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Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Authors: Marta Castro Padrón and Luisa Feline Freier The Latin America region is facing several complex emergencies, including the internal and regional impacts of the crisis in Venezuela, the humanitarian consequences of the resurgent armed conflict in Colombia, persistent high levels of generalised violence across Central America and Mexico,... More
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Last week, it was my privilege to accompany the twelve IDRC Research Chairs on Forced Displacement to the 2023 Global Refugee Forum (GRF) in Geneva. Organized by UNHCR, the goal of the GRF is to get member states to make pledges to help refugees, both within their countries and abroad. In the past,... More
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Peru Chair Luisa Feline Freier writes about Venezuelan migration in the Global South, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the need for more focus on South-South displacement: Protegiendo a los refugiados en el sur global “De los 7,3 millones de venezolanos que se han visto obligados a abandonar su país, más del... More
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
On May 30 and 31, in Dar es-Salaam Tanzania, something revolutionary happened. Twelve experts from some of the places most impacted by forced displacement gathered in person for the inaugural workshop of the IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement. Funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre, and with support from... More
Friday, October 21, 2022
Luisa Feline Freier, the Chair of the Universidad del Pacífico, and Hiram Ángel Lara, the Chair of the University of Guadalajara, organized a symposium in La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLASCO; Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences) at the Montevideo Conference: Forced Migration in the Americas — Protection Policies,... More
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