Round Table: Welcoming Refugees? Local Reception, Support, and Political Participation
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Lecture Series FORCED MIGRATION
3 February 2027, 4:15-5:45 pm, CET
Hybrid: On-site in room HG 109 (Senate Hall, Viadrina Main Building) & Online
Round Table: Welcoming Refugees? Local Reception, Support, and Political Participation
Contributors:
Emanuela Faleńczyk (Integration Commissioner, City of Frankfurt (Oder)
Pierre Vicky Sonkeng Tegouffo (Brandenburg Refugee Council)
Mara Hasenjürgen (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Fereshta Hussain (Board Member of the Migrants’ Advisory Council; Social Work Officer at FMI – Specialist Centre for Migration and Integration).
The roundtable looks at changes in refugee accommodation and reception in Brandenburg over the past ten years. Bringing together civil society organisations, practitioners, and activists from Brandenburg and Berlin, it will discuss local reception structures, the recognition of particular protection needs, and opportunities and barriers to refugees’ social and political participation.
The Roundtable discussion will be held in German. Questions in English are welcome. Simultaneous interpretation into English will be provided if a sufficient number of English-speaking participants register. Please register here: https://forms.europa-uni.de/form/alias/EUV/roundtable
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FORCED MIGRATION – Lecture Series, Winter Semester 2026/2027
The lecture series is organised within the framework of B/ORDERS IN MOTION and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on forced migration, borders, asylum, and refugee reception. It examines how experiences of displacement are shaped by immigration and asylum regimes, legal insecurity, racialisation, gendered and intersectional inequalities, and changing infrastructures of border control and reception.
Combining theoretical debate with empirical research and perspectives from policy, activism, and practice, the series addresses border externalisation and violence, differentiated forms of vulnerability and protection, refugee agency and collective action, and the everyday negotiation of institutional constraints. It also considers questions of local reception, participation, and support, connecting wider debates on European migration governance with experiences and practices in specific national and local contexts.