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2025-26
Promoting the psychosocial wellbeing of refugees: UK launch of a manifesto to stop the inhumanity at Europe's borders.
Thursday the 16th of April h.18:00 Hybrid
On 16th April the UEL Stratford House hosted the UK launch of a Manifesto to stop inhumanity at Europe’s borders and for promoting the psychosocial well-being of refugees. The event brought together migration scholars, psychologists, educators, researchers, practitioners and organisations calling for an end to inhumane treatment of refugees across EU borders and beyond. The Manifesto is the result of over two-years of work by United Against Inhumanity, a network of more than 160 organisations.
Speakers presented a holistic approach to humanitarian assistance and wellbeing that moves beyond medicalised and Western psychological frameworks to embrace cultural sensitivities and diverse coping mechanisms. Initiated by UEL’s Psychologists, CMRB and School of Childhood and Social Care the Manifesto offers a roadmap for restoring humanity and dignity through collective action.
DISTERRA: Film Screening and Discussion
Wednesday 26 February. 5.00 pm - 7.00 pm.
Room EBG.06, UEL Docklands Campus, E16 2RD
Find out how a clinic in Paris is a key site for understanding ways public psychiatry is changing to meet the needs of the city’s most vulnerable people. The film highlights the experiences of homeless Afghani migrants in Paris who are being treated for trauma after losing family members on the journey to Europe. Following the screening of DISTERRA, the film’s director and UEL alumni, Dr Orson Nava, will discuss issues raised in its making.
For more information about the event contact: g.wemyss@uel.ac.uk.
Visas as Instruments of Migration Control: Restriction, Facilitation, and Conditionality
6pm, 24 February 2026
Annalisa Meloni, Co-Director of the Centre for Justice, Law and Society
We are delighted to welcome Dr Meloni, who will discuss the role of visa in migration governance. This talk will serve as part of the new LLM Forced Migration Law Policy and Practice Module.
SUNHCR Protection of Afghan Children/ Families in Iran
A Presentation for CMRB by Shima Soleimani
Tuesday 3 December 4-5pm
Room EB3.17 Docklands Campus, UEL
Shima Soleimani is a legal and humanitarian professional pursuing an MA in Refugee Studies at the University of East London and a member of CMRB. With a background in international law and experience at UNHCR, she specialises in child protection, refugee rights, and community support, focusing on advocacy and case management for vulnerable populations.
LLM Social Event: 26 February, 6pm – USS Room 1.01 (Harvard Lecture Theatre) Screening: The Day the Immigrants Left
Join us for the first of two film events on the topic of migration. Pizza and drinks provided! All welcome
The documentary covers:
The effects of immigration in the UK by focusing on Wisbech, a town in Cambridgeshire. Since 2004 this once prosperous market town has received up to 9,000 immigrants seeking work, but nearly 2,000 unemployed locals blame foreign workers for their predicament. As an experiment, immigrant employees are temporarily removed from their jobs, and the work given to the local unemployed. Now the town’s British workers have a chance to prove they can cope.
For further details, please email the organiser:
Dr. Romit Bhandari - R.Bhandari@uel.ac.uk
2023-24
Book Launch - Algerian Women & Diasporic Experience: From the Black Decade to the Hirak
Wednesday 18 October 2023 2pm-4pm University of East London, Docklands Campus, Room EB1.01
In conversation:
- Dr Latefa Narriman Guemar, CMRB, UEL
- Professor Leah Bassel, University of Coventry
Chair:
- Professor Giorgia Donà, CMRB, UEL
Algerian Women & Diasporic Experience: From the Black Decade to the Hirak uses the narratives of women who fled Algeria in the 1990s—known as the ‘Black Decade’—to offer a more intimate understanding of the violence women face in times of conflict. It details their struggle for independence, and for freedom from the violence directed against them as women, as well as revealing the obstacles they encounter when seeking gender-appropriate international protection. Chapters also investigate these women’s life experiences beyond Algeria, and the professional and cultural networks they form. Such networks play an important role in enabling the female diaspora to maintain relationships with Algeria and engage in political discussion concerning the recent revolutionary Hirak movement, which emerged in 2019.
Latefa has been publishing on the Algerian diaspora and Algeria’s socio-political context since 2012, drawing on her own experiences as well of those of others. The result of rich empirical data gathered through months of fieldwork with women survivors of the 1990s conflict in Algeria, this book employs innovative research methods to investigate the female experience of conflict, flight and living in exile. It challenges official narratives which deny the mass exodus of highly skilled Algerian women in recent years and provides an important contribution to the study of Algerian postcolonial history. It also offers new ways of approaching healing processes for female victims of persecution and terrorism. Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience – University of Exeter Press.
