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- Drivers
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- Refugee Economies Programme
- The Liberal State and the Expulsion of Members: Banishment, Denationalisation and Deportation
- The Duties of Refugees
- Humanitarian Shelter
- Humanitarian Nutrition
- The Syrian Humanitarian Disaster
- Refugee Children as a Site of Critical Intervention
- Resettled Refugee Children: EAL and other Provisions and Policy Making
- Newly-Arrived Children: EAL and Other Provisions Project
- Protecting Hope in Displacement: Refugee Youth’s Aspirations and Ideas of the Future
- Refugee rights: beyond the 1951 Convention
- RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- Displacement from Syria: putting the Common European Asylum System to the test? [Special lectures]
- Family ties: remittances and support in Puntland and Somaliland [Public Seminar Series]
- Survival migration: failed governance and the crisis of displacement
- Human movement and the vulnerable
- Regional engagement and effective protection: the Australian way
- Forced migration as illegal migration
- Afghan refugees, mobility and the role of UNHCR
- Political influences on refugee status determination in Australia, 1978 to 1983
- The price of rights: regulating international migration
- Tracks across sand: the dispossession of the ‡Khomani San of the southern Kalahari
- States, sovereignties and refugees: a view from the margins?
- The vanishing truth of refugees
- The complexity of powerlessness: what makes human rights law perform?
- The architecture of refugee protection
- Waiting for solutions in uncertain times: Palestine refugees in the Middle East context
- Restoring rights: forced displacement, protection and humanitarian action
- Enabling ‘bottom-up’ innovation
- The tactics of time and status: young people’s experiences of constructing futures while subject to immigration control
- The private sector and the global refugee regime
- Consolidating critical perspectives on climate change and migration
- Protection
- Protection and the ICRC
- Flocks without shepherds? Governmentality, sovereignty and the paradoxical politics of IDP protection policy
- The Rohingya: a population facing violence, displacement, segregation, and statelessness
- A numbers game: counting refugees and international burden-sharing
- Statelessness and citizenship: camps and the creation of 'political space'
- Access to protection and the limitations on extraterritorial border control: the case of refugees at sea
- 'Here, man is nothing!’: Gendered tensions and male failed asylum seekers
- Opportunities and risk: enacting socio-cultural transformation in refugee camps in Uganda
- Beyond resettlement in biodiversity conservation: case studies from Vietnam and Peru
- Evidence about torture in the UK asylum system
- Constitutionalism, ethnicity and minority rights in Africa: a legal appraisal from the Great Lakes region
- Deportation, crime and the changing character of membership in the United Kingdom
- What is wrong with permanent alienage?
- The citizenship market: trading identities in East Africa and the Great Lakes
- Ireland: forced migration history, forced migration empathy?
- Deportation, non-deportability and precarious lives: the contemporary status-less child in Britain
- The migrant and the (good) citizen: exclusion, failure, tolerance
- Civic stratification and civil repair: the case of welfare and asylum
- The idea of autonomy: refugee camp governance in comparative perspective
- The rise of temporal over spatial control: return expectations and state-induced migrant return
- The scope of ‘safety elsewhere’: protection alternatives in refugee law
- TBC
- Refugee livelihoods, innovation and the private sector: the case of Uganda
- Humanitarian Innovation Project: looking outwards
- TBC
- The impact of human rights treaties on asylum jurisprudence: a comparison between the UK and Canada
- The potential and limitations of the Court of Justice of the European Union in shaping international refugee law
- TBC [WIP Seminar Series]
- Migrant return policies as the art of the possible
- Rwandan refugees in south western Uganda: their attitudes and responses to repatriation 1994–2013
- Nation outside the state
- Rebuilding social capital after involuntary resettlement in the Philippines and Indonesia
- Migration, rights and power: understanding the links between environmental stress and (im)mobility
- Intrigues of the weak: conservation, development and criminality amidst a nomadic peoples
- The politics of causality: putting the environmental change and migration debate in political and philosophical context
- The (mis)treatment of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel
- Within and Beyond Citizenship: Lived Experiences of Contemporary Membership
- The Deportation of Unaccompanied Minors from the EU: Family Tracing and Government Accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) Project
- Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement: Bridging Research and Practice, Filling the Knowledge Gaps
- Refuge from Inhumanity: Enriching Refugee Protection Standards through Recourse to International Humanitarian Law
- RSC 30th Anniversary Conference: Understanding Global Refugee Policy
- South–South Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement
- Palestine Refugees and International Law [Short Course]
- Statelessness and International Law
- Migration research and policy: addressing the elephants in the room [WIP Seminar Series]
- Asylum appeals: how to make comparisons and spot differences
- Humanitarian Innovation Conference
- Health and Humanitarian Response in Complex Emergencies
- Statelessness and International Law
- International Summer School in Forced Migration
- At the end of the rainbow: where next for the LGBTI refugee?
- Turning wrongful convictions into rights? Asylum seekers and the criminal law
- The child in international refugee law
- Three asylum paradigms
- Refugees, forced migrants and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Creation, imagination, speculation: age assessment and the asylum procedure
- The rise and decline of a global security actor: UNHCR, refugee protection and security
- The right to seek and obtain asylum under the African human rights system
- New 'recipe' in refugee protection? Developments and the current state of Germany's resettlement program
- The resigned, the restless and the resilient: risk perceptions among Afghan migrants in Turkey
- Polish refugees in the UK
- The Arab Spring and Beyond: Human Mobility, Forced Migration and Institutional Responses
- Refugees’ Diasporic Memories and the Politics of Democratisation
- Dynamics of Conflict and Forced Migration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Refugee Status Determination and Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Faith-Based Humanitarianism: The Response of Faith Communities and Faith-Based Organisations in Contexts of Forced Migration
- Deportation and the Development of Citizenship
- Protecting People in Conflict and Crisis: Responding to the Challenges of a Changing World
- Humanitarian Action in Somalia: Expanding Humanitarian Space
- Expulsion, Membership and Political Community: Historical and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
- Environmental Change and Migration: Assessing the Evidence and Developing Norms for Response
- Romani Mobilities in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- Diaspora Studies: Past, Present and Promise (Oxford Diasporas Programme Launch)
- North Africa in Transition: Mobility, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crises
- Violence and Displacement in Colombia
- Qualification for International Protection in the EU
- Critical Approaches to Internal Displacement
- Violence, Protection and Displacement Along the Border of Uganda and Sudan
- 5th Postgraduate Student Conference on Forced Migration
- Children's Participation in Development and Humanitarian Action
- Displacement, Humanitarianism and Burma: A Permanent Crisis?
- Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and Africa
- Iraqi Refugees in the Levant: Addressing the Protection Crisis
- An Unsettled Future? Forced Migration and Refugee Studies in the 21st Century
- The Refugee in Trans/National Politics and Society: Representation, Contestation and Control
- Iraqi Displacements: Addressing the Protection Crisis
- Representation and Displacement: Refugees, IDPs and Stateless Persons in State and Nation
- International Conference on Refugees and International Law: The Challenge of Protection
- Refugee Protection in International Law: Contemporary Challenges
- The Economics of Forced Migration
- A New Asylum Paradigm?
- Migration Futures Workshop
- Conflict, Violence and Displacement in Southern Philippines and Thailand
- Asylum and Migration, Policy and Practice, in the EU Acceding Countries
- Training Seminar on Psycho-Social Issues
- Aceh under Martial Law: Conflict, Violence and Displacement
- Voices out of Conflict: Young People Affected by Forced Migration and Political Crisis
- Japan–UK seminar on peace building, post-conflict reconstruction and return of refugees
- 1st Annual Student Conference on Forced Migration
- Mobile Peoples and Conservation: Crossing the Disciplinary Divide
- The Afghan Crisis: The Humanitarian Response Emergency Roundtable
- Children and adolescents in Palestinian households: coping with the effects of forced migration and prolonged conflict
- Children in Adversity: An International Consultation on Ways to Reinforce the Coping Ability and Resilience of Children in Situations of Hardship
- Alternative Futures: Developing an Agenda for Legal Research in Asylum
- The Kosovo Refugee Crisis
- Political violence in Colombia
- Cambodia: Moving Towards a Better Future
- The Growth of Forced Migration: New Directions in Research, Policy and Practice
- Fractures and flows: Africa, Elizabeth Colson, and the current global meltdown
- Zomia, a zone of resistance: The last great enclosure movement and stateless peoples in Southeast Asia
- Development and Emergency: Containing the Migratory Effects of Underdevelopment
- Persecution for reasons of religion under the 1951 Refugee Convention: an anthropological approach
- Paradoxes of self-determination
- The meaning of place in a world of movement: lessons from long-term field research in southern Ethiopia
- Does asylum have a future?
- Popular struggles for justice: the fifth pillar of democracy
- Surpassing nostalgia: personhood and the experience of displacement
- Speaking bitterness, seeking justice: a memorial movement on the Yellow River
- Half-life of the Ottoman Empire: long term studies of four communities, 1895–1995
- Economics, the private sector and human rights: open issues in population resettlement
- Mementos, reality and human displacement
- Legal dimensions of forced displacement of population groups
- Beyond blankets: in search of political deals and durable solutions for the displaced
- Asylum: a new perspective
- Global poverty, humanitarian need in the Middle East and prospects for peace in the region
- Asylum: the new dirty word
- Refugee identity and protection in the Middle East: legal lacuna or political pragmatism?
