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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Some complex legal questions examined from a legal perspective in a partial and passionate manner
Other
Catherine Briddick, (2021), EU Law Analysis blog
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Exiled within: Between citizenship and the struggle for return for internal Palestinian refugees in Israel
Working paper
Haneen Kinani, (2021), RSC Working Paper Series 134
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The Global Compact on Refugees and the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum: The Ripples of Responsibility-Sharing
Chapter
Evan Easton-Calabria, (2021), The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in light of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees, 125 - 133
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Mental health and psychosocial support, Data and displacement, Missing migrants
Forced Migration Review
Marion Couldrey and Alice Philip (eds), (2021), Forced Migration Review, 66
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Disentangling the migration-development nexus using QCA
Journal article
Mathias Czaika and Marie Godin, (2021), Migration and Development
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The ‘mobility turn’: economic inequality in refugee livelihoods
Chapter
Naohiko Omata, (2021), Handbook of Culture and Migration, 287 - 300
Latest news
International Summer School to be held online, twice
31 March 2021
Forced Migration Review issue 66 is now online
4 March 2021
Gil Loescher Memorial Fund
In celebration of the life and work of Gil Loescher, a new fund has been established by the RSC and Gil’s family and friends to support students conducting research on refugee and displacement issues.
Forthcoming events
International Online School in Forced Migration
Monday, 12 July 2021 to Friday, 16 July 2021
Palestine Refugees and International Law
Friday, 23 July 2021 to Saturday, 24 July 2021 @ Online course
International Online School in Forced Migration
Monday, 20 September 2021 to Friday, 24 September 2021
COVID-19 resources
Visit our 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.
Founded in 1982
Master's course established in 1998
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2002
