Read the latest books by RSC academics
Topics include Syria, EU asylum law and policy, refugee economies, the refugee system, and self-reliance
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MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Applications are open for 2019-2020 entry. Second application deadline: Friday 25 January 2019
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Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2018 | Pierre Krähenbühl
Listen to the UNRWA Commissioner-General give this year’s lecture
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Democratizing Displacement | RSC Conference 2019
This international conference will take place at New College, Oxford on 18-19 March 2019
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UNHCR/Rahima Gambo
FMR 59: Twenty Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
With 19 theme articles, plus 7 general articles
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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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Seeking informal asylum: The case of Central Americans in the United States
Working paper
Angela Remus, (2019), RSC Working Paper Series, 127
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The Global Compact on Refugees: towards a theory of change?
Journal article
Alexander Betts, (2018), International Journal of Refugee Law
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Research in Brief: Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance
Research in Brief
Alexander Betts, Kate Pincock and Evan Easton-Calabria, (2018), RSC Research in Brief 10
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Negotiating place, culture and new Dutch identities: Inclusion, exclusion and belonging in a grassroots refugee integration organisation in Utrecht, the Netherlands
Working paper
Julia Muller, (2018), RSC Working Paper Series, 126
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Contested evolution of nutrition for humanitarian and development ends
Working paper
Susanne Jaspars, Tom Scott-Smith and Elizabeth Hull, (2018), RSC Working Paper Series, 125
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Twenty Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
Forced Migration Review
Marion Couldrey and Jenny Peebles (eds), (2018), 59
Latest news
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RSC Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2019
14 December 2018
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Border rescue | Dr Kieran Oberman
29 November 2018
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The Kindertransport: Contesting memory | Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton
26 November 2018
Democratizing Displacement, RSC Conference 2019
This international conference will be held on 18-19 March at New College, Oxford.
Forthcoming events
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Refugees and the UK labour market
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva and Dr Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford)
Wednesday, 23 January 2019, 5pm to 6.30pm
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Building inclusive cities: emerging learning from a knowledge exchange with UK cities
Jacqueline Broadhead (University of Oxford)
Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 5pm to 6.30pm
Founded in 1982
Master's course established in 1998
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002
