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Refugee livelihoods and private sector engagement in Uganda | Naohiko Omata
30 November 2012
Dr Naohiko Omata discusses his recent fieldwork in Kampala, Uganda, as part of the Humanitarian Innovation Project, researching refugee livelihoods and private sector engagement
The M23 rebellion: an (exceptionally provisional) attempt at some analysis | Will Jones
22 November 2012
Will Jones writes for Politics in Spires about the M23 rebel group's seizure of the strategic city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Alexander Betts: Refugees have 'the kind of drive and ambition that make for fantastic entrepreneurs'
19 November 2012
Dr Alexander Betts discusses the entrepreneurial potential of refugees in The Independent
Innovation, technology and the private sector in refugee protection | Alexander Betts
16 November 2012
Dr Alexander Betts introduces the Humanitarian Innovation Project, discussing the role of innovation, technology and the private sector in refugee protection
Humanitarian Innovation Project launch
14 November 2012
The Humanitarian Innovation Project (HIP) officially kicks-off on Thursday 15 November with a public launch event at the Oxford Department of International Development.
The architecture of refugee protection | Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
8 November 2012
Listen to a podcast of the Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2012 by Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Stanford Law School)
Nando Sigona interviewed by Voice of Russia on children at risk of statelessness in UK
7 November 2012
Dr Sigona says tens of thousands of children in the UK with no formal documentation could effectively be stateless
Forced Migration Review launches 25th Anniversary collection
7 November 2012
FMR will look back at how forced migration issues have changed – and what has stayed the same – since 1987
Former US presidential special assistant to give lecture on refugees and human rights
1 November 2012
On 7 November 2012, President Obama’s former Special Assistant for Justice and Regulatory Policy, Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, will deliver the Refugee Studies Centre’s Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture at the Oxford Museum of Natural History
World Disasters Report 2012 launched today: focus on forced migration and displacement
16 October 2012
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' (IFRC) World Disasters Report 2012, edited by Emeritus Professor Roger Zetter, is launched today
Nando Sigona wins Teaching Excellence Award
11 October 2012
Dr Nando Sigona has won a University of Oxford’s Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution towards teaching on the MSc in Migration Studies
Nando Sigona says deportation of Afghan children would violate UN conventions
6 September 2012
In an interview with the Danish newspaper Politiken (translated by the Copenhagen Post), Dr Nando Sigona warns against the risk of turning young returnees into military targets for anti-Western militants
Syria’s dismemberment: fulfilling the French Mandate’s vision?
4 September 2012
Professor Dawn Chatty writes for Open Democracy about the irony of British cooperation with the armed opposition in Syria
RSC marks World Refugee Day with launch of new issue of Forced Migration Review
20 June 2012
FMR39, entitled ‘North Africa and displacement 2011-2012’, is now online at the FMR website
Forward, backward, stalling? Trinity term seminars reflect on completion of the Common European Asylum System
15 June 2012
Convened by Jean-François Durieux and Violeta Moreno Lax, the Public Seminar Series touched upon the three ‘pillars’ of the second phase of CEAS
The Arab Spring and Beyond: Summary of recent workshop
13 June 2012
Workshop convened to examine the extent to which political and economic developments in North Africa and the Levant have impacted migration since the start of the Arab Spring
States, sovereignties and refugees: a view from the margins?
12 June 2012
On Wednesday 6 June, the Refugee Studies Centre welcomed Professor Alessandro Monsutti to speak at the annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture at the Oxford Museum of Natural History
The Economist features research by Dr Nando Sigona
21 May 2012
This week's edition of The Economist features research by Vanessa Hughes and the RSC's Dr Nando Sigona on the plight of undocumented migrant children in the UK
Representatives of Mobile Indigenous Peoples call for respect of human rights ahead of Rio +20 Earth Summit
16 April 2012
Representatives of Mobile Indigenous Peoples met for a workshop at the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature’s (RSCN) Dana eco-lodge last week to reflect on the achievements of the past decade and to consider future actions to promote the special needs and vulnerabilities of mobile indigenous peoples.
RSC staff and Associates editing a major, cutting-edge volume, The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
2 April 2012
The book will be published by Oxford University Press as part of its world-renowned Oxford Handbook series