On 17th July, 2024, academics from the Department of English, University of Hyderabad in collaboration with Dartmouth and Southern Responses to Displacement (UCL) advertised a Call for Papers for a conference on “Displacement”. Positing displacement as a prominent theme of migration studies, the CFP had ruminated on its multiple facets: displacement could be political, tied... Continue Reading →
The Southern Responses Project is proud to announce the launch of the Special Issue of the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs. This Special Issue is part of the multi-year ‘Southern Responses to Displacement’ research project, which will officially conclude in April 2025. Read the transcript of the event in English and in Arabic When? Monday, February 3 | 3-5 PM GMT... Continue Reading →
Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Southern Responses to Displacement's PI, has been awarded a Cornell-UCL Global Strategic Collaboration Awards. The award was won jointly with colleagues Dr. Saida Hodzic and Dr Eleanor Paynter from Cornell University. Building on the interdisciplinary strengths in migration and refugee studies across both UCL and Cornell University, the “Migration and Refuge” Working... Continue Reading →
Drawing on the Southern Responses to Displacement project, Prof Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh delivered the NCHS Annual Lecture at the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies on the 4th of November 2022. You can listen to the lecture here: https://player.vimeo.com/video/782529295?h=51ec5d8c8a Abstract: 'In this lecture I propose moving beyond, or even against, what I conceptualise as “the humanitarian grain”,... Continue Reading →
On the 4th of July 2022 the Southern Responses to Displacement project hosted a roundtable discussion on ‘Critical reflections on ‘Decolonising’ Humanitarianism and Refugee-Related Research.’ Speakers at the event drew on a range of historical, geographical and epistemological perspectives to collectively explore the future of humanitarian practice and research, including how to go beyond the... Continue Reading →
Since 2011, aid programmes have been implemented in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey…Read more
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. (Grant agreement No. 715582)
Through a multi-sited case-study of Southern-led responses to displacement from Syria…Read more
This project draws on ethnographic and participatory research with refugees from Syria…Read more
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