J R Campbell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J R Campbell |
| GIVEN NAMES | J R |
| FAMILY NAME | Campbell |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPBELL J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4977-4587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Article 1F and Anthropological Evidence: A Fine Line Between Justice and Injustice
While all anthropological experts take pride when their evidence plays a vital role in securing protection for an asylum applicant, we also acutely remember the cases in which our research and reports were rejected, particularly when our reports appear to be unfairly rejected. In this paper, I discuss two cases in which the British Home Office argued that an asylum applicant was not entitled to protection because he participated in war crimes/cri…
Legal silo's and indifference: The wrongful prosecution of refugees and asylum-seekers in the UK
This paper explores the situation in the UK where the government has consistently prosecuted and convicted asylum-seekers who have entered the country in contravention of its obligations under Art. 31(1) of the 1951 Refugee Convention. This paper examines the history of these prosecutions and the UK's criminal justice system and the UK's asylum and immigration system in handled these cases. At the centre of the CJS lies the Criminal Cases Review …
Who defines atoll ‘uninhabitability’
From the Frying Pan into the Fire? Climate Change, Urbanization and (In)Security in Pacific Island Countries and Territories
Most Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) have experienced urban population growth for some time although the rates vary across the region. The drivers have traditionally been economic and social although the role of environmental degradation has been largely overlooked. As the populations of towns and cities have grown in PICTs, urban population densities have increased and available land for expansion has been restricted. Accordingl…
The limitations of international law at the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and its implications for future conflict
This paper examines the litigation strategies adopted by Eritrea and Ethiopia before the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission convened at The Permanent Commission of Arbitration at The Hague between 2001 and 2009. I pursue insights from the work of Laura Nader concerning how, through binding arbitration, the international community imposes its power on disputing parties as opposed to allowing their competing legal claims to be fairly decided. The c…
The role of lawyers, judges, country experts and officials in British asylum and immigration law
This paper examines the work of lawyers, judges and country experts involved in asylum and migration litigation. I begin by analysing their work in the wider semi-autonomous asylum field within which a number of powerful institutions operate to shape policy, define the roles of key actors and determine access to legal redress/justice by asylum applicants and migrants. To understand the work of these three legal actors, I analyse four very differe…
Why “the Best Interests” of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children are Left at the Border: Structural Violence and British Asylum Policies
This paper examines the impact of the UK government’s asylum policies on unaccompanied asylum seeking children whose protection is supposedly guranteed by the UK’s ratification of The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and domestic law intended to secure “the best interests” of children. I argue that the government’s migration regime and associated policies and practices create additional links in an already long chain of structural violenc…
The quality of (in)justice in London's magistrates' courts
Concerns about structural racism and policing have fuelled public demands in the US, UK and elsewhere to 'defund' and demilitarize the police. However, given the interlinked nature of the entire criminal justice system - the police, courts and prisons - further thought needs to be given to how the system should be reformed. This article summarizes research on the nature of injustice experienced in magistrates' courts in London from the point of v…
The World of Home Office Presenting Officers
In the adversarial context of litigation conducted in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal, HOPO’s are elusive: they are only seen when they enter a Tribunal hearing room to defend a decision taken by the Home Office official to refuse asylum, bail or a criminal deportation. While HOPOs limit their interaction with barristers/advocates to avoid being put into a position to set out their case in advance of the hearing, their actions reflect their s…
Examining Procedural Unfairness and Credibility Findings in the UK Asylum System
This article addresses a key problem confronted by immigration judges (IJs) in their assessment of the asylum claims of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children – who are often not allowed to speak or participate in their own hearings – namely the manner in which asylum legal procedure is intertwined with an IJ’s decision to refuse the claim on the basis of adverse credibility. This article has three linked aims: to examine research that looks at ho…
Trude Scarlett Epstein (1922-2014)
The language of asylum. Refugees and discourse
Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System
The central concern of this book is to find answers to fundamental questions about the British asylum system and how it operates. Based on ethnographic research over a two-year period, the work follows and analyses numerous asylum appeals through the British courts. It draws on myriad interviews with individuals and a thorough examination of many state and non-state organizations to understand how the system works. While the organization of the b…
Asylum in the Twenty‐First Century
Asylum was created by the international community in the twentieth century to provide legal protection to individuals fleeing persecution by nation‐states; but the ability to realize it has been fundamentally reshaped by sovereign national interests in the twenty‐first century.
