Forced (im)mobilities under the conditions of violence: observations and reflections on current pathways of research

Keynote of the SFB 1604/FFVT PhD and PostDoc Colloquium in Forced Migration and Refugee Research by Dr. Benjamin Etzold (bicc, Bonn)

The lecture will take place from 18.00-19.00h in room 02/108 (Seminarstraße 19 a/b, 49074 Osnabrück).

Benjamin Etzold is senior researcher at bicc - Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Bonn (2012). At BICC, he is currently leading a project with the Bonn Center of Dependency and Slavery Studies on the interactions between violence, (im)mobility and labour relations, and is contributing to BMBF-funded collaborative project ‘Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer’ (FFVT). Recently, he completed the study ‘Mobility, Translocality and Gendered Violence – Rohingya Women in the Bangladesh-Myanmar Borderlands’, which was supported by the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme, funded by UK International Development (2024-2025).

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