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Topics include Syria, EU asylum law and policy, refugee economies, the refugee system, and self-reliance
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New publications from the Refugee Economies Programme
Four new reports present the Programme's latest research in Ethiopia and Kenya
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FMR 61: Ethics, plus special tribute to Barbara Harrell-Bond
With 19 articles on Ethics, and 9 articles paying tribute to Barbara Harrell-Bond and her legacy
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Democratizing Displacement | RSC Conference 2019
Listen to session podcasts from this international conference held in March 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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Doing Business in Kakuma: Refugees, Entrepreneurship, and the Food Market
Report
Alexander Betts, Antonia Delius, Cory Rodgers, Olivier Sterck and Maria Stierna, (2019)
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The Kalobeyei Model: Towards Self-Reliance for Refugees?
Report
Alexander Betts, Naohiko Omata, Cory Rodgers, Olivier Sterck and Maria Stierna, (2019)
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Refugee Economies in Dollo Ado: Development Opportunities in a Border Region of Ethiopia
Report
Alexander Betts, Raphael Bradenbrink, Jonathan Greenland, Naohiko Omata and Olivier Sterck, (2019)
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Refugee Economies in Addis Ababa: Towards Sustainable Opportunities for Urban Communities
Report
Alexander Betts, Leon Fryszer, Naohiko Omata and Olivier Sterck, (2019)
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Research in Brief: Avoiding refugee status and alternatives to asylum
Research in Brief
Georgia Cole, (2019), RSC Research in Brief 14
Latest news
Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2019
10 October 2019
New research brief examines why people choose to avoid refugee status
30 September 2019
RSC Annual Newsletter 2018-2019
Read our latest Annual Newsletter with details of selected activities from the past academic year.
Forthcoming events
The political economy of refugee self-reliance
Wednesday, 16 October 2019, 5pm to 6.30pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime: early lessons from the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)
Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 1pm to 2pm @ Meeting Room A, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
Postcolonial boundaries, self-determination and the Rohingya refugee crisis
Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 5pm to 6.30pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
Founded in 1982
Master's course established in 1998
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002
