Moving People

Colonial Fantasies of the Offshore

Lucy Mayblin, Joe Turner, Arshad Isakjee & Thom Davies 7 June 202120 January 2023

What do colonial histories of movement across the ocean tell us about present day proposals to send asylum seekers to offshore sites?

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Creating Refugee Archives

Peter Gatrell, Ria Kapoor, Paul Dudman, Heather Faulkner & Mezna Qato 1 June 202120 January 2023

How can historians and archivists best document, preserve, and make accessible the voices and artifacts of refugee and migration experience?

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The Philippine government was confronted with refugee movements in the early years of the Cold War. Ria Sunga explores how the state applied the refugee label selectively and what implications this had on people on the move, in the fourth…

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Medical Migration and the NHS

Anna Caceres 17 May 202129 November 2022

The NHS has long relied on immigrant personnel, and restrictions to migration have an impact on its staffing. In the third piece for the Moving People feature, Anna Caceres writes about the fallacy of the 'good' migrant narrative.

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A Regime of Immobility

Doina Anca Cretu 10 May 202129 October 2022

Can refugee assistance become a way to contain? In the second piece for Moving People, Doina Anca Cretu explores how those fleeing Austria-Hungary's peripheries in the First World War could also be immobilised as they were subject to…

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Ria Kapoor 4 May 202120 January 2023

This is the first piece in a series titled Moving People. In exploring how people on the move are labelled, remembered, and constrained, it offers new understandings of the experiences (and inconsistencies) underpinning issues of…

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Colonial Fantasies of the Offshore

Creating Refugee Archives

The Limits of Refugee Policy

Medical Migration and the NHS

A Regime of Immobility

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