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
Reposted by Dr. Lucy Potter
Her research explores refugees who face persecution for leaving their religion & their experiences of the asylum claims process in the UK.
@lucypotter.bsky.social
#Research #Asylum #Sociology #Refugees #ESRC
@lucypotter.bsky.social
#Research #Asylum #Sociology #Refugees #ESRC
October 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Her research explores refugees who face persecution for leaving their religion & their experiences of the asylum claims process in the UK.
@lucypotter.bsky.social
#Research #Asylum #Sociology #Refugees #ESRC
@lucypotter.bsky.social
#Research #Asylum #Sociology #Refugees #ESRC
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
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.
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’.
policies that racialised belonging, deciding who could stay, who could be excluded, who counted as ‘British’.
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’.
policies that racialised belonging, deciding who could stay, who could be excluded, who counted as ‘British’.