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Economic Activities of Syrian Refugees in the Context of Turkey’s Volatile Political Landscape (2022)
Thesis
Dege, Y. Economic Activities of Syrian Refugees in the Context of Turkey’s Volatile Political Landscape. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation seeks to reframe and question what it means to study the economic activities of refugees. Taking Syrian refugees in Turkey as its focus, it explores the way that the volatile context of Turkey situates refugees in a complex web of s... Read More about Economic Activities of Syrian Refugees in the Context of Turkey’s Volatile Political Landscape.

The Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan (2022)
Thesis
Bimeny, P. The Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In December 2013, only two years into independence, South Sudan degenerated into civil war following disagreements within the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) leadership. A subsequent Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South S... Read More about The Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan.

Risk and Social Transformation: Gender and forced migration (2016)
Book Chapter
Kaiser, T. (2016). Risk and Social Transformation: Gender and forced migration. In S. Sharoni, J. Welland, L. Steiner, & J. Peders (Eds.), Handbook on Gender and War (194-212). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849808927.00019

As conflict has transformed in the decades since the end of the cold war, civilian populations have borne the brunt of chronic, protracted and unpredictable conflict dynamics. Forced migration is one of the most visible and disruptive consequences of... Read More about Risk and Social Transformation: Gender and forced migration.

Dispersal, division and diversification: durable solutions and Sudanese refugees in Uganda (2010)
Journal Article
Kaiser, T. (2010). Dispersal, division and diversification: durable solutions and Sudanese refugees in Uganda. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 4(1), 44-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531050903550116

Questions over durable solutions in the social, political and security terrain of southern Sudan and northern Uganda invite recognition that simple delineations between ‘‘home’’ and ‘‘exile’’ are inadequate for an understanding of displacement and re... Read More about Dispersal, division and diversification: durable solutions and Sudanese refugees in Uganda.

Social and Ritual Activity In and Out of Place: the 'Negotiation of Locality' in a Sudanese Refugee Settlement (2008)
Journal Article
Kaiser, T. (2008). Social and Ritual Activity In and Out of Place: the 'Negotiation of Locality' in a Sudanese Refugee Settlement. Mobilities, 3(3. Special Issue: 'Migrant Worlds, Material Cultures'), 375-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450100802376670

This article argues that peoples’ affective relationships with the specific physical territories that they inhabit are informed by and constructive of the social relations and practices which are enacted in them. When people are forced to leave their... Read More about Social and Ritual Activity In and Out of Place: the 'Negotiation of Locality' in a Sudanese Refugee Settlement.

Sudanese Refugees in Uganda and Kenya (2008)
Book Chapter
Kaiser, T. (2008). Sudanese Refugees in Uganda and Kenya. In G. Loescher, J. Milner, E. Newman, & G. Troeller (Eds.), Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications. UNU Press