COVID-19 resources
A new section focusing on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on forced migrants
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Read the latest books by RSC academics
Topics include humanitarian nutrition, refugee-led protection and assistance, Syria, and international refugee law
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New publications from the Refugee Economies Programme
Four new reports present the Programme's latest research in Ethiopia and Kenya
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Project Survival Media / Joe Lukhovi
Forced Migration Review issue 64
With two main themes: ‘Climate crisis and local communities’ and ‘Trafficking and smuggling’
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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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Cash Transfer Models and Debt in the Kalobeyei Settlement
Report
Olivier Sterck et al, (2020)
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Bridging, bonding, and linking? Syrian refugee-led organisations and integration in Berlin
Journal article
Evan Easton-Calabria and Jennifer Wood, (2020), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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Commentary: When Hospitality turns into Hostility in Prolonged Forced Migration
Journal article
Dawn Chatty, (2020), International Migration, 58 (3), 258 - 260
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Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter
Book
Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E Breeze (eds), (2020), Forced Migration Series volume 39
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Building Refugee Economies: An evaluation of the IKEA Foundation’s programmes in Dollo Ado
Report
Alexander Betts et al, (2020)
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Palestine at the UN: the PLO and UNRWA in the 1970s
Journal article
Anne Irfan, (2020), Journal of Palestine Studies, 49(2), 26 - 47
Latest news
A Tribute to Gil Loescher | by Alexander Betts
4 August 2020
Black Lives Matter
26 June 2020
A refugee-led response to COVID-19 in Uganda
22 June 2020
COVID-19 resources
Visit our new section on COVID-19 resources, with a blog by RSC researchers, plus links to articles about the impact of the pandemic on forced migrants by both RSC researchers and others.
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Postdoctoral Researcher - Borders, Global Governance and the Refugee, 1947-51
Founded in 1982
Master's course established in 1998
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002
