Sara de Jong is the co-lead of the 'Justice, Borders, Rights' research stream and Research Fellow of the Research Area Citizenship and Governance at the Open University. She currently conducts research on the claims for protection, rights and settlement by Afghans and Iraqis who have worked for western military forces and development organisations, as well as on the activities and strategies of their supporters. In November 2017, she was invited to give oral evidence to the Defence Select Committee on Afghan locally employed civilians. Watch the session here.
Sara is a guest editor for the editorial partnership, 'Who are 'we' in a moving world?'. The Open University is one of the Tate Exchange Associates who programmed the week of events ‘Who Are We?’.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAfghan interpreters: belonging on the battlefield, exclusion from the nation?The recent Windrush migration scandal poignantly illustrated the tensions between people’s sense of belonging to a...
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Published in: HomeArts, participation, exchange: who are 'we' in a moving world?Can politics be more artful and art be more political? Here, we ask if art and digital communication can create new...
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Published in: HomeThe rebirth of the East India Company: buy who you want to beIntrigued by East India Company shops appearing in contemporary London, artist Laura Malacart shows that an Indian...
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Published in: HomeWe are all displacedIt is our sedentary bias, our belief that mobility and migration are the exception rather than the rule, which fuels...
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Published in: HomeStealing stories for art: migration, voyeurism and the appropriation of injusticeIn On a Wing and a Prayer, we cross London's Rotherhithe tunnel by foot, mirroring the journey of people like Abdul...