Blog

By Carolien Jacobs, Leiden University

Notes on data collection, analysis and COVID-19 in Congo

The title of this blog gives you a little sneak preview into the discussion we had about our data. It was raised by one of the researchers of the team and agreed upon by his fellow researchers. Keep... Read more

by Ferruccio Pastore, FIERI, 23.03.2020

If there is a silver lining, however thin, in the crisis we are going through, it has to do with the greater reflexivity it forces upon us. Isolation and routine disruption make us reflect more upon things we too often took for granted. Among these, the na... Read more

by Ferruccio Pastore and Emanuela Roman (FIERI, Italy), Panos Hatziprokopiou and Eva Papatzani (Aristotle Unviersity of Thessaloniki, Greece), Albert Kraler (Danube University of Krems, Austria) and Benjamin Etzold (BICC, Germany), 06.03.2020

TRAFIG researchers are deeply concerned about the human... Read more

by Emanuela Roman/FIERI

Forced migrants and asylum seekers who have reached Italy over the last years often find themselves in situations of protracted precariousness, vulnerability and marginalisation, both in terms of their legal status and socio-economic conditions. Such situations of protract... Read more

By Carolien Jacobs

Reflections from field work in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

The use of consent forms is a rather thorny issue within the humanitarian aid context of the DRC. Asking people about their lives and taking note of personal details often raises expectations about the prov... Read more

by Jeff Crisp, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

In December 2019, more than 2,000 people met in Geneva for the first Global Refugee Forum. Bringing together representatives of governments, international organizations, NGOs and the private sector, the event was described by UNHCR chie... Read more

By Fekadu Adugna Tufa and Markus Rudolf

The Ethiopian research team started fieldwork in October 2019 in Addis Ababa among Eritrean refugees who are beneficiaries of the Ethiopian government’s Out of Camp Policy (OCP). In Addis Ababa the team undertook fieldwork in three localities: Gofa Mebratha... Read more

By Joachim Ruhamya

My name is Joachim Ruhamya Mugenzi. I work as teacher and researcher at the Institut Supérieur de Développement Rural (ISDR-Bukavu), where I am the Executive Director of CREGED - Centre de Recherche et d’Expetise en Genre et Développement (Research and Knowledge Centre on Ge... Read more

By Benjamin Etzold

EU research project on transnational dimensions of forced displacement

Naila and her family have had to flee often. In 1990, they left their home town north of Kabul in Afghanistan to escape from the civil war. For three years, they sought refuge in a village near Jalalabad.... Read more

The H2020 AdMiGov (Advancing Alternative Migration Governance - 2019-2022) project, is designed to promote an alternative migration governance model, that takes seriously the principles laid out in documents of the United Nations, in particular starting from the New York Declaration (NYD) and the S... Read more

As a child under my parents care, I was taught and told to do good and avoid the bad. In a way I felt my future was drawn for me by my parents and I was guided towards ‘better world’. But for other young people in Africa, this is not the case. The presence of negative forces has driven many young pe... Read more

By Panos Hatziprokopiou

On 5 November 2019, Dr. Panos Hatziprokopiou visited the University of Bonn and gave a lecture on “Migrant camps in Europe: the Greek case in retrospective and the European migration regime” in the context of the Lecture Series “Ankommen, Zurückkommen oder modernes Nomadent... Read more