Social resilience webinar series: Social Resilience and Migration

Webinar 3 of 5: Social Resilience and Migration

Please refer to the SCSC blog for the webinar Zoom link

At this seminar, we will discuss and problematise what social resilience can mean in the context of migration with insights from three qualitative and mixed-methods projects focusing refugee- and migrant experiences.

Speakers:

Philomena Okeke-Ihejirika, Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Alberta, CAN. 
On re-envisioning resilience: African immigrant and refugee families’ resilience in transnational contexts.

Ibrahim Kira, Professor of Health and Human Services, Director of the Center for Cumulative Trauma Studies, Georgia, USA. 
On the will to fight (exist, live, and survive) in Syrian refugees and torture survivors.

Torun Elsrud, Associate Professor of Sociology, Linnaeus University. 
On hope, agency, and suffering in the asylum context.

Azher Hameed Qamar, Postdoctoral researcher, School of Social Work, Lund University. 
Social resilience in the context of immigrants’ transitory experience in the host country.

About SCSC

The Society for Critical Studies of Crisis (SCSC) is the culmination of more than two years of inter-disciplinary work at Lund University supported by the Pufendorf Institute through an Advanced Study Group and a CRISIS Theme. These initiatives were a response to urgent calls for political action and ethical calls for more inclusive and efficient models for crisis prevention, mitigation, and restoration.

The SCSC is a non-profit Lund University-based association which was launched at the Symposium on Critical Explorations of Crisis:  Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities in 2019. It provides a platform for members’ engagement, both individuals and institutions with an interest in critical crisis studies. Membership in the SCSC is free. An annual general meeting will be held.

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