Name:

Alexander Ray

Email address:

642361@soas.ac.uk; alexander_ray@soas.ac.uk

Thesis title:

Rethinking the Local–international Dichotomy in Relation to Refugee Protection and Assistance: The Politics of Practice in Managing South Sudanese Displacement (working title)

Year of Study:

4

Internal Supervisors

• Laura Hammond
• Tania Kaiser
• Anna Lindley

Conferences

• The politics of practice and the emerging regional convergence towards refugee policy in East of Africa, Refugee Law Initiative 4th Annual Conference, 2019
• Access issues in researching refugee policy-making, Refugee Law Initiative Research Affiliates Workshop, 2019

Affiliations

• British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)
• Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues Network (ESPMI) - Coordinator
• Graduate Institute, Geneva (Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement; IHEID) - Visiting Fellow
• Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London

• Aidnography
• East Africa
• Forced migration
• Governance
• Horn of Africa
• The humanitarian–development nexus
• Kenya
• The politics of practice
• Refugee protection and assistance
• South Sudan
• Uganda