Author
Leonie Ansems de Vries
Leonie Ansems de Vries is a Reader in International Politics, Director of the King’s Sanctuary Programme and chair of the Migration Research Group at King’s College London. Her work combines research on migration, borders and the politics of violence with practical action and policy development on safe and legal pathways. Leonie is currently writing a monograph on the politics of exhaustion in Europe, which examines the ways in which exhaustion is employed as a tool of governance to control people forced to move and how it is endured and resisted as a lived experience.
2 pieces
Newest first, since April 2022
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Ukraine one year on: how the HE sector can support those displaced by conflict
A year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Leonie Ansems de Vries and Nicole Mennell call on universities to adopt sustainable sanctuary frameworks for all those affected by conflict and displacement
With Nicole Mennell
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Homes for Ukraine – laying the foundations for university refugee sponsorship
King’s College London has been working on a university led sponsorship scheme for refugees from Ukraine. Bronwyn Parry and Leonie Ansems de Vries hope it could provide a model for the wider HE sector
With Bronwyn Parry