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MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

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The new Refugee Economies Programme (formerly the Humanitarian Innovation Project) has a new website

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Refugee Economies Programme launches new website

The new Refugee Economies Programme (formerly the Humanitarian Innovation Project) has a new website

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With 22 articles on ‘Economies: rights and access to work’, plus 2 mini-features

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FMR 58: Economies: rights and access to work

With 22 articles on ‘Economies: rights and access to work’, plus 2 mini-features

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Topics include Syria, EU asylum law and policy, refugee economies, the refugee system, and self-reliance

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Topics include Syria, EU asylum law and policy, refugee economies, the refugee system, and self-reliance

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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.

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Latest publications

The ethics of refugees
Matthew J Gibney, (2018), Philosophy Compass
Self-Reliance in Kalobeyei? Socio-Economic Outcomes for Refugees in North-West Kenya
Alexander Betts et al, (2018)
“But if Locals are Poorer than you, How would you Justify Additional Help?”: Rethinking the Purpose of Sensitive Interview Questions
Georgia Cole, (2018), Refugee Survey Quarterly
Questioning the value of ‘refugee’ status and its primary vanguard: the case of Eritreans in Uganda
Georgia Cole, (2018), RSC Working Paper Series, 124
Panacea for the refugee crisis? Rethinking the promotion of ‘self-reliance’ for refugees
Evan Easton-Calabria and Naohiko Omata, (2018), Third World Quarterly
Syrians in displacement
Marion Couldrey, Jenny Peebles (eds), (2018), Forced Migration Review, 57
Refugee Economies in Kenya
Alexander Betts, Naohiko Omata, Olivier Sterck, (2018)
Paradoxes of Resilience: A Review of the World Disasters Report 2016
Tom Scott-Smith, (2018), Development and Change

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Latest news

New article by Matthew Gibney on the ethics of refugees

15 August 2018
Self-Reliance in Kalobeyei?, a new report from the Refugee Economies Programme

8 August 2018
New RSC Newsletter 2017-2018 now online

1 August 2018
Barbara Harrell-Bond obituary, by Professor Roger Zetter

31 July 2018
The 1951 Refugee Convention today is under serious threat | Alexander Betts

23 July 2018
New journal article by Georgia Cole asks "But if locals are poorer than you, how would you justify additional help?"

19 July 2018
Barbara Harrell-Bond, OBE, 1932-2018

12 July 2018

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Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies | RSC Conference 2017

This major RSC Conference took place at Keble College, Oxford on 16-17 March 2017. A highlights video and session podcasts are available online.

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Founded in 1982

Master's course established in 1998

Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002