MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Applications are open for 2019-2020 entry. First application deadline: Friday 16 November 2018
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Read the latest books by RSC academics
Topics include Syria, EU asylum law and policy, refugee economies, the refugee system, and self-reliance
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Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2018 | Pierre Krähenbühl
The UNRWA Commissioner-General will give this year's lecture on 18 October
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© UNHCR/Rahima Gambo
FMR 59: Twenty Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
With 19 theme articles, plus 7 general articles
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Refugee Economies Programme launches new website
The new Refugee Economies Programme (formerly the Humanitarian Innovation Project) has a new website
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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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Twenty Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
Forced Migration Review
Marion Couldrey and Jenny Peebles (eds), (2018), 59
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Research in Brief: Refugee Energy
Research in Brief
Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen, (2018), RSC Research in Brief 8
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The Court of Justice endorses the emergency scheme for compulsory relocation of asylum seekers within the European Union: Slovak Republic and Hungary v. Council
Journal article
Bruno De Witte and Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi, (2018), Common market law review, 55 (5), 1457 - 1494
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Promoting the economic reintegration of returnees through vocational training: lessons from Liberia
Journal article
Naohiko Omata and Noriko Takahashi, (2018), Development in practice
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Conceptualising Forced Migration: Praxis, Scholarship and Empirics
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Roger Zetter, (2018), Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates
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The ethics of refugees
Journal article
Matthew J Gibney, (2018), Philosophy compass
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Self-Reliance in Kalobeyei? Socio-Economic Outcomes for Refugees in North-West Kenya
Report
Alexander Betts et al, (2018)
Latest news
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Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2018
5 October 2018
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New Research in Brief on Refugee Energy
28 September 2018
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Barbara Harrell-Bond Memorial
28 September 2018
Forthcoming events
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Ransom tales: the refugee as storyteller
Carrie Dawson (Dalhousie University)
Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 1pm to 2pm
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In a troubled and polarized Middle-East: challenges for Palestine refugees and UNRWA | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2018
Pierre Krähenbühl (UNRWA Commissioner-General)
Thursday, 18 October 2018, 5pm to 6.30pm
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What digitalization of humanitarian operations looks like: data, maps and new technologies in Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan
Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 1pm to 2pm
Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies | RSC Conference 2017
This major RSC Conference took place at Keble College, Oxford on 16-17 March 2017. A highlights video and session podcasts are available online.
Founded in 1982
Master's course established in 1998
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002