Ethiopian and Eritrean Immigrants in Britain: Refugee Organising, Transnational Connections and Identity, 1950–2009
This paper explores key aspects of the immigrant experience of 50,000-plus Ethiopians and Eritreans who live in the United Kingdom. We seek to understand the extent to which immigrant life in the UK has acted ‘as a kind of pivot’ between integrating in their country of settlement and enduring forms of connection with their country of origin. This question is explored by an examination of immigrant organising in the UK – in Refugee Community Organ…
Small islands, valuable insights: Systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in the Pacific
McMillen, H. L., T. Ticktin, A. Friedlander, S. D. Jupiter, R. Thaman, J. Campbell, J. Veitayaki, T. Giambelluca, S. Nihmei, E. Rupeni, L. Apis-Overhoff, W. Aalbersberg, and D. F. Orcherton. 2014. Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in the Pacific. Ecology and Society 19(4): 44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06937-190444
Infiltrators” or Refugees? An Analysis of Israel's Policy Towards African Asylum‐Seekers
This article adopts a genealogical approach in examining Israeli immigration policy by focusing on the situation confronting African asylum seekers who have been forced back into Egypt, detained and deported but who have not had their asylum claims properly assessed. Based on immigration policies formulated at the time of Israeli independence, whose principle objective was to secure a Jewish majority state, we argue that Israel's treatment of Afr…
Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: Seeing Through Policy Claims About 'Expert Knowledge
This paper examines claims made about the role of 'expert knowledge' in analysing the language of individuals seeking asylum in the UK. I treat policy as a type of power and seek to understand how this policy uses the language of science to further the British government's stated interest to provide 'secure borders' and a 'safe haven' for refugees. I look at how the Home Office defines, shapes and implements the policy, and at how the policy has …
The Enduring Problem of Statelessness in the Horn of Africa: How Nation-States and Western Courts (Re)Define Nationality
Across Africa, citizenship is being manipulated and restricted to deny rights to those whom a state wishes to marginalize or exclude. This occurred on a large scale between 1998–2000 when Ethiopia and Eritrea, using war as an excuse, arrested and forcibly expelled an estimated 150,000 people. These individuals were stripped of their civil and legal rights, their property and, for many, their nationality. While much was made of the expulsions at t…
Tragedy of the Khlongs: Some Environmental Implications of Development in Thailand
International Development and Bilateral Aid to Kenya in the 1990s
This paper seeks to analyze a decade of international development in Kenya through the lens of a multi-sited and multi-level ethnographic analysis. It demonstrates the inherently messy and political nature of development as well as the need to analyze the social and cultural contexts in which policies are debated, negotiated, and implemented. An anthropological approach provides insight into the complexity of development policy and the unpredicta…
Hiding from the state — searching for a nation: Writing the history of colonial Tanganyika
Journal Article Hiding from the state — searching for a nation: Writing the history of colonial Tanganyika Get access John R. Campbell John R. Campbell John R. Campbell ([email protected]) is at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 105, Issue 420, July 2006, Pages 469–473, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adl008 Published: 01 July 2006
Who are the Luo? Oral tradition and disciplinary practices in anthropology and history
2006). Who are the Luo? Oral tradition and disciplinary practices in anthropology and history. Journal of African Cultural Studies: Vol. 18, Language, power and society: orality and literacy in the Horn of Africa, pp. 73-87
Development research
Is it possible or indeed desirable to combine qualitative, participatory and quantitative research methods and approaches to better understand poverty? This special section of Focaal seeks to explore a number of contentious, inter-related issues that arise from multimethod research that is driven by growing international policy concerns to reduce global poverty. We seek to initiate an interdisciplinary dialog about the limits of methodological in…
Theory and method in the study of poverty in east Africa
This article explores the relation between theory and method in three methodologically innovative studies of rural poverty. The issue is pertinent because the nature of research on poverty has shifted from small-scale qualitative studies to large surveys, and to national-scale studies that combine qualitative and quantitative methods in an effort to inform policy makers on appropriate poverty reduction strategies. The interest in combined methods…
Infiltrators” or Refugees? An Analysis of Israel's Policy Towards African Asylum‐Seekers
This article adopts a genealogical approach in examining Israeli immigration policy by focusing on the situation confronting African asylum seekers who have been forced back into Egypt, detained and deported but who have not had their asylum claims properly assessed. Based on immigration policies formulated at the time of Israeli independence, whose principle objective was to secure a Jewish majority state, we argue that Israel's treatment of Afr…
A critical appraisal of participatory methods in development research
