Hyab Yohannes

Breathing-writing from within the abyss Hyab Yohannes, Lecturer in Forced Migration and Decolonial Education, UNESCO Chair RIELA, University of Glasgow Every November we celebrate WriteFest, a national festival spotlighting writing in hi…

“In this blog, I reflect on where my research is written from, and why I write at all”👇🏾

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Shabhana Mahmood announces overhaul of 'unfair' asylum system Under the plans, refugee status will become temporary and new capped

The spectacle of cruelty towards those seeking refuge is fully on display: no camouflage, no shame, no decency - only indifference and indignation👇🏾

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The language of “victory” becomes so hollow that it blurs the line between life and death, equating genocide with triumph.

‘I am resolutely in the camp of the losers. The losers who are deprived of the right to leave any trace of their defeat and deprived of the right of proclaiming it.

I am inclined to speak of this defeat, but there is no question of surrender’.

(Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor)

Really touched by all the messages and comments from colleagues and friends who have read (or attended) our BERA plenary, also by the academics and academic associations choosing to share the text. 🙏🏾

#KeepTellingOfGaza
#AntiPalestinianRacism
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Heading to ‪#BERA2025‬ (solidarity to GMT strikers in London) with @khawlabadwan.bsky.social and @hyabyohannes.bsky.social ‬ to deliver plenary together.

Out of Ashlaa’ أشلاء: Refugee Language Education in Times of Heartbreak and Failure

Determined to hold it together but have tissues in case.

UK suspends refugee family reunion applications Yvette Cooper outlines her plans as MPs return to Parliament after a summer of protests at asylum hotels.

To deny refugees the right to family life is to strip them of the last fiber of their humanity. It is a disgrace.

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It’s arrived. The best theoretical text I’ve ever read on the figure and experience of the refugee.

Congratulations @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

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The Refugee Abyss | Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes | Taylor & Francis eBo In defiance of the refugee abyss, this book presents the flesh of pained bodies and the breath of displaced voices, contributing to the thread of traces yet to

9. Or buy / order for your library and READ (several times) what is quite simple the mostly theoretically and empirically brilliant book on refugee experiences I have encountered by @hyabyohannes.bsky.social

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Six copies of my book arrived today.
The book insists that writing and reading, in a world where the possibility of a livable life is vanishing for many, are the last remaining acts of solidarity. We must imagine a new world when the current one becomes unlivable.

Unending carnage. Mortal silence. Active complicity in the unfolding genocide.

The Refugee Abyss | Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes | Taylor & Francis eBo In defiance of the refugee abyss, this book presents the flesh of pained bodies and the breath of displaced voices, contributing to the thread of traces yet to

My book, The Refugee Abyss, is out today! Each page holds lives interrupted & stories that haunt our conscience. I invite you, dear reader, to engage with the displaced voices with utmost care & curiosity.
@uofgeducation.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

The Refugee Abyss | Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes | Taylor & Francis eBo In defiance of the refugee abyss, this book presents the flesh of pained bodies and the breath of displaced voices, contributing to the thread of traces yet to

My book, The Refugee Abyss, is out today! Each page holds lives interrupted & stories that haunt our conscience. I invite you, dear reader, to engage with the displaced voices with utmost care & curiosity.
@uofgeducation.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

It includes a foreword from @sabirzazai.bsky.social (@scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social) and contributions from @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @teresap.bsky.social @pinaraksu.bsky.social @scothunter.bsky.social & others not on BlueSky including:

If the crushed flesh and bones of emaciated children and the wailing of mothers unable to feed their babies fail to evoke a visceral response and concerted action, then how can the international community hope to stop an unfolding genocide?

“Think of Others” by Mahmoud Darwish

What can a society that is held hostage by its own elected officials, by laws that have grown inhumane, and by calcified racism do to rebuild a world that has been amputated from its foundations? What lies at the crossroads between brutality and powerlessness?

A new open-access publication that I co-authored with @alison_phipps👇🏾

Cc: @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

“Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and Rage”

Link: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.29...

‘We’re suffering’: People in Sudan’s el-Fasher eat animal fodder to survive A deadly cholera outbreak adds to the misery in a region that has witnessed fighting between the army and the rebels.

“‘We’re suffering’: People in Sudan’s el-Fasher eat animal fodder to survive”👇🏾

Sudan is an overlooked and forgotten catastrophe.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

After all, will this brutal world ultimately confess its madness? Will its confession be genocide? Perhaps it will once again declare ‘never again’, insisting on moving forward without accountability. This is the essence of coloniality, which renders some lives violable, expendable, and disposable.

With the genocide now in its latest stage, the political class that actively supported & defended it is now hoisting themselves to a moral high ground from which to declare ‘never again’ once an entire population has been starved to death or crushed in concentration camps.

How can one sleep after reading these words from colleagues?

‘Our homes have been destroyed, and our tents have been blown away. We now sleep on blood-stained ground. We can’t walk anymore…. We are starving, and children are dying’.

The abyss is unending: unrestrained violence, starvation, destruction, & systematic eradication of life. Emaciated children tremble beneath constant fire, brutally murdered in their thousands, with families swept away. The West’s complicity & betrayal of the world are astounding.

Refugee who fled organ-harvesting gangs says riots gave him 'flashbacks' A REFUGEE who fled Egypt against the threat of organ-harvesting kidnappers has said riots across England gave him “flashbacks” to the horrors he…

Brilliant to see this important piece of journalism by Hamish Morrison of ⁦National‬⁩ winning News Category at Scottish Refugee Media Awards
2025
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That hand is raised once more! The world is held hostage by a veto power.

Really looking forward to this Eritrean Coffee Extravaganza ….. time to wash the Zuria and find the camel hair! Also @hyabyohannes.bsky.social I need a bigger Gebena!

Acclaimed Kenyan writer and dissident, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, dies at 87 Ngugi’s work critiqued both British colonialism in Kenya and postcolonial Kenyan society.

A defiant decolonial voice has departed, becoming an ancestor. Ngũgĩ stood firm like a giant baobab tree, whose words disrupted the very grammar of coloniality from deep within its roots.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

For genocide to truly bear the weight of its name, how many times must it unfold year after year with relentless magnitude and without consequence? What is genocide if it is met with utter impunity and active complicity?

Children bombed as they slept, their flesh and bones charred, shattered into pieces. And the complicit world watches in silence as genocide consumes everything like a wildfire.