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News Article: The government’s pledges to Afghans smack of virtue signalling, with almost no follow-through in our case. A co-authored piece for the UK Telegraph.We are UK based academics who have been working with Afghan partners for years. We know of several hundred Afghan individuals at high risk due to their association with UK government […]
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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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This paper explores the meaning that making brings to the life of women in conflict zones. How does tacit knowledge play itself out in the defining of their socio economic identities and related place making with the community? The value and recognition of this knowledge as embodied and as projected outwards to their communities and […]
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In this episode, we hear the story of Ahmed, a 24-year-old Afghan man whose life was at risk during the Taliban’s 2021 takeover. Dr. Neelam Raina and Sobia Kapadia share their firsthand experiences as their UK-funded research project, focused on gender, justice and security, took a dangerous turn when colleagues were targeted for their work. […]
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The Afghan Solidarity Coalition (ASC), comprising UK and international partners including the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub, submitted evidence on the Afghanistan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme (ACRS). The ASC has supported the evacuation and resettlement of at-risk Afghan human rights defenders, women peacebuilders, and LGBTQI+ activists. Key concerns raised include the ACRS’s continued closure, […]
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Dr Neelam Raina and Professor Brad Blitz give evidence on the UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan to the Defence Select Committee. They discuss the work the Afghanistan Solidarity Coalition has done to evacuate at-risk Afghans, the urgent need for the UK Government to evacuate those who are at-risk for their work on UK funded programmes, the […]
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Where should we position ourselves in the global challenges we face in the Anthropocene, and what level of despair are we allowed? We have ticked the boxes of inclusions, sustainability, capacity building, innovation, carbon footprints, artificial intelligence, and shrunk the globe for communication. We have evaluated and eliminated silos and criticised unilateral approaches and decision-making. […]
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Today’s middle ground seems to be less ‘on point’ and an unfashionable place to be, the echo chamber effect of polarised thinking and narratives, in this bumper year of elections, gives us time to pause and reflect on where we have arrived after a worldwide pandemic. Our world is getting far more violent: conflict event […]
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Migration is not a one-way street. Recent years have seen increasing transnational mobility and return migration, involving the rapid development of transport and communication technologies, the relative improvement of political and economic situations in the migrants’ homeland as well as anti-migration hostility and the exclusion of incoming people from the labour market in settlement countries. […]
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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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The primary objective of this report was to reflect upon, review and assess work completed on this project over 2022-24. This was undertaken through review of fieldwork data from Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, ultimately crafting country-specific curated lists of traditional practices to inform product design training. This training was delivered to all partners […]
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This brief focuses on the gendered dynamics of labour migration in Turkey, looking at the labour migration of both skilled migrant women working and living in Istanbul, and lower skilled Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs). The findings are based on two distinct case studies that look at female labour migrants from neighbouring countries in the Global […]
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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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The brief focuses on Pakistan and the gendered dynamics of international labour migration as a case study that expands our knowledge of South-South migration and reveals the complexity and context of gendered migration patterns and dynamics. In doing so, this brief aims to advance a gender sensitive understanding of interactions between economic, social and cultural […]
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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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This publication underlines that the delivery of excellent and ethically centred knowledge exchange and research collaborations with a wide range of partners, draws on an extraordinarily wide range of skills, competencies, and resources. We need to be careful and supportive of the people leading this work, as well as our collaborative partners. This is particularly […]
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This report presents the preliminary results of a household survey of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Jaffna District in Northern Province, one of the areas that still has a large IDP population. The main focus of this survey conducted in October 2020 employing Covid-19 safety protocols was to examine the gendered experiences arising from protracted […]
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Previous research on return migration has mainly covered return to political and economically stable countries. Furthermore, the literature predominantly focusses on economic reasons for return. Much less is known about the gendered experience of return migration to conflict-affected contexts, and how this relates to development, gender equality, justice and inclusive peace. This research project explores […]
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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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This study investigated drivers of migration, incorporation of migrants into the labour market, experiences of work and living in Turkey, agency, coping strategies and use of public space. Overall, 28 migrant women working in a variety of sectors, such as domestic and care, textile and trade industries, in addition to professional sectors, were interviewed, between […]