- Weapons of mass migration: forced displacement, coercion and foreign policy
- Solidarity and responsibility-sharing for refugee protection in the EU’s Common European Asylum System
- Refuge from deprivation: socio-economic harm and non-refoulement in international law
- Arbitrary detention of asylum seekers: a comparison of some recent practice from Italy and the UK
- The law and politics of non-entrée
- Impossible situations: affective impasses and their afterlives in humanitarian and ethnographic fieldwork (Cancelled)
- The Arab Uprisings: Displacement and Migration
- A lost generation? Education opportunities for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon
- EU asylum law in the search for mutual trust
- Deconstructing the migration experience: life course reflections of Polish WWII child migrants
- Forced Migration to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: Burden or Boon
- The Silent University Visible Award 2013 Ceremony
- DR Congo to Tel-Aviv: A story of Congolese refugees, activism and microfinance
- Ockenden International Lecture
- Is UNHCR becoming a migration agency? An analysis of UNHCR's engagement in ‘mixed movements’
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- The politics of nation-building: making co-nationals, refugees, and minorities
- Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions [Launch event]
- Refugee economies: forced displacement and development
- Refugee Week: Authors talk at Blackwell's Bookshop
- Impunity Under Civilian Rule: Sexual Violence in Modern Myanmar
- Do the benefits of engaging religion for development outweigh the dangers? (Westminster Faith Debates)
- Regional Perspectives on the Consequences of Displacement: War, Generalized Violence, and Refugee Protection
- Re-envisioning refugee studies: the pioneering role of Peter Loizos (Peter Loizos Memorial Lecture)
- Syria: 3 Years On
- The Deprivation of Citizenship in the United Kingdom: History, Practice, Law and Ethics
- The situation of older and disabled Syrian refugees
- The Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees – EU and ECHR Interactions Explored
- Migration and human rights: trends and priorities for action
- Immigration detention: the grounds beneath our feet (Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2013–14)
- The Global Governance of International Migration: What Next?
- Nowhere Home
- Bordering on failure: Canada–US border policy and the politics of refugee exclusion
- An afternoon on Syrian displacement, and protection in Europe [Launch event]
- Mixed migration, protection, integration: Syrian refugees' memories of flight to Germany
- Displacement and urbanisation: assessing the levels of vulnerability of the refugee and urban slum populations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Listening to the voices of Syrian women refugees in Jordan: Ethnographies of displacement and emplacement
- The Colombian legal framework for reparation and attention for internal displaced people as a field of political dispute: a study from the perspective of displaced rural communities that have mobilized to demand and exercise their right to return and the restitution of their land
- Forced displacement in the name of development and international law: an overview
- A legal lottery? Differences in procedure, judges’ behaviour and timing of asylum appeals between tribunal hearing centres in the UK
- Coordination and cooperation in response to the maritime movement of asylum-seekers and migrants
- The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies [Book launch]
- The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival [Book event]
- Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism on the Thai–Burma border [Book event]
- Love of women and a place in the world: romantic love and political commitment in the life of a forced migrant
- Sans Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants [Book event]
- Inequality, immigration and refugee protection
- Citizenship revocation and the privilege to have rights
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- International Summer School in Forced Migration
- Refugees and the Roman Empire
- Refuge and protection in the late Ottoman Empire
- The arrival of refugees and the making of India and Pakistan in 1947
- Exile, refuge and the Greek polis: between justice and humanity
- Hospitality, protection and refuge in early English law
- Refugees – what’s wrong with history?
- SEMINAR CANCELLED: Out with the 'international problem children'! US migration plans, settlement fantasies and the pacification of Europe
- Palestinian refugee camp as a form of locality: place-making and community building in protracted exile
- End of the journey? Forced resettlement among the Mursi of south Ethiopia
- Religion and the ethics of forced migration
- The return of IDPs in the middle of the war as a civil resistance movement: the case of the peasant community of Macondo in Turbo, Colombia between 2007 and 2014
- BOYA BOYA (Shine Shine), a video portrait by Ruba Al Akash and Karen Boswall
- Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015: Facilitating Innovation
- Innocence: understanding a political concept | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2015
- Understanding global refugee policy: the case of naturalisation in Tanzania
- Better late than never? The evolution and implementation of UNHCR's urban refugee policy
- Ethnographic understandings of global refugee policy: looking at policy in practice
- UNHCR’s protection guidelines: what role for external voices?
- Global policy for IDPs: a parallel process?
- Does expanding non-refoulement secure greater access to asylum?
- Creating bridges: music, play and wellbeing in the lives of refugee and immigrant children and young people
- Who volunteers with refugees in Germany, and why? Findings from an exploratory survey
- Undesirable and unreturnable? Diplomatic assurances and human rights barriers to removal
- On banishment
- The International Response to Regime-Induced Displacement
- The 'out of place' – people forced to move or forcibly transferred
- Historical cross-border relocations in the Pacific: lessons for planned relocations in the context of climate change
- Human smuggling before the Supreme Court of Canada
- Not so exceptional? Understanding the Canada-US border as a place of law
- Europe's migrant crisis: what can be done? | Online and at ODI, London
- LiveFriday: Social Animals at the Ashmolean Museum
- How Should Europe Respond to the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis? | Refugee Week Panel Discussion
- The Syrian Humanitarian Crisis & UK Response: What Oxford Can Do to Help
- Refuge in Europe: Syrian Aspirations | Special Workshop
- Africa after neo-abolition: asylum politicization, expert testimony, and the legacy of anti-trafficking advocacy
- ‘We do not want to become refugees’: Human mobility in the age of climate change | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture
- Refugee economies: forced displacement and development
- Displacement economies: thinking through the paradoxes of crisis and creativity
- Navigating Nakivale: the borderland economy of a refugee camp
- The economic consequences of refugee return: evidence from Burundi and Tanzania
- Being Oromo in Nairobi's 'Little Mogadishu': Eastleigh's Ethiopian refugees and their livelihoods
- From macro-economy to political economy: situating the refugee development discourse at the large scale
- History, present and centre: Boko Haram, gender violence asylum claims, and the mimetic novelty of Africa
- Impacts of forced migrations - the German case. History, historical research, and policies of remembrance
- History and Memory in Refugee Research | 2nd Workshop of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Network 'Foundations of Refugee Research'
- Informal discussion with T. Alexander Aleinikoff
- A market for refugees
- Standardization of performance measurement and accountability systems in humanitarian aid administration
- Protection of statelessness in Thailand: is human right the ceiling?
- RSC Workshop: Refuge from Syria
- 'The migrant and refugee crisis': A panel discussion on responses and solutions
- OxHRH Webinar: Is there a refugee crisis in Europe or just a crisis in protection?
- Outward Migration to Europe - Reflections from the Aegean
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- Destination Europe: States, borders and refugees
- Can Europe build a unified response to the asylum crisis?
- Moving forward on asylum in the EU: from crisis to responsibility
- Resettlement to the UK: Between Sovereigns revisited
- Fencing off reality: Hungary's reactions to the arrival of refugees and their interpretation in a European legal, political and moral context
- Protracted displacement and the challenges of solidarity (CANCELLED)
- Wasted lives: borders and the right to life of people crossing them
- Ending the Fast Track?
- Peaceland: Conflict resolution and the everyday politics of international intervention | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2016
- The meaning of nationality for the purposes of diplomatic protection
- Protection in the context of mixed migration in Asia-Pacific; the movements of Rohingyas/Bangladeshi in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea
- Geographies of displacement in the Syrian conflict [CANCELLED]
- The refugee status of disabled persons
- Borders and human rights in Europe: exploring recent legal developments
- International Summer School in Forced Migration
- Making sense of the EU-Turkey deal: law, politics and practicalities
- Protection, surrogacy and defining refugees
- Camps as containment: a genealogy of the refugee camp
- Imagining the refugee camp: are camps good for families?
- ‘Food is the best medicine’: displacement, return and food (in)security in the Horn of Africa
- Poverty, protection, social protection and vulnerability - using Lebanon experiences to rethink aid in urban displacement
- State building in the midst of conflict: lessons from Syria
- Geographies of displacement in the Syrian conflict
- Debate: Tradable refugee-admission quotas, matching, and EU asylum policy
- Refugee repatriation on the move: hopes and fears from the voices of the returning refugees
- Investigating the role of policies in refugees' integration: potential and challenges of a qualitative comparative analysis approach
- Celebrating the Scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill: An International Gathering
- From Fortress Europe to Sanctuary Europe: Building a Social Movement for Inclusive Asylum
- People on the move in an era of climate change: obstacles and opportunities
- Humanitarianism and Forced Migration: Crises, Constraints, and Opportunities
- Reporting refugees: what a journalist learnt on the migration trails to Europe | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2016
- Emergency shelter: reflections on a new European infrastructure
- Building structures in Calais refugee camp
- Dwelling in an emergency shelter: between geopolitics and everyday life
- The settlement approach: integrating programming at community level
- Complicit or emancipatory? Architecture, space and design in humanitarian operations
- Lessons from 15 years of post-disaster shelter reconstruction projects in India
- Shelter in flux
- Undocumented immigrants in an era of arbitrary law: the flight and plight of peoples deemed 'illegal'
- Migration, religious security, and public schooling within the liberal democratic state
- Legal access to international protection in the EU
- An historical institutionalist approach to the analysis of refugee labour market integration in a market-oriented Sweden
- The transformation of Turkish asylum policies and legislation
- Book launch: Refugees, Conflict and the Search for Belonging
- Colloquium on the Fundamental Rights of Refugees and the Displaced
- Understanding Lebanon’s policy towards Syrian refugees: variations in national and local level potlitics
- Europaeum Lecture | The case for humanitarian economics: recalibrating civil war and disaster
- At Home in Two Countries: The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship
- Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies | RSC Conference 2017
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- Nationality and Statelessness in the International Law of Refugee Status
- Refuge: Transforming a broken refugee system
- International Summer School in Forced Migration
- Syria and its refugees: a historical perspective
- Divided by a shared agenda: the humanitarian response to the crisis in Syria
- The ethics of protection in Syria
- The struggle for Syria
- Syrian trajectories: from local revolutionary actors to exiled humanitarian workers. Meanings of humanitarian action in the Syrian post-2011 context
- Writing in times of war and revolution
- The Syrian internal displacement
- Understanding Turkey's policy towards Syrian refugees: unpacking national and local level politics
- Interpretation of the right to family reunification of unaccompanied asylum seeking children under international law
- "I had to build my way again": an anthropological exploration of struggles to build good lives in the face of war among Syrian refugee youth in Amman
- The power of norms: protracted refugee situations and the international refugee regime
- Failing to manage or managing to fail: Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian responses to the refugee crisis
- Bureaucracy, law and dystopia in the United Kingdom's asylum system
- CANCELLED - Refugee flight and mobility: lessons from the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees then and now
- The duty to be generous (Karam): Alternatives to rights-based asylum in the Middle East
- Unaccompanied young migrants and refugees coming of age in the UK and Italy: pathways through immigration control and welfare regimes
- A life suspended: impending repatriation and the temporal experience of exile along the Thai-Burma border
- Viennese social furniture: Transforming urban hospitality with plywood and cable ties
- The Yazidi dilemma: human rights seem to be stuck at theory rather than practice
- Nostalgia and legitimacy: understanding the externalization of European migration policy | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2017
- Researching Forced Migration: Stuck between Good Intentions and Ethical Standards?
