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By: Cevdet AcuI came to Amman/Jordan on 8 March 2020, only three days before the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a pandemic. I had travelled to Jordan to conduct interviews with Syrian refugees in order to gain a better understanding of their economic integration in society. However, the COVID-19 …

By Dr Sophie Henderson, Dr Richa Shivakoti, & Dr Matt WithersIn January 2020, the Philippine government issued a total ban on the migration of domestic workers to Kuwait following the death of Filipina domestic worker Jeanelyn Villavende the previous month. Villavende was allegedly physically and sexually abused by her Kuwaiti employers and died fr…

By: Dr. Philip RushworthOn Friday, 12 June, we hosted a panel of researchers and practitioners at The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement at Cambridge University to discuss remote work for refugees. This guest post covers some of the key themes from our discussion.You can watch the video recording of our full event here.A version of this …

By: Dr Georgia ColeIt is fitting that the Centre for Global Human Movement’s first Global Conversation on Covid-19 began with a discussion on the virus’ impact on migrants in the Gulf States. As Froilan Malit, Jr. outlined at the start of his talk, all but two states within the Gulf Cooperation Council, namely Oman and Saudi Arabia, have a larger n…

By: Dr Mohammad Tarikul IslamSince the 1970s large numbers of the Rohingya, an ethnic minority group from Myanmar has crossed into neighboring Bangladesh fleeing persecution. Bangladesh now hosts around one million Rohingya refugees, many living in makeshift camps in the area of Cox’s Bazar. These refugees reside in 34 camps where conditions are cr…

By: Dr. Petra MolnarAs the ‘Feared Outsiders’, refugees, immigrants, and people on the move have long been linked with bringing disease and illness across borders. During periods of immigration in 20th century America, for instance, immigrants were continuously stigmatized as carriers of germs and contagion. In the media and politics today, people …

By: Dorien BraamWhile walking through the mud among the improvised tented shelters of an informal camp housing Syrian refugees in Jordan, I was approached by a desperate mother and her young disabled son. Amina[1] showed me a hand-written prescription of the medication she needed but had been unable to obtain, after losing access to medical assista…

By:Ashley Mehra, Dr John G. DaleThis article is part of our ongoing series on Technology and Human Rights.Blockchain technology in global supply chains has proven most useful as a tool for storing and keeping records of information or facilitating payments with increased efficiency. The use of blockchain to improve supply chains for humanitarian pr…

By: Dr. Georgia ColeMonday 27th January started in typical fashion for a day of data collection in Kampala, Uganda. I was there to interview Eritreans who had travelled to Uganda from the Gulf States, where they had spent anywhere between a few months and several decades working in cities such as Riyadh, Jeddah and Dubai. The aim was to identify, t…

By: Toby ParsloeIn August 2019 I undertook what was the most challenging and fulfilling project of my academic career to date. Through the generous support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, I organised a collaborative architectural summer school for students at the University of Cambridge and the Technical University in Berlin. Twenty-si…

This is part of an ongoing series on Impressions of Post-Election America. This article, written by CAMMIGRES Forum’s co-founder Nooreen Reza, was originally published in Kajal Magazine on 29 January 2017. If you are interested in contributing to this series, contact us.The day after Barack Obama was first elected President of the United States in …

by Alexandra Bulat | University of Cambridge, MPhil ’16, SociologyThis report summarises the findings and themes from Alexandra Bulat’s (Sociology, University of Cambridge) MPhil dissertation, “Double standards?: Romanians’ attitudes towards the British, co-nationals and other minorities in the UK”, submitted June 2016. All participants’ names have…

by Hanane El Hajouli | University of BolognaThis essay on Italian-Maghrebi youth and families in Belgium has been adapted from the author’s Masters thesis (Italians-Maghrebi: an ethnographic exploration) that was prepared in Italy and at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Italy started to undergo the economic crisis from 2008 onwards. The f…

by Melissa GatterMelissa Gatter completed fieldwork in Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan during February and March 2016. Access to Za’atari was secured through an internship with the organization Save the Children whose offices are located in Amman. She supported the Media, Communications, and Advocacy department, researching and monitoring the ongoi…

Harsher Channel border enforcement will only cause more suffering, say IRR & migrants’ rights groups297 known border-related deaths between the Franco-British border since 1999 – an average of one death every 4 weeksPowerful report accounts for each death, humanising those behind the statisticsReport is transnational collaboration between the Ins…