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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Evidence-Based Implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees: What Role for Academia?

On 11 December 2023, Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (FFVT), Geneva Graduate Institute, Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN), and Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) convened a workshop titled "Evidence-based Implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees: What Role for Academia?"... More

Monday, February 26, 2024

Global Refugee Forum Roundtable: Collaboration Between Academia and RLOs to Advance Refugee-led Advocacy

Impact Hub | 14th of December 2023| 13h-15h | Geneva, Switzerland On the 14th of December, at the R-Space (the alternative space to the Global Refugee Forum led by Refugee-led organizations in Geneva), the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table (R-SEAT) organized a roundtable to discuss... More

Monday, February 26, 2024

Commonwealth Scholarships: MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration

LERRN is excited to share the news that the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI ) at the University of London are partnering with Commonwealth Scholarships to offer 10 full scholarships for the October 2024 intake of the distance learning part-time MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration. The scholarships are for nationals of member countries... More

Monday, February 19, 2024

Webinar Report: Voices Rising: Refugee-Led Solutions

The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) hosted the “The Voices Rising: Refugee-Led Solutions” webinar on February 9, 2024. It served as an illuminating recap of the Voices Rising: Refugee-Led Solutions Conference 2023, a landmark event hosted in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. Organized by refugees themselves, this conference... More

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

James Milner Appointed Co-Chair of Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN)

Original Source: Carleton Newsroom  As levels of forced displacement continue to grow around the world, Carleton University is contributing to improved responses through partnered research, teaching and community engagement at a global scale. Carleton’s James Milner, Associate Professor of Political Science has been appointed as co-chair of... More

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Forging the Path to Meaningful Refugee Participation: Interdisciplinary Analysis of Power, Agency, and Participation

Beenish Khan, Carleton University Executive Summary: Since the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees articulated the commitment to ensuring meaningful refugee participation, forced migration scholars have engaged considerably with the disparities in how meaningful participation is understood, the expected outcomes, and the standards for achieving this... More

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Co-production of Knowledge in Forced Migration Studies: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Challenges and the Possibilities for the Emergence of Best Practices

Parin Mistry, Carleton University Executive summary: Although 80% of the world’s refugees are hosted in the global South, the majority of research in forced migration studies is produced and disseminated by researchers and institutions in the global North. The asymmetry of power in knowledge production is not limited to the North-South divide,... More

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

A model of blended family(stepfamily) formation in Ethiopia: a constructivist grounded theory

A new article by Kumneger Fikre and Abebaw Minaye was published in the African Journal of Social Work Vol. 13 No. 6 2023. ABSTRACT This study aimed at developing a model that describes and explains blended family formation in Ethiopia. It is part of an ongoing dissertation entitled “Family functioning experiences of blended families... More

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Social media users’ online behavior with regard to the circulation of hate speech

A new article by Tadessa Megersa and Abebaw Minaye was published in Frontiers Journal. You can access it here and read the full article below. Abstract: Online hate speech is ripping Ethiopian society apart and threatening the values of democracy, human dignity, and peaceful coexistence. The current study argues that understanding people's... More

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Travailleurs sociaux libanais à l’épreuve de l’histoire et de l’altérité

A new article by Houwayda Matta, Rita Chouchani, and Maguy Salameh was published in Les Politiques Sociales 2023/3. You can access it here and read the full article below. Abstracts: FR: La pratique professionnelle des travailleurs sociaux auprès des populations migrantes expose ces professionnels à des dilemmes majeurs relevant de différents... More

Monday, December 18, 2023

Global Refugee Forum 2023: Brief Recap

Last week, LERRN partners attended the Global Refugee Forum 2023, which will steer the course of the refugee regime's agenda for the upcoming four-year period. LERRN was part of three linked events that were available in-person in Geneva and also online to all the attendants around the globe: The workshop, titled “Evidence-based implementation... More

Monday, December 11, 2023

Human Trafficking, Gender, and Agency

New publication by Prof. Paula Banerjee, 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... More

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