The RefMig project aims to re-examine the refugee regime through the lens of mobility and migration. In order to achieve a deeper understanding of the laws, norms, institutions and practices that govern refugeehood and the migration and mobility of refugees, the project examines the division between refugees and (other) migrants in several contexts. The project’s premise, ‘refugees are migrants’, aims to open up for scrutiny those practices that limit refugee flight and onward mobility, to examine how migration control concerns have come to permeate the refugee regime. It also questions the notion that international protection is only for refugees, and aims to understand how human rights and migration control may be reconciled.

 
 

Research Strands

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Recognising Refugees

Through the Recognising Refugees strand, the project examines the institutional practices that seek to distinguish refugees from migrants, which ought to be subject to much greater scrutiny by those who would defend refugee privilege in a world of migration control.

Organisations of Protection

The Organisations of Protection strand focuses on the role of international and humanitarian organisations, with a particular focus on the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

 

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