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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Forging Strategic Partnerships: How civil organisers and lawyers helped unaccompanied children cross the English Channel and reunite with family members
Working paper
Gina Starfield, (2020), RSC Working Paper Series 133
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Cash transfer models and debt in the Kalobeyei settlement
Research in Brief
Olivier Sterck et al, (2020)
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Whose agency? UNRWA and Palestinian refugees in history
Chapter
Anne Irfan, (2020), UNRWA at 70: Palestinian Refugees in Context, 21 - 29
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An Unusual Revolution: The Palestinian thawra in Lebanon, c. 1969-82
Working paper
Anne Irfan, (2020), Durham Middle East Paper No. 103
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Petitioning for Palestine: refugee appeals to international authorities
Journal article
Anne Irfan, (2020), Contemporary Levant
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Rethinking transit zones: migrant trajectories and transnational networks in Techno-Borderscapes
Journal article
Marie Godin and Giorgia Donà, (2020), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Latest news
Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2020
15 October 2020
Tom Scott-Smith awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship
2 October 2020
New Refugee Economies Programme website launched today
2 October 2020
Alexander Betts discusses the EU’s ‘New Pact on Migration’ on CNN
25 September 2020
Petitioning for Palestine | A new paper by Anne Irfan
7 September 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.
Forthcoming events
Carceral junctions – stuckness and connectedness in camps
Wednesday, 28 October 2020, 5pm to 6pm @ Zoom webinar
Unlivable life: ordinary disasters and the atmosphere of crisis in Haiti
Wednesday, 04 November 2020, 5pm to 6pm @ Zoom webinar
Founded in 1982
Master's course established in 1998
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002
