School of Humanities and Social Sciences

MA and Postgraduate Diploma in Refugee Studies
One year full-time - two years part-time

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Staff

The programme team has wide experience of refugee matters at the academic and policy levels.

Giorgia Dona (g.dona@uel.ac.uk) is a psychologist and anthropologist whose main areas of research are children in need of special protection, psycho-social issues, well-being of refugees, and humanitarian assistance. She has combined research and professional work with refugees in Central America (Guatemala and Mexico), Africa (Rwanda and Ethiopia) and Bangladesh.

Giorgia Dona’ has recently worked in Rwanda and in Bangladesh, where she was engaged in research, training, and assistance aimed at improving the well-being of children in difficult circumstances. Her recent co-publications include: Teaching and learning anthropology of refugees * Street children and political violence: A socio-demographic analysis of street children in Rwanda * Refugees' wellbeing in countries of resettlement * Psycho-social interventions and children's rights: Beyond clinical interventions * Acculturation and re-acculturation of refugees in the developing world.

Maja Korac-Sanderson (m.korac@uel.ac.uk) is Reader in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London. Her teaching, research, and publications are in the areas of forced migration, focusing on the situation of refugees and internally displaced people in zones of conflict as well as in receiving societies; gender, ethnicity, nationalism, conflict and post-conflict situations.

Maja Korac worked and did research in Britain, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, and former Yugoslavia. She is a co-founder of the Women in Conflict Zones Network, an international network of scholars, policymakers and grassroots women’s groups from around the world. Maja Korac co-coordinated the collaborative international project: “A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States” (1998-2000). During her tenure at the Refugee Strudies Centre, University of Oxford, she was the principal investigator of a comparative study on settlement of refugees in Italy and the Netherlands (1999-2001). Her most recent research, funded by the EU Action Program to Combat Social Exclusion, examined exclusionary mechanisms confronting refugees and asylum seekers in disadvantaged urban areas in transition (2004-2005).

Her publications include books: Linking Arms: Women and war in post-Yugoslav sates, Uppsala: Life & Peace Institute (1998); 'Remaking Home: Reconstructing Life, Place and Identity' Oxford: Berghahn Books (forthcoming); co-edited publications: Feminists Under Fire: Exchanges Across War Zones. (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2003; Croatian, 2004; and Sinhalese, 2008; translations); Women in Conflict Zones (Special Issue of Canadian Women’s Studies, 2000); and edited publication Special Issue of Refuge on the former Yugoslavia, (1994); as well as numerous articles published in refereed journals.

Phil Marfleet (p.marfleet@uel.ac.uk) works on theories of migration and globalisation, refugees and exclusion in Europe, religious activism, and cultures of exile.

He has worked in as a journalist in the Middle East and North Africa, for international human rights organisations, and in universities in the Middle East and in Britain. He has published widely on Middle Eastern, North African and Islamic affairs. Recent publications include: The "Clash" Thesis: War and Ethnic Boundaries in Europe * Globalization, Islamization and the Indigenization of Knowledge * A New Orientalism: Europe confronts the Middle East * Migration and the Refugee Experience. His new book, Refugees in a Global Era, is forthcoming from Palgrave.

John Nassari (j.nassari@uel.ac.uk) John Nassari is an international artist and an academic. He has exhibited his practiced-based research nationally and internationally. He is the director of PhotoInsight, an online art and theory website dedicated to issues in forced migration.

John works with multidisciplinary approaches in Refugee Studies, and has published widely on refugee representation, identity, memory and narrative. Recent publications include: * Identity, memory and postmemory among Cypriot refugees in London and Cyprus * Representing Palestinian refugee lives: Technobiographies and the politics of representation * and ‘The difficulties of archives: representing refugee identity'

Siraj Sait (s.sait@uel.ac.uk) is a lawyer and academic with expertise in International Refugee Law. His interests include human rights and development, immigration and asylum law and Islamic theories.

Siraj Sait has held several key appointments in India, most recently as State Prosecutor on Civil Rights. He has been a consultant for the UNHCR, UNICEF and UN Habitat and is a Director and trustee of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. His recent publications include: Have Palestinian Children forfeited their rights? * Forced Labour in South Asia: An Anatomy of Judicial Interventions * International Refugee Law: Excluding the Palestinians * Geneva Accord: A Point Of No Return.

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