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 →
What influences encounters between refugees and members of their host communities, and how do these encounters change over time? In this post, Sara Al Helali (Southern Responses to Displacement researcher) draws on her interviews with Syrian refugees and local community members in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, and explores the historical, relational, social and economic processes... Continue Reading →
On Tuesday 2nd of December 2021 Southern Responses Research Associate, Dr Estella Carpi, will speak at the Izmir University of Economics in Turkey. Dr Carpi's presentation, 'The Politics of Aid and Aiding in Lebanon and Turkey' will draw on her research conducted for the Southern Responses to Displacement research project and will focus on faith-based... Continue Reading →
On the 25th of March 2021 Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh took part in a panel discussion reflecting on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on migration, migrants and refugees. The conference provided 'the opportunity for researchers, policy-makers, and other professionals involved in the field of migration and displacement to share knowledge and new directions in research... 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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