Author: Ala Sirriyeh

Ala Sirriyeh

Ala Sirriyeh

Dr Ala Sirriyeh is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Lancaster and the author of The Politics of Compassion (2018).

In the absence of safe and legal routes into the UK, migrants and refugees are undertaking desperate and treacherous journeys across the Channel in small boats and dinghies. On 19 August, news broke of the tragic drowning of Abdulfatah Hamdallah, a young Sudanese man, who had attempted this crossing. The...

7th September 2020
BY Ala Sirriyeh
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