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  • Forced Migration Review launches 25th Anniversary collection
  • Humanitarian Innovation Project launch
  • RSC 30th Anniversary Conference taking place Thursday and Friday
  • Forward, Backward, Stalling? Seminar series reflects on the completion of the Common European Asylum System
  • RSC marks World Refugee Day with launch of new issue of Forced Migration Review
  • Humanitarian Innovation Project features in The Independent
  • New issue of Forced Migration Review: Preventing displacement
  • Nando Sigona interviewed by Voice of Russia on children at risk of statelessness in UK
  • Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh awarded IASFM Lisa Gilad Prize for research on Faith and Humanitarianism
  • Vacancy: Assistant to the International Summer School and Conferences Manager
  • Religion and Global Migrations – new book series announced
  • Roger Zetter joins Gold Mercury's International Advisory Board
  • Watch ERPUM workshop live
  • Vacancy: Andrew W. Mellon University Lecturership in International Human Rights and Refugee Law
  • The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation: New book co-edited by Matthew J. Gibney
  • RSC research on faith and humanitarianism recognised at 2012 UNHCR Dialogue on Faith and Protection
  • Working Paper examines why UK asylum advocacy should take citizens’ complaints seriously
  • Limited places still available for Palestine short course and International Summer School – apply online today
  • RSC Newsletter Spring 2013: RSC celebrates 30th anniversary and two other milestones
  • Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh's research on local faith communities and humanitarian situations features in The Guardian
  • Spring 2012 newsletter now available!
  • Forthcoming book 'Modern Pastoralism and Conservation' co-edited by Professor Dawn Chatty
  • New faces and farewells at the Centre
  • Vacancy: Part-time Communications Assistant (Ref: 107537)
  • Connect with the RSC on Facebook and Twitter
  • The Economist features research by Dr Nando Sigona
  • The Roma in the New EU: Policies, frames and everyday experiences
  • Syria’s dismemberment: fulfilling the French Mandate’s vision?
  • World Disasters Report 2012 launched today: focus on forced migration and displacement
  • Peter Loizos 1937-2012
  • Press release: Representatives of Mobile Indigenous Peoples call for respect of human rights ahead of Rio +20 Earth Summit
  • Contesting Fraternite: New Working Paper analyses the politics of protection in contemporary France
  • Special screening of award-winning documentary 'Nowhere Home'
  • New issue of Forced Migration Review: Sexual orientation and gender identity and the protection of forced migrants
  • Unlocking protracted displacement: 3 new case studies published
  • Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh edits special edition of the Journal of Refugee Studies on faith-based humanitarianism
  • RSC resource: a tool for adoption of UNHCR voluntary pledges
  • RSC welcomes four Visiting Fellows
  • Dr Matthew Gibney in NY Times: Private companies profit from immigration control
  • Applications now being accepted for the 2012 Summer School
  • Vacancy: Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellowship in Development Studies (Refugees and Forced Migration)
  • Forced Migration Review 38, 'the technology issue' now online
  • Anti-Gypsyism and the politics of exclusion in Italy
  • Policy Briefing 8: Stabilising the Congo
  • Special Issue Launch: Faith Based Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement
  • Palestine Refugees and International Law workshop
  • New book: UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection, Second Edition
  • RSC Special Seminar: Is UNHCR becoming a migration agency? An analysis of UNHCR's engagement in ‘mixed movements’
  • RSC 30th Anniversary Conference: Call for Papers
  • Ockenden International Lecture to mark the establishment of a Junior Research Fellowship in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration
  • Migration Studies: New journal launched
  • Migration Studies: Call for papers
  • Emeritus Professor Roger Zetter to edit 2012 World Disasters Report
  • RSC-OCAF Seminar: From DR Congo to Tel-Aviv: A story of Congolese refugees, activism and microfinance
  • New resource: Protracted Refugee Situations website
  • Video: Ockenden International Lecture, 7 February 2012
  • Vacancy: Departmental Lecturership in International Refugee and Human Rights Law
  • RSC Staff and Associates editing a major, cutting-edge volume, The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
  • States, sovereignties and refugees: a view from the margins?