Anthropologists and others working in the field of development are making increasing use of participatory research methods. While aware of the value of such methods, this paper outlines a number of methodological issues that need to be carefully considered. Such issues, when taken together with the problem of combining participatory with other forms of qualitative and quantitative research, argue strongly not only for caution but the need to unde…
Small islands, valuable insights: Systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in the Pacific
McMillen, H. L., T. Ticktin, A. Friedlander, S. D. Jupiter, R. Thaman, J. Campbell, J. Veitayaki, T. Giambelluca, S. Nihmei, E. Rupeni, L. Apis-Overhoff, W. Aalbersberg, and D. F. Orcherton. 2014. Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in the Pacific. Ecology and Society 19(4): 44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06937-190444
Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: Seeing Through Policy Claims About 'Expert Knowledge
This paper examines claims made about the role of 'expert knowledge' in analysing the language of individuals seeking asylum in the UK. I treat policy as a type of power and seek to understand how this policy uses the language of science to further the British government's stated interest to provide 'secure borders' and a 'safe haven' for refugees. I look at how the Home Office defines, shapes and implements the policy, and at how the policy has …
Who defines atoll ‘uninhabitability’
Ethnic Minorities and Development: A Prospective Look at the Situation of African Pastoralists and Hunter-Gatherers
This article seeks to assess the impact of development on the lives and livelihoods of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in Sub-Saharan Africa. It queries the discourses on human rights and on indigenous peoples and whether they accurately describe and address the situation confronting pastoralists and huntergatherers. The importance of access to land for pastoralists is examined and evidence is presented showing how policies have undermined live…
Who are the Luo? Oral tradition and disciplinary practices in anthropology and history
2006). Who are the Luo? Oral tradition and disciplinary practices in anthropology and history. Journal of African Cultural Studies: Vol. 18, Language, power and society: orality and literacy in the Horn of Africa, pp. 73-87
The role of lawyers, judges, country experts and officials in British asylum and immigration law
This paper examines the work of lawyers, judges and country experts involved in asylum and migration litigation. I begin by analysing their work in the wider semi-autonomous asylum field within which a number of powerful institutions operate to shape policy, define the roles of key actors and determine access to legal redress/justice by asylum applicants and migrants. To understand the work of these three legal actors, I analyse four very differe…
Ethiopian and Eritrean Immigrants in Britain: Refugee Organising, Transnational Connections and Identity, 1950–2009
This paper explores key aspects of the immigrant experience of 50,000-plus Ethiopians and Eritreans who live in the United Kingdom. We seek to understand the extent to which immigrant life in the UK has acted ‘as a kind of pivot’ between integrating in their country of settlement and enduring forms of connection with their country of origin. This question is explored by an examination of immigrant organising in the UK – in Refugee Community Organ…
Why “the Best Interests” of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children are Left at the Border: Structural Violence and British Asylum Policies
This paper examines the impact of the UK government’s asylum policies on unaccompanied asylum seeking children whose protection is supposedly guranteed by the UK’s ratification of The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and domestic law intended to secure “the best interests” of children. I argue that the government’s migration regime and associated policies and practices create additional links in an already long chain of structural violenc…
Examining Procedural Unfairness and Credibility Findings in the UK Asylum System
This article addresses a key problem confronted by immigration judges (IJs) in their assessment of the asylum claims of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children – who are often not allowed to speak or participate in their own hearings – namely the manner in which asylum legal procedure is intertwined with an IJ’s decision to refuse the claim on the basis of adverse credibility. This article has three linked aims: to examine research that looks at ho…
From the Frying Pan into the Fire? Climate Change, Urbanization and (In)Security in Pacific Island Countries and Territories
Most Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) have experienced urban population growth for some time although the rates vary across the region. The drivers have traditionally been economic and social although the role of environmental degradation has been largely overlooked. As the populations of towns and cities have grown in PICTs, urban population densities have increased and available land for expansion has been restricted. Accordingl…
Theory and method in the study of poverty in east Africa
This article explores the relation between theory and method in three methodologically innovative studies of rural poverty. The issue is pertinent because the nature of research on poverty has shifted from small-scale qualitative studies to large surveys, and to national-scale studies that combine qualitative and quantitative methods in an effort to inform policy makers on appropriate poverty reduction strategies. The interest in combined methods…
