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Saturday, April 30, 2022
Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees marked its 40th anniversary as a journal dedicated to the study of forced migration with the publication of its spring (38.1) issue on 29 April 2022. Refuge is edited by LERRN Partner and Protection Working Group member Dagmar Soennecken of York University. In addition to Refuge's general articles, book... More
Friday, October 16, 2020
PLEASE NOTE: The submission period for this call has closed. For current details on submitting to Refuge, Click Here. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees is issuing an open call for submissions on the theme of “Refuge in the Time of Pandemic.” Refuge is interested in two broad types of submissions: a. shorter research notes (max 2,500... More
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Dr. Maha Shuayb and other LERRN partners at the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) issued a timely and important report on the impact of COVID-19 on education, including for refugees, in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. The report is based on a CLS online survey which collected information from 678 people, the majority being parents... More
Monday, June 22, 2020
The Centre for Lebanese Studies, with the support of LERRN, has released a new report on how education for refugees and nationals in Jordan has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and making recommendations for future responses. In Jordan, more than 2 million students across public, private, and United Nations Relief and Works Agency... More
Thursday, April 30, 2020
By Dr. Elizabeth Ferris, Georgetown University Hundreds, maybe thousands, of articles and reports have appeared recently, analyzing the potential for the COVID-19 virus to wreak havoc among refugees living in crowded conditions with inadequate sanitation and limited access to health care. Refugees International, for example, traces in painful... More
Sunday, April 19, 2020
At the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva in December 2019, LERRN partnered with the Global Refugee-led Network to endorse the importance of refugee participation. Now in the midst of this global pandemic, it’s more important than ever to recognize refugees as partners in the COVID-19 response, as well as equal partners in research, policy... More
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
By Dulo Nyaoro As I am writing this piece, 201 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Kenya. Nine have died while 25 have fully recovered. While it is too early to confidently conclude that it is the strict measures that the Kenya government has instituted that has suppressed the spread of Coronavirus, the numbers... More
Friday, April 10, 2020
By Pascal Zigashane The world is facing a health threat and Kenya is finding it very crucial to contain the spread of COVID-19. Kakuma refugee camp is an arid place with no agriculture activities. Refugees fully depend on food stock from other counties in Kenya, especially Kitale County. Fear rises amongst refugees if they... More
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
By Dr. Oroub El Abed Jordan is taking a number of pivotal measures to fight the spread of COVID-19. In her latest post, Dr. Oroub El Abed, a principal researcher and co-investigator in Jordan at the Centre for Lebanese Studies, outlines the new challenges this crisis has created in the labour market, especially for... More
Monday, April 6, 2020
By Faith Mario Mjalilla This year’s World Health Day comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the globe and putting millions of lives at risk. It’s important to highlight that refugees are more vulnerable to infection due to their precarious living conditions in camps. As the world continues its attempt to... More
Thursday, April 2, 2020
By Dina Batshon Written: 31/3/2020 2,372,736 learners in Jordan from pre-primary all the way to tertiary education, nationals and non-nationals, are affected by the nationwide closures of educational institutions [1] as the country comes towards the end of its second week under lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. This past March has had... More
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