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Thursday, March 10, 2022

[CLOSED] Call for Applications: Research Chair on Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this opportunity has closed. IDRC & Chang Mai University launch Research Chair on Forced... More

Thursday, March 3, 2022

[CLOSED] Call for Proposals: Online Migration and Diaspora Student Research Conference

PLEASE NOTE: The submission period for this call has closed. For conference schedule and registration details, visit the Migration and... More

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

R-SEAT’s statement on Ukraine

In response to the rapidly evolving refugee situation in Ukraine, Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table (R-SEAT) calls on all parties to uphold six key principles when designing and implementing responses, now or for any refugee... More

Monday, February 28, 2022

[CLOSED] Request for Papers and Commentaries on Protracted Refugee Situations, Creative Solutions, and Refugee-Led Initiatives

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this opportunity has closed. The Journal on Migration and Human... More

Monday, February 28, 2022

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

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this opportunity has closed. IDRC & Asian Institute of Technology launch Research Chair on... More

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

[CLOSED] Call for Papers: Edited book on Children’s Museology

PLEASE NOTE: The submission period for this call has closed. LERRN is pleased to share the following Call for Papers from Archives, Living Histories and Heritage Working Group... More

Thursday, February 17, 2022

[CLOSED] Opportunity: Advocacy Officer with the Resourcing Refugee Leadership Initiative

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this opportunity has closed. LERRN is pleased to announce that the Resourcing Refugee Leadership... More

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Upcoming Event: Trauma-informed Culturally Based Intervention (TICBI) Forum

[External Link] LERRN Partner Dr. Nimo Bokore in collaboration with a research team and the Somali Center for Family Services of... More

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

[CLOSED] Call for Applications: IDRC Research Chair at Universidad del Pacífico

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this call has closed. Universidad del Pacífico launches Research Chair on Migration and Forced... More

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

LERRN-RRN Workshop | Creative Methods in Challenging Times

  Event details and recordings available here. The third webinar in a series on Ethics in Forced Migration Research, co-hosted by the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)... More

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Work of LERRN Student Researchers Recognized by Carleton University

Over the last two decades, millions of people around the globe have been forcefully displaced from their homes. With the COVID-19 pandemic adding further complications, Carleton... More

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

UNHCR HLOM Side Event: Meaningful Refugee Participation

On 13 December 2021, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) High Level Officials Meeting (HLOM) hosted a side event titled Meaningful Refugee Participation that aimed to take... More

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

VULNER Policy Brief: Canada (2021)

The Canadian team of the VULNER Project, (Vulnerabilities under the Global Protection Regime: How Does the Law Assess, Address, Shape and Produce the Vulnerabilities of the Protection Seekers?) studied how vulnerable asylum seekers... More

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

2021 GCR HLOM: LERRN Virtual Space

https://youtu.be/iPWcok3G1so On December 14 and 15, 2021, the first High-Level Officials Meeting (HLOM) of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) took stock of the progress made since the first Global Refugee Forum (GRF) held two years... More

Thursday, December 2, 2021

LERRN-RRN Webinar | Building Research Relationships and Setting the Agenda

  Event details and recordings available here. In the second of a series of webinars on the ethics of forced migration research co-hosted by the Local Engagement Refugee... More

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Civil Society and the Politics of the Global Refugee Regime

James Milner, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, and Project Director, LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network Amanda Klassen, PhD... More

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

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

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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... More

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Op-Ed: Muzna Dureid on Canada’s Response to Climate Refugees

Op-Ed: Here’s why Canada should modernize its immigration policy to respond to people displaced by climate change By Muzna Dureid In October 2021, leaders from all over the... More

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR in Geopolitics

Megan Bradley, Lead of LERRN's Solutions Working Group, has published Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms... More

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

LERRN-RRN Webinar | Types of knowledge in forced migration: Whose voices and perspectives frame research?

Event details and recordings available here. The first webinar in LERRN’s Ethics in Forced Migration Research series, co-hosted with the... More

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

CARFMS 2021: Meaningful Refugee Participation and Canada’s Role in the Global Refugee Regime

From the 27th to the 29th of October 2021, LERRN participated in two sessions at the annual conference of the Canadian Association for... More

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

RSC Webinar: A Refugee-Led Study on Refugee-Led Organizations in East Africa

This online interactive presentation explored the ongoing Evaluation of Refugee-Led Organisations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Given that the project is in its early... More

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

People Forced to Flee: History, Change and Challenge

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced its flagship publication, People Forced to Flee: History, Change and Challenge, to be published by Oxford University... More

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

[CLOSED] Call for Articles: FMR 70 “Knowledge, Voice and Power”

PLEASE NOTE: The submission period for this call has closed. How can we address questions of power and representation in refugee research? We are pleased to announce this Call for... More

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

LERRN Success Stories: 2018-2021

Today marks the midpoint of the LERRN Partnership! In the second half of our journey, we would like to share how far we have come with some of the highlights, events and stories from the last four... More

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Muzna Dureid: La normalisation des relations avec Damas suscite l’inquiétude

Muzna Dureid, partenaire de LERRN, réfugiée syrienne et agente de liaison pour les Casques blancs, explique dans son entrevue avec La Presse les inquiétudes envers la... More

Thursday, October 7, 2021

[CLOSED] Call for Applications: West Africa Research Placement with Carleton QES

PLEASE NOTE: The registration period for the program has closed. Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in West Africa? Do you... More

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

SSIC 2021 Colloquium: Somalinimo, Blackness and Belonging in the West

LERRN is pleased to announce the third biennial Colloquium from Somali Studies in Canada, organized by LERRN Partner Dr. Nimo Bokore, on October 16, 2021 at 10:00 am to 1:00 pm,... More

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Civil Society and the Politics of the Global Refugee Regime

James Milner, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, and Project Director, LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network Amanda Klassen, PhD... More

Monday, September 20, 2021

Refugee Advisory Network of Canada: Statement to the Government of Canada on Humanitarian Response to Resettle Afghan Refugees and Migrants

Today, the Refugee Advisory Network of Canada (RAN Canada) issued the following statement to the Government... More

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

[CLOSED] Opportunity: Research Assistants for the Study on Refugee-Led Organizations in East Africa

PLEASE NOTE: This opportunity is now closed and no longer accepting applications. We are looking to award 12 consultancies for Research... More

Monday, September 13, 2021

[CLOSED] Opportunity: Graduate RA position: Meaningful refugee participation

The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) is recruiting a Research Assistant (RA) to support research and engagement initiatives to promote meaningful refugee... More

Thursday, August 26, 2021

RSC-BIEA Fellowship for refugee / displaced scholars

We are pleased to announce the following 12-month fellowship for refugees and other displaced scholars from the Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH) at Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) in... More

Monday, July 19, 2021

Beyond the partnership debate: localizing knowledge production in refugee and forced migration studies

James Milner, LERRN Project Director, with Richa Shivakoti, Senior Research Associate, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and... More

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