PHD RESEARCH
Tosin was awarded the prestigious School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) Scholarship in 2022, to commence his PhD program at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. His thesis is about endings. It focuses on a population whose refugee status has been terminated and who are no longer under the protection of the UNHCR. His thesis extends these debates beyond the political, legal, and policy dimensions of the Cessation Clause and UNHCR’s Durable Solutions framework. It explores the role of memory, labelling, and the diasporic condition in shaping long-term meanings and interpretations of refugeehood, as well as the transition, decision-making, and afterlife experiences of “residual refugees” when their refugee status comes to an end. This population is often neglected in discussions and policies on post-refugee issues and forced migration, and their situation raises important questions about their waithood, their sense of home and belonging, self-identification and external perception, the social construction of refugeehood after...
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PAST RESEARCH
Tosin Master's dissertation, Narratives of the Journey to Exile and Transformative Agency of Residual Liberian Refugees in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria, explored how Liberians resident in Nigeria after the termination of their refugee status have fared in the midst of their host community, particularly in being able to create a viable social existence responsive to their current situation of exile and in still in touch with their Liberian heritage in the diaspora they have been able to create. He found that these exiles have transformed their status in being able to make contributions of significance in their host community and environs, indeed refurbishing the ‘former uninhabitable space into a cultural colony and economic hub’, utilizing ‘home-making practices, economic resourcefulness, and diaspora networks which strengthen their influence on the development of their host’. This dissertation is the runner-up in the fifth Global ‘Border Criminologies Masters Dissertation/Thesis Prize’, awarded by the Border Criminologies network based at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford, with...
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