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Refugee connections – autumn semester roundtable

Refugee connections – autumn semester roundtable

Refugee History
Announcements

We are delighted to announce the speakers for the ‘Doing refugee history’ autumn semester roundtable, focusing on refugee connections. Attendance is open to anyone, but registration is required. A sign-up link is included below.

Speakers at this session are:

  • Stephanie DeGooyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
    The connection between early American refugee history and Native dispossession

  • Edidiong Ekefre (University of the Witwatersrand)
    Fleeing Boko Haram: historicizing the refugee connections in the Lake Chad basin, 2010-2020

  • Neela Hassan (University of Waterloo)
    A site of connection for refugees: forming community based on shared vulnerability and precariousness at an Afghan restaurant

  • Ryan Sun (University of British Columbia)
    The possibilities in transit: Jewish refugees onboard Shanghai-bound ships (1937-1940)

Refugee connections – call for papers

Refugee connections – call for papers

Refugee History
Announcements

We are pleased to announce that the ‘Doing Refugee History’ series will continue this year with two roundtables. The first will explore the subject of refugee connections and will take place on Thursday 20 October 2022, 2-4pm UK time.

As displaced people, refugees are often assumed to be disconnected—to have lost their connections to the places, people, and things that matter to them. Humanitarian programming in first countries of refuge, and refugee integration strategies in resettlement countries, aim to create new economic and social connections for refugees. But what connections have refugees, over time, made for themselves?