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family_reunification_pledges.pdf | The Global Compact on Refugees | UNHCR

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The Digital Platform tells the story of the Compact in action, supports a diverse community of actors, & builds momentum to fulfil Global Refugee Forum pledges.

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This platform brings together a growing community of Member States, refugees, NGOs, UN organisations, businesses, faith groups, academics, charities and community groups, all of whom are working together to find practical, long-term solutions that will allow refugees, internally displaced people, stateless people, and their generous host communities, to thrive.

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About the Digital Platform | The Global Compact on Refugees | UNHCR

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This platform brings together a growing community of Member States, refugees, NGOs, UN organisations, businesses, faith groups, academics, charities and community groups, all of whom are working together to find practical, long-term solutions that will allow refugees, internally displaced people, stateless people, and their generous host communities, to thrive.

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UNHCR Refugee Funding Tracker for Europe

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UNHCR Refugee Funding Tracker for Europe

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Janahan's funding opportunities doc

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Refugee Legal Support is a voluntary organisation run by experienced asylum lawyers. We provide free legal support to those seeking sanctuary in Greece or reunification with their family members elsewhere in Europe.

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The UoL's Refugee Law Clinic provides pro bono legal advice for refugee clients.

The RLI blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration is designed to be a platform to publish content from our networks and students.

Sign up to our mailing list to receive updates about publications and events through the Refugee Law Initiative.

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The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) is a unique academic centre promoting interdisciplinary research, teaching and exchange on law, policy and practice in refugee and displacement contexts. As a national focal point for leading and promoting research in this field, the RLI works to integrate the shared interests of refugee law scholars and practitioners, stimulate collaboration between academics and non-academics, and achieve policy impact at the national and international level.

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What's wrong?

Refugee family reunion should be a vital, safe and legal way for refugee families to renunite after they have been torn apart by war and persecution.

It has the potential to prevent dangerous journeys across oceans and continents to Europe and the UK.

There are simple changes to the way people have to apply to be reunited that would make sure it is a safe way for families to be together again.

Our report, The Long Road to Reunion, found that for many families, this process is far from safe.

The Long Road to Reunion

We spoke to 100 families about their experiences, who told us that applying for a family reunion visa often required dangerous journeys.

This is because people need to get to the nearest application centre, which is often hundreds of miles away. Some of the families we spoke to faced journeys of several months, crossing conflict zones and relying on various ways of travelling.

And even then, they weren't guaranteed that their application would be successful.

Our new report The Long Road to Reunion (PDF) shows how straightforward changes can reduce the dangerous journeys families have to make and let them rebuild their lives together again in safety.

Key findings

49% of families faced significant barriers and protection concerns due to the current procedural requirements.

Around 90% of all families granted a visa in the past 10 years have been adult women (33%) and children (58%).

Almost 60% of families reported as being displaced before and/or during the application process.

Associated costs, danger and distance of travel to the visa application centre were the main challenges faced by families.

The level of difficulty faced was impacted by personal and environmental factors such as gender, age, displacement and legal status of the family, finances, stability of the country and the nature of the border crossing.

44% of families had to cross at least one border. Of those, over 60% were families travelling with children.

17% resorted to using smugglers to cross borders.

Who's affected

Last year, we helped to reunite more than 1,000 families though providing legal support, travel assistance once a visa has been granted and integration support.

What needs to change?

Since 2016 the Home Office have been making changes to improve the family reunion process, but research shows that changes have been slow and more needs to be done. Please see our research reports below.

The government needs to make refugee family reunion a process that is accessible, safe and considers the vulnerabilities and protection needs faced by these families.

We will be working with the government to make this happen and continue to help separated families.

Our calls to decision makers

Reduce the number of journeys a family must take to one, and only after a positive decision on their case has been made.

To be flexible on how and when a family submits their biometric information if they cannot reach a visa application centre safely.

To allow families to take a tuberculosis test on arrival rather than in advance, which requires an additional journey.

For the visa application centres to be flexible on their strict ID requirements that result in families being denied entry.

If you are a refugee who needs help with family reunion, find out more about our refugee family reunion services.

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Helping Refugees Reunite with Family | British Red Cross

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Refugees are struggling to reunite with relatives as the UK and the international family reunion process just isn't working.

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See Janahan's document with funding information emailed to all 4.10.23

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See Janahan's document with funding information emailed to all 4.10.23

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See document from Janahan with funding information 4.10.23

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See document from Janahan with funding information 4.10.23

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Commission on the Integration of Refugees

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Commission on the Integration of Refugees

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Commission on the Integration of Refugees

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The Commission on the Integration of Refugees is an independent commission that aims to improve the integration of refugees. It strives for a society where everyone, including refugees, feels welcome and part of a strong, cohesive community. Bringing together opposing views and diverse experiences from across the UK, the Commission will hear from refugees, host communities, faith and community leaders, security forces and healthcare professionals. They will work together to overcome differences and find common ground on how to fix the broken system with practical solutions. The Commission is convened and funded by the Woolf Institute and will run from September 2022 to December 2023.