- Refugee Talks: Lessons From the Refugee Response in Greece
- Refuge - Transforming a Broken Refugee System
- Refuge: transforming a broken refugee system
- Book Launch: ‘EU Asylum Policies: The Power of Strong Regulating States’
- Refugees and the politics of indignity
- Should humanitarian organisations help with coerced repatriation?
- British and French deprivation policies as an instance of renationalisation of citizenship
- The Buddhist people smuggler - challenges problematic rhetoric on people smugglers
- “What’s hospitality got to do with it?” Revisiting the guest discourse in the anthropology of humanitarianism
- Non-refoulement as a norm in international and EU law
- International refugee protection and the secondary forced displacement of Palestinian refugees
- Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East | Book launch
- CANCELLED: Rethinking labour, rethinking refugee: the untold history of refugees and the ILO
- International advocacy in the digital era: campaigning for refugee rights in 2015 & 2016
- 6th Annual Seminar Advancing Good Governance in International Development
- Lived experiences of women detained inside Italian immigration detention centres
- Data for migration and asylum policies: the realities hidden within and behind the numbers
- The constitutional right to asylum: the wave of the future in international refugee law?
- Livelihoods in displacement: from refugee perspectives to aid agency response
- Borders, boxes and disciplinary boundaries: the delineation of forced migration in research and practice
- Asylum and Nehru’s changing non-alignment: Tibetan refugees in India
- Aquí es frontera. Transit migration and border control in southern Mexico
- Belgian refugees between 'war' and 'peace': trauma, transition and repatriation
- Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2017 | The displacement paradox: good refugees, bad migrants. Where can the unwanted go?
- A work in progress: a critical analysis of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework
- Just bureaucracy? An ethnography of the unification of the registration of refugees in Kenya by the Government of Kenya and UNHCR
- The ECHO Refugee Library project | presentation and photo exhibition
- Roundtable discussion featuring 'Contesting expulsion' and 'The rise of reconnection'
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- The Local Politics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Exploring sub-national responses in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan
- International Summer School in Forced Migration
- The political predicament and agency of refugees
- Open borders in the nineteenth century: constructing the national, the citizen and the foreigner in South America
- Accessing asylum in Europe: extraterritorial border controls meet refugee rights
- Of rights and borders: human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery in European law
- The child in international refugee law
- The IDP in international law: debates, developments and prospects
- No country of asylum: 'legitimizing' Lebanon's rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention
- Addressing statelessness in Europe and the nexus with forced migration
- Chinese refugee law and policy
- To whom should we grant asylum? Liberal democracy and the right to refugeehood
- The impact of Congolese refugees on social cohesion and labour market outcomes in Uganda
- The health reception of children in Danish asylum centres: a qualitative study in its early phase
- The situation of refugees in Hungary after 2015
- Book launch for ‘Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State’
- Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis before the Storm
- Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria
- Syrian labour in the Turkish economy
- Outsourcing Border Control: The Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco
- Unravelling memories of family separation among Sri Lankan Tamils resettled in Australia, 1983-2000
- Defining political human security: the case of Rohingya refugees in India
- Comparative perspectives on the search and rescue of asylum seekers at sea
- “Let language not betray us”: immigration, enforcement and modern slavery | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2018
- Silent displacement and transfer in Occupied Palestine: Hebron as a case study
- Deconstructing Biometric Refugee Registration
- The Fourth Pillar? Education and forced migration
- Barbara Harrell-Bond: A life not ordinary | Refugee Week film screening
- DPhil Roundtable Discussion
- Democratic Legitimacy and the Ethics of Asylum
- Book launch: Refuge Lost, by Daniel Ghezelbash
- In a troubled and polarized Middle-East: challenges for Palestine refugees and UNRWA | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2018
- Democratizing Displacement | RSC Conference 2019
- To be or not to be: questioning the value of refugee status
- Asylum after empire: postcolonial legacies in the politics of asylum seeking
- The business of modern slavery: forced migration and forced labour in a failed state
- International society and the risk of statelessness
- The Kindertransport: Contesting memory
- Border rescue
- Ransom tales: the refugee as storyteller
- What digitalization of humanitarian operations looks like: data, maps and new technologies in Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan
- A spatial model of internal displacement and forced migration
- The Dublin IV recast: a new institutionalist approach to explaining policy continuity
- The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh: A case of 'subhuman'
- Solidarity, vulnerability, and the labour of refugee activism
- Renewable energy in humanitarian contexts and the UN Global Plan of Action
- Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice | Seminar and Book Launch
- When does harmonization backfire? Understanding the conditions that transformed the Family Reunification Directive into a tool that protects migrants and refugees' rights in the Netherlands
- Expert Workshop on the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Transnationalism, return visits, home and belonging: second generation from refugee backgrounds
- Refugees and the UK labour market
- Building inclusive cities: emerging learning from a knowledge exchange with UK cities
- From pledges to implementation: exploring local government responses for urban refugees in Ethiopia
- Urban refugee economies in Ethiopia
- The accidental city of Kakuma, Kenya: humanitarian urbanism and the development of the refugee camp environment
- Sudanese constellations of home: refugee NGOs, social networks and urban homemaking in Cairo
- Exploring gendered ‘vulnerability’: Syrian refugee men and humanitarianism in urban Jordan
- Employment barriers of Syrian refugees in Lebanon
- What is owed to refugees when attributing responsibilities to states in institutionalized responsibility sharing regimes?
- Why Muslim men also care: ethnographic perspectives on ways of loving and caring among young Syrian men in exile in Amman
- Solidarity as co-responsibility: EU member states and the pursuit of justice in the field of refugee protection
- Network analysis techniques for refugee and forced migration research
- Who illegally migrates and why? Descriptive evidence from the Comoros archipelago
- Exodus: Our Journey to Europe
- The Notion of ‘Imminence’ in Refugee and Human Rights Law
- Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Syria: Imagined Homelands, Asylum, and Transnational Belongings
- Work-in-Progress Roundtable
- A Mobile Milieu: Humanitarian Equipment and the Politics of Need | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2019
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- Civil solidarity and the hunt for undocumented migrants: Resisting the politics of bare life. Two Belgian case studies
- Mobility economies: immobility, accumulation and migration in Libya
- Endurance and involuntary return to Senegal
- Sonopolis: Sound, citizenship, and migrant activisms in Athens
- Integrating through the digital: analysing the role of ICTs and social media in refugee settlement processes
- Conceptualizing forced migration: beyond the open orders debate
- Intergenerational impacts of IDPs on children’s early childhood development in host communities: evidence from Burundi
- What would an ethical, but feasible, response to the refugee crisis look like? An exploration
- From emergency shelters to dwellings: on the role of refugees as architects and the construction of dwellings in Zaatari Camp, Jordan
- Academia to the Public Square: Media Engagement on Immigration and Asylum Issues
- Workshop: Livelihoods and Socio-Economic Inclusion of Syrian Refugees in Host Countries
- The Map is Not the Territory: Story-making, Place and Performance | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2019
- The political economy of refugee self-reliance
- Postcolonial boundaries, self-determination and the Rohingya refugee crisis
- A human right to international freedom of movement
- Humanitarian wearables and digital bodies: problems of gifts and labour
- Continuums of exploitation - the legal framework on trafficking in persons
- SEMINAR CANCELLED (Digital refugee livelihoods: vulnerability as an opportunity in the future of work)
- Third World Approaches to International Law: A retrospective with some implications for refugee and migration law
- Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime: early lessons from the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)
- Localized integration: Syrian refugee experience with German bureaucracy
- The Returns Network: An Open Newsroom for Emerging Migration Correspondents
- Seeking protection from a place of refuge: refugees as the modern day Tantalus
- Member States contribution to refugee protection provision in the EU: a public goods perspective
- SEMINAR CANCELLED Bargains of inclusion: why some states give refugees the right to work
- A film discussion evening on Shelter Without Shelter
- The Turkish state’s military operation in Northern Syria: a discussion with members of the Kurdish community in Oxford
- The Native and the Refugee | Film Screening and Discussion
- Kurdish women’s knowledge of the state: from the guerrilla to the refugee camp
- SEMINAR CANCELLED | Access to SGBV protection services for Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
- Degradation by design: corrosive control in the lives of women seeking asylum in bordered Britain
- Colonial mobilities and global inequality: why European settlers ought not to be regarded as migrants
- Forced migration in the United Kingdom: women’s journeys to escape domestic violence
- SEMINAR CANCELLED | An intersectional approach to policy and decision making on SOGI asylum claims in Europe
- SEMINAR CANCELLED | Bordering
- Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law | Middle East Centre and RSC event
- Externalization and the erosion of refugee protection: an initial enquiry
- Multilocality and refugee-nomad interchange in northern Mauritania
- Rohingya refugee crisis: examination of the causes of persecution
- Bargains of inclusion: why some states give refugees the right to work
- Exiled: The Plight of Rohingya Refugees | Screening and Discussion with the Director
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- Global agenda setting, from the bottom up: the Global Refugee-Led Network (GRN)
- Without recognition, without assistance: Refugee-led responses in urban contexts
- New partnerships: How international organisations can support refugee-led organisations
- Rapid response to funding gaps: Philanthropic support for refugee-led initiatives
- Limited room to manoeuvre: Refugee-led responses in camp settings
- Affecting change from within: Refugees in international humanitarian organisations
- Mobility and immobility in the time of coronavirus: reflections from long-term study of migration and displacement | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2020
- Deporting extremists: a qualified defence
- Carceral junctions – stuckness and connectedness in camps
- Unlivable life: ordinary disasters and the atmosphere of crisis in Haiti
- Reflecting on Refugia
- Democracy after Right-Wing Populism | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2020
- Refugees and racial capitalism: what ‘integration’ in the labour market means
- ‘Belongers’ and ‘non-belongers’: dividing citizens in 1968
- Refugees as Human Shields: In Conversation with Neve Gordon
- Refugee denial: Settler colonialism and the making of the Global North imaginary
- Refugees, escapees and migrants: International migration and the politics of naming displacement in the Biafran War
- The international refugee regime and postcolonial sovereignty: Algeria, refugees and the UNHCR, 1954-63
- Refugees, minority citizens and the law: Sindh’s deterritorialised partition
- Crucibles of Exile: Palestinian education and the politics of regeneration, 1948-1967
- The long journey home: African American forced migration and exile from the Civil War to the Vietnam War
- Haitian refugees, the US state, and precedents for global border regimes
- Rethinking forced migration: Legacies of the Greek-Turkish population exchange
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- Current debates in the study and protection of displaced LGBT+ people
- International Online School in Forced Migration
- International Online School in Forced Migration
- The rise of the refugee research industry: some reflections
- With, for, or by refugees? Practical and ethical challenges of participatory research
- Critical localism: reflections on the localisation of humanitarian action in theory and (research) practice
- Digital methodologies in forced migration and refugee research: rethinking voices, representation and power
- Syrian refugees and local assistance in Berlin
- Co-producing research between academics, NGOs, and communities in humanitarian response
- The Afterlives of Return and the Limits of Refugee Protection | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2021
- Launch of The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law
- Book Launch: Gil Loescher’s Refugees: A Very Short Introduction
- Encountering the refugee camp beyond recognition
- Gender and humanitarian representations of Syrian refugees during displacement
- Refugeedom’s subjects and subjectivities
- Refugee entrepreneurship and gender paradoxes
- A refugee-led study on refugee-led organisations
- Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2021 | Empire, Asylum, and Refugee Responsibility Sharing
- African migration, human rights and literature
- Subcontinental defiance to the global refugee regime: global leadership or regional exceptionalism
- The changing contestations of deportation in the UK: from race to asylum and humanity
- Launch event: The Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH), a collaborative initiative of the BIEA and RSC
- Undoing Discriminatory Borders
- Why are Kurdish people risking their lives to seek asylum?
