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Friday, December 12, 2025

Event Report – UNHCR at 75: Challenges and Opportunities

https://youtu.be/FwUxmajpzKc   On 26 November 2025, LERRN in partnership with the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN), hosted a webinar titled 鈥淯NHCR at 75: Challenges and Opportunities.鈥� The webinar was moderated by Liliana Jubilut, co-chair of GAIN. The panel consisted of four speakers: Jeff Crisp, research associate at the... More

Monday, December 8, 2025

New Report Published – Refugee-Led Responses and Agency in East Africa, the Middle East, and South America

We are pleased to announce the release of the new synthesis report titled Refugee-Led Responses and Agency in East Africa, the Middle East, and South America, prepared by Stephanie Lopez Villamil. The report brings together findings from two major LERRN research projects conducted between 2020鈥�2025, examining refugee-led organizations (RLOs) and... More

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Event Report: Towards a New Response to Forced Migration

On the 12th of September 2025, a panel discussion titled 鈥淭owards a New Response to Forced Migration through Local Engagement Refugee Research Network鈥� concluded the three-day LERRN 2.0 launch in Ottawa. The roundtable brought together academia and civil society partners with lived experience of displacement to present to the public the newly... More

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The 2025/26 MDS Guest Speaker Series Event Report: The Tangled Web between Refugee Rights, Capitalism, Race and Education

On 10 September 2025, the Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) program launched its Guest Speaker Series for the 2025-2026 academic year. The event welcomed MDS students into a thought-provoking dialogue with Dr. Ritesh Shah, LERRN partner, a distinguished scholar in the political economy of education and Co-Director of the Centre for Asia Pacific... More

Friday, September 5, 2025

Barriers to Inclusive Education For Learners With Disabilities in Primary Schools in Hagadera Refugee Camp

Working Paper 23 By Abdi Bishar Bashir, York University, Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Program Executive Summary This research investigates barriers to the implementation and provision of inclusive education for learners with disabilities in Hagadera Primary Schools. Inclusive education is an educational philosophy based on human... More

Thursday, July 31, 2025

The Impact of the Presence of Refugees in North Western Tanzania

by Dr. Bonaventure Rutinwa and Dr. Khoti Kamanga, The Centre for the Study of Forced Migration, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania In 2003, the Centre for the Study of Forced Migration at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania conducted a study on the impacts of the presence of refugees in Northwestern... More

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Decolonising Knowledge Production in the Field of Refugee Education

By Cathrine Brun,聽 Cyrine Saab, Maha Shuayb We are thrilled to share a new research study report published by our partner Center for Lebanese Studies (CLS). This report provides an in-depth analysis of the knowledge production landscape in the field of refugee education, critically exploring how it continues to be shaped by colonial legacies... More

Friday, April 25, 2025

Bibliometric Analysis of Refugee Policy Research: Mapping the Subfield

By: Ola G. El-Taliawi, Ph.D., Luiz Leomil, and James Milner Introduction Scholarship on refugee policy has grown substantially over the past decades, reflecting the increasing complexity of forced displacement and policy responses worldwide. This reflects the realization that state responses to refugees are not only shaped by legal and... More

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Fieldwork Notes: Research with Migrant and Refugee Leaders

Takeaways From the Fieldwork in Chile and Colombia by聽Constanza Lobos, Stephanie L贸pez Villamil As part of the project 鈥淭he Politics and Process of Refugee Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Factors Conditioning Refugee Leadership in Global South鈥� our team of researchers from Colombia and Chile conducted fieldwork in both countries to... More

Monday, April 7, 2025

Webinar Report: High-Level Officials Meeting(HLOM): Lessons Learned from the GRF on Meaningful Refugee Participation

...cos de una participación significativa de los refugiados. Rez Gardi, co-directora gerente de R-SEAT, presentó las principales conclusiones del informe, que evaluaba la calidad de la participación de los refugiados en el GRF de 2023. El informe destacó un aumento... More

Friday, March 28, 2025

Exploring the Implementation of the 2019 Global Refugee Forum Pledges by the Government of Kenya: A Case Study of the Dadaab Refugee Camps

LERRN is thrilled to share the results of a co-produced research on education in the Dadaab Refugee Camps with research partners with lived experiences of displacement residing in refugee camps in Kenya. This research was conducted by Goundo Diarra, and researchers from the Dadaab Response Association: Arte Dagane, Leomoi Ochan, Abdikadir Abikar,... More

Friday, February 28, 2025

Webinar Recap: The Politics and Process of Refugee Leadership

On February 6, 2025, the Gerda Henkel Foundation and LERRN hosted an insightful webinar, The Politics and Process of Refugee Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Factors Conditioning Refugee Leadership in the Global South. This event brought together research teams to share key findings from an 18-month comparative study on refugee leadership... More

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