Cathrine Brun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathrine Brun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathrine |
| FAMILY NAME | Brun |
| SIGNATURE | BRUN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6562-715X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 354 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Tracing housing aid modalities and solutions to protracted displacement: Experiences among Sri Lanka’s northern Muslims
As protractedness in displacement rises, the need for sustainable solutions remains urgent. This article traces the roles of housing aid in displacement and in the search for solutions to displacement. We draw on the case of Sri Lanka’s Northern Muslims’ internal displacement in 1990, with its protracted history. We build on data from 2021 to 2022, long after the 2009 end of the civil war, which provides insight into how IDPs in different locatio…
Vulnerability”: The Trouble with Categorical Definitions in Institutional Ethical Reviews, Forced Migration Research & Humanitarian Practice
The essay draws on my experience in an international research project exploring the concept of vulnerability within the international protection regime and the work of formulating a new institutional ethical review process at the Centre for Lebanese Studies. I draw on my experiences to explore the ethical consequences of using vulnerability as a lens to assist and understand refugees in policy and in research. I identify the main ethical dilemmas…
The dynamic space of aid relations in protracted internal displacement: The case of Sri Lanka's northern Muslims
Aid relations in protracted displacement comprise a diversity of actors with different influence and involvement over time. Building on the case of Sri Lanka's northern Muslim's expulsion from the north of the country in 1990, this paper investigates the dynamic space of aid relations in their drawn-out internal displacement. The study draws on 38 key informant interviews and 10 focus-group discussions, conducted in Sri Lanka (Jaffna, Mannar, Put…
Towards a Conceptualisation of Relational Humanitarianism
In this article we suggest that the call for widening participation as part of the quest for a more localised humanitarianism has overlooked the clash of ethical registers that this would entail. We show that the formal script of the professionalised humanitarian system operates with an individualised ethics, while multiple other actors that exist alongside the humanitarian system operate with a relational ethical register. Based on a literature …
Twenty years of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies: Towards a new ontology and epistemology
This paper reflects on the role of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) by analysing and presenting a critique of its report ‘20 Years of INEE: Achievements and Challenges in Education in Emergencies’. Despite the strides achieved in highlighting the importance of education in humanitarian crises, we identify four critical points related to the ontology and epistemology of Education in Emergencies with a specific focus on …
Subtracting Development through the Production of Il/legality of Young Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon
This article analyses the production of legality and illegality of refugees and how it is experienced, negotiated, and shape young Palestinian and Syrian refugees’ possibilities for development in Jordan and Lebanon. In the two countries, refugees’ legal and illegal statuses are produced in the interaction between national and international security- and economic interests. This article discusses the meanings of development associated with protra…
Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys across Disciplines
Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement. The volume combines critical reflections on the complexities of conceptualizing processes and experiences of (forced) migration, with detailed analyses of these experiences in contemporary and historical settings from around t…
Carving Out Space for Equitable Collaborative Research in Protracted Displacement
Research collaborations between global north and south have a long history in studies of forced migration, and discussions of power relations in such research relationships have existed for a long time. We are two researchers working across the global south–north divide, and this article reflects on our attempt to navigate the research industry amid the ‘Syrian refugee research complex’. We discuss our attempt to carve out a space for more equita…
Vital Conjunctures in Compound Crises: Conceptualising Young People's Education Trajectories in Protracted Displacement in Jordan and Lebanon
This paper emerges out of a study with 293 young people (Syrians, Palestinians and nationals) living in contexts of compound crises and protracted displacement in Jordan and Lebanon. In the paper, we discuss how young people's education trajectories can be conceptualised, operationalised and studied. We synthesise different approaches to understanding and analysing such trajectories into a framework that captures the intricate and multi-direction…
Exceptional and Futureless Humanitarian Education of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Prospects for Shifting the Lens
The article unpacks and analyzes the potentials and short- comings of a humanitarian framework for educational response during protracted displacement. Humanitarianism is concerned with the immediate, while education is future oriented. Calls to shift the humanitarian discourse from relief and survival to development have contributed to include education as part of the humanitarian response. The article analyzes potentials and limitations in Leba…
