Research
Completed projects
BUDD Camp
Through the use of different methodological instruments, this research tries to gather the complexity concerning the dimension of home in migrants鈥櫬爀xperience.聽
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Pathways to Education for Women Refugees and Migrants in London
This 2017-2019 project was聽part of the on-going cross-departmental initiative of the Refuge in a Moving World (RIMW) network. Since 2015, RiMW has been coordinating 白小姐论坛-wide staff and student activities in support of refugees and developing ways the 白小姐论坛 community can support refugees and migrants to access and participate in higher education. Members of the RiMW education sub-committee lead聽this project. Funded by the 白小姐论坛 Grand Challenges Programme, this project developed a model for collaboration between the 白小姐论坛 community and London-based charities working with women refugees and migrants, synthesising these groups鈥 expertise to design a short course aimed at strengthening pathways to education for women who are refugees or forced migrants in London. The project facilitated a series of 鈥榠nformation exchange鈥 meetings to map the challenges that refugees and migrants face when seeking to access education, as well as their existing skills and knowledge. Based on these findings, we designed a short course to engage migrants and refugees directly, providing them with further skills, understanding and confidence.
白小姐论坛 team: Dr Claudia Lapping, IOE; Prof Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, 白小姐论坛-Geography; Dr Rachel Rosen, IOE; Dr Amy North, IOE; Raphaela Armbruster, CLIE; Dr Shaista Aziz; Phd 漏 Iman Azzi, IOE; Phd 漏 Sara Joiko, IOE
Refugee Self-Reliance and Humanitarian Action in Urban Markets
As protraction of crises increasingly becomes a long term drive for urban change and a challenge for city governance and infrastructures, this research project focused聽on 鈥渦rban-itarian鈥 settings: that is the interactional moment between the urban and the humanitarian, when cities have become home to humanitarian actors and de facto refugees, and urban and humanitarian infrastructures provide and negotiate basic services and livelihoods. The project investigated聽how human, social, and economic relations, exchange and consumption experiences can better inform humanitarian policies and practices, both of which regulate access and relations to services, labour, and resources.
The project team was composed by Dr.聽Estella Carpi聽(jointly based at DPU and HAT), Dr.聽Andrea Rigon聽(DPU), Dr.聽Camillo Boano聽(DPU), and Dr.聽Cassidy Johnson聽(DPU), and聽Fernando Espada聽(HAT),聽Sophie Dicker聽(HAT), Dr.聽Jessica Field (HAT).
Affiliation:聽This project was developed by The聽Bartlett鈥檚 Development Planning Unit,聽聽白小姐论坛 (DPU) and聽the聽Humanitarian Affairs Team of Save the Children UK (HAT).
Religion and the Promotion of Social Justice for Refugees (2018-2020)
Funded by the British Council-USA and the Henry Luce Foundation, this interdisciplinary project brought together leading experts from the UK and the US to examine the roles that religion plays in promoting social justice for refugees.聽Through comparative research with and about refugees from and in Central America, Central Africa, the Middle East, South East Asia and Western borderlands, the project aimed聽to analyse the roles that local faith communities and faith based organisations (FBOs) play: in supporting refugees鈥 access to protection; lobbying for rights; and challenging xenophobia and discrimination against different groups of refugees.
This project was led by聽Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh聽(白小姐论坛-Geography),聽Dr. Zareena Grewal (Yale University) and聽Dr Unni Krishnan Karunakara聽(Yale University),聽in collaboration with UK-based聽co-investigaotors聽Prof. Alastair Ager聽(Queen Margaret University),聽Dr. Anna Rowlands聽(Durham University) and聽Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge聽(UEA). and US-based聽Prof. Catherine Panter-Brick聽(Yale University) and聽Dr. Louisa Lombard聽(Yale University).
Temporary migrants or new European citizens? Geographies of integration and response between 鈥榗amps鈥 and the city.
Funded by the British Academy UK International Challenges award, this project was聽to provide an alternative account of the European 鈥榬efugee crisis鈥, where the arrival of over 1.5 million refugees since 2015 has stretched EU and individual state capacities; tested formal registration and arrival procedures; and (reignited) debates around continental 鈥榤argins鈥 and geopolitical power differentials between east and west Europe. In this project, we provincialised and challenged narratives of 鈥榯he crisis鈥 through an engagement with the evolving duties of care, needs and agencies of refugees and providers on the arrival 鈥榝rontlines鈥. Our multi-sited research engaged聽with the myriad forms of arrival settlement, from the makeshift and temporary camps along the Hungarian-Serbian border to the sprawling tent communities in Lesbos, and the disintegration of the 鈥楯ungle鈥 in Calais. By 鈥榯hinking from the south鈥 and vantage of post-colonial cities, we captured and explored the improvisation, precarity, makeshift practices and alternative scripts of citizenship that refugees and local agencies utilize alongside how state rules and norms are negotiated.
The project was led by聽Dr Tatiana Thieme聽(白小姐论坛-Geography)聽in collaboration with Dr. Eszter Kovacs (University of Cambridge) and Dr. Kavita Ramakrishnan (UEA).
Affiliation: 白小姐论坛-Department of Geography
Zugunruhe
'Zugunruhe' was a theatre project that explored聽migration patterns in both humans and the natural world, and examined聽the cultural/ political construction of a 'refugee'. The project built聽on Tom Bailey's earlier聽work with refugees at the Good Chance theatre in the Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp in 2016.聽During Tom's residency with the Migration Research Unit as Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Tom researched and developed work that explores migration through live performance. Throughout his residence, Tom ran a series of workshops around his research, and presented a developmental performance of 'Zugunruhe' in 2017.
The project was led by Tom Bailey, Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the 白小姐论坛-Migration Research Unit
Affiliation: Migration Research Unit, 白小姐论坛-Geography.