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Jenny Phillimore

@profjennyp.bsky.social

Professor of Migration and Superdiversity at University of Birmingham. Forced migration, SGBV, gender, asylum policy, civil society, emotions.

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Number of refugees allowed to settle in UK under UN schemes falls 26% in a year Refugee Council says Home Office figures show safe and legal pathways are โ€˜disappearing when most neededโ€™

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01.12.2025 07:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Donโ€™t believe Nigel Farageโ€™s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish โ€“ and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer

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25.11.2025 22:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Death by a thousand cutsโ€™: the people who could face deportation under Reform As partyโ€™s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy

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15.11.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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At least 49 relatives and colleagues of Afghans in data leak have been killed, study suggests Research also finds 200 of 231 people notified by MoD of breach reported threats to themselves or families

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27.10.2025 20:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways: global refugee resettlement movements driven by local actors This special issue brings together the first collection of articles examining conceptual and empirical dimensions of the new Community Sponsorship and ...

Finally our SI #Community #Sponsorship and #Complementary #Pathways is out! Do have a read if you are interested in #refugee #resettlement. Perspectives from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Spain, the UK and essay by refugee Solomon Seyoum Elala link.springer.com/collections/...

15.10.2025 17:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gazaโ€™s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israelโ€™s offensive

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08.10.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Global refugee sponsorship scheme could improve perceptions of refugees in the UK โ€“ research - University of Birmingham The UK should develop a โ€˜globalโ€™ sponsorship programme to give all sponsored refugees the same rights and entitlements, according to new research.

New research by @profjennyp.bsky.social and colleagues for a global #refugeesponsorship initiative
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06.10.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Report Launch: Shaping the future of community sponsorship Join us for the launch of our report exploring UK refugee sponsorship: community sponsorship, homes for Ukraine and communities for Afghans

Join our online report launch on #refugeesponsorship and hear about #sponsorship could be improved for everyone 29/9 at 3.30pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/report-lau...

10.09.2025 06:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nigel Farage admits he was wrong to say he had bought house in Clacton Reform UK leader says he should not have claimed he was buyer of property that was really bought by his partner

Itโ€™s not wrong. Its a lie. No one should ever trust this man. Fantasist!!! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

06.09.2025 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women โ€˜to fuel hate and divisionโ€™

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02.09.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The moral and economic costs of Farageโ€™s plan to deport up to 600,000 asylum seekers Key planks of policy include Human Rights Act repeal and potential payments to countries such as Iran and Afghanistan

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27.08.2025 09:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜I canโ€™t sleep, I canโ€™t get on with my lifeโ€™: how Europeโ€™s tougher rules are keeping families apart Tighter family reunification laws are causing long separations, traumatising children, and can push people towards traffickers, campaigners say

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25.08.2025 06:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal? | Ayman Alhussein Iโ€™ve met wonderful people here who make me feel that I belong โ€“ but there are now many who see asylum seekers as an easy political target, says film-maker Ayman Alhussein

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21.08.2025 18:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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UK party leaders urged to end โ€˜pernicious currentsโ€™ of hatred fuelling anti-migrant protests More than 200 refugee groups, charities and unions sign letter calling for action after weeks of protests outside asylum hotels

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11.08.2025 21:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Why is this happening?โ€™: violent attacks terrify Irelandโ€™s immigrant community Spate of physical incidents includes attack on a six-year-old girl at a County Waterford housing estate

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10.08.2025 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜No one should act surprised,โ€™ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: โ€˜Israel is starving Gaza. Itโ€™s genocideโ€™

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04.08.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜We are dying slowly, save usโ€™: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones Parents watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer, as experts confirm famine is currently playing out

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02.08.2025 10:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity โ€“ report Research documents โ€˜horrific and extremeโ€™ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions

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31.07.2025 14:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Every human being deserves dignityโ€™: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understanding Man housed at hotel targeted in protests writes letter urging people not to resort to harmful stereotypes

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28.07.2025 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜The matter is in his hands aloneโ€™: president of Sierra Leone urged to ban FGM as court rules it tantamount to torture The Ecowas court of justice has ordered the West African country to criminalise female genital mutilation after hearing the case of a woman brutally forced to undergo the practice

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28.07.2025 10:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜We faced hunger before, but never like thisโ€™: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

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26.07.2025 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our Mรฉdecins Sans Frontiรจres staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts Britain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide, says Mรฉdecins Sans Frontiรจres UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts

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14.07.2025 22:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nick Thomas Symmonds proving for the millionth time on #r4today that Labour JUST DOESNT GET IT.

12,000 people may have been prevented from crossing the channel, but they just will have tried again until they get here because there is NOTHING ELSE FOR THEM.
People need real solutions. They just do.

09.07.2025 07:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 645    ๐Ÿ” 151    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by โ€˜mass casualty incidentsโ€™ at food distribution sites Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoys

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09.07.2025 09:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gazaโ€™s population โ€˜a blueprint for crimes against humanityโ€™ Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into โ€˜humanitarian cityโ€™ but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza

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08.07.2025 07:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exiles from Ugandaโ€™s harsh anti-gay laws now fear โ€˜moral panicโ€™ legislation could follow them Gay people who found sanctuary in neighbouring Kenya now fear a new family protection bill could once again threaten their rights

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07.07.2025 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Campus Week on Citizenship, Civil Society and Integration gathered PhD Students from Different Countries and Disciplines During the first week of May, PhD students from different countries and disciplines came together at the University of Gothenburg for an inspiring and intensive campus week, marking the conclusion of ...

Such a great group of students and teachers came together for the doctoral course "Theories of Citizenship, Civil Society and Integration" @universityofgothenburg @AndersNeergaard @profjennyp.bsky.social @peterscholten @jutakaw.bsky.social @kerstinjacobsson www.gu.se/en/research/...

22.05.2025 08:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The least โ€˜integratedโ€™ part of British society isnโ€™t the immigrants โ€“ itโ€™s the elite | Andy Beckett Politicians and the rightwing press talk about integration in a selective and politically loaded way. The reality is quite different, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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23.05.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cutting aid for girlsโ€™ education isnโ€™t just wrong โ€“ itโ€™s economically illiterate | Larry Elliott This slash-and-burn approach is indefensible and would have been anathema to previous Labour governments, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

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22.05.2025 06:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€˜If I die, I want a loud deathโ€™: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike

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