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Friday, January 17, 2025
Despite the profound uncertainty surrounding Syria’s future, many governments in Europe and the Middle East appear to be forging ahead with plans to send refugees back. Premature returns come with profound risks for refugees. Read the new analysis by Reva Dhingra and Lama Mourad in Foreign Policy ... 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
Friday, March 11, 2022
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
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Working Paper 1 Midori Kaga, PhD Candidate, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa Delphine Nakache, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Executive Summary Attempts to bridge the Humanitarian-Development (HD) nexus are not new, but in recent years this idea has received renewed interest in... More
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