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Friday, March 11, 2022

Whither the Refugees? International Organisations and “Solutions” to Displacement, 1921–1960

LERRN Partners Megan Bradley and Laura Madokoro, together with PhD students Merve Erdilmen and Christopher Chanco, have published Whither the Refugees? International Organisations and “Solutions” to Displacement, 1921–1960 with the support of LERRN funding as the lead article in Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 2, June 2022. The... More

Friday, March 11, 2022

From Vulnerability to Empowerment: Critical Reflections on Canada’s Engagement with Refugee Policy

Amanda Klassen, LERRN Project Officer and PhD Candidate in Political Science at Carleton University, has published From Vulnerability to Empowerment: Critical Reflections on Canada’s Engagement with Refugee Policy in Laws, the open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by MDPI. The full article is available for download here: Abstract The... More

Monday, February 28, 2022

[CLOSED] Request for Papers and Commentaries on Protracted Refugee Situations, Creative Solutions, and Refugee-Led Initiatives

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this opportunity has closed. The Journal on Migration and Human Security (JMHS) requests papers for a special collection on solutions to protracted refugee crises. The papers should provide extensive background on one or more protracted refugee population and describe the degree to which these populations... More

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Work of LERRN Student Researchers Recognized by Carleton University

Over the last two decades, millions of people around the globe have been forcefully displaced from their homes. With the COVID-19 pandemic adding further complications, Carleton PhD students at LERRN are acting to help. Read about the work of LERRN Student Researchers Deo Mwapinga, Amanda Klassen, and Rachel McNally... More

Thursday, December 2, 2021

LERRN-RRN Webinar | Building Research Relationships and Setting the Agenda

  Event details and recordings available here. In the second of a series of webinars on the ethics of forced migration research co-hosted by the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the Refugee Research Network (RRN), our panel of speakers reflected on the theme of building research relationships and setting the agenda. The... More

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Op-Ed: Muzna Dureid on Canada’s Response to Climate Refugees

Op-Ed: Here’s why Canada should modernize its immigration policy to respond to people displaced by climate change By Muzna Dureid In October 2021, leaders from all over the world gathered in Glasgow for COP26, the U.N. Climate Change Conference, to follow up on their commitments related to the Paris Agreement to mitigate global emissions.... More

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR in Geopolitics

Megan Bradley, Lead of LERRN's Solutions Working Group, has published Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR in Geopolitics. Drawing on extensive material from the UNHCR archives on repatriation movements from Honduras to El Salvador in the 1980s, this article examines how refugees themselves... More

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

CARFMS 2021: Meaningful Refugee Participation and Canada’s Role in the Global Refugee Regime

From the 27th to the 29th of October 2021, LERRN participated in two sessions at the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). Project Director James Milner also participated in the closing plenary – “How a global pandemic alters the global imagination” – where he highlighted the value... More

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Muzna Dureid: La normalisation des relations avec Damas suscite l’inquiétude

Muzna Dureid, partenaire de LERRN, réfugiée syrienne et agente de liaison pour les Casques blancs, explique dans son entrevue avec La Presse les inquiétudes envers la normalization des relations avec Damas et le retour des réfugiés syriens.   Muzna Dureid, LERRN Partner, Syrian refugee and Liaison Officer with the White Helmets, explains... More

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

SSIC 2021 Colloquium: Somalinimo, Blackness and Belonging in the West

LERRN is pleased to announce the third biennial Colloquium from Somali Studies in Canada, organized by LERRN Partner Dr. Nimo Bokore, on October 16, 2021 at 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, Eastern Time: Somali Studies in Canada Presents: Somalinimo, Blackness and Belonging in the West... More

Monday, July 19, 2021

Beyond the partnership debate: localizing knowledge production in refugee and forced migration studies

James Milner, LERRN Project Director, with Richa Shivakoti, Senior Research Associate, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, has co-authored Beyond the partnership debate: localizing knowledge production in refugee and forced migration studies in the Journal of Refugee Studies, the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal... More

Sunday, July 11, 2021

LERRN-IDRC Webinar | Forced Displacement and Health in the Context of the Pandemic: Localized Responses to COVID- 19’s Impact on Refugees, IDPs, and Communities Living in Chronic Displacement

Event details and recordings available here. On 24 June 2021, LERRN and the International Development Research Center (IDRC) hosted their seventh and final webinar in the LERRN-IDRC webinar series on Forced Displacement. This webinar, drawing on lessons from Bangladesh, Syria, and the West Bank and Gaza, focused on health systems and the COVID-19... More

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