Event Description

Global responses to forced migration are at a critical juncture. While displacement is at record-high levels and access to protection and solutions becomes increasingly unreliable, the global system designed to ensure collective action and effective responses is unraveling in light of massive funding cuts and political divisions. In a year when a new UN High Commissioner for Refugees will be selected and ahead of a global meeting to assess progress on current commitments to respond to displacement, how can we overcome the current moment of crisis and imagine a new response to forced migration where all forced migrants have timely and reliable access to protection and a permanent place to live in dignity? In response, this roundtable will discuss the objectives of a new, six-year partnership between displaced-led organizations, researchers, and others. The goal of the partnership is for the knowledge and expertise of those most affected by displacement to more reliably and substantively inform forced migration research and the global refugee regime, leading to more effective, legitimate and accountable research, policy and practice. At the core of our partnership is a shared belief that a deeply inclusive, interdisciplinary, partnered and localised approach to the co-production of knowledge can transform forced migration research and the policy process by amplifying the agency of those most affected by displacement. Join us to discuss how the power of partnership can overcome this moment of crisis and imagine a more reliable and legitimate global response to displacement.

Speakers

Mustafa Alio

Co-Managing Director, R-SEAT

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Ana Maria Diez

Coalici贸n for Venezuela, President

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Stephanie L贸pez Villamil

Gerda Henkel Foundation Scholarship Recipient; South America Project Lead Researcher

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Moderators

Rez Gardi

Co-Managing Director, R-SEAT

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James Milner

Project Director, LERRN

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Programme Overview

In partnership with the , the AfOx Visiting Fellowship supports research on the causes, consequences, and responses to forced migration. The fellowship period extends from September 2025 to August 2026.

For comprehensive information and application details, please visit the .

Fellowship Details

• Duration: 12 months, comprising 10 months of virtual engagement and a 2-month residency at Oxford during Trinity Term (April鈥揓une 2026)

• Support Provided: Accommodation, economy return flights, visa fees, maintenance allowance, and full access to Oxford鈥檚 academic resources

• Collaboration Opportunities: Engage with Oxford-based scholars and develop international research networks within the field of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

• Eligibility: Open to African researchers with an advanced degree actively affiliated with an African academic or research institution

Encouragement to Applicants with Displacement Experience

Applications from individuals who have been affected by displacement, including asylum seekers, refugees, internally displaced persons, or those under temporary protection, are strongly encouraged. Your perspectives are invaluable to advancing critical scholarship in this field.

Support is available throughout the application process, including assistance with identifying research collaborators. Please contact:

Dr. Oudai Tozan
Director of Academic Programmes, RLRH
Email: oudai.tozan@refugeeledresearch.org

For general enquiries, contact the AfOx team at:
afox@ndm.ox.ac.uk

厂辫别补办别谤:听聽(Associate Professor, ISID and Department of Anthropology, McGill University)

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This talk addresses the concept of 鈥楲iving Archives鈥�, which has evolved from Professor Allan鈥檚 ongoing research as an ethnographer, filmmaker and archivist working with Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon. It builds on the Nakba Archive 鈥� a grassroots testimonial initiative that has documented histories of forced expulsion of 1948 鈥� and is premised on the reimagining of archive as a creative, participatory practice that resists fixity and centres process. It draws inspiration from recent shifts in how Palestinian scholars, writers and artists are rethinking mnemonic and documentary witness practices, and explores camp spaces as stateless archives, mnemonically embodied rather than institutionally housed.

The talk will be preceded at 4pm by a showing of聽, a documentary directed by Professor Allan which brings together colonial films from British Mandate Palestine with recordings from the Nakba Archive.