Resettlement is a ‘durable solution’ that may be offered to refugees who cannot return to their home country and cannot integrate or find appropriate protection in their country of asylum, or are considered to be particularly vulnerable. While UNHCR is the primary referral agency to states for the consideration of refugees for resettlement, it is…
Resettlement is a ‘durable solution’ that may be offered to refugees who cannot return to their home country and cannot integrate or find appropriate protection in their country of asylum, or are considered to be particularly vulnerable. While UNHCR is the primary referral agency to states for the consideration of refugees for resettlement, it is…
Biography Tamber Hilton is a licensed lead trainer for The Community Interpreter, an interpreter training curriculum developed in the U.S. by Cross Cultural Communications, LLC. From 2005-2009, she worked as a freelance Spanish interpreter in US medical, social services and immigration settings. From 2011-2014, she was employed in the role of Interpreter Services Specialist at…
Biography: Jill is a post-doctoral researcher at the migration law section, VU Amsterdam, and the CERI at Sciences Po Paris. In the past, she has researched migration brokers, consulate officers, welfare hotels and airports. In Cameroon, she researched exit controls at airports and the prosecution of failed migrants for the offence of attempting to emigrate…
Eric Fripp Biography: Eric Fripp is a barrister practicing in asylum, immigration, and nationality work, and more widely in public law and human rights cases. He is listed as a Leading Junior in Chambers UK and the Junior in Chambers UK and the UK Legal 500. A longstanding focus of his work concerns the interrelation…
Ben Lewis Biography Ben Lewis is the Advocacy Coordinator of the International Detention Coalition and an international human rights lawyer with extensive policy advocacy experience working with refugee, asylum seeker and migrant populations in the United States, Latin America and East Africa. As Advocacy Coordinator, Ben aligns the IDC’s global, regional and domestic advocacy engagement…
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…
Dr Bruce-Jones Biography: Dr Bruce-Jones serves on the Board of Directors of the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group and the Institute of Race Relations. He is Lecturer in Law at the University of London, Birkbeck College School of Law, where he teaches European Union Law, Equality Law, Culture & Human Rights, and Critical…
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,…