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LERRN is pleased to share the following event from The Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Research Group entitled Displaced Detained Undeterred: A Creative/Critical Symposium.

Event Description

Scholars, artists, and organizers who understand the violence of displacement deeply and intimately narrate and theorize how borders, militarized imperialisms, and their colonial genealogies shape people’s lives and foreclose right to both home and refuge. Featuring presentations, performances, films, installations, conversations, and dialogues that reimagine connections between here and there, the past and present, personal and political.

This webinar will discuss the state of higher education, displacement of scholars and knowledge networks, and academic freedom in Afghanistan under the Taliban. The collapse of government in August 2021 led to mass exodus of scholars, academics, public intellectuals, researchers, writers, artists and other members of the national knowledge networks of Afghanistan, leaving the country’s institutions of knowledge in a mounting crisis. The speakers will discuss the magnitude of this crisis, scholarly displacement, management of knowledge networks in diaspora, as well as scholars’ and students’ experiences of displacement.

The field of refugee and forced migration studies has grown significantly over the past two decades, both in size and in scope of enquiry. How is the field currently understood and experienced in Kenya, one of the largest refugee-hosting countries in the world?

In the lead-up to the 2024 conference of the (IASFM), to be hosted by Moi University in Nairobi, Kenya, join Dulo Nyaoro for an informal conversation on the past, present and future of refugee and forced migration studies in Kenya and the themes that will animate the next conference.

Ukraine’s Refugees in Europe – Needs, Policies, Responses

A virtual Roundtable

Launch of a Reflection Paper:

Beyond Consultation:

Unpacking the Most Essential Components of Meaningful Participation by Refugee Leaders

Date: 12 April 2022

Time: 15:30-17:00 CEST (9:30-11:00 EDT)

Context

The 2018 Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) sets out a blueprint for better, timelier, and more comprehensive refugee response. It recognizes refugees and host community members as key to ensuring that refugee responses are meaningful, appropriate, accessible, and inclusive. In the spirit of the GCR, the GRN is continuously striving to ensure refugee self-representation and participation. In June 2019, for instance, it initiated the first pledge on meaningful participation, also kick-starting the pledge development process. Refugees and refugee-led organizations (RLOs) are proactively reaching out to governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders in order to ensure improved practice in broadening the space for “meaningful participation of refugees” in decision making processes that affect their lives.

As part of this engagement, the European Chapter of the GRN (the European Coalition of Migrants and Refugees, EU-COMAR), in collaboration with New Women Connectors and Oxfam International, is launching a reflection paper themed “Beyond Consultation: Unpacking the Most Essential Components of Meaningful Participation by Refugee Leaders.” The publication emphasises on the need to go beyond mere “tokenistic” instances of participation and/or consultation. The publication will be officially launched in a panel discussion that will feature the lead co-authors of the study and invited discussants, with an opportunity for Q&A.

To attend the launch, join the Zoom meeting at the starting time using the meeting ID and password found in the PDF.