Panel and Presentation: Critical reflections on the transformation of Dis/Orientation through space and time @SGAS-VAD-2026 Conference

Moderation Panel

Paper title: From Formal Protection to Administrative Dis/Orientation: Resettled Refugees Navigating Arrival across Municipal Contexts in Germany

Corresponding author: Lisa Johnson (Research Centre – Federal Office for Migration and Refugees), lisa.johnson@bamf.bund.de

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Paper title: Place-Based Belonging through Dis/Orientation: African Highly Skilled Migrants’ Experiences of Arrival in Berlin and Freiburg

Corresponding author: Claudia Ba (Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), ba@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de

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Paper title: “Woher kommst du?”: Notes on African “Bushfallers”, Migration and Diaspora Identity-making in Frankfurt

Corresponding author: Oladele Ayorinde (Goethe University Frankfurt), ayopiano@yahoo.com

Panneau: Housing and Beyond: Urban Inequalities, Welfare, and Infrastructures in the Global Urban Condition #69@RC21

Moderation Panel with
Dr. Dhara Patel

2026 RC21 Conference in Vienna

Publication

Seeing Bensheim’s refugee tent city: reflections on researcher- and respondent-generated photo-elicitation of the spatial dimensions of racial discrimination