Intergenerational impacts of IDPs on children’s early childhood development in host communities: evidence from Burundi
Soazic Elise Wang Sonne is a Final Year PhD Candidate in Economics and Governance for Development (IEGD) at the United Nations University in Maastricht, The Netherlands. She is also a World Bank Africa fellow/UK-DFID Young Scholar in the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group of the World Bank in Washington DC.

Soazic’s research interests lie on the intersection of applied development impact evaluation in conflict and post-conflict affected countries in Sub Saharan Africa. She is mainly interested in understanding the long-term consequences of forced displacement on household’s welfare in host communities. Soazic also has a keen interest in understanding whether refugees naturalization policy are beneficial or not for the short and medium-term wellbeing of the hosts communities.

Over the course of her PhD, she was a research scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (BITSS-CEGA), New York University Global TIES for children and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). She also held consultancy positions with the United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the World Bank Social Protection and Labor division. Soazic is also a former intern within the economic division of the French Embassy in Cameroon.
Date: 28 May 2019, 13:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room A
Speaker: Soazic Elise Wang Sonne (United Nations University in Maastricht)
Organising department: Refugee Studies Centre
Organiser contact email address: vfp@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/intergenerational-impacts-of-idps-on-children2019s-early-childhood-development-in-host-communities-evidence-from-burundi
Audience: Public
Editor: Tamsin Kelk