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RSC Annual Report 2024-2025 now available online

RSC Annual report 24-25 cover image. Balukhali camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Credit: Andrew Philip

We are delighted to announce that our Annual Report 2024-2025 has now been published. The report provides details of all our research and activities over the past year and includes feature articles on:

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  • Integration of resettled Syrian refugees in the UK

  • Refugee Economies Programme

  • The Refugee-Led Research Hub

  • Dangerous journeys: saving lives and responding to missing migrants

    and refugees

  • The Politics of Education and Hope in Forced Migration: Insights from

    Syrian Young People’s Journeys

  • Understanding state violence: how Italy legitimises migration control

  • The Anthropology of Good: Volunteering to help refugees and asylum

    seekers in the UK and Sweden

  • Gil Loescher: a lasting legacy

Read and download the report (pdf 3MB).

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