MERNID Webinar: ‘Identity, Rights and Internal Displacement’

Podcast of a MERNID webinar discussing identity, rights and internal displacement in Iraq and Syria
Published on December 6, 2021
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The webinar was chaired by MERNID director, Dr Hana Asfour, and includes presentations from MERNID researchers:

  • “On Refuge and Displacement: Challenges to the Provision of Rights and Protection for Syrians Inside and Outside Syrian Borders” – Dr Jasmin Lilian Diab, Director, Institute for Migration Studies and Assistant Professor at Lebanese American University
  • “Disjunction of Borders, Who Is the Outsider? The Situation of Internal Displaced People in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq” – Atefeh Ramsari, PhD candidate, Bielefeld Graduate School of History and Sociology, Bielefeld University
  • “Youth Identity before and after Daesh in Nineveh, Iraq” – Kamaran Palani, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Salahaddin University-Erbil
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Held on 14-15 March 2024, this online conference marked the culmination of five years of increasing international engagement with the pressing challenge of ‘solutions’ to internal displacement. It provided a forum for researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and st...