An Ethnography of Four Non-Governmental Development Organizations
An Ethnography of Four Non-Governmental Development Organizations. Diana Joyce Fox. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. vi. 331 pp., appendixes, bibliography, index
The school-based immunization survey: An inexpensive tool for measuring vaccine coverage
A school-based immunization survey was conducted among the 36 Rochester, NY, elementary schools (n = 5584 children) to determine (1) the vaccination rates at 2 years of age by type of primary care provider and (2) the accuracy of school immunization records (by comparing them with medical charts for children attending hospital-based clinics). These rates varied by provider type from 58% to 86% and were all below the national goal of 90%. In compa…
The Twain Do Meet
Some Economic Illusions in the Labour Movement
Abstracts and Reviews: 3. Africa
The school-based immunization survey: An inexpensive tool for measuring vaccine coverage
A school-based immunization survey was conducted among the 36 Rochester, NY, elementary schools (n = 5584 children) to determine (1) the vaccination rates at 2 years of age by type of primary care provider and (2) the accuracy of school immunization records (by comparing them with medical charts for children attending hospital-based clinics). These rates varied by provider type from 58% to 86% and were all below the national goal of 90%. In compa…
Scenes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt essays
Journal Article Scenes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt essays Get access Scenes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt essays, by A. L. Epstein. Edinburgh University Press, 1992. xxvi + 233 pp. £29.50 hardback. ISBN 0 7486 0321 2. JOHN R. CAMPBELL JOHN R. CAMPBELL University CollegeSwansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 308–309,…
Book notes
Being and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropological Enquiries. Edited by P.T.W. Baxter, Jan Hultin and Alessandro Triulzi. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutetl Red Sea Press. Pp.311. £19.95. ISBN 91 7106 379 X The Berbers. Edited by Michael Brett and Elizabeth Fentress. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. Pp.350. £40. ISBN 0631 168524 Green Globe Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development: 1996. Edited by Helge Ole Bergesen an…
Identity and Affect: Experiences of Identity in a Globalising World
Preface: the political economy of identity and affect, Alan Rew and John R. Campbell. Part 1 Becoming...: constructing identities in nineteenth century Columbo, R.L. Stirrat responding to subordination - identity and change among South Indian untouchable castes, David Mosse feasting friends, eating enemies - amity and enmity in Kaluana, Michael W. Young states of anxiety - cultural identities and development management in east New Britain, Alan R…
Participatory Rural Appraisal as Qualitative Research: Distinguishing Methodological Issues from Participatory Claims
Anthropologists and many others are making increasing use of participatory research methods in a variety of applied contexts. While aware of the potential advantages of such methods, this paper outlines a number of methodological issues that need to be carefully considered. Such issues, when taken together with the problem of combining participatory with qualitative and quantitative research, argue strongly not only for caution in using the metho…
An Ethnography of Four Non-Governmental Development Organizations
An Ethnography of Four Non-Governmental Development Organizations. Diana Joyce Fox. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. vi. 331 pp., appendixes, bibliography, index
A critical appraisal of participatory methods in development research
Anthropologists and others working in the field of development are making increasing use of participatory research methods. While aware of the value of such methods, this paper outlines a number of methodological issues that need to be carefully considered. Such issues, when taken together with the problem of combining participatory with other forms of qualitative and quantitative research, argue strongly not only for caution but the need to unde…
Saugestad, Sidsel. – The Inconvenient Indigenous. Remote Area Development in Botswana, Donor Assistance, and the First People of the Kalahari: Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2001, 266 p., index, bi…
This is a carefully considered and well-written anthropological analysis of an evolving relationship between the government of Botswana, the Norwegian Agency for International Development (norad)–the principal donor–, and a diverse group of peoples (and aid recipients) referred to as Bushman/Basarwa/San (by outsiders, including the dominant Tswana ethnic group) or as the “First People of the Kalahari” (by indigenous political spokesmen). The book…
Ethnic Minorities and Development: A Prospective Look at the Situation of African Pastoralists and Hunter-Gatherers
This article seeks to assess the impact of development on the lives and livelihoods of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in Sub-Saharan Africa. It queries the discourses on human rights and on indigenous peoples and whether they accurately describe and address the situation confronting pastoralists and huntergatherers. The importance of access to land for pastoralists is examined and evidence is presented showing how policies have undermined live…
Development research
