Scholarly publications

• Huizinga, R.P. & van Liempt, I. (2024). “It’s not that i don’t like it here, it’s just that I eventually want to live somewhere else”: young refugees’  contested arrival experiences, local racialized discourses and emergent future selves in Amsterdam. Urban Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2325194
• Kirndörfer, E. & Hiller, L. (2023). Storytelling und Postkolonialität. Wie wir marginalisierte Perspektiven auf (Stadt-)Räume jenseits von Linearität und Abgeschlossenheit sichtbar und erfahrbar machen können. In: Singer, K., Schmidt, K. & Neuburger, M.: artographies – Kreativ-künstlerische Zugänge zu einer machtkritischen Raumforschung, transcript, pp. 68-89.
• Benwell, M.C., Hopkins, P. and Finlay, R. (2023). The slow violence of austerity politics and the UK’s ‘hostile environment’: Examining the responses of third sector organisations supporting people seeking asylum. Geoforum, 145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103845.
• Kox, M., van Liempt, I. and Smits, A. (2023). Shaping a climate of arrival: National and local media representations of refugees’ arrival infrastructures in the Netherlands. Journal of Refugee Studies, 36(1), 46-54.
• De Backer, M., Hopkins, P., van Liempt, I, Finlay, R., Kirndörfer, E., Kox, M., Benwell, M.C. and Hörschelmann, K. (Eds.)(2023). Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
• De Backer, M., Felten, P., Kirndörfer, E., Kox, M. and Finlay, R. (2022). ‘Their lives are even more on hold now’: Migrants’ experiences of waiting and immobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social & Cultural Geography. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2022.2111699.
• Kox, M. & van Liempt, I. (2022). “I have to start all over again.” The Role of Institutional and Personal Arriva Infrastructures in Refugees’ Home-making Processes in Amsterdam. Comparative Population Studies, 47, 165-184.
• De Backer, M. & Mazzola, A. (2021). Liminal spaces of migrant reception in times of crisis. Cartografie Soziali, 10, 143-156. https://universitypress.unisob.na.it/ojs/index.php/cartografiesociali/issue/view/104/showToc
• Mazzola, A., & De Backer, M. (2021). Solidarity with vulnerable migrants during and beyond the state of crisis. Culture, Practice and Europeanization, 6(1), 55-69. https://doi.org/10.5771/2566-7742-2021-1-55
• De Backer, M. & Melgaço, L. (2021). “Everybody has to move, you can’t stand still”: policing of public space during the pandemic and the impact on the most vulnerable urban populations in Brussels. In: B. Doucet, R. van Melik & P. Filion (eds.), Global Reflections on COVID-19 Urban Inequalities. Bristol: Policy Press. (accepted for publication)
• De Backer, M. (2021). Micro-politics and the strategies and tactics of visibility. In: A.M. Brighenti (ed.), The New Politics of Visibility: Spaces, Actors, Practices and Technologies in The Visible. Bristol: Intellect Books (accepted for publication)
• Melgaço, L. & De Backer, M. (2020). Justice is spatial, also during the pandemic: the case of the Blankenberge beach riot. City & Society. 

