We asked our researchers to pick one of their publications from 2025 and share why it stands out for them. Here’s what they replied!
1) Let’s start with the introduction to a Special Issue on “#RefugeeSponsorship & Complementary Pathways” edited by our refugee sponsorship research team (Jenny Phillimore, Marisol Reyes, Gabriella D’Avino, Natasha Nicholls). It’s the first of its kind focusing on these forms of resettlement outside of Canada.
https://lnkd.in/eSJ8ZUMV
2) What’s it like to live on the margins of contemporary Vietnamese society?
Seb Rumsby asks. This paper compares two different groups amongst which I have conducted long-term fieldwork to explore shared experiences and common themes.
https://lnkd.in/eBi8xDPC
3) This co-authored paper (Jenny Phillimore, Anna Papoutsi, Lisa Goodson et al.) examines the continuum of violence into refuge, showing how asylum systems generate conditions for #SGBV survivors which expose them to further interpersonal violence.
https://lnkd.in/ehA-6B9i
4) This concept paper (co-authored with Ilse van liempt) is from the Horizon Europe I-CLAIM Project on the irregularisation of #migration which has taken so much of my time in the last three years, Nando Sigona explains.
https://lnkd.in/eyFFpXKp
5) In this book, we explore everyday experiences of war, bordering, and (im)mobilities, including actions of resistance in occupied territories, the loss of home and struggles to find housing, volunteering, and the traumatic responses, Irina Kuznetsova explains.
https://lnkd.in/ezKjtgz6
6) I enjoyed writing this chapter, Angelo Martins Junior says. It demonstrates how ideas and moral justifications of deservingness are actively formed and renegotiated in migrants’ everyday lives.
https://lnkd.in/eqwtfNPH
7) Need a guide to decode the script behind UK anti-immigration rhetoric? This is your roadmap, Stefano Piemontese explains. It unpacks how #irregularmigration was constructed during one of the most turbulent periods in British politics (2019–2023).
https://lnkd.in/etty2TVD
8) My article, Dr Jennifer Allsopp explains, has been a long time in the making and it was a fun one to write. It celebrates the resilience of young asylum seekers and refugees.
What’s so funny about the European ‘migration crisis’? The use of humour among unaccompanied young migrants and refugees to assert agency and subvert authority in the face of a hostile reception regimes.
https://lnkd.in/epB5PmNP
9) This article, Olivia Petie says, draws on two case studies to explore how concepts of #hospitality, home, and unhome can be useful in understanding the use of hotel accommodation for #asylumseekers in the UK & the experiences of those living there.
https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp_00088_1
10) This one is from Sandra Pertek, PhD, it critically analyses the role of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIc) in assisting women in conflict and displacement, focusing on its political commitments and institutional capacities.
https://www.politicsandreligionjournal.com/index.php/prj/article/view/665
11) This co-authored SCMR-JEMS article (incl. Jenny Phillimore Lisa Goodson and Sandra Pertek, PhD) repositions kindness as a critical analytical lens for understanding recovery, agency and informal protection in forced migration contexts. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2347515
12) Co-authored with Michaela Benson and Catherine R Craven, this JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies article examines how #Brexit ignited an unprecedented sense of shared #European identity and belonging in the UK and EU.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.70023
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