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Georgia Cole is a Chancellor's Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences, focusing her research on the alternatives individuals pursue to formal asylum pathways, aiming to pluralize the geographies of refuge and account for diverse sites of protection and respite. Her work primarily targets Eritrean refugees and migrants from Eritrea, East Africa, and the Gulf States, as she seeks to understand the historical and contemporary role that Gulf actors play within global displacement systems and humanitarianism. Cole is broadly interested in exploring how displaced populations access durable solutions and how international and domestic politics affect displacement dynamics in the Horn of Africa. In Edinburgh, she is involved in Mastercard Foundation-funded projects and works with the Danish Refugee Council's Mixed Migration Centre to design longitudinal survey tools for mixed migrants in North East Africa. Previously, she served as a Research Fellow at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, and as a Junior Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford. She holds a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford. As Book Review Editor for the Journal of Refugee Studies, Cole also engages with various media outlets such as The Guardian and The Economist, in addition to her academic publications.
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