Latefa Narriman Guemar is an activist academic. She received her PhD from the University of East London and has expertise in the fields of gender and migration, as well as innovative methodologies that capture the migratory experience. She also has experience of supporting refugee integration in the UK and was involved in designing the Youth Futures Algeria programme, connecting her home country with British universities, and enabling young people to reflect on issues of sustainability.
Leah Bassel is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University. Her research interests include the political sociology of migration, intersectionality and citizenship.
Giorgia Doná is Professor of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, and co-director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging. Her research focuses on conflict and displacement, child and youth migration, psycho-social perspectives in forced migration, refugee voices and representation, and multi-modal narratives.
Displacement, Gender and Mental Health among Diverse Groups of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
- CMRB public seminar
- Tuesday 7 November 2023 2pm-3.30pm in Room EB 1.105 Docklands Campus
Dr Jasmin Diab from the American Lebanese University in Beirut.
Dr Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/her) is the Director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University, where she also serves as an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Migration Studies. In 2022, she became the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research’s first Global Fellow on Migration and Inequality.
Dr Diab is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, a Global Fellow at Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the Centre for Lebanese Studies’ British Academy Bilateral Research Chair on Education in Conflict.
How will immigration policy shape the 2024 general election campaign?
How will immigration policy shape the 2024 general election campaign?
Tuesday 26 March 2024, 5pm – 6.30 pm
Professor Eleonore Kofman will review the paradoxical experience of policies on post-Brexit labour migration which appear to have had the unintended consequence of hiking net migration to the unprecedented height of 750,000 thousand people in the past year.
Barrister Sonali Naik will look at the controversial issue of the UK-Rwanda deal from the standpoint of refugee policy.
Zrinka Bralo of Migrants Organise will discuss civil society responses to recent migration policy developments.
Chairs: Don Flynn and Giorgia Dona (CMRB)
CMRB Refugee Week Exhibition and Launch of Tallash/ تلاش
- Exhibition Free from 17 to 22 June
- Launch Thursday, June 20 · 6 - 9pm
Refugee Week 2024
In Refugee Week and Pride Month CMRB is partnering with Newham Poetry Group. Queer Newham Borderless Group, RM Greenwich, and the University of Westminster to organise the following events:
- Sunday 16 June: Royal Museums Greenwich 2-4 pm “Unfolding Stories”
- Thursday 20 June: University of Westminster 10-12 pm “Writing a letter back home”
- Saturday 22 June: Borderless Group gather, a session to decorate our rainbow flags and explore the meaning of pride, flag colours and more.
For more information contact: newhampoetrygroup@gmail.com
Contesting The Hostile Environment
Social Scientists Against The Hostile Environment conference
Birkbeck, University of London, 27-28 June 2024.
Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment Webinar
Monday 21 October 5-6.30 pm
The Labour Government and the Hostile Environment: Closing a chapter, or continuing it in spirit?
As Labour scraps the Rwanda plan and writes a new Immigration Bill, the panel discusses whether the Labour Government offers a more Hostile Environment or a real fresh start.
The panellists are Zoe Bantleman, Legal Director of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association, and Professor Nando Sigona, Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at Birmingham University, introduced by Professor Nira Yuval Davis and Professor Eleonore Kofman.
Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium
Saturday, 9 November 2024
Join us at the Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium 2024 to explore issues surrounding LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in a safe and inclusive space!
Heritage exhibition and film at the Royal Docks
Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-19:00
CMRB is partnering with the Centre for Sustainability's Community Connect and Repair Cafe next Wednesday 27 November. Come along to see an exhibition and film about seafarers from across the world who worked on ships that docked at the Royal Docks over 100 years ago and meet some of their descendants who took part in the film.
Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment (SSAHE) November Webinar: "Education and the Hostile Environment"
Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment (SSAHE) November Webinar: "Education and the Hostile Environment"
Monday 25 November 2024, 17:30-19:00
Standing up for school children in the Hostile Environment: what can we do?
Jen Persson, Defend Digital Me
Refugee Students navigating the hostile environment in higher education in the UK
Louise Ryan, María López and Alessia Dalceggio
The hostile environment in secondary education for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, the challenges for schools and teachers, what teachers are doing to fight back, and what they need to succeed.
