Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Education Under Covid-19 Lockdown: Reflections from Teachers, Students and Parents

Dr. Maha Shuayb and other LERRN partners at the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) issued a timely and important report on the impact of COVID-19 on education, including for refugees, in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. The report is based on a CLS online survey which collected information from 678 people, the majority being parents... More

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

New Online Migration Teaching Collaboration Between Carleton University and the University of Ottawa

LERRN members are excited to be participating in the Online Migration Teaching Collaboration, an innovative collaboration between Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. With a move to on-line teaching at both universities in the Fall term, this initiative will result in a series of online teaching modules on migration-related topics... More

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Job opportunity: Research Officer

We are now recruiting for the position of Research Officer to support the project Knowledge Ecosystems on forced displacement in the Middle East and East Africa. This is a Grant-funded Term Position, based at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. The Research Officer will provide research and administrative support for a small team that will... More

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

The Impact of Resource Dependence on the Localization of Humanitarian Action: The Case of Kenya

Akalya Atputharajah, PhD Candidate, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa Javans Wanga, Master of Arts in Forced Migration Student, Moi University, Kenya Executive summary: Localization is not a new agenda, but it re-emerged as a major area of focus for global refugee policy during the World Humanitarian... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Dr. Maha Shuayb: How a generation of Syrian children in Lebanon were robbed of their education

Dr. Maha Shuayb, Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies and Lead Investigator of LERRN’s Lebanon Working Group, has published a very timely article in openDemocracy that raises critical questions relating to refugee education. Refugee education has been a growing global priority in recent years. It was one of the core themes at the... More

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

By refugees, for refugees: refugee leadership during COVID-19, and beyond

We're thrilled that an article co-authored by LERRN refugee leaders Mustafa Alio and Pascal Zigashane, along with LERRN Project Director James Milner and leaders from the Global Refugee-led Network Shaza Alrihawi, Anila Noor and Najeeba Wazefadost, has been featured in the latest issue of the Forced Migration Review. The piece discusses the... More

Saturday, June 20, 2020

LERRN Announces Plans for Refugee Advisory Network

June 20, 2020—Ottawa – On World Refugee Day 2020, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) is excited to announce plans to launch a Refugee Advisory Network to enhance the role of civil society—and refugees themselves—in the global refugee system. This initiative is a result of sustained collaboration between LERRN, refugee... More

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Dr. Nimo Bokore Receives Funding for Innovative Project on Cultural-Based and Trauma-Informed Intervention

We want to celebrate Dr. Nimo Bokore, LERRN Co-Investigator and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University, who recently received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for an innovative and timely project called “Rethinking Resettlement And Integration: Creating Cultural-Based... More

Monday, June 1, 2020

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

By Angel Abbaticchio 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 collaboration between... More

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Opportunities and Challenges for Localization of Humanitarian Action in Tanzania

Merve Erdilmen, McGill University Witness Ayesiga Sosthenes, University of Dar es Salaam 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 been around globally since the early... 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

By Mohamed Duale PhD Candidate, Education, York University 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 developmentalist approaches. Refugee... More

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Refugees and COVID-19: More than a Health Issue

By Dr. Elizabeth Ferris, Georgetown University Hundreds, maybe thousands, of articles and reports have appeared recently, analyzing the potential for the COVID-19 virus to wreak havoc among refugees living in crowded conditions with inadequate sanitation and limited access to health care. Refugees International, for example, traces in painful... More

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Remembering Gil Loescher

A personal reflection from LERRN Project Director, James Milner It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of my dear friend and LERRN partner Prof. Gil Loescher on 28 April 2020. Gil Loescher in Thailand, 2006 Gil was a gentle giant of refugee studies. His work on refugee issues... More

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Three Lessons in Crisis Governance for the Age of Coronavirus

In a recent publication on the World Economic Forum website, Dr. Ola El-Taliawi, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Refugee Policy at Carleton University, highlighted 3 crisis governance principles currently undertaken by some governments that can help public leaders and their policy advisors effectively respond to the implications of COVID-19.  Dr.... More

Sunday, April 19, 2020

By Refugees, for Refugees: Refugee leadership during COVID-19 and Beyond

At the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva in December 2019, LERRN partnered with the Global Refugee-led Network to endorse the importance of refugee participation. Now in the midst of this global pandemic, it’s more important than ever to recognize refugees as partners in the COVID-19 response, as well as equal partners in research, policy... More

Friday, April 10, 2020

Uncertainty of the Coronavirus in Kakuma Refugee Camp

By Pascal Zigashane The world is facing a health threat and Kenya is finding it very crucial to contain the spread of COVID-19. Kakuma refugee camp is an arid place with no agriculture activities. Refugees fully depend on food stock from other counties in Kenya, especially Kitale County. Fear rises amongst refugees if they... More

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Severe Consequences of the COVID Pandemic on Daily Wage Workers in Jordan

By Dr. Oroub El Abed  Jordan is taking a number of pivotal measures to fight the spread of COVID-19. In her latest post, Dr. Oroub El Abed, a principal researcher and co-investigator in Jordan at the Centre for Lebanese Studies, outlines the new challenges this crisis has created in the labour market, especially for... More

Monday, April 6, 2020

The Increased Vulnerability of the Refugee Population to COVID-19 Within Tanzanian Refugee Camps

By Faith Mario Mjalilla This year’s World Health Day comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the globe and putting millions of lives at risk. It’s important to highlight that refugees are more vulnerable to infection due to their precarious living conditions in camps. As the world continues its attempt to... More

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

How global is the Journal of Refugee Studies?

