Carmen Caruso

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Researcher at University of Bradford

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are key actors in the conceptualisation, practice and debate on international protection. Their work with refugees and migrants is extensive and varied, at local, national and international levels. In this report, we consider the extent to which we can understand these various actions through reference to contextu...

Studies of civil society organisations (CSOs) working on international protection related issues have typically focused on those groups with positive dispositions towards refugees, without asking either whether this is the full range of dispositions in such groups or why negatively-disposed individuals appear not to mobilise in the same way. This a...

Since the 2010s and the start of the increased refugee flows in Europe, Greece has been at the spotlight as a point of entry for refugees and asylum seekers from troubled regions of the Middle East and North Africa who attempt to cross either the land border with Turkey or use the sea routes to find shelter on the Greek islands (Lafazani 2018). The...

Horizon 2020 Protect project, DELIVERABLE No. D5.6. Published by the PROTECT Consortium. The PROTECT Consortium is composed of: University of Bergen, University of Catania, Ghent University, Giessen University, Ljubljana University, Lund University, Open University (London), Queen Mary University (London), University of Surrey, University of Stut...

Since the 2015 migration crisis, third sector organisations’ (TSOs’) involvement in delivering various social, humanitarian, political and cultural services to incoming populations has increased. The recent challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic have not only intensified insecurity around economics and personal and communal safety, but also disp...

Despite cyclical attempts to depict migratory flows as extraordinary, migration has always had a place in human history. Considering the magnitude of human mobility across borders, the management of migrant citizens adopted by affluent Western economies appears both inappropriate and fuelled by panic. Assuming the contemporary time-space compressio...

Partire dalla città come campo d’indagine vuol dire isolare una storia singolare, svelare le dinamiche sottostanti l’istituzione della comunità politica, esaminare le strutture economiche, le relazioni codificate tra gruppi sociali e sfera pubblica, e osservare come questi processi diano forma al territorio e al paesaggio urbano contemporaneo. La...

The Palestinian diaspora is a lens through which we can look at a specific migration and delineate a constellation of problems that, more generally, revolve around migrations. The voices of Palestinian women and men will lead us from a particular experience to the effects enmeshed into a broader postcolonial reality. In particular, the aim of this...

Migration for Lebanese is an ancestral practice that can be traced back to the Phoenicians. This cultural and social heritage has been maintained throughout time and still has an impact on the country to this very day. In the light of the expansion of capitalist mode of production on a global scale and the accentuation of human mobility across bord...

This study represents a genealogical exploration of the relationships among various cultural and religious communities within sixteenth century Jerusalem. By examining administrative documents, statistics, personal and historical accounts, this research provides an unusual lens to observe how different communities lived side by side.