Eddie Bruce-Jones

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Race & Migration

I have researched and written on race, migration and law for twenty years.

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

I am currently 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 monograph, Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe was based on years of living and working in Germany and uses ethnographic methods, case law analysis and critical theory. Alongside my research, I participated 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.

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.

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).