Dr. Lucy Potter
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Dr. Lucy Potter
@lucypotter.bsky.social
PhD in non-religion, apostasy & asylum | Sociologist exploring identities, human and refugee rights & (de)coloniality | ESRC Postdoc at Uni of York | PGR Officer for SocRel
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Her research explores refugees who face persecution for leaving their religion & their experiences of the asylum claims process in the UK.

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October 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Understandings of citizenship have shifted over time, but the racial exclusivity of who belongs and who does not remains - something we see so clearly in current debates of asylum.
August 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Britain’s modern immigration controls were forged at empire’s end:
policies that racialised belonging, deciding who could stay, who could be excluded, who counted as ‘British’.
August 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM