Institute of Development Research and Development Policy - Institute of Development Research and Development Policy

Jasmin Fritzsche-El Shewy

Research Fellow; Coordinator German-Arab Programme

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Institute of Development Research and Development Policy
Ruhr-University Bochum
Universitätsstr. 105, Room 2.21
44789 Bochum
Germany

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Phone: +49 (0)234 / 32-22292

Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14294

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Research Interests

Legal Geography
International Human Rights Law
International Refugee Law and Refugee Protection
Forced Secondary Displacement

Current Project

The Secondary Forced Displacement of Palestinian Refugees - A Case Apart?

In recent years, a significant number of refugees have been re-displaced from or within their country of refuge. Most recently, Iraqi and Palestinian refugees have been affected by the conflict in Syria. With displacement being defined in relation to the country of origin, secondary forced displacements are not explicitly accounted for under international law. Thus, multi-layered displacements such as those occurring in Syria leave non-citizens, i.e. refugees, facing a protection gap. This gap becomes particularly apparent in cases of protracted displacement and statelessness. The objective of my doctoral research is to scrutinise the status of refugees under international law in cases of secondary forced displacement. Looking at the manifestations of law on space and vice versa, it asks if the conceptualisation of secondary forced displacement as "overlapping refugeedoms" offers a tool to more comprehensively scrutinise the normative protection of secondary displaced refugees under international law? At the core of this study, I critically engage with concepts such as refugee, citizenship, nationality and identity.

Supervisor Prof. Heintze

Vita

Since 2015:	Institute of Development Research and Development Policy Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany PhD candidate International Development Studies
Trinity Term 2017	Refugee Studies Centre University of Oxford, UK Visiting Study Fellow
2011 - 2012:	London School of Economics and Political Science, UK M.Sc. in Human Rights
2007 - 2011:	University of Bayreuth, Germany B.A. in African Development Studies in Geography Second subject: Law in Africa

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Institute of Development Research and Development Policy
Ruhr University Bochum

Room 2.04
Universitaetsstr. 105
D-44789 Bochum

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Phone:	+49-(0)234 / 32-22418 or 32-22243
Fax:	+49-(0)234 / 32-14-294

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Latest Publications

Beier, Raffael & Fritzsche, Jasmin: Refugees and the City: UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda. In: Forced Migration Review 55, pp. 29-30.

Themba Nyasulu: Harnessing Economic Impacts of Migrant Remittances for Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Review of the Literature.

Annika Engelbert: Public Procurement Law in Sub-Saharan Africa. A Means to Curb Corruption?

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IEE on Tour

September 11 - 26:
Robin Pass
at Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, for the DAAD Alumni Workshop "Challenges of Urbanization" and meetings with cooperation partners in Brazil

September 20 - 22:
Nicole Dittrich
at University of Bonn, Bonn/Germany, attending Tropentag 2017 - "Future Agriculture: Social-ecological transitions and bio-cultural shifts"Future Agriculture: Social-ecological transitions and bio-cultural shifts"

September 21 - 22:
Raffael Beier
at Leibniz - Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin/Germany, attending the workshop "Infrastructure and the Making of Urban Space: Critical Approaches"

September 27 - 28:
Dr. Elkhan Richard Sadik-Zada
at the Faculty of Economics and Girton College, University of Cambridge/UK for a meeting

October 02 - 06:
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein, with Raffael Beier and Jasmin Fritzsche-El Shewy
at the Lebanese American University (LAU), Beirut/Libanon, for a PhD workshop co-organised by IEE and LAU

IEE on Field Research

Ruth Knoblich spends a research period for her PhD as an EUSA-ID Scholar at the University of Cape Town/South Africa from January to December 2017.

Christina Seeger spends a research period in Tamale/Ghana for the Urban Food Plus project from 1 August to 4 October.