Dr Angela Sherwood, PhD (Queen Mary), MSc (Oxford) BA (University of Vermont)

Profile

Dr Angela Sherwood joined Queen Mary in December 2021 as a Lecturer in Law. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ERC-funded Project Refugees are Migrants: Refugee Mobility, Recognition and Rights led by Cathryn Costello at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. She also led the ESRC-funded project ‘Understanding Humanitarian Crime and Deviance in Global Chains of Harm Production,’ while a Postdoctoral Researcher at Queen Mary. Angela’s research interests lie in state violence and migration governance; environmental harm and population displacement; and the criminology of humanitarianism. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Refugee Studies and in several edited volumes on themes of state crime, displacement, and international migration.

Before starting her postdoctoral research, Angela worked for Amnesty International as a researcher/advisor on migrants’ rights where she led investigations into supply chain human rights abuse and migrant exploitation. She also worked for several years at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at its headquarters in Geneva and at its offices in Haiti, East Timor, South Africa, Tunisia, Mongolia, and Zimbabwe.

Angela holds a PhD in Law from Queen Mary and MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford.

Research

Angela’s current research interests include:

• State Crime; Humanitarian Crime; Institutional Violence
• Borders, Mobility & Migration Governance
• Ecocide and Climate-related Migration
• Forced Evictions & Postcolonial Property-Making

Publications

Edited Volumes

• (with Megan Bradley and Cathryn Costello) IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion (Forthcoming 2022, Cambridge University Press)

Peer Reviewed Articles

• Megan Bradley, Angela Sherwood, Lorenza Rossi, Rufa Guiam, and Bradley Mellicker, “Researching the Resolution of Post-Disaster Displacement: Reflections from Haiti and the Philippines. “ Journal of Refugee Studies, 30(3) 2016: 363-386.

Chapters in Books

• Angela Sherwood, Isabelle Lemay, and Cathryn Costello, ‘IOM’s Immigration Detention Practices and Policies:  Human Rights, Positive Obligations and Humanitarian Duties’ in Bradley, M., Costello, C. and Sherwood, A.(eds) IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion (Forthcoming 2022, Cambridge University Press).
• Angela Sherwood and Megan Bradley, ‘Holding IOM to Account: The Role of International Advocacy NGOs,’ in Bradley, M., Costello, C. and Sherwood, A.(eds) IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion (Forthcoming 2022, Cambridge University Press).
• Angela Sherwood, “Grabbing ‘ Solutions: Internal Displacement and Post-Disaster Land Occupations in Haiti, “ in Bradley, M., Milner, J. and Peruniak, B. (eds): Refugees ‘ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries (pp. 167-186). Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 2019.
• Angela Sherwood, Laura Smits and Anna Konotchick, “Haiti ‘s Disaster Urbanisms: The Emerging City of Canaan, “ in Rocco, R. and van Ballegooijen, J. (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Informal Urbanization (pp. 226-237). Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2019.
• Megan Bradley and Angela Sherwood, “Addressing and Resolving Internal Displacement: Reflections on a Soft Law Success Story, “ in Cerone, J., Gammeltoft-Hansen, T. and Lagoutte, S. (eds): Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights (pp. 155-182). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Penny Green, Kristian Lasslett and Angela Sherwood, “Enclosing the Commons: Predatory Capital and Forced Evictions in Papua New Guinea and Burma, “ in Pickering, S. (ed): The Routledge Handbook on Migration and Crime (pp.329-350).  Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2014.

Authored Reports

• Angela Sherwood, Cathryn Costello, Emile McDonnell, ‘The Displacement Regime Complex: Reform for Protection’ (2021) Background Paper for the preparation of the seventh edition of UNHCR’s The State of the World’s Forcibly Displaced
• Angela Sherwood. Unpaid and Abandoned: The Abuse of Mercury Mena Workers. Amnesty International, 2018.
• Angela Sherwood. The Debt Trap: How Business and Government Undermine Nepali Migrants ‘ Efforts to Escape Poverty. Amnesty International, 2017.
• Angela Sherwood. Turning People into Profits. Amnesty International, 2017.
• Angela Sherwood, Megan Bradley, Lorenza Rossi, Rufa Guiam, and Bradley Mellicker, Resolving Post-Disaster Displacement: Insights from the Philippines. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution and the International Organization for Migration, 2015.
• Angela Sherwood, Megan Bradley, Lorenza Rossi, Rosalia Gitau, and Bradley Mellicker, Supporting Durable Solutions to Urban, Post-Disaster Displacement: Challenges and Opportunities in Haiti. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution and the International Organization for Migration, 2014.