Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comNumber of refugees allowed to settle in UK under UN schemes falls 26% in a yearRefugee Council says Home Office figures show safe and legal pathways are ‘disappearing when most needed’ 020
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comDon’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter EttedguiNow 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 030
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 15/11/2025www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.com‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under ReformAs party’s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy 141
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 27/10/2025www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comAt least 49 relatives and colleagues of Afghans in data leak have been killed, study suggestsResearch also finds 200 of 231 people notified by MoD of breach reported threats to themselves or families 020
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Finally 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/...link.springer.comCommunity Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways: global refugee resettlement movements driven by local actorsThis special issue brings together the first collection of articles examining conceptual and empirical dimensions of the new Community Sponsorship and ... 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 08/10/2025www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...theguardian.comYoung lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war deadEvery name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive 010
Reposted by Jenny PhillimoreIRIS @irisbirmingham.bsky.social · 06/10/2025New research by @profjennyp.bsky.social and colleagues for a global #refugeesponsorship initiative www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/gl...birmingham.ac.ukGlobal refugee sponsorship scheme could improve perceptions of refugees in the UK – research - University of BirminghamThe UK should develop a ‘global’ sponsorship programme to give all sponsored refugees the same rights and entitlements, according to new research. 002
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Join 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...eventbrite.co.ukReport Launch: Shaping the future of community sponsorshipJoin us for the launch of our report exploring UK refugee sponsorship: community sponsorship, homes for Ukraine and communities for Afghans 011
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 06/09/2025It’s not wrong. Its a lie. No one should ever trust this man. Fantasist!!! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comNigel Farage admits he was wrong to say he had bought house in ClactonReform UK leader says he should not have claimed he was buyer of property that was really bought by his partner 010
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 02/09/2025www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comProminent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuseExclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’ 030
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 27/08/2025www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comThe moral and economic costs of Farage’s plan to deport up to 600,000 asylum seekersKey planks of policy include Human Rights Act repeal and potential payments to countries such as Iran and Afghanistan 010
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 25/08/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.com‘I can’t sleep, I can’t get on with my life’: how Europe’s tougher rules are keeping families apartTighter family reunification laws are causing long separations, traumatising children, and can push people towards traffickers, campaigners say 011
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comI'm a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal? | Ayman AlhusseinI’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 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 11/08/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.comUK party leaders urged to end ‘pernicious currents’ of hatred fuelling anti-migrant protestsMore than 200 refugee groups, charities and unions sign letter calling for action after weeks of protests outside asylum hotels 010
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 10/08/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.com‘Why is this happening?’: violent attacks terrify Ireland’s immigrant communitySpate of physical incidents includes attack on a six-year-old girl at a County Waterford housing estate 011
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.com‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last yearMichael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’ 010
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 02/08/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.com‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestonesParents watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer, as experts confirm famine is currently playing out 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 31/07/2025www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comMass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – reportResearch documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 28/07/2025www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.com‘Every human being deserves dignity’: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understandingMan housed at hotel targeted in protests writes letter urging people not to resort to harmful stereotypes 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 28/07/2025www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.com‘The matter is in his hands alone’: president of Sierra Leone urged to ban FGM as court rules it tantamount to tortureThe 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 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.com‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips GazaFor months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comOur Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie RobertsBritain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide, says Médecins Sans Frontières UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts 000
Reposted by Jenny PhillimoreZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Nick 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. 24639150
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 09/07/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comGaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sitesDoctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoys 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comIsraeli 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 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 07/07/2025www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comExiles from Uganda’s harsh anti-gay laws now fear ‘moral panic’ legislation could follow themGay people who found sanctuary in neighbouring Kenya now fear a new family protection bill could once again threaten their rights 000
Reposted by Jenny PhillimoreGabriella Elgenius @elgenius.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Such 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/...gu.seCampus Week on Citizenship, Civil Society and Integration gathered PhD Students from Different Countries and DisciplinesDuring 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 ... 051
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 23/05/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy BeckettPoliticians and the rightwing press talk about integration in a selective and politically loaded way. The reality is quite different, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett 001
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comCutting aid for girls’ education isn’t just wrong – it’s economically illiterate | Larry ElliottThis slash-and-burn approach is indefensible and would have been anathema to previous Labour governments, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott 001
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 18/04/2025‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 07/04/2025People held at UK asylum centre sue government for human rights breach 020
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Afghan rights defender told she faces ‘no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum 001
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Red Cross had to take £220,000 from disaster fund to clothe asylum seekers in UK 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Porn isn’t just a reflection of our desires – it shapes them, putting women and girls at risk 010
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Record number of asylum seekers died in 2024 while in care of Home Office 020
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 26/01/2025A 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...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | Founding and sustaining grassroots actions in superdiverse neighbourhoods facing socioeconomic challenges: narratives of emergent processes, actions and resources 010
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025For years I’ve asked ministers what they expect refugees to do. They never have an answer 030
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Victims of male violence criticise Musk’s attack on Phillips 000
Reposted by Jenny Phillimoreandyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 27/12/2024The 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. 21378109
Reposted by Jenny PhillimoreIRIS @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/...academic.oup.comFrom Mere Life to a Good Life: Shifting Refugee Integration Policy from Outcomes to CapabilitiesAbstract. Despite extensive criticism, integration policy has seen increasing resonance in many Western countries. Refugees are particularly susceptible to 163
Reposted by Jenny PhillimoreGabriella Elgenius @elgenius.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Swedish 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.socialgu.seTheories of Citizenship, Civil Society and Integration7,5 ECTS 142
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Swansea mother ‘traumatised’ by arrest under Terrorism Act 010
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Weather blamed for small boat arrivals rising to 20,000 under Labour 000
Reposted by Jenny PhillimoreMike 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.bylinetimes.com'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 281280408
Reposted by Jenny PhillimoreNando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Great 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 181
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre 000
Jenny Phillimore @profjennyp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Delighted my open access article shifting focus from refugee outcomes to aspirations is in print academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...academic.oup.comFrom Mere Life to a Good Life: Shifting Refugee Integration Policy from Outcomes to CapabilitiesAbstract. Despite extensive criticism, integration policy has seen increasing resonance in many Western countries. Refugees are particularly susceptible to 0196