On Navigating Challenges in Education in Kenya

Welcome to the IASFM20 podcast series.

In this episode, Aireen Andal talks to Abulogn Okello about the educational challenges refugees face in Kenya, focusing on the Accelerated Learning Programs (ALP) he initiated in Dadaab and Ruiru refugee camps. Aimed at empowering refugee women and girls, these programs combat illiteracy and educational gaps amidst obstacles like documentation, cultural traditions, and poverty. 

Okello also shared his experiences as a former refugee from Ethiopia and highlighted the ALP's success in fostering self-sufficiency and his vision for its future expansion and graduate leadership.

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Disclaimer: the IASFM20 Podcast Series is supported by Washington University in St Louis. The views, opinions, and contents expressed in this podcast are solely those of the creators and do not necessarily reflect the views or possessions of Washington University in St Louis.

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On power asymmetry and domination in bilateral asylum governance in Australia and Nauru

Welcome to the IASFM20 podcast series.

In this episode, Staci Martin talks to Jemima McKenna about externalization policies. In her PhD research, McKenna examines the historical context of Australia's colonial relationship with Nauru and how it influences current asylum agreements, highlighting issues of economic dependency, ecological extractivism, and human cost. 

The conversation also explores the challenges of conducting research in this area, particularly gaining Nauruan perspectives, and delves into the complexities of hope, action, and community involvement in addressing forced migration and displacement.

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Welcome to the IASFM20 podcast series.

The third episode features reports and interviews about two pre-conference workshops: "Governance of Displacement and Protection in a Chaotic World," an academic writing workshop for postgraduate students and early career researchers, and "Utopian Imagination: the Action Researcher for Transition Change," which explores the role of design in addressing social issues like refugee situations. This episode includes insights from facilitators and participants who share their experiences and takeaways from the workshops.

Scan the QR Code or search “Memento RDI UREF” on Spotify to listen to the episode. 

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Disclaimer: the IASFM20 Podcast Series is supported by Washington University in St Louis. The views, opinions, and contents expressed in this podcast are solely those of the creators and do not necessarily reflect the views or possessions of Washington University in St Louis.

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Welcome to the IASFM20 podcast series.

In the second episode of the IASFM20 Podcast Series, Ayu Prestasia provides an overview of the first two days of the IASFM20 conference. 

Listen to this episode to catch a glimpse of the pre-conference workshops, keynote lectures, various plenary sessions and panel discussion on border externalization, protection mechanisms, refugee agency, and climate-induced displacement, and the conference side events. 

Scan the QR Code or search “Memento RDI UREF” on Spotify to listen to the episode. 

Have any questions or suggestions? Comment below. Or visit our website at www.iasfm.org

Disclaimer: the IASFM20 Podcast Series is supported by Washington University in St Louis. The views, opinions, and contents expressed in this podcast are solely those of the creators and do not necessarily reflect the views or possessions of Washington University in St Louis.

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Welcome to the IASFM20 podcast series 

Earlier this year, RDI UREF in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, organized the 20th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference (IASFM20), taking the topic of “Forced Displacement in an Urbanizing World. 

Following the conference, we produced this podcast series to share the conference highlights with you. In this first episode, Akino Tahir, the IASFM20 Conference Chair, opens the podcast series with a snapshot of what the series will include. Veronica Fynn Bruey and Staci Martin from the IASFM Executive Committee also introduce IASFM and share their impressions on attending the conference in Indonesia. 

Scan the QR Code or search “Memento RDI UREF” on Spotify to listen to the episode. 

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Disclaimer: the IASFM20 Podcast Series is supported by Washington University in St Louis. The views, opinions, and contents expressed in this podcast are solely those of the creators and do not necessarily reflect the views or possessions of Washington University in St Louis.

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This documentary series is an audio presentation to the USF Seminar Series “Overlooked Cities in Asia: Interrogating blind fields in urban knowledge and praxes” in Bandung, Indonesia, 6-8 September 2023.

