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Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

The new book by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier, published 30 March

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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MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

Take a look at our MSc course pages

FMR 55: Shelter in displacement

With 30 articles on 'Shelter in displacement', plus 7 general articles

How we can fix our failing refugee system

Watch the RSC Director speak at TED2016, plus his other TED Talks

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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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Selected publications

Natascha Zaun, (2017), EU Asylum Policies: The Power of Strong Regulating States, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer.

Alexander Betts, Louise Bloom, Josiah Kaplan, and Naohiko Omata (2016), Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and Development, Oxford University Press.

Leïla Vignal (editor), (2016), The Transnational Middle East: People, Places, Borders, Routledge.

Alexander Betts and Will Jones, (2016), Mobilising the Diaspora: How Refugees Challenge Authoritarianism, Cambridge University Press.

Cathryn Costello, (2015), The Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees in European Law, Oxford University Press.