Local Community Experiences of Displacement from Syria: Views from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey
Photography has played a key role throughout the Refugee Hosts project, not only ‘documenting’ (or ‘archiving’) the dynamics taking place across the camps, cities and towns in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey where we have been conducting research, but also as a means of reflecting on the process of research itself. Many of these images have…
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On the 23rd November 2020 Refugee Hosts’ Co-ordinator, Aydan Greatrick and Co. I. Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge took part in the ‘History of Refugees’ conference hosted by SolidariTee. Diverse motivations shape contemporary responses to refugees, yet the role of history is often overlooked. Aydan Greatrick’s and Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge’s talk, ‘Refugee Hosting Across Time,’ sought to…
On Thursday 3rd December, from 6-8pm, Refugee Hosts’ Co I, Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge will join a distinguished panel of writers, academics and cultural commentators online to celebrate the publication of her new collection of essays, Writing and Righting (Oxford University Press). The book features poetry by Refugee Hosts’ Writer in Residence Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, with the final…
On the 25th and 26th of October 2019, Refugee Hosts’ International Conference, ‘Without Exception: The Politics and Poetics of Local Responses to Displacement’ sold out to an international audience who joined us both in person and via live stream. Here we mark the conversations that took place and invite further conversations relating to ‘without exception’, a…
The Refugee Hosts project is delighted to launch a new report titled “Religion and Social Justice for Refugees: Insights from Cameroon, Greece, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia and Mexico”. This report identifies and examines the roles that faith plays in supporting social justice for refugees. READ THE REPORT HERE This major report, made possible through the generous…
Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities ‘explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them.’ Through a collection of over 30 chapters, co-edited by Refugee Hosts Co-Investigator Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge, and written by experts from a range of disciplines, the book places ‘refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange’ and ‘demonstrates…
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This Workshop was convened at the Refugee Hosts International Conference on the 25th October 2019, from 14.15 -15:45 Chairs and Facilitators: Prof Alastair Ager (Refugee Hosts – Queen Margaret University) and Dr Anna Rowlands (Refugee Hosts – Durham University) Dr Olivia Wilkinson (Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities) Atallah Fitzgibbon (Islamic Relief Worldwide) Fernando Espada…
This Roundtable Conversation was hosted at the Refugee Hosts International Conference on the 24th October 2019, from 13:45 – 14:45 Chair: Prof. Philippe Sands QC (UCL and English-PEN) Prof Lyndsey Stonebridge (Refugee Hosts – University of Birmingham) Yousif M. Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts Writer in Residence – University of Oxford) You can watch the live stream video…
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