REFUGEES & INSTABILITY

This project focuses on refugee and forced migration flows, with a particular focus upon decisions regarding where to flee and which routes to follow. Much of this interest is captured in an ongoing Minerva Initiative-funded project with co-PIs Faten Ghosn, Shane Johnson, and Toby Davies. In this project we explore how violence informs patterns of departure, how government policies and geography affect the routes followed by forced migrant and refugee populations, and how these processes subsequently relate to local patterns of instability in destination countries.

Project Details

People

Alex Braithwaite    Professor, University of Arizona
Toby Davies    Lecturer, University College London
Faten Ghosn   Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Shane Johnson    Professor, University College London
Michael Frith    Post-doc Researcher, University College London

Tiffany Chu    Assistant Professor, Virginia Military Institute
Miranda Simon    Lecturer, University of Essex
Justin Curtis    PhD Candidate, University of Arizona
Zahra Jafari    PhD Candidate, University College London

Published articles

Hosting your enemy: Accepting refugees from a rival and respect for human rights. (Chu).
Violence and the perception of risk associated with hosting refugees. (Braithwaite, Chu, Curtis, Ghosn).
Violence, displacement, contact, and attitudes toward hosting refugees. (Ghosn, Braithwaite, Chu). 
Refugees, forced migration, and conflict. (Braithwaite, Salehyan, Savun).
Could contact stem the rising tide of negative attitudes towards hosting Syrian refugees in Lebanon? (Ghosn, Braithwaite).
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Commentary

What shapes public attitudes toward hosting Syrian refugees. (Chu, Braithwaite, Ghosn, Curtis). 
IDPs & refugees: Two sides of the same coin. (Ghosn, Braithwaite).
Interpreting the migration crisis: A symposium.  (feat. Ghosn, Braithwaite).