Southern Responses to Displacement

Analysing Southern Responses to Displacement from Syria, led by Prof @FiddianQasmiyeh. Funded by @EU_H2020. Tweets views of project owner.

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

#ReadPalestine Day 6
#TheSouthernEye by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh & Saiful Huq Omi links (and embodies how to link) memories and experiences of exile, displacement and genocide from Palestine to the rest of the world. Achingly beautiful, wise and profound!

[Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies @OnlineCHS_en]

🔴 Policy Brief | South–South Cooperation in Diplomatic and Humanitarian Responses to Conflict and Displacement. By Ghassan Elkahlout & Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh @FiddianQasmiyeh

📕 This policy brief outlines key findings and actionable recommendations arising from a closed expert workshop on South–South cooperation in humanitarian and diplomatic responses, co-convened in Doha in February 2025.

✅ The findings underscore that actors from the #GlobalSouth are not auxiliary players but critical to shaping, funding, and delivering responses to contemporary crises of conflict and displacement.

Read the full policy brief👉: https://t.co/g4ieL9wQNv

[Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies @OnlineCHS_en]

🔴 New Report | "South-South Cooperation: Diplomatic and Humanitarian Responses to Conflict and Displacement", by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh @FiddianQasmiyeh

📑 This report draws together key thematic insights arising from the workshop, which was held in collaboration with University College London @ucl, last February, concluding with recommendations for next steps.

🔗 Read the full report: https://t.co/g4ieL9xoD3

[Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh @FiddianQasmiyeh]

👁️ Southern Responses to Displacement Ed @FiddianQasmiyeh & @estycrp, articles by Şule Can, Matt Baille-Smith, Bianca Fadel, Frank Ahimbisibwe, Robert Turyamureeba, Jess Oddy, Marwan Adinsa, Yousif M Qasmiyeh 👉🏼 https://t.co/plcwDVmGnL #Gaza #Syria #Turkey #Uganda #Jordan #Brazil

[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

Nisha's research contributes to a deeper understanding of humanitarianism by analysing it as interpersonal and intersubjective interactions between aid agents, state officials, civic volunteers, locals, and refugees. Read her full profile here: https://t.co/M4bBf5DFw4

[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

SRD Project has new team members! We are pleased to welcome our new Research Fellow, Dr. Aminath Nisha Zadhy-Cepoglu. Learn more about her research on the thread.

[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

Join us at @SouthernResp as Project and Communications Coordinator - read more and apply by 8 May here: https://t.co/Ae3dgUbCv2

[Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh @FiddianQasmiyeh]

Join us at @SouthernResp as Project and Communications Coordinator - read more and apply by 8 May here: https://t.co/UL3ttFB8FU

[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

👉🏽 @SouthernResp is looking for a Research Fellow to examine “Southern” responses to displacement from Syria, including refugees’ own conceptualisations of “humanitarianism” and “the South” - apply by 8 May if you’re interested: https://t.co/ROnYH8JGxY

[Estella w bas @estycrp]

Thx to @AnnaRowlands1& @FiddianQasmiyeh 4putting together the @OUPAcademic Handbook of Religion&Contemporary Migration. Many interesting papers in the volume! My chapter discusses how Syrian refugee 'faith leaders' understand&practice humanitarian work 👇
https://t.co/5mwV2oc5P7

[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

Good news! Our PI Prof @FiddianQasmiyeh’s article, “The right & role of critiquing the contemporary patchwork of protection”, is a #topdownloadedarticle in International Migration - drawing on insights from @SouthernResp & @RefugeeHosts, read it here 👇🏽https://t.co/n5X5dmU6YT

[Refugee Hosts @RefugeeHosts]

More brilliant content to engage with today, #InternationalWomensDay, to celebrate & amplify women academics & scholars, like our colleagues @AnnaRowlands1 @LyndseyStonebri @MalangwaNgole Dima Al-Hamadmad, Bayan Itani, @karenlauter @AnnZuntz @Tamyfakhoury and many more. A🧵👇🏽

[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

The Southern Responses to Displacement research project is based at @UCLgeography and the @UCL_MRU. To find out more about our work this #InternationalWomensDay see below: https://t.co/HtKAERwCfL

[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

This #InternationalWomensDay celebrate & amplify women scholars & academics. The Southern Responses to Displacement project is led by @FiddianQasmiyeh (access her work below) & has been supported through the work of multiple women scholars included in🧵
https://t.co/JO8o0XQPq7

[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

Sara Al Helali is a Researcher based in Turkey and has explored what influences encounters between refugees & their host communities. Sara has also examined how educating host communities is an effective tool to reduce anti-refugee sentiment. https://t.co/Usd5iVePQc

[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

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[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

Listen to @FiddianQasmiyeh's lecture on moving beyond 'the humanitarian grain,' setting aside the ‘humanitarian frame’ & instead focusing on multi-scalar responses to displacement. Does this provide the opportunity to critically 'rethink refugee response?' https://t.co/RhGVGQdU3E

[Southern Responses to Displacement @SouthernResp]

Listen to @FiddianQasmiyeh's lecture on moving beyond 'the humanitarian grain,' setting aside the ‘humanitarian frame’ & instead focusing on multi-scalar responses to displacement. Does this provide the opportunity to critically 'rethink refugee response?' https://t.co/RhGVGQdU3E