During the Syrian Civil War, over 5 million Syrians lived as refugees in first countries of asylum, of whom more than 40% were children. Many of these
Refugee status and political activities have morphed from mutually constitutive categories in the period of anticolonial struggles to binaries in post-independence Africa. The fluid categorizations
This contribution centers refugees as political actors and knowledge producers. Refugees and asylum seekers challenge dominant perceptions of them as mere, apolitical beings, as dangerous
Israel and the US have accused the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) of being an ‘obstacle to peace’. But many of UNRWA’s shortcomings are
It is estimated that children make up one-third of the world’s population. Nevertheless, they constituted 40 percent (49 million) of the 122.6 million forcibly displaced
The right to asylum is a legacy of the French Revolution. As it recognized the first secular form of asylum for “freedom fighters”, the Revolution
In media, policy and scholarship, forced migrants are typically portrayed as either inherently vulnerable and in need of external protection, and/or as naturally violent and
Türkiye, home to the largest refugee population in Europe, has been rapidly integrating emerging technologies into its migration control systems. This post reflects on the
The question of safe and regulated entry for protection seekers into a state of refuge is still one of the most pressing issues of the
In the context of conflict and displacement, peace constitutes a widely neglected topic in research debates. Especially, displaced people and their active contributions to peace