RSC 30th Anniversary Conference – Understanding Global Refugee Policy

Date: 09:00am, Thursday, December 06, 2012 - 05:00pm, Friday, December 07, 2012

Presenter/Convenor: Refugee Studies Centre

Series: Conferences and workshops

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The RSC's 30th Anniversary Conference aims to examine and theorise the policy-making processes relating to refugees and forced migration at the global level. Critical reflection upon the processes through which global public policy on refugees, internally displaced persons, statelessness, human trafficking, and other areas of forced migration is made, is intended to offer new and valuable insights for scholars, policy makers and practitioners.

This conference therefore provides a forum for a critical discussion on ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’ by bringing together academics, policy makers, practitioners, advocates and displaced people to engage in a debate on how we might begin to make sense of and conceptualise the global refugee policy process. It seeks to explore the nature, content and implications of ‘global refugee policy’ with questions such as: What is ‘global refugee policy’? How can we theorise global refugee policy? What factors explain variation both in the motivations for policies, and in outcomes? To what extent do the diverse interests and priorities of key stakeholders shape global refugee policy, and to what effect?

Podcasts

Opening Plenary

This podcast from the Refugee Studies Centre's 30th Anniversary Conference was recorded on Thursday 6 December 2012 at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. The plenary was delivered by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill (University of Oxford).

Running time: 43:10

Download podcast (mp3 40MB)

 

Closing Plenary

This podcast from the Refugee Studies Centre's 30th Anniversary Conference was recorded on Friday 7 December 2012 at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. The plenary was delivered by Filippo Grandi (Commissioner-General, UNRWA), Arafat Jamal (Chief, Inter-Agency Standing Committee) and James Milner (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University).

Running time: 1:28:51

Download podcast (mp3 81MB)

RSC Conference Programme

Downloads

Conference programme
(PDF 221KB)

Global Refugee Policy: varying perspectives, unanswered questions
Background Paper (PDF 236KB)

Contact

Ms Heidi El-Megrisi
International Summer School and Conferences Manager

Tel: +44 (0)1865 281728/9
Fax: +44 (0)1865 281730
Email: rsc-conference@qeh.ox.ac.uk