Archives: The LERRN Working Papers Series

Monday, June 1, 2020

Is the Humanitarian-Development Nexus Leading to Solutions for Refugees?

Working Paper 9 Angel Abbaticchio, Carleton University Executive Summary Though the global refugee regime was developed more than 70 years ago to find solutions for refugees, progress on truly sustainable solutions remains scarce. The international community recognizes the need to strengthen the humanitarian-development (HD) nexus or, in other... More

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Opportunities and Challenges for Localization of Humanitarian Action in Tanzania

Working Paper 8 Merve Erdilmen, McGill University Witness Ayesiga Sosthenes, University of Dar es Salaam Executive Summary The idea of strengthening local humanitarian actors’ capacities, and access to funding and information, as well as making local non-governmental organizations essential partners in strategic decision-making processes, has... More

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

“To be a refugee, it’s like to be without your arms, legs”: A Narrative Inquiry into Refugee Participation in Kakuma Refugee Camp and Nairobi, Kenya

Working Paper 7 Mohamed Duale, PhD Candidate, Education, York University Executive Summary Although not a new concept, refugee participation, or the involvement of refugees in decision making and service-delivery for refugees, has been gaining currency as a result of a recent shift in global refugee policy from humanitarian towards neoliberal... More

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Understanding Syrian and Jordanian Youth Transitions from Education to Employment

Working Paper 6 Yasmeen Shahzadeh, McGill University Executive Summary Syrian and Jordanian youth in Jordan are experiencing challenges with regards to their access to education, their employment, and the transitions between the two. Amidst rising costs, economic fragility, and political uncertainty, youth in the country are rendered increasingly... More

Monday, March 16, 2020

Tanzania’s National Legal Framework for Refugees

Working Paper 5 Leonard Chimanda, University of Dar es Salaam Stéfanie Morris, University of Ottawa Executive Summary In the summer of 2019, Leonard Chimanda, a Masters candidate of Laws in Migration and Refugee Law at the University of Dar es Salaam and Stéfanie Morris, a researcher at the University of Ottawa were tasked to... More

Friday, March 13, 2020

Global Research Partnerships: Beyond the North-South Divide?

Working Paper 4 Salma Essam El Refaei, PhD Student, Department of Political Science, Carleton University Executive Summary In the recent years, collaborative partnerships between research centres in the Global North and the Global South became one of the central spaces for producing knowledge on refugee issues. In this literature review, Salma... More

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Intersectionality and Other Critical Approaches in Refugee Research: An Annotated Bibliography

Working Paper 3 Dina Taha, PhD Candidate, York University Executive Summary This literature review highlights migration and refugee research engaged with intersectionality as a critical framework that challenges homogenizing experiences and categories in the global refugee context. Intersectionality seeks to enable the analysis of multiple... More

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Durable Solutions and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Literature Review

Working Paper 2 Merve Erdilmen, PhD Student, Department of Political Science, McGill University Executive Summary This paper provides a brief review of the literature on the link between humanitarian and development approaches to durable solutions for refugees. By shedding light on the meaning, scope, and timing of durable solutions; strengths and... More

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Protection and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Literature Review

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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