By Jennifer Allsopp Orginally posted on Open Democracy Parliament has voted to silence the voices of local communities. Their message of European solidarity and warm welcome for refugees is an anathema to the politics of Brexit Britain. PassageSymbolically resonant of … Continue reading A very British tug of war over Europe’s child refugees
Follow the ‘Afghan migration trail’ through a five-part op-ed series by Dr Nassim Majidi and colleagues published by Refugees Deeply: Afghan Refugees: Conversations Along the Migration Trail ‘No Justice, No Equality:’ The Corruption that Drives Afghans Overseas Call Us ‘Students’ Not ‘Refugees,’ … Continue reading Voices from the migration trail
Rachel Humphris, researcher of the Becoming Adult team and Lecturer at Birmingham University, spoke to BBC Coventry and Warwickshire about unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) in their area on 7th September. Warwickshire is in the top 10 local authorities caring … Continue reading UASC in Warwickshire – radio interview with Rachel Humphris
By Habib Rezaie We publish here our colleague Habib Rezaie’s thought of the day on BBC Radio Leicester (from 40’41”), as part of the pop-up internet radio station Sanctuary Radio (#sanctuaryradio) In September I will start my final year on the IT for Business … Continue reading Spelling the word “can”
You have 29 days left to listen to our colleague Habib Rezaie’s thought of the day on BBC Radio Leicester (from 40’41”). This is part of an exciting new initiative: a month-long pop-up internet radio station called Sanctuary Radio (#sanctuaryradio) where young asylum seekers … Continue reading Thought of the day: Habib Rezaie on BBC radio
Originally posted on Monday Morning Meetings on Migration:
May 2, 2016 – Elaine Chase. Large numbers of unaccompanied young migrants are seeking sanctuary in Europe. The plight of these migrants has been brought into focus by the conditions in Calais. The Guardian recently… Continue reading Childhood Without a Future? Unaccompanied Youth Migrants in Europe
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Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham The UK government has offered to take 3,000 extra lone refugee children in its existing resettlement scheme for Syrian refugees. But the offer has two caveats: it is only for… Continue reading Britain is to take 3,000 refugee children by 2020 … Generous? Think again
1 in 53 boat migrants died crossing the Central Mediterranean in 2015, 1 in 1049 across the Aegean. What makes a route more or less deadly? Heaven Crawley and Nando Sigona offer some insights drawing on the ESRC and DFIF- funded MEDMIG project … Continue reading European policy is driving refugees to more dangerous routes across the Med
Young people seeking safety and security are subjected to the vagaries of all kinds of ‘solutions at various national borders’. Sometimes they are taken in and sometimes they are turned away. Sometimes, as Elaine Chase (UCL) and Nando Sigona (University … Continue reading Lost in the world: Former unaccompanied minors in orbit
Becoming adult 