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Clara Sandelind

@sandelind.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. Nationalism, migration, liberalism, feminism. En god flyktingpolitik, Daidalos 2022 www.adlibris.com/sv-FI/bok/en-god-f… Podcast: Talking Migration

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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two women and a 10 year old child have lost their lives in the Channel. These deaths are a tragedy and our thoughts are with their loved ones and all those on the boat. Safe, accessible routes, NOW. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
Official says deaths – and dozens of injuries – were probably caused by crushing on boat carrying 105 people
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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Webinar: Credibility in asylum claims – a practical guide for advisers. Covers how the Home Office assesses credibility in the asylum process, plus tips and techniques for helping clients demonstrate the credibility of their claim. Live webinar from Free Movement, £110 + VAT.
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Webinar: Credibility in asylum claims: a practical guide for advisers - Free Movement
In this webinar, we’ll discuss how the Home Office assesses credibility in the asylum process and share tips and techniques for supporting clients to demonstrate the credibility of their claim.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Det pratas alldeles för lite om hur svenska staten förtrycker statslösa personer genom att försätta dem i ett limbo utan slut. I detta avsnitt hör vi från Wesam som är statslös, Nannie Sköld från Stadsmissionen och Emma Söderman från Linnéuniversitetet. soundcloud.com/user-2233514...
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Hur är livet som statslös i Sverige?
Please note: this episode is in Swedish. I avsnittet: Wesam, statslös i Sverige Nannie Sköld, Stadsmissionen Projektet Vem är jag imorgon? https://www.stadsmissionen.se/fa-stod/stod-och-rattighete
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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz @isobelhk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Det är alltså nu bara miljöpartiet i svensk politik som förstår vad ett medborgarskap är www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...
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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz: Även Dadgostar vill alltså riva sönder medborgarskapet
Många pratar om att uppvärdera medborgarskapet. Att göra de medborgerliga rättigheterna tillfälliga går åt rakt motsatt håll.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Det pratas alldeles för lite om hur svenska staten förtrycker statslösa personer genom att försätta dem i ett limbo utan slut. I detta avsnitt hör vi från Wesam som är statslös, Nannie Sköld från Stadsmissionen och Emma Söderman från Linnéuniversitetet. soundcloud.com/user-2233514...
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Hur är livet som statslös i Sverige?
Please note: this episode is in Swedish. I avsnittet: Wesam, statslös i Sverige Nannie Sköld, Stadsmissionen Projektet Vem är jag imorgon? https://www.stadsmissionen.se/fa-stod/stod-och-rattighete
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Rickard Olseke @migration.se · 03/08/2026
Sveriges migrationspolitik bidrar till en mindre fri värld och ett mindre fritt Sverige, skriver @sandelind.bsky.social
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Sveriges migrationspolitik är oförenlig med frihet - Liberal Debatt
Just nu gör regeringen både Sverige och världen mindre fritt, skriver Clara Sandelind,
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rainbowmigration.bsky.social @rainbowmigration.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“£36 a week in London and they think I can have an expensive gay lifestyle?! I have to buy groceries! And what about the introverted people, am I not gay because I don’t want to go to nightclubs?” Bahiru, a gay man from Ethiopia
Photo of queer Black man with white braids looking at the camera.
Title reads: Did you know these 3 facts about how LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum are forced to 'prove' their sexuality and gender identity? 
Rainbow Migration and Bird & Blend logos in bottom left corner.1: People who do not have sexual or romantic histories are often not believed, but many hide their identity to stay safe from abuse or violence.
“All I had was myself and my sexuality, but they said that wasn’t enough.” Adam, a bisexual man from Ghana2: The asylum system forces people to provide evidence of their past sexual history, relationships, emotions and potential trauma. 
Marina, a lesbian from Cameroon, found the process of having to ‘prove’ her sexual orientation very difficult: “It’s like trying to prove that I am called my own name”3: Whilst claiming asylum, many people are met with prejudice and Western stereotypes, or disbelief of sexual orientation.
“I had scars and plasters from the violent attacks back home, but still the Home Office didn’t believe I was a lesbian.“ Olu, a lesbian from Nigeria
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Bernd Parusel @bernd-parusel.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In this podcast, @sandelind.bsky.social, Torun Elsrud and I talk about the evolution of migration and asylum policy in Sweden (and the EU) over recent years, so it's quite bleak... But I think we managed to round off with a few glimmers of hope. 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/0v2o...
