Posts from LPP authors in Forced Migration Studies.
LPP authors Haya Al-Dajani, Maysa Baroud, and Deema Refai document the stories of Arab refugee women entrepreneurs who turn displacement into empowerment, and reveal the perils and pitfalls of refugee entrepreneurship.
by Miriam Potocky Rafaidus | Today, as I watch troubling developments unfold in the United States, I can’t help but feel history knocking—not softly, but insistently. The parallels between the collapse of Czechoslovak democracy in 1948 and the democratic backsliding occurring in the U.S. under the Trump administration in 2025 are unnerving.
How do we remain hopeful to maintain ‘the energy to act’ when confronted with a daily onslaught of visual evidence of the worst in mankind? This requires a shift from an individual to a relational ethics that strengthens our response-ability.