Dr Hyab Yohannes

  • Academic Coordinator (School of Education)

email: Hyab.Yohannes@glasgow.ac.uk

Advanced Research Centre (ARC), 11 Chapel Ln, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, G11 6EW

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605

Biography

Hyab Yohannes is a Lecturer in Forced Migration and Decolonial Education with the UNESCO Chair RIELA at the University of Glasgow. He conducts research and synthesises findings to address theoretical, methodological, and policy-related questions. Recently, Hyab co-edited a Special Issue on Intercultural Knowledge Production for the Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication and a book titled Cultures of Sustainable Peace for Multilingual Matters. His forthcoming book, The Refugee Abyss, will be published by Routledge. Hyab’s research interests include poetics, decoloniality, and political theories across physical, onto-epistemic, spatio-temporal, and juridico-political dimensions.

Publications

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2025

Fatehrad, Azadeh, Natalini, Davide, Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Palombo, Gianluca (2025) The role of nature in migrant integration: an eco-social perspective. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 111, 128837. (doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128837)

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2025) The Refugee Abyss. Series: Routledge studies in criminal justice, borders and citizenship. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032567945 (In Press)

Fatehrad, Azadeh, Natalinni, Davide, Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Palombo, Gianluca (2025) Diaspora space and nature-based integration. In: Karunaratne, Gihan (ed.) Displaced Urbanism. Series: Routledge research in planning and urban design. Routledge. ISBN 9781032748283 (In Press)

Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207, Sithole, Tawona and Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2025) Language gardens: returning to the poetics found in the linguistic diversity of the land. Journal of Education for Multilingualism, (Accepted for Publication)

Natalini, Davide, Fatehrad, Azadeh, Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Palombo, Gianluca (2025) Evidence for Women and Equalities Committee’s on Community Cohesion. Documentation. UK Parliament.

2024

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605, Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207 and Sitholé, Tawona (Eds.) (2024) Cultures of Sustainable Peace: Conflict Transformation, Gender-Based Violence, Decolonial Praxes. Multilingual Matters: Bristol • Jackson. ISBN 9781800418349

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2024) Autobiographic reflections on loss, longing, and recovery. In: Bosworth, Mary, Franko, Katja, Lee, Maggy and Mehta, Rimple (eds.) Handbook on Border Criminology. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 311-327. ISBN 9781035307975 (doi: 10.4337/9781035307982.00031)

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2024) Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons: Migration-Coloniality Necropolitics and Conviviality Infrastructure By Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez. London, UK: Anthem Press, 2023. x + 251pp. £25.00/US$35.00. ISBN: 9781839988783. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae071)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)

Albtran, A. et al. (2024) Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae053) (Early Online Publication)

Fatehrad, A., Natalini, D., Yohannes, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Palombo, G. (2024) Nature-Based Integration Policy and Practice Toolkit. Documentation. Nuffield Foundation.

Fatehrad, Azadeh, Natalini, Davide, Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Palombo, Gianluca (2024) Nature-based Integration: Connecting Communities with/in Nature. Project Report. Nuffield Foundation.

Albtran, A. et al. (2024) Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae005)

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605, Yemane, Tesfalem Habte and Wangari-Jones, Peninah (2024) The hostile environment, Covid-19, and the creation of asylum colonies in the UK. In: Bhambra, Gurminder K., Mayblin, Lucy, Medien, Kathryn and Viveros-Vigoya, Mara (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology. SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN 9781529772128

2023

Yohannes, Hyab T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207 (2023) What does it mean to move? Joy and resistance through cultural work in South-South migration. In: Crawley, Heaven and Teye, Joseph Kofi (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 125-149. ISBN 9783031398131 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-39814-8_7)

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605, Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207, Fernandes, Fernando and Silva, Jailson (2023) Intercultural knowledge production: against gender-based violence and towards epistemic justice. Language and Intercultural Communication, 23(6), pp. 501-506. (doi: 10.1080/14708477.2023.2270878)

