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Refugee-led Responses to COVID-19: A case study from Uganda
Refugee-led organizations are at the front line of COVID-19 responses. Ugandan refugee-led organization CECI presents its lessons for health awareness campaigns and makes recommendations to governments, INGOs and donors to improve their support to refugees.
IDP-led Women’s Assistance: New Roles for Traditional Groups
This research from Ethiopia highlights how traditional social groups, created by women refugees to offer a shared savings scheme, can increase both self-reliance and integration with locals, especially when international NGOs are impeded by Covid-19.
Rethinking the Duties of Refugees
Few would contest that refugees have rights or that those rights are often very much under threat in the contemporary world. But do refugees have duties, too, and, if so, what are they?
Refugee Feedback: Sounding out everyday experiences of displacement
Creativity abounds in the various refugee communities living in the Greek capital – and these creativities feed back into host societies, remaking the city through the production of common spaces.
Dis/connected: Using refugee relationships and networks to rethink refugee agency
Refugee camp residents weave unique social networks across varied institutional spaces just as non-mobile individuals do; mapping these networks can provide insight into dynamic and intersecting cultures and systems.
Should Refugees Govern Refugee Camps?
Which ethical prescriptions should we follow when considering a world that is non-ideal, and thus a world in which refugees do not reach liberal democracies but are confined to life in refugee camps for the foreseeable future?
Activism and the Agency: The Palestinian refugees’ UNRWA campaigns
Palestinian refugees have continually demonstrated their agency by resisting the confines of their situation – with surprising degrees of success. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) provides an instructive case study.
Rethinking the Politics of Food and Hospitality
It was not the first time that Syrian refugees offered me tea and sweets, but the place they did so this time surprised me. We were seated on camp beds in an abandoned military barrack turned into a make-shift shelter, surrounded by barbed wire.
Rethinking Refugee Women's Power and Vulnerability
Public and humanitarian discourses on refugees in the Global South often present women as highly vulnerable. The logic of vulnerability behind such aid, however, prompts questions; its focus risks portraying women as passive - although they are not.