Biography
Informed by Black Feminist theory and praxis, Xander's research explores health in the context of the United States of America. Xander's work takes seriously and sits with the anti-Black foundation of the modern world, tracing this into the contemporary for-profit American healthcare system. From this understanding, Xander's research plays with the notions of self-care in order to (re)imagine what it means to be healthy, and what it would mean to live surrounded by love, justice, and care.
Xander's scholarship is informed by and relies on queer methodology/ies, including but not limited to: arts-based approaches and conversation as a decolonial research method.
Xander has previous research experience in the field of migration studies, particularly through the framework of human security.
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Work
- Xander Creed, Shyamika Jayasundara & SLiNK (Kelsey) Love (2025) - Taking it easy: Disrupting development, justice and reparations through black in-bodiment and creative expression in the USA - World Development, 190 - doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.106970 - [link]
- Xander Creed (2023) - Book review – We Belong to the Earth: Towards a Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy Rooted in Uhuru and Ubuntu (Nadira Omarjee) - [link]
- Xander Creed, Zeynep Kasli & Shyamika Jayasundara (2023) - Safe for Whom? A Human Security Perspective on Nigeria as a ‘Safe Country of Origin’ - Journal of Refugee Studies, 36 (3), 359-382 - doi: 10.1093/jrs/fead002 - [link]
- Mahardhika Sjamsoeoed Sadjad, Zeynep Kasli, Nanneke Winters, Haya Alfarra, Mausumi Chetia, Xander Creed, Vanessa Ntinu & Gabriela Villacis Izquierdo (2023) - Grappling with unease – together: collective reflections on Migration Studies and Colonialism by Mayblin and Turner - [link]
- Xander Creed & Jeff Handmaker (2023) - Protection from refuge: From refugee rights to migration management. By Kate Ogg.: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 215 pp. $110.00 hardcover - Law & Society Review, 57 (2), 277-279 - doi: 10.1111/lasr.12656
- Xander Creed, Bushra Ali Khan & Huda Abdel-Rahman (2022) - Selectivity in the Recognition and Protection of Refugees: An Analysis of the Disparate Treatment of White and Non-White Refugees within the EU Asylum Regime - [link]
- Xander Creed (2022) - All Bark, No Bite? The Case for Human Security in European Migration & Asylum Governance - [link]
- Xander Creed & Lorenzo Gontijo (2022) - Towards Humane and Dignified Living Conditions for Refugees and Other Migrants: A Human Security Framework for Assessing ‘Migration Camps’ in Europe - [link]
