Dr Anna Lindley is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, with interests in migration, livelihoods and politics. She has written on Somali displacement, transnationalism and policy responses including in The Early Morning Phone Call: Somali Refugees’ Remittances (2010), and on the politics of migration, editing Crisis and Migration: Critical Perspectives (2014). Her current research focuses on civic mobilisation around migration in the UK.