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Heaven Crawley

Writer | Migration, Food & Power

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  • About me
  • Learning
    • South-South migration and inequality
    • The problem of categories
    • Access to justice and rights
    • Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’
    • Migration decision making
    • Public attitudes, political narratives
    • Children on the move
    • Gender and refugee protection
  • Writing
    • Books and reports
      • The Taste of Power
      • The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality
      • Political will and forced displacement
      • “No papers, no rights”
      • Migration and inequality in the Global South
      • Access to documentation and modern slavery
      • Shrinking the justice gap
      • Journeys over land and sea
      • From “left behind’ to “staying back”
      • Beyond fear and hate
      • Victims and villains
      • Chance or choice?
      • When is a child not a child?
      • Coping with destitution
      • Breaking down the barriers
    • Journal articles
      • Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies
      • Saving brown women from brown men?
      • Refugee protection and COVID-19
      • Boxed: exploring containment and resilience in times of crisis
      • Beyond here and there
      • Between a rock and a hard place
      • Deciding where to go
      • Categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding
      • Common agenda or Europe’s agenda?
      • Asexual, apolitical beings
      • Finding space for children’s agency
    • Comment pieces
      • The UK-Rwanda deal
      • ‘Stop the Boats’: will it work?
      • From despair to hope?
      • A Syrian refugee family’s life in limbo
      • Report from Lesvos
      • Crocodile tears
      • Why SEZs are not the solution
      • Refugee economics
      • Time for narrative change
      • Crisis or opportunity?
      • The failures of EU relocation
      • Europe’s war on migrants
      • Detaining children is not a necessary evil
  • Talking
    • Lectures
      • Decentering migration research
      • RGS Monday Night Lecture
      • Between conflict and survival
    • Discussions
      • Migration: the research, the polling and the politics
      • Racism, xenophobia and migration narratives
      • Making African(ist) migration research visible
      • DevTalk: new waves of migration
      • Refugee and migrant journeys
      • Refugees: are jobs the answer?
      • Refugees and migrants: a new global response
      • The importance of intercultural dialogue
      • Europe’s migration crisis?
    • Podcasts
      • Debunking migration myths
      • The politics of migration
      • Can migration drive development?
      • Labels and linguistics
      • Understanding the drivers of migration to Europe
    • Media
      • Facts or fear? Is Europe really facing a migration crisis?
      • Why we need to protect refugees from the ‘big ideas’ designed to save them
      • Refugees forced to depend on human smugglers
      • What’s missing from newspaper coverage of migration? The migrants…
      • European leaders blamed for record high deaths in the Mediterranean
      • Detaining children is not a necessary evil
      • Conflicts of interest
      • Refugee crisis: European leaders blamed for record high deaths in the Mediterranean
  • Reflecting
    • Migration
      • Above, behind and beyond fences
      • The dead beneath our feet
    • Identity
      • Today we created a monster…and built solidarity
      • The journey begins…
    • Belonging
      • Putting down roots
      • What does it mean to belong?
  • Connecting

Comment pieces

In this section you can find some of my comment pieces published for The Conversation, openDemocracy, UNU-CPR and others.

If you are looking for something specific and can’t find it here, please feel free to contact me.

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