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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Working Paper 26 by Abdi Omar Aden,York University Executive Summary This paper investigates higher education opportunities for refugees with disabilities in the Dagahaley refugee camp (Dadaab, Kenya) with an emphasis on inclusivity, parent support, resource availability, barriers, and recruitment processes. The study employed qualitative methods... More
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Working Paper 28 by Abulogn Ojulu Okello, York University, Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Program Executive Summary This paper delves into the intricate terrain of refugee welfare in Kenya, exploring the challenges faced by refugees and the solutions devised to alleviate their plight. Kenya's experience in hosting refugees offers... More
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
https://youtu.be/2zUX1a1PpJM On October 28, 2024, faculty members of University of Ottawa and Carleton University, students, and visiting scholars gathered to celebrate the book release of Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement. Forced Migration in/to Canada is a critical primer from multiple disciplinary... More
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Working Paper 27 Sarah Nandi, Department of Political Science, McGill University Oroub El Abed, International Migration and Refugee Studies, Birzeit University Megan Bradley, Department of Political Science, McGill University Hamzah Qardan, USAID, Jordan Executive Summary The three durable solutions, namely resettlement to a third country, local... More
Working Paper 24 By Dahabo Abdi Ibrahim Executive Summary Education promotes both individual and national development by contributing to increased productivity and a hope for the eradication of poverty, disease, and ignorance (Kigotho et al. 2016). Author, with a lived experience of displacement, offers an exploration of environmental education... More
Friday, August 16, 2024
By Kiin Ahmed Mohamed Being a refugee is one of the hardest things any human being can face. But being a female refugee brings even more challenges. This blog post is based on my personal experiences growing up and the research I completed for my Master of Education from York University through the Borderless... More
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
I was happy to represent the Refugee Advisory Network of Canada (RAN Canada) as the Refugee Advisor to the Canadian delegation to the GRF 2023. The selection process of the advisors by RAN Canada follows a tradition of selection based on expertise, experience, and rotation of participation. Proposing my name to the IRCC and... More
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Working Paper 22 By 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... More
Working Paper 21 By 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... More
Monday, July 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRmrZl9HuyE The Refugee Advisory Network of Canada (RAN Canada) organized its inaugural webinar titled "Meaningful Refugee Participation: Taking Stock and Charting the Way Forward" in celebration of World Refugee Day on June 20, 2023. With 53 participants from 10 different countries, the webinar explored the... More
Friday, February 10, 2023
Nada Yehia The Beginning Growing up in Egypt in the 1990s & 2000s, I have always been surrounded by news about the thousands of displaced people who fled their countries because of occupation, famine, drought, or civil wars. The news told stories about the Palestinian resistance, Palestinian refugee crisis and Palestinian right to return,... More
Friday, January 20, 2023
Bringing to life experiences of forgotten refugees of the postwar... More
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