Sarah M. Hughes
@sarahhughes90.bsky.social
Political Geographer.
Resistance, Asylum Politics, Creativity. Loves cats 😺
Edited book 'Critical Geographies of Resistance' available from www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/critical-geographies-of-resistance-9781800882874.html
Resistance, Asylum Politics, Creativity. Loves cats 😺
Edited book 'Critical Geographies of Resistance' available from www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/critical-geographies-of-resistance-9781800882874.html
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‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’
Home secretary expected to change system to deny help to those who can work or who have assets
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
Asylum and returns policy statement
This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance.
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What does academic writing about resistance do, now?
Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance.
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...
After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works
Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.
theconversation.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...
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Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"
Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
When a positive decision is granted on an asylum claim, a new refugee has limited time before their existing government support (housing, finance) terminates. This transition between legal is various...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"
Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"
Looking for Paul Rimmer's report into the Afghan Relocation Route... should have been released to the public yesterday? Can anyone find it?
July 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Looking for Paul Rimmer's report into the Afghan Relocation Route... should have been released to the public yesterday? Can anyone find it?
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Now out and #openaccess in issue 30(1): "A Cultural Geopolitics of Hosting: Domesticity, Violence and Hospitality in the Home" by Olivia Mason and Sarah M. Hughes @oliviamason.bsky.social @sarahhughes90.bsky.social
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Download and read for free:
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February 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Now out and #openaccess in issue 30(1): "A Cultural Geopolitics of Hosting: Domesticity, Violence and Hospitality in the Home" by Olivia Mason and Sarah M. Hughes @oliviamason.bsky.social @sarahhughes90.bsky.social
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Advertising a fully-funded PHD at Northumbria University looking at how Urban Social Infrastructures (USIs) can be better-provided in UK cities to improve (holistic) Gen-Z Mens' Health and Wellbeing. Get in touch if interested, deadline January. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University, listed on F...
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November 23, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Advertising a fully-funded PHD at Northumbria University looking at how Urban Social Infrastructures (USIs) can be better-provided in UK cities to improve (holistic) Gen-Z Mens' Health and Wellbeing. Get in touch if interested, deadline January. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
This looks like a fab new paper on #archives, #climate action and participatory research methods @area @rgsibg.bsky.social
First post! I had a new paper published in Area @areajournal.bsky.social yesterday 🥳 "Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement" co-authored with my wonderful Archivist colleague Claire Weatherall doi.org/10.1111/area...
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper is based on our experience of running a workshop at the Hull History Centre in the Summer of 2023 and reflects on the value of participatory approaches and co-production to open up access ....
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November 22, 2024 at 4:35 PM
This looks like a fab new paper on #archives, #climate action and participatory research methods @area @rgsibg.bsky.social