Sara Cosemans
@saracoos.bsky.social
19 jaar geleden heb ik daar een jaar gewoond als AFS student. So, tell me more! (Ook gewoon uit ordinaire historische interesse, hoor 😉)
September 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
19 jaar geleden heb ik daar een jaar gewoond als AFS student. So, tell me more! (Ook gewoon uit ordinaire historische interesse, hoor 😉)
You write what you read!
September 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
You write what you read!
In mijn nieuwste @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social column duik ik als historica in het ontstaan van het vluchtelingenverdrag. Over hoe het universeel werd gemaakt door het Globale Zuiden, en waarom zelfs de minimale bescherming die het biedt vandaag als te veel wordt gezien.
May 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
In mijn nieuwste @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social column duik ik als historica in het ontstaan van het vluchtelingenverdrag. Over hoe het universeel werd gemaakt door het Globale Zuiden, en waarom zelfs de minimale bescherming die het biedt vandaag als te veel wordt gezien.
Vanaf morgen start een nieuwe reeks van 4 🤩
March 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Vanaf morgen start een nieuwe reeks van 4 🤩
En nummer 5: www.sampol.be/2024/12/wat-...
Wat is de rol van de staat in de controle van menselijke mobiliteit?
“Het strengste migratiebeleid ooit” lijkt anno 2024 wel een kwaliteitslabel van politieke partijen, maar dat was niet altijd zo.
www.sampol.be
March 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
En nummer 5: www.sampol.be/2024/12/wat-...
Nummer 4: www.sampol.be/2024/09/hoe-...
Hoe bewegingsvrijheid (verrassend) een mensenrecht werd
De recente ‘harde houding’ tegenover migratie moeten we niet zien als iets nieuws, maar als een voortdurende ontwikkeling die rechtstreeks verbonden is met ons koloniale verleden. Dat leert ons de ont...
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March 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Nummer 4: www.sampol.be/2024/09/hoe-...
Nummer 3: www.sampol.be/2024/05/er-w...
Er was nooit meer migratiecontrole dan vandaag
Ondanks onheilsberichten dat migratie ongekende proporties aanneemt, leven we in een tijd waarin bewegingsvrijheid meer beknot is dan in eender welke periode in de geschiedenis.
www.sampol.be
March 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Nummer 3: www.sampol.be/2024/05/er-w...
Dit was nummer 2: www.sampol.be/2024/03/welk...
Welk migratiemodel voor links?
Tegenover het Australische migratiemodel van rechts, kan links het Zuid-Amerikaanse migratiemodel zetten.
www.sampol.be
March 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Dit was nummer 2: www.sampol.be/2024/03/welk...
Wow, that's amazing! Can't wait to read it!
March 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Wow, that's amazing! Can't wait to read it!
Full reference: Cosemans, Sara. ‘“An Agreement to Limit a Basic Human Right”: How the Orderly Departure Programme Reduced Freedom of Movement for Refugees from Vietnam (1979)’. Cold War History 0, no. 0 (2025): 1–23. doi.org/10.1080/1468....
‘An Agreement to Limit a Basic Human Right’: How the Orderly Departure Programme Reduced Freedom of Movement for Refugees from Vietnam (1979)
The Orderly Departure Programme (ODP) is regarded as a Cold War success story of refugee management, aiding the resettlement of 638,900 Vietnamese. Western sympathy for anti-communist refugees init...
doi.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Full reference: Cosemans, Sara. ‘“An Agreement to Limit a Basic Human Right”: How the Orderly Departure Programme Reduced Freedom of Movement for Refugees from Vietnam (1979)’. Cold War History 0, no. 0 (2025): 1–23. doi.org/10.1080/1468....
Despite my thesis being quite controversial, I got surprisingly positive reviews. #Reviewer1 called it "an incredibly original and well-researched article" and even #Reviewer2 thought it "an important and timely paper that contributes greatly to our understanding of the ODP".
March 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Despite my thesis being quite controversial, I got surprisingly positive reviews. #Reviewer1 called it "an incredibly original and well-researched article" and even #Reviewer2 thought it "an important and timely paper that contributes greatly to our understanding of the ODP".
This knowledge was still present and making people uncomfortable about 30 years ago, but has largely been forgotten in the present celebratory rendition of UNHCR's history of its actions in Vietnam (see e.g. www.unhcr.org/spotlight/20...)
The Colour of Flight | UNHCR Spotlight
www.unhcr.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This knowledge was still present and making people uncomfortable about 30 years ago, but has largely been forgotten in the present celebratory rendition of UNHCR's history of its actions in Vietnam (see e.g. www.unhcr.org/spotlight/20...)
(despite the fact that leaving any country, including your own is a basic human right)
March 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
(despite the fact that leaving any country, including your own is a basic human right)
... in order to be resettled, people had to 'queue' inside Vietnam and their exit needed to be prevented by the Vietnamese state. While over a million Vietnamese left the country under the flag of the program, many saw their chances to leave curtailed.
March 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
... in order to be resettled, people had to 'queue' inside Vietnam and their exit needed to be prevented by the Vietnamese state. While over a million Vietnamese left the country under the flag of the program, many saw their chances to leave curtailed.
The article deals with a largely forgotten issue about the Orderly Departure Programme for Refugees from Vietnam (ODP): the reduction of freedom of movement for people wanting to leave Vietnam. The premisse of the ODP was quite simple...
March 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The article deals with a largely forgotten issue about the Orderly Departure Programme for Refugees from Vietnam (ODP): the reduction of freedom of movement for people wanting to leave Vietnam. The premisse of the ODP was quite simple...
I just wrote a little 🧵 on my article in the issue: bsky.app/profile/sara...
🚨 #articleallert 🚨
In #Interventions my Vietnamese colleague Trinh Van Vinh and I published about UNHCR interventions in Vietnam between 1973 and 1979. We found, interestingly, that UNHCR was not mainly concerned with refugees. But with what else?
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UWFI3... (free e-print)
In #Interventions my Vietnamese colleague Trinh Van Vinh and I published about UNHCR interventions in Vietnam between 1973 and 1979. We found, interestingly, that UNHCR was not mainly concerned with refugees. But with what else?
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UWFI3... (free e-print)
Refugee status as taboo: how humanitarian intervention impeded refugee recognition in Vietnam before the Orderly Departure Program (1979)
The management of the Vietnamese refugee crisis, when the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resettled approximately three million refugees between 1975 and 1997, remains a corne...
www.tandfonline.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I just wrote a little 🧵 on my article in the issue: bsky.app/profile/sara...
Full reference: Cosemans, Sara, and Trinh Van Vinh. ‘Refugee Status as Taboo: How Humanitarian Intervention Impeded Refugee Recognition in Vietnam before the Orderly Departure Program (1979)’. Interventions - Journal of Postcolonial Studies 0, no. 0 (2025): 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/1369....
Refugee status as taboo: how humanitarian intervention impeded refugee recognition in Vietnam before the Orderly Departure Program (1979)
The management of the Vietnamese refugee crisis, when the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resettled approximately three million refugees between 1975 and 1997, remains a corne...
doi.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Full reference: Cosemans, Sara, and Trinh Van Vinh. ‘Refugee Status as Taboo: How Humanitarian Intervention Impeded Refugee Recognition in Vietnam before the Orderly Departure Program (1979)’. Interventions - Journal of Postcolonial Studies 0, no. 0 (2025): 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/1369....
I also thank two anonymous reviewers for their excellent comments that made the article stronger!
March 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I also thank two anonymous reviewers for their excellent comments that made the article stronger!