Afghan resettlement in England: Emerging findings
Exploring the experiences of Afghan refugees as they move into accommodation and ‘embed’ in specific places across the country, under government-supported resettlement schemes.
Afghan resettlement in England: Emerging findings
20 Mar 2025, 12:00 – 13:00
In this seminar, the research team will present early findings of research undertaken with Afghans resettled across varied sites in England under government-supported resettlement schemes, involving a team of 20 Afghan peer researchers. They will discuss how place intersects with migrant heterogeneity (by social class, ethnicity, gender and life course) to shape experiences and outcomes.
In particular, the seminar focuses on research carried out with Afghan young people to consider how place informs feelings of belonging, offers or limits opportunities in relation to newly forged educational and social trajectories, and influences young people’s positionality within shifting gendered and familial dynamics following resettlement.
This seminar will conclude with a reflection on the opportunities and challenges presented by both creative and participatory methodologies and multiple-perspectival research, to address issues of language, power and ethics and disrupt homogenised understanding of displaced populations.
This event will be particularly useful for policymakers, sociologists, refugee scholars and anthropologists.
Related links
- Afghan resettlement in England: Outcomes and experiences
- Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU)
- TCRU seminar series
- Social Research Institute
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Her research interests are in migration, social justice and education, with particular interest in city-level responses to asylum seekers, refugees and resettled populations.
She is currently Principal Investigator of the two-year Nuffield funded project Afghan resettlement in England: outcomes and experiences (2024-2025).
He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Bath's Department of Social Policy Sciences.
His research focuses on conflict and humanitarian action and he has contributed to international peace and development organisations, such as through education, peace and conflict resolution programmes.
She works as a consultant for the UK Ministry of Defence at Weeton Barracks, and has worked as a freelance journalist; her coverage of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was recognised as one of the Guardian's top five articles of the year.
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