Email: nicholasjmaple@gmail.com
Website: http://sas.academia.edu/nicholasmaple
Bio:
Nicholas is a PhD student at the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, under the supervision of Dr David Cantor. His PhD is investigating reception policies in southern Africa and how they interact with the refugee regime and its core norms (with a particular focus on freedom of movement). He is currently in the middle of an affiliation at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand and will be travelling to Zambia later this year to start an affiliation with the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research in Lusaka. He teaches on the core module (An Introduction to Refugee and Forced Migration Studies) on the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He has two years experience working in the field as an advocate for organisations such as Asylum Access, Norwegian Refugee Council and UNHCR. Finally, he has previously completed consultancy work for the RLI and Chatham House and has had work published by UNHCR.
Publications/recent projects:
- (2020) 'Immobility and the Containment of Solutions: Reflections on the Global Compact, Mixed Migraiton and the Transformation of Protection', Interventions, with Susan Reardon-Smith and Richard Black: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1845775?journalCode=riij20
- Rights at Risk: A thematic investigation into how states restrict the freedom of movement of refugees on the African Continent (2016). NEW ISSUES IN REFUGEE RESEARCH, Research Paper No. 281