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[PDF Document] TRAFIG_policyBrief_4.pdf   (803.98 KB)

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[Publication] No refuge. The crisis of refugee militarization in Africa.

• The militarization of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), especially in Africa, is causing growing alarm within the humanitarian and development commonities. The planned and spontaneous arming of refugees and IDPs threatens access to asylum as well as protection. But while the policy debates rage over how to deal with armed refugees and how to prevent their spillover into neighbouring countries, surprisingly little research has been done to explain why displaced people arm themselv...

[Publication] No refuge. The crisis of refugee militarization in Africa.

• The militarization of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), especially in Africa, is causing growing alarm within the humanitarian and development commonities. The planned and spontaneous arming of refugees and IDPs threatens access to asylum as well as protection. But while the policy debates rage over how to deal with armed refugees and how to prevent their spillover into neighbouring countries, surprisingly little research has been done to explain why displaced people arm themselv...

[Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

• To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, will engage in a new EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019.TRAFIG introduces a novel perspe...

[Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

• To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, will engage in a new EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019. TRAFIG introduces a novel persp...

[Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

• To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, will engage in a new EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019. TRAFIG introduces a novel persp...

[Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

• To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, will engage in a new EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019. TRAFIG introduces a novel persp...

[Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

• To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, will engage in a new EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019. TRAFIG introduces a novel persp...

[Project] Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)

• To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC together with research partners from Europa, Africa and Asia, engageed in a EU funded Horizon 2020 research project. The project “Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations” (TRAFIG) started in January 2019 and ran until March 2022. TRAFIG introduced a novel perspective on protracted disp...