Living with Shifting Borders: Peripheralisation and the Production of Invisibility
The article analyses the experiences and material impacts of shifting borders in the historical case of Sri Lanka’s civil war and the contemporary case of the shifting border between Georgia and South Ossetia. The two cases point to some lesser known geopolitical practices in which border-shifts and strengthening of control in contested areas take place without much international attention, partly because the shifts are so minor and gradual that …
Bringers of light: Performing resource revenue transparency in Liberia
Mobilizing Home for Long-Term Displacement: A Critical Reflection on the Durable Solutions
With long term displacement becoming the ‘new normal’, the three ‘durable solutions’ of local integration, resettlement and return, are increasingly unsuitable for offering social, economic and cultural means for refugees to rebuild their lives and livelihoods. This article retreads some common observations and critiques of the durable solutions, while attempting to find a new vocabulary to help address the conundrum of a refugee protection model…
Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change
Dwelling in The Temporary: The involuntary mobility of displaced Georgians in rented accommodation
This article responds to the call from forced migration studies for increased engagement with the mobilities paradigm, as well as to criticism of the mobilities paradigm for not engaging sufficiently with immobility and power relations. The article analyses the experiences and strategies of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in rented dwellings in Tbilisi, in the South Caucasus state of Georgia, who are among the most mobile groups of IDPs in th…
There is no Future in Humanitarianism: Emergency, Temporality and Protracted Displacement
The humanitarian system and people living with and in long-term refugee situations envisage the future differently. This article explores different notions of the future that may be found in humanitarian policies and among humanitarian workers. Understandings of emergency, crisis and ethics in humanitarianism have particular impacts on how situations of protracted displacement are understood. The policy context for Syrian refugees in Jordan is an…
Active Waiting and Changing Hopes: Toward a Time Perspective on Protracted Displacement
This article introduces a time perspective on 'protracted displacement' and seeks to theorize 'agency-in-waiting' through a focus on the ways in which people simultaneously carry on during displacement, feel trapped in the present, and actively relate to alternative notions of the future. The article analyzes the protracted case of internally displaced Georgians from Abkhazia and the dominant discourse of return that characterizes their lives in …
Home as a Critical Value: From Shelter to Home in Georgia
Providing shelter and housing is a core area of humanitarian assistance for displaced populations. Georgia, a former Soviet republic in the South Caucasus, has experienced displacement since the early 1990s, and housing has proved to be politically contentious and a major concern during the 20-year displacement crisis. In Georgia, as elsewhere, homemaking takes place during displacement in dwellings that are temporary and not supposed to last. Th…
Making Homes in Limbo? A Conceptual Framework
This article aims to conceptualize home and homemaking for people in protracted displacement. The article serves three purposes: to present an overview of the area of inquiry; to develop an analytical framework for under- standing home and homemaking for forced migrants in protracted displacement; and to introduce the special issue. It explores how protracted displacement has been defined—from policy definitions to people’s experiences of protrac…
Martin Demant Frederiksen: Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia
Working gender after crisis: Partnerships and disconnections in Sri Lanka after the Indian Ocean tsunami
This article focuses on how northern non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their partners, community-based organizations (CBOs), are 'working' gender after a crisis. It explores the relationship between one NGO aiming to mainstream gender and a women's CBO in a village in southern Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami. The gender policies of the NGO and how the CBO has co-opted these policies are analysed in terms of discourse, interdependence, po…
Young People's Everyday Politics in Post-conflict Sri Lanka
Since the civil war ended in 2009, political spaces in eastern Sri Lanka have remained restricted. The authors examine how young people in areas formerly controlled by or with the presence of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) engage in politics by making safe spaces. A framework for understanding youth politics is presented in order to explain how youths' political spaces are found at the interface of two axes: the axis between politica…
Between the local and the diasporic: The shifting centre of gravity in war-torn Sri Lanka's transnational politics
In May 2009, Sri Lankan government armed forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after more than a quarter of a century of civil war. With the elimination of most of the LTTE leadership and the waning of its hold over Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad, the scene was set for a transformation of relations between the diaspora and those at home. It is the dynamics of this transformation that we explore in this article, which traces …
Hospitality: Becoming 'IDPs' and 'Hosts' in Protracted Displacement
