- Refugee Advisory Board Germany - Refugees: Equal Partners in Political Decision Making
The Refugee Advisory Board Germany has been established to ensure that international decision-making is informed by the perspective and expertise of f...
- Everyday lives of Rohingya refugee women in the Bangladesh–Myanmar borderlands
This empirical study aims to better understand the everyday lives of Rohingya women and their responses to pervasive gender-based violence in refugee...
- Return and belonging (RE-MIG) - Notions of return after conflict-induced conflict
Peacebuilding and political actors working on return policies rarely take into account the experiences of people going through a return process. The...
- Decentring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission and Return Policies in Europe and Beyond
GAPs aims to examine the disconnects and discrepancies between expectations of return policies and their actual outcomes by decentring the dominant, o...
- Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer
Research on forced migration and refugees is highly relevant in Germany. As its importance has grown, so has the demand for expertise from civil...
- Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change
Over the course of four years (2019–2023), the qualitative and multi-sited research project “Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of dis...
- Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (TRAFIG)
To improve the protection and resilience of refugees and to enhance trust and cooperation between refugees and host communities, BICC together with ...
- Forced Displacement—Research and Transfer: Approaches from peace & conflict studies
Since 2015, the topics of “forced displacement” and “refugees” have been predominant topics of discussion in German and European politics, in the medi...
- Between civil war and integration—Refugees and the challenges and opportunities of societal change in North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), with its strong urbanization, cultural variety and openness, is one of the areas in Germany and Europe that attract...
- Cultural and educational opportunities in refugee camps in Lebanon
According to United Nations figures covering the period since 2014, roughly one in four inhabitants of Lebanon is a refugee. Lebanon's...
- People in in-between space: How forced immobility is dealt with in Kabul (Crossroads Asia)
BICC has been a member of the Crossroads Asia research network since the beginning of 2015. This network of seven German universities and research...
- Protected rather than protracted—Strengthening refugees and peace
The majority of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) find themselves displaced for more than five years—either in their own or in n...
- (Re)migration in Central Asia and implications for regime stability in three Central Asian countries
Since independence of the Central Asian states in the aftermath of the end of the of the USSR, their economic situation has markedly deteriorated. As...
- DIASPEACE—Diaspora for Peace: Patterns, trends and potentials of long-distance diaspora involvement in conflict settings. Case studies from the Horn of Africa
The perception of migrants in the European Union has changed considerably in recent years. Increasing attention is now being focused on the complex...
- Study on the use of diasporas in core government functions and services in Post-conflict and fragile situations
Commissioned by OECD-PDG this project intended to study the effects of returnee diaspora members on improving governance in fragile and post-conflict...
- GMF transatlantic study team on climate-induced migration
The development of scenarios and models pertaining to the ecological and socio-economic effects of climate change on particularly affected regions of...
- African migrant organizations (MO) in North Rhine-Westphalia – Forms of organization and activities
In 2010, BICC carried out a study on “Migration—Integration—Development. African migrant organizations in North Rhine-Westphalia” on behalf of the Sti...
- Conference “Migration and Displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Security Migration Nexus II”
BICC organized the international conference on “Migration and Displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Security‑Migration Nexus II” which took place in...
- The Security-Migration Nexus - Challenges and Opportunities of African Migration to EU Countries
The Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) organized an international conference entitled “The Security-Migration Nexus: Challenges and O...
- The role of the African diaspora in conflicts
The question of the migration and integration of groups of migrants in Germany is not only the subject of discussion in the media and in public but...