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Commission on the Integration of Refugees - Home

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The Commission on the Integration of Refugees is an independent commission that aims to improve the integration of refugees in the UK.

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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants

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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants

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Fighting for justice and equality since 1967.

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives and protecting the rights of refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.

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Your donation

could help provide one therapy session to support a child refugee to cope with their trauma and grief.

could help us lobby politicians and push the government to commit to resettling refugees for years to come, ensuring the UK remains a safe place for refugees.

could support a refugee with employability skills such asCV writing and preparing for a job interview.

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Donate and support refugees to rebuild their lives

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Your donation £25 could help provide one therapy session to support a child refugee to cope with their trauma and grief. £50 could help us lobby politicians and push the government to commit to resettling refugees for years to come, ensuring the UK remains a safe place for refugees.

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King's PURE Immigration policy and more 

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King's PURE Immigration policy and more 

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Dr Chris Bird and support for developing research proposals

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Dr Chris Bird and support for developing research proposals

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The Research Strategy & Development team at King's provides a central, dedicated research support function for each of the academic Faculties. We support high-quality, distinctive research with real impact, aligned with the College's Research Strategy and funders' strategic priorities.

Our externally-funded research portfolio brings in an annual income of £290 million (2020-21; £220m awards and £70m Research England formula funding). We support collaborative and global research, working with over 130 countries and hundreds of research institutions, industrial, cultural and health service partners and businesses.

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The Research Strategy & Development team at King's provides a central, dedicated research support function for each of the academic Faculties.

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Prof Funmi Olonisakin - International Engagement & Service She is committed to building inter-disciplinary and intersectoral collaboration, and sustaining equitable partnerships to realise positive and lasting impact within and beyond King’s.

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Prof Funmi Olonisakin - International Engagement & Service She is committed to building inter-disciplinary and intersectoral collaboration, and sustaining equitable partnerships to realise positive and lasting impact within and beyond King’s.

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Professor 'Funmi Olonisakin is Vice-President International, Engagement and Service (IES) at King's College London. She is also Professor of Security, Leadership and Development at the African Leadership Centre in the School of Global Affairs at King's. In her role as Vice-President IES, Professor Olonisakin seeks to facilitate the deployment of King's assets (including knowledge, scholarship and talent in service of society) locally, nationally and internationally, to enable transformative and lasting impact. She is committed to building inter-disciplinary and intersectoral collaboration, and sustaining equitable partnerships to realise positive and lasting impact within and beyond King's.

Producing knowledge that influences change beyond the academy has been at the heart of Professor Olonisakin's research work and life as an academic. She has positioned her work to serve as a bridge between academia and the worlds of policy and practice. Her research has been shaped by her interest in deepening understanding of why civil wars relapse, and the drivers of youth vulnerability and exclusion in the developing world. More recently, she has sought to explore the interface between leadership, peace, and security as a basis to unpack and understand the big transnational problems that confront the world today. She has led a number of major research projects including most recently on "future peace, society and the state in Africa", supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Professor Olonisakin founded the African Leadership Centre (ALC) both at King's and in Kenya, as a collaboration between King's and the University of Nairobi in 2010. The ALC aims to develop a new community of leaders generating cutting edge-knowledge for peace, security and development in Africa. Professor Olonisakin has focused on inclusive postgraduate research training at the ALC, combining field-building with community-building while working with inter-generational research teams to translate knowledge generated into multiple forms of collaborative engagement regionally in Africa, and globally.

Previously, Professor Olonisakin worked in the United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in New York, between 1999 and 2003. From 2003 until 2013, she was Director of the Conflict Security and Development Group at King's College London.

In January 2015, United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, appointed Professor Olonisakin as one of seven members of the Advisory Group of Experts (AGE) on the Review of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture; and in 2016, as a member of the Advisory Group of Experts for the United Nations Progress Study on Youth, Peace, and Security. In 2018, she was appointed to the Council of the United Nations University, on which she currently serves as Chair. She was awarded the Fellowship of King's College in 2020.

University of Pretoria (UP), where she was appointed as an Extra-Ordinary Professor in 2016, conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (honoris causa) on Professor Olonisakin in May 2022 in recognition of her significant contributions to the promotion of peace, security, justice, and international solidarity in Africa, with special reference to women and youth.

Professor Olonisakin was educated at the University of Ife, Nigeria (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and King's College London, graduating with a BSc. Honours in Political Science (Ife, 1984) and MSc and PhD in War Studies (King's 1996) respectively. She was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Sciences in UP in 1998, and was awarded a McArthur Foundation post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of War Studies from 1998-1999.

Research

Future peace through the lens of future people

The emerging African paradigm

Leadership perspectives in security and development

Youth, peace and security in developing societies

'Funmi has positioned her work to serve as a bridge between academia and the worlds of policy and practice. Her most recent research has focused on 'Reframing narratives of peace and state-building in Africa' and on 'Future peace, society and the state in Africa.'

Further details
See Funmi's research profile

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Vice President (International, Engagement & Service)

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OUR WORK HAS HELPED OVER 2,500 CHILD REFUGEES REACH SAFETY.

