From 2012 to 2015 I conducted research exploring the experiences of resettlement of a group of Colombian and Palestinian refugees in Chile and Brazil ( Vera Espinoza 2015 , 2017 , 2018a , 2018b ). The research methodology used a qualitatively
Lessons from Refugees
Research Ethics in the Context of Resettlement in South America
Marcia Vera Espinoza
Avoiding Poison
Congolese Refugees Seeking Cosmological Continuity in Urban Asylum
Georgina Ramsay
A 2012 estimate suggests that the number of urban refugees living in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, is at least 50,000 ( Omata 2012: 7 ). The decision to reside in Kampala, rather than a designated settlement, is often described as a
Ivi Daskalaki and Nadina Leivaditi
of diverse actions of “emergency” support and “solidarity” for refugees ( Papataxiarchis 2016a , 2016b , 2016c , 2016d ; Rozakou 2016 ). Following the closure of state borders along the Balkan route and the implementation of the EU
Susan Cohen
occupation of Austria in March, that transformed the escalating European refugee crisis into a catastrophe, and propelled Eleanor into a more vigorous campaign that focused on the welfare and rescue of refugees, especially Jews, in and from Nazi
Undoing Traceable Beginnings
Citizenship and Belonging among Former Burundian Refugees in Tanzania
Patricia Daley, Ng’wanza Kamata, and Leiyo Singo
“I went to Home Affairs to ask if I could change my tribe,” stated Zacharia, a young man of 27 years and a former Burundian refugee, who, on obtaining Tanzanian citizenship ( uraia ), went to the ministry responsible for immigration and refugee
Teaching globalisation in the social sciences
The effectiveness of a refugee simulation
Stacy Keogh George
role of human migration. The refugee simulation was introduced after the first third of the course had been completed. The pedagogical objectives of this activity were to increase awareness and appreciation of global migratory processes, while
Jennifer Craig-Norton
In the autumn of 2015, the images of a drowned Syrian child washed up on a Turkish beach awakened the world to the desperate refugee crisis stalking the Middle East. That tragedy sparked a flurry of public debate in Britain about how best to respond
Refugia Roundtable
Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime
Nicholas Van Hear, Veronique Barbelet, Christina Bennett, and Helma Lutz
The refugee and migration summits in the US in September 2016 rounded off no fewer than seven major international meetings in that year that set out to solve the refugee and migrant “crisis” that escalated from around 2015 ( Migration Policy
Heather Wurtz and Olivia Wilkinson
Introduction This article examines the role of local faith actors in institutional responses to refugees (henceforth refugee response), first in relation to global policy guidelines and frameworks promoted through the Global Compact for Refugees
Moving Onward?
Secondary Movers on the Fringes of Refugee Mobility in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Jolien Tegenbos and Karen Büscher
Secondary movement has gained importance within the growing policy field of “mixed migration” that is concerned with “complex population movements involving refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants, and other migrants.” 1 In this approach
