Bio
Shepherd Mutsvara is a Research Affiliate with the Migration Law Research Group at Ghent University. His research focuses on the refugee definition, EU asylum law, and border externalization. His wider research interests include economic migration, racism and discrimination in the context of human (im)mobility, and Africa’s refugee policy and protection. Shepherd holds a PhD in Political Sciences and Administration from the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow (UKEN) and an LLM in Public International Law from the University of London. Besides being a member of the editorial team for the Encyclopaedia for Migration Law, an initiative of the Kluwer Law Online, Shepherd is also a Mentor in the Displaced Scholars Peer Mentoring Program provided by the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney.
Recent publications
- Mutsvara, S., (2023). Reflexive Narrative on Identity and Exclusion of the Zimbabwean Child in the Diaspora: The Odd Looking Fellow, in Global Migration and Diversity of Educational Experiences in the Global South and North (eds) Shoba Arun, Khawla Badwan, Hadjer Taibi, Farwa Batool
- Mutsvara, S., (2022) When the Periphery Comes to the Centre: Mapping out the Securitarian Approach to Migration in Poland, Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Securitate 12 (2) 152-166
- Kugonza, G., & Mutsvara, S. (2022). Psychosocial Support and Protection for Refugee and Host Communities in Uganda: A Needs Assessment, Afrika Focus, 35(1), 5-18
- Mutsvara, S., & Kugonza, G. (2022) Refugee Camps in East Africa: A curse of lost heritage and cultural identity of the Banyarwanda in Uganda, in Żukowski, A (ed) Współczesne wyzwania Afryki. Klimat, demografia i polityka pg. 135-157 ISBN 978-83-66259-32-4