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Clara is a PhD researcher at SOAS who studies the spatial and legal dimensions of city-led protection for forced migrants. Challenging state-centric accounts in legal studies and International Relations that portray subnational actors as peripheral or symbolic in lawmaking, the study analyses how São Paulo influenced the reformation of Brazil’s 2017 national Migration Law from the bottom up. Drawing on several years of humanitarian fieldwork in the areas of shelter and urban displacement, her research covers migration governance and municipal strategies for overcoming national political gridlocks.

Azra Syed is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, exploring digital misogyny, political masculinities, and honour-based violence across Pakistan and the UK.

Aurore is a Politics PhD student in the UKRI project 'Pan-African Frontiers: The Remaking of African Politics in World Politics' researching the mnemonic politics of liberation in postcolonial Cabo Verde.

As part of the Global Taiwan — Literature and Translation Workshop, Kaori Lai Hsiang-Yin shares the new translated book, 'Portraits in White'.

Surbhi Jain is an MPhil/PhD researcher in the Department of Philosophy at SOAS, University of London, specialising in Jaina hermeneutics with a focus on the evolution of the Anuyoga theory. Her interests span wider Jaina philosophy, comparative philosophical traditions, and the study of classical languages relevant to her research.

Daniela is a medical doctor and psychologist trained in Brazil, whose PhD project is situated in the field of environmental humanities and subjectivity studies.

Wilfred Scott is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Development Studies. His research uses concepts from political economy, geography, and anthropology to analyse mineral politics in West Africa.

Ling Fung is a dedicated trade unionist and researcher focused on alternative forms of resistance within social movements. They are committed to bridging the gap between theory and practice by bringing their extensive lived experience in organising directly into the research field.