- Immigration Controls, Captivity and Reproductive Injustice in Britain: Punishing illegalised migrant women from the Global South and separating children from their mothers
- Postcolonial Racisms: National sovereignty and the making of new global apartheids
- Machine-Readable Refugees: Navigating biometric systems in Kenya
- Security Imperialism
- Borders, Militarism and Inequality in Global Capitalism: Reflections on strategies for freedom
- The Constitutive Exterior: EU border externalisation and the social dynamics of the Senegal River Valley
- Governing the Displaced in Global Capitalism: Refugee survival from the camp to the city
- Carceral Geographies, Racial Violence: The contested Mediterranean borderzone
- Social Cohesion as a Humanitarian Objective?
- Journeys towards Reconciliation: the JRS Experience
- “They treat us as if we are of no importance”: Experiences of displacement, (in)justice and reconciliation across disaster, epidemic and war in Sierra Leone
- Learning in Segregation as Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan
- Exposure to Violence and the Prospects for Reconciliation: Evidence from Syria and Iraq
- Fortress Europe and the Syrian refugee crisis
- Land Tenure Registration in Situations of Protracted Displacement: Reconciling or dividing?
- Reconciliation as Both Healing and Prevention: Mending ruptures within the self and between generations
- Devon Matthews of LGBT+ refugee rights charity Rainbow Railroad, in conversation
- International Online School in Forced Migration
- International Online School in Forced Migration
- International Online School in Forced Migration
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- "My Fourth Time, We Drowned": Exploring Migrant Journeys, Agency and Exclusion with author Sally Hayden
- The struggle for self-determination and grassroots liberation from neocolonial NGO-ism: perspectives from Kenya
- A materialist account of patriarchy under the post-colonial state
- Fascism is not dead: violence of Hindu nationalism in India and the possibilities of resistance
- The struggle for peace by LGBTI+ and women’s organisations in Turkey
- Writing and researching Palestine: reflections on positionality and decoloniality
- Liberal violence
- Bordering and Ordering among Refugees from Burma/Myanmar | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2022
- Book presentation - The Ethics of Exile: A Political Theory of Diaspora
- Asylum after the Act | A panel discussion
- Shelter without Shelter | A special Refugee Week screening at Ciné Lumière
- CANCELLED - Recognising Refugees | RSC Conference 2023
- Palestine Refugees and International Law
- What Justice for Famine Crimes? | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2022
- Social cohesion policies in displacement-affected contexts: promoting solidarity or preserving the protection space?
- The secret life of energy in refugee camps: uncovering spaces of power and principles of governance within humanitarian energy
- Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education
- Voluntary statelessness
- Improving refugee resettlement
- Digital labour platforms and migration: making of commoditised workers
- SEMINAR CANCELLED | The digital border and its techno-symbolic assemblages of power
- SEMINAR CANCELLED | Asylum, digital surveillance and platform power
- Virtual borders: human rights and the fluid subject of algorithmic governance
- Public Law as Infrastructure of Imperial Governance
- Doing the game: an ethnography of undocumented migration trajectories from Afghanistan to Germany
- The role(s) of higher education in emergencies
- Refugee camps: from temporary to permanency in the Sub-Saharan and Mediterranean area
- Online launch for FMR 71, Socio-economic integration
- Making refugees in India
- The British churches, refugee ‘crises’ and anti-migrant sentiment 1903-1918
- Refuge and resistance: Palestinians and the global refugee regime
- Migration and the politics of transgression: a historical perspective
- Oxford Sanctuary Fair 2023
- Institutional Diversity in Refugee Recognition Regimes
- Sharing Insights: The Lived Experience of Syrian Refugees in Canada
- The 'local turn', 'hybridity', and 'friction' in refugee governance: an ethnography of Refugee-Led Organizations (RLOs) in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
- Sanctuary Community Meet-and-greet | Refugee Week
- Online launch: Mobilising for rights in the MENA region
- Recognising Refugees: Practices and Modes of Recognition
- The use of new technologies in immigration and asylum governance: implications for human rights
- Ukraine: Insights and Implications
- Who Gets Believed? A conversation with Dina Nayeri | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2023
- Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2023
- Recognising Refugees: Book discussion on IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion
- Book launch: Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp
- SEMINAR POSTPONED | Beyond Livelihoods: A Protracted Displacement Economy Approach
- Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 1: International Refugee Law and Safe Third Countries
- Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 2: Borders, Racialisation, and Refugee Protection in Rwanda
- SEMINAR POSTPONED | Book launch: Becoming Adult on the Move
- Chileans of the North | Film screening by SolidariTee, Oxford University's Filmmaking Foundation and Oxford Sanctuary Community
- Beyond Livelihoods: A Protracted Displacement Economy Approach
- Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 3: Enabling Refoulement? The UK-Rwanda Agreement and Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
- Displacement from Conflict: Old Realities, New Protections?
- Refugee History in the Gaza Strip
- Evacuations as Displacement
- Book launch: Becoming Adult on the Move: Migration Journeys, Encounters and Life Transitions
- Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory
- Protection of the right to nationality: Resolution No. 02/23 of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- A celebration of the life of David Turton
- Implications of the International Court of Justice’s Provisional Measures in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), 26 January 2024
- Humanitarian extractivism: the digital transformation past, present, future
- Film screening and discussion: Missing in Brooks County
- Forced Migration on Film: A Conversation with Marc Isaacs | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2024
- Book launch: The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon
- Skilled worker visas for refugees – a qualitative evaluation of the UK’s Displaced Talent Mobility Pilot
- University of Sanctuary Fair, Part 1: University of Oxford as a University of Sanctuary
- Dawn Chatty: Turkish government has been 'praiseworthy' in approach to Syrian refugee crisis
- Dawn Chatty: 'Lack of funding' biggest problem for Syrian refugee crisis
- Refuge routes | Naohiko Omata and Josiah Kaplan
- Diletta Lauro wins MSc 2012-13 Best Thesis Prize
- In memoriam: Belinda Allan
- New Asfari bursaries for the International Summer School in Forced Migration
- Za'atari camp: a snapshot of a simmering crisis | Dawn Chatty
- Building a humanitarian solutions database | Louise Bloom
- Refugee livelihoods and private sector engagement in Uganda | Naohiko Omata
- Innovation, technology and the private sector in refugee protection | Alexander Betts
- Development responses to forced migration | Roger Zetter
- Survival migration and fragile states | Alexander Betts
- Forced migration in the Middle East | Dawn Chatty
- Governance and administration of justice in refugee camp settings | Kirsten McConnachie
- Syrian tribes, national politics and the uprising | Dawn Chatty
- Family ties: remittances and support in Puntland and Somaliland | Laura Hammond
- Call for papers: Refugee Voices
- Survival migration: failed governance and the crisis of displacement | Alexander Betts
- Opportunities and risk: enacting socio-cultural transformation in refugee camps in Uganda | Tania Kaiser
- Evidence about torture in the UK asylum system | Toby Kelly
- Constitutionalism, ethnicity and minority rights in Africa | Jérémie Gilbert
- Displacement from Syria: putting the Common European Asylum System to the test? | Madeline Garlick
- Engaging religion at the US Department of State | Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
- New issue of Migration Studies available free online
- World Refugee Day 2013: A brief look at UK media coverage
- Cathryn Costello appointed Andrew W Mellon University Lecturer in International Human Rights and Refugee Law
- Dawn Chatty guest speaker at UNRWA / NRC public lecture
- Roger Zetter joins Gold Mercury's International Advisory Board
- New book series announced: Religion and Global Migrations
- New faces and farewells at the Centre
- New departmental blog launched: Debating Development
- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh awarded IASFM Lisa Gilad Prize
- The many meanings of humanitarianism | Tom Scott-Smith
- Africa’s illiberal state-builders | Will Jones
- Preventing human displacement | Maurice Herson
- Will Jones: Australian asylum policy 'completely disproportionate, extraordinarily expensive, and inefficient'
- Naohiko Omata: 'Give refugees the right to engage in politics'
- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh: 'Faith groups can play diverse roles in supporting migrants'
- Dawn Chatty: The burnout of rich world aid to refugees is 'astonishing'
- Dawn Chatty: 'I don't think there are any benefits' of camps for Syrian refugees
- Alexander Betts: Refugees represent 'an economic opportunity'
- Put innovation at the heart of refugee protection work | Alexander Betts
- OxMo Vol 3, No 1: Out now!
