Simon Robins is a practitioner and researcher with an interest in humanitarian protection, human rights and transitional justice. His research work has focused on the issue of persons disappeared and missing in armed conflict, as well as dead and missing migrants. This work is driven by a desire to put the needs of victims of conflict at the heart of efforts to address its legacies, and this has led to his engaging with victim-centred and therapeutic approaches to histories of violence, particularly as they concern families of the missing.
For more details on Simon’s research and publications please see his website: www.simonrobins.com
Simon’s publications include:
Robins, Simon. 2022. “The Affective Border: Missing Migrants and the Governance of Migrant Bodies at the EU’s Southern Frontier.” Journal of Refugee Studies, 35 (2): 948–967. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fey064
Robins, Simon. 2014. “Constructing Meaning from Disappearance: Local Memorialisation of the Missing in Nepal.” International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 8(1): 104–118. https://doi.org/10.4119/ijcv-3048
Robins, Simon. 2011. “Towards Victim-Centred Transitional Justice: Understanding the Needs of Families of the Disappeared in Postconflict Nepal.” International Journal of Transitional Justice5(1): 75–98. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijq027