PAPER PRESENTATION: 4th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies

This morning, I presented a paper on the "Contestation of Space and Power Struggle of ‘Residual’ Liberian Refugees amidst Exclusion and Pandemic in Nigeria" at the 4th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies convened at TU Chemnitz by the Chair of Human Geography with a focus on European Migration Research, led by Professor Dr Birgit Glorius, and was organised in cooperation with the German Network for Forced Migration Studies and the project “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer" (FFVT), sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Exile can be interminably protracted but legal protection– refugee status is not a permanent fix. This paper examines post-refugee precarity and strategies enacted by the displaced to suppress exclusion and mobilised to contest the privileges and control of the indigenous population. It argues for a paradigm shift in the seemingly monolithic humanitarian approach on how we theorise integration, dispossession, and refugees' agency in forced migration and development studies.

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