By Celia Garcia de Medina-Rosales, alumnus of the Migration Studies MA, University of Sussex (2021/22). Her dissertation was awarded 2022 JEMS Award for the best Migration Studies MA Statelessness, defined in international law as ‘not being considered a national by…
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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
The politics of Syrian refugees’ economic impact
Claude Samaha is Lead Researcher at Basmeh & Zeitooneh and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team. Policymakers in Lebanon argue that displaced people, particularly Syrian refugees, are one of the causes of the country’s failing economy. Syrian refugees…
Posted in Migration Research
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…
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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
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Posted in Migration Research