Professor Zaman’s Lecture on the Global Refugee Crisis: What can scientist and engineers do to ease the suffering and protect the vulnerable?
Professor Muhammad Zaman, BU Center on Forced Displacement cofounder and director, presented on Thursday, October 6, 2022 to the Kleh Family Foundation Distinguished Lecture. In the lecture, Professor Zaman spoke about some of his work in the lab, the field, and in the classroom that aims to address the global refugee crisis. Earlier this year, […]
CFD Director of Programs, Marina Lazetic Receives The Dwight D. Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowship
We are delighted to share that our Director of Programs, Marina Lazetic has been awarded The Dwight D. Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowship. She is one of only four scholars who received this award for the 2022-23 academic year. The fellowship has been awarded to support her ongoing research on environmental displacement and environmental justice. Her dissertation […]
An Interview With Gabby Glass About Her Work on Vaccination Rates Among Navajo in the Light of Historical Trauma and COVID
Gabby Glass (she/her) is a senior in the Kilachand Honors College from Newton, Massachusetts. She studies psychology and public health and hopes to pursue a career in clinical psych / therapy. Over the summer, she studied abroad in London, interning at a nonprofit charity for young girls across England and Wales. The CFD interviewed Gabby […]
BU’s New Center on Forced Displacement Will Address the Global Refugee Crisis
“As the global refugee crisis worsens, crossing borders has been met with increasing hostility and stigma, often putting displaced people in perilous positions, after already difficult journeys. (Last month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis transported about 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard under false pretenses, raising legal concerns. The International Rescue Committee has called on the US and European countries […]
Don’t forget Afghan refugees in Pakistan flood response
Following devastating floods, the road to rebuilding for millions in Pakistan will be long and complicated. Yet, the recovery process affords the government a rare opportunity to make life-changing improvements for Afghan refugees on its soil – in addition to its own citizens. To learn more, read Dr. Zaman’s latest op-ed in The New Humanitarian […]
Border Studies Program Offers Chance to Learn about Migrants and Border Wall Firsthand
It’s one thing to study the US/Mexico border, US immigration policy, and the complex challenges facing migrants in the classroom. It’s another kind of learning altogether to travel with BU faculty to the Rio Grande Valley to see the border wall and meet the migrants and the people working with them firsthand. Nine students in […]
BU students experience migration crisis first hand at Texas-Mexico border
A group of Boston University students wanted to tackle issues head on and traveled down to the Texas-Mexico border to witness the immigration crisis themselves as part of the Center on Forced Displacement’s Border Studies Program. Throughout the weeklong trip, held during spring break, students traveled to a variety of locations along the Lower Rio […]