2023 World Refugee Day

 

World Refugee Day: Refugee InclusionTuesday 20th of June, 10.00 - 18.00, Alison Richard Building 

coordinated by the Cambridge refugee hub, Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement

June 20 is the World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees. Join us for an engaging programme of research and public events including panel discussions, flash talks, films, poetry workshop and more. Bringing together a diverse array of academics and community members, this event is open to all and aimed at centring the diversity of refugee experiences in finding better ways to uphold refugee rights. At Alison Richard Building (SG1 and Atrium). Free and all welcome.

Please register here on Eventbrite to attend.

For an overview of all events, please visit 2023 Cambridge Refugee Week. 

If you are available to volunteer during the day, please send an e-mail to refugees@humanmovement.cam.ac.uk.

 

10.00 - 10.20 Arrival and coffee

10.20 Welcome and introductions

Tugba Basaran, Convenor of the Cambridge refugee hub

10.30 – 12.00 Global Cambridge: research and engagement with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sudan and Syria

Women education - politics of Afghanistan to the forum on Afghanistan
Marissa Quie, Sociology, University of Cambridge

Refugee education in Bangladesh 
Steve King, Cambridge Partnership for Education

The State We're In: Sudan's April 15th War
Sahar ElAsad, Education, University of Cambridge

Displaced Syrian healthcare workers
Adam Coutts, Sociology, University of Cambridge
Vlad Chaddad, International Rescue Committee

 

12.15 – 13.45 Hosting and Voluntering in/from Cambridge (SG1)
                       Lunch and stalls of student/community organisations (Atrium)
 

Introductions to STAR, SolidariTee, Amnesty International, Race Equality Network, CamCRAG

Refugee Education UK: Mentoring in the East of England
Federica Rizzi, Refugee Education UK

Home and Shelter, Ruth Rix and hosting Ukrainian refugees
Silke Mentchen and Alice Mumford, MMLL, University of Cambridge

Adult refugee learners and the passing of time in compulsory language education
Julia Jakob, Education, University of Cambridge

Siman Foundation: Democratising access to education
Awa Farah, Sociology, University of Cambridge

Followed and accompanied by lunch, stalls and documentaries

 

14.00 – 15.30 European Borders and Borderlands    

Being an Islander: Mediterranean Island in the Past and Present
Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Archaelogy

Aid workers meet recipients of aid: The beneficiary continuum and the making of the workfare welfare state in the Greek refugee regime
Danai Avgeri, Geography, University of Cambridge

Accessing rights in the long-term: why legal aid on its own is not enough? The critical relationship between legal aid practitioners and mental health professionals in Greece
Alexa Netty, SolidariTee

Governance of irregular migration in Algeria, along the border with Tunisia
Ahmed Ibrahim, University of Manchester

 

15.45 – 17.15 Engaging through nature, arts, craft and poetry

Nature-Based Integration: Bridging Communities and Environment
Dr Azadeh Fatehrad (Kingston University)
Dr Davide Natalini (Anglia Ruskin University)
Dr Hyab Yohannes (University of Glasgow UNESCO CHAIR REFUGEE INTEGRATION THROUGH LANGUAGES AND THE ARTS (RILA))
Leyla Laksari (CEO of Living Under One Sun Community Centre)
Dr Elena Cologni (Anglia Ruskin University)

Crafting the Self: an arts and crafts project for migrant and refugee women
Adriana Sandu, Anglia Ruskin University, Suzan Morad and Grace Petreni and colleagues for the project, run in collaboration with Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum