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Turkey and Syria Earthquake eventAn event to provide key updates from those working closely with the response effort in Turkey and Syria following the devastating earthquakeFriday 10 February 2023, 17.30 -19.00 Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham CollegeFadi Aldairi - Co-Founder Hand in Hand for Aid and DevelopmentDr Abdulkarim Ekzayez - General Secre…

Call for Applications:Research Fellowship in Education Research in Conflict and CrisisBritish Academy Bilateral Research Chair "Unpacking the industry of refugee education and research towards an equitable theory and practice"FulltimeDuration: 2 yearsSalary: 36K (GBP) per year. The fellowship As part of the Education Research in Conflict and Crisis…

A short documentary on the mental healthstate of Syrian women refugees in Turkeyand the challenges they are facing to accessmental health careContext:Since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria in March 2011, over 11 million Syrians fled their homes. The majority have sought refuge in neighboring countries such as Turkey, where over 3.5 million fo…

by Adisa Broadhurst, Department of Psychiatry, University of CambridgeThe year was 1992. Exactly 30 years ago. Overnight, my world was turned upside-down. The country that I was born in, Yugoslavia, was literally falling apart. One day I was living a carefree childhood, going to school and playing with my friends, and the next, uniformed men and gu…

June 20 is the World Refugee Day designated by the United Nations to celebrate the strength and courage of refugees around the globe. Under this year’s theme “Whoever. Wherever. Whenever. Everyone has the right to seek safety”, the Refugee Hub of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement welcomes contributions from Cambridge students and st…

Practical information for supportCambridgehttps://www.scambs.gov.uk/community-safety-and-health/support-for-ukraine/UK Immigration RulesUkraine Scheme: This Appendix sets out 3 routes for those affected by the conflict in Ukraine – the Ukraine Family Scheme, the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme and the Ukraine Extension Scheme.UK visa support f…

Dear Friends of the Centre, Happy 2022! And thank you for your ongoing support during 2021 as we have continued our global conversations on the past and present of movement: from the tourist to the displaced, from aspirations to realities, from analysing national and global policies to examining our own practices at the University of Cambridge. We …

Some international organisation with emergency appeals: British Red Cross.  World Vision   UNICEFWorld Food ProgammeUK Refugee CouncilCECF Refugee Services is in the process of recruiting Farsi, Dari or Pashtu speakers as community interpreters or caseworkers. We are promoting the British Red Cross family and tracing service. We are also raising fu…

The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge:Three Years and CountingAnnual Report 2020/21

In her new book Capitalism on Edge (Columbia University Press, 2020), Albena Azmanova has argued that the 21st century has inaugurated a new stage in the life of global capitalism. Neoliberalism has been replaced by a yet darker entity, what she calls ‘precarity capitalism’, marked by the massive spread of insecurity for the 99 per cent: for rich a…

By:Dr. Zsoka Koczan and Dr. Alexander PlekhanovWhile everyone faces a risk of infection, the economic shock associated with Covid-19 has been far from even, hitting the most vulnerable hardest. Small businesses, especially in the retail and services sectors, have borne the brunt of the crisis (Bircan, Koczan and Plekhanov 2020). Those working in th…

By: Julius M. RogenhoferThis post introduces an article recently published in Contemporary Pragmatism titled “The Conflictual Theory of Law: A Pragmatist Conception of Laws as Social Institutions”. The full text can be read open-access here: https://brill.com/view/journals/copr/17/2-3/article-p170_170.xml?body=pdf-33151.The detention of migrants in…

By:Alexander Huang-MendersThe Barretal Refugee Camp, Tijuana, Mexico. December, 2018.A displaced family in the Barretal Refugee Camp in Tijuana, Mexico. December, 2018. (Photo from The Power of Faces)A young man poses for a portrait outside the Vial Refugee Camp in Chios, Greece. July 2018.A man and woman share a kiss at the Barretal Refugee Camp i…

By:Reetika Revathy SubramanianAt first, they were suggestions, and then, they became official public directives: ‘wash your hands, keep your distance, and stay indoors’. These apparently simple actions that were meant to stem the threat posed by the COVID-19 virus and ensure complete safety, rendered 14-year-old Sakhi stranded, starving, and nearly…

By: Dr. Helen UnderhillPlants on the threshold of a caravan in a Jordanian refugee camp, 2019. Image by Yasmine ShammaFor many people around the world, recent months have seen an unprecedented redefinition our relationship with our homes, with millions spending time confined to whatever spaces we call home in a mass effort to slow the spread of Cov…