Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies
Highlights video and podcasts are now available from the RSC Conference 2017, Keble College, 16-17 March
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How we can fix our failing refugee system
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Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
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FMR 55: Shelter in displacement
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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.
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A number of books authored by RSC academics and researchers have been published recently. Find details of them here.
Latest publications
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Gender, violence, and deportation: Angola’s forced return of Congolese migrant workers
Alexander Betts, (2017), Gender, Violence, Refugees
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‘Faithing’ gender and responses to violence in refugee communities:insights from the Sahrawi refugee camps and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Chloé Lewis and Georgia Cole, (2017), Gender, Violence, Refugees
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Researching forced migration: critical reflections on research ethics during fieldwork
Ulrike Krause, (2017), RSC Working Paper Series, 123
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Beyond labelling: rethinking the role and value of the refugee ‘label’ through semiotics
Georgia Cole, (2017), Journal of Refugee Studies
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On Refugeehood and Citizenship
Cathryn Costello, (2017), The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, 717 - 742
Latest news
New York Declaration on Refugees: A one-year report card, by Jeff Crisp
19 September 2017
Call for articles: FMR 58 Economies, work and displacement
14 September 2017
The Wall Street Journal reviews ‘Refuge’
6 September 2017
Empowering refugees in times of crisis
4 August 2017
The economist who wants to put refugees to work
28 July 2017
New RSC Newsletter 2016-2017 now online
26 July 2017
MSc applications now open!
Find details on the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration studies here.
Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies
The RSC Conference 2017 took place at Keble College, Oxford on 16-17 March. Highlights video and session podcasts now available.
Founded in 1982
Master's course established in 1998
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002