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My latest @scmrjems article with Katharine Jones draws on our #MEDMIG data to unpack the idea that the places people move to outside Europe are always 'in-between' and never intended as 'destinations', an idea that feeds into anti-immigrant discourses...
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Treating these places as 'in-between' reinforces the notion that 'everyone' is heading to Europe when they very clearly are not. In reality most people remain in the same region and rebuild their lives in these places. The notion of 'transit countries' serves the same purpose
Our evidence suggests that it is only when life becomes untenable and a decision is made to move that these places take on a state of ‘in-betweenness’, most commonly as part of a personal narrative mobilised by migrants to make sense of the broader arc of their life experiences
So brilliant to be back at @RGS_IBG with colleagues from @PosNegOrg for #mathsofmigration CPD course using our @ESRC funded #MEDMIG data with teachers from across the UK. Excellent opportunity to engage young people in the complexities of migration to Europe
Thanks - as ever - to Jess from Oakland’s school for these brilliant examples from the students she works with of how the #MEDMIG data can be used in maths classes to educate and inform simultaneously
As a geographer I love a good map and I love the fact that young people are engaging with the stories and data from the #MEDMIG project to unpack #migrantjourneys. Also seems particularly appropriate given we are at the @RGS_IBG!
I’m joining colleagues from across West and East Africa to hold a mirror up to Europe’s migration policies at @FriendsofEurope conference. Nothing has changed since our @ESRC funded #MEDMIG research despite clear evidence that EU policies are deeply flawed friendsofeurope.org/events/african…
European policies assume that people ‘choose’ Europe based on a strategic and well-informed assessment of laws and policies and that anyone who exerts any agency is ‘undeserving’ of protection or even human treatment. But decision making is complicated onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
EU policies also both implicitly and explicitly support regimes and policies that undermine the rights of refugees and migrants in interests of preventing them from seeking protection and/or a better life. There is no ‘Common Agenda’ only Europe’s agenda tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Just finished listening to @artmalikactor beautifully narrating The Beekeeper of Aleppo by @christy_lefteri, powerful and moving story of a couple’s journey to Europe following the death of their son and destruction of their home, livelihood and community (cont.)....
Usually find it difficult to read/listen to novels of this kind, too many minor (but irritating) factual errors and misunderstandings, a failure on part of author to really grasp the complex layers of pain, anxiety, resilience and fear that characterise the lives of refugees....
The Beekeeper of Aleppo is different. The author’s first hand experience of being in Athens during 2015/2016, of working with refugees, of hearing their stories mean that this novel, whilst fictional, resonates more strongly with my own research than any other I’ve read
Live tweeting from #GCRFAddis symposium on #migration and #displacement unpacking roots of vulnerability in region and identifying solutions. Important to understand migration-related vulnerabilities in context of broader processes of political, economic and social change...
Great to hear about @OSSREA research in the region and across 19 countries in Africa including through South-South partnerships. More at ossrea.net #GCRFAddis
Helpful overview of @ICRC @ICRC_Africa work which is orientated towards translating international norms into actions. Recent focus on #migration and #displacement in context of growing politicisation of issues including through events and new publication #GCRFAddis
Thank you @Diegocg214 for articulating so clearly difficulties we face as #migration researchers wanting to avoid problems of 'categorical fetishism' whilst simultaenously being unable to avoid using categories in how we do, and present, our research imiscoephdblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/sel…
Here's my @scmrjems piece with Dimitris Skleparis in which we tried to articulate the problem in context of our #MEDMIG research. It's virtually impossible to avoid using categories to name and frame but we need to be much more aware of their consequences tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
Our point is not that we can entirely avoid categories as a way of making sense of our social and political worlds, rather that we should more explicitly ackowledge that these categories do not simply represent or reflect the world but simultaneously create and limit it...
Technically still on leave until Monday so signing out to avoid the nonsense that is Europe’s response to so-called ‘migration crisis’ involving just 42,000 arrivals this year. Number could be 0 and migration would still be used to distract from real issues in EU countries
Nothing new about EU policies, still entirely fixated by border controls and ‘irregular migration’ even though most people move to Europe legally and bring huge benefits and those seeking protection would do so if they could - virtually no legal routes for refugees
We wrote about this, at length, for @ESRC funded #MEDMIG project. 500 interviews with those arriving on Europe’s shores in 2015. Absolutely nothing has changed. More at medmig.info including downloadable briefing papers setting our findings and policy recommendations
Been a while since I spoke about #MEDMIG research on dynamics of migration to Europe. Today I’m at @CRSYorkU reflecting on what events of 2015 mean for how we think about refugee/migrant journeys. Everything has changed - and yet nothing #ESRCMigrantLives #HostileEnvironment
Those of you interested in purchasing a copy of our @policypress book setting out the key findings of the research can purchase a (very reasonably priced) copy at policypress.co.uk/unravelling-eu…
All of our other outputs including policy briefings, final report and a whole bunch of op-eds and articles can be downloaded free at medmig.info
