Jennifer Allsopp is a writer and researcher working on migration, gender and social policy. She was a commissioning editor at openDemocracy 50.50 between 2011 and 2017, facilitating the People on the Move migration platform (2011-2017) and series including 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence (2012), Unlocking Detention (2014-15) and working with francophone activists for Our Africa (2012-14). She reported from numerous international feminist gatherings including for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (2015) and the Nobel Women's Initiative (2012, 2015, 2017). She has worked at the universities of Exeter, Birmingham and Queen Mary's and is completing a PhD at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. Twitter @JenniferAllsopp.
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Publicado en: 50.50A very British tug of war over Europe’s child refugees
Parliament has voted to silence the voices of local communities. Their message of European solidarity and warm...
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Publicado en: 50.50Mind the gap: why are unaccompanied children disappearing in their thousands?
Until the EU recognises the specific needs of child migrants and makes it a priority to swiftly reunite them with...
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Publicado en: 50.50Philosophies of migration
Migration raises more fundamental questions than 'should these people be here': it probes into the very essence of...
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Publicado en: 50.50Libya: "Rejoicing at our bloody democracy"
For sustainable peace, the UN must refuse to sanction militarism as the default response to unwanted migration and...
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Publicado en: 50.50A new narrative on human rights, security and prosperity
It’s up to us to ‘reframe the narrative’ of development, to move beyond the historic thrust of capital and war and...
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Publicado en: 50.50Women's power to stop war: rereading Virginia Woolf
Three Guineas was published in 1938 but it remains startlingly relevant. War will not end while women are kept out...