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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
by Lavender Mboya "These displacements have made the people very vulnerable and especially the men, our most vulnerable people, although when you go to the organization for help they say no, we don’t help men we only help women and ladies, but I'm telling you, our men have become very vulnerable and this has led... More
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Takeaways From the Fieldwork in Chile and Colombia by Constanza Lobos, Stephanie López Villamil As part of the project “The Politics and Process of Refugee Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Factors Conditioning Refugee Leadership in Global South” our team of researchers from Colombia and Chile conducted fieldwork in both countries to... More
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
by Pascal Zigashane, LERRN Research Associate, Executive Director at Action pour le Progres (CBO) This blog builds on findings from the LERRN study “The Politics and Process of Refugee Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Factors Conditioning Refugee Leadership in the Global South”, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. As part of this... More
Friday, April 4, 2025
On 1 April, LERRN’s Project Director James Milner, and R-SEAT’s Co-Managing Director Rez Gardi delivered a technical briefing on the global refugee regime at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York. The briefing was developed in collaboration with Leah Zamore from the Zolberg Institute at the New School of... More
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
We are excited to announce the release of a new publication titled: "The 'Not Yet' and 'Never' Resettled: Individual and Communal Waiting Strategies Among Refugees in Kenyan Camps" by Rachel McNally, Pascal Zigashane, Abdikadir Abikar, Arte Dagane, Mark Oyat Okello, and Ochan Leomoi, published in Ethnic and Racial Studies This study delves into... More
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Executive Summary Despite Canada's recognition as a global leader in refugee resettlement and the introduction of the FIAP under the Trudeau's administration, we identify a crucial oversight: the insufficient focus on forced displacement within its feminist international assistance framework. In this article, we critically examine Canada's... More
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
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 to uncover... More
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
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 a compelling... More
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
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 integration,... More
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 and women’s... More
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
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
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
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