Dear Network,
Apologies for cross-posting or if this is the very first email you are
receiving.
Roskilde University (RUC) is under attack. Recent media and political
"debate" targeting the university’s so-called “high” intake of Bangladeshi
students is not just misleading but it is racist and unacceptable. As if
this were not enough, today’s press release from the Acting Chair of the
Board of Directors has shocked us yet again. Instead of defending our
community, this press release further reinforces Danish Prime Minister
Mette Frederiksen’s and the media's racist rhetoric.
In response, we, concerned staff at RUC, have written a joint letter to the
Roskilde University Board of Directors and Rectorate. We urge you to sign
it and share it widely.
We unequivocally condemn today’s statement by Dea Forchhammer, Acting Chair
of the Board of Directors of Roskilde University. We demand that the Acting
Chair and the Board immediately retract their statement and issue an
unconditional apology to all staff and students- in particular Muslim,
Black, and Brown students and staff.
Here is the link: https://lnkd.in/dAyjeiVa
Sözen BAŞTÜRK
PhD Researcher
Roskilde University
Dear all,
Welcome to the new Queer Refugees in the Nordics (Queen) Network email list. As some of you might have noticed, our previous attempts to create a list failed. In the future, if you wish to send an email on the list, please use this email: queens(a)lists.sunet.se<mailto:queens@lists.sunet.se>
The next QUEEN Network event will be held in Malmö, as previous announced. I send the invitation again (attached). Please sign up, it´s all free of charge!
I also wish to draw your attention to two highly relevant and important events during the autumn:
1. Shaping Tomorrow: Queer Asylum in Europe conference on the 20-21 November 2025: https://coc.nl/blog/2025/07/28/call-for-papers-shaping-tomorrow-queer-asylu…
2. Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium, at Lund University in Sweden on 30–31 October 2025: https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/3rd-international-queerying-asylum-symposium
Some of you have also been asking me for the articles that formed the basis for my presentation in Malmö. They are now published!:
Wimark, T. (2025). Decoding Sexual Orientation in Refugee Status Determination: The Influence of Accounts of Emotions on Decision-Making in Sweden. International Migration 63(5): e70101. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.70101
Wimark, T. (2025). The Limits of Refugee Status Determination Through Credibility Assessment: Empirical Evidence from Sexual Orientation Asylum Cases. International Migration Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251360677
Stay tuned,
Thomas
Thomas Wimark, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Human Geography
Pronouns: he, him, his
Department of Human Geography
Uppsala University
Box 513
SE-75120 Uppsala
+46 18 4717377 (office)
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Hejsan.
This is a test to see if it works.
Hälsar
Thomas
Thomas Wimark, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Human Geography
Pronouns: he, him, his
Department of Human Geography
Uppsala University
Box 513
SE-75120 Uppsala
+46 18 4717377 (office)
https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N20-646
När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/
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