  • No Way Out, No Way In: Migrant children fall through the net
  • The Arab Spring and Beyond: Summary of recent workshop
  • Being young and out of place: new issue of Forced Migration Review
  • Deportation of Afghan children would violate UN conventions
  • Dr Nando Sigona wins Teaching Excellence Award
  • Vacancy: Research Assistant (Ref: 105059)
  • Press release: Former US presidential special assistant to give lecture on refugees and human rights
  • Matthew Gibney publishes a new article on the revocation of citizenship in the UK
  • 'Debating Development' blog launched
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  • Is the ‘unnecessary’ detention of asylum seekers allowed under EU law?
  • Irregular secondary movement to South Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Refugees’ diasporic memories and the politics of democratisation
  • Refugees, exiles and other forced migrants in the late Ottoman Empire
  • Citizenship, autochthony and the question of forced migration
  • Reconciling integration and return: Rethinking Palestinian refugeehood
  • ‘Collective amnesia’ - refugees and the problem of History
  • Refugees and the Definition of Syria
  • Citizenship and residence; rights, mobility and refugees
  • Is deportation a form of forced migration?
  • Refugees, the state and the concept of ‘home’
  • Remembering ethnic German ‘refugees’ in Germany: the planned national museum ‘flight, displacement, reconciliation’
  • Vietnamese refugees in Australia: The archival record, policy implication and a personal perspective of the events of 1975
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  • Dynamics of conflict and forced migration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Protecting environmentally displaced people: developing the capacity of legal and normative frameworks
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  • Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2009
  • Fractures and flows: Africa, Elizabeth Colson, and the current global meltdown
  • The Vanishing Truth of Refugees
  • Refugee protection in International Law: Contemporary challenges
  • Training seminar on psycho-social issues
  • Cambodia: moving towards a better future
  • The compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey: an assessment of the consequences of the 1923 Lausanne convention
  • Waiting for solutions in uncertain times: Palestine refugees in the Middle East context
  • Protracted Crises: Iraqi Refugees
  • Conflicting Missions? The politics of Evangelical humanitarianism in Middle Eastern and North African protracted refugee situations
  • Irregular migrant children and public services in the UK
  • The EU and the Roma: poverty, anti-Gypsyism and the governance of “unwanted” mobility
  • Refugee, protected persons and barriers to integration in the UK
  • The 'Laws of Forced Migration': Complexities in forced migrants in urban areas: a case study of Metro Manila
  • The human right not to be displaced revisited
  • Bedouin in Lebanon: Social Discrimination, Political Exclusion and Health Inequality
  • Aftermath of displacement: A study with Tahtali Dam oustees in Turkey
  • Conditional Citizenship
  • Environmental displacement: future scenarios and modes of protection re-examined
  • Environmental displacement and the challenge of rights protection
  • Migration as an environmental policy: pitfalls, opportunities, and rhetorics
  • Seeing the person in the problem: a practitioner perspective on justice, the environment and displacement
  • Social scientific approaches to equivocal issue-areas: the case of the ‘environmental migration’ nexus
  • Pre-empting race: climate change, migration and the future-conditional
  • Climate change and organisational change in UNHCR and IOM
  • Conceptualising structure and agency in environmental displacement
  • RSC 30th Anniversary Conference – Understanding Global Refugee Policy
  • Workshop – Palestine refugees and international law
  • Workshop – The Arab Spring and beyond: human mobility, forced migration and institutional responses
  • The sources of normativity in world politics: rethinking states’ obligations to refugees
  • Can there be a global migration regime? States, migrants and international cooperation
  • Representing Muslim asylum-seekers and refugees: the good, the bad or the vulnerable?
  • Forced internal displacement in Mexico due to the war against drugs
  • Protection against refoulement under the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention Against Torture
  • Asylum as reparation
  • States, sovereignties and refugees: a view from the margins?