The paper engages with Jacques Derrida’s writings on ‘hospitality’ to discuss how, in a situation of protracted displacement in Sri Lanka, policy categories interact with local categories to make particular understandings of ‘internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) and their ‘hosts’. Using the notions of conditional and unconditional hospitality, the paper first shows the political and ethical principles underpinning local and international humanita…
Real-time research: Decolonising Research Practices - Or Just Another Spectacle of Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration
This article examines the experiences and outcomes from collaboration between a group of researchers and a Northern NGO to improve recovery work in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. A Real-Time Research methodology was established to follow and intervene in the recovery practices as they took place on the ground. What was learned and achieved through this collaboration is assessed, with particular reference to the relationsh…
There is no Future in Humanitarianism: Emergency, Temporality and Protracted Displacement
The humanitarian system and people living with and in long-term refugee situations envisage the future differently. This article explores different notions of the future that may be found in humanitarian policies and among humanitarian workers. Understandings of emergency, crisis and ethics in humanitarianism have particular impacts on how situations of protracted displacement are understood. The policy context for Syrian refugees in Jordan is an…
Making Homes in Limbo? A Conceptual Framework
This article aims to conceptualize home and homemaking for people in protracted displacement. The article serves three purposes: to present an overview of the area of inquiry; to develop an analytical framework for under- standing home and homemaking for forced migrants in protracted displacement; and to introduce the special issue. It explores how protracted displacement has been defined—from policy definitions to people’s experiences of protrac…
Reterritorilizing the relationship between people and place in refugee studies
The article discusses different conceptions of space and place in refugee studies, especially contributions from anthropology and geography. A main distinction is drawn between two understandings of space and place; an essentialist conception, stating a natural relationship between people and places and an alternative conception attempting to de‐naturalize the relationship between people and places. The consequences of applying different concepti…
Between the local and the diasporic: The shifting centre of gravity in war-torn Sri Lanka's transnational politics
In May 2009, Sri Lankan government armed forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after more than a quarter of a century of civil war. With the elimination of most of the LTTE leadership and the waning of its hold over Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad, the scene was set for a transformation of relations between the diaspora and those at home. It is the dynamics of this transformation that we explore in this article, which traces …
Hospitality: Becoming 'IDPs' and 'Hosts' in Protracted Displacement
The paper engages with Jacques Derrida’s writings on ‘hospitality’ to discuss how, in a situation of protracted displacement in Sri Lanka, policy categories interact with local categories to make particular understandings of ‘internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) and their ‘hosts’. Using the notions of conditional and unconditional hospitality, the paper first shows the political and ethical principles underpinning local and international humanita…
A geographers' imperative? Research and action in the aftermath of disaster
After the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 a number of academics published texts in attempts to make sense of the disaster. Frustrations and feelings of inability to do something useful to assist were expressed. The academic discussions arising from the disaster may be linked with more general discussions around conducting relevant and responsible research in the social sciences. This paper addresses the role of researchers in the aftermath of the ts…
Birds of Freedom: Young People, the LTTE, and Representations of Gender, Nationalism, and Governance in Northern Sri Lanka
The article explores how the dominant discourses of identity politics in the Sri Lankan conflict have silenced people in northern Sri Lanka and closed spaces for political participation. In order to understand the discursive processes and their material outcomes, the article addresses in particular the role of young people in northern Sri Lanka and explores their relationship to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The author examines the…
Young People's Everyday Politics in Post-conflict Sri Lanka
Since the civil war ended in 2009, political spaces in eastern Sri Lanka have remained restricted. The authors examine how young people in areas formerly controlled by or with the presence of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) engage in politics by making safe spaces. A framework for understanding youth politics is presented in order to explain how youths' political spaces are found at the interface of two axes: the axis between politica…
Carving Out Space for Equitable Collaborative Research in Protracted Displacement
Research collaborations between global north and south have a long history in studies of forced migration, and discussions of power relations in such research relationships have existed for a long time. We are two researchers working across the global south–north divide, and this article reflects on our attempt to navigate the research industry amid the ‘Syrian refugee research complex’. We discuss our attempt to carve out a space for more equita…
