Tuesdays • 2:30 pm
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
*Spring 2021 Seminars will be hosted online via Zoom
Spring 2021 | Fall 2020 | Spring 2020 | Fall 2019 | Spring 2019 |Fall 2018 | Spring 2018 | Spring 2017
Spring 2021
March 2
Prison or Sanctuary? An Evaluation of Camps for Syrian Refugees
Thomas Ginn, Center for Global Development
march 16
Refugee-led Responses to Overlapping Precarity: Views from North Lebanon
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, University College London – Migration Research Unit
april 13
Growing up Under Forced Displacement: Evidence from Bangladesh and Jordan
Sarah Baird and Professor Jennifer Seager, George Washington University – Department of Global Health
april 27
The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar
Paula López Peña, Yale University – Refugee Program and Department of Economics
May 4
Impacts of a Refugee Shelter Program: Experimental Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Life Survey
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley – Department of Economics and Center for Effective Global Action
Fall 2020
SEPTEMBER 29
Creating Coexistence: Intergroup Contact and Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq
Salma Mousa, Stanford University – Immigration Policy Lab and Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
OCTOBER 13
Outsourcing Otherness: Race and Belonging in the Morocco-EU Border
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Yale University – Council for African Studies
OCTOBER 27
A Market for Work Permits
Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University – Department of Economics
NOVEMBER 3
Family-Based Mental Health Promotion for Somali Bantu and Bhutanese Refugees: Results of a Feasibility and Acceptability Trial
Theresa Betancourt, Boston University – School of Social Work, and Harvard Medical School
NOVEMBER 17
Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance
Chris Blattman, University of Chicago – Pearson Institute and Harris Public School
DECEMBER 1
Brother or Invaders? How Crisis-Driven Migrants Shape Voting Behavior
Sandra Rozo, University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business
Spring 2020
JANUARY 28
Let Them In: Representing Refugees in the Age of the Invisible Wall
Julie Kornfeld, Yale University – Law School and Refugee Rights and Stephen Poellot, Yale University – Law School and Fordham University School of Law
FEBRUARY 4
The Preferred Solution? Repatriation and the Resolution of Refugee Situations
Megan Bradley, McGill University - Department of Political Science and Institute for the Study of International Development
FEBRUARY 25
Refugee Compacts: Bridging Evidence, Policy, and Politics for More Sustainable Approaches to Protracted Displacement
Cindy Huang, Refugees International
MARCH 3
Allowing Migrants to Work: Impacts of Giving Job Permits in Labor Markets
Ana María Ibáñez, Inter-American Development Bank
APRIL 1*
Early Childhood Development in the Syrian and Rohingya Refugee Response Regions
Hiro Yoshikawa, New York University – Applied Psychology and Alice Wuermli, New York University – Low-Income Countries Program
* Wednesday, 1:00-2:30pm School of Management - EVANS Hall, 165 Whitney Avenue, 2400 Class of 1980 Classroom
APRIL 7*
Family-Based Mental Health Promotion for Somali Bantu and Bhutanese Refugees: Results of a Feasibility and Acceptability Trial
Theresa Betancourt, Boston University – School of Social Work and Harvard Medical School
* Postponed to November 3rd, 2020
Fall 2019
SEPTEMBER 24
The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt
Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham - Middle East Politics, and Harvard University - Center for European Studies
October 8
Not Only in the Mediterranean: Humanitarian Challenges of Migration in and Out of Africa
Steven W. Smith, Duke University - Department of African and African American Studies
October 22*
India’s National Register Process in Assam: The Idea of Citizenship and the Future of Those Declared Non-Citizens
Sushant Singh, Indian Express Newspaper
* Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall (RKZ), 115 Prospect Street
October 29*
Hosting the Rohingya
C. Austin Davis, American University - Department of Economics, and Yale University – MacMillan Center
* Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall (RKZ), 115 Prospect Street
November 5
Migration Policies at the Crossroads: Between Nationalist and Populist Repression and Long-Term Strategic ‘Facilitation’ of Mobility
François Crépeau, McGill University - Faculty of Law and Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
November 15 - FRIDAY*
The Political Value of Time
Elizabeth Cohen, Syracuse University - Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
* Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall (RKZ), 115 Prospect Street
Spring 2019
January 16
New Methods of Discussing Gender Norm Change and Sensitive Subjects: A Case Study of Body Map Panels with South Sudanese refugees
Hilary Matfess, Yale University - Department of Political Science
Instrumentalizing Mental Health in Jordan: International Aid, Practitioners, and the Syrian Refugee
Erik Kramer, Yale University - School of Medicine
January 23
Dangerous Alliances-Cooperation Between the EU and Third States in Migration
Lena Riemer, Yale University - Yale Fox International Fellowship
February 20
Crimes of Rescue: Humanitarian Smuggling and the Limits of Legitimate Criminalization
Violeta Moreno-Lax, Queen Mary University of London - School of Law
February 27
Understanding Legal Recourse for Refugees in Turkey
Pilar Brito, Yale University - Law School
April 3
Child Protection and Migration: The Human Rights Consequences of the European Migration Policy
Vasileia Digidiki Lucero, Harvard University - School of Public Health
aPRIL 10
Fall 2018
SEPTEMBER 19
Africa’s Sanctuary City: Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi, Kenya
Derese Kassa, Iona College - Sociology Department
OCTOBER 3
Global Health Connections and Care of Vulnerable Populations
Aisha Sethi, Yale University - Dermatology Global Health Program
NOVEMBER 7
What is Happening in Nicaragua? From an Accidental Activist
Lorna Solis, Blue Rose Compass
NOVEMBER 14
Host and Refugee Communities in Bangladesh: Data and Policy
C. Austin Davis, Yale University - Department of Economics
Spring 2018
January 25
Digital Refugees: Displacement and Connectedness
Sandra Ponzanesi, Columbia University - Department of English and Comparative Literature; and Utrecht University - Gender and Postcolonial Studies
MARCH 1
Mass Violence and Mass Exodus: The Causes and Consequences of the Rohingya Crisis
Mayesha Alam, Yale University - Political Science Department; and Yale Law School - Global Health Justice Fellow
April 12*
Humanitarian Diplomacy in Syria and The Civilian Trauma Response for the Battle for Mosul
Ahmad Tarakji, Syrian Medical Society
Paul Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University - Center for Humanitarian Health
*Yale School of Public Health, 47 College Street (CLP), Room 106B
april 19*
Exploring the Food and Nutrition Security of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities During a Protracted Crisis: the Case of Lebanon
Lamis Jomaa, American University of Beirut - Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
* Laboratory of Epidemiology & Public Health (LEPH), 60 College Street, Room 126
Spring 2017
March 2
HIV/AIDS Prevention Research in Lebanon
Kaveh Khoshnood, Yale University - Yale School of Medicine
march 30
Humanitarian Experiences and Everyday Life During the West African Ebola Outbreak
Kristen McLean, Yale University - Department of Anthropology
april 6
The Framework of Refugee Protection in the United States: International Obligations and Domestic Laws
Maya Prabhu, Yale University - Yale School of Medicine