- Alexander Betts: Refugees have 'the kind of drive and ambition that make for fantastic entrepreneurs'
- Alexander Betts: Refugees are 'natural entrepreneurs'
- RSC Newsletter Spring 2013: RSC celebrates 30th anniversary and two other milestones
- RSC Newsletter Summer 2013: Controversial EU deportation programme subjected to academic scrutiny
- World Disasters Report 2012 launched today: focus on forced migration and displacement
- Nando Sigona wins Teaching Excellence Award
- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh: Niger government minister 'totally wrong' to propose ban on women and children traveling north out of the country
- Regional engagement and effective protection: the Australian way | Susan Kneebone
- Call for papers: Humanitarian Innovation Conference (extended deadline)
- Theresa May must not further erode Britons' rights to citizenship | Matthew Gibney
- OxMo Vol 3, No 2: Out now!
- Philosophies of migration | Jennifer Allsopp
- Anti-deportation campaigns: ‘what kind of country do you want this to be?’ | Jennifer Allsopp
- The mind of the traffickers | Jennifer Allospp
- Roger Zetter appointed by Swiss government to conduct review of refugee protection policies
- Refugee rights: beyond the 1951 Convention | Yakin Ertürk
- ‘Making space’ in the humanitarian world | Louise Bloom
- The future of energy and connectivity | Louise Bloom
- The water challenge | Louise Bloom
- Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies to be published in Summer 2014
- Matthew Gibney: UK deportation of Trenton Oldfield 'morally inappropriate and potentially damaging of the right to protest'
- The price of rights: regulating international migration | Martin Ruhs
- Due diligence for women's human rights: transgressing conventional lines | Jennifer Allsopp
- Welcome to our new website
- Alexander Betts to present humanitarian innovation work at UN Headquarters
- The UNHCR is much better than its reputation in Uganda suggests (and needs to say so) | Will Jones
- The M23 rebellion: an (exceptionally provisional) attempt at some analysis | Will Jones
- Call for articles: Afghanistan’s displaced people
- Call for articles: Faith-based organisations and responses to displacement
- Human rights, asylum and refugee protection | Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014
- Cathryn Costello to speak at EDAL conference
- The global governance of international migration: what next? | Cathryn Costello
- The architecture of refugee protection | Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
- Waiting for solutions in uncertain times: Palestine refugees in the Middle East context | Filippo Grandi
- Restoring rights: forced displacement, protection and humanitarian action | António Guterres
- Alexander Betts discusses the Sunday papers and refugee-related stories on BBC Radio Oxford
- Humanitarian Innovation Project featured in latest UNHCR Global Appeal
- At the end of the rainbow: where next for the LGBTI refugee? | S Chelvan
- Turning wrongful convictions into rights? Asylum seekers and the criminal law | Ana Aliverti
- Call for articles: The Syria crisis, displacement and protection
- Don’t trust the government’s citizenship-stripping policy | Matthew Gibney
- The child in international refugee law | Jason Pobjoy
- Dawn Chatty and Kirsten McConnachie on panel of expert judges for Ockenden International Prize 2014
- Registration open for Refugee Voices conference
- MapAction: Geospatial support for humanitarian disasters | Roy Wood
- Refuge from Inhumanity: Perspectives on protection against refoulement under international humanitarian law | Various speakers
- RSC 30th Anniversary Conference: Understanding Global Refugee Policy | Various speakers
- Three asylum paradigms | Jean-François Durieux
- MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies: The students' perspective
- The liberal state and the expulsion of members | Matthew Gibney
- South–South humanitarianism in contexts of forced displacement | Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
- Decisions on refugee rights should not all fall to judges | Cathryn Costello
- AlertNet blog discusses new issue of Forced Migration Review
- Refugee Voices: Deadline for conference registration
- The right to seek and obtain asylum under the African human rights system | Chaloka Beyani
- Humanitarian Innovation Project researchers among Guardian expert panel on investing in refugees
- Special offer: 30% off pre-orders of The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies!
- Refugee livelihoods and engagement with host economies | Naohiko Omata and Josiah Kaplan
- North Africa in Transition: Mobility, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crises | Various speakers
- Creation, imagination, speculation: age assessment and the asylum procedure | Gregor Noll
- Special issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly brings together papers from RSC's 30th anniversary conference
- RSC academics contribute new articles to COMPAS anthology
- The rise and decline of a global security actor: UNHCR, refugee protection and security | Anne Hammerstad
- New blog launched by the Social Sciences Library
- openDemocracy reports on RSC and Middlesex University seminar on the deprivation of citizenship in the UK
- Refugee Voices conference opens: 23 panels over six sessions in the next two days!
- Introducing Myanmar in transition? A displacement perspective | Kirsten McConnachie
- In search of solutions: refugees are doing it for themselves (Refugee Voices, Opening Plenary) | Jeff Crisp
- Alexander Betts and Roger Zetter to participate in Copenhagen Roundtable on Solutions
- Refugees from Burma / Myanmar (Refugee Voices) | Various speakers
- The Deportation of Unaccompanied Minors from the EU: Family Tracing and Government Accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) Project | Various speakers
- Refugees from Syria: Abu and Om (Refugee Voices)
- Refugees from Syria: Bara'a (Refugee Voices)
- Refugees from Syria: Mohammed (Refugee Voices)
- Refugees from Syria: Nesreen (Refugee Voices)
- Detention and deportation (Refugee Voices) | Various speakers
- Refugees from Syria (Refugee Voices) | Various speakers
- Statelessness: the Rohingya (Refugee Voices) | Various speakers
- Matthew Gibney to answer questions on deprivation of citizenship in live Q&A hosted by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
- Matthew Gibney: Cameron’s government 'has stripped more people of their citizenship than all the other British governments since World War II combined'
- Open innovation: inspiring collaboration in the UN | Louise Bloom
- The law and politics of forced migration | Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2014
- RSC's work highlighted in Oxford Today
- Humanitarian Innovation Project launch
- Forced Migration Review launches 25th Anniversary collection
- Nando Sigona interviewed by Voice of Russia on children at risk of statelessness in UK
- Former US presidential special assistant to give lecture on refugees and human rights
- Nando Sigona says deportation of Afghan children would violate UN conventions
- Peter Loizos 1937–2012
- Khalid Koser awarded MBE for 'services to refugees and asylum seekers in the UK'
- Daily Record (Scotland) covers RSC Working Paper on United Glasgow FC
- Dawn Chatty to be interviewed on BBC World News about new Syrian refugee camp
- Syria’s dismemberment: fulfilling the French Mandate’s vision?
- RSC marks World Refugee Day with launch of new issue of Forced Migration Review
- Forward, backward, stalling? Trinity term seminars reflect on completion of the Common European Asylum System
- The Arab Spring and Beyond: Summary of recent workshop
- States, sovereignties and refugees: a view from the margins?
- The Economist features research by Dr Nando Sigona
- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh participates in Westminster debate on faith and development
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees commends RSC for The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
- RSC Newsletter, Trinity term 2014: A note from the Director
- AlertNet highlights new FMR issue on Afghanistan
- Weapons of mass migration: forced displacement, coercion and foreign policy | Kelly M Greenhill
- Governing Refugees: New book by Kirsten McConnachie garners praise
- Representatives of Mobile Indigenous Peoples call for respect of human rights ahead of Rio +20 Earth Summit
- RSC staff and Associates editing a major, cutting-edge volume, The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
- Spring 2012 newsletter now available!
- Matthew Gibney talks to Voice of Russia UK about government proposals to make terror suspects stateless
- Connect with the RSC on Facebook and Twitter
- Ockenden International Lecture
- New resource: Protracted Refugee Situations website
- Emeritus Professor Roger Zetter to edit 2012 World Disasters Report
- Call for papers: Migration Studies
- Migration Studies: new journal launched
- Call for papers: RSC 30th Anniversary Conference
- Special Issue Launch: Faith Based Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement
- Special Issue: Anti-Gypsyism and the politics of exclusion in Italy
- Solidarity and responsibility-sharing for refugee protection in the EU’s Common European Asylum System | Madeline Garlick
- A lost generation? Education opportunities for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon | Maha Shuayb
- Refuge from deprivation: socio-economic harm and non-refoulement in international law | Michelle Foster
- Alexander Betts on 'Transformation through Innovation' thematic team for World Humanitarian Summit
- Policy Briefing 8: Stabilising the Congo
- Forced Migration Review 38 now online
- Matthew Gibney in NY Times: Private companies profit from immigration control
- The politics of nation-building: making co-nationals, refugees, and minorities | Harris Mylonas
- RSC resource: a tool for adoption of UNHCR voluntary pledges
- RSC supporting UNHCR's State Pledges Process
- Arbitrary detention of asylum seekers: a comparison of some recent practice from Italy and the UK | Daniel Wilsher and Francesca Cancellaro
- Introduction to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook now available for preview
- 'Bottom-up innovation' by refugees | Alexander Betts
- ‘Networked, online and trading’: Yes, we’re talking about refugees, says study
- The law and politics of non-entrée | Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
- Refugee Week: 'Celebrating different pasts and a shared future'
- New issue of Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration now online
- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh awarded Special Grant by the Henry Luce Foundation
- Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions | Humanitarian Innovation Project
- Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies now available!
