Refugee protection in Europe: Some contemporary challenges

Decisions on women’s claims for international protection from domestic violence, including Lazo-Majano (1987), Islam and Shah (1999) and Refugee Appeal No. 76044 (2008) have generated strands of case law which both contradict each other and the Refugee Convention’s object and purpose. Adjudicators have delineated overly restrictive social groups and ignored, identified, or imputed a range of political opinions. A disproportionate focus on ‘private’ motives has also obscured the nexus between persecution and the Convention ground(s).

Faisal Hamid

Faisal researches the Political Economy of Islam in Nigeria. He also serves as a Senior Strategy Analyst at Harvard University.

Before starting his doctorate, Faisal was a senior administrator at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, CA, and a Senior Strategy Consultant with Monitor Deloitte. He earned his BA from Yale and MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Francesco Raffaelli

I am a PhD student at DPIR at the University of Oxford.

My research focuses on the fields of identity politics, comparative political economy, and political behaviour, with a geographical focus on Western European countries. Methodologically, my research employs surveys, laboratory experiments, and causal inference.

Overall, my current research encompasses the following topics.

  1. public opinion's nuances on immigration and positive attitudes towards immigrants;  

Daniel Lane Martin

Daniel Lane is a first year MPhil student reading European Politics and Society at St Cross College. His research interests include coalition politics, the European Union, party politics and populism in Southern Europe.

Before his MPhil, Daniel graduated with honours in Political Science and Public Administration at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He also completed two years of a Law degree at the same university. His bachelor’s thesis was on the normative power of the European Union in the area of data protection.

Patrick Cross

Paddy Cross is reading for a Master of Philosophy in Politics (Comparative Government) at Pembroke College. He is a Governor Philip scholar. Under the supervision of Professor Desmond King, Paddy’s research examines civil-military relations in the United States. In the tradition of American Political Development, Paddy’s work traces how the military conceives of its role in domestic political crises.

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