Sangeetha is proud to be an Associate of the Border Criminologies Faculty at the University of Oxford. Border Criminologies sits within the Criminology Department of the University’s Faculty of Law. The department brings together academics, practitioners and those who have experienced border control from around the world, showcasing original research from a range of perspectives.…
Sangeetha is honoured to be nominated as a ‘Rising Star’ for the Women in Law Awards 2020! The inaugural award has been established to showcase the achievements and innovations of women across all areas of legal practice. It is a celebration of 100 years of women in the law and serves to celebrate the significant…
Sangeetha was interviewed by CGTN Europe for a deep-dive Facebook Live chat on 17th October 2019. During the course of this interview Sangeetha demystifies issues surrounding migration and the Greek islands. She explained what the Greek island policy is and why this has administratively marooned tens of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees for months,…
Sangeetha was invited to discuss the catastrophe of Europe’s management of asylum seekers and refugees as part of CGTN’s ‘Forgotten Frontier’ television special on 17th October 2019. Sangeetha commended positive examples of European town policies that encouraged pathways to integration and forged better access to the labour market for asylum seekers and refugees. However these small-scale…
Sangeetha is a tenant and member of Goldsmith Chambers’ Immigration Team which has been top ranked a ‘leading set’ by Legal 500 for 2020. Goldsmith Chambers sits alongside Matrix Chambers, One Pump Court and 39 Essex in Band Three of the Directory.
As member of the Bar Human Rights Committee, Sangeetha attended the BHRC’s panel discussion in Parliament entitled ‘Hiding in Plain Sight – The extraordinary scale of human rights violations in Xinjiang, China’ on 26th June 2019. The event was co-hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights group. The discussion shone a light on the treatment of…
The Law Commission has opened a consultation to assist their review of the Immigration Rules (further details on the Consultation can be found here. The Immigration Rules are unwieldy, ambiguous and impossible to navigate even in their online format. In a bit to revise the tome of the Immigration Rules the Law Commission opened a…
Sangeetha published an article for the Border Criminologies department of the University of Oxford, highlighting the systematic dispossession. The article, entitled “Greece: Dispossession through the guise of protection” explores the systematic dispossession and forced destitution of the most vulnerable refugees in mainland Greece. For ease, the full article is reproduced below: Greece: Dispossession through the guise…
Sangeetha was invited onto Nick Ferrari’s LBC morning radio show on 2nd April 2019 to discuss the UK’s response to Shamima Begum’s latest interview with The Times. In the interview, Ms Begum described her remorse, her fear of reprisals whilst in the camp and a deep desire to return to the UK and her family. Sangeetha…