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The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), founded in 1982, aims to build knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of forced migration in order to help improve the lives of some of the world's most vulnerable people.


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Watch ERPUM workshop live

Watch today's workshop on 'The deportation of unaccompanied minors from the EU: family-tracing...

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New issue of Forced Migration Review: Sexual orientation and gender identity and the protection of forced migrants

Forced Migration Review issue 42, on ‘Sexual orientation and gender identity and the...

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Special screening of award-winning documentary 'Nowhere Home'

On Tuesday 30 April the  Oxford Institute of Social Policy (OISP) , in collaboration...

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Public Seminar Series

Constitutionalism, ethnicity and minority rights in Africa: a legal appraisal from the Great Lakes region

Dr Jeremie Gilbert (Middlesex University)

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FMR42

Forced Migration Review

FMR 42: Sexual orientation and gender identity and the protection of forced migrants

Forced Migration Review issue 42, on ‘Sexual orientation and gender identity and the protection of forced migrants’, is now online at www.fmreview.org/sogi  Around the world, people face abuse, a...

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Working Paper 91

Working Papers

91: Integration in a divided society? Refugees and asylum seekers in Northern Ireland
Author(s): Charlotte-Anne Malischewski

When one thinks of refugees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, one tends to think of London and the South East of England, cities in Scotland such as Edinburgh and Glasgow, and, from time to ti...

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Conference report

Research, workshop and conference reports

Conference report: Refuge from inhumanity: enriching refugee protection standards thr...
Author(s): Jean-François Durieux and David Cantor (Convenors)

This report summarises the proceedings at the international conference ‘Refuge from inhumanity: enriching refugee protection by recourse to international humanitarian law’ held at All Souls Coll...

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