- Refugee Economies: Roundup of coverage [updated]
- The Syrian crisis (The Arab Uprisings) | Various speakers
- Migration, transnationalism and social change (The Arab Uprisings) | Various speakers
- Migration and revolution (The Arab Uprisings) | Various speakers
- RSC and Boston University School of Law International Human Rights Clinic preparing joint reports on Syrian refugee crisis
- Governing Refugees called 'a must-read' in The Irrawaddy
- Study led by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh acknowledged in new UNHCR report on faith-based organisations
- Call for articles: Climate change, disasters and displacement
- The Silent University Visible Award 2013 Ceremony | Various speakers
- Arabic calligraphy; HIV; Migrant communities and networks (The Silent University) | Various speakers
- The role of artists and institutions in challenging popular narratives about migrants (The Silent University) | Various speakers
- Humanitarian Innovation Conference: Keynote Address
- Dawn Chatty: Refugees 'need to have some agency over how they cope and manage their lives'
- Louise Bloom: Refugees' skills and capacities 'need to be built on rather than contradicted or ignored'
- Dawn Chatty: Syrian refugees in Jordan 'have contributed a great deal to the economy'
- Karen Hargrave wins MSc 2013–14 Best Thesis Prize
- Humanitarian Innovation Conference: An Introduction to Humanitarian Innovation
- Humanitarian Innovation Conference: UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner calls UN system 'stodgy and sclerotic'
- Dawn Chatty: Syrian tribes are protecting their communities against the government and ISIS
- Humanitarian Innovation Conference: how cash transfers are changing aid
- Alexander Betts comments on humanitarian shelters designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect
- Matthew Gibney awarded title of professor
- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh edits special edition of Journal of Refugee Studies
- Matthew Gibney co-edits special edition of Citizenship Studies on 'boundaries of belonging'
- Dawn Chatty conferred professor status
- New RSC Resource DVD available
- Dawn Chatty: 'The Bedouin are very hard to terrorize, and the Bedouin will really come back'
- Louise Bloom: Scientists in developing countries need greater access to opportunities
- World Humanitarian Day: Recognising those who face danger and adversity in order to help others
- Alexander Betts: 'Humanitarian innovation begins by understanding the local context'
- Louise Bloom: Humanitarian innovation must put end user needs first
- Challenging the refugee 'burden' | Naohiko Omata
- Closed eyes, closed borders: EU policy and refugees from Syria | Cynthia Orchard
- Cynthia Orchard: Current donor policy towards Syria's neighbouring countries is unsustainable
- An afternoon on Syrian displacment, and protection in Europe – Part 1 | Various speakers
- An afternoon on Syrian displacement, and protection in Europe – Part 2 | Various speakers
- HIP2014: Welcome address, Keynote address 1, Plenary session 1 | Various speakers
- HIP2014: Welcome address, Keynote address 2, Plenary session 2
- HIP2014: Plenary session 3: Humanitarian enterprise: a new approach to private sector engagement | Various speakers
- AlertNet draws on latest issue of FMR for article on re-opening the Golan Heights to refugees from Syria
- SciDev.Net interview FMR author on investing in infrastructure to deal with Syrian refugee crisis
- Refugee and Forced Migration Studies: The state of the art | Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2014
- Business Insider reports on RSC Policy Briefing 'Protection in Europe for refugees from Syria'
- Alexander Betts: 'We’re facing a global displacement challenge, and we need new solutions'
- The Solutions Alliance: a network to tackle protracted displacement
- Naohiko Omata: Refugees are active economic actors
- High time for Europe to offer temporary protection to refugees from Syria? | Cynthia Orchard and Dawn Chatty
- Alexander Betts now Director of the RSC
- The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies [Book launch] | Various speakers
- The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival [Book event] | Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
- Cynthia Orchard and Dawn Chatty: Europe should expand avenues of entry and protection for refugees from Syria
- Dawn Chatty and Sarah Wahby talk to Syria Deeply about the 'lost generation' of Syria's refugee youth
- Cynthia Orchard: Europe must 'consider all possible ways' to extend protection to refugees
- Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism on the Thai-Burma Border [Book event] | Dr Kirsten McConnachie
- Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2014: 'Forced Migration to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: Burden or Boon' | Her Royal Highness Princess Basma bint Talal
- Refugees – burden or boon? Her Royal Highness Princess Basma bint Talal highlights positive impact of refugees on Jordan
- Cathryn Costello co-authors new report urging an end to cruelty, coercion and complexity in European asylum processes
- Forced Migration and Humanitarian Aid: Revising the Paradigm | Lecture by Dawn Chatty at UCLA
- Dawn Chatty: 'This really is the biggest humanitarian emergency of our time'
- IDP or refugee? Dawn Chatty says aid should be based on need, not labels
- Love of women and a place in the world: romantic love and political commitment in the life of a forced migrant | Professor Jonny Steinberg
- Sans Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants | Professor Roger Zetter and Dr Nando Sigona
- Alexander Betts, RSC Director, meets refugees in Jordan with UNHCR Innovation iCircle
- Alexander Betts addresses global preparatory meeting for World Humanitarian Summit 2016
- Inequality, immigration and refugee protection | Dr Katy Long
- Citizenship revocation and the privilege to have rights | Professor Audrey Macklin
- For young refugees from Syria, education equals hope | Dawn Chatty & Sarah Wahby
- The history of refuge | Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2015
- Dawn Chatty responds to an ‘innovative’ proposal for the partition of Syria
- ODID Tops Ranking for International Development in REF 2014
- Dawn Chatty discusses Lebanon’s new restrictions on Syrian refugees with Al Jazeera America
- 'Transformation through innovation': Forbes reports on recent paper by Alexander Betts and Louise Bloom
- HIP refugee researcher Robert Hakiza featured in AFKInsider
- Louise Bloom presents HIP's work at UNICEF talk in Brussels
- Event: Zimbabwe’s Diaspora in 2015: Where Next?, 14 January, Johannesburg
- Refugees and the Roman Empire | Professor Peter Heather
- Dawn Chatty condemns planned transfer of Bedouin in occupied West Bank
- Refuge and protection in the late Ottoman Empire | Professor Dawn Chatty
- New state of the art report on protecting forced migrants, by Emeritus Professor Roger Zetter
- HIP in Uganda to launch ‘Refugee Economies’ and FMR special issue ‘Innovation & Refugees’
- Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law [Book launch] | Various speakers
- Exile, refuge and the Greek polis: between justice and humanity | Dr Benjamin Gray
- Young Paperless Lives: Understanding ‘illegality’ through the experiences of young undocumented migrants | Bloch, Sigona & Zetter
- Call for papers: Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015
- Matthew Gibney argues against ‘using citizenship as just another tool in the battle against Islamic terrorism’
- Alexander Betts discusses the innovative World Humanitarian Summit process
- Kirsten McConnachie jointly awarded the 2015 Socio-Legal Studies Association Early Career Book Prize
- Refugees – what's wrong with history? | Professor Peter Gatrell
- Book review symposium on ‘Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement’ by Alexander Betts
- ‘Protection in Crisis’: new report by Roger Zetter argues for fundamental reforms of the global protection system
- Cynthia Orchard discusses UNHCR relocation plan for Syrian refugees on CBC's The Current
- Reuven Ziegler talks to Al Jazeera America about Israel's voluntary return programme
- Global refugee policy | Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2015
- Roger Zetter: Many forced migrants 'exposed to high levels of risk and low levels of protection'
- HIP meet resettled refugees in Dallas
- Alexander Betts: 'The Syrian crisis places the entire humanitarian system at a crossroads'
- Global displacement crisis straining Europe | Alexander Betts talks to Deutsche Welle
- Alexander Betts talks to the BBC about the EU’s ‘very disappointing’ response to the Mediterranean crisis
- Dawn Chatty argues that EU is shirking its obligations under international law
- RSC Director, Alexander Betts, discusses the wider context of the Mediterranean crisis on NPR's Here & Now
- Why the Mediterranean smugglers aren't the problem | Alexander Betts on Amanpour, CNN
- To deal with the refugee crisis you need to understand the cause | Alexander Betts for The Conversation
- Forget the ‘war on smuggling’, we need to be helping refugees in need | Alexander Betts in The Guardian
- ‘Tragedy’ and responsibility in the Mediterranean | Mariagiulia Giuffré and Cathryn Costello
- Drowning refugees, migrants, and shame at sea: The EU response | Cathryn Costello and Mariagiulia Giuffré
- RSC Director, Alexander Betts, runs London Marathon in aid of Asylum Welcome
- Understanding global refugee policy: the case of naturalisation in Tanzania | Dr James Milner
- Dawn Chatty talks to CBC's The Sunday Edition about the global displacement crisis
- Better late than never? The evolution and implementation of UNHCR's urban refugee policy | Dr Jeff Crisp and MaryBeth Morand
- HIP researchers visit Jordan
- Cathryn Costello: 'Any comprehensive solution has to include safe access to asylum'
- Refugee Studies Centre to participate in LiveFriday at the Ashmolean Museum
- Alexander Betts: Recommended quota scheme a 'move in the right direction'
- South east Asia’s migrant boat crisis is a global responsibility | Kirsten McConnachie on The Conservation
- Dawn Chatty debates the EU response to the Mediterranean refugee crisis on BBC One's The Big Questions
- UNHCR’s protection guidelines: what role for external voices? | Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill
- Global policy for IDPs: a parallel process? | Dr Phil Orchard
- Cathryn Costello argues for ‘a global, organised resettlement programme for Syrians and those who have fled Syria’
- Refugee Week events with the Refugee Studies Centre
- Historical cross-border relocations in the Pacific: lessons for planned relocations in the context of climate change | Professor Jane McAdam
- The international community must honor the right of refugees to seek asylum | Jeff Crisp
- New Associate and staff appointments at the Refugee Studies Centre
- Matthew Gibney: The only solution to the Rohingya refugee crisis lies in reforms in Myanmar
- Dawn Chatty | Syrians use smugglers to cross the Mediterranean because they have little choice
- Innocence: understanding a political concept | 2015 Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture
- European Justice for Migrants and Refugees, by Cathryn Costello
- ‘This isn’t a regional problem. It’s a global challenge’ | Alexander Betts
- How Should Europe Respond to the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis? | Refugee Week Panel Discussion
- ‘It's not just a crisis of numbers, it's a crisis of politics and a crisis of the failure of international cooperation’ | Alexander Betts
- Naohiko Omata encounters not ‘refugee artists’ but ‘artists who happened to become refugees’ in Uganda
- Jeff Crisp: Hungary’s border fence with Serbia is ‘an exercise in futility’
- Will the EU relocation scheme work?
- Syria’s refugees: a global responsibility
- Alexander Betts puts the Calais migrant crisis into perspective
- Politicians must show ‘moral courage and political leadership’ on the Syria refugee crisis
- Syria's Bedouin tribes – one of the most understudied aspects of the Syrian conflict
- Refugee Innovation Contributes to Humanitarian Solutions
- New report highlights the need to harness the ingenuity of refugees
- Alexander Betts awarded title of Professor
- Dawn Chatty elected Fellow of the British Academy
- ‘How do refugees make tents and caravans into homes?’
- Refuge in Europe: Syrian Aspirations | Special Workshop
- Canadian Federal Court overturns appeal ban for nationals of Designated Countries of Origin
- There are better solutions available than a ‘refugee nation’ | Alexander Betts
- Footing the bill: refugee-creating states’ responsibility to pay
- There’s a better way to address the current chaos... if we take a humane and human rights based response | Alexander Betts
- Is creating a new nation for the world's refugees a good idea?
