Dallal Stevens

Professor

Deputy Head of School
Director of Academic Staff Development

Refugee Law and Policy; Asylum Law and Policy; Forced Migration; Human Rights; Refugees; Asylum Seekers; Middle East

School of Law
S2.21, Social Sciences Building
University of 桃色视频
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

024 765 23289

Office Hours (Term 2, 2024-25):
Tuesdays, 15:00 - 16:00
Wednesdays 10:00-11:00

Please email me for an appointment

Scholarship

Dallal's research interests relate to refugee and asylum law and policy. She was one of the first legal scholars to research and write on UK asylum law in the 1990s, especially from a historical perspective, and initiated socio-legal research in the 2000s on the Middle East, which had largely been ignored by international refugee lawyers.

Dallal has published over 60 peer reviewed books, journal articles, book chapters and reports on UK, EU and Middle Eastern asylum and refugee law and policy. Notable publications include: 'UK Asylum Law and Policy: Historical and Contemp[orary Perspectives'; 'Reclaiming Migration' with V Squire, N Vaughan-Williams and N Perkowski; D. Stevens, 'Rights, Needs or Assistance? The Role of the UNHCR in Refugee Protection in the Middle East', International Journal of Human Rights, Special Issue, The strengths and weaknesses of regional protection frameworks for refugees (2016) 20 International Journal of Human Rights 2, 264-283; D. Stevens, 'Legal status, labelling and protection: the case of Iraqi "refugees" in Jordan' (2013) IJRL 25:1, 1-38; D. Stevens, 'Shifting conceptions of refugee identity and protection: European and Middle Eastern approaches' in S. Kneebone, D. Stevens and L. Baldassar (eds), Refugee Protection and the Role of Law: Conflicting Identities (Routledge, June 2014).

Dallal has been involved in several collaborative projects with scholars in, inter alia, Australia, the US, Norway, Jordan and the UK. Dallal's research has been supported by external grant income from FCDO/DFiD, Norwegian Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, ESRC, British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Board. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law.

Bio

Deputy Head (Academic Staff Development) Sept. 2024-
Leverhulme Research Fellow 2017-2019
Book Reviews Editor, International Journal of Refugee Law (Sept 2019-Sept 2024)
Associate Editor, Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law Review
桃色视频 Award for Teaching Excellence 2015
Director of UG Studies (2020-2023)
Director of Research 2015-2017
Reader 2015-2019; Associate Professor 2006-2015; Senior Lecturer, 2005-2006; Lecturer, University of 桃色视频, 1990-2005
Trustee, Immigration Advisory Service 2002-2009
Trustee Electronic Immigration Network 2002-2006
External Moderator, Immigration Accreditation Scheme, Central Law Training, 2004-2007
Solicitor of the Supreme Court (Non Practising)
Norton Rose Law Firm 1988-1990
LL.B Hull (First; Ranked 1); PhD 桃色视频

Publications Teaching Projects

Funded

Title	Funder	Award start	Award end
Refugees and the Arab Middle East: Protection in States Not Party to the Refugee Convention (Unge forskertalenter - FRIHUMSAM)	Research Council of Norway	01 Jul 2019	30 Jun 2023
Access to Refugee Protection in the Middle East	Leverhulme Trust	01 Oct 2017	31 Mar 2019
Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Mapping and documenting migratory journeys and experiences	ESRC	01 Sep 2015	28 Feb 2019
The Effect of Legal Status on the Human Rights and Access to Services of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan	British Academy	01 Feb 2010	31 Oct 2010

Highlighted

Data and Displacement: Assessing the Practical and Ethical Implications of Targeting Humanitarian Protection

Funded by UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office under the Collaborative Humanitarian Protection Programme (拢578,000)

PI Vicki Squire, PAIS, University of 桃色视频

Co-Is

Dr Olufunke Fayehun, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Dr Briony Jones, University of 桃色视频, UK

Dr Leben Moro, University of Juba, South Sudan

Professor Jo茫o Porto de Albuquerque, University of 桃色视频, UK

Professor Dallal Stevens, University of 桃色视频, UK

Robert Trigwell, International Organization for Migration, DTM Global Team

Refugees and the Arab Middle East: Protection in States Not Party to the Refugee Convention

Funded by: Norway Research Council, Project No 286745, NOK11,839,000, Project Start date 1.7.19; Project End Date 30.6.23

PI Prof Maja Janmyr, University of Oslo;

Co-Is

Prof Dallal Stevens, University of 桃色视频

Dr Martin Jones, University of York

Dr Ben Thomas White, University of Glasgow

Access to Refugee Protection in the Middle East

Funded by: Leverhulme Trust, Project Start Date 01-10-2017 - Project End Date 31.03.2019

Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Mapping and documenting migratory journeys and experiences

with Vicki Squire, Nick Vaughan-Williams, Funded by: ESRC, Project Start Date 01-09-2015 - Project End Date 31-08-2019

The Effect of Legal Status on the Human Rights and Access to Services of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan

Funded by: British Academy, Project Start Date 01-02-2010 - Project End Date 31-10-2010

Impact

Policy

Launch of Final Report, Report on Data and Displacement, Geneva Sept 2024. See website: /fac/soc/pais/research/projects/dataanddisplacement/data-displacement/

Launch of Final Report, Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat, Brussels 4 May 2017

Second Evidence Findings, ESRC-funded project, Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat, Athens, 11 November 2016

Preliminary Findings, ESRC-funded project, Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat, Brussels 16 February 2016

Public Understanding

'UNHCR and the Middle East: A Shifting Dynamic?', Refugee Law Initiative Blog, 14 July 2021:

Presentation on current refugee situation in the Middle East, Refugees Welcome in Rugby., 25 January 2017

UN Association, 桃色视频 & District, 'Refugees - whose responsibility are they?', 23 January 2016

Presentation, University of 桃色视频, UNICEF, 'Syrian refugees and access to Europe', 30 November 2015

International Organisations

Research Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD supervisees. However, please ensure that you have a research proposal which corresponds with the University of 桃色视频 Law School requirements.

