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WHERE: Registration required. Click here for more information.  About the Moderator: Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. Her doctoral work centered on a coalition of social movement organizations calling for an end to the ongoing "non-governmental" occupation of Haiti. She is currently working on a monograph entitled  Development Contested in Occupied Haiti: Social Movements, NGOs, and the Evangelical State. She has also served as an organizer with land and housing rights organizations Take Back the Land-Miami and is presently t...

A refugee at the Gashora transit centre in Rwanda receives his COVID-19 vaccine.  © Plaisir Muzogeye.

Florida International University Search March 16, 2021 at 3:42pm Undocumented immigrants who have children born in the United States live with a particular fear: What will happen if they are deported, and their children are left alone in this country? “How do parents deal with this?” wondered Maryam Rafieifar, a doctoral student in social welfare at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work. “What steps do they take to ensure their children’s safety?” Rafieifar wanted to find out. Even when their parents are not deported, many children are impacted by the precarious ...

Sense of peaceful co-existence is growing up between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims By Md. Kamruzzaman The writer Kamruzzaman is an Asia-based prize-winning freelance journalist who mainly writes on diplomacy, refugee, human rights, and climate change. His articles have been frequently published by Turkish Anadolu Agency, South Asian Monitor, and other media outlets including Aljazeera as the content of the Anadolu Agency Since its independence from the British colony on January 4, 1948, Myanmar [the then Burma] has already passed more than seven decades. But the nationals of the Buddhist maj...

February 23, 2021 Covid-19 travel restrictions brought human mobility to a grinding halt and left millions of people stranded globally. While the focus must remain on the acute health crisis and equitable vaccine distribution, the unprecedented level of immobility offers an opportunity to rethink and reshape global migration systems increasingly overfocused on securitized responses. Doing so could be the difference between economic rebound and stagnation. Not doing so could have grave strategic security consequences. The pandemic is increasing migration-related pressures across the globe. For...