فلا تتضايق لأي شَيء يحدُث لك لأنه بإذن الله خَير
Do not be angry and annoyed for anything which happens to you because by the permisson of Allah, it is best for you. ❤️
When #resettlement is unattainable, how do displaced individuals whose #refugee status has been revoked sustain hope, contest exclusion, and navigate the uncertainties of protracted displacement?
In my new article, “Waithood and Creativity in the Absence of Resettlement: Evidence from ‘Residual’ Liberian Refugees in Nigeria,” published in @ERSjournal as part of the Special Issue on “Refugee Resettlement as an Institution,” I analyse how resettlement, rather than being a purely bureaucratic process, endures as a deeply embedded aspiration, a site of resistance, and a contested terrain where post-cessation populations negotiate futures that remain structurally foreclosed to them.
Full text here: https://t.co/dW1VaP1pgC
Many thanks to the guest editors @RawanArar@molly_fee@hebagowayed@blair_sackett and reviewers for their invaluable feedback and support in shaping this piece.
1. You don’t know what woke means
2. You clearly are aloof if this country doesn’t damn near always remind you that whatever given situation, if it’s all going to shit, women will bear the brunt (and brutally, and heavily)
3. Hujui vile misogyny humanifest and that’s the tragedy
A quick look at @AmnestyKenya’s latest report on the events of June 25. One particular story in it really moved me and I share it in this video.
Read the report here: https://t.co/kdb7soG1ip
Alhamdulillah. It’s now official! Dr. Ramla Abass. I am truly grateful for the journey, the challenges, and the incredible support from family, friends and my colleagues who made this possible. @uonbi@ddis_uon
“We exist as women, who are black, who are feminists, each stranded for the moment, working independently because there is not yet an environment in this society remotely congenial to our struggle.” – Michelle Wallace, A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood.
Openly celebrating colonial spatial hierarchies and segregation in 2024 is wild. Anyway, a few thoughts on why no sensible Kenyan should think like this. 1/2
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Police claim “he stumbled while getting into his vehicle” and promise to investigate themselves