These pages are authored by Resource Persons who have knowledge and experience in each Special Issue. All Resource Persons are known to the Rights in Exile Programme. Legal aid providers working on a case involving a refugee may email these Resource Persons for advice and assistance in building a case. Advice will be confidential.
If you encounter other kinds of claims that present special problems in refugee status determination, please contact us so that we can broaden our list.
These pages are authored by Resource Persons who have knowledge and experience in each Special Issue. All Resource Persons are known to the Rights in Exile Programme. Legal aid providers working on a case involving a refugee may email these Resource Persons for advice and assistance in building a case. Advice will be confidential. If…
Aryah Somers Landsberger Biography: Aryah is currently a consultant and most recently was Senior Research Consultant for UNHCR’s report, “Children on the Run: Unaccompanied Children Leaving Central America and Mexico and the Need for International Proiection.” She was a Fulbright Scholar in Guatemala conducting research on unaccompanied children removed from the United States. She has…
Galya Ruffer Biography: Galya Ruffer is the founding Director of the Center for Forced Migration Studies, Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. She completed a J.D. at Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Ruffer’s research centers on…
Biography: Dr Marsh gained his PhD in Romani Studies from Greenwich University (London), his MA (South East European Studies) from SOAS/SSEES and completed his BA Hons. (1st) in East European History at SSEES, London. He has also been a Gypsy/Traveller Education Support Teacher in London. He teaches courses on Romani identity, history, mobility and culture,…
Biography: Professor Susan Akram directs Boston University Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, in which she supervises students engaged in international advocacy in domestic, international, regional, and UN fora. Her research and publications focus on immigration, asylum, refugee, forced migration and human and civil rights issues, with an interest in the Middle East, the Arab, and…
Biography Martin Jones is a lecturer in international human rights law at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York. Martin has previously taught and served as a visiting researcher at Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada), Queen’s University (Canada), the Centre for Refugee Studies (Canada), the University of East London (UK), Georgetown…
Tel: +44 (0)1 7813 12712 Biography Professor Heaven Crawley joined the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University in September 2014 and leads research on Migration and Human Security. Educated at the Universities of Sussex (1989-1994) and Oxford (1995-1999), Heaven has more than 20 years’ experience of undertaking research on international migration…
Role: Director, Center for Forced Migration Studies (CFMS) Address: Northwestern University, 2010 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208 Tel: +00 (847) 49 13 759 Biography Galya Ruffer is the founding Director of the Center for Forced Migration Studies, Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. She…
A growing number of asylum claims are being made on grounds based in Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), also commonly referred to as ‘female circumcision’. Claims are made by parents on behalf of their daughters, by girls, and by adult women on their own behalf. This page aims to provide resources for lawyers representing such claimants….
Exclusion from Refugee Status under Article 1F of the Convention Biography Frances Webber is a retired immigration and refugee barrister, formerly at Garden Court Chambers, London, and currently a part-time visiting lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London (legal practice), she is vice-chair of the Institute of Race Relations (London)’ Council of Management, contributor to…