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Book discussion: Refugees, Conflict and the Search for Belonging
With Lucy Hovil, International Refugee Rights Initiative, and Managing Editor for the International Journal of Transitional Justice.
About the book:
▶ Focuses on refugees across the Great Lakes region, with research and analysis that crosses borders
▶ Presents rich, empirical data collected over six years that incorporates social science methodology with a rights-based framework
▶ Draws out core thematic issues that speak to wider issues of inclusion and exclusion
This book is about the convergence of two problems: the ongoing realities of conflict and forced migration in Eastern and Central Africa, and the crisis of citizenship and belonging. By bringing them together, the intention is to see how, combined, they can help point the way towards possible solutions. Based on 1,115 interviews conducted over 6 years in the region, the book points to ways in which refugees challenge the parameters of citizenship and belonging as they carve out spaces for inclusion in the localities in which they live. Yet with a policy environment that often leads to marginalization, the book highlights the need for policies that pull people into the center rather than polarize and exclude; and that draw on, rather than negate, the creativity that refugees demonstrate in their quest to forge spaces of belonging.
About Dr. Hovil:
Dr. Lucy Hovil has sixteen years of experience conducting research amongst displaced and conflict-affected groups in East and Central Africa, first with the Refugee Law Project of Makerere University, Uganda, and then with the International Refugee Rights Initiative. She received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, UK, in 2000, and is the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Transitional Justice.
A light lunch to be served. RSVP required.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 12:00pm
Stokes Hall, North, Room N203
Boston College, 59-107 College Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
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