We are pleased to announce that one of our team’s panel proposals has been accepted for the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar. The team will participate in the 5th International Conference this August at Chiang Mai University, where they will present their paper. The paper explores the confined lives of displaced individuals and seeks to understand […]

From June 9th-13th, we had the pleasure of gathering the entire CONFINED team in Copenagen to get to know each other, and to align the projects. Workshop highlights We started the workshop with team introductions, where each case study was presented by the researchers. In addition to the four case studies already outlined, there is

The CONFINED logo is the result of a collaborative discussion in our team on how to visually represent confinement. It is important to us that the logo not be the decision of a single person, but rather the result of dialogue among our researchers. Our initial inspiration focused on physical barriers—doors, nets, bars, roads, and

We’re pleased to welcome four PhD fellows, each contributing to CONFINED’s ethnographic case studies on confinement and transnational family networks. Their research spans diverse global contexts: from (post)colonial and economic ties between the UK and Sierra Leone to migration between Malawi and South Africa, displacement from Myanmar into Thailand, and the experiences of Palestinians in