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This case study documents the experience of Basanti, a displaced woman from Kashmir who has navigated multiple challenges linked to conflict, displacement, and economic insecurity. Following her relocation to Jammu in the early 1990s, Basanti and her family experienced prolonged instability across various refugee camps, with limited access to essential services and economic opportunities. Drawing […]
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People on the Move is a short animated film from the Gender, Justice, and Security Hub that synthesises field research in Afghanistan conducted between 2019 and 2024. It outlines the Hub’s mandate to document conflict, discrimination and violence against marginalised communities, demonstrates how political instability and repeated crises create a self-perpetuating cycle of local conflict, […]
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In this video, Afghan refugee children reflect on their disrupted education during COVID-19 and how the Sikhao Saathi program helped them get back to learning. Despite lacking Pakistani ID cards, many have rejoined government schools – some already in Grade 6 – and even discovered a passion for teaching. They share the ongoing challenges of […]
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This is a blog post published on the LSE Gender Hub pages. As Afghanistan collapsed and crisis became imminent this was written during my work as a colleague, a humanitarian actor, a fund raiser to help with evacuating our research colleagues from the country in August 2021. “This is not political analysis – I will […]
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A presentation delivered at IMISCOE Spring Conference 2024. The history of Afghanistan & Pakistan has shared ongoing socio-political instability, armed conflicts, environmental catastrophes and economic crises. Almost 2 million Afghan live in Pakistan. Between 2002 and 2021, over 5 million refugees returned home, while nearly 3.5 million Afghans are presently internally displaced. Data were collected […]
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This brief focuses on two separate but interconnected aspects of post-conflict Sri Lanka. Firstly, the brief looks at the current realities for returning migrants and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Jaffna District in the Northern Province, one of the areas where there is a large IDP population. The findings show how gender and intersecting […]
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This brief focuses on both return migration to Kurdistan-Iraq from within the Kurdish community and global migration specifically to the city of Erbil in Kurdistan-Iraq. Little is known about the gendered elements of return migration to conflict-affected contexts, and how this relates to development, gender equality, justice and inclusive peace. Equally, there is work to […]
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Over the last four decades, there have been several waves of movement across the borders due to recurring conflict in Afghanistan, as well as internal displacement within the country due to conflict and natural disaster. Pakistan remains one of the five largest refugee-hosting countries in the world; as of June 2022, an estimated 1.3 million […]
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In this article, we draw on a growing body of literature and a set of empirical work carried out over a period of many years and through various projects to examine the characteristics of Kurdish refugee communities, concentrating on the triangular relationship between statelessness, displacement, and diaspora. By keeping our focus on these linked relationships, […]
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The aim of this report is to understand and analyse the living and working conditions of migrant domestic and care workers in Istanbul through several themes, such as drivers for migration, living/working experiences and practices, and migrant women’s spatial mobility in the city. Based on migrant women’s own narratives, this report also discusses the impacts […]