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Vacancy: Assistant to the International Summer School and Conferences Manager

Oxford Department of International Development Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road...

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Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh's research on local faith communities and humanitarian situations features in The Guardian

RSC/JLI Working Paper 90 on ' Local faith communities and the promotion of resilience in...

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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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Public Seminar Series

Family ties: remittances and support in Puntland and Somaliland

Dr Laura Hammond (School of Oriental and African Studies)

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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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