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Engineering a Holistic Response to the Global Crisis of Forced Displacement
CFD Team Spotlight: Muhammad Zaman, CFD Director
The Newsletter Team set down for an interview with our Director, Muhammad Zaman, for an interview about his research, passions, hobbies, and special CFD projects. The transcript of our interview is below. CFD: Where are you from? I was born in Pakistan, in the capital city Islamabad, in 1977 and grew up there. That city still […]
Reflections From the Border Studies Program in Texas by Baiden Wright
Does a single day of volunteering actually “help” anyone seeking refuge at the border? Do we have the capacity to actually make a difference in what seems to be an increasingly polarized political climate and increasingly complicated systems of asylum? What does it mean to make a difference? How do we learn, think, and teach […]
The Center on Forced Displacement Announces CFD Annual Conference Keynote Speaker: Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Center on Forced Displacement is excited to announce that the keynote speaker for the inaugural CFD Annual Conference is Nobel Laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah. Gurnah is the celebrated author of novels, as well as critical studies of postcolonial literature. He grew up on the island of Zanzibar but was forcibly displaced when, in the 1960s, the […]
CFD Team Spotlight: Carrie Preston, Associate Director
The Newsletter Team set down for an interview with our Associate Director, Carrie Preston for an interview about her research, passions, hobbies, and special CFD projects. The transcript of our interview is below. CFD: Where are you from? Michigan CFD: What do you study? Critical gender, race, and sexuality studies; critical displacement studies; theater and […]
CFD Interview With Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney
Dr. McAdam is one of the members of the CFD Advisory Board and the leading thinker in the field of International Refugee Law. Our team set with her for a short interview about her work, motivations, and thoughts on future developments in the field of forced displacement and refugee law. CFD: Can you tell us […]
Call for Applications – Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forced Displacement
Center on Forced Displacement (CFD) opens a call for applications for its first Summer School on Forced Displacement to be held July 17 – 29, 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia. Program Background and Objectives Long before the beginning of the migration “crisis” in 2015, the US and the European Union began working on establishing strict border regimes […]
CFD Team Spotlight: Marina Lazetic, Director of Programs
The Newsletter Team set with our Director of Programs, Marina Lazetic for an interview about her research, passions, hobbies, and special CFD projects. The transcript of our interview is below. NEWSLETTER TEAM: Where are you from? I am from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I was born in this beautiful city, but my family, like many […]
The EU Continues To Fail Asylum Seekers and Violate Human Rights by Baiden Wright
As the principal governing body in Europe, the EU has a unique obligation to protect asylum rights, which it is currently failing. EU asylum claims are currently the highest they have been since 2015. In addition to the streams of refugees fleeing war in Syria, EU states are also seeing large numbers of refugees fleeing […]