- The art of self-reliance: stories from the refugees who stay
- New study calls for fundamental rethink of the Dublin system and for legal and safe avenues to protection in Europe
- Creative solutions are needed for refugees and asylum seekers | Alexander Betts
- From ‘swarm’ to ‘illegal’: dissecting how we talk about 'migrants'
- ‘The Dublin system creates a fundamental inequality’ | Alexander Betts
- ‘Lack of safe access to asylum’ is the major shortcoming of EU asylum policy
- ‘While Europe squabbles, people die’ | Alexander Betts
- Providing financial assistance isn’t enough; we must share responsibility for hosting refugees
- Is the increase in asylum-seekers arriving in Europe a spike or a long-term trend?
- Europe doesn’t have a choice about whether it engages with the global refugee crisis – it’s a question of how
- Refugee or migrant crisis? Alexander Betts discusses the importance of language
- While we are moving slowly, this crisis isn't | Cathryn Costello
- Treat refugees as a development issue | Alexander Betts
- European leadership must provide a different narrative on the refugee crisis
- Technology is empowering refugees and transforming humanitarian assistance
- The EU refugee crisis: 'What we need is collective action'
- Solutions to Europe's refugee crisis are possible with international cooperation
- Refugees and Europe's dilemma: As the refugee crisis in Europe worsens, its leaders are trading blame
- 'The only people who benefit from unilateralism are the smugglers' | Alexander Betts
- 'Europe needs a comprehensive global refugee policy' | Alexander Betts
- Europe requires a comprehensive refugee policy with greater support for regions of origin
- The UK government’s shift in position is ‘limited and possibly quite cynical’ | Alexander Betts
- Public opinion likely to play a key role in political responses to the refugee crisis | Jeff Crisp
- Syrian refugees and diaspora must be supported for the long-term future of Syria | Alexander Betts
- Welcoming refugees can make economic sense | Alexander Betts
- Welcome to the European Union: notes from Lesbos | Cathryn Costello
- Five history lessons in how to deal with a refugee crisis | Alexander Betts
- The view from Lesbos: Politicians prevaricate while refugees suffer | Cathryn Costello
- The Hungarian position is absolutely untenable in both international and European Union law | Cathryn Costello
- Refugee Economies | Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2015
- Many EU states are failing to fulfill their obligations under international refugee law | Alexander Betts
- Human migration will be a defining issue of this century. How best to cope?
- With the right policies, refugees can make a contribution economically | Alexander Betts
- Introduce humanitarian visas for refugees to stop their dangerous journeys | Alexander Betts
- Why helping ‘economic migrants’ may help stop others becoming ‘refugees’ | Georgia Cole
- Japan’s problem with refugees goes way beyond offensive manga | Naohiko Omata
- The Global Refugee Policy Network – now on Twitter and YouTube
- Refugee economies: forced displacement and development | Professor Alexander Betts
- More sustainable solutions are needed for Syrian refugees in the region | Alexander Betts
- Welcoming refugees is not just a humanitarian imperative, it is in our economic self-interest | Alexander Betts
- Displacement economies: thinking through the paradoxes of crisis and creativity | Professor Amanda Hammar
- ‘We do not want to become refugees’: Human mobility in the age of climate change | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2015
- Navigating Nakivale: the borderland economy of a refugee camp | Professor Morten Bøås
- What if we helped refugees to help themselves? | Alexander Betts
- Impacts of forced migrations - the German case. History, historical research, and policies of remembrance | Prof. Dr. Michael Schwartz
- 'We absolutely cannot mix up terrorism and refugees' | Alexander Betts
- The economic consequences of refugee return: evidence from Burundi and Tanzania | Professor Carlos Vargas-Silva
- The aid crisis for Syrian refugees | Dawn Chatty
- Being Oromo in Nairobi's 'Little Mogadishu': Eastleigh's Ethiopian refugees and their livelihoods | Dr Neil Carrier
- Nationality-based Balkans border regime is ‘inequitable and illegal’ | Jeff Crisp
- We need a pathway to progressive solutions, towards de facto temporary integration of refugees | Alexander Betts
- From macro-economy to political economy: situating the refugee development discourse at the large scale | Emeritus Professor Roger Zetter
- The situation of Syrian refugees in the neighbouring countries | Dawn Chatty
- Global issues don’t live in separate boxes. Why no mention in Paris of refugees? | Alexander Betts
- Destination: Europe | Public Seminar Series, Hilary Term 2016
- Dr Naohiko Omata challenges myths about refugees in Japan
- ‘The elephant in the room that no one is prepared to acknowledge’ | Alexander Betts
- Special economic zones can benefit both Syrian refugees and their host countries | Alexander Betts
- Can Europe rise to the refugee challenge? | Jeff Crisp
- There are 19.5 million refugees in a world population of 7 billion. It’s a manageable problem | Alexander Betts
- Destination Europe: States, borders and refugees | Professor Cathryn Costello
- We seem to be globally in ethical free fall | Alexander Betts
- Can Europe build a unified response to the asylum crisis? | Pascal Brice
- The elephant in the room: Islam and the crisis of liberal values in Europe | Alexander Betts
- Economic zones can play important role but are not an alternative to asylum in Europe | Alexander Betts
- Moving forward on asylum in the EU: from crisis to responsibility | Madeline Garlick
- Fencing off reality: Hungary's reactions to the arrival of refugees and their interpretation in a European legal, political and moral context | Professor Boldizsár Nagy
- There is another way - we need a new vision | Alexander Betts
- We have illegalised refugees and created a bonanza for smugglers | Cathryn Costello
- Ockenden International Prize awarded to YARID! | Naohiko Omata
- How we can fix our failing refugee system | A talk by Alexander Betts at TED2016
- Could a matching system be one way to end the current EU refugee deadlock?
- Dependency on Turkey is dangerous: countries have an obligation to allow access to asylum
- Wasted lives: borders and the right to life of people crossing them | Professor Thomas Spijkerboer
- Cathryn Costello questions the legality of the EU-Turkey plan to address EU refugee crisis
- Alexander Betts named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
- Making sense of the EU-Turkey deal: law, politics and practicalities
- Seminar video: Making sense of the EU-Turkey deal: law, politics and practicalities
- Protection and pragmatism: the EU-Turkey refugee deal in historical perspective
- The proposed EU-Turkey deal will require very significant legal changes, both in Turkey and in Greece | Cathryn Costello
- Innovative refugee matching system gains interest
- Are we prepared for climate change refugees?
- Alexander Betts speaks on ‘Refugees as a resource’ at the Skoll World Forum
- The Syrian refugee emergency | A blog by Jeff Crisp
- Borders & Human Rights in Europe – Recent Legal Developments Explored | Special Seminar
- Imposing Aid: Thirty Years of Emergency Assistance to Refugees | Public Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2016
- The education of young refugees in Europe presents a golden opportunity | Dawn Chatty
- Refugees are using technology for connectivity and for escapism | Louise Bloom
- Jordan’s refugee experiment: a new model for helping the displaced in Jordan | Alexander Betts
- Peaceland: Conflict resolution and the everyday politics of international intervention | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2016
- Professor Dawn Chatty speaks at the University of Hamburg on the Syrian humanitarian disaster
- (Loan) cycles of innovation: researching refugee-run micro-finance
- ‘Destination: Europe’, the new issue of Forced Migration Review, is now online
- Forced Migration Review on ‘Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions’ is out now
- Camps as containment: a genealogy of the refugee camp | Dr Kirsten McConnachie
- Military actors and humanitarian innovation: questions, risks and opportunities
- An international gathering to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill
- The EU is using smuggling as a red herring in the absence of meaningful, viable policies | Alexander Betts
- Can Humanitarian Summit create a global compact? | Jeff Crisp
- Refugee Voices, special issue of the journal Refuge draws from 2014 RSC conference
- The refugee crisis – match us if you can
- Time to learn lessons from the past in international refugee protection
- Refugees need family reunification, not just a ‘safe place’ | Dawn Chatty
- ‘Food is the best medicine’: displacement, return and food (in)security in the Horn of Africa | Dr Laura Hammond
- Refugee Survey Quarterly issue on Humanitarianism and the Migration Crisis, guest-edited by Tom Scott-Smith
- Debate: Tradable refugee-admission quotas, matching, and EU asylum policy
- History matters in the regional response to the Syrian humanitarian crisis | Dawn Chatty
- If we empower refugees, they will help themselves and their host societies | Alexander Betts
- Imagining the refugee camp: are camps good for families? | Tania Kaiser
- New working paper examines use of micro-finance with refugee populations in the Global South
- Victoire in Kigali, or: why Rwandan elections are not won transnationally
- Alexander Betts and the HIP team win Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement with Research
- The implications of Brexit for refugee and migration policy are not inevitable | Alexander Betts
- What does Brexit mean for refugees?, IRIN asks Alexander Betts
- RSC founder Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond awarded an Honorary Doctorate by SOAS, University of London
- EU–Jordan deal opens door to employment of refugees in special economic zones
- ‘The long-term challenges of forced migration’, an LSE workshop featuring Emeritus Professor Dawn Chatty
- Four post-Brexit steps towards a more inclusive world | Alexander Betts at TEDSummit 2016
- Humanitarian Innovation Project named one of five ‘Experts to Watch’ spearheading innovative, long-term solutions
- We need consistent cooperation and a more realistic approach to responsibility sharing | Alexander Betts
- Minor miracle or historic failure? Jeff Crisp assesses the UN’s refugee summit
- An algorithm to alleviate the refugee crisis | Will Jones
- New working paper on refugees, the body, and the politics of universalism
- Micro-finance: startup seed funding for refugees
- New publication: Non-refoulement as custom and jus cogens? Putting the prohibition to the test
- Out in paperback! The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies
- Professor Elizabeth Florence Colson, 1917-2016
- Introducing our new postdoctoral researchers
- UN Refugee Summit: abstract discussions in the face of a deadly crisis | Alexander Betts
- The real opportunity at the UN Refugee Summit | Alexander Betts
- In a population of 500 million, refugee numbers in the EU are manageable | Dawn Chatty
- Call for papers: Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies
- UN and White House summits could offer a ray of hope to those stuck in camps | Alexander Betts
- Helping people to help themselves: the importance of refugee self-reliance
- UN summit on refugees fails to offer solutions | Alexander Betts
- World leaders squander a chance to radically rethink the refugee system | Alexander Betts
- Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration | Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2016
- Forced Migration Review on ‘Local communities: first and last providers of protection’ is out now
- New KNOMAD study on refugees’ right to work published
- We just lost a great leader in the field of migration. Now we must learn from him | Jeff Crisp
- Now online: papers from LSE Middle East Centre workshop on the Syrian refugee emergency, with Dawn Chatty
- New working paper on reintegration outcomes of forced migrants at the local level, focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Emergency shelter: reflections on a new European infrastructure | Tom Scott-Smith
- Lack of safe, legal access routes for refugees, such as humanitarian visas, drives demand for smuggling | Cathryn Costello
- New working paper asks ‘should human smugglers be brought to justice, or are they bringing about justice?’