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2023) Refugees as questioning subjects: A critical reflection of PhD fieldwork involving refugees. Access: Critical Explorations of Equity in Higher Education, 10(2),

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2023) Refugee trafficking in a carceral age: a case study of the Sinai trafficking. Journal of Human Trafficking, 9(1), pp. 33-47. (doi: 10.1080/23322705.2021.1885005)

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605, Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207, Fernandes, Fernando and Silva, Jailson (Eds.) (2023) Intercultural Knowledge Production: Against Gender-based Violence and Towards Epistemic Justice. Language and Intercultural Communication. 23(6) [Edited Journal]

2022

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2022) Reclaiming our humanity from the necropolitics of coloniality. [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Tsegay, Samson Maekele (2022) Migration and mobility in youth (Eritrea). Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies, (doi: 10.5040/9781350887176.037)

2021

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2021) The humans whose humanity is forfeited. [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2021) It's our responsibility to welcome refugees - and redeem their stories. Insight: The Biannual Publication for Members of Children in Scotland, 2021-2(Winter), pp. 20-21.

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2021) "A trip to a Crannog". [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2021) Decolonising Asylum? [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2021) We are all refugees. [Website]

2020

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2020) ‘We are still burning’ – survivors of Beskdira and Ona massacre. [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2020) Blina Shama UK: Creating a Sanctuary after Home Loss. [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2020) Commentary. Language and Intercultural Communication, 20(2), pp. 213-217. (doi: 10.1080/14708477.2020.1722689)

2018

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2018) ‘Born rightless, die rightless’. [Website]

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Articles

Fatehrad, Azadeh, Natalini, Davide, Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Palombo, Gianluca (2025) The role of nature in migrant integration: an eco-social perspective. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 111, 128837. (doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128837)

Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207, Sithole, Tawona and Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2025) Language gardens: returning to the poetics found in the linguistic diversity of the land. Journal of Education for Multilingualism, (Accepted for Publication)

Albtran, A. et al. (2024) Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae053) (Early Online Publication)

Albtran, A. et al. (2024) Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae005)

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605, Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207, Fernandes, Fernando and Silva, Jailson (2023) Intercultural knowledge production: against gender-based violence and towards epistemic justice. Language and Intercultural Communication, 23(6), pp. 501-506. (doi: 10.1080/14708477.2023.2270878)

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2023) Refugees as questioning subjects: A critical reflection of PhD fieldwork involving refugees. Access: Critical Explorations of Equity in Higher Education, 10(2),

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2023) Refugee trafficking in a carceral age: a case study of the Sinai trafficking. Journal of Human Trafficking, 9(1), pp. 33-47. (doi: 10.1080/23322705.2021.1885005)

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Tsegay, Samson Maekele (2022) Migration and mobility in youth (Eritrea). Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies, (doi: 10.5040/9781350887176.037)

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2021) It's our responsibility to welcome refugees - and redeem their stories. Insight: The Biannual Publication for Members of Children in Scotland, 2021-2(Winter), pp. 20-21.

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2020) Commentary. Language and Intercultural Communication, 20(2), pp. 213-217. (doi: 10.1080/14708477.2020.1722689)

Books

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2025) The Refugee Abyss. Series: Routledge studies in criminal justice, borders and citizenship. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032567945 (In Press)

Book Sections

Fatehrad, Azadeh, Natalinni, Davide, Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Palombo, Gianluca (2025) Diaspora space and nature-based integration. In: Karunaratne, Gihan (ed.) Displaced Urbanism. Series: Routledge research in planning and urban design. Routledge. ISBN 9781032748283 (In Press)

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2024) Autobiographic reflections on loss, longing, and recovery. In: Bosworth, Mary, Franko, Katja, Lee, Maggy and Mehta, Rimple (eds.) Handbook on Border Criminology. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 311-327. ISBN 9781035307975 (doi: 10.4337/9781035307982.00031)

