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Refuge and Culture: the role of the arts in conditions of displacement event and discussion (London, UK)

June 7, 2018

Lebanon has the highest number of refugees per capita in the world. Ahead of World Refugee Day on 20 June, this session will bring together members of UCL’s Institute of Global Prosperity and the RELIEF Centre to discuss the role of the arts in situations of mass displacement.

Poets, photographers, and academics working with RELIEF will present some of their work in order to prompt a conversation around a range of issues, including media representations of refuge and displacement, and how we might engage with displaced people more directly and more effectively.

Refugee Connectivity: A Survey of Mobile Phones, Mental Health, and Privacy at a Syrian Refugee Camp in Greece (Data & Society and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, 2018)

April 21, 2018

This study provides new evidence of the critical role internet connectivity and mobile devices play in the lives and wellbeing of this population. Findings are based on a survey of 135 adults amongst the 750 residents at Ritsona Refugee Camp in Greece.

The report is the result of 2017 field research by Data & Society, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) Signal Program on Human Security and Technology, and Centre for Innovation at Leiden University.

Women are less likely to own a mobile phone than men – 94% of men own a phone, compared to 67% of women. Mobile phone access is “important” to over 80% of refugees in this study.
Approximately 2 of every 5 refugees participating in this study may be classified as moderately to severely depressed according to the validated depression scale used in the survey. Each additional day an individual used a phone in the past week was associated with a reduction in their probability of being depressed.
Eighty-six percent (86%) said they would not be concerned about giving their personal information to a UN official. Yet for Facebook, 30% expressed concern about giving the social media site their personal information, 52% were unconcerned, and 15% were unsure. Thirty-three percent (33%) said they have been asked to provide information about themselves that they would rather not have given.
Ninety-four percent (94%) use WhatsApp, 78% use Facebook, about 38% use Google Translate and Google Maps, and 9% use Skype.
Privacy, trust, and information security are important factors for refugees. Many respondents had a sense of the people and platforms they would or would not trust with their sensitive information.
Refugees have nuanced views on privacy and information sensitivity. Response organizations must protect the privacy rights of refugees and understand that different technologies receive different degrees of trust.
The study demonstrates the need for further research and assessment of social context for any technology deployed for refugees.
In order to be able to deploy technological intervention effectively and responsibly, say the authors, social factors specific to refugee populations need to be understood.

Click here for full study.

29 September – 2 October 2017: Re-tracing Home – Drawing Workshops (Vienna, Austria)

September 16, 2017

We are delighted that the C4D Network is part of the ‘Re-tracing Home’ project by Guerilla Architects in cooperation with Caritas, future.lab, and Architecture for Refugees, and supported by Hans Sauer Stiftung as part of the Vienna Design Week (VDW).

In the scope of the so-called “refugee crisis” Guerilla Architects aim to develop experimental alternatives to conventional “refugee architecture” hand in hand with newcomers. A two-phase participatory workshop and guided city walks shall provide the basis of an “ideal home” installation.

What does home mean to you? These creative drawing and writing workshop will bring together newcomers, social workers, designers and VDW visitors to exchange ides about the ‘ideal’ home. They will investigate how far the “speaking, writings and drawing with different voices” can incorporate the socio-cultural and architectural background of the participants into the design process of their “home-making”.

If you want to pre-book, please state your preferred event(s) and send an email with your motivation and background to: [email protected]hitects.de

Or visit our Facebook event: http://bit.ly/2xaIGAl

World Radio Day London event 2017: ‘Radio and Global Transitions’ (overview and panel discussion recording)

February 26, 2017

On 10 February we joined forces with SOAS Radio and the Centre of African Studies to co-host the ‘World Radio Day London 2017: Radio and Global Transitions’ event – an exciting event with stalls and interactive exhibitions representing community radio and communication & development organisations, speakers and a panel discussion. Attendees came from across the UK and those not able to make the event could join us ‘virtually’ through SOAS Radio’s live broadcast and interviews.

The event began with the trade fair, featuring stalls from Radio Active, Children’s Radio Foundation, Development Media International, SciDev.Net, Radio Souriat (Syrian Women’s Radio for Peace), InsightShare, London International Development Centre, Refugee Radio, and the Radio Garden .

Workshops led by Roundhouse Radio and Whistledown Productions also ran throughout the afternoon. David Prest led a session on the different forms of radio documentary, and Max Graef and Niccy Logan examined the more practical side of the production process and discussed their own experiences of working both in London and abroad.

The evening panel discussion included talks from Carlos Chirinos from New York University/SOAS, Dr. Caroline Mitchell from University of Sunderland/Transn ational Radio Encounters, Stephen Silverwood from Refugee Radio, and James Deane from BBC Media Action. They spoke on the topic: How is radio representing global transitions? Discussions ranged from learning from the use of local music artists for behaviour change during the Ebola Crisis, to the Radio Garden project, the use and aims of participatory radio, and the changing role of radio over the past three decades.

Further listening and reading

Click here to read the keynote speech from James Deane, BBC Media Action in full.

World Radio Day 2017 Podcast Series: In the build up to the World Radio Day Event 2017 the SOAS Radio Team interviewed community radio, representatives of communication for development organisations, radio industry professionals and academics on this year’ theme of ‘Radio and Global Transitions’ in a series of podcasts available via: https://soasradio.org/speech/podcasts/world-radio-day

Listen in full via SOAS Radio to the World Radio Day 2017 London panel discussion ‘Radio and Global Transitions’ https://soasradio.org/…/world-radio-day-2017-panel-radio-an…

Photos of the event can be viewed via the SOAS Radio Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/soasradio/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1419229048129214.

Communautés locales : fournisseurs de protection de premier et de dernier ressort (Revue des migrations forcées 53)

November 5, 2016

Il arrive bien souvent que ce soit les membres de la communauté immédiate qui fournissent les premières, les dernières et peut-être les meilleures réponses tactiques aux personnes qui subissent un déplacement ou vivent dans la menace d’un déplacement. Quelle que soit la manière dont la protection ou la communauté sont définies, à moins qu’ils comprennent cette réalité les acteurs extérieurs éprouveront des difficultés à proposer un soutien approprié. S’ils ne réussissent pas à développer une conscience plus aiguë du rôle assumé par les stratégies communautaires de protection ils risquent d’échouer à intégrer activement le « pouvoir d’agir » des communautés à leurs politiques comme à leur programmation ; au pire, ils risquent d’entraver la capacité de prévenir ou de survivre à la violence et au déplacement inhérente aux communautés.