We are thrilled to share a new blog post titled from McGill-Queen’s University Press. The blog post highlights the release of , an edited collection that brings together 23 scholars to examine Canada’s role in shaping global refugee protection. The editors of Canada in the Global Refugee Regime give an introduction to the book and highlight Canada’s role and impact on global refugee protection ahead of the upcoming virtual book launch on 20 May 2026.

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LERRN is pleased to share the following information on the next webinar from the Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan At-risk Scholars, Activists and Students (PPP) Project

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LERRN is pleased to share the following information on the next webinar from the Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan At-risk Scholars, Activists and Students (PPP) Project

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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.

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LERRN is pleased to share the following information on an upcoming webinar from the “Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan At-Risk Scholars, Activists and Students’ project” in collaboration with ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University and the University of British Columbia, and funded by IDRC.

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.

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Tuesday, 21 March 2023 from 12pm to 1:30pm EST in the Loeb Building at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University. This event is a hybrid event, with space for 25 people in-person and many more via ZOOM.

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.

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On World Refugee Day 2022, LERRN is pleased to share the following panel event from Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table (R-SEAT) taking place this Wednesday, 22 June at 11:30 am EDT:

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LERRN is pleased to announce our participation in the upcoming webinar series from the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN): Translating Academic Research into Effective Responses to Forced Displacement. Join us for a series of online discussions in which we will explore how academic findings and initiatives that can support decision-making processes to improve the lives of refugees, forcibly displaced persons, and host communities.

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LERRN Partner Janemary Ruhundwa, Lead of the Tanzania Working Group and Executive Director of Dignity Kwanza, will be participating in the TRAFIG Final Conference as a panelist in Panel 1 – Moving forward: Improving responses to protracted displacement in major host countries.

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External Link: LERRN is pleased to be participating in the following event to be held by the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University:

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

A virtual Roundtable

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