Is it possible or indeed desirable to combine qualitative, participatory and quantitative research methods and approaches to better understand poverty? This special section of Focaal seeks to explore a number of contentious, inter-related issues that arise from multimethod research that is driven by growing international policy concerns to reduce global poverty. We seek to initiate an interdisciplinary dialog about the limits of methodological in…
Theory and method in the study of poverty in east Africa
This article explores the relation between theory and method in three methodologically innovative studies of rural poverty. The issue is pertinent because the nature of research on poverty has shifted from small-scale qualitative studies to large surveys, and to national-scale studies that combine qualitative and quantitative methods in an effort to inform policy makers on appropriate poverty reduction strategies. The interest in combined methods…
Hiding from the state — searching for a nation: Writing the history of colonial Tanganyika
Journal Article Hiding from the state — searching for a nation: Writing the history of colonial Tanganyika Get access John R. Campbell John R. Campbell John R. Campbell ([email protected]) is at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 105, Issue 420, July 2006, Pages 469–473, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adl008 Published: 01 July 2006
Who are the Luo? Oral tradition and disciplinary practices in anthropology and history
2006). Who are the Luo? Oral tradition and disciplinary practices in anthropology and history. Journal of African Cultural Studies: Vol. 18, Language, power and society: orality and literacy in the Horn of Africa, pp. 73-87
Tragedy of the Khlongs: Some Environmental Implications of Development in Thailand
International Development and Bilateral Aid to Kenya in the 1990s
This paper seeks to analyze a decade of international development in Kenya through the lens of a multi-sited and multi-level ethnographic analysis. It demonstrates the inherently messy and political nature of development as well as the need to analyze the social and cultural contexts in which policies are debated, negotiated, and implemented. An anthropological approach provides insight into the complexity of development policy and the unpredicta…
The Enduring Problem of Statelessness in the Horn of Africa: How Nation-States and Western Courts (Re)Define Nationality
Across Africa, citizenship is being manipulated and restricted to deny rights to those whom a state wishes to marginalize or exclude. This occurred on a large scale between 1998–2000 when Ethiopia and Eritrea, using war as an excuse, arrested and forcibly expelled an estimated 150,000 people. These individuals were stripped of their civil and legal rights, their property and, for many, their nationality. While much was made of the expulsions at t…
Infiltrators” or Refugees? An Analysis of Israel's Policy Towards African Asylum‐Seekers
This article adopts a genealogical approach in examining Israeli immigration policy by focusing on the situation confronting African asylum seekers who have been forced back into Egypt, detained and deported but who have not had their asylum claims properly assessed. Based on immigration policies formulated at the time of Israeli independence, whose principle objective was to secure a Jewish majority state, we argue that Israel's treatment of Afr…
Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: Seeing Through Policy Claims About 'Expert Knowledge
This paper examines claims made about the role of 'expert knowledge' in analysing the language of individuals seeking asylum in the UK. I treat policy as a type of power and seek to understand how this policy uses the language of science to further the British government's stated interest to provide 'secure borders' and a 'safe haven' for refugees. I look at how the Home Office defines, shapes and implements the policy, and at how the policy has …
Small islands, valuable insights: Systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in the Pacific
McMillen, H. L., T. Ticktin, A. Friedlander, S. D. Jupiter, R. Thaman, J. Campbell, J. Veitayaki, T. Giambelluca, S. Nihmei, E. Rupeni, L. Apis-Overhoff, W. Aalbersberg, and D. F. Orcherton. 2014. Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in the Pacific. Ecology and Society 19(4): 44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06937-190444
Asylum in the Twenty‐First Century
Asylum was created by the international community in the twentieth century to provide legal protection to individuals fleeing persecution by nation‐states; but the ability to realize it has been fundamentally reshaped by sovereign national interests in the twenty‐first century.
Ethiopian and Eritrean Immigrants in Britain: Refugee Organising, Transnational Connections and Identity, 1950–2009
This paper explores key aspects of the immigrant experience of 50,000-plus Ethiopians and Eritreans who live in the United Kingdom. We seek to understand the extent to which immigrant life in the UK has acted ‘as a kind of pivot’ between integrating in their country of settlement and enduring forms of connection with their country of origin. This question is explored by an examination of immigrant organising in the UK – in Refugee Community Organ…
Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System
The central concern of this book is to find answers to fundamental questions about the British asylum system and how it operates. Based on ethnographic research over a two-year period, the work follows and analyses numerous asylum appeals through the British courts. It draws on myriad interviews with individuals and a thorough examination of many state and non-state organizations to understand how the system works. While the organization of the b…
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