Political Ethnographer. Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London
I am very excited that Tess Altman and I are organising a panel at the RAI-RGS Conference called "Helping in an era of hostility: Political agency & moral contestations in civil society movements for & by migrants". Refusing the medal bestowed by the Mayor of Paris in August 2019, Pia Klemp, a German captain …
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I was completely shocked last night to find myself accepting the Aston Webb Award for Outstanding Early-Career Academic. I have to thank all my wonderful colleagues at IRiS and the Department for Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology for their support, advice and guidance. I think perhaps my greatest achievement was managing to get the very delicate …
My new book Home-land: Romanian Roma, domestic spaces and the state has been published by University of Bristol Press. The book explores how border regimes are crafted through care and compassion at the front-line of service provision in the UK. Focusing on how the nation-state is reproduced within the home, the book considers what it is …
I’m about to embark on a lot of travelling to different cities that have designated themselves as ‘sanctuary cities’ and welcoming to migrants in 2019 as part of the Welcoming Cities project. I know that I am most definitely in one of the most privileged categories of migrants in these cities and therefore a lot …
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How do cities remake themselves through narration? This was the key question that shaped the international conference in Science Po Lyon on 27th and 28th November 2018 where I was invited to talk about the Welcoming Cities project. We know that cities do far more than just translate national or federal policies and are actively …
Have you been inundated with emails asking you to resubscribe to contact lists lately? That’s the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I spent an afternoon with fellow anthropologists at SOAS University of London on 9th May to discuss what it might mean for us as a discipline, and for our research practice. Is anthropology …
Refugee Week offers us the opportunity to reflect on the ways that we can better support refugees. For me, there are three critical points to consider when looking at how we can welcome and help those often badged as ‘others’: Why are we so needy? Professor Veena Das posed the question ‘why are we …
On the train on the way to the City of Sanctuary (CoS) AGM on 15th May I read an article about a new type of sanctuary city – a sanctuary for gun owners. While the context in the USA is completely different, reading this article on the way to the CoS AGM certainly put …
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This blog was originally posted on the superdiversity.net blog on 16th March 2018. The Integration green paper places much emphasis on integrating young people in its proposals especially in relation to education. Dr Rachel Humphris and Dr Nando Sigona consider the factors that may determine success and failure of integration policy for this diverse cohort. What does integration mean …
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This was originally posted on the Becoming Adult blog. The Becoming Adult team has launched today six new research briefs. The briefs are available in pdf in the Resources page and address some key issues affecting unaccompanied youth. Protecting the ‘best interests’ of the child in transition to adulthood (no. 3) Transitions into institutional adulthood (no.4) Health and …
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Rachel Humphris 