Léa Lemaire, Lucas Oesch and Lorenzo Vianelli organised a 3 panels’ session at RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2019 in London on 28 August 2019. Their panel was entitled: Emerging notions in the analysis of forced migration and borders: From ambiguity to improvisation, and more.      The panel focused on emerging notions such as ambiguity, uncertainty, volatility,…

Léa Lemaire, Lucas Oesch, Lorenzo Vianelli and Birte Nienaber organised a panel on “The multiple levels of refugee reception” at the Imiscoe conference, which was held at the University of Malmö in Sweden, on 26-28 June 2019. The panel was a joint venture between the REFUGOV project, and research conducted within the framework of the…

Two students of the University of Luxembourg, Ayham Bawadekji and Karim El Naggar, have worked on the REFUGOV project over the past few months. They both greatly contributed to the fieldwork activities of REFUGOV in Luxembourg. Ayham is a student in electronic engineering at the University of Luxembourg. He is from Syria and a native…

Léa Lemaire received the PhD thesis award from the Mattei Dogan Foundation at the congress of the French Political Science Association held in Bordeaux in July 2019. Her PhD dissertation was entitled: “Black and illegal” at the border of Europe. From the construction of a myth to the emergence of a transnational governmentality of migration.…

As the project entered in its second year, the research team meet for the second annual meeting with the Advisory board composed of Jonathan Darling from Durham University and Birte Nienaber from the University of Luxembourg. While the first meeting held in June 2018 focused on discussing the orientations of the research, this meeting was…

In the framework of the REFUGOV project, Léa Lemaire presented a paper at the 2019 ICCG on “In Permanent Crisis? Uneven Development, Everywhere War and Radical Praxis” in Athens, Greece, on 19-23 April 2019. Her paper focused on “The governance of reception facilities in Jordan and Luxembourg: global South and North perspectives”. While her presentation…