In Beirut? Come to my talk @lau.edu tomorrow on 'a most extraordinary resettlement scheme' that unfolded in Cold War Beirut. eventscal.lau.edu.lb/event.php?ev...

Do you want to know more about the enduring impacts of colonial legacies on the governance and treatment of refugees in non-signatory states? Join our webinar TODAY. @non-signatory.bsky.social Sign up here: www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...

They have arrived! @non-signatory.bsky.social

To launch our new book we are organizing three webinars this fall. The first on Sept 30 will address the enduring impacts of colonial legacies on the governance and treatment of refugees in non-signatory states. Sign up here and do help us spread the word! www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...

Hot off the press! So pleased to see that our volume "Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law" is out and available fully open access. Find the link below.

Check out our new video abstract from Pakistan 🇵🇰 In @kazmiarj.bsky.social's latest research, she examines how Pakistan’s judiciary engages with the Refugee Convention despite being a non-signatory state. 🔗 Watch the full video here: www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...

Flere av de politiske partiene på Stortinget ønsker i hovedsak å hjelpe flyktninger i «nærområdene» 🌍 Men hva vil det egentlig si? @myrmek.bsky.social mener Norge må kunne ha to tanker i hodet samtidig: Støtte opp om «nærområdene», samt verne om retten til å søke om asyl. Les hele saken her:

Exciting news ✨ Our PhD candidate, Naureen Rahim, had her midway assessment yesterday on Bangladesh and the International Refugee Law Regime 🎓 Special thanks to Professor Mohammad Shahabuddin from @unibirmingham.bsky.social for acting as the external assessor and for sharing valuable feedback.

Just released 📣 @myrmek.bsky.social's latest article, 'Transit Beirut: UNHCR, Diaspora Networks, and the Covert Resettlement of Armenians during the Cold War' is now published in Mashriq & Mahjar. Read the full article here: lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/ma...

How can ethnographic methods enhance refugee law research? ✨ In @myrmek.bsky.social's keynote at the Refugee Law Initiative's annual conference in London, she outlined three ways she has used ethnographic methods to navigate legal complexities. Discover the details below:

Brilliant keynote by @myrmek.bsky.social at #RLIconf25, discussing how ethnographic methods can inform, inspire and improve refugee law research

BEYOND organized a roundtable on refugee governance in Pakistan 🇵🇰 – With the current repatriation plan, there are many conflicting opinions and misunderstandings. We wanted to create a space to address these issues, Dr. Arjumand Bano Kazmi says. Discover the insightful discussions here:

Yesterday BEYOND organized a panel on non-signatory states in international refugee law in Lahore, Pakistan 🏛️ Thank you LUMS University for giving us the opportunity and for shedding light on this important topic.

We are excited to be a part of the Futures of International Law conference at LUMS University in Lahore, Pakistan 🇵🇰 Looking forward to stimulating conversations ahead!

Excited to be taking part in this excellent conference and to hear from the wonderful keynote speakers @myrmek.bsky.social & @jfcrisp.bsky.social! Do consider joining if you’re in or near London the first week of June

Check out our new video abstract ✨ In @ozlemgs.bsky.social's latest research, she explores how the Turkish Council of State engages with the Refugee Convention in cases involving 'non-European' refugees. 🔗 Watch the full video here: www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...

Fascinating new article by @newnhamcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Diala Lteif in @antipodeonline.bsky.social based on her research into The Conditions of the Working Class in 1960s Beirut: Fire and Everyday Struggles in Karantina onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🔥Full volume out now: 'What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda' - our special issue in J Refugee Studies (w/ the amazing @danghez.bsky.social and Helene Lambert) academic-oup-com.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/jrs/issue/37/4 @mobileucph.bsky.social

Exciting news 🌟 @myrmek.bsky.social's new book chapter 'Lebanon and the establishment of international refugee law' in Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics, is now published! Read the full book chapter here: library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

Thrilled to share our latest publication in the International Journal of Refugee Law 📖 Özlem Gürakar Skribeland explores the Turkish Council of State’s engagement with international refugee law in cases involving ‘non-European’ refugees. Read the full article here: academic.oup.com/ijrl/advance...

📣 Hot off the press 📣 In our latest publication in the International Journal of Refugee Law, Arjumand Bano Kazmi delves into the intricacies of Pakistan’s judiciary and its interaction with international refugee law. Read the full article here: academic.oup.com/ijrl/advance...

Over the past four years, the BEYOND project has conducted empirical case studies in Lebanon, Pakistan, Türkiye and Bangladesh, examining their relationships with international refugee law. Explore our map to see which states that remain non-signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention 🔍

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...

Our BEYOND project team is heading to Yogyakarta, Indonesia for IASFM 2025. We are looking forward to an exciting week ahead. If you are around, be in touch! iasfm.org/iasfm2025/

This is a great idea: a developmental editing workshop, run by the Journal of Global History. But, it's for colleagues for whom English is not a first language - and who work in institutions outside Western Europe and North America. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

I am so excited and hopeful for Lebanon. Mabrouk Lubnan! Truly the start of a new era.✨

Last Friday, I successfully defended my doctoral thesis on migration management and refugee struggles at the EU external borders! My heartfelt gratitude to my opponent @myrmek.bsky.social who raised important and critical questions & my supervisors @panuminkkinen.bsky.social and Dr Päivi Neuvonen.

A proud supervisor’s moment: celebratory ’karonkka’ dinner after @bossoloji.bsky.social’s successful doctoral defence of her thesis on migration management and refugees with a stellar examination by @myrmek.bsky.social (Oslo). My sincere thanks to all.

Despite the images of people joyously crossing Syria’s borders after al-Assad’s ouster, in addition to some countries pausing the asylum requests of Syrian refugees, questions remain about whether it is feasible – or safe – for most people to return.

Call for Papers: ‘Race, Refuge & Repair: Rethinking Migration from the Global South' University of Cape Town 29-30 May 2025 Abstracts: 14 Feb 2025 Keynote: E. Tendayi Achiume in discussion with @madlingozi.bsky.social law.uct.ac.za/sites/defaul... @bordercrim.bsky.social @uctlaw.bsky.social

We are searching for #polsci scholars with a special interest in teaching and researching QUALITATIVE political science methods! Yes, QUALITATIVE! @statsvitenskap.bsky.social is vibrant and full of nice people. Oslo has lots of culture, nature and charm. Join us! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you. Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.

"The Syrian people topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad"

An extraordinary night. ✨ To Syrian freedom!

Moammar has been searching for his brother for 39 years, arrested by Syrian soldiers in Lebanon when he was 18. He hadn’t heard anything from him since. Until Thursday, when his brother emerged from Hama prison as an old man, 39 years later. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

There is still time to apply for this fully-funded PhD position in criminology/sociology of law. Come join our thriving department! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Rather than a dramatic first post, just a heads up that on 5th December I’ll be speaking at a Refugee Law Initiative seminar in London, bringing some old and new research together: rli.sas.ac.uk/events/confl...

Happy to see our work w Natalie Welfens published in the Journal of Refugee Studies “UNHCR–state relations: transfer of authority over refugee status determination”👇 academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...

Read Fatima's story, along with those of other villagers from southern Lebanon and northern Palestine, as they share the bitter consequences of borders shifting arbitrarily beneath their feet. "Stolen by a Map: The Haunting History of Lebanon's Lost Villages" thepublicsource.org/lebanon-lost...

Reports are mounting that a ceasefire could be declared today. Meanwhile, Israel is still heavily bombing Dahiyeh. Escalations often occur before the end and we hope the end is in sight.

Please share: ✨We have a permanent position as Associate Professor in Human Rights (interdisciplinary) at NCHR, @unioslo-jus.bsky.social✨ 🔎 Human rights scholar combining insights and methods from the social sciences with legal approaches 📅 Deadline: 2 Dec 2024 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Yes! And even before the war(s), humanitarian practices led to the protection concerns and circumstances of Sudanese refugees and asylum-seekers being invisibilized - an invisibilization they rightly and strongly contested. academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...

24 November UNHCR overview of arrivals to Syria from Lebanon includes updated breakdown of arrivals by crossings, demographics for both Syrian and Lebanese arrivals: data.unhcr.org/en/documents...

[New Blog 🖋️] Prof. Maja Janm and Dr. Nora Milch show how two new landmark judgments fundamentally change how EU countries may approach returns to Lebanon and Syria. Read the full blog here: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

New to BlueSky! We are Border Criminologies at the University of Oxford. We bring together academics, practitioners, and those who have experienced border control from around the world, showcasing original research from a range of perspectives. Check out our website: www.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

We've been working hard this weekend. Now tracking total of 43 States. Mapping State Reactions to the #InternationalCriminalCourt Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant By @becingber.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/105064/mappi...

On this day in 1946, the Foreigners' Act was passed in India. The decision to withdraw from international conventions on refugees was shaped by imperial hierarchies of movement in the early 20c, informing India's refugee regime today. From our archive: www.historyworkshop....

With Israel expanding its warfare in Lebanon, Cyprus is preparing for a possible influx from Lebanon. How will these arrivals be approached? We argue that two new landmark judgments significantly shape how we can approach these arrivals. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...