by Sara Al Helali As part of the Southern Responses to Displacement project, the research team has been examining responses developed by differently-positioned states (including host states) as well as by municipal and local-level actors, and of course refugees themselves. While Syrians registered under a Temporary Protection ID in Turkey can access free healthcare services... Continue Reading →
by Amal Shaiah Istanbouli As a researcher involved in the Southern Responses to Displacement project since 2020, I have had the unique opportunity to conduct around 70 interviews with refugees from Syria, local community members, and service providers, as well as helping to run participatory and writing workshops in both 2022 and 2025. Over the... Continue Reading →
In contrast to the ‘hyper-visibility’ of humanitarian aid designed and delivered by countries of the global North, humanitarian aid provided by countries of the Global South remains mostly unseen. In this interview, Dr Estella Carpi and Dr Mirian Alves de Souza, discuss how countries in the Global South, with a particular focus on Brazil, have... Continue Reading →
In Part Two of this two-part series examining class-based inequality that can be both ignored and exacerbated by humanitarian programmes and aid workers, Dr Carpi draws on research conducted for the Southern Responses to Displacement project and argues that economic changes brought about by the introduction of a humanitarian economy of consumerism and labour in... Continue Reading →
‘Little attention has been paid to the class-based inequality that the very presence of humanitarian agencies produces in crisis-affected settings’ argues Dr Estella Carpi, Southern Responses to Displacement’s Research Associate, in this two-part blog series. Drawing on observations made during research carried out in Northern Lebanon for the Southern Responses to Displacement project, Dr Carpi... 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
Southern Responses to Displacement 