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Our Horizon 2020-funded VULNER project is coming to an end in June 2023. To review and discuss the project findings and policy recommendations, we are organising a final stakeholder conference in Brussels, on June 8-9, 2023.
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Sophie Nakueira was one of the trainers in the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) Study Visit hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She discussed how European notions of ‘family’ impact on refugee protection and the resettlement of the most vulnerable refugees. more

Join us on 27 April 2023, from 13.00 to 14.30, for the webinar Contested Vulnerabilities: Refugees’ Experiences of Humanitarian Programs. The event is organized by Sophie Nakueira, leader of the WP on Africa, with the support of Population Europe (Kate Dearden). more

The Migrant Vulnerabilities in the Canadian Protection System Workshop held at the University of Ottawa on Wednesday March 15, 2023, sought to bring together practitioners, community partners, and civil servants to discuss the various research findings of this project. more

On February 2023, 8, Hilde Liden, leader of the VULNER Norwegian team, organized a workshop to launch their second research report, which analysed the experiences of vulnerabilities among migrants seeking protection in Norway. more

On March 2023, 6-8, Luc Leboeuf, VULNER scientific coordinator, took part to the final conference of the PROTECT project. He exchanged on the promises, challenges, and pitfalls, of relying on ‘vulnerability’ as a tool of asylum governance, as part of a panel that was organized by Christine Jacobsen to discuss PROTECT’s findings based on their fieldwork in EU border zones.
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On January 2023, 30-31, Hilde Liden, leader of the work package on Norway and of the work package on vulnerabilities that relate to age, took part to the transnational workshop ‘Migrant Children’s Transition to Adulthood’. She presented a paper entitled ‘Transition to adulthood: From vulnerable children to capable adults?’. more