Bel Rawson

Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control: Colonial legacies and the Experiences of Migrants in Mexico Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control explores the complex relationship between migrants and local aid organisations. These organisations have become indisputably relevant and highly regard...

Also, you can read a preview of my book here: www.routledge.com/Ambivalent-H...

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Beyond grateful for this brilliant book review by the awesome Bel @belrawson.bsky.social 💫

It also coincides with the first year of my book "Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control" being published 🎂

➡️You can find the book review here:
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Latest blog: “This is not protection, this is punishment”. Inside our Radical Solidarity Hub meeting; Labour’s proposed changes to asylum protection ow.ly/3ZES50XFHtY #MigrationisLIfe #NoOneisIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall

Call for Papers: The Refugee Convention at 75: Perspectives Within and Beyond - Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (IKRS) As the BEYOND project concludes in 2026—coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention—we are pleased to invite scholars, practitioners, and advocates to a forward-looking conference i...

Call for Papers 📣

Next June, BEYOND will host a forward-looking conference in Oslo on the lasting significance and evolving challenges of refugee protection under international law.

We invite scholars, practitioners and advocates to submit their proposals by December 15. For more information:

🎬 That’s a wrap on #SLSA2025!

We’re proud to have hosted the UK’s leading socio-legal event here in Liverpool.

3 days, 900+ papers, a powerful plenary reflecting on Hillsborough, a dedicated postgrad programme & more!

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us! 🙌 @slsauk.bsky.social

📣Call for #Research Participants for my project on #law, #emotion and #migration, funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social. I am seeking frontline workers who have experience in UK #Asylum and #Immigration Tribunals. Scan the QR code or visit forms.office.com/e/x946X0gW1t to learn more. Please share 🙏

Starmer union ally joins opposition to rules barring citizenship for small boat refugees Head of Unison Christina McAnea is one of 148 signatories of open letter warning rules will ‘breed division and mistrust’

We are proud to be one of the signatories to this letter. People who've received asylum need to be able to seek citizenship should they so wish. Blocking them from doing so continues the policies of division and discrimination which we should be moving away from.

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Why Palestine is a feminist issue: a reckoning with Western feminism in a time of genocide Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Just published 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2025.2455477

“Security at the heart”: Criminalisation and Labour’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025

New on the blog!

@vickytaylor.bsky.social and Catriona Götz discuss the new offences on Labour's Border Security, Asylum and Immigration bbill, which would significantly expand the state’s ability to use criminal powers against those it labels as having played a role in ‘facilitating migration’.