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Friday, January 20, 2023

The Criminalization of Migration: Context and Consequences

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and comparative evaluation of the criminalization of migration both within Canada and... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

A National Project: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada

A detailed examination of the experiences of refugees and receiving communities during Canada's Operation Syrian Refugee from 2015 to... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context

Evaluating private refugee sponsorship and its potential for global refugee... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

Send Them Here: Religion, Politics, and Refugee Resettlement in North America

Explaining the influence of religious groups on the development of refugee policy in the United States and... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey

A comprehensive study of the lives of Syrians and the precarious conditions they face under temporary protection in... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

The Urbanization of Forced Displacement: UNHCR, Urban Refugees, and the Dynamics of Policy Change

Investigating how the world’s largest humanitarian organization responded to the global movement of refugees to... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research

A timely assessment of the ways in which knowledge is co-created in spaces of displacement, and how it is reproduced through... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America

A rigorous comparative study of the contemporary migration and refugee policies and laws of seven Latin American... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers

How historical scholarship can benefit from refugee voices as historians in their own... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

Finding Safe Harbour: Supporting the Integration of Refugee Youth

A call to Canada’s cities to evaluate their role in supporting refugee... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

Upcoming UDSM Seminar: The Meanings of Epistemological Decolonization and Decoloniality Tasks of the 21st Century

LERRN is pleased to share the following details on an upcoming online seminar hosted by the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) College of... More

Monday, January 16, 2023

Executive Summary – Refugee Communities Mobilising in the Middle East: Refugee-led Organisations in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey

This Executive Summary presents key findings from the Middle East portion of the project "Evaluation of... More

Monday, January 9, 2023

[CLOSED] Call for Applications: Establishing Research Chair in Forced Displacement in East Africa

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this opportunity has closed. Call for Applications for Postdoctoral, PhD, Master’s and... More

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

[CLOSED] Upcoming Event: Listening to all voices? The politics of ‘lived experience’: concerns, contradictions, and challenges

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for these calls has closed. LERRN is pleased to announce the following... More

Friday, December 9, 2022

Understanding RLO Impact Report by Diana Essex-Lettieri

In 2022, Resourcing Refugee Leadership Initiative (RRLI) commissioned an independent external evaluation of refugee-led organizations’ overall impact. You can read the metasynthesis of... More

Friday, December 9, 2022

Meaningful Refugee Participation: An Emerging Norm in the Global Refugee Regime

James Milner, LERRN Project Director, Mustafa Alio, R-SEAT Managing Director, and Rez Gardi, R-SEAT Co-managing Director, have co-authored Meaningful Refugee Participation: An... More

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Supporting Mental Health Not Just at an Individual Level but at a Structural Level: Interviews with LERRN Partners, Pascal Zigashane and Michaela Hynie

Refugees experience extreme stress factors at every stage of their displacement: experiences of conflict and... More

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Participation au colloque RISE 2022 – Le réseau des chaires de recherche du CRDI sur le déplacement forcé

English version below Participation au colloque RISE 2022 - Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth Deuxième colloque annuel organisé par... More

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Participation in the RISE 2022 Conference – IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement

As part of the 2nd edition of the RISE 2022 Colloquium held at the USJ on November 28 and 29, 2022, on the theme “Organization... More

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Leveraging Collective Intelligence to hear voices of displaced populations in Iraq

Dr Prithvi Hirani and Robert Trigwell Please find the full version of the study on the IOM website The expansion of digital technology and... More

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

[CLOSED] Call for Abstracts: Peer Writing Workshop for Displaced PhD and Early Career Researchers

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this opportunity has closed. The Citizenship and Migration Research Network (CMRN) at the... More

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

[CLOSED] CARFMS Lived Experiences of Displacement Essay Award

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this award has closed. The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), in collaboration with the Local... More

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

[CLOSED] 2023 Cross-cultural Fieldwork Training Course in Forced Migration Studies

PLEASE NOTE: The registration period for 2023 has closed. This 12-unit online training program engages with the theory and practice of... More

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Conducting Research “With” Not Only “About” Refugees

Saleh Aljadeeah Why are refugees often not involved in research that directly pertains to them? In this blog post, I will answer this question by reflecting on my experience with... More

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Event Report | From Accountability to Meaningful Participation: Refugees & the Governance of International Refugee Responses

  On October 3rd, 2022, the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations and R-SEAT (Refugees... More

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Report Launch: Refugee-led Organizations in East Africa

Available in عربي Français Español Event details and recordings available here. On September 29, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) hosted a webinar to launch the... More

Friday, October 14, 2022

Online Launch: Forced Migration Review Issue 70 on Knowledge, Voice and Power

On Wednesday, 28 September 2022, more than 110 participants from 20 countries came together for the online launch of Forced Migration Review (FMR)’s 70th Issue on Knowledge,... More

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

New Initiative Builds Research Networks in Global South to Shift the Way Forced Migration Policy is Made

External Link: Carleton University Research... More

Friday, September 30, 2022

Colonial continuities and colonial unknowing in international migration management: the International Organization for Migration reconsidered

Megan Bradley, Lead of LERRN's Solutions Working Group, has published Colonial continuities and colonial... More

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Can Higher Education be a Pathway to Repatriation for Youth Living in Displacement? A Study of the Career Trajectories of Master of Education Students from Dadaab Refugee Camp

Working Paper 19 By Abdikadir Bare Abikar, Master of Education Graduate, Dadaab Response Association... More

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

[CLOSED] Call for Applications: Establishing Research Chair on Gender and Forced Displacement in Asia

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this opportunity has closed. Recruitment of IDRC Research Chair on Gender and Forced Displacement... More

Friday, August 12, 2022

Report from the Dadaab Response Association: Challenges for Refugee Businesses from the Pandemic to Devastating Fires

Okello Oyat, Ochan Leomoi, Arte Dagane, Abdikadir Abikar, Dadaab Response Association This blog post is part of a broader study led by the... More

Friday, August 12, 2022

The Impact of COVID-19 on Education and Youth Well-Being in the Dadaab Refugee Camps

Available in عربي Français Español Working Paper 18 By Okello Oyat, Ochan Leomoi, Arte Dagane, Abdikadir Abikar, Dadaab Response... More

Friday, August 12, 2022

Historical Backgrounder: Lebanon’s 2014 Refugee Policy Shift

Working Paper 17 Zahraa Al-Ahmad, Graduate of Carleton University, MA in Political Science Executive Summary While Lebanon has the largest per capita refugee population in the... More

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

New video published by CLS on empowering RLOs

LERRN's Partner Organization, the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS), has published a new video entitled "Refugee-led organizations are locked in a vicious cycle. How can we break it?"... More

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