GDI Community of Practice: Continuing conversations about migration
| Dates: | 11 June 2024 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Webinar |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16 |
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Join us for our next community of practice exploring the challenges and complexities facing migrant- and refugee-led organisations. In this session, we’ll focus on platforming the experiences of displaced people, migrants, and forced refugees – much-needed voices in our community of practice.
We’ll hear the story of Alimamy Bangura, a disability rights advocate who promotes the rights of disabled people and the LGBTQ community. In his home country of Sierra Leone, Alimamy was a politician and the only person with a disability to stand as a member of parliament in the 2018 general election. Alimamy fled Sierra Leone following the election, receiving refugee status in the UK in 2019.
We’ll also hear from Fabiola Mieres, a researcher in the Effective Labour Market Institutions Team at the ILO Research Department. Fabiola has a diverse range of academic, policy and private sector experience, and has published on labour migration, recruitment, and worker-driven social responsibility initiatives to address forced labour in global supply chains.
You don't have to have a previous community of practice to take part - all welcome!
For more information, please email Natalie Cunningham at natalie.cunningham-3@manchester.ac.uk.
Register via Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0scOirqT0iHNOtNhQieS0Trqeo3j3MnCzX
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