Tweeting on refugees, asylum, migration & borders. Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford. Former Head, Policy Development & Evaluation Service, UNHCR.
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'Key Isssues in Global Refugee Policy:
Analysis, Commentary and Advocacy, 2015-2025'.
A compilation of e-links to around 80 articles I've published over the past decade, most of them brief and easily readable!
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Does that include those incarcerated in Libya's abusive detention centres?
IOM’s Protection Assessment & Referral Team in #Libya continues to conduct protection screenings for migrants in Tripoli, Sabha, Misrata, Benghazi & Bani Waleed, identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring referrals to life-saving assistance.
How many migrants will be there?
Tomorrow #IDMigration25 kicks off, bringing together global voices to shape migration governance that works for people and communities everywhere.
Follow the live discussions here: idm2025.org
So says the person who was sacked and reprimanded for a failure in her standards...
From doctoring the Trump speech to promoting Hamas propaganda, there has been a failure of standards & governance at the BBC.
These serious failings have shown that the BBC must be reformed in order to regain public trust as our national broadcaster. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11…
Another example of the way that aid agencies and their celebrity supporters distort the truth about refugees in their marketing efforts. Isn't it time for a fundraising code of conduct?
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Fisherman
“The rations we get in the camp are insufficient. So I go fishing in the sea.”
He joins fishing crews that spend a week or more at sea, earning between 2,000 and 4,000 taka per trip. The work is risky but necessary. Food rations don’t cover his family’s needs, and his children’s schooling and healthcare cost money the aid system doesn’t provide.
The trips have become more expensive and dangerous. To avoid police checkposts, they take longer routes, adding to transport costs. The sea itself brings its own risks - storms, accidents, and sinking boats. Last year, two men from his crew died. Still, he goes. “If we got proper food,” he says, “we would not go.”
His story reveals the quiet cost of deprivation: refugees forced into dangerous, illegal work simply to survive.
Aid agencies (and even diaspora Rohingya spokespersons) often describe the Rohingya in Bangladesh as “fully dependent” on humanitarian assistance. It’s a line that appears in press releases, donor briefings and media reports - but it isn’t true.
This series, Working to Survive, shares short testimonies from refugees who earn their living inside and around the camps - often illegally, always precariously. Their stories reveal a different reality. #RohingyaWork #Rohingya
Sudanese students in exile: Learning against the odds cmi.no/publications/9708-sud…
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These statistics are flawed because UNHCR cannot register asylum seekers from many countries because of the discriminatory policy of Libyan authorities which prohibit the registration of asylum seekers from West and Central African countries. This also triggers movements to EU
Libya Sees Sharp Rise in Asylum Seekers from Sudan & Eritrea
#Libya #Sudan
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Iran.
Some Dodgy Dutch Dealings:
tehrantimes.com/news/520126/…
Iran and Pakistan.
The mass deportation of Afghan refugees:
cmi.no/publications/9728-unm…
What would happend to refugees & other migrants if the UN was disbanded?
My thoughts here, on Al Jazeera:
aljazeera.com/features/2025/…
Not only Denmark. The UK is desperately looking at the approaches used by other governments, including the US.
UK seeks Danish inspiration to shake up immigration system. bbc.com/news/articles/cm2lkn…
The definition of a 'protracted refugee situation' used here is the one that I came up while working for UNHCR more than 20 years ago. It is really not adequate & was based on the false assumption that most refugees live in camps & that camps are static entities.
How to finance refugee-led organizations:
odi.org/en/publications/how-…
Was there any discussion of the health of refugees incarcerated in Libya's abusive detention centres?
