Southern Responses to Displacement

#ReadPalestine Day 6 #TheSouthernEye by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh & Saiful Huq Omi links (and embodies how to link) memories and experiences of exile, displacement and genocide from Palestine to the rest of the world. Achingly beautiful, wise and profound!

🔴 Policy Brief | South–South Cooperation in Diplomatic and Humanitarian Responses to Conflict and Displacement. By Ghassan Elkahlout & Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh @FiddianQasmiyeh 📕 This policy brief outlines key findings and actionable recommendations arising from a closed expert workshop on South–South cooperation in humanitarian and diplomatic responses, co-convened in Doha in February 2025. ✅ The findings underscore that actors from the #GlobalSouth are not auxiliary players but critical to shaping, funding, and delivering responses to contemporary crises of conflict and displacement. Read the full policy brief👉: chs-doha.org/en/Publication…

🔴 New Report | "South-South Cooperation: Diplomatic and Humanitarian Responses to Conflict and Displacement", by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh @FiddianQasmiyeh 📑 This report draws together key thematic insights arising from the workshop, which was held in collaboration with University College London @ucl, last February, concluding with recommendations for next steps. 🔗 Read the full report: chs-doha.org/en/Publication…

👁️ Southern Responses to Displacement Ed @FiddianQasmiyeh & @estycrp, articles by Şule Can, Matt Baille-Smith, Bianca Fadel, Frank Ahimbisibwe, Robert Turyamureeba, Jess Oddy, Marwan Adinsa, Yousif M Qasmiyeh 👉🏼 manchesterhive.com/view/journals/… #Gaza #Syria #Turkey #Uganda #Jordan #Brazil

Nisha's research contributes to a deeper understanding of humanitarianism by analysing it as interpersonal and intersubjective interactions between aid agents, state officials, civic volunteers, locals, and refugees. Read her full profile here: southernresponses.org/dr-aminath-nis…

SRD Project has new team members! We are pleased to welcome our new Research Fellow, Dr. Aminath Nisha Zadhy-Cepoglu. Learn more about her research on the thread.

Join us at @SouthernResp as Project and Communications Coordinator - read more and apply by 8 May here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Join us at @SouthernResp as Project and Communications Coordinator - read more and apply by 8 May here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

👉🏽 @SouthernResp is looking for a Research Fellow to examine “Southern” responses to displacement from Syria, including refugees’ own conceptualisations of “humanitarianism” and “the South” - apply by 8 May if you’re interested: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Thx to @AnnaRowlands1& @FiddianQasmiyeh 4putting together the @OUPAcademic Handbook of Religion&Contemporary Migration. Many interesting papers in the volume! My chapter discusses how Syrian refugee 'faith leaders' understand&practice humanitarian work 👇 academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

Good news! Our PI Prof @FiddianQasmiyeh’s article, “The right & role of critiquing the contemporary patchwork of protection”, is a #topdownloadedarticle in International Migration - drawing on insights from @SouthernResp & @RefugeeHosts, read it here 👇🏽doi.org/10.1111/imig.1…

More brilliant content to engage with today, #InternationalWomensDay, to celebrate & amplify women academics & scholars, like our colleagues @AnnaRowlands1 @LyndseyStonebri @MalangwaNgole Dima Al-Hamadmad, Bayan Itani, @karenlauter @AnnZuntz @Tamyfakhoury and many more. A🧵👇🏽

The Southern Responses to Displacement research project is based at @UCLgeography and the @UCL_MRU. To find out more about our work this #InternationalWomensDay see below: southernresponses.org

Sara Al Helali is a Researcher based in Turkey and has explored what influences encounters between refugees & their host communities. Sara has also examined how educating host communities is an effective tool to reduce anti-refugee sentiment. southernresponses.org/tag/sara-al-he…

This #InternationalWomensDay celebrate & amplify women scholars & academics. The Southern Responses to Displacement project is led by @FiddianQasmiyeh (access her work below) & has been supported through the work of multiple women scholars included in🧵 southernresponses.org/prof-elena-fid…

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Listen to @FiddianQasmiyeh's lecture on moving beyond 'the humanitarian grain,' setting aside the ‘humanitarian frame’ & instead focusing on multi-scalar responses to displacement. Does this provide the opportunity to critically 'rethink refugee response?' tinyurl.com/mu2bzub7