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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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
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The rhetoric and reality of localisation: refugee-led organisations in humanitarian governance
Journal article
Kate Pincock et al, (2020), Journal of Development Studies
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Combatting or enabling domestic violence? Evaluating the residence rights of migrant victims of domestic violence in Europe
Journal article
Catherine Briddick, (2020), International and Comparative Law Quarterly
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Power and proliferation: Explaining the fragmentation of global migration governance
Journal article
Lena Kainz and Alexander Betts, (2020), Migration Studies
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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
Latest news
Alexander Betts discusses the EU’s ‘New Pact on Migration’ on CNN
25 September 2020
Rethinking humanitarianism at sea | Imogen Dobie
17 August 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.
Vacancies
Part-time Project Coordinator – Social Cohesion as a Humanitarian Objective
Founded in 1982
Master's course established in 1998
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002
