‘Humanitarian neutrality’ is a phrase synonymous with large ‘western’ NGOs and one that is understood by many to have a clear and static conceptualisation and application. However, in this extract from her chapter in the new free to download Open Access volume edited by Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing Migrant and... Continue Reading →
Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Keynote Lecture at The Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University, Turkey
Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Southern Responses to Displacement Principal Investigator, offered the keynote lecture, 'Shifting the Gaze: beyond inclusion and social cohesion, towards refugee-refugee relationality' at the Exploring the Dimensions of Refugee Inclusion: Social Structures, Institutions and Strategies Conference, at the The Istanbul Policy Centre - Sabanci University in Turkey, convened on the 28th and 29th... Continue Reading →
The Tribulations, and Deportations, of Syrian Guests in Turkey
Almost 5,000 Syrian refugee have been deported from Turkey to the Idlib area of Syria, an area still experiencing intense shelling and where 86 people were killed in just one week in July. In this piece, Diane al-Mehdi draws on her research to describe ‘horrendous detention conditions’ and the ‘humiliating’ process of deportation and traces the... Continue Reading →
Municipal-level responses to Syrian refugees in Turkey: The case of Bursa
Turkey hosts the highest number of people forcibly displaced from Syria and local municipalities can struggle to meet their basic needs, leaving much-needed integration programs de-prioritised. A lack of data concerning the numbers of refugees in specific areas, and a lack of additional funding or local staff, are clear barriers to implementation, even where policies... Continue Reading →
“There are no missionaries here!” – How a local church took the lead in the refugee response in northern Jordan
The Southern Responses to Displacement project is examining different discourses and ideological frameworks used to justify certain responses to displacement, including local and transnational faith-based responses in and from the global South. In this piece, Ann Christin Wagner draws on her ethnographic fieldwork on faith-based responses providing support to communities displaced from Syria and living... Continue Reading →