In April, Lucas Oesch spent 3 weeks for the first period of fieldwork in Jordan. His fieldwork focused on the impacts and connections which exist between refugee camps and nearby municipalities. He met with stakeholders and researchers in Amman to discuss the issue in general, and went to the desert town of Azraq to enquire…

Léa Lemaire has started doing fielwork in Luxembourg. The aim is to understand how the reception of refugees is organised locally on the territory of the Grand Duchy. The fieldwork is taking place in different localities throughout the country. She is conducting semi-structured interviews with actors involved in the management of reception facilities and local…

Lucas Oesch was invited to the international workshop “Imagining and experiencing through normality and crisis: new perspectives in the wake of the 2015 refugee situation” which was held at the University of Bergen from 30-31 January 2019, under the umbrella of the IMEX project. The workshop gathered several on-going research projects dealing with the issue…

Léa Lemaire, Lucas Oesch and Lorenzo Vianelli presented their research on dispositifs of refugee reception at the seminar of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, at the University of Luxembourg, on 13 November 2018. Their presentation was entitled “Using Foucault’s notion of dispositif. The case of border management and urban planning in refugee reception”.…

Léa Lemaire took part to a conference on “International Migration in the 21st Century”, at Yeditepe University (Research and Application Center, KEKAM) in Istanbul, Turkey, on 10-11 October 2018. The conference brought together Turkish and international academics to discuss different aspects of international migration. Topics such as asylum, diaspora or repatriation were discussed. Moreover, the…

Research Seminar Minutes, 12 June 2018 Dr Jonathan Darling: ‘Crisis, Endurance and Accommodation of Urban Refugees’   Dr Jonathan Darling, Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Durham University, and international advisor for the REFUGOV project, presented his research on Crisis, Endurance and the Accommodation of Urban Refugees at the Research Seminar of the Institute of…