Latin American Network for Forced Migration (LANFM)

Description

To help improve the quality of life of forced migrants and persons living as refugees in Latin America, a project on Forced Migration in Latin America was launched in Bogotá in 2010 to create regional networks for research and advocacy. Called the Latin American Network for Forced Migration (LANFM), this regional network focuses on facilitating multilateral dialogue spaces on forced migration in Latin America and creating spaces for ongoing communication between regional practitioners and researchers and global networks of forced migration studies.

People

• Roberto Vidal Lopez
  Director and Professor, Group on Political & Legal Theory, Faculty of Law, Javeriana University
  vidal@javeriana.edu.co
  
• Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez Mojica
  Acting Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Universidad de los Andes
  be.sanchez20@uniandes.edu.co

Institutional Partners

• Group on Political & Legal Theory, Faculty of Law, Javeriana University

• Faculty of Law, Universidad de los Andes

• Latin American Institute for an Alternative Society and Alternative Law (ILSA)

• Secretariado Nacional de Pastoral Social (SNPS) / Cáritas Colombiana

• Institute for Studies for Development and Peace (INDEPAZ)

• Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES)

• Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC)

• Halifax Initiative

• Centre for Research on Latin American and the Caribbean (CERLAC), York University

• Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), York University

   

Events

• Workshop, “Industrias extractivas y violencia en América Latina,” Bogotá, Colombia, December 2013.

• Workshop of the Transatlantic Forum on Migration and Integration, “Migration and Violence: Lessons from Colombia for the Americas,” Bogotá, Colombia, June 2012.
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•  Workshop on Trade and Investment Induced Displacement, October 12 – 14, 2011

• Conference, “Migración Forzada en América Latina: Creando redes para la investigación regional y la incidencia política,” Bogotá, Colombia, November 2010. [ESP: LANFM Memorias Primer Encuentro Bogota final narrative.pdf]