Home / Research Chairs / Page 4
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Addas Ababa university has convined a twelve member advisory committee, including the UNHCR representative, IOM deputy chief, representatives of key government sectors, various college deans at AAU, independent scholars and refugee representatives. The university held a training on research ethics and attended a workshop on the role of Refugee Led... More
The IDRC Research Chair at the University of Guadalajara, Hiram Angel, is currently engaged in the following research activities: 1. DATA Center – A project using secondary data to analyze information and create geo-referenced maps to identify risks and critical situations for people who are forcibly displaced. 2. ECOS in Transit Program – an... More
Professor Paula Banerjee is appointed IDRC Research Chair on Gender and Forced Displacement at the Asian Institute of Technology’s Gender and Development Studies (GDS) Program in the School of Environment, Resource, and Development. Professor Banerjee, who has a long research experience and publication record on forced migration and gender in... More
Friday, February 10, 2023
Author: Paula Banerjee Abstract There was a proclivity to view forced migration from the perspective of law, legal and official discourses. In the last two decades, a group of social scientists from the global south has challenged the major theoretical assumptions of the field of forced migration as set by the global north. One... More
Monday, November 21, 2022
Addis Ababa University held a launch event for IDRC Chair, Abebaw Minaye. The event featured experts and officers from UN agencies, government representatives, embassies, international NGOs, and the Addis Ababa University Community, as well as regional organizations and representatives of professional and research associations.... More
Friday, October 21, 2022
Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw, the IDRC Research Chair in Thailand, has assumed the role of Editor for the Statelessness and Citizenship Review, based at the University of Melbourne in Australia. The Statelessness & Citizenship Review stands as the pioneering journal dedicated entirely to advancing the comprehension of statelessness and related citizenship... More
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
Friday, February 25, 2022
In March 2022 WHO/Europe brought together 31 ministers, delegates from over 50 countries from three regions, refugee and migrant representatives, the European and African Union, United Nations agencies, as well as other international partners to a high-level meeting on health and migration in Istanbul, Turkey. Together they agreed on five priority... More
Search