Refugee Political Participation (RPP)

If the 82 million displaced people across the world formed a country, it would be the 20th biggest in the world. But they are not a country. Over and above shared experiences of poverty, destitution, insecurity, and violence, refugees experience collective exclusion from political community and the rights of citizenship. The RPP project’s overall aim is study the political participation of refugees, bridging work in political science, critical legal studies, and socio-legal studies. This project will bring together Will Jones, a political scientist who has conducted pathbreaking work on algorithmic decision-making and digital identity in the refugee regime, with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Director of the interdisciplinary Nordic Asylum Law and Data Lab at the University of Copenhagen. This ambitious project innovatively combines political science, law, and data science to understand how refugees can and could be included and empowered in the refugee regime as it is transformed by the digital revolution.