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Published in: 50.50Refugee women in the UK: Pushing a stone into the seaFrom personal experience I know that arrival in the UK for asylum seekers does not signal safety, but reform is a...
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Published in: 50.50Who's afraid of the 'global poor'?Shifting the migration debate to consider the impact of global phenomena such as climate change and global...
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Published in: 50.50Lampedusa: Never againThe terrible migrant deaths off the Italian island have evoked horror across the continent. In a small camp in...
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Published in: Shine A LightDeath at Yarl’s Wood: Women in mourning, women in fearAbuse at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre is finally mainstream news. When a woman died at Yarl’s Wood in...
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Published in: 50.50Equal access to the asylum process for women
Despite some progress in the treatment of single female asylum seekers in the UK, women in families frequently go...
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Published in: 50.50Migration and craft: reimagining the cityThrough creative social enterprise, migrant and refugee women in Britain's second largest city have found a way to...
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Published in: 50.50Fleeing FGM: Bodies on the frontlineThe UK’s commitment to protecting the rights of women and girls cannot be limited to international aid; it must...
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Published in: 50.50Trojan Women in the twenty first century: women in war from Euripides to SyriaLast December, a small group of volunteers organised a production of ‘Trojan Women’ with female Syrian refugees now...
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Published in: Shine A LightA call to action in memory of the woman I never knew
At least 20 people have died in immigration detention in the UK: how many more must die before the UK changes its...
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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...
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Published in: 50.50Seeking safety in Algeria: Syrian refugee women’s resilienceFor many Syrian women in Algeria, the gendered experience of violence and displacement has been compounded by the...
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Published in: 50.50Knitted Together: Crafting a culture of welcome for refugee womenA group of women in the UK have created a piece of art to challenge the detention of refugee women. Craft can be a...
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Published in: 50.50Syrian women refugees: out of the shadowsSyrian women refugees cite rape, or the fear of rape, as one of the main reasons they fled. A coalition of...
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Published in: 50.50Due diligence for women's human rights: transgressing conventional lines
On international human rights day, Yakin Ertürk discusses the new vulnerabilities faced by women, including refugee...