Deborah Gwynn, National Education Union (NEU)
2022-23
Borderless - Open Conversations
Borderless invites you to join a 10-week project to create a book about LGBTQ+ migrants (it can include different forms of creative expression, such a poetry, photos, stories, illustrations)
When: Every Wednesday from Aug 17 to Oct 26 2022. First session is the launch.
Where: 5.30 - 7pm
Stratford Library, The Grove, London E15 1EL
'Borderless' is a local initiative to create a friendly, safe, and supportive space for POC LGBTQ+ refugees / forced migrants. We want to challenge prejudice and dismantle hate through raising awareness on LGBTQ issues, creating partnerships with organisations (including educational institutions and faith groups), promoting open conversations between residents and providing information on gender and sexual diversity.
Our activities for Thames Festival 2022
Sunday 25 September 2022
London's Lost Village: East India Docks Invisible Empire.
A walking conversation through how colonial history is remembered around the former East India Docks led by Dr Georgie Wemyss.
East India Docks panel discussion - Tuesday 27 September details to be confirmed.
Hostile documentary released
New dates have been released to watch the documentary 'Hostile'. Congratulations to CMRB co-director Gargi Bhattacharyya for appearing in the documentary to share her authoritative views on the issue!
Hostile is a feature-length documentary written, directed by Sonita Gale that exposes the impact of the hostile environment for people who are migrants living in the UK. For tickets please see their website.
Missing Medals: Unearthing Invisible Seafaring Histories of Empire
Thursday 8 September 6-8 pm Livestreaming from City Hall
Independent scholar and Newham resident Asif Shakoor will be in conversation with Georgie Wemyss, Co-Director of CMRB. Asif reveals how he discovered that his grandfather served in Britain's Merchant Navy during the First World War.
Asif's research and stories include fascinating insights into the lives and treatment of seafarers born under British colonial rule dating back to the early 19th century.
SSAHE webinar Policing the Hostile Environment
21 November 2022 5-6.30pm on Zoom
Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment invite you to our first webinar of 2022/23.
Register on EventBrite for a joining link
The Conservative government’s new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (2022) enacts major changes to crime and justice in England and Wales. It includes punitive measures against protest, which will likely be used against anti-racist and anti-fascist movements. It includes disproportionate punishment for damage to monuments, framed in response to global Black Lives Matters actions. The evidence is clear that more punitive policing disproportionately affects racialised minorities. The new law also includes provisions on trespass aimed at criminalising Traveller and Gypsy people by making forms of roadside stopping a criminal offence, which will further erode the right to nomadism. Other provisions target migrants, with an increase in immigration officers' access to electronic data, potentially discriminatory measures targeting "foreign offenders", and new routes to draw migrants into the deportation system – while some senior police officers have argued that it will make it harder to prosecute those exploiting precarious migrants.
Since the passage of the Act, Priti Patel’s successor as Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has promoted a further deepening of the hostile environment against migrants. A new Public Order Bill which further criminalises protest has been passed through its first parliamentary stages. Scandalous Home Office failures to protect and fairly treat arriving and detained migrant adults and children have become increasingly manifest. The far right has been emboldened to intensify direct action against migrants and against migrant solidarity protestors, including acting as self-appointed police or border guards; most recently, a far right activist has carried out a suicide firebomb attack on a processing centre in Kent, which mainstream politicians have been reluctant to call a terrorist incident.
In this webinar, we will hear a critical social scientific and criminological perspective on the 2022 Act and subsequent policing policies, and accounts of how they are impacting on migrant communities, anti-racist activism and Roma, Traveller and Gypsy communities, including in Kent around the detentions centres and arrival points.
Speakers:
Introduction: Nira Yuval-Davis, UEL, for SSAHE
Dr Samuel Burgum, Lecturer in Sociology, Birmingham City University | Damage, Disruption, Distress: Unsettling the Police Bill
Dr Monish Bhatia, Lecturer in Criminology | The impact of policing law on migrants and refugees
Christian Agard, local activist in Kent with Freedom From Manston and Channel Rescue | The current situation at Manston – in conversation with Bahriye Kemal, University of Kent
Chairs/organisers: Ben Gidley, Birkbeck; Karim Murji, University of West London; Aaron Winter, Lancaster
Co-POWeR: Exposing the Hidden Stories of the Pandemic
11 November 2022, 09:00-12:00), Online
Dear all, You are invited to join this interactive workshop co-organised by CMRB co-director Gargi Bhattacharyya on Co-POWeR’s 18-month research about the impact of Covid-19 and racial discrimination on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Families and Communities in the UK. The event will take place on Friday The event will include the screening of a short animation and a panel discussion. Festival website.
