Dr Ala Sirriyeh 🇵🇸🍉
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lancaster University working on child and youth migration, migrant & antiracist activism, & sociology of emotions in migration. BA Mid Career Fellowship 2024-25- Britain's Child Migrants.
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Over the last five years @nuffieldfoundation.org funded @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social @katejandersen.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social @katejandersen.bsky.social and I to research the impact of the two-child limit & the benefit cap largerfamilies.study
Benefit changes and larger families
We are a group of university-based researchers investigating how families with more than two children are coping with the benefit cap or the two-child limit.
largerfamilies.study
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Over the last five years @nuffieldfoundation.org funded @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social @katejandersen.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social @katejandersen.bsky.social and I to research the impact of the two-child limit & the benefit cap largerfamilies.study
Article for @theconversation.com on how the government's new plans for asylum could impact on child refugees theconversation.com/how-new-asyl...
How new asylum policies will affect child refugees
Child refugees could live their entire childhoods in Britain with no guarantee that they will remain in the place they have come to think of as home.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Article for @theconversation.com on how the government's new plans for asylum could impact on child refugees theconversation.com/how-new-asyl...
Reposted by Dr Ala Sirriyeh 🇵🇸🍉
Why bother with a discussion of what family reunion actually is & an analysis of the impact of changes with, say, @ramfel.bsky.social who recently published an excellent report excoriating the system’s EXISTING failures that keep families apart?
Nah. It’s #r4today🤷♀️ www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
Nah. It’s #r4today🤷♀️ www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
Safe Routes to Nowehere
Our report, Safe Routes to Nowhere: The UK’s Broken Promises on Family Reunion, is the result of nearly 2.5 years of work, drawing on RAMFEL’s casework experience and government data on family reunion...
www.ramfel.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Why bother with a discussion of what family reunion actually is & an analysis of the impact of changes with, say, @ramfel.bsky.social who recently published an excellent report excoriating the system’s EXISTING failures that keep families apart?
Nah. It’s #r4today🤷♀️ www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
Nah. It’s #r4today🤷♀️ www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...