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Jenny Phillimore

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

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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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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 ‘disappearing when most needed’
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – 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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under Reform
As party’s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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/...
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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 ...
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
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IRIS @irisbirmingham.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
New research by @profjennyp.bsky.social and colleagues for a global #refugeesponsorship initiative www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/gl...
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Global refugee sponsorship scheme could improve perceptions of refugees in the UK – research - University of Birmingham
The UK should develop a ‘global’ sponsorship programme to give all sponsored refugees the same rights and entitlements, according to new research.
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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...
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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
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
It’s not wrong. Its a lie. No one should ever trust this man. Fantasist!!! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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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
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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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 ‘to fuel hate and division’
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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The moral and economic costs of Farage’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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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‘I can’t sleep, I can’t get on with my life’: how Europe’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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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I'm a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal? | Ayman Alhussein
I’ve met wonderful people here who make me feel that I belong – but there are now many who see asylum seekers as an easy political target, says film-maker Ayman Alhussein
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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UK party leaders urged to end ‘pernicious currents’ 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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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‘Why is this happening?’: violent attacks terrify Ireland’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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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‘No one should act surprised,’ 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: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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‘We are dying slowly, save us’: 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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report
Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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‘Every human being deserves dignity’: 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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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‘The matter is in his hands alone’: 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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: 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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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Our Médecins Sans Frontières 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 Médecins Sans Frontières UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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.
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sites
Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoys
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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Exiles from Uganda’s harsh anti-gay laws now fear ‘moral panic’ 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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Gabriella Elgenius @elgenius.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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/...
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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 ...
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Cutting aid for girls’ education isn’t just wrong – it’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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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
People held at UK asylum centre sue government for human rights breach
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Afghan rights defender told she faces ‘no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Red Cross had to take £220,000 from disaster fund to clothe asylum seekers in UK
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Porn isn’t just a reflection of our desires – it shapes them, putting women and girls at risk
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Record number of asylum seekers died in 2024 while in care of Home Office
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A new article out with Gabriella Elgenius on" Founding and sustaining grassroots actions in superdiverse neighbourhoods facing socioeconomic challenges: narratives of emergent processes, actions and resources" www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...
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Frontiers | Founding and sustaining grassroots actions in superdiverse neighbourhoods facing socioeconomic challenges: narratives of emergent processes, actions and resources
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
For years I’ve asked ministers what they expect refugees to do. They never have an answer
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Victims of male violence criticise Musk’s attack on Phillips
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The Government should make building hundreds of thousands of council homes its defining purpose. No other policy, achievable within a Parliament, would bring greater social and economic benefits.
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IRIS @irisbirmingham.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"Thi is my attempt to introduce a new framing to the study and development of refugee integration policy that responds to the criticism of the term", says Jenny Phillimore (@profjennyp.bsky.social) introducing her choice. academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...
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From Mere Life to a Good Life: Shifting Refugee Integration Policy from Outcomes to Capabilities
Abstract. Despite extensive criticism, integration policy has seen increasing resonance in many Western countries. Refugees are particularly susceptible to
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Gabriella Elgenius @elgenius.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Swedish Research Council's graduate school #Migration #Integration @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social new PhD course "Citizenship, CivilSociety & Integration" @elgenius.bsky.social #KerstinJacobsson #JutaKawalerowicz #AndersNeergard @profjennyp.bsky.social #PeterScholten. @goteborgsuni.bsky.social
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Theories of Citizenship, Civil Society and Integration
7,5 ECTS
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Swansea mother ‘traumatised’ by arrest under Terrorism Act
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Weather blamed for small boat arrivals rising to 20,000 under Labour
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“For the sake of Britain, Europe and humanity, it’s time for us to get back with the European team” Me for Byline Times on what Trump’s election means for US-UK-EU relations.
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'Donald Trump's Election Means Reversing Brexit Is Now More Urgent Than Ever'
For the sake of Britain, Europe and humanity, it’s time for us to get back with the European team, argues Mike Galsworthy
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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great to find out the School of #SocialPolicy & Society has joined the great migration @birminghamschool.bsky.social. Welcome also to colleagues @profnicolagale.bsky.social, @dr-yang.bsky.social @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social @pipmck.bsky.social @profjennyp.bsky.social @seb-rumsby.bsky.social
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre
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Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Delighted my open access article shifting focus from refugee outcomes to aspirations is in print academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...
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From Mere Life to a Good Life: Shifting Refugee Integration Policy from Outcomes to Capabilities
Abstract. Despite extensive criticism, integration policy has seen increasing resonance in many Western countries. Refugees are particularly susceptible to
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