Local Community Experiences of Displacement from Syria: Views from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey
This month, Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Principal Investigator, Refugee Hosts) and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh (Writer in Residence, Refugee Hosts) spoke to Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) about our interdisciplinary research project, including how people respond to displacement through a variety of creative methods, from art to theatre and poetry. You can listen to the thought-provoking interview…
On Wednesday 14 June 2017, Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, PI of the Refugee Hosts project, joined a live TwitterChat with the ODI’s Humanitarian Policy Group and other experts in order to ask: are we doing enough for refugees? This chat was engaged with by over 25,000 people, making for a very exciting, interactive hour. Panelists involved […]
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, PI of Refugee Hosts, will be contributing to a side event of the 69th meeting of the UNHCR Standing Committee. The event will be moderated by Ms. Shahrzad Tadjbakhsh, Deputy Director, Division of International Protection, UNHCR Thursday, 29 June 2017, 13:15 – 15:00 Palais des Nations – Room XXIV Journalists and photographers around the…
The Middle East Re-mapped: 10-4pm, 5th June 2017, Anthropology seminar room, Department of Anthropology, UCL. Reflecting a wider interest in ‘re-mapping area studies’ at UCL, the aim of this workshop is to explore how the Middle East might be rethought and re-drawn today. We invite short contributions from researchers from across the social sciences, arts and…
We are pleased to share this announcement on behalf of the convenors of UCL's 2017 Migration Conference, 'Between Borders: Exploring spaces of exclusion and belonging in global migration.' The conference will be held on 9th June 2017, 9.30am – 6.00pm in UCL's Pearson Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. You can register to attend the Conference by visiting the Eventbrite…
May 18, 2017: Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Modern Literature and History at UEA, and Refugee Hosts Co-I, has been interviewed by Krista Tippett, of On Being, about the relevance of Hannah Arendt’s work to today’s political challenges. LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW HERE. During the interview, Professor Stonebridge reflects on Arendt’s ideas about statelessness and violence,…
In March, Refugee Hosts' Writer in Residence Yousif M. Qasmiyeh's poem "If this is my face, so be it" (published in Modern Poetry in Translation in 2016) was exhibited as part of Jenny Holzer's major light projection show in Aarhus, Denmark. The art installation was part of the Aarhus' 2017 Capital of Culture celebrations, and…
We are pleased to share this call for papers on behalf of Dr. Mette Berg (UCL) and Dr. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (PI of Refugee Hosts), who are the editors of the new journal, Migration and Society. This new interdisciplinary journal is committed to critical research that situates migration in a wider societal, historical and geographical context, and for…
We are pleased to announce that Migration and Society - a new interdisciplinary journal committed to critical research that situates migration in a wider societal, historical and geographical context - has just been launched by Dr. Mette Berg (UCL) and Refugee Hosts' PI, Dr. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh. For the journal's inaugural issue in 2018, the key theme will be 'Hospitality…
On 14 June 2016, from 2-3pm, Refugee Hosts' PI Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, will be responding to a round of questions on Twitter as part of the ODI's ‘Livelihoods in displacement: from refugee perspectives to aid agency response’ project. The conversation, which will take place on Twitter between researchers from ODI's HPG, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and 2-3 other discussants,…
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