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Human mobility and the Arab Spring(s)

Audio recordings of the international symposium ‘The Arab Spring and beyond: Human mobility, forced migration and international responses’ are on now available at Forced Migration Online. By Nando Sigona What follows are brief reflections inspired by the international symposium ‘The Arab Spring … Continue reading

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The Arab Spring and Beyond: Human Mobility, Forced Migration and Institutional Responses

The Refugee Studies Centre, International Migration Institute and the Oxford Diasporas Programme are organising a second international symposium on migration and forced migration in North Africa and the Levant on 20 March 2012 with the participation of international scholars, practitioners … Continue reading

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The Arab Spring and beyond: human mobility, forced displacement and humanitarian crises

By Nando Sigona Migration in its various forms has been part of the popular uprisings that have spread across North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. First, the columns of vehicles escaping from cities and villages under siege in … Continue reading

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Is the UK government serious about protecting human rights?

by Nando Sigona For those who have been following the UK government’s relentless undermining of the Human Rights Act (that incorporates the EHRC in the UK legal system) over the last months, its grand commitment to ‘the promotion and protection of human … Continue reading

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