Five students at the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya are waiting for the COVID-19 pandemic to wind down before celebrating their new master’s degrees. The master’s degree in education is part of a continuum of post-secondary programs offered at Dadaab as part of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Project.
Refugee Rights Day was marked at York University on April 4. As part of the event, an exhibition of artwork by York political science Professor Negris Canefe opened in McLaughlin College. The exhibition will stay in place in the gallery throughout the month of April. Admission is free.
Professor Ali Asgary’s book “Resettlement Challenges for Displaced Populations and Refugees” seeks to better understand population displacement challenges and the role that reconstruction, recovery knowledge and practice play.
Mohamud Siraji was first elected in February 2018 as MP for Jubbaland, the district of Somalia adjacent to the Kenyan border and not far from Dadaab, a complex of refugee camps in Northeast Kenya where he spent most of his youth.
A two-day symposium held at York University examined the Irish famine period (1845 to 1851), when a million or more Irish died and another million emigrated during the worst demographic catastrophe in 19th-century Europe.
York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) presents a month of events co-organized by Syria Response Refugee Initiative lead John Carlaw of CRS, and includes highlighting the opening of the new exhibit “Refuge Canada” at Pier 21 in Halifax, N.S.
A symposium exploring issues of prejudice, discrimination and violence as experienced by Romani refugees in Canada and worldwide will take place at York University Nov. 9 and 10, bringing internationally recognized Romani scholars and activists to the Keele campus.
To mark World Refugee Day on June 20, the Faculty of Education will host a free screening of the documentary film Warehoused. This film explores the plight of refugees through the stories of those in Dadaab, Kenya — one of the largest refugee camps in the world.
York University will mark Refugee Rights Day 2017 with a special panel on contemporary refugee policy in Canada on Tuesday, April 4 at the Keele campus.
From March 6 to 10, a number of York University student groups and the Syria Response and Refugee Initiative (SRRI) at the Centre for Refugee Studies are collaborating in a week of activities under the banner of a Refugees Welcome Here! Week.