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BEYOND members have convened a panel on archival research at the 8th Annual Conference of the Refugee Law Initiative, taking place at the University of London.

The BEYOND project has been offered a contract for an edited collection in Brill's International Refugee Law Series. 

Arjumand Kazmi's research has taken her from the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan to archives in Switzerland. Back in Norway she found herself struggling to do justice to her informants.

On 10-11 January, 2024, the BEYOND project will organize “Navigating the UNHCR Archives”, a hands-on workshop on accessing and analyzing archival material from the international refugee organization.

BEYOND PI Maja Janmyr's article "The 1951 Refugee Convention and Non-Signatory States: Charting a Research Agenda" attracts much scholarly attention in the International Journal of Refugee Law.

The BEYOND project organizes an online exploratory workshop to generate discussions, form networks and explore collaborations for future research on the interplay between international refugee law and non-signatory states. The call for participation is now open.

Professor Maja Janmyr joins the American University of Beirut's (AUB) Issam Fares Institute as Associate Fellow with expertise on international migration law.

With the final appointment of Dr. M Sanjeeb Hossain, BEYOND's Advisory Board is complete.

The BEYOND project co-organized a half-day seminar on International Refugee Law and the Rohingya refugee situation at Brac University's Centre for Peace and Justice in Dhaka.

Drawing on examples from Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, Maja Janmyr will present BEYOND research on how the Refugee Convention continues to structure States' responses to refugees, also in key non-signatory States.

Dr. Özlem Gürakar-Skribeland is the BEYOND project’s new postdoctoral research fellow. She will spend the next few years studying Turkey’s role in the international refugee regime.

Dr. Arjumand Bano Kazmi is joining the BEYOND project. As a postdoctoral research fellow, she will be exploring the socio-legal and political landscape of Pakistan’s refugee protection regime.

Naureen Rahim is about to take up her new PhD research fellowship with the BEYOND project. She is excited to build on her previous research engagement with Rohingya refugees to study the relationship between Bangladesh and the international refugee regime.

Professor Maja Janmyr participated in a panel with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on responses to global displacement.

To mark the launch of the Forced Migration Review special feature on non-signatory states and the international refugee regime, the BEYOND project organized two launch events. The recordings of these events can be watched here.

The BEYOND project has collaborated with Forced Migration Review on a special feature on states non-signatory to the Refugee Convention.

Two postdoctoral positions and one PhD position are available in the project “Protection without Ratification? International Refugee Law beyond States Parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention” (BEYOND).

During this year’s Annual Conference at the University of London’s Refugee Law Initiative, the BEYOND project convenes the panel on "Non-Signatory States and the 1951 Refugee Convention: Snapshots from the Middle East and South Asia”.  

Forced Migration Review issue 67 – to be published in June/July 2021 – will include a short feature on Non-signatory states and the international refugee regime.

Deadline for submission of articles: Monday 15th March 2021.

BEYOND’s PI Professor Maja Janmyr has been appointed as a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) in the Oxford Department of International Development.

Does the Refugee Convention still have an impact in states that have not signed it? How do these states actually contribute to the development of international refugee law?  Maja Janmyr will discover the answers to these and other questions when she kicks off the ERC Starting Grant project entitled BEYOND.