@online{nokey,
title = {What if we were to open up the university to "decolonial praxis"?},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes and Tesfalem Habte Yemane},
url = {https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/unesco/resources/blogsandbriefings/headline_831067_en.html},
year  = {2022},
date = {2022-01-18},
abstract = {In the first discussion of a two-part series, Dr. Hyab Yohannes (CUSP N+ Academic Coordinator and UNESCO RILA Scholar) and his colleague Tesfalem H. Yemane discussed the notion of "decolonising university" in Tigrigna. This is a translated transcript of that conversation.},
howpublished = {UNESCO RILA, School of Education, University of Glasgow},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
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@online{nokey,
title = {The humans whose humanity is forfeited},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {https://www.youngacademyofscotland.org.uk/news/the-humans-whose-humanity-is-forfeited/},
year  = {2021},
date = {2021-12-10},
urldate = {2021-12-10},
abstract = {Today is Human Rights Day, the day in which the human race celebrates the supposedly “indivisible” and “inalienable” rights that it has awarded itself. Yet here I am remembering those humans whose very humanity has been forfeited. This blog raises fundamental questions about refugees whose banishment to the realms of dehumanity throws into question the humanity of all human beings.},
howpublished = {Young Academy of Scotland},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
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@periodical{nokey,
title = {It's our responsibility to welcome refugees - and redeem their stories},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {https://edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=\&pubid=71f2d860-1860-4a9f-805f-e5b0c423e14c},
year  = {2021},
date = {2021-11-10},
howpublished = {Insight: The Biannual Publication for Members of Children in Scotland},
note = {Pages: 20-21},
keywords = {Children, Insight, Refugees},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {periodical}
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@phdthesis{nokey,
title = {The realities of Eritrean refugees in a carceral age},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/82511},
doi = {10.5525/gla.thesis.82511},
year  = {2021},
date = {2021-10-26},
urldate = {2021-10-26},
abstract = {Academics, journalists, and human rights groups have, for decades, written about the secretive and repressive nature of the state of Eritrea and the mass emigration of people from the country. At the core of these discussions have been discourses about human rights violations and ‘crime against humanity’ being committed by the government of Eritrea since the country’s independence. The reality, however, is that ever since its creation by Italian colonisers as a territorially bounded state, Eritrea has never been ruled by law, nor has it been subject to any rights-based system. Thus, the premise of human rights violations\textemdashthe human rights lens through which these discourses are produced, and the geopolitical interests they serve\textemdashgrasps neither the realities on the ground nor the complexities and nuances of how the human is differentially produced. Although the empirical evidence produced by UN branches, perennial human rights lobbyists and academic activists can be useful to back up normative claims, human rights discourses and approaches fail to address epistemic and methodological blind spots, leaving theoretical voids in our understanding of the carceral state of Eritrea and the realities of the lives of people fleeing the country. This study attends to these epistemic blind spots and theoretical voids by presenting an alternative reality that is grounded in the perspectives of those who have fled the country.

Underpinned by ontological, epistemological, and methodological assumptions of critical realism, this research considers the what, how, and why questions that underpin Eritrean refugees’ realities of becoming, and the conditions of being, refugees. Its key findings fall into three broad categories. First, the thesis finds that Eritreans are born into, and live in, conditions of lawlessness and rightlessness that began with the colonial occupation of what is now known as Eritrea, and these conditions have been maintained by the only government that has ruled the country since its independence. This precarious condition of ‘no laws nor rights’, and the modalities of punishment and control the government has imposed on the Eritrean people, explains why the country has been haemorrhaging its youthful population. Second, due to their unprotected status, Eritrean refugees have been left stranded indefinitely in exclusive biopolitical entanglements and necropolitical experimentations, in which they have been treated as disposable corporealities that are always available for exploitation, violence, and removal without accountability. Third, the disenfranchisement of the refugees, and the collapse of all their human experiences and relations into indefinite modalities of precarity, carcerality and (im)mobility, has led to the total negation of their humanity. In these conditions, occurrences of dehumanisation and depoliticisation of Eritrean refugees are endless; murder is not unusual, nor is it a crime. In presenting these findings, the study does not only investigate the realities of being an Eritrean refugee, but also how processes and intertwined power relations interplay with causal powers and contextual circumstances that are responsible for the relegation of Eritrean lives to the precarious condition of being unliveable and ungrievable.

