"What has changed is not the harm women face, but the interpretive strategies used to acknowledge – or deny – it." @catbriddick.bsky.social yesterday on #InternationalWomensDay ⤵️

For International Women's Day, with refugee women.

#InternationalWomensDay 2026 arrives at a critical juncture for the international protection of refugees.

As @catbriddick.bsky.social  explains, it offers an opportunity to celebrate hard-won gains, but those gains remain fragile and contested.

https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/blog/doubt-to-denial-IWD2026

New paper on ensuring a human rights-compliant end to refugeehood co-authored by Catherine Briddick The Council of Europe Division on Migration and Refugees (DMR) has released a new thematic paper, Ensuring a Human Rights-Compliant End to Refugeehood through Integration, Naturalisation or Voluntary ...

Ensuring a Human Rights-Compliant End to Refugeehood through Integration, Naturalisation or Voluntary Repatriation. New thematic paper co-authored by @catbriddick.bsky.social, @profccostello.bsky.social & Minos Mouzourakis for @coe.int

Read more and download:
bit.ly/3N0awZa

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Welcome, virtually, to Oxford and to @refugeestudies.bsky.social to all our wonderful Online School participants. Am really looking forward to our week of conversation, learning, and debate!

Visiting Fellowship applications and the Sally Hogg Prize

Calling all researchers in forced migration, apply now for the RSC Michaelmas Term (Oct – Dec) 2026 Visiting Fellowship programme & the new Sally Hogg Prize to support applicants from low-income countries or with lived experience of forced displacement.

More info: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/the-sal...

Displaced Venezuelans experiences of navigating temporary protection in Latin America

Fascinating research from @refugeestudies.bsky.social DPhil candidate Alessandra Enrico-Headrington:
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/displac...

Reform’s appetite to put the Brexit deal back in the oven - UK in a changing Europe Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello examine Nigel Farage's proposal to scrap welfare benefit access for EU nationals living in the UK.

"Considering the implications of reneging on international agreements, a more efficient way to address the numbers of those claiming benefits under the EUSS is to look at low paid or atypical work contracts."

🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/reform-and-t...

Imagine believing that this should be the policy of a Labour government

The government is unable to give any statistical basis or evidence base for this "destination of choice" claim, beyond making the (different) claim that claims are going up in the UK and failing in the UK [while being higher in Germany, France, Spain and Italy]

Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: "Restoring Order and Control" - Free Movement Following a plethora of media briefings and coverage over the past few days, the Home Secretary has officially published her policy paper on "Restoring Order

New from Free Movement: Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: “Restoring Order and Control” | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/home-secreta...

Such sad news to hear that Geoffrey Bindman KC has passed away. One of the architects of UK equality and human rights law, he was an inspirational figure - as well as being kind & extremely good company. www.bindmans.com/news-insight...

The first talk is on 11 November at 6pm CET (5pm UK) by @catbriddick.bsky.social (@refugeestudies.bsky.social) on her new book, Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception, with @colmocinneide.bsky.social & Lourdes Peroni as discussants. Register here: uni-koeln.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

Poster for Equality Talks

Interested in equality and discrimination law? Over the next weeks, I am organising a few online Equality Talks at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection, University of Cologne.

For more information, see here: academy-humanrights.uni-koeln.de/en/news/equa...

You can access a free chapter of the book here:

fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

Very much looking forward to speaking about my book 'Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception' on the Equality Talks series next Tuesday 11 November 2025 @5pm UK time, 6:00pm CET. For details and to join:

academy-humanrights.uni-koeln.de/en/news/equa...

The International Online School in Forced Migration brings together participants worldwide.

Bursaries are available for refugees & those with lived experience of displacement.

Learn more & apply: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/intern...

Playing for Time: Temporary Status, Migration Control and the Human Rights of Forced Migrants to Family Reunification Abstract. The article analyzes a set of cases in front of the European Court of Human Rights in which forced migrants challenged restrictions to family reu

Can States use temporary status to restrict forced migrants’ protection of family reunification under European human rights law?

My article is now out in IJRL! I explore the role that legal status and temporariness play in the context of the right to family life:
academic.oup.com/ijrl/advance...

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New book by Catherine Briddick analyses treatment of women in migration law

Congratulations to Associate Professor Catherine Briddick on her new book, which analyses the treatment of women in migration law. The book identifies patterns of disadvantage, scrutinises justifications for differential treatment, and argues for migration status reform: bit.ly/women-migrat...

I'd love to write a blog about it! Thank you!

My book, out now! On migration law's treatment of women, gender-based violence, and the legal challenges that migrant women have brought to the rules that determine their status. I have links if you want to review a copy or read a free chapter....

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Thank you for reading it when it was collection of draft chapters!

Delighted to see the publication by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social of Professor Catherine Briddick's Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception
Undoing Discrimination in Migration Law global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We welcome @theobserveruk.bsky.social's piece on myths around the ECHR and UK immigration. Our research shows:
– Misreporting of court cases is common
– Successful human rights appeals are rare
– Evidence, not exaggeration, must guide policy

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

#HumanRights #Immigration

I shared some of my thoughts on the relationship between the EU, search and rescue NGOs, and the so-called Libyan coast guard in a conversation with Frey here:

Protection of displaced Ukrainians: Council adopts recommendation about transition out of temporary protection The Council adopts a recommendation on the transition away from temporary protection for displaced persons from Ukraine.

'Guidance' on transferring out of temporary protection that appears to emphasize labour and family routes rather than those relating to international protection.

www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Hands up who's old enough to remember the drama of all the other Mandelson forced resignations? *wearily puts on kettle and forebears from muttering I told you so*