Refugee Youth in Public Space

Upcoming events

  • Refugee Youth, Public Space and Artistic Practice: HERA Final Conference 2022. Take a look at the programme here. Excited? Register for the conference here.
  • Kirndörfer, E. (05/17/2021). The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on young refugees and asylum seekers. University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld: invited guest lecture for students of Social Work.
  • Kirndörfer, E. (05/27/2020). Temporality and the effects of the Covid-19-pandemic. Realized by a Research Network funded by the German Research Foundation at the University of Aachen.
  • Kirndörfer, E. & Hörschelmann, K. (06/09/2021 –06/11/2021). The role of creative practices in young refugees’ and asylum seekers’ navigations and appropriations of public space in the city. NIAS Conference on Studies of Belonging: https://nias.knaw.nl/news/call-for-proposals-nias-conference-2021/
  • Van Liempt, I.C. & Kox, M.H. (06/09/2021 –06/11/2021). Refugee and asylum youth’s senses of belonging in the urban fabric of Amsterdam. NIAS Conference on Studies of Belonging: https://nias.knaw.nl/news/call-for-proposals-nias-conference-2021/
  • De Backer, M. & Felten, P. (06/09/2021 –06/11/2021).Creative place-making and affective arrival infrastructures for young refugees and asylum-seekers in Brussels. NIAS Conference on Studies of Belonging: https://nias.knaw.nl/news/call-for-proposals-nias-conference-2021/
  • Kirndörfer, E. & Hörschelmann, K.  (7-7-2021 – 9-7-2021). Friendship (networks) in the process of “doing arrival”: Young refugees and asylum seekers’ negotiations of social relationships in urban spaces of arrival. IMISCOE Annual Conference “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: https://www.imiscoe.org/events/imiscoe-events/925-18th-imiscoe-annual-conference-luxembourg-july-7-9-2021.
  • Kirndörfer, E., Hörschelmann, K., De Backer, M., Benwell, M., Hopkins, P. & Finlay, R. (08/31/2021–09/03/2021). Resisting (post)colonial power within the urban everyday: Intersectional perspectives on young refugees’ and asylum seekers’ negotiations of arrival and belonging in Western European city-spaces. London: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021: https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/.
  • De Backer M. (08/31/-09/03/2021). Unsolvable power asymmetries. London: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021: https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/.