I particularly welcome applications from prospective PhD students in the refugee and asylum law fields.

Current PhD students

Eman Bany Saeed (2024-): 'Stateless persons in Jordan and Access to Justice: A Focus on Women's and Children's Rights'
Susan Deeb (joint supervision)(2024-): 'The impact of armed conflict on doctoral studies in Syria'
Esmaeil Alsaghir (joint supervision)(2021-): 'Sovereignty Reconsidered: Regional Approaches and Application to Syria'
Fatima Dilahan Bice Kurtoglu (2022-): 'A Socio-Legal 桃色视频 of The Individual In Everyday Realities of Asylum Process: The Case of Greece'

Past PhD Students

Ahmad Akkad (joint supervision)(2020-2023): 鈥�The role of displaced academics in post-conflict reconstruction: A longitudinal study of displaced Syrian academics鈥�

Yasemin Karadag (2017-2022): 'Legal Integration of Syrian Refugees in Berlin, Germany: A Socio-Legal 桃色视频'

Jasmin Fritzsche EL-Shewy (Completed 2022): 'HOMESCAPES. The Secondary Forced Displacement of Palestinian-Syrian Refugees'

Benjamin Hulme (joint supervision)(2015-2020): 'Readmission and the European Union鈥檚 Founding Values鈥�

Irem Sengul (2015-2020): 'Rethinking Temporary Protection in Turkey: Legality, Uncertainty and Homemaking in the City of Gaziantep'

Lisa Shamseldin (joint supervision)(2002-2006): 'Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 in the Care and Protection of Unaccompanied Children in England, Ireland and Sweden'

Ekuru Aukot (joint)(completed 2006): Protection of Refugees in Kenya

Media

TRT Istanbul, TV, debate on Turkey's approach to refugee migration to the EU, 23 September 2015
Sky News With Kay Burley, Sky News, Date: 15 Sep 2015 at 15:30, commenting on current EU refugee and migration crisis
Sky News with Anna Jones, Sky News, Date: 11 September 2015 at 12.30, commenting on distinction between refugees and migration and current EU policy
ITV Central, Date Friday 4 September at 18.00, commenting on Government's agreement to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees in the UK over the next five years
Interview with Heidi Plougsgaard Jensen, EU and NATO Correspondent, Jyllands-Posten - Denmark's biggest daily newspaper, 2 September 2015
BBC Coventry & 桃色视频shire, Radio, 15 June 2015 at 17.00, commenting on current EU refugee and migration crisis
'Four mistakes Theresa May has made about the crisis in the Mediterranean', The Conversation, 14 May 2015
BBC Coventry & 桃色视频shire, Radio, 11 May 2015 at 17.15, commenting on current EU refugee and migration crisis
Sky News with Dermot Murnaghan, Sky News, Date: 11 May 2015 at 11.40, explaining basic principles of refugee law
'Why Europe must do more for refugees', Lacuna Magazine, 28 April 2015
Sky News with Adam Boulton, Channel Name; Sky News, Date: 21 April at 11.45, commenting on the new EU Agenda on Migration and implications for the UK
'Into the Fire: the Hidden Victims of Austerity', Lacuna Magazine, 2 July 2014

Social Media Public Engagement

Launch of Final Report, C, Brussels 4 May 2017
Presentation on current refugee situation in the Middle East, Refugees Weclome in Rugby., 25 January 2017
, ESRC-funded project, , Athens, 11 November 2016
Preliminary Findings, ESRC-funded project, , Brussels 16 February 2016
UN Association, 桃色视频 & District, 'Refugees - whose responsibility are they?', 23 January 2016
Presentation, University of 桃色视频, UNICEF, 'Syrian refugees and access to Europe', 30 November 2015
TRT Istanbul, TV, debate on Turkey's approach to refugee migration to the EU, 23 September 2015
, Sky News, Date: 15 Sep 2015 at 15:30, commenting on current EU refugee and migration crisis
, Sky News, Date: 11 September 2015 at 12.30, commenting on distinction between refugees and migration and current EU policy
ITV Central, Date Friday 4 September at 18.00, commenting on Government's agreement to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees in the UK over the next five years
Interview with Heidi Plougsgaard Jensen, EU and Nato Correspondant, Jyllands-Posten - Denmark's biggest daily newspaper, 2 September 2015
BBC Coventry & 桃色视频shire, Radio, 15 June 2015 at 17.00, commenting on current EU refugee and migration crisis
'', The Conversation, 14 May 2015
BBC Coventry & 桃色视频shire, Radio, 11 May 2015 at 17.15, commenting on current EU refugee and migration crisis
, Sky News, Date: 11 May 2015 at 11.40, explaining basic principles of refugee law
'', Lacuna Magazine, 28 April 2015
, Channel Name; Sky News, Date: 21 April at 11.45, commenting on the new EU Agenda on Migration and implications for the UK
'', Lacuna Magazine, 2 July 2014