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54: What is the state of Swedish asylum policy?
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Rickard Olseke @migration.se · 17/05/2026
Moving towards temporary protection is incredibly harmful and means that displacement continues, @sandelind.bsky.social writes.
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Refugees, displacement and territorial stability | Clara Sandelind
As I'm working on the final pieces of the argument of my book manuscript, I return to this paper I published in 2020. It was a very drawn out review process, including a year of maternity leave, and w...
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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Long thread alert 🧵 1. A Student visa holder has been returned as a member of the Scottish Parliament. How is that legally possible? We've looked at the immigration law and constitutional framework that makes this unprecedented situation entirely lawful.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I enjoyed writing this comment piece in @the-joap.bsky.social on Will Kymlicka's article on 'Membership-Making in Diverse Societies'. My response draws on work from my book project on building solidarity within welfare states and with refugees. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Against Dualism: Border Regimes, the International Order, and Domestic Social Relations
In this response to Will Kymlicka, I reflect upon whether dualist politics – a separation of the domestic and the international – hinders our understanding of how to create inclusive and solidaristic...
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I enjoyed writing this comment piece in @the-joap.bsky.social on Will Kymlicka's article on 'Membership-Making in Diverse Societies'. My response draws on work from my book project on building solidarity within welfare states and with refugees. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Against Dualism: Border Regimes, the International Order, and Domestic Social Relations
In this response to Will Kymlicka, I reflect upon whether dualist politics – a separation of the domestic and the international – hinders our understanding of how to create inclusive and solidaristic...
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Last week, Tania, our Community Organiser, spoke at the Mass Lobby of Parliament against the Govt's plans for 'earned settlement' on behalf of our action group THE VOICE. She called out the racism and violence that under pins the proposals, & shared why we wholly reject them. 🎤Tania's full speech:
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Community Organiser Tania's Speech at Mass Lobby of Parliament
YouTube video by GMIAU
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Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...
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“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous
An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State...
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Action-guiding for whom? Social movements and political theory of migration' by @sandelind.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/LFig5NF @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
New open access paper out in @bjpir.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A number of recent articles have sought to carve out space for more feasible and action-guiding political theories of migration. These accounts have focused on policy-makers as target agents. I suggest an alternative approach that targets migrant and refugee-led social movements who can generate social and political goods that are crucial in non-ideal conditions. These include situated social critique, embodied non-oppressive alternatives and community-building. Making these goods salient renders three desiderata for normative theorising. Movement-oriented theories need to be intelligible to such movements, they need to provide a framework for transformative worldmaking and they need to attend to affective relations created in and by social movements. Engaging with migrant and refugee social movements, I suggest that a movement-oriented theory of migration renders ‘no borders’ more action-guiding by focusing on how border regimes sustain a hierarchical international order that makes some people more vulnerable to displacement and its associated harms.
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Det är bara för sorgligt.
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New open access paper out in @bjpir.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A number of recent articles have sought to carve out space for more feasible and action-guiding political theories of migration. These accounts have focused on policy-makers as target agents. I suggest an alternative approach that targets migrant and refugee-led social movements who can generate social and political goods that are crucial in non-ideal conditions. These include situated social critique, embodied non-oppressive alternatives and community-building. Making these goods salient renders three desiderata for normative theorising. Movement-oriented theories need to be intelligible to such movements, they need to provide a framework for transformative worldmaking and they need to attend to affective relations created in and by social movements. Engaging with migrant and refugee social movements, I suggest that a movement-oriented theory of migration renders ‘no borders’ more action-guiding by focusing on how border regimes sustain a hierarchical international order that makes some people more vulnerable to displacement and its associated harms.
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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We're seeing a dramatic increase in immigration enforcement in the UK. While it may not have same attention as ICE raids in UK, it still sees families ripped apart and vulnerable people detained. Spain shows regularisation for undocumented migrants is a better option. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Spain plans to give 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status
The process will be available to foreign nationals without a criminal record who can prove they lived in Spain for five months prior to 31 December 2025.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Holocaust Memorial Day: Learning from the Universal and the Particular open.substack.com/pub/clarasan...