Refugee Week 2022 - June 20-26, 2022
- "The meaning of home among LGBTQ+ refugees" activities at Royal Museums Greenwich Exhibition - Poems & Photos Thursday 23 June to Wednesday 29 June.
- Poetry Workshop with ESOL students: Tuesday 21 June - 11.30am -1.30pm Poetry Workshop - public drop-in Saturday 25 June - 11.00-12.30 Location: Baltic Glass Space
- Poetry Performance x 3 poets Saturday 25 - 1.30pm-2.30pm Location: Baltic Glass Space
What does global justice look like in refugee crises?
What does global justice look like in refugee crises?
Date: 31 March or 7 April 2022 (for first event), 5-6.30 pm
Online Event: co-hosted by the Centre for Social Justice in partnership with the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at UEL.
As we enter the fourth week of the Ukraine war, over three million people have fled Ukraine for Poland. More than half a million people have already left Poland for other countries in the EU, while tens of thousands on some days arrive by train to Germany's capital, Berlin. The response to this mounting humanitarian crisis from countries in the EU and the UK, as well as the US and Canada including the governments and the citizens has been largely compassionate and offering full support, as it should be. The support from the public in the United Kingdom has been heart-warming and generous with over 150,000 expressions of interest in assisting those fleeing Ukraine with no family links to the UK. This is to be applauded for helping other human beings living in pain, fear, and tragedy and reinforcing respect for humanity.
However, this is but one in a seemingly endless stream of conflicts and waves of mass global displacement. The humanitarian crisis triggered by the Syrian Civil war on March 15, 2011, has led to over seven million leaving the country as refugees to several countries - with 23,000 coming to the UK. The crisis in Afghanistan is now in its fourth decade. The New Humanitarian predicts that across 2022 Afghanistan presents a stark aid dilemma of donor reluctance to deal with the Taliban and questions of humanitarian neutrality
For more information and to book please see the IGPP website.
CMRB Co-director Giorgia Dona' on Times Radio, 18 March 2022
Listen to CMRB co-director Giorgia Dona' on The Times Radio, Early Breakfast
CMRB Co-director Giorgia Dona' on Sky News Breakfast 17 March 2022
CMRB Co-director Giorgia Dona' appeared on Sky News Breakfast with Kay Burley
Invitation to a virtual book launch: Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research
Invitation to a virtual book launch: Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research
1pm-2pm, 9 March 2022 (online)
Please join us for the book launch of this new collaborative publication, on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, between 14 and 15 CET (13-14 UK time). Marie Godin and CMRB co-director Giorgia Dona wrote a chapter "Methodological and ethical reflections on the Displaces participatory photographic project".
The Peace Research Institute Oslo, Migration Centre is pleased to invite you to the online book launch of Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research, edited by Katarzyna Grabska and Christina R. Clark-Kazak.
The event will be streamed on Microsoft Teams at this link.
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies of power between researchers and research participants. Documenting Displacement critically assesses the ways in which knowledge is co-created and reproduced through narratives in spaces of displacement, advancing a creative, collective and interdisciplinary approach.
Programme
Introduction of the book by the editors
- Katarzyna Grabska, Senior Researcher at PRIO.
- Christina R. Clark-Kazak, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.
Presentation of two of the chapters by authors
- "Transient Lives and Lasting Messages: Graffiti Analysis as a Methodological Tool to Capture Migrants' Experiences While on the Move" by Océane Uzureau and Marina Rota.
- "Opportunities and Challenges of Using Computer-Based Simulation in Migration and Displacement Research: A Focus on Lesbos, Greece" by Erika Frydenlund and Jose J. Padilla.
Comments from reviewer
- Susan McGrath, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Work at York University, Resident Scholar at York's Centre for Refugee Studies, and Member of Order of Canada.
The event will be moderated by Marta Bivand Erdal, Research Director and Research Professor at PRIO and Co-Director of the PRIO Migration Centre.
The Nationality and Borders Bill - A New Iteration of the Hostile Environment
The Nationality and Borders Bill - A New Iteration of the Hostile Environment, panel discussion organised by SSAHE (Social Scientists against the Hostile Environment)
5pm-6.30pm, 7 March 2022 (online)
CMRB is a founding member of SSAHE (Social Scientists against the Hostile Environment). A panel discussion of the Nationality and Borders Bill will take place at 5pm on 7 March 2022 .
