Chironda’s research focuses on the history of international migration and refugee protection policy since the end of the Second World War. She is particularly looking at African refugees.
“Government policies and programs affect and define people’s lives and my goal is to contribute towards producing knowledge which puts “people” at the center of policymaking,” shares Chironda. “I am preoccupied with the plight refugees, who are often “unseen”, vulnerable and marginalized members of the human family.”
She is hoping to develop a better understanding of how ordinary human beings, in extraordinary circumstances of physical and emotional displacement, navigate policy discourses as they seek to gain protection from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees; within countries of asylum or; when trying to access other solutions such as resettlement to a third Western country.
Chironda plans to conduct her field research in Central and Southern Africa.
Her work will contribute to a workshop organized by James Milner on Sept. 23-25 on the Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime.
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