Anca Carter-Timofte
Gender and Asylum in Post-Brexit Britain
Biography
I hold a MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature from the University of York (2018), and an MA in International Relations and Security from the University of Liverpool (2021).
Research Interests
My research focuses on asylum legislation in the UK following its removal from the European Union, with a specific focus on the treatment of gender in the incoming Nationality and Borders Bill. My research aims to understand how colonialism, imperialism and notions of nationhood and identity have shaped asylum law in the UK, and how these ideas persist in contemporary asylum legislation.
I am also interested in the relationship between asylum legislation and media, considering how representations of refugees as security threats can use racial and gender stereotypes to further encourage border restrictions in the UK.