 Popular publications

• Huizinga, R., Hopkins, P., De Backer, M., Finlay, R., Kirndörfer, E., Kox, M., Bastian, J., , Felten, P., Haack, L., Hörschelmann, K. and Van Liempt, I. (2022). Research refugee youth. Guides for Researchers. Newcastle University.
• Finlay, R., Hopkins, P., Kirndörfer, E., Kox, M., Huizinga, R., De Backer, M., Benwell, M.C., Van Liempt, I., Hörschelmann, K., Felten, P., Bastian, J. and Bousetta, H. (2022). Young refugees and public space. HERA plain language report. Newcastle University.
• Fass, S. & Wiest, K. (2022). Geschichten von Flucht und Ankommen visualisieren. Blog Leibniz Institute for regional geography/IfL (blog 22/3/2022).
• Stopp, A., Kröner, L., Hörschelmann, K., Kirndörfer, E., Lazova, Y. & Wiest, K. (2021). Ausgrenzung sichtbar machen – ein Theaterprojekt im öffentlichen Raum. Blog Leibniz Institute for regional geography/IfL (blog 14/12/2021).
• Moubarak, M. (2021). As a refugee in Leipzig – as trainee in the research project EEYRASPS. Blog Leibniz Institute for regional geography/IfL (blog 7/10/2021).
• Finlay, R. & Hopkins, P. (2021). Lockdown and the hidden crisis asylum-seeking and refugee women. Transforming society.
• Hopkins, P. & Finlay, R. (2021). Isolated and excluded yet resilient: seeking asylum during a global pandemic. Campaign for Social Science blog.
• Kirndörfer, E. (2021). Urban story-mapping: The city of Leipzig from the perspective of newcomers. Kollektiv orangotango – this is not an atlas.
• Kirndörfer, E. (2021). “Wenn Alltagsorte und soziale Routinen wegbrechen: Covid-19 und das Leben junger Geflüchteter und Asylsuchender”. LEIPZIGER ZUSTÄNDE – Dokumentation und Analyse faschistischer, rassistischer und diskriminierender Ereignisse in und um Leipzig, p. 46/47.
• Kirndörfer, E. (2020). Wenn Alltagsorte und soziale Routinen wegbrechen: Covid-19 und das Leben junger Geflüchteter und Asylsuchender. Querfeld – das Jahresmagazin des Sächsischen Flüchtlingsrates, 4: 49/50.
• Kirndörfer, E. & Hörschelmann, K. (2020). Refugees hit especially hard by corona-virus. Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography (press release 05/04/2020).
• Kirndörfer, E. (2020). When everyday places and social routines break away. The impacts of COVID-19 on the lives of young refugees and asylum seekers in Leipzig. Corona Monitor (blog 06/26/2020).
• Kirndörfer, E. (2020): Arrival as a rhizomatic process (blog 10/26/2020).
• De Backer, M. (2020). De verborgen coronacrisis (personal blog Mattias de Backer 04/26/2020).
• De Backer, M. (2020). Hoe groot het probleem is, en hoe oplosbaar (personal blog Mattias de Backer 04/28/2020).
• De Backer, M. (2020). The invisible corona crisis. Identities covid-19 blog series (05/25/2020).
• Van Liempt, I.C. & Kox, M.H. (2020). Coronavirus: misinformation is leading to ‘fake news’anxieties in Dutch refugee communities. The Conversation.
• Kox, M.H. & van Liempt, I.C. (2020). Nederland op Slot. De impact van COVID-19 op asielzoekers, statushouders en ongedocumenteerde vreemdelingen. De Criminoloog, 12: 23.
• Kox, M.H. & van Liempt, I.C. (2020). #I would stay home if I had one. The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on unauthorized migrants in Amsterdam. Blog Utrecht University (05/20/2020).
• Kox, M.H. & van Liempt, I.C. (2020). Ignorance, delays and backlogs. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on refugees in Amsterdam. Blog Utrecht University (05/12/2020).
• Kox, M.H. & van Liempt, I.C. (2020). Lockdown in the Netherlands – The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on asylum seekers, refugees and unauthorized migrants in Amsterdam. Blog Utrecht University (05/04/2020).
• Van Aalst, I., Van Liempt, I.C. & Kox, M.H. (2020). De stad als huiskamer. Hoe blijven we betekenisvolle ontmoetingen mogelijk maken in de publieke ruimte? RAUM, 1: 24-27.
• Finlay, R, Benwell MC. & Hopkins, P. (2020). Covid-19: Responding to the needs of asylum seekers in challenging and dangerous times. Discover Society.

Presentations, lectures and round tables

• Van Liempt, I.C. (04/29/2021). Round Table Discussion 1: Migration Narratives, Research and Practice: Digital Methods, Arts, Visual methods and Literature. VOLPOWER Academic workshop.
• Kox, M.H. & Van Liempt, I.C. (04/27/2021). “I am an Amsterdammer?” The role of formal and informal arrival infrastructures in refugee and asylum youth’s home-making processes in Amsterdam. University of Luxemburg/virtual: REFUGOV-conference.
• Kox, M.H. & Van Liempt, I.C.  (04/22/2021). Arrival in a climate of suspicion. Refugee youth’s everyday experiences in the urban fabric of Amsterdam. Utrecht University (virtual): Conference Migrant belongings: digital practices and the everyday.
• Finlay, R. (4/10/2021). Racialization, Lockdown and the Spatial and Temporal Reshaping of Asylum Seeker and Refugee Lives. Race and Refugee Geographies Session at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference.
• Finlay, R. (4/14/2021). Lockdown and the Spatial and Temporal Reshaping of Asylum Seeker and Refugee Everyday Lives. Race. Ethnicity and Migration stream at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference.
• Finlay, R, (4/10/2021). Seeking refugee and failing asylum governance in the time of COVID-19. Geographies of Social Change seminar.
• Mazzola A. & De Backer M. (04/07/2021 to 04/09/2021). Solidarity towards migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic. Creative solutions between civil society initiatives and the state. ABSP conference.
• Kox, M.H. (09/13/2020).Guest Lecture (2020, September 13). Wat als je naar Nederland vlucht? [What if you flee to the Netherlands?] Guest Lecture Museum Youth University (children 8-12 years old)