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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
On October 3rd, 2022, the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations and R-SEAT (Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table) hosted a hybrid roundtable discussion, with some 100 participants joining in person in New York or virtually via Zoom. Accountability and participation are now understood as central to collective action in... More
Friday, September 30, 2022
Megan Bradley, Lead of LERRN's Solutions Working Group, has published Colonial continuities and colonial unknowing in international migration management: the International Organization for Migration reconsidered in the Journal of Ethnic and Migrations Studies (JEMS). The full article is available online from JEMS: Abstract The International... More
Friday, August 12, 2022
Okello Oyat, Ochan Leomoi, Arte Dagane, Abdikadir Abikar, Dadaab Response Association Executive summary: The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in school closures globally, including in the Dadaab refugee camps. This study explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in the Dadaab refugee camps. Based on semi-structured... More
Friday, July 29, 2022
In this article, LERRN Partner Jeff Crisp takes a critical look at the UN's refugee agency, identifying the key characteristics of its organizational culture and providing advice to individuals and organizations who are endeavouring to influence the agency's positions, policies and programmes. Introduction As a former and long-term UNHCR... More
Thursday, May 12, 2022
James Milner, LERRN Project Director, Mustafa Alio, R-SEAT Managing Director, and Rez Gardi, R-SEAT Co-managing Director, have co-authored Meaningful Refugee Participation: An Emerging Norm in the Global Refugee Regime in Refugee Survey Quarterly, the peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal from Oxford University Press. The full article is... More
Friday, March 11, 2022
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
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
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
The Canadian team of the VULNER Project, (Vulnerabilities under the Global Protection Regime: How Does the Law Assess, Address, Shape and Produce the Vulnerabilities of the Protection Seekers?) studied how vulnerable asylum seekers (and other vulnerable migrants) are identified, and how their special reception and procedural needs are assessed and... More
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
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
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
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced its flagship publication, People Forced to Flee: History, Change and Challenge, to be published by Oxford University Press in February 2022. Reference papers were contributed by several LERRN Partners and associates,... More
Monday, July 19, 2021
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
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