Publications

2025

• Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign. Journal of Medical Ethics, doi: 10.1136/jme-2025-110961. Ahmadu, F. et al. 
• Institutional Racism? We need to talk about the UK government’s role in institutionalising racism. Social and Legal Studies, Posted 26 May 2025. Carver, N.
• Pre-crime, hyper-vigilance and the over-surveillance of migrant-heritage families in ‘FGM-safeguarding’ in England and Wales, Critical and Radical Social Work, 13(2):176-194. Pantazis, C., Carver, N., Karlsen, S., Mogilnicka, M. & White, R.
• Men and women living with FGC are experiencing Health Care Poverty Policy Report 105 PolicyBristol: Bristol. Pantazis,C., Carver, N., Karlsen, S., Mogilnicka, M., Van Bavel, H. and Mohamed, A., Hajinur, H., Astles, C. & Davey, L.

2024

• A genealogy of silencing: tracing the impact of critiques of the hegemonic discourse on female genital mutilation
  Women’s History Review, 34(7):1232-1252. Van Bavel, H., Carver, N. & Takyiakwaa, D.
• The princess, the witch and the fairy godmother: colonial legacies in ‘FGM’
  Race & Class, 66(1):3-24. Carver, N.

2023

• UK policy response to female genital mutilation needs urgent rethink
  BMJ 383:e074751. Ali, S., Karlsen, S., Learner, H., Carver, N., Pantazis, C., Earp, B.D. Hodes, D.
• Gendered and Racialised Epistemological Injustice in FGM-safeguarding
  Social and Legal Studies, 33(3):351-374. Carver, N., Karlsen, S., Mogilnicka, M. and Pantazis, C.
• Care Poverty: the unmet needs of those people living with Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation in Bristol
  Bristol Research on Female Genital Modifications: Bristol. Pantazis, C., Carver, N., Karlsen, S., Mogilnicka, M., Van Bavel, H. and Mohamed, A., and Hajinur, H.

2022

• Tolerated Citizenship and FGM-Safeguarding: Experiences of Unbelonging for those of Somali heritage living in Bristol
  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(19): 4547-4566. Carver, N., Karlsen, S., Mogilnicka, M. and Pantazis, C.
• Available evidence suggests that prevalence and risk of FGC/M in the UK is much lower than widely presumed – policies based on exaggerated estimates are harmful to girls and women from affected communities
  International Journal of Impotence Research. A Nature journal. 35(3):212-215. Karlsen, S., Howard, J., Carver, N., Mogilnicka, M. and Pantazis, C.

2021

• Prevalence of Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation in the UK: What can official data tell us?
  Bristol: University of Bristol. Karlsen, S. I., Howard, J. A. D., Carver, N., Mogilnicka, M. & Pantazis, C.

2020

• ‘Putting salt on the wound’: Understanding the impact of FGM-safeguarding in healthcare settings on people with a British Somali heritage living in Britain
  BMJOpen. 10.6, p.e035039. Karlsen, S., Carver, N., Mogilnicka, M. and Pantazis, C.

2019

• When Safeguarding Becomes Stigmatising: A report on the impact of FGM-safeguarding procedures on people with a Somali heritage living in Bristol
  Bristol: University of Bristol. Karlsen, S., Carver, N., Mogilnicka, M. and Pantazis, C.