- The EU refugee relocation plan was doomed from the start | Alexander Betts
- New Research in Brief on informal vs formal infrastructure in Kakuma refugee camps
- Reporting refugees: what a journalist learnt on the migration trails to Europe | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2016
- ERC Starting Grant awarded to Cathryn Costello for the project 'Refugees are Migrants'
- New working paper on refugee economies in Kenya
- New book: Mobilising the Diaspora: How Refugees Challenge Authoritarianism
- Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and Development – new book out now
- Shelter in flux | Cathrine Brun (Oxford Brookes University)
- Cathryn Costello wins Odysseus Network Prize for The Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees in European Law
- Complicit or emancipatory? Architecture, space and design in humanitarian operations | Camillo Boano
- Lessons from 15 years of post-disaster shelter reconstruction projects in India | Tom Newby
- Alexander Betts and Paul Collier named among Foreign Policy’s Leading Global Thinkers 2016
- Perspectives on the Syrian conflict | Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2017
- Special issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law in honour of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill
- Help refugees help themselves: let displaced Syrians join the labor market | Alexander Betts
- Jordanian experiment to enable Syrian refugees to work can benefit both refugees and their hosts | Alexander Betts
- Announcing a new AHRC/ESRC-funded project on Architectures of Displacement led by Dr Tom Scott-Smith
- Uganda’s unsung heroes of refugee protection | Georgia Cole
- New books out this month on EU asylum policies, and the voting rights of refugees
- RSC Annual Report 2015–16 now available online
- Syria and its refugees: a historical perspective | Professor Dawn Chatty
- Refugees can be a political resource to help those left behind | Alexander Betts
- Righting the wrongs of the refugee system, Alexander Betts talks to the Centre for Public Impact
- Trump era casts new shadow over refugees | Jeff Crisp
- Why is architecture failing refugees?, asks Dr Mark Breeze
- The struggle for Syria | Professor Ziad Majed
- Forced Migration Review on ‘Resettlement’ is out now
- New RSC working paper examines the Twitter narrative on Alan Kurdi
- Syrian trajectories: from local revolutionary actors to exiled humanitarian workers | Dr Laura Ruiz de Elvira Carrascal
- Are refugees good for the economy? Global Citizen talks to Alexander Betts
- Forced to flee and to adapt, refugees can be natural entrepreneurs | Alexander Betts
- The Syrian internal displacement | Dr Leïla Vignal
- New Research in Brief on decriminalising ‘humanitarian smuggling’
- New report on the EU’s relocation of asylum seekers from Greece and Italy to other Member States
- Dynamic alliance joins the Refugee Studies Centre and UNSW’s Kaldor Centre
- Why denying refugees the right to work is a catastrophic error
- The world’s refugee system can be fixed: a ten-point plan to save lives and create hope | Alexander Betts and Paul Collier
- Why we need to change the narrative on refugees
- Published today ‘Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System’
- ‘Beyond Crisis’ conference opens, with 41 panels over six sessions in two days
- How to fix the refugee crisis | Alexander Betts
- UN Refugee Agency must change course or risk obsolescence | Alexander Betts
- Can politicians solve the refugee crisis? A Politics Weekly podcast with Alexander Betts and Paul Collier
- Can Uganda’s progressive refugee policies survive the influx of people fleeing South Sudan? | Alexander Betts
- The media review ‘Refuge’ by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier
- Podcasts from the RSC Conference 2017 ‘Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies’ are now online
- Kenya’s black market in ‘refugee real estate’ | Cory Rodgers
- Refugees and the politics of indignity | Professor David Owen
- Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East | Book launch
- Alexander Betts appointed to new World Refugee Council, launched today
- Nostalgia and Legitimacy: Understanding the Externalization of European Migration Policy | Professor Thomas Spijkerboer
- Focus on refugees risks neglecting the internally displaced | Jeff Crisp
- Should humanitarian organisations help with coerced repatriation? | Dr Mollie Gerver
- Alternatives to refugee camps must be pursued as a global principle | Jeff Crisp
- Refugees: the Trojan horse of terrorism? | Jeff Crisp
- Gil Loescher to receive honorary degree from Lawrence University
- Barbara Harrell-Bond featured in Oxford Festival of the Arts’ Gratitude Project
- Refugees struggle with the same things we do | Dunya Habash, MSc student
- Alexander Betts discusses the need to expand the refugee response at the Aurora Dialogues
- Realising the right to family reunification of refugees in Europe | New report
- Who thrives, who struggles? Exploring the determinants of economic success among refugees | Naohiko Omata
- Forced Migration Review on ‘Shelter in displacement’ now online
- My hidden misconceptions about refugees | Dunya Habash, MSc student
- Call for articles: Displacement in the Middle East, FMR 57
- Leading, learning, and saving: refugees as important providers of assistance | Evan Easton-Calabria
- New RSC working paper on the history of global migration governance
- New Departmental Lecturers for the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
- RSC at the Estoril Conferences 2017
- Dr Naohiko Omata receives award from Japan’s Refugee Studies Forum
- New RSC Newsletter 2016-2017 now online
- The economist who wants to put refugees to work
- Empowering refugees in times of crisis
- Refugees can contribute to societies if we let them – and jobs are key
- New RSC Working Paper reflects on key ethical questions of fieldwork on forced migration
- Comprehensive new legal study on Article 31 of the 1951 Refugee Convention, by Cathryn Costello
- Call for articles: FMR 58 Economies, work and displacement
- New York Declaration on Refugees: A one-year report card, by Jeff Crisp
- The Wall Street Journal reviews ‘Refuge’
- Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2017
- Professor Matthew J Gibney becomes Director of the Refugee Studies Centre
- Forced Migration Review 56 on ‘Latin America and the Caribbean’ is now online
- New Research in Brief on refugee self-reliance
- Data for migration and asylum policies: the realities hidden within and behind the numbers | Ann Singleton
- Refugee Studies Centre nominated for the Market Research Society's President's Medal 2017
- Livelihoods in displacement: from refugee perspectives to aid agency response | Dr Veronique Barbelet
- Major new funding from the IKEA Foundation for research on the economic lives of refugees
- Borders, boxes and disciplinary boundaries: the delineation of forced migration in research and practice | Dr Gayle Munro
- Talent displaced: The economic lives of Syrian refugees in Europe | New report
- Asylum and Nehru’s changing non-alignment: Tibetan refugees in India | Ria Kapoor
- Reply to Refugia: Nothing utopian about an archipelago of exclusion
- Aquí es frontera. Transit migration and border control in southern Mexico | Dr Simon McMahon
- Middle East Eye speaks to Matthew Gibney about the UK government’s citizenship stripping powers
- The displacement paradox: good refugees, bad migrants. Where can the unwanted go? | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2017
- Local Politics and the Syrian Refugee Crisis | A new report
- Refugees and displaced people: how Japan can help | Jeff Crisp
- Afghanistan: Displacement Challenges in a Country on the Move
- RSC Annual Report 2016–2017 now available online
- Thrive or Survive? Explaining Variation in Economic Outcomes for Refugees
- Belgian refugees between 'war' and 'peace': trauma, transition and repatriation | Dr Hannah Ewence
- The Jordan Compact – “an extraordinary pilot from which there will be many lessons” | Alexander Betts
- A Slightly Better Shelter? | Tom Scott-Smith
- 'Refuge' selected by The Economist in its 'Books of the Year 2017'
- The European Association for International Education interviews Alexander Betts
- The many selves in self-reliance: why words and definitions matter | Evan Easton-Calabria
- New article on the principle of ‘solidarity and fair-sharing of responsibility’ in the CEAS by Lilian Tsourdi
- A Fair Share: Refugees and Responsibility-Sharing, new report and policy brief for Delmi
- RSC Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2018
- New article on ‘stickiness’ and fluidity in humanitarian technologies, by Tom Scott-Smith
- Georgia Cole explores the role of documents in shaping UNHCR's behaviour
- We must not repeat the shameful history of returning Rohingya refugees | Jeff Crisp
- In an illiberal world order, we need new ways to defend human rights | Alexander Betts
- The political predicament and agency of refugees | Dr Ruvi Ziegler
- Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State | A new book by Emeritus Professor Dawn Chatty
- Open borders in the nineteenth century: constructing the national, the citizen and the foreigner in South America | Dr Diego Acosta
- Addressing statelessness in Europe and the nexus with forced migration | Chris Nash
- Vacancies: Research Officers on the project Refugees are Migrants: Refugee Mobility, Recognition and Rights
- Accessing asylum in Europe: extraterritorial border controls meet refugee rights | Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax
- New article by Tom Scott-Smith reviews the World Disasters Report 2016 on resilience
- Of rights and borders: human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery in European law | Dr Vladislava Stoyanova
- What difference does it make to be a refugee? New report on Refugee Economies in Kenya
- Kenyan study sheds new light on gap between refugees and host communities | Alexander Betts
- Refugee Economies Programme launches new website
- The Financial Times reviews Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State
- Don’t make African nations borrow money to support refugees | Alexander Betts
- The child in international refugee law | Dr Jason Pobjoy
- Campaign for the American Reader highlights Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State
- Vacancies: Departmental Lecturer in Gender and Forced Migration, and three Early Career Fellowships
- Forced Migration Review 57 on ‘Syrians in displacement’ is now online
- Iraq 13 