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
Who gets to tell stories of forced displacement and with what consequences? This blog post explores the promise and risks of storytelling in research and
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
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
In public and political discourses, 2015 was constructed as the peak of a ‘refugee crisis.’ While a crisis is supposed to be temporary by definition,
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
This essay discusses recent developments within the Kurdish diaspora over the past decade. It looks at the new opportunities and challenges this stateless diaspora faces
When the current centre-right government coalition, supported by the far-right Sweden Democrats party, took office in Stockholm in October 2022, it announced a hardline “paradigm
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