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Holocaust Memorial Day: Learning from the Universal and the Particular
There are universal and particular lessons from the Holocaust. We must understand both.
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Bernd Parusel @bernd-parusel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We need more of this in Europe. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Spain approves decree to regularise half a million undocumented migrants
Move affecting those who have been in Spain five months or more runs counter to anti-migration policies across Europe
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Holocaust Memorial Day: Learning from the Universal and the Particular open.substack.com/pub/clarasan...
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Holocaust Memorial Day: Learning from the Universal and the Particular
There are universal and particular lessons from the Holocaust. We must understand both.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Tittar in här för att meddela att jag skrivit min första substack. Om hur berättelsen om de svenska värderingarna förvrider verkligheten om den grymma migrationspolitiken. open.substack.com/pub/clarasan...
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Svenska värderingar
Berättelsen om det goda och upplysta Sverige förvrider verkligheten av en grym migrationspolitik
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Social Responsibility at The University of Manchester @socialresponuom.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🧠 A new report from @sandelind.bsky.social of @uompols.bsky.social & Dr Katherine Puddifoot of @durham-university.bsky.social shows how trauma from the UK asylum system can distort memory leading to unfair outcomes. Read more:
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The impact of the asylum system on mental health and memory < Social Responsibility
A new report from experts at the University of Manchester and Durham University reveals how the UK asylum system may be contributing to memory problems among people seeking asylum—making it harder…
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We have long-warned of the harms of large-scale accommodation sites. The Government knows that they are cruel, unsafe and unsuitable. This plan is chasing headlines. It puts closing hotels before people. This move will undoubtedly cause harm and distress to people seeking safety here. 2/2
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Professor Michael Ben-Gad at City St George’s, University of London, has been subject to a vicious harassment campaign because he, an Israeli citizen, studied, taught and worked in Israel, and served in the IDF (as all Jewish Israelis must). Please read and sign this. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Standing against targeted harassment of Professor Michael Ben-Gad
21 October 2025 We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by a targeted harassment campaign against Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City St George’s, University of London, led by a group ca...
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Solidarity with Michael Ben-Gad.
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Victor Malm @victormalm.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
En skarp och fin artikel av Leo Sokolow Romin.
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LEO SOKOLOW ROMIN: Min pappa är israelvän – min mamma israelkritiker
Bilden av Israel är rekorddårlig – bland legitim kritik delas inlägg som ekar Hamas slagord. Leo Sokolow Romin skriver om hur det är att vara judisk och sekulär i Sverige i dag.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Emma Watson on Rowling - she seems incapable of understanding the difference between intellectual disagreement and a person using their position of power to strip the rights of an already marginalised group.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
See, these questions read so much more humanising because people are referred to as people.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Interesting results, but what would happen if you changed 'migrants' to 'people'?
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Läs gärna den policy-rapport jag och en kollega skrivit om den psykiska stress som asylsystemet innebär och hur det kan påverka minnet. Vi fokuserar på Storbritannien men det är lika relevant i Sverige. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Aron Verständig säger det som behöver sägas - tiden för demonstrationen verkar vara illa vald. Platsen för eventet likaså. Politikernas språkbruk - oacceptabelt. alkompis.se/sv/aron-vers...
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Aron Verständig: “Olämpligt av Bajit att stå värd för IDF-soldat” | Alkompis - Artiklar på svenska
Skarp kritik mot organisation som bjöd in IDF-soldat på föreläsning
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Nathan Hamelberg @nathanhamelberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Undrar om det ingår i vår kulturkanon att kalla judar som står med skyltar "alla barn är lika värda" för odjur och säga att de inte hör hemma i Sverige, så som vår utrikesminister gjort, eller om det räknas som bristande vandel? #sakervialdrigkommerfåsvarpå #denhycklanderegeringen
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ett av mina forskningsområden är kollektivt självbestämmande och staters rättigheter över territorium. Det finns stora skillnader mellan vad politiska teoretiker har att säga om detta, men ingen tycker att stater har en villkorslös rätt att existera.
