Southern Responses to Displacement PI, Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, delivered her Inaugural Lecture: Refuge in a Moving World: beyond hospitality and hostility on the 10th of December 2019. You can listen to the podcast and view the lecture slides, here. About the lecture People have been displaced throughout history and across all geographies, and yet attention... Continue Reading →
Southern Responses’ PI, Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, will participate in the inaugural South-South Forum, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, which will be held over 3 days from the 13th - 15th of August 2019. This international and interdisciplinary workshop contributes to the aims of the South-South Forum to enable interdisciplinary discussions that 'prioritize theoretical frameworks from the "South"'. This... Continue Reading →
On 20th May 2019 The Southern Responses to Displacement project launched the Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations at the UCL Institute of Advances Studies (IAS). You can access the full podcast of the event here: Alternatively you can access podcasts of each contributing author speaking about their own chapter below. The Routledge Handbook of South-South... Continue Reading →
Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh presented the closing keynote speech at the 4th Refugee Law Initiative Annual Conference, on the 5th of June 2019 at Senate House, University of London. This year the conference's special theme was 'Rethinking the “Regional” in Refugee Law and Policy,’ and Prof. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh’s keynote drew on our ERC-funded research to explore 'South-South... Continue Reading →
What happens when international agencies intervene without knowledge of the historical, geographical, or relational contexts of the area? Should engagement with and use of local faith leaders as intermediaries become standardised within international aid provision? In March 2019 our Research Associate Dr Estella Carpi participated in a seminar organised by ALNAP-Overseas Development Institute and the... Continue Reading →
Since 2011, aid programmes have been implemented in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey…Read more
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
