Katy Long is a researcher and a writer whose works explores the causes and consequences of migration for migrants, citizens and communities. Katy is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and also teaches for the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. She is the author of The Huddled Masses: Immigration and Inequality and tweets as @mobilitymuse.
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Published in: 50.50Immigration and Inequality: the courage of convictionsThere is a powerful case – both emotional and empirical – to be made for migration, a case that can be made in the language of freedom and rights, showing how migration is a means of securing progress and social justice.
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Published in: 50.50Refugee Studies: No atonement for the failure of politics
Policy makers’ interests can be diametrically opposed to those of refugees. Academic research offers important space to step back from the emergency and think beyond the narrow confines of the politically possible, argues Katy Long for Refugee Week.
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Published in: 50.50The UK migration debate: lessons from AmericaWhy have US activists have been more successful than their British counterparts in building a constructive immigration dialogue within mainstream politics, asks Katy Long.