Email: nicholasjmaple@gmail.com
Website: http://sas.academia.edu/nicholasmaple
Bio:
Dr Nicholas Maple is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His current work looks at urban displacement and mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa. His PhD research focused on southern Africa, looking at the relationship between refugee camps/settlements and urban displacement of refugees.
He is also the Academic Support Officer for the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies at the University of London. In addition, he is the module convener of the core module RPM020 ‘An introduction to refugee and forced migration studies’ and supervises MA dissertations at the University of London and University of the Witwatersrand.
Nicholas has nearly two years’ experience working in the field as an advocate for organisations such as Asylum Access, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and 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