In the last part of this series, we are back with Akino from RDI UREF. The conversation will focus on how his movements and displacements shape the subject as a person. We also talk about his quest of belonging and what he will bring to his future. At the end of our conversation, he sends a message for other youth who are experiencing similar situation of displacement. 

Music Credit by order of appearance:

The Epic Hero by Keys of Moon on Soundcloud.com/keysofmoon | Lucid by Metro Vice, Music provided by Audio Library Plus (youtu.be/b2ryQCisQvg or free download/stream at alplus.io/lucid) | Audio excerpt from Afghan ethic music by the Shirafzal Band at Let’s Walk My Journey Exhibition 2022, RDI UREF audio collection | Audio excerpt from “I do not belong here” poem musicalisation at Let’s Walk My Journey Exhibition 2022, RDI UREF audio collection | Sound Effect by Pixabay, Julius H. on Pixabay, and Daud and Plane Spotter ID on YouTube. | Audio excerpt from Emplace online meeting, personal collection.

This documentary series is an audio presentation to the USF Seminar Series “Overlooked Cities in Asia: Interrogating blind fields in urban knowledge and praxes” in Bandung, Indonesia, 6-8 September 2023.

In the second part of this series, we are back with Akino from RDI UREF. The conversation will focus on the subject's life in Indonesia, particularly on his experience of the cities he had been or still living in. We hear about how he builds human connections and attachment to places following his movement from one city to another and how his refugee status or the lack of its recognition hindered how he experience these connections. 

Music Credit by order of appearance:

The Epic Hero by Keys of Moon on Soundcloud.com/keysofmoon | Java Music Jamming Music by framelens_id on YouTube | Indonesian ethnic music by Music for Life on YouTube | Sound Effect by Pixabay, Julius H. on Pixabay, LovelyIndonesia, Daud and Plane Spotter ID on YouTube.

This documentary series is an audio presentation to the USF Seminar Series “Overlooked Cities in Asia: Interrogating blind fields in urban knowledge and praxes” in Bandung, Indonesia, 6-8 September 2023.

In this episode, Akino from RDI UREF is here to introduce a person, who fled his country to seek asylum and is now living in Indonesia. He is a very accomplished young man, a person who fought a lot to be where he is at the moment throughout his prolonged displacement situation. Let us open the first part of this series with an introduction of who he is by talking about his latest works, a film called “Fighting Forward” and a book called “Lost in the Calm”.

Music Credit by order of appearance:

The Epic Hero by Keys of Moon on Soundcloud.com/keysofmoon | Diamond Water Fall R&B Lofi Beat by Brentin Davis on Pixabay | Audio excerpt from “Fighting Forward” movie, available on New Naratif Spotlights on YouTube | Audio excerpt from “Imagine” poem musicalisation at Let’s Walk My Journey Exhibition 2022, RDI UREF audio collection | Sound Effect by Pixabay

This documentary series is an audio presentation to the USF Seminar Series “Overlooked Cities in Asia: Interrogating blind fields in urban knowledge and praxes” in Bandung, Indonesia, 6-8 September 2023.

More than 12,000 refugees and asylum seekers are living in Indonesia, a non-signatory country to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 protocols. With only one Presidential Regulation and no following technical guidance, each city responds to the issue differently, hence the different level of service availability and access to refugees. Often forgotten is the granularity of those decisions; what each local government decides to do has a great influence toward how refugees live their days while ‘in transit’ in Indonesia.

This audio series aims to show how refugees in a state of liminality in Indonesia experience their cities. We will follow the account of a young Hazara refugee from Afghanistan on his journey to establish himself as an emerging writer and film director since his arrival in Indonesia as an unaccompanied minor in 2014.

Music Credit: The Epic Hero by Keys of Moon on Soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. The music is used in the subject’s latest work, “Fighting Forward”.

Selamat datang di Memento, sebuah siniar yang membahas hiruk-pikuk pengungsi perkotaan di Indonesia dan negara lain.

Episode ini adalah episode terakhir podcast Memento RDI UREF di tahun 2021. Kali ini Akino dan Risye berbagi refleksi terhadap diskusi dan cerita yang telah disajikan di podcast ini selama enam bulan terakhir.

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