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605, Yemane, Tesfalem Habte and Wangari-Jones, Peninah (2024) The hostile environment, Covid-19, and the creation of asylum colonies in the UK. In: Bhambra, Gurminder K., Mayblin, Lucy, Medien, Kathryn and Viveros-Vigoya, Mara (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology. SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN 9781529772128

Yohannes, Hyab T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207 (2023) What does it mean to move? Joy and resistance through cultural work in South-South migration. In: Crawley, Heaven and Teye, Joseph Kofi (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 125-149. ISBN 9783031398131 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-39814-8_7)

Book Reviews

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2024) Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons: Migration-Coloniality Necropolitics and Conviviality Infrastructure By Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez. London, UK: Anthem Press, 2023. x + 251pp. £25.00/US$35.00. ISBN: 9781839988783. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae071)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)

Edited Books

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605, Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207 and Sitholé, Tawona (Eds.) (2024) Cultures of Sustainable Peace: Conflict Transformation, Gender-Based Violence, Decolonial Praxes. Multilingual Matters: Bristol • Jackson. ISBN 9781800418349

Edited Journals

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605, Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207, Fernandes, Fernando and Silva, Jailson (Eds.) (2023) Intercultural Knowledge Production: Against Gender-based Violence and Towards Epistemic Justice. Language and Intercultural Communication. 23(6) [Edited Journal]

Research Reports or Papers

Natalini, Davide, Fatehrad, Azadeh, Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Palombo, Gianluca (2025) Evidence for Women and Equalities Committee’s on Community Cohesion. Documentation. UK Parliament.

Fatehrad, A., Natalini, D., Yohannes, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Palombo, G. (2024) Nature-Based Integration Policy and Practice Toolkit. Documentation. Nuffield Foundation.

Fatehrad, Azadeh, Natalini, Davide, Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Palombo, Gianluca (2024) Nature-based Integration: Connecting Communities with/in Nature. Project Report. Nuffield Foundation.

Website

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2022) Reclaiming our humanity from the necropolitics of coloniality. [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2021) The humans whose humanity is forfeited. [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2021) "A trip to a Crannog". [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2021) Decolonising Asylum? [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2021) We are all refugees. [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2020) ‘We are still burning’ – survivors of Beskdira and Ona massacre. [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2020) Blina Shama UK: Creating a Sanctuary after Home Loss. [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 (2018) ‘Born rightless, die rightless’. [Website]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 12:28:25 2025 BST.

Grants

2022 – 2024

  • Nuffield Foundation grant holder for Nature-based Integration at the University of Glasgow.
  • Recipient of the University of Glasgow Chancellor's Award.

2018 – 2021

  • UNESCO RILA Scholarship: UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (CRILA) Ph.D. Scholarship to undertake Ph.D. project The Realities of Eritrean Refugees in a Carceral Age. The scholarship covered tuition fees and provides a stipend at the RCUK Stipend Level.

2016

  • SOAS University of London Sanctuary Scholarships
  • Prisoners of Conscience Bursaries

Supervision

Research title: The experiences, perceptions, and aspirations of the Chevening Scholarship alumni.

  • ERASMUS Mundus Master’s students specialising in Education in Museums and Heritage

Teaching

Professional activities & recognition

Professional & learned societies

  • 2020: Fellow, RSE Young Academy of Scotland
  • 2021: Council Member, International Survivors of Trafficking Advisory Council (ISTAC)
  • 2017: Charity Management Committee Member, Right to Remain UK

Selected international presentations

  • 2021: Competence building, assistance provision and prevention of trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation (Online)
  • 2019: Global Migration Conversations: AHRC ESRC Migration Leadership Team Event, Glasgow (Glasgow, UK)
  • 2019: ENU Migration and Mobilities Research Network: Annual Conference 2019 (Edinburgh Napier University)
  • 2019: Neuchatel Graduate Conference (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)

Additional information

Award: The RSE June Almeida Medal for Academic Endeavour and Public Engagement (2024)

 


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