As part of the the three-day workshop “Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime,” held by Migration and Diaspora Studies from September 23-25, graduate students were invited to participate in a master class with preeminent historian of refugees Dr. Gil Loescher. Loescher has been a pioneer in the study of the relationship between world politics and the causes, consequences and potential responses to refugee movements. He is Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
History and Political Economy Ph.D candidate, William Tait has written about the master class and how the session provided inspiration for his own work. Tait’s dissertation, under the supervision of Dr. Dominique Marshall, addresses the influences and connections between Canadian Faith Based Organizations and humanitarian NGOs in the context of the Cold War. See Tait’s blog here.