Presentations:
Borders, Nationality - and Empire
Dr Maria Norris, Coventry University
This talk will focus on ways modern immigration policy is a direct offshoot of post-colonial racialised policies designed to control access to the UK and its resources. It will show how the Nationality and Borders Bill is the latest example in a long line of immigration policies which seek to regulate membership and belonging in the UK along racial lines.
Dr Maria W. Norris is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Coventry. Her research focuses on UK counterterrorism, extremism, white nationalism, and the Empire. Her writing has appeared on The Independent, The New Statesman, and the Byline Times. She is also the host of Enemies of the People, a podcast about extremism in the 21st Century.
Welcome to Britain? Asylum under the Nationality and Borders Bill
Colin Yeo, Barrister and author of Welcome to Britain
This talk will outline the changes in asylum provision under the Nationality and Borders Bill, which include powers to enable differential treatment of refugees depending on how they reach the UK, a new generation of 'reception' centres, a new fast-track decision-making process, curtailed appeal rights, new presumptions on credibility, export of refugees to other countries ('off shoring'), new interdiction-at-sea powers and amendments to the refugee definition itself.
Colin Yeo is a barrister at Garden Court Chambers in London and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System, published in 2020. He founded the Free Movement legal blog in 2007 and before becoming a barrister worked for two charities, the Immigration Advisory Service and Refugee Legal Centre.
Opposing the Bill - campaigning with civil society organisations
Zrinka Balo, Migrants Organise
This talk will engage with the question: to what extent can the Borders and Nationality Bill be viewed as a new phase in the raft of hostile environment policies launched by Theresa May ten years ago? The legislation of the first wave was primarily directed at migrants deemed unlawfully present in the UK and aimed to make entry into the workforce, renting accommodation and using public services more difficult. The new Bill is targeted at two different groups: the first being people attempting irregular entry at the UK borders; the second being people considered not worthy of retaining their British citizenship. The Bill will also have an adverse effect on migrants more widely, through its proposed changes to appeal procedures. To date, work in solidarity with migrants, as developed by, among other groups, Migrants Organise, has aimed to consolidate widespread misgivings over the obvious injustices associated with the Windrush generation scandal and oppressive enforcement measures around detention and deportation into a substantial social movement of supporters of migrant and refugee rights. Will this continue to be a viable strategy as campaigns are stepped up against the measures contained in the Bill? How can the work of scholars in the field be used to strengthen opposition in the period ahead?
Zrinka Bralo has been the CEO of Migrants Organise since 2001. Migrants Organise is an award winning grassroots platform where migrants and refugees organise together for dignity and justice. Migrants Organise puts its organising effort into numerous shared campaigns and actions such as Patients Not Passports campaign for access to health care, Promote the Migrant Vote campaign to build electoral power, and the most recent Fair Immigration Movement Charter and a call for immigration reform based on principles of dignity, justice and welcome. Zrinka is a refugee from Sarajevo, where she was a journalist and she worked with leading war correspondents in the 90s. She is a founder of Women on the Move Awards that celebrates achievement of migrant and refugee women, and winner of the 2011 Voices of Courage Award by the Women's Refugee Commission in New York. As the Commissioner of the Independent Asylum Commission, Zrinka successfully negotiated the end of immigration detention of children in the UK in 2010. Having learned from the US immigrant justice organisers, in 2014 she pioneered a new model of grassroots migrant organising in the UK, which combines organising for systemic change, direct action and advice, and support for people affected by the Hostile Environment immigration policy. Zrinka holds an MSc in Media and Communications from London School of Economics and is an Honorary Doctor of Letters at Exeter University.
Chairs and Organising Committee
Don Flynn
Ben Gidley (Birkbeck)
Bahriye Kemal (University of Kent)
Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University)
Gwyneth Lonergan (Lancaster University)
Nira Yuval-Davis (UEL)
The meaning of home among LGBTQ+ refugees
We are delighted to invite you to the exhibition launch of "The meaning of home
Two creative workshops will accompany the exhibition. They will take place on 5 and 12 February 2022.
Saturday 5 February - 1.30pm - Exhibition launch and creative workshop exploring the meaning of home
Saturday 12 February - 1.30pm - 3pm - Creative workshop exploring the meaning of home.
Events take place at Poetry House (Stratford Park), Densham Road, London, E15 4DA, opposite tennis courts.
For more information please email newhampoetrygroup@gmail. com or see the website.
