The RRN Research Digest provides a synopsis of recent research on refugee and forced migration issues from entities associated with the RRN and others. You can download the digest in PDF format here: RRN Research Digest NEW RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Abdelaaty, L. (2024). “The greatest and most important human right”: Citizenship and bureaucratic indifference in refugee-UNHCR correspondence. Migration Politics, 3(1). This article examines how refugees advocate for themselves with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and what responses their communications produce. It analyzes letters sent by refugees ..read more

The RRN Research Digest provides a synopsis of recent research on refugee and forced migration issues from entities associated with the RRN and others. You can download the digest in PDF format here: RRN Research Digest NEW RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Abou-Ismail, R., Gronfeldt, B., & Marinthe, G. (2024b). Defensive National Identity relates to support for collective violence, in contrast to secure national identity, in a sample of displaced Syrian diaspora members. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 99, 101954. This paper examines whether national identities in Syrian diaspor ..read more

The RRN Research Digest provides a synopsis of recent research on refugee and forced migration issues from entities associated with the RRN and others. You can download the digest in PDF format here: RRN Research Digest NEW RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Bose, P. (2024). Nexus dynamics: The impact of environmental vulnerabilities and climate change on refugee camps. Oxford Open Climate Change, 4(1). Climate change and forced migration are often thought about in terms of the sheer numbers of people who might be displaced by a transforming environment. Understanding the forces that produce, respond t ..read more

The RRN Research Digest provides a synopsis of recent research on refugee and forced migration issues from entities associated with the RRN and others. You can download the digest in PDF format here: RRN Research Digest NEW RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Adekola, P.O., Cirella, G.T. & Brownell, G. (2024). Reintegration programs and the willingness of displaced persons to return home: Analyzing the role of social infrastructure in north-east Nigeria. Journal of International Migration & Integration. This study explores the impact of Boko Haram’s violence on northern Nigeria, particularly foc ..read more

The RRN Research Digest provides a synopsis of recent research on refugee and forced migration issues from entities associated with the RRN and others. You can download the digest in PDF format here: RRN Research Digest NEW RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Karimi, A., & Byelikova, Y. (2024). Wartime (im)mobilities: Effects of aspirations-capabilities on displaced Ukrainians in Canada and Germany and their viewpoints on those who remain in Ukraine. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–20. In war times, what differentiates those who manage to flee from those who remain behind? The authors ide ..read more

The RRN Research Digest provides a synopsis of recent research on refugee and forced migration issues from entities associated with the RRN and others. You can download the digest in PDF format here: RRN Research Digest NEW RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS d’Orsi, C. (2023). One step forward, half step back: The still long way to go to end statelessness in Madagascar. African Human Mobility Review, 9(3). This work discusses the still unresolved plight of statelessness in Madagascar. Despite several important steps undertaken to eradicate statelessness in the country, the path to the complete eradicat ..read more

The RRN Research Digest provides a synopsis of recent research on refugee and forced migration issues from entities associated with the RRN and others. You can download the digest in PDF format here: RRN Research Digest NEW RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Kurfalı, M. A., & Özçürümez, S. (2023). Residing without settling: Housing market and tactics of Syrian forced migrants in Turkey. Population, Space and Place, 29(8), e2700. This study examines the agency of forced migrants from Syria and their housing pathways in securing accommodation in a neoliberal housing market amidst increasing unwelcomi ..read more

The RRN Research Digest provides a synopsis of recent research on refugee and forced migration issues from entities associated with the RRN and others. You can download the digest in PDF format here: RRN Research Digest No. 140 NEW RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Acker, S. (2023). Beauty and beautification in refugees’ lives and their implications for refugee policy. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 39(1), 1–46. This article seeks to understand the significance of everyday beauty in refugees’ lives and its implications for refugee policy. It demonstrates how beauty and beautification play an ac ..read more

Anyiel Mayik harvests her one feddan farm in Mapeer-amaal, Turalei Payam of Twic County, Warrap State. Photo: Mamer Abraham In a long swamp commonly known as Toch that stretches from Turalei in Warrap State to Bentiu in Unity State and possibly beyond according to residents, women soak feet in flood water. They are baked as the scorching sun reveals its handsome face adorned with piercing rays and the tattered clouds, but with high hopes that at least they will reap sheaves when flood continues. Their mindset no longer curses away floods, rather wishes floods last longer in order for them to r ..read more

“I am really happy about the school feeding programme and this is really a very much need for the students who are coming for learning. Because when the students come for learning, and then they have food, they get all the nutrition that are needed, and the physical strength they are in need.” Principal of Christ the King Primary School. https://www.ssbulletin.com/school-feeding-scales-up-enrolment-in-gogrial/ The post School feeding scales up enrolment in Gogrial appeared first on Refugee Research Network ..read more