The RRN seeks to generate and mobilize knowledge among scholars, practitioners and policy makers to benefit people who have been forcibly displaced. Our goal is to build a network of networks which will promote connections throughout the field of refugee and forced migration studies by: facilitating interactions among the academic, practitioner and policy-making sectors; engaging new and established scholars from around the world in innovative online activities; and, creating spaces for the presentation and dissemination of the experiences and concerns of refugees themselves. This intensive animation of the field is intended to cultivate a multiplicity of new research groupings resulting in more dynamic and responsive research projects.
We want to provide a systematic and dedicated space for the sustained interactive engagement of the three sectors: Canadian and international researchers, NGO partners and government policy makers. This cross-sector approach is intended to ensure that the issues identified are relevant to the refugee field, that the relationships to sustain the research are in place and that the dissemination will be timely and appropriate. The cluster is to be grounded in the experiences of refugees and forced migrants and in the practices and policy making of those who seek to support them; responsive to emerging ideas among new and established scholars and practitioners; and, flexible, able to form research teams appropriate in size, skills and perspectives to the issues being examined.
The Interim Executive Committee of the New Scholars Network is stepping down and would like to welcome the new Executive Committee:
President: Aditi Surie von Czechowski, Columbia University, New York, USA, asurie@gmail.com Secretary: Samia Tecle, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, samia.tecle@gmail.com Treasurer: Andrea Buford, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA, abuford@niu.edu
The RRN website is now available in a mobile-friendly format, specially formatted for small screens.
Simply point your browser to m.refugeeresearch.net (instead of "www..."). Same content, optimised for mobile browsing. Flash-free, it works with Apple, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and other web-enabled devices.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
The Refugee Research Network (RRN) has been created to mobilize and sustain a Canadian and international network of researchers and research centres committed to the study of refugee and forced migration issues and to engaging policy makers and practitioners in finding solutions to the plight of refugees and displaced persons.
The Refugee Research Network (RRN) will address a specific range of refugee issues: In/security and refugee protection, Refugee resettlement, Settlement and Integration, Protracted refugee situations, internally displaced populations, Extraterritorial refugee status determination procedures and the externalization of asylum, Environmental and development induced displacement, Critical issues in international refugee law, as well as other new and emerging issues.
As a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention, a major location for the resettlement of refugees, host of an internationally recognized refugee status determination system, and a prominent actor in the international system with a stated commitment to humanitarian issues, Canada is well positioned to provide leadership in standard setting and implementation in research, practice and policy to address the root causes of forced migration and refugee flows, to support resettlement when required, and to develop more predictable, effective and comprehensive solutions to the plight of refugees and