2020-21
Co-POWeR Virtual Launch Event,Wednesday 30 June 2021 2-4pm
Co-POWeR Virtual Launch Event,Wednesday 30 June 2021 2-4pm
This research aims to identify the impact of Covid-19 on practices for wellbeing and resilience in Black, Asian, and minority Ethnic Families and Communities (BAME FC). This project is being led a group of BAME professors who want to make recommendations to the government for reducing the impact of Covid-19 on BAME FC.
Keynote Presentation:
Wendy Irwin - Head of Equality and Diversity, Royal College of Nursing
Estephanie Dunn - Regional Director (North West Region) Royal College of Nursing
The event is organised by the CMRB affiliated Master in Refugee Studies and Master in Conflict, Displacement and Human Security.
CMRB as a founding member of Co-POWeR.
June webinar: Depoliticising the Hostile Environment, 21 June 2021, 5pm
June webinar: Depoliticising the Hostile Environment, 21 June 2021, 5pm
The Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging is a founding member of Social Scientists against the Hostile Environment.
This webinar seeks to address:
- The Immigration Act 2020, following Brexit, which is promoted as being effective in preventing traffickers from profiting from the exploitation of those seeking refuge.
- The Independent Review of the Human Right Act launched 7 September 2020
- The Sewell Report and its establishment
The speakers will include:
- Halima Begum
- Hannah Jones
- Frances Webber
Ice & Fire Present: THIS IS WHO I AM
Ice & Fire Present: THIS IS WHO I AM
15 June 2021, 4pm
Presenters will be discussing first had experiences on LGBTQIA + people's experiences on the asylum-seeking process in the UK.
This event is co-hosted by CMRB.
Prison system and anti-colonial struggle in Palestine voices from within Thursday 10 June 2021, 6pm
Prison system and anti-colonial struggle in Palestine voices from within Thursday 10 June 2021, 6pm
Our film and book club final event for the term: Prison System and Anti-colonial Struggle in Palestine. The event addresses the Israeli prison system and the role of women in anti-colonial struggle through a discussion of Nahla Abdo's book "Captive Revolution". The book shares critique against the persistence of racism in the Israel occupation of Palestine.
Furthermore, the event includes the screening of the short film OBAIDA. A documentary about the prison experience of Obaida Akram Jawabra, who has been shot during a demonstration against the attack on Gaza at the entrance of Al Arroub refugee camp.
Speakers:
- Nahla Abdo: Professor of Sociology, Carleton University, Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli System
- Asma Majed Jawabra: Lecturer at Alquds Bard College; Obida's Cousin
Chair: Afaf Jabiri, Programme Leader for Refugee Studies, UEL
MA Refugee Studies
MA Refugee Studies
Digital methodologies in forced migration and Refugee research: rethinking voices, representation and power
Wednesday 2 June 2021, 5pm
This seminar represents and examines research on refugees and forced migration. The seminar will be practically -, methodologically-, and theoretically focused. The digital field being an important part in refugee studies.
Speaker: Professor Giorgia Donà (Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London)
The event is organised by the CMRB affiliated Masters in Refugee Studies and Masters in Conflict, Displacement and Human Security.
Changing psycho-social understanding and practice in humanitarian settings
Changing psycho-social understanding and practice in humanitarian settings
19 May 2021, 1 pm
Public Seminar
Speakers Include: Professor Giorgia Dona of Forced and Migration and co-director of CMRB, Mary Kampogo – Programme Manager Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing, Refugee Law Project, School of Law Makerere University Uganda
Chair: Afaf Jabiri Senior Lecturer Masters in Refugee studies and Masters in Conflict, Displacement and Human Security, UEL
The event is organised by the CMRB affiliated Masters in Refugee Studies and Masters in Conflict, Displacement and Human Security.
SMCR Seminar Wednesday 17 March 2021, 3pm
SMCR Seminar Wednesday 17 March 2021, 3pm
This presentation offers a different perspective on the topic of the social history of ethnic conflict displacements from the perspective of the marginalised. The concept of a multi-level narrative will be introduced as a methodology. There will be connections between multiple stories around conflict and displacement in order to explain the relationship between public and personal narratives.
Speaker: Giorgia Dona, Co-Director of CMRB
The event is organised by the CMRB affiliated Masters in Refugee Studies and Masters in Conflict, Displacement and Human Security.
Iraqi Women Untold Stories Thursday
Iraqi Women Untold Stories Thursday
25 February 2021, 7pm
Book Discussion
Chair: Afaf Jabiri
The event is organised by the CMRB affiliated Masters in Refugee Studies and Masters in Conflict, Displacement and Human Security.
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Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging
The Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging is located at the University of East London.
