Registration for the 21st International Summer School in Forced Migration is now open. The course takes place from 5-23 July 2010. The brochure is available in PDF format. You can apply online or by fax/post. The closing date for applications is 1 March 2010 for applicants requesting sponsorship through the RSC, 1 May 2010 for all other applicants.

The RSC short course on statelessness and international law will take place from 16–18 April 2010 and is intended for experienced practitioners and graduate researchers. It draws on the expertise of RSC staff and associates, as well as members of external institutions, including UNHCR. Registration is now open. The flyer for this course is available to download (PDF).

The RSC and the Las Casas Institute on Ethics, Governance and Social Justice (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University) are organizing an international conference on Faith-based humanitarianism: the response of faith-based organisations to people affected by conflict, crisis and forced migration (21-23 September 2010. The Call for Papers is available in PDF format. Those wishing to attend or present at the conference are invited to fill in the Expression of Interest Form.

Human Security and Non-Citizens: Law, Policy and International Affairs (Cambridge University Press) is a new co-edited collection by Carla Ferstman (Director of REDRESS) and Departmental Lecturer in International Refugee and Human Rights Law Dr Alice Edwards. The official launch will be on 24 February 2010 as part of RSC’s Public Seminar Series.

On Wednesday 10 February (5pm) the fourth lecture of the Hilary Term 2010 RSC Public Seminar Series will take place. Cathy Gardner (UK Home Office) will give a talk entitled The UK Border Agency and the use of evidence-based policy. Venue: Seminar Room one, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB. All Welcome.

The third of the RSC Informal Seminars of Hilary Term 2010 will take place on 9 February (1-2pm). Dr James Simeon (Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration, York University Toronto and currently Visiting Research Fellow at the RSC) will give a talk on The refugee status and determination process in Canada: an insider's perpective on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. Venue: Seminar Room 3, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB). All Welcome.

Impact of Diasporas: Connection, Contestation, Convergence: Special Seminar Series emerging from a collaborative bid with IMI and COMPAS

The RSC, COMPAS and St Antony's College, University of Oxford, are presenting a one-day workshop (21 May 2010) on The Meaning and Practice of Immigration Detention: Perspectives from Legal, Political, and Social Theory. This workshop aims to provide an academic forum for discussion of immigration detention in liberal, democratic countries. The Call for Papers is available in PDF format.

The proceedings and podcasts of the international conference on ‘Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives’, held on 14-15 January 2010, are now available online. It will shortly be available in hardcopy in the library of the University of Oxford.

On 18 November 2009 Jan Egeland gave the tenth annual Harrell-Bond lecture). Mr Egeland is the former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator and currently director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. The lecture was entitled 'Beyond Blankets: in search of political deals and durable solutions for the displaced.' The podcast of the lecture is now available on Forced Migration Online.

The keynote papers, a selection of conference papers and some "reflections" (PDF) on the international conference Protecting people in conflict & crisis: Responding to the challenges of a changing world (22-24 September 2009) are now available. The RSC invites you to post your thoughts, suggestions and recommendations on how to move the protection debate forward on this blog.

'No right to dream' (PDF), an extensive report into the social and economic lives of young undocumented migrants in Britain is now available to download from the project website. The research project, commissioned by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Social Justice Programme, was carried out by a research team led by Professor Alice Bloch (Department of Sociology, City University London), Professor Roger Zetter and Dr Nando Sigona (Refugee Studies Centre).

The RSC has added seven new titles to its Working Paper Series. Six are based on MSc dissertations awarded with a distinction and one paper is a collection of papers based on presentations given at the September 2009 international conference Protecting People in Conflict and Crisis and a roundtable disccussion on Post War Future in Sri Lanka.

RSC Research Officer Dr Nando Sigona and Nidhi Trehan (University College London) have edited a new book: Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Mobilization, and the Neoliberal Order at Palgrave Macmillan.

The RSC has issued its fifth newsletter to keep partners, fellow academics, friends and supporters up to date with current work. If you would like to be added to the RSC mailing list, please send your details to the RSC.

The RSC has published its fourth Policy Briefing, entitled Iraq’s refugees – beyond ‘tolerance’ (PDF) by Dr Philip Marfleet and Dr Dawn Chatty.

RSC Research Associate Dr Alexander Betts published a new book: Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime at Cornell University Press.

The English edition of Forced Migration Review 33, with a major feature on protracted displacement, a spotlight on Sri Lanka, a mini-feature on collective centres, plus a range of other articles, is now online.

The next issue of FMR will include a feature on Urban Displacement; the one after wil focus on Disability and Displacement .

Volume 22 number 3 of the Journal of Refugee Studies is a special issue on Representation and Displacement.

RSC Research Associate Dr Alexander Betts published in June 2009 his book Forced Migration and Global Politics at Wiley-Blackwell.

Dr Anna Lindley has published a MICROCON Research Working Paper (15) entitled Leaving Mogadishu: The War on Terror and Displacement
Dynamics in the Somali Regions (PDF).

United Nations University Press published the volume
'Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications' edited by RSC Visiting Professor Gil Loescher, James Milner, Edward Newman and Gary Troeller.

As part of the Studies in Forced Migration book series, published by Berghahn Books in collaboration with the RSC, Senior Research Officer Dr Jason Hart edited a volume titled ‘Years of Conflict: Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement’.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): the Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the 21st Century by Gil Loescher, Alexander Betts and James Milner.

Government and Opposition edited by Dr Eva-Lotta Hedman and Dr Matthew Gibney: a special edition of the political science journal on forced migration.

Conflict, Violence and Displacement in Indonesia edited by Eva-Lotta Hedman.

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