Publications

Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte sind nicht nur Empfänger:innen von Gesundheitsleistungen, sondern auch als Arbeitnehmer:innen im Gesundheitssektor unabdingbar. Ihrer vielschichtigen Rollen und den damit verbundenen Herausforderungen und Potenzialen widmete sich die Tagung „Systemrelevant und systemisch benachteiligt? (Flucht-)Migration und Gesundheit: Zugang, Teilhabe und Beschäftigung“ am 14. und 15. März 2023 an der Friedrich Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

The online workshop “Contested Categories — Issues at the Intersection of Development and Forced Migration Studies” from 4 - 5 October 2021 was organised by IDOS (German Institute of Development and Sustainability).
The workshop addressed the critique of categories and the debates about them in development research and considers their relevance and utility for forced migration studies (FMS).

On 15 September 2022, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), on behalf of the FFVT project, and the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) jointly organised the online workshop “Forced Migration Studies and Policy Dialogue: Promoting New Ways of Knowledge Production and Policy Transfer”. Invited participants met under Chatham House Rules. The workshop was structured around two sessions: Session one discussed why new ways of doing forced migration research are needed, and session two looked into how to implement such new ways. Each session featured brief impulses and discussions which brought in perspectives from German and Canadian government representatives, public and private research funders, refugee-led organisations and international forced migration researchers from the Global South, North and East.

The first FFVT expert workshop aimed to clarify how the intersection between Peace and Conflict Research and Forced Migration and Refugee Studies can be conceptualised from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines working in this overlapping field.

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)* organised a Parliamentary evening on 12 May 2022 on behalf of the cooperation project “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer” (FFVT) on “Germany’s approach to global forced displacement: How to proceed with resettlement and humanitarian reception”, which focused in particular on the Ukrainian refugee situation.
The evening took place under the auspices of Dr h.c. Thomas Sattelberger, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Among the guests were members of parliament and staff of the Bundestag, migratory policy spokespersons of the political parties and expert officials of relevant ministerial departments.

* The name of the institute was changed to “German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)” in June 2022

On 8 November 2021, FFVT organised the online panel discussion “FFVT on point: Forced migration in Afghanistan and Afghan refugees in the region” to discuss and assess the current situation with academics and practitioners.

The workshop "(Im)mobility in international research cooperation: knowledge and partnerships between the South and North, East and West" on 22 June 2021 provided a platform for representatives of academic and policy-oriented forced migration and refugee studies networks to engage in a dialogue to explore, discuss and critically reflect on questions of structural and content-related cooperation among networks and in international cooperation projects in the field from Southern, Eastern and Northern/Western perspectives. The objective was to identify opportunities and obstacles and to come up with practical steps that we, as a community, can take to work towards more participatory and co-creative approaches in international knowledge cooperation.