Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2018 | Pierre Krähenbühl
Listen to the UNRWA Commissioner-General give the 2018 lecture 'In a troubled and polarized Middle-East'
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Democratizing Displacement | RSC Conference 2019
This international conference took place at New College, Oxford on 18-19 March 2019
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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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UNHCR/Brian Sokol
FMR 60: Education: needs, rights and access in displacement
With 29 articles on Education, and two ‘general’ articles
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UNHCR/J.S.F./Junji Naito
International Summer School in Forced Migration
Our Summer School takes place in Oxford on 7-19 July 2019
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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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Precarious workers and probationary wives: how immigration law discriminates against women
Journal article
Catherine Briddick, (2019), Social & Legal Studies
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Contributors or competitors? Complexity and variability of refugees’ economic ‘impacts’ within a Kenyan host community
Journal article
Naohiko Omata, (2019), Migration Letters, 16 (2), 135 - 144
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Education: needs, rights and access in displacement
Forced Migration Review
Marion Couldrey and Jenny Peebles (eds), (2019), Forced Migration Review, 60
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Research in Brief: Venezuelan Survival Migration as a Development Opportunity
Research in Brief
Alexander Betts, (2019), RSC Research in Brief 12
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Denationalisation and discrimination
Journal article
Matthew J Gibney, (2019), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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Subversive Humanitarianism and Its Challenges: Notes on the Political Ambiguities of Civil Refugee Support
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Robin Vandevoordt and Gert Verschraegen, (2019), Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe, 101 - 128
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The making of a transnational religion: Alevi movement in Germany and the World Alevi union
Journal article
Derya Özkul, (2019), British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Latest news
Democratizing Displacement, RSC Conference 2019
This international conference took place on 18-19 March at New College, Oxford. Conference programme available online. Podcasts to follow
Forthcoming events
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Civil solidarity and the hunt for undocumented migrants. Two Belgian case studies
Dr Robin Vandevoordt (Refugee Studies Centre)
Wednesday, 08 May 2019, 5pm to 6.30pm
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Mobility economies: immobility, accumulation and migration in Libya
Dr Marthe Achtnich (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)
Wednesday, 15 May 2019, 5pm to 6.30pm
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Endurance and involuntary return to Senegal
Dr Anne-Line Rodriguez (Queen Mary University of London)
Wednesday, 22 May 2019, 5pm to 6.30pm
Founded in 1982
Master's course established in 1998
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002