BUT MORE CHILDREN NEED OUR HELP

Every year thousands of unaccompanied child refugees arrive in Europe in search of safety. They find themselves stuck in squalid camps or sleeping rough on city streets unaware of their legal right to travel safely through Europe.

We're here to help child refugees access their rights.

DO YOU KNOW OF A CHILD REFUGEE WHO NEEDS SAFE PASSAGE?

If you know of a lone child refugee in Europe who needs support getting to safety please get in touch with us.

Our team specialises in supporting lone child refugees in Europe who are looking to reunite with their families.

In order to help you, we need to ask you to fill in a form in order to decide whether we can assist with your case.

Please click on the button below to download the form. When you have completed the form please email it to the email address included in the form.

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OUR WORK HAS HELPED OVER 2,500 CHILD REFUGEES REACH SAFETY. BUT MORE CHILDREN NEED OUR HELP Every year thousands of unaccompanied child refugees arrive in Europe in search of safety. They find themselves stuck in squalid camps or sleeping rough on city streets unaware of their legal right to travel safely through Europe.

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Legal companies - pro bono organisations

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Legal companies - pro bono organisations

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Key links and terminology for bid writing and info 

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Key links and terminology for bid writing and info 

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Our local, national and global partnerships are essential to delivering on these commitments, as these relationships are built on collaboration, learning and co-creation to facilitate positive change.

We bring together three leading NHS Foundation Trusts - Guy's and St Thomas' (now incorporating Royal Brompton and Harefield), King's College Hospital, and South London and Maudsley - through King's Health Partners

We work closely with local communities and councils in our London home boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Westminster

We have established strong partnerships with organisations across the UK, including cultural institutions, schools, government departments, charities and NGOs

Our international relationships include long-standing collaborations with peer academic institutions, policy makers, philanthropic foundations, and regional and global NGOs

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Knowledge with purpose: service and impact

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Other impact accelerator funding for knowledge exchange and impact 

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Other impact accelerator funding for knowledge exchange and impact 

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King’s has four active Impact Acceleration accounts from AHRC, EPSRC, ESRC and MRC.

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King's Impact Accelerator Fund including Social Science 

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King's Impact Accelerator Fund including Social Science 

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King's Together is a seed-funding scheme offering £1,000,000 per annum to support the development of multi and inter disciplinary projects that address our strategic research themes:

This internal competition provides seed-funding for research projects which will lead to external research grant applications that are strategic in nature - thanks either to their size, or their importance to the departmental, School or Faculty research landscape.

The goal is the development of large, innovative, externally-funded research projects that showcase King's' research expertise.

King's works in close partnership with three leading NHS Trusts, through King's Health Partners.

We are therefore ideallly-placed to bring cutting-edge research to bear on the challenges created by COVID-19.

In March 2020, King's launched a rapid-response funding call to support the mobilisation of our research community, allowing work to commence immediately.

We received over 160 applications and made around 30 awards, totalling over £500,000.

In May 2020 we launched a second call for projects, receiving over 190 applications and made an additional 17 awards.

Funded research activitiy includes development and validation of diagnostic tests, trials of potential therapies, new ultra-low cost ventilator technologies, and novel approaches to predicting the needs and trajectories of the most vulnerable patients and members of the community.

Details about possible future rounds have not yet been confirmed; please check these pages for developments.

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King's Together is a seed-funding scheme offering £1,000,000 per annum to support the development of multi and inter disciplinary projects

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To bring together strands of expertise in research, education and legal services across disciplines at King's in support of migrant individuals and families

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To bring together strands of expertise in research, education and legal services across disciplines at King's in support of migrant individuals and families

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King's Inter-Legal Migration Project (KILM)

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King's Inter-Legal Migration Project (KILM)

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example Interdisciplinary project funded by King's Together - internal and external links promoted by Safeguarding Support Hub another partner 

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example Interdisciplinary project funded by King's Together - internal and external links promoted by Safeguarding Support Hub another partner 

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A a great opportunity for all professionals and academics working on safeguarding!

King's Forensics, King's College London, will organise a one-day symposium on preventing sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector. The Conference will take place online on Friday 14th May, 2021.

The conference will explore the current knowledge base of the underreported nature of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in the aid industry and innovative ways to tackle it. The conference will be opened by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, known for establishing Australia's child abuse inquiry and her anti-misogyny speech, and close with an opportunity for participants to discuss partnerships for future work.

The conference will specifically disseminate the findings of our review on the nature and scale of SEA by civilian aid workers and explore the use of DNA testing and genetic genealogy to secure justice for victims and hold perpetrators to account, by identifying fathers of children born to survivors of SEA. It will further explore the ethical and legal challenges to scaling this work and the institutional reforms needed to make progress on the issue.

The conference seeks to energise the debate around preventing SEA in the aid sector and secure commitments to further systematic investigation into SEA in humanitarian and development contexts. Register for the conference here.

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InterSEC:Action - Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children by Aid Workers Conference - Online Conference

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A a great opportunity for all professionals and academics working on safeguarding! King's Forensics, King's College London, will organise a one-day symposium on preventing sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector. The Conference will take place online on Friday 14th May, 2021.