Sarah Scott Ford

ARC Laureate Fellowship: PhD Scholarships on Evacuations | UNSW Sydney UNSW Law & Justice offers two PhD scholarships for researchers who are part of the Evacuations Research Hub . Join our community of scholars today.

We’re looking for outstanding PhD candidates to study with us at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social! You must have a demonstrated interest in disaster law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, or diplomatic and consular law. www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...

Delighted it has found a home in the JEMS special issue on "The temporary turn in asylum: Researching the politics of deterrence in practice" with a brilliant introduction on the topical relevance and research agenda

Brokering in uncharted terrain: the revocation of protection in Norwegian and Danish asylum cases Norway and Denmark have recently adopted active policies of temporary protection featuring, inter alia, the revocation of residence permits. These policies narrow the space for human rights conside...

New article and SI out!

My article is about the institutional aftermath of the temporary turn in asylum policy in Norway and Denmark

Beyond shedding light on the legally intricate cases, I hope it is relevant to others studying how formally independent institutions broker migration policy ⚖️🌍

Hot off the press!

My new article on refugee rights claiming through protest at UNHCR Beirut.

Free e-prints available here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IVH6P...

Great to see this is out as a Special Issue!
Contains - among other amazing work - an article on the coloniality of knowledge & externally funded 'migration capacity building' projects that I wrote based on data collected within the #AMIREG project - @franziscaz.bsky.social @mradike.bsky.social

Australia responsible for arbitrary detention of asylum seekers in offshore facilities, UN Human Rights Committee finds GENEVA - In two landmark decisions, the UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that Australia remained responsible for the arbitrary detention of asylum seekers redirected or transferred to offshore dete...

Offshore facilities ARE NOT human rights-free zone ! HR Committee, M.I. et al. & Nabhari v Australia > #Australia had effective #control over #offshore #detention facilities of #migrants in #Nauru, thus was responsible for #HumanRights violations
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Postdoctoral Researcher – Immigration, Information, and Technologies - Concordia University he postdoctoral researcher will work under the direction of Mireille Paquet (Department of Political Science and Institute for Research on Migration and Society) and her team, contributing to various ...

📣Job alert (postdoc): Immigration, Information, and Technologies @irms-concordia.bsky.social
Open to all #migration researchers, particularly those working with text-as-data, NLP or computational social sciences approaches.
www.concordia.ca/artsci/resea...

#Polisky #Migcitsky #poliscisky

Incorporating Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Australian Refugee Credibility Assessments: the Case of CRL18 - Journal of International Migration and Integration Credibility assessments in asylum visa applications have attracted criticism across diverse research fields. This article builds on existing critical examinations by presenting a case study of a succe...

What happens when lawyers & judges rethink how testimony is produced in legal settings?
In this paper I show how looking at communication in context can make a crucial difference and help ensure access to refugee protection
#Langsky #LawSky #Linguistics
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢I am looking for 2 PostDocs and 1 PhD researcher for my
ERC-funded project POLMIG on migrants in Africa: the positions will be for four years, based in Freiburg, Germany - Job ads available here arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/call... Deadline 27th December

For all forced migration scholars - please do check out the call for papers and panels for our annual conference next June.

Do please consider submitting before the deadline!

After Border Externalization In this open access book, Hassan Ould Moctar offers an original analysis of the European Union's tendency to extend its border and migration control operations…

🎓 New open access book by Hassan Ould Moctar on "the European Union's tendency to extend its border and migration control operations into the Global South."
Timely and super important!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/after-bor...

Refugee, Migration & Mobility Law Scholars Join the conversation

Please share: We made a tentative starter pack of refugee law, migration law and mobility law scholars - will update it continuously; please add newcomers and anyone we missed. go.bsky.app/BGkdP53 #lawsky #migrationstudies #refugeestudies