Reterritorilizing the Relationship between People and Place in Refugee Studies
Exceptional and Futureless Humanitarian Education of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Prospects for Shifting the Lens
The article unpacks and analyzes the potentials and short- comings of a humanitarian framework for educational response during protracted displacement. Humanitarianism is concerned with the immediate, while education is future oriented. Calls to shift the humanitarian discourse from relief and survival to development have contributed to include education as part of the humanitarian response. The article analyzes potentials and limitations in Leba…
Twenty years of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies: Towards a new ontology and epistemology
This paper reflects on the role of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) by analysing and presenting a critique of its report ‘20 Years of INEE: Achievements and Challenges in Education in Emergencies’. Despite the strides achieved in highlighting the importance of education in humanitarian crises, we identify four critical points related to the ontology and epistemology of Education in Emergencies with a specific focus on …
Living with Shifting Borders: Peripheralisation and the Production of Invisibility
The article analyses the experiences and material impacts of shifting borders in the historical case of Sri Lanka’s civil war and the contemporary case of the shifting border between Georgia and South Ossetia. The two cases point to some lesser known geopolitical practices in which border-shifts and strengthening of control in contested areas take place without much international attention, partly because the shifts are so minor and gradual that …
Home as a Critical Value: From Shelter to Home in Georgia
Providing shelter and housing is a core area of humanitarian assistance for displaced populations. Georgia, a former Soviet republic in the South Caucasus, has experienced displacement since the early 1990s, and housing has proved to be politically contentious and a major concern during the 20-year displacement crisis. In Georgia, as elsewhere, homemaking takes place during displacement in dwellings that are temporary and not supposed to last. Th…
Vital Conjunctures in Compound Crises: Conceptualising Young People's Education Trajectories in Protracted Displacement in Jordan and Lebanon
This paper emerges out of a study with 293 young people (Syrians, Palestinians and nationals) living in contexts of compound crises and protracted displacement in Jordan and Lebanon. In the paper, we discuss how young people's education trajectories can be conceptualised, operationalised and studied. We synthesise different approaches to understanding and analysing such trajectories into a framework that captures the intricate and multi-direction…
Real-time research: Decolonising Research Practices - Or Just Another Spectacle of Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration
This article examines the experiences and outcomes from collaboration between a group of researchers and a Northern NGO to improve recovery work in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. A Real-Time Research methodology was established to follow and intervene in the recovery practices as they took place on the ground. What was learned and achieved through this collaboration is assessed, with particular reference to the relationsh…
Bringers of light: Performing resource revenue transparency in Liberia
Mobilizing Home for Long-Term Displacement: A Critical Reflection on the Durable Solutions
With long term displacement becoming the ‘new normal’, the three ‘durable solutions’ of local integration, resettlement and return, are increasingly unsuitable for offering social, economic and cultural means for refugees to rebuild their lives and livelihoods. This article retreads some common observations and critiques of the durable solutions, while attempting to find a new vocabulary to help address the conundrum of a refugee protection model…
Vulnerability”: The Trouble with Categorical Definitions in Institutional Ethical Reviews, Forced Migration Research & Humanitarian Practice
The essay draws on my experience in an international research project exploring the concept of vulnerability within the international protection regime and the work of formulating a new institutional ethical review process at the Centre for Lebanese Studies. I draw on my experiences to explore the ethical consequences of using vulnerability as a lens to assist and understand refugees in policy and in research. I identify the main ethical dilemmas…
The dynamic space of aid relations in protracted internal displacement: The case of Sri Lanka's northern Muslims
Aid relations in protracted displacement comprise a diversity of actors with different influence and involvement over time. Building on the case of Sri Lanka's northern Muslim's expulsion from the north of the country in 1990, this paper investigates the dynamic space of aid relations in their drawn-out internal displacement. The study draws on 38 key informant interviews and 10 focus-group discussions, conducted in Sri Lanka (Jaffna, Mannar, Put…
Subtracting Development through the Production of Il/legality of Young Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon
This article analyses the production of legality and illegality of refugees and how it is experienced, negotiated, and shape young Palestinian and Syrian refugees’ possibilities for development in Jordan and Lebanon. In the two countries, refugees’ legal and illegal statuses are produced in the interaction between national and international security- and economic interests. This article discusses the meanings of development associated with protra…
Women in the Local/Global Fields of War and Displacement in Sri Lanka
War and displacement create specific local/global relationships. This article explores how globalization is not a universal, but a highly contested and contingent experience by analyzing local/global fields of war and displacement in the Sri Lankan civil war. The different involvement with globalization of two different groups of women—the women cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and internally displaced Muslim women working as migran…
Reterritorilizing the relationship between people and place in refugee studies
The article discusses different conceptions of space and place in refugee studies, especially contributions from anthropology and geography. A main distinction is drawn between two understandings of space and place; an essentialist conception, stating a natural relationship between people and places and an alternative conception attempting to de‐naturalize the relationship between people and places. The consequences of applying different concepti…
Reterritorilizing the Relationship between People and Place in Refugee Studies
Women in the Local/Global Fields of War and Displacement in Sri Lanka
War and displacement create specific local/global relationships. This article explores how globalization is not a universal, but a highly contested and contingent experience by analyzing local/global fields of war and displacement in the Sri Lankan civil war. The different involvement with globalization of two different groups of women—the women cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and internally displaced Muslim women working as migran…
Making a home during crisis: Post‐tsunami recovery in a context of war, Sri Lanka
This paper provides insights into the dynamic linkages between the ongoing construction of houses for people displaced by war and disaster, conceptions of homemaking and processes of recovery and reconstruction in the post‐tsunami context in Sri Lanka. In so doing, it also uncovers the dilemmas and ambiguities that are embedded in the recovery process. A case from Eastern Province, Sri Lanka illustrates how recovery works in local areas are drive…
Birds of Freedom: Young People, the LTTE, and Representations of Gender, Nationalism, and Governance in Northern Sri Lanka
The article explores how the dominant discourses of identity politics in the Sri Lankan conflict have silenced people in northern Sri Lanka and closed spaces for political participation. In order to understand the discursive processes and their material outcomes, the article addresses in particular the role of young people in northern Sri Lanka and explores their relationship to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The author examines the…
Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka
Introduction: Spatial Politics and Postcolonial Sri Lanka
A geographers' imperative? Research and action in the aftermath of disaster
After the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 a number of academics published texts in attempts to make sense of the disaster. Frustrations and feelings of inability to do something useful to assist were expressed. The academic discussions arising from the disaster may be linked with more general discussions around conducting relevant and responsible research in the social sciences. This paper addresses the role of researchers in the aftermath of the ts…
Hospitality: Becoming 'IDPs' and 'Hosts' in Protracted Displacement
The paper engages with Jacques Derrida’s writings on ‘hospitality’ to discuss how, in a situation of protracted displacement in Sri Lanka, policy categories interact with local categories to make particular understandings of ‘internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) and their ‘hosts’. Using the notions of conditional and unconditional hospitality, the paper first shows the political and ethical principles underpinning local and international humanita…
Real-time research: Decolonising Research Practices - Or Just Another Spectacle of Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration
This article examines the experiences and outcomes from collaboration between a group of researchers and a Northern NGO to improve recovery work in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. A Real-Time Research methodology was established to follow and intervene in the recovery practices as they took place on the ground. What was learned and achieved through this collaboration is assessed, with particular reference to the relationsh…
Between the local and the diasporic: The shifting centre of gravity in war-torn Sri Lanka's transnational politics
In May 2009, Sri Lankan government armed forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after more than a quarter of a century of civil war. With the elimination of most of the LTTE leadership and the waning of its hold over Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad, the scene was set for a transformation of relations between the diaspora and those at home. It is the dynamics of this transformation that we explore in this article, which traces …
Working gender after crisis: Partnerships and disconnections in Sri Lanka after the Indian Ocean tsunami