By Rachel McNally and Nadeea Rahim 80% of the world’s refugees are in the Global South. But what about refugee research? In 2019, the editors of the journal Migration Studies embarked on a self-reflection process about the geography of submissions to the journal, resulting in a blog post asking the critical question: Does the... More

Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Urgency of Racing Forced Migration: Conversations on the Experiences of Black Refugees

By Mohamed Duale The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1966 to remember the day when South African police massacred 69 unarmed people protesting in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid pass laws which managed and restricted the movement of Black South Africans... 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

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Dr. Ola El-Taliawi on the Current Divide Between the Norm and Practice of Refugee Protection

On Wednesday March 11, Dr. Ola El-Taliawi, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Refugee Policy at Carleton University, gave a talk to outline her research agenda for advancing the study of refugee policy. During her talk, she presented her doctoral research on state policy responses to the Syrian refugee movement. Her research focused on refugee... More

Saturday, March 7, 2020

An Equal World is an Enabled World: Reflections on Gender Equality in Refugee Contexts

By Amanda Klassen March 8th, 2020 marks the 55th year that International Women’s Day (IWD) has been celebrated around the world. This year the IWD theme is #EachforEqual, an equal world is an enabled world which highlights the difference that individuals can make. IWD is an opportunity to celebrate the many amazing accomplishments of women... More

Friday, March 6, 2020

Muzna Dureid’s Journey to Advancing Women’s Rights

With International Women’s Day around the corner, it’s a good time to celebrate women who have played an extraordinary role in advancing women’s rights. LERRN is thrilled to highlight Muzna Dureid and the amazing work she has done - and continues to do - for women and girls. In 2011, Muzna and her family... More

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Dr. Ola El-Taliawi to Outline her Agenda on Refugee Policy on March 11

What explains why governments decide to admit refugees or reject them? Why do states that are non-signatory to the Geneva Convention grant protection to forced migrants, and what influences their policymaking processes? Dr. Ola El-Taliawi, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Refugee Policy, will outline her research agenda that seeks to advance our... More

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Remembering Stories of Refugees of African Descent

“When it comes to African refugees, and the ways they have contributed to Canadian society, that story is yet to be fully documented and to be visible,” says Mohamed Duale, a PhD candidate at  York University and LERRN researcher. Refugees of African who found asylum in Canada have brought culture, economic prosperity and  other... More

Thursday, February 20, 2020

DIGNITY Kwanza: Pursuing Social Justice For All

In commemoration of the World Day of Social Justice, LERRN is proud to share the stories of our partners committed to the social justice for all. For DIGNITY Kwanza, our lead partner in Tanzania, the pursuit of social justice for every individual, even the most marginalized and vulnerable is at the heart of their... More

Friday, February 14, 2020

Youth Engagement in Lebanon: Christina Klassen’s Research Placement Experience

By Christina Klassen “Youth engagement.” This compelling but vaguely defined term drew me to apply for the LERRN Youth Engagement research placement in Lebanon in the summer of 2019. I submitted my application more out of a curiosity to understand why the local team in Lebanon had chosen this as an area of research... More

Friday, February 7, 2020

Dr. Ola El-Taliawi: Bridging the Gap Between Public Policy and Refugee Studies

LERRN is thrilled to welcome Dr. Ola El-Taliawi for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship focusing on Global Refugee Policy. Dr. El-Taliawi holds a Ph.D. from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from the American University in Cairo. Her doctoral... More

Friday, February 7, 2020

Podcast on New Challenges and New Hopes at the Global Refugee Forum

This past December the United Nations High Commission for Refugees held its first Global Refugee Forum. At the forum, Canada made history when it included a refugee advisor, Mustafa Alio, as a formal member of the Canadian delegation. However, refugee participation doesn't stop there, as LERRN Director James Milner discussed in a podcast created... More

Friday, February 7, 2020

LERRN’s Roundtable Discussion on Refugee Participation

LERRN is committed to the participation of refugees in all stages of research and policy, which aligns with the emphasis for increased refugee participation in the Global Compact on Refugees. On January 30th 2019, LERRN hosted a roundtable discussion on the next steps for refugee participation following the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) in December... More

Monday, February 3, 2020

Now Recruiting for 2020 Research Placements!

LERRN is excited to announce 2020 Research Placements in Lebanon and Kenya. Placements are eligible for graduate students studying at Carleton University, McGill University, York University or the University of Ottawa. As a student researcher, you will be contributing to the larger partnership goal of co-creating knowledge on the most pressing... More

Monday, January 27, 2020

After the Forum: New Directions in Global Refugee Policy

After more than 2,000 people met in Geneva for the first Global Refugee Forum, our partner and Co-applicant Dr. Jeff Crisp of the Refugee Studies Centre, shared his reflection on the international community’s future response to the refugee flow. Dr. Crisp predicts there will be a “continuation of the exclusionary refugee policies currently... More

Monday, January 27, 2020

Civil Society and the Everyday Politics of the Global Refugee Regime

LERRN’s Project Director, James Milner and Associate Professor of political science at Carleton University, visited our partner, the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University’s Keele campus on Thursday, Jan. 23 to share lessons and ideas on how to make refugee research, policy and practice more inclusive and equitable, in partnership with... More

Thursday, January 23, 2020

International Day of Education: Putting youth at the forefront

By Yasmeen Shahzadeh and Dr. Oroub El-Abed January 24th is the International Day of Education. The significance of this day is monumental: it is a celebration of the power of education to bring peace, to encourage sustainable development, to create opportunities, and to empower generations. For many around the world, access to education continues... More

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