salary-working-full-day-no-extra-money-indonesian-domestic-migrant-workers-in-taiwan
https://www.routedmagazine.com/lgbtq-migrants-meaning-freedom

01/04/2024

Proud to share Larisa Lara Guerrero's testimony, author and twice collaborator (with the iDiaspora).
We re-share her work with us and her testimony on the value of working with Routed Magazine☺️
https://www.routedmagazine.com/fighting-against-homesickness
https://www.routedmagazine.com/issue-15
https://www.routedmagazine.com/issue-22
Connect with her:
X:
LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larisalarag/

30/03/2024

'Anyone can be at a risk of human trafficking, no matter our background, race, gender, or the education we possess. This is why I am sharing this personal story. We all need to be familiar with these kinds of situations. Raising awareness is crucial. After everything, I survived, and I am happy I made it, but emotional wounds and scars are still healing.' Full story here👇
https://www.routedmagazine.com/post/human-trafficking-in-southeastern-asia

29/03/2024

Join the Oxford Migration Studies Society at the OMSS 2024 Conference on ‘Transformation and Resilience’.

🚨Get your tickets before they sell out: https://lnkd.in/etPaSV7y

We have 8 exciting panels for you:

1) Colonialism and Decolonisation
2) Culture, Identity and Integration (I)
3) Gender and Sexuality
4) Shelter, Placemaking and Integration
5) Culture, Identity and Integration (II)
6) Securitisation and Criminalisation
7) Labor, Livelihoods, and Migration Startegies for Resilience
8) Climate Change and Environmental Transformation

28/03/2024

Patty Miranda, author of two articles with us, reflects on her experience of publishing with Routed Magazine.
We are proud to re-share her pieces and her testimony, below☺️
https://www.routedmagazine.com/sexual-reproductive-health-migrants-philippines
https://www.routedmagazine.com/filipina-migrants-pandemic-words
Connect with her:
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Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/pattymiranda