asylum and refugees

Academic Engagement for Refugees’ Inclusion Beyond Good Intentions

09.06.2022 , in ((Reflexive Migration Studies)) , ((No Comments))

Since 2015, the study of refugee inclusion has become a booming business. However, research and policies are still quite disconnected from refugees’ lives. Reflective infrastructures can help refugees, other societal actors, and researchers collaborate on knowledge co-creation projects that address refugees’ and migrants’ real-life challenges and question taken-for-granted assumptions. Spaces ...

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The Importance of Informal Interactions in the UK Syrian Refugee Resettlement

25.05.2021 , in ((Mobility + Informality)) , ((No Comments))

Syrian refugees in the UK have differing experiences of the Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme (SVPRS), depending on the locality of placement. As one participant to research on community integration put it, ‘Other Syrian people feel more comfortable, more confident, they’re living a different life.’ Contrasting his experience with that ...

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