Purpose of the Hub
The Refugees and Forced Migration Hub will narrow the focus of enquiry about evidence for faith groups’ activities and contributions to community wellbeing to selected sub-topics. The hub brings together expert stakeholders in areas related to religion, faith, migration and refugees as well as practitioners, policy makers and academics.
The Refugees and Forced Migration Learning Hub is dedicated to collating and communicating evidence on the role of faith actors in responding to refugee and displaced person’s needs, with a view to influencing policy and praxis. Over the coming years, the Hub will:
- Conduct an in-depth Scoping Study to map existing best practice and challenges across a range of contexts
- Begin addressing the evidence gaps and questions raised by the Scoping Study through collaboration with research projects, and by commissioning its own research
- Widely disseminate evidence, learnings and recommendations to practitioners and policymakers for implementation
Refugee Hub Co-Chairs:
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| Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,
Associate Professor, Reader in Human Geography & Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit, University College London |
Atallah Fitzgibbon,
Faith Partnerships Advisor, Islamic Relief Worldwide
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Hub Progress
In 2017, the JLI Refugee Hub completed the first part of their scoping study focused on the role of local faith communities in urban displacement and localization. Dr Olivia Wilkinson led the study with Joey Ager. Click here to read the first scoping study brief and scoping report.
In 2018, the JLI Refugee Hub Members:
- Submitted recommendations to the Global Compact on Refugees Consultation process on working with local faith actors leads to a more coherent, joined up, and efficient response to benefit refugees. Recommendation on Local Faith Communities and the refugee response for Global Compact on Refugees Discussions (left)
- Partnered with UNHCR, UCL and IRW on a project on the role of local faith communities and implementation of the global compact. The hub produced five case studies focused on Honduras, Mexico, Uganda, Germany, and Lebanon about the implementation of the comprehensive refugee response framework. Read the cases here
- collated resources related to the Global Compact on Refugees and Faith
With the adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees, JLI Refugee Hub published a policy brief with accompanying resource brief that provides a reading list of articles related to faith, refugees, and the Global Compact. Also translated into French and Arabic
| Policy Brief: Faith actors and the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees | Resource Brief |
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Luce funded ‘Making Research-informed impact in Global Policy Processes
Current hub work
- See the Terms of Reference for member expectations and Concept Note general hub information.
- The JLI Refugee Hub is finalizing part two of the Scoping Study: places and spaces within the migration journey
- Join the hub to stay up to date or contact Stacy Nam- [email protected] for more information
