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Today on RefugeeHistory.org, a provocation.
'no refuge' from @8vinhnguyen
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Online #RLI Seminar this month 👇👇👇 Maritime refugee journeys: Solidarity, regional processing and saving lives at sea, 28 February 2025, 9:00AM - 10:30AM, online via Zoom
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"What do refugee scholars and what does refugee scholarship owe to refugees? What are refugee studies commitments? What is its politics?"
Please read, think and share.
📢News! The Refugee Law Initiative’s 15th International Refugee Law Seminar Series, hosted in collaboration with Refugee History:
Moments in Refugee History and the Development of the Modern Refugee Regime: Understanding refugee law and policy today
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This seminar series probes key thematic issues relating to the law and policy of refugee protection today, using important – and often less-recognised – moments in refugee history to further our understandings of developments in these fields.
For more details about the seminar programme and links to sign up for spaces ⬇️
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📢 New Post!
In our first 'proper' blog of the academic year, we hear from Tabea Linhard @WUSTL about her new book, Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico
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Though these texts capture historical experience, 'the narratives and the contradictions from this period all the more relevant to understand the plight of the displaced in the present-day world'.
Read more about this fascinating exploration of five writers' lives and works here!
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📢New Post!
Ahead of our full schedule returning, Refugee History looks back on the (academic) year just gone.
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One of the highlights was our mini-series on the UNHCR archives. So if research is on your agenda for the year ahead or if your students are planning new projects, don’t miss our beginner’s guide, our Q&A with the archivists and a reflection on analysing UNHCR documents.