Academic networks
Global and regional academic networks specialised in refugee law and international protection. Get involved!
Global networks
GAIN Network
Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network
Launched at the 2019 Global Refugee Forum, the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN) facilitates specific deliverables on three objectives:
- Research in support of the four objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees: i) ease the pressures on host countries; ii) enhance refugee self-reliance; iii) expand access to third-country solutions; iv) support conditions in countries of origin for return in safety and dignity.
- Teaching training and knowledge sharing to advance knowledge sharing on refugee, forced displacement and statelessness issues
- Solidarity of the academic community with forcibly displaced scholars and students through concrete support (e.g. scholarships).
GAJE
The Global Alliance for Justice Education is an ALLIANCE of persons committed to achieving JUSTICE through legal EDUCATION. Clinical education of law students is a key component of justice education, but this organization also works to advance other forms of socially relevant legal education, which includes education of practicing lawyers, judges, non-governmental organizations and the lay public.
Global PhDs on Statelessness
GPS is a network of PhD students and Doctoral researchers engaged on issues of citizenship and statelessness around the world. The network was set up by participants of the inaugural PhD Workshop on Citizenship and Statelessness hosted by Tilburg University in October 2018.
Regional networks
LAREF Network
Latin American Academic Network on the Law and Integration of Refugees
The LAREF Network is currently made up of 40+ scholars coming from a wide range of countries from Mexico to Argentina and Spain with diverse backgrounds. The LAREF Network’s members provide direct assistance to asylum seekers, refugees, stateless persons and forced migrants; work on the elaboration and dissemination of scientific and informative materials about refugee and migration studies; seek to promote the access of these persons to education; and aim at formal and informal ways of collaboration among its members. To this end, it carries out comparative studies, joint research and publications, as well as member exchange projects.
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The LAREF Network was envisaged in 2013 and established in 2014 by a group of scholars following the proactive academic capacity and network-building activities carried out by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee with support from the UNHCR through the RELATE Initiative.
Since its creation, the Network has expanded and has been meeting formally once a year with the aim of improving professional exchange on the theory, practice of international protection, innovative teaching methodology, as well as to establish new forms of partnerships in the region. Moreover, the LAREF Network made a unique set of commitments through the Santiago Charter adopted on 30 November 2019, in Santiago de Chile, and presented as a joint pledge at the Global Refugee Forum. Thus, we contend that this form of cooperation between academics and professionals working in the field of refugee and forced migration law produces unique practical and academic results that benefit people of concern.
Odysseus Network
The Odysseus Academic Network is a network of legal experts in immigration and asylum in Europe. It was founded in 1999 by Philippe de Bruycker, Professor and researcher at the Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), with the financial support of the European Commission. The network is a platform for the exchange of knowledge and expertise between academics, policy-makers, practitioners and NGOs in the field of immigration and asylum law and policy.
ENCLE
ENCLE is a European Network of persons committed to achieving justice through education. It aims to bring together persons from different countries, who exchange perspectives and work collaboratively from a variety of legal, educational and organizational settings in order to promote justice and increase the quality of law teaching through Clinical Legal Education (CLE).