Tania Kaiser, senior lecturer at SOAS, will present her work among Sudanese refugees in Uganda. Are Knudsen, senior researcher at CMI, will act as discussant. This is the fourth and final seminar in a series on Mobilities and Conflict, funded by SAMKUL.
Tania Kaiser is a Senior Lecturer in Forced Migration Studies in the Development Studies Department at SOAS, University of London. She is a social anthropologist with interests in forced migration, violence, conflict and gender, and in culture, aesthetics and social change. Her ethnographic work has focused on the socio-cultural and political / protection consequences of displacement for conflict affected populations of Southern Sudanese refugees in Uganda from 1996 to the present. She has carried out policy and evaluation work for a number of humanitarian organizations and consortia, in East and West Africa, and in Sri Lanka. Her work is reflected in a number of book chapters and journal articles, including in the Journal of Refugee Studies, the Journal of East African Studies and in Mobilities.