Jenny Phillimore
@profjennyp.bsky.social
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Professor of Migration and Superdiversity at University of Birmingham. Forced migration, SGBV, gender, asylum policy, civil society, emotions.
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Jenny Phillimore
@profjennyp.bsky.social
· Aug 25
‘I can’t sleep, I can’t get on with my life’: how Europe’s tougher rules are keeping families apart
Tighter family reunification laws are causing long separations, traumatising children, and can push people towards traffickers, campaigners say
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Jenny Phillimore
@profjennyp.bsky.social
· Aug 21
I'm a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal? | Ayman Alhussein
I’ve met wonderful people here who make me feel that I belong – but there are now many who see asylum seekers as an easy political target, says film-maker Ayman Alhussein
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Jenny Phillimore
@profjennyp.bsky.social
· Jul 31
Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report
Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions
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Jenny Phillimore
@profjennyp.bsky.social
· Jul 28
‘The matter is in his hands alone’: president of Sierra Leone urged to ban FGM as court rules it tantamount to torture
The Ecowas court of justice has ordered the West African country to criminalise female genital mutilation after hearing the case of a woman brutally forced to undergo the practice
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Jenny Phillimore
@profjennyp.bsky.social
· Jul 14
Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts
Britain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide, says Médecins Sans Frontières UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts
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Gabriella Elgenius
@elgenius.bsky.social
· May 22
Campus Week on Citizenship, Civil Society and Integration gathered PhD Students from Different Countries and Disciplines
During the first week of May, PhD students from different countries and disciplines came together at the University of Gothenburg for an inspiring and intensive campus week, marking the conclusion of ...
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Jenny Phillimore
@profjennyp.bsky.social
· May 23
The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy Beckett
Politicians and the rightwing press talk about integration in a selective and politically loaded way. The reality is quite different, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
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Jenny Phillimore
@profjennyp.bsky.social
· May 22
Cutting aid for girls’ education isn’t just wrong – it’s economically illiterate | Larry Elliott
This slash-and-burn approach is indefensible and would have been anathema to previous Labour governments, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
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