Dr. Agnes Woolley is Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her research interests are in contemporary and postcolonial literature, theatre and film, with a focus on concepts of migration and diaspora. She is the author of Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century (2014) and has published extensively on asylum, refugee arts, climate change and contemporary literature and culture. She is a regular contributor to openDemocracy, reporting on migration issues.