Saphia Fleury

Dr Saphia Fleury

Research Fellow

Faculty and Department

  • NS-Institutes
  • NS-Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation

Qualifications

  • BA (University of Hull)
  • MA (University of London)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Hull)

Summary

Saphia Fleury worked for the NGO Amnesty International for 15 years before joining the University of Hull to conduct research into climate migration. She has a keen interest in human rights law, refugee issues and environmental change. Saphia is also an Expert Reviewer for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Recent publications include:

Fleury S. 2024, "Political or environmental refugees? Re-examining the flight of the Vietnamese boat people, 1975-1995", SciPost (Journal article), https://scipost.org/submissions/scipost_202412_00012v1/

Fleury, S. (2024) ‘Written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee submitted by Dr Saphia Fleury to the Inquiry on Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership’, UK Parliament (Written evidence), https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/129338/pdf/

Fleury, S. 2023, "Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants: child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat" (PhD thesis), https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4311824

Fleury, S. 2023, "Policy briefing: Protecting environmental migrants through human rights-based relocation schemes" (Policy briefing), https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/institutes/wilberforce/docs/policy-briefing-climate-migration-relocation-saphia-fleury.pdf

Fleury, S. (2022) ‘Written evidence submission by Saphia Fleury for the Parliamentary Inquiry on Defence and Climate Change’, UK Parliament (Written evidence), https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/108725/pdf/

Fleury, S. (2022) ‘Written evidence by Saphia Fleury (ASU0015) to the Human Rights Joint Committee inquiry on Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK’, UK Parliament (Written evidence), https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/114229/html/

Fleury, S (2022) “Researcher Delivers Climate Change Recommendations in Parliament” (Blog post), https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/institutes/wilberforce/researcher-delivers-climate-change-recommendations

Fleury, S., O’Connell, C., Witt, F. & Machie, A. (2021) “Towards a holistic approach to contemporary slavery and climate change”, Anti-Slavery International (Report) https://www.antislavery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ASI_ConferenceReport_Final.pdf

Fleury, S. (2021) “The impact of Covid-19 on child carers in the UK: Written evidence to the Inquiry on Children’s Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic”, UK Parliament (Written evidence).

Recent outputs

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Report

Submission of Evidence to Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership

Fleury, S. (2024). Submission of Evidence to Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership. Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership

Policy Briefing: Protecting environmental migrants through human rights-based relocation schemes

Fleury, S. (2023). Policy Briefing: Protecting environmental migrants through human rights-based relocation schemes

Submission of evidence to Parliamentary Select Committee on Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK

Fleury, S. (2023). Submission of evidence to Parliamentary Select Committee on Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK. Parliamentary Select Committee on Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK

Submission of evidence to Defence and Climate Change Inquiry

Fleury, S. (2022). Submission of evidence to Defence and Climate Change Inquiry. Defence Committee: Commons Select Committee

Thesis

Applying the 'useable past' to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000

Fleury, S. Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4311824

Research interests

Climate change, environmental governance, human rights, fair trial law, human migration, refugees, climate refugees, immigration, climate emergency, Vietnam, Montserrat

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