In the conventional understanding, it is the responsibility of states to provide durable solutions to people in protracted displacement. A state-centred approach, however, risks underestimating or even disregarding the ambitions and capacities of displaced people themselves. Research under the EU Horizon 2020-funded project Transnational Figurations of Displacement (TRAFIG) investigated the mobility of displaced people in the Middle East, East Africa and Europe and how they manage their everyday lives using transnational and local networks as resources.

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