Speaker: Dr. Kamel Dorai
Subject: From Palestinian to Syrian Refugees: Policy Making in Jordan & Lebanon
Date: 17.12.2021
Time: 10.30
Link: https://asbu-edu-tr.zoom.us/j/95331234371?pwd=cnFmcW1NenJBaTBhVUsya1ZWTUk3UT09
Meeting ID: 953 3123 4371
Passcode: 137247
Short bio: Kamel Doraï is geographer and researcher at the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) currently based at MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers (France). He was based at the Ifpo (French Institute for Near East Studies) in Damascus (Syria), Amman (Jordan) and headed the Department of contemporary studies at Ifpo in Beirut (Lebanon). His work focuses mainly on asylum and refugees in the Middle East, with a focus on migration and transnational practices within the Palestinian diaspora. He is currently conducting research on Syrian and Palestinian refugees from Syria in Jordan and Lebanon as well as on the urbanization process of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. He develops comparative studies between refugees residing in and out of camps, as well as analysis of their migratory experience and spatial practices to map the relationships between refugee camps and their urban environment in the Middle East.