  • Unlocking Protracted Displacement of Refugees and IDPs: Somali and Iraqi displacements and policy responses
  • The Court of Justice of the EU and European Court of Human Rights as refugee law courts
  • The future of international cooperation on refugee protection
  • Accessing international protection in Europe: can EU policy be reconciled with EU law?
  • The perfect storm: the challenge of EU obligations on reception of asylum seekers and European human rights norms
  • Statelessness and International Law
  • Transnational refugee law and the common European asylum system
  • Daily life in a Palestinian refugee ‘city-camp’: spatial, social and temporal dimensions
  • Gendering neutrality: a feminist investigation of gender policy and programming in humanitarian assistance
  • How EU asylum law threatens the specificity of refugee law
  • Survival migration: failed states and displacement in Africa
  • Workshop – South-South Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement
  • International Conference – Development-induced displacement and resettlement: bridging research and practice, filling the knowledge gaps
  • Migration consequences of complex crises
  • International Conference – Refuge from inhumanity: enriching refugee protection standards through recourse to international humanitarian law
  • The architecture of refugee protection
  • Deportation, crime and the changing character of membership in the United Kingdom
  • What is wrong with permanent alienage?
  • The citizenship market: trading identities in East Africa and the Great Lakes
  • Deportation, non-deportability and precarious lives: the contemporary status-less child in Britain
  • Ireland: forced migration history, forced migration empathy?
  • The migrant and the (good) citizen: exclusion, failure, tolerance
  • Civic stratification and civil repair: the case of welfare and asylum
  • The idea of autonomy: refugee camp governance in comparative perspective
  • The rise of temporal over spatial control: return expectations and state-induced migrant return
  • The scope of ‘safety elsewhere’: protection alternatives in refugee law
  • TBC
  • Refugee livelihoods, innovation and the private sector: the case of Uganda
  • Humanitarian Innovation Project: looking outwards
  • TBC
  • Editing the IFRC’s World Disasters Report 2012
  • Palestine Refugees and International Law
  • International Symposium – Within and beyond citizenship: lived experiences of contemporary membership
  • The dispossessed: responsibilities for refugees
  • Humanitarian Innovation Project: launch event
  • Protection
  • Protection and the ICRC
  • Flocks without shepherds? Governmentality, sovereignty and the paradoxical politics of IDP protection policy
  • The Rohingya: a population facing violence, displacement, segregation, and statelessness
  • A numbers game: counting refugees and international burden-sharing
  • Statelessness and citizenship: camps and the creation of 'political space'
  • Access to protection and the limitations on extraterritorial border control: the case of refugees at sea
  • 'Here, man is nothing!’: Gendered tensions and male failed asylum seekers
  • The impact of human rights treaties on asylum jurisprudence: a comparison between the UK and Canada
  • The potential and limitations of the Court of Justice of the European Union in shaping international refugee law
  • TBC
  • Migrant return policies as the art of the possible
  • Rwandan refugees in south western Uganda: their attitudes and responses to repatriation 1994-2013
  • Nation outside the state
  • Tracks Across Sand: the dispossession of the ‡Khomani San of the southern Kalahari
  • MapAction: Geospatial support for humanitarian disasters
  • Workshop – The deportation of unaccompanied minors from the EU: family-tracing and government accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) project
  • Opportunities and risk: enacting socio-cultural transformation in refugee camps in Uganda
  • Beyond resettlement in biodiversity conservation: case studies from Vietnam and Peru
  • Evidence about torture in the UK asylum system
  • Constitutionalism, ethnicity and minority rights in Africa: a legal appraisal from the Great Lakes region
  • Family ties: remittances and support in Puntland and Somaliland
  • Palestine Refugees and International Law
  • Rebuilding social capital after involuntary resettlement in the Philippines and Indonesia
  • Migration, rights and power: understanding the links between environmental stress and (im-) mobility
  • Intrigues of the weak: conservation, development and criminality amidst a nomadic peoples
  • The politics of causality: putting the environmental change and migration debate in political and philosophical context
  • The (mis)treatment of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel
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