Through these findings, this study seeks to make three key contributions. First, by exposing the gaps in human rights discourses and esoteric political imaginations, this research offers an alternative approach to understanding the perplexing nature of the state of Eritrea and the realities of the people fleeing the county, by suggesting a total absence of law and rights, using the rule of ‘no laws nor rights’ as a starting point. Second, this thesis looks at how, in their constant struggle for survival and political existence, refugees play a disruptive role by shaking the principles upon which the nation-state system has been built (Agamben, 1995a). Agamben (1995a) makes this case from an Euro-centric perspective, thus he fails to see the links between the ‘world of modernity’ and the ‘world of coloniality’, and hence, the subjectivities these worlds create, shape, and reproduce. Third, drawing on clues from seminal thinkers in the fields of sovereignty and biopolitics, such as Arendt, Foucault and Agamben, the thesis opens new areas of criticism to further our understanding of the role of the state in the biopolitical b/ordering of societies and the policing of the ability to qualify as human.},
howpublished = {College of Social Sciences, School of Education, University of Glasgow},
keywords = {(im)mobility, camp, Carcerality, coloniality, Eritrean refugees, no-laws nor rights, trafficking, untamed life},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {phdthesis}
}
@online{nokey,
title = {A trip to a Crannog},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {https://www.crannog.co.uk/blog/crannog-blog/507-hyab-yohannes-unesco-a-trip-to-a-crannog},
year  = {2021},
date = {2021-10-21},
urldate = {2021-10-21},
howpublished = {The Scottish Crannog Centre},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
}
@online{nokey,
title = {From structural vulnerability to resilience: A reflexive essay on refugee-led responses to COVID-19},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes and Tesfalem Habte Yemane},
url = {https://racialjusticenetwork.co.uk/2021/04/10/from-structural-vulnerability-to-resilience-a-reflexive-essay-on-refugee-led-responses-to-covid-19/},
year  = {2021},
date = {2021-10-04},
urldate = {2021-10-04},
howpublished = {Racial Justice Network \textendash UK},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
}
@online{nokey,
title = {Decolonising Asylum?},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {https://righttoremain.org.uk/decolonising-asylum/},
year  = {2021},
date = {2021-08-11},
urldate = {2021-08-11},
abstract = {Decoloniality is a mode of critique that seeks to understand and challenge these exclusive practices of othering and the hierarchical understanding of the human. As typical subjects of coloniality, refugees and people seeking asylum are often exposed to regimes of othering, bordering and ordering. Thus, countering the persistence of these exclusive practices would necessitate decolonising asylum.},
howpublished = {Right to Remain},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
}
@online{nokey,
title = {We are all refugees},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/unesco/resources/blogsandbriefings/headline_804232_en.html},
year  = {2021},
date = {2021-08-02},
urldate = {2021-08-02},
howpublished = {UNESCO Chair Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (RILA)},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
}
@article{nokey,
title = {Refugee Trafficking in A Carceral Age: A Case Study of the Sinai Trafficking},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23322705.2021.1885005},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2021.1885005},
year  = {2021},
date = {2021-02-25},
urldate = {2021-02-25},
journal = {Journal of Human Trafficking},
abstract = {Since 2007, tens of thousands of Eritreans escaping widespread repression, open-ended national service, and socio-economic deprivation have reached the Sinai Peninsula hoping to cross the border into Israel. Early on, voluntary smuggling facilitated refugee crossings. Around 2009, however, smuggling became a notorious trafficking network, referred to as Sinai trafficking. Hostages were raped, tortured, and murdered. This human tragedy continued for several years, unknown to the outside world, and was, strikingly, not acted upon, even once discovered. No criminal investigation was taken after its discovery. How and why do the torture, death, and reports of organ trading of thousands of innocent refugees go ignored? In this article, I look into why it might be that the Sinai trafficking has gone unpunished, concluding that it is because the victims, had, due to their circumstances, come to be regarded merely as “bare lives”.},
keywords = {bare life, carceral system, impunity, ransom, torture camps, trafficking},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@online{nokey,
title = {'We are still burning’ \textendash survivors of Beskdira and Ona massacre},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {https://www.blinashama.org.uk/we-are-still-burning-survivors-of-beskdira-and-ona-massacre/},
year  = {2020},
date = {2020-12-11},
urldate = {2020-12-11},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
}
@online{nokey,
title = {Eritrean culture comes to the fore as part of Unesco’s 75th birthday},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes and Alison Phipps},
url = {https://www.thenational.scot/news/18873316.eritrean-culture-comes-fore-part-unescos-75th-birthday/},
year  = {2020},
date = {2020-11-15},
urldate = {2020-11-15},
howpublished = {The National},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
}
@online{nokey,
title = {Blina Shama UK: Creating a Sanctuary after Home Loss},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {https://www.blinashama.org.uk/blina-shama-uk-creating-a-sanctuary-after-home-loss/},
year  = {2020},
date = {2020-08-14},
urldate = {2020-08-14},
howpublished = {Blina Shama UK},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
}
@article{nokey,
title = {Commentary},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14708477.2020.1722689},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2020.1722689},
year  = {2020},
date = {2020-02-10},
urldate = {2020-02-10},
journal = {Language and Intercultural Communication},
keywords = {Commentary, intercultural communication},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@online{nokey,
title = {‘Born rightless, die rightless’},
author = {Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes},
url = {https://righttoremain.org.uk/born-rightless-die-rightless/},
year  = {2018},
date = {2018-12-03},
urldate = {2018-12-03},
howpublished = {Right to Remain},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
}