Welcome
The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was founded in 1982 and is part of the Oxford Department of International Development. Our mission is to build knowledge and understanding of forced migration in order to help improve the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Latest publications
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Returning to fund refugeehood: dispersal and survival between Uganda and South Sudan
Journal article
Naohiko Omata and Yotam Gidron, (2024), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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Analysing archives to write migration histories
Chapter
Uttara Shahani, (2024), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, 116 - 135
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Refugee Memoirs: Kouamé’s Revenu des ténèbres (2018) and Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee (2019) and the challenge of refugee narratives
Journal article
Ashwiny O Kistnareddy, (2024), Forum for Modern Language Studies
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Encountering Nations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Journal article
Ashwiny O Kistnareddy and Jaakko Heiskanen, (2024), Journal of Intercultural Studies, 45 (5), 811 - 816
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Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter
Book
Tom Scott-Smith, (2024)
Latest news
Voices in the Dark | New book by Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen
14 November 2024
Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings, and Hunger
8 November 2024
Dana +20 Manifesto reaches the UN
16 October 2024
Introducing our Visiting Fellows for Michaelmas term 2024
14 October 2024
Forthcoming events
Anthropology of Good: Exploring Volunteerism in the 2015 European Refugee Crisis
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB
Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experiences
Wednesday, 04 December 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB
Gil Loescher Memorial Fund
In celebration of the life and work of Professor Gil Loescher, a fund has been established by the RSC and Gil’s family and friends to support students conducting research on refugee and displacement issues.
Founded in 1982
Master's course established in 1998
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002