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Number 1 - Return
Return - the removal of people from the UK to countries where the Home Office determines they belong. (This is the first post in a new thread called A Lexicon of Exclusion. This thread will consider what the Home Office's terminology (really) means. What are the messages the
But where are the women?
(In which I discuss the deadly effect of woman being ignored and misrepresented within the asylum system - and show off about a new publication.) I’m pleased to say that my chapter in Georgina Colby and Jane Freedman’s edited book ‘Representing Violence Against Women: Asylum, Voice, and Testimony’
Goodbye Substack*
*I posted this on Substack but forgot to post it here on Ghost.... Dear readers (you precious few!) I’m leaving Substack … In January, one of the substacks I follow, ‘The Border Chronicle’ which posts about US border issues, announced they were leaving Substack because of the platform’s choice
A Return - to a place I used to call home.
(In which: I return to Thailand, reconnect with family and consider the plight of border communities caught up in the political psychodrama of old enemies.) I used to live in Thailand and there was a time when I assumed I’d have a close connection to Thailand throughout my life.