This article focuses on how northern non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their partners, community-based organizations (CBOs), are 'working' gender after a crisis. It explores the relationship between one NGO aiming to mainstream gender and a women's CBO in a village in southern Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami. The gender policies of the NGO and how the CBO has co-opted these policies are analysed in terms of discourse, interdependence, po…
Young People's Everyday Politics in Post-conflict Sri Lanka
Since the civil war ended in 2009, political spaces in eastern Sri Lanka have remained restricted. The authors examine how young people in areas formerly controlled by or with the presence of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) engage in politics by making safe spaces. A framework for understanding youth politics is presented in order to explain how youths' political spaces are found at the interface of two axes: the axis between politica…
Martin Demant Frederiksen: Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia
Active Waiting and Changing Hopes: Toward a Time Perspective on Protracted Displacement
This article introduces a time perspective on 'protracted displacement' and seeks to theorize 'agency-in-waiting' through a focus on the ways in which people simultaneously carry on during displacement, feel trapped in the present, and actively relate to alternative notions of the future. The article analyzes the protracted case of internally displaced Georgians from Abkhazia and the dominant discourse of return that characterizes their lives in …
Home as a Critical Value: From Shelter to Home in Georgia
Providing shelter and housing is a core area of humanitarian assistance for displaced populations. Georgia, a former Soviet republic in the South Caucasus, has experienced displacement since the early 1990s, and housing has proved to be politically contentious and a major concern during the 20-year displacement crisis. In Georgia, as elsewhere, homemaking takes place during displacement in dwellings that are temporary and not supposed to last. Th…
Making Homes in Limbo? A Conceptual Framework
This article aims to conceptualize home and homemaking for people in protracted displacement. The article serves three purposes: to present an overview of the area of inquiry; to develop an analytical framework for under- standing home and homemaking for forced migrants in protracted displacement; and to introduce the special issue. It explores how protracted displacement has been defined—from policy definitions to people’s experiences of protrac…
Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change
Dwelling in The Temporary: The involuntary mobility of displaced Georgians in rented accommodation
This article responds to the call from forced migration studies for increased engagement with the mobilities paradigm, as well as to criticism of the mobilities paradigm for not engaging sufficiently with immobility and power relations. The article analyses the experiences and strategies of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in rented dwellings in Tbilisi, in the South Caucasus state of Georgia, who are among the most mobile groups of IDPs in th…
There is no Future in Humanitarianism: Emergency, Temporality and Protracted Displacement
The humanitarian system and people living with and in long-term refugee situations envisage the future differently. This article explores different notions of the future that may be found in humanitarian policies and among humanitarian workers. Understandings of emergency, crisis and ethics in humanitarianism have particular impacts on how situations of protracted displacement are understood. The policy context for Syrian refugees in Jordan is an…
Mobilizing Home for Long-Term Displacement: A Critical Reflection on the Durable Solutions
With long term displacement becoming the ‘new normal’, the three ‘durable solutions’ of local integration, resettlement and return, are increasingly unsuitable for offering social, economic and cultural means for refugees to rebuild their lives and livelihoods. This article retreads some common observations and critiques of the durable solutions, while attempting to find a new vocabulary to help address the conundrum of a refugee protection model…
Bringers of light: Performing resource revenue transparency in Liberia
Living with Shifting Borders: Peripheralisation and the Production of Invisibility
The article analyses the experiences and material impacts of shifting borders in the historical case of Sri Lanka’s civil war and the contemporary case of the shifting border between Georgia and South Ossetia. The two cases point to some lesser known geopolitical practices in which border-shifts and strengthening of control in contested areas take place without much international attention, partly because the shifts are so minor and gradual that …
Exceptional and Futureless Humanitarian Education of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Prospects for Shifting the Lens
The article unpacks and analyzes the potentials and short- comings of a humanitarian framework for educational response during protracted displacement. Humanitarianism is concerned with the immediate, while education is future oriented. Calls to shift the humanitarian discourse from relief and survival to development have contributed to include education as part of the humanitarian response. The article analyzes potentials and limitations in Leba…
Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys across Disciplines
Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement. The volume combines critical reflections on the complexities of conceptualizing processes and experiences of (forced) migration, with detailed analyses of these experiences in contemporary and historical settings from around t…
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