Author: Nicholas Van Hear
Nicholas Van Hear is deputy director at COMPAS, the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. He works on forced migration, conflict, development, diaspora, transnationalism and related issues, and has field experience in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and Europe.

It is now three years since Robin Cohen and I started to develop the idea of Refugia – a future transnational polity created and governed by refugees, migrants and supportive citizens that we imagine could emerge in the interstices of the nation-state system over the next decade. (More…)