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Friday, May 23, 2025

Book Launch: The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South Webinar Event Report

On May 5, 2025, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) hosted a webinar to celebrate the launch of Dr. Ola El-Taliawi's book, “The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South.” Shifting the focus from sensationalist rhetoric about mass migration to the North, The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South provides... More

Monday, June 19, 2023

IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion

LERRN Partner Megan Bradley has co-edited a new open-access collection entitled IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion. A brief description of the book, which features contributions from leading scholars of international law and international relations, is below. The book... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

[CLOSED] Call for Papers: Exiled Scholars in Western Academia: Refugees or Intellectuals?

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this call has closed. LERRN is pleased to share the following Call for Papers for an upcoming Edited Volume on behalf of the editors: Exiled Scholars in Western Academia: Refugees or Intellectuals? Editors Alfred Babo Ph.D. (Fairfield University) ababo@fairfield.edu Sayed Hassan Akhlaq Ph.D. (Coppin State... More

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Book Launch: The Right to Research

The Right to Research brings together the scholarship of nine historians with lived experience of displacement or statelessness. Covering topics from Burundian refugee drummers to Kurdish photojournalism to pottery and identity in Rwandan refugee camps, the volume asks what it would mean to take seriously a “right to research.” In this... More

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

LERRN Podcast Series: Discussion with The Right to Research Book Editors and Contributors

In our first-ever podcast episode, LERRN host İrem Karabağ talks with book editors Professor Marcia C. Schenck and Kate Reed, and book contributor Ismail Alkhateeb of the anthology The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers, published in 2023 with McGill-Queen’s University Press in their forced... More

Friday, January 20, 2023

Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria

Bringing to life experiences of forgotten refugees of the postwar... More

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

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