Robyn Moffat explores the harmful impacts that Brexit and the subsequent law-changes have on Asylum Seekers settling in Britain, as well as the catastrophic effects that COVID-19 has on the process of immigration. Last year, deportation flights from the United Kingdom to the European Union increased threefold as the home office rushed to maximise its…
2020 End-of-Year Review: Hindsight is Not Always 20/20
Building on the 2020 Mid-Review, Nathan Yang takes a look back at the second half of 2020 and raps up a strange year that has given an abundance of events, stories, and change around the world. How will societies, governments, and individuals evolve in 2021 in the midst of a seemingly endless pandemic overshadowing plans…
Lockdown 2.0 : spaces, signs and symbols of a pandemic
Johara Meyer documents her experience of wandering through Camden during the second Coronavirus Lockdown in the UK. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has altered geographies of our everyday world: analyses of local/regional/global transition patterns underpin efforts to “flatten the curve”, human behaviour in places is governed by geographic containment strategies, and inherently spatial concepts of ‘social…
The Bloomsbury Geographer 