Archives: policy and legal framework

Friday, August 12, 2022

Historical Backgrounder: Lebanon’s 2014 Refugee Policy Shift

Zahraa Al-Ahmad, Graduate of Carleton University, MA in Political Science Executive summary: While Lebanon has the largest per capita refugee population in the world, Lebanon’s protection of refugees has been controversial and limited. Lebanon’s complex politics have created an environment for contradictory policies, leaving the international... More

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Building Local Professional Learning Communities with and for Teachers in Refugee Camps – A Case Study on Hareed Primary School in Dadaab

https://youtu.be/dqZfugjBK_Q Abdikadir Bare Abikar, Member of the Dadaab Response Association, Graduate of the Master of Education, York University Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Program Executive summary: This paper is a modified version of a Major Research Paper for the Master of Education degree at York University as part of the... More

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Repatriation as a Durable Solution: Refugee Perspectives on Repatriation Policies and Education in Dadaab Refugee Camp

https://youtu.be/DHHRNAqxb38 Abulogn Okello, Graduate of the Master of Education, York University Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Program Executive summary: As a result of domestic terror attacks in the last decades, Kenyan government officials and media outlets have begun to frame refugee camps as hotbeds of terror and extremism. These... More

Monday, June 1, 2020

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

Angel Abbaticchio, Carleton University 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 words, to promote closer... More

Monday, March 16, 2020

Tanzania’s National Legal Framework for Refugees

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 evaluate whether there are gaps in Tanzania's current national legal and regulatory framework. Discrepancies between international law... More

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