I have been involved in research and public engagements on race, migration and law for over fifteen years.

Most recently, I have written three forthcoming pieces on race and law in Europe, including a book chapter on race under equality law and criminal law in Europe, a short essay on race and the law in Germany the Political and Legal Anthropology blog, and a short essay on the work of May Ayim in the journal Amerikastudien/ American Studies.

I am currently co-authoring a case book Race and Law in Europe (with Cengiz Barskanmaz, Mathias Möschel and Angela Kóczé) and co-editing a book called Intersectional Rewrites: European Court of Human Rights Judgments Reimagined (with Nani Jansen Reventlow, Lyn Tjon Soei Len and Adam Weiss).

My publications on refugee and asylum law include a critical examinations of the the teaching of refugee law, the dynamic between refugee rights liberalisation and international efforts to reform constitutions in postcolonial societies, and the discourse of burden sharing. For a list of academic publications, click here. I participated as a judge in the 45th session of the Permanent People Tribunal at its London hearing on the rights of migrants and refugees.

Alongside my research, I have participated since 2007 as a trial observer and later as an independent commission member shadowing the trials of Oury Jalloh, a significant case of death in police custody, which occurred in 2005 in Germany. A complaint was filed at the European Court of Human Rights in 2023.

For fifteen years, I served NGOs related to asylum on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, as a resource co-ordinator at the International Refugee Rights Initiative (previously Fahamu), board member of ORAM and board member of Rainbow Migration (previously UKLGIG). I have also served on the advisory board of Centre for Intersectional Justice (Berlin) and the Institute of Race Relations (London).