Florian Bieber (University of Graz, Austria), Kathy Burrell (University of Liverpool UK) and Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University, UK) Migration scholars should pay greater attention to migration research that focuses on Eastern Europe as a site of diverse but also…
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Somali women refugees in Ethiopia: Who knows best what works (or not) for them?
By Adamnesh A. Bogale, Gender and Migration Expert at the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team. The number of Somali refugees in Ethiopia is 250,719, which…
Entangled identities of second-generation Gurkha Nepali’s in the UK
Safina Bull, University of Exeter, BA Liberal Arts 2022 The paradox of belonging to two places, but at the same time not belonging to either, is something that many people face in a migratory context. Negotiating one’s entangled, intersecting identities…
Tagged with: 2nd generations, Gurkha, Nepali diaspora, transnationalism
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
On navigating academic networking – lessons learnt 17 years on
Dr Sarah Scuzzarello is Lecturer in Migration and co-coordinator of the IMISCOE Standing Committee Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research (GenSeM) Recently been asked to talk at the IMISCOE PhD Academy about academic networking, I realised that, despite working in…
Posted in Academic Life
Not a burden: Somali refugees transform Dollo Ado into an onion export zone
Fekadu Adugna is Project Coordinator at the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team. Dollo Ado is a district in south-eastern Ethiopia bordering Somalia to the east…
Posted in Migration Research
Emotions in the fieldwork
Claude Samaha, Lead Researcher at Basmeh & Zeitooneh and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team. Resnik argues that ‘an objective researcher (or project, report, or study) is like a judge who attempts to give a fair hearing to both…
‘Mana pfasha’: The incredible resilience of Rwandan refugees in Masisi, DRC
José Mvuezolo Bazonzi, Coordinator of Groupe de Recherche et d’Etudes Stratégiques sur le Congo (GREC) at the University of Kinshasa, and a member of the Protracted Displacements Economies (PDE) team. Generally settled in planned camps – with or without the…
Tagged with: Asylum Seekers & Refugees, Migration and Development; Africa
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research