Lajeh Reasearch Programme’s Final Conference

Day 1 - June, 5

10:00 - 10:30 Welcoming
10:30 - 11:45 Opening session

• Presentation of the Programme (20 min.) - Kamel Doraï (Ifpo)
• Keynote speech: Dawn Chatty (Oxford): A Post-Imperial Lens on Conflict and Mass Forced

Migration in the Middle East

Discussion (15 min)

11:45 - 13:30 Reflection on Humanitarian assistance #1

Chair: Marie-Noëlle AbiYaghi - Lebanon support

• Léa Macias (EHESS): What digitalization of humanitarian operations looks like: Data, maps and new technologies in Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan
• Léa Macias, Gwendoline Promsopha & Ingrid Tucci (LEST - Univ. Aix-Marseille): A quantitative study of Syrian refugees’ humanitarian data produced in Jordan
• Amal Khaleefa (DILTEC - Univ. Sorbonne Nouvelle; Ifpo): The Role of English in Zaatari Camp: Prospects and Challenges
• Didem Danis (Univ. Galatasaray) & Dilara Nazli (Middle East Technical University): Faithful

Alliance: NGOs and the State in the reception of Syrian Refugees in Istanbul

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Reflection on Humanitarian assistance #2

Chair: Delphine Mercier - LEST, Univ. Aix-Marseille

• Philippe Bourmaud (LARHRA - Univ. Lyon 2): The menial profession of refugees': international standardization and social discrimination against Armenian women nurses in Mandatory Syria and Lebanon
• Norig Neveu (IREMAM - Univ. Aix-Marseille): Religious migrants: Welcoming Christian Iraqis in

Jordan since 2014: assistance, narrative and actors of churches and religious charities

• Shirine Arab (LEST - Univ. Aix-Marseille): Entre le principe de protection et la réalité humanitaire, le droit international a-t-il les moyens d'agir pour les personnes déplacées ?

18:00 - 20:00 Roundtable & Exhibition on “Architecture of Displacement” (Venue: Fabrika, Ashrafiyeh)

Chair: Mona Fawaz - AUB

• Ayham Dalal (T.U. Berlin)
• Rand el Haj Hasan (Independent Architect, EHESS)
• Pauline Piraud-Fournet (Ifpo)
• Kamel Doraï (Ifpo) Dinner at Fabrika

Day 2 - June, 6

9:00 - 10:00 “Refugisation”

Chair: Jalal Al Husseini - Ifpo

• Paul Tabar (IMS - Lebanese American University): Refugisation: a critical review of the literature
• Manar Fleifel & Elie Khoury (IMS - Lebanese American University): Everyday Perceptions of the

Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:15 Solidarity and Networks - Palestinians #1

Chair: Virginie Baby-Collin - TELEMME, Univ. Aix-Marseille

• Véronique Bontemps, Hala Abu Zaki (IRIS - EHESS): Palestinian family dispersion: status of spaces, status of persons
• Ruba Rahmeh, Iyad Sanded (Two young Palestinians from ATRAB’s project - GIZ): Palestinians

refugees from Syria in Lebanon, two personal experiences

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Solidarity and Networks - Syrians #2

Chair: Virginie Baby-Collin - TELEMME, Univ. Aix-Marseille

• David Lagarde (LISST - Univ. Toulouse): Dynamics and Networks of the Syrian Exodus in the Euro- Mediterranean Space
• Pınar Senoguz (Univ.of Göttingen): Refugee Hospitality in the Turkish Border Region of Gaziantep

12:30 - 18:00 Free Lunch & Fieldwork Visits (Beirut)

18:00 - 20:00 Table ronde : Les réfugiés et leur société d'origine (Venue: Fabrika, Ashrafiyeh)

• Jalal Al Husseini (Ifpo)
• Géraldine Chatelard (Ifpo)
• Agnès Favier (Middle East Directions – European University Institute)

Day 3 - June, 7

9:30 - 10:30

Keynote Speech: Cathrine Brun (Oxford Brookes Univ., CENDEP): Revisiting the relationship between people and place in refugee studies

10:30 - 11:30 Refugees’ settlement in host countries #1

Chair: Thierry Boissière - Ifpo

• Assaf Dahdah (LEST & TELEMME - Univ. Aix-Marseille): L’exil, l’attente et la ville. L’expérience contrastée des Syriens et des Irakiens à Zgharta (Liban-Nord)
• Elif Aksaz (IFEA), Présentation du numéro spécial de la revue Anatoli (n°9, à paraître en automne 2018):

« la Turquie face à la crise des réfugiés de 2015 »

11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Refugees’ settlement in host countries #2

Chair: Mona Harb - AUB

• Sylvia Chiffoleau (LARHRA - Univ. Lyon 2): Trouver abri sous la toile : amorce d’une anthropologie historique de la « tente blanche »
• Myriam Ababsa (Ifpo): Improving Social Cohesion through NRC Housing Program in Irbid Governorate for

Syrians and Jordanians (2014-2016). An Analysis

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch Break

14:15 - 15:45 Refugees, Migrants and the labour market

Chair: Sylvain Perdigon - AUB

• Mustapha El Miri & Delphine Mercier (LEST - Univ. Aix-Marseille): “L'encampement” des réfugiés syriens au Moyen Orient : déborder les frontières de la vulnérabilité par le travail
• Jalal Al Husseini (Ifpo): The policies and politics of the Syrian refugees’ integration in Jordan’s labour market
• Daphné Caillol (Géographie-Cités - Univ. Paris 7): Doing and using movie in with a research perspective:

presentation of the documentary “being Filipina in Jordan”

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 Mobilisation/Engagement

Chair: Emma Aubin-Boltanski - Ifpo

• Matthieu Rey (IREMAM - Univ. Aix-Marseille, Collège de France): Migrer l’urbain, construire le politique
• Valentina Napolitano (Ifpo): Reshaping political, social and familiar networks among Syrians in Gaziantep

17:00 - 18:00 Concluding remarks

• Virginie Baby-Collin (TELEMME - Univ. Aix-Marseille)
• Delphine Mercier (LEST - Univ. Aix-Marseille)
• Kamel Doraï (Ifpo, Beirut)

Dinner in the Ifpo Garden