Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) Rethinking society in the age of migration and superdiversity
UNFILTERED LIVES When refuge isn't safe Findings from SEREDA call for changes to the Home Office’s asylum policy after uncovering the failures of the UK asylum system faced by refugee victims of sexual and gender-based violence.
Looking back to Look Forward: Celebrating 10 years of research on migration, forced displacement and superdiversity
19 July 2021 Empowering Cities Of Migration: New Methods For Citizen Involvement And Socio-spatial Integration (EMPOWER) Dr Lisa Goodson is the UK lead on new project Empowering Cities Of Migration: New Methods For Citizen Involvement And Socio-spatial Integration (EMPOWER) in conjunction with Professor Simon Pemberton, University of Keele
28 June 2021 The experience of LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in the UK at the time of Covid-19 Laurie Hartley, Asylum Seeker Support Worker at Rainbow Migration, speaks with IRiS Academic, Dawn River, about the experiences of LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in the UK for Pride month 2021.
24 June 2021 New publication - Temporal bordering in the space of the camp: Producing and contesting abandonment in Skaramagas and Elaionas camps in Athens: Anna Papoutsi, IRiS This paper, based on ethnographic work in Skaramagas and Elaionas camps in Athens in 2017, argues that camps are a temporal, as much as spatial, technology of bordering.