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Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end. I raised this in Parliament last week 👇
Question from me: "I warmly welcome the Leader of the House to his new role and associate myself with the support across the House for my hon. Friend the Member for Washington and Gateshead South (Mrs Hodgson). Members have raised many times the unacceptable level of threats that we face. Increasingly, abuse and threats are being driven and whipped up by one platform in particular, X, previously known as Twitter, which has become a sewer of antisemitism, racism, misogyny and dangerous conspiracy theories. Its owner has specifically targeted Members of this House. With a new director of communications in No. 10 and a refreshed Front Bench, may we have a debate in Government time on whether it is appropriate for that platform to continue to be used for official Government communications?"Answer from Sir Alan Campbell, Leader of the House: "What my hon. Friend says about X is truly shocking. We are very much in favour of free speech, but we are also against incitement to violence. We have delivered the Online Safety Act 2025 to seek to strike the balance between user protection and freedom of speech. On the matter of the Government’s use of X, it is right that the public are kept up to date with information and a number of people still use X, although of course many are moving to other platforms. I am sure that the Government will take that into account in our deliberations in future, and we also keep our wider social media practices under review."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Yes, Charlie Kirk called for President Biden to be imprisoned and put to death, but he was so well-groomed when he said it so ...
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Har Liberalerna sagt någonting om jämställdhet senaste 10 åren som inte är relaterat till hederskultur?
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Alex Voronov @alexvoronov.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
”…vi har kortat tiderna för etablering på arbetsmarknaden som tidigare var 7–9 år till nuvarande 3–4 år. Av de stora antal ensamkommande barn Sverige tog emot…hade av de som var kvar i landet år 2023 hela 8 av 10 ett jobb.” 2015 har lett till en kris för den demokratiska anständigheten, inget annat.
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DEBATT: Flyktingkrisen 2015 var ingen kris för oss
Det är hög tid att revidera bilden av 2015 års stora mottagande av människor på flykt som en kris eller katastrof för Sverige. Låt oss få känna en stolthet över den insats vi samlat gjorde och ville g...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Please, no more debates!
Debates elevate the worst aspects of our politics. Let’s try something else.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Labour's new changes to asylum policies is causing and will cause enormous stress among people seeking asylum. The system is already doing this, as Katherine Puddifoot and I write in this report where we also show that this impacts people's memories. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...
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New report highlights how UK asylum system can distort memory through trauma
The report, based on a peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Social Philosophy, is authored by Clara Sandelind, Lecturer in Political Theory within The University of Manchester Department of Politics,...
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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Here is our guide to making refugee family reunion applications: freemovement.org.uk/refugee-fami...
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Refugee family reunion: a user's guide - Free Movement
This article is for refugees, those with humanitarian protection, their family and those supporting them when making refugee family reunion applications.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Så Sveriges kulturkanon slutar 1975? Ahahahahaha.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Labour's new changes to asylum policies is causing and will cause enormous stress among people seeking asylum. The system is already doing this, as Katherine Puddifoot and I write in this report where we also show that this impacts people's memories. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...
manchester.ac.uk
New report highlights how UK asylum system can distort memory through trauma
The report, based on a peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Social Philosophy, is authored by Clara Sandelind, Lecturer in Political Theory within The University of Manchester Department of Politics,...
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University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🧠 A new report from @sandelind.bsky.social of @uompols.bsky.social & Dr Katherine Puddifoot of @durham-university.bsky.social shows how trauma from the UK asylum system can distort memory leading to unfair outcomes, & calls for reforms to protect mental health & dignity. 🔗 Read the full story below
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New report highlights how UK asylum system can distort memory through trauma
The report, based on a peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Social Philosophy, is authored by Clara Sandelind, Lecturer in Political Theory within The University of Manchester Department of Politics,...
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The paper it is based on (open access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Knowing your past: Trauma, stress, and mnemonic epistemic injustice
Click on the article title to read more.
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Based on our research on how the asylum system negatively impacts people's memory, and penalises people for disorganised memories, Katherine Puddifoot and I have written this short policy report. research.manchester.ac.uk/files/144572...
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Clara Sandelind @sandelind.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Based on our research on how the asylum system negatively impacts people's memory, and penalises people for disorganised memories, Katherine Puddifoot and I have written this short policy report. research.manchester.ac.uk/files/144572...
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