Academia has long been imagined as a “safe space”, a domain where even politically sensitive evidence could be generated, debated, and disseminated. However, health and migration research does not occur in a vacuum. It is embedded in, and often constrained by, the shifting priorities of funders and governments. As authoritarian and anti-science politics gain ground across continents, funding is being cut, language is being censored, and in some institutions, academics have lost, or are at risk of losing, their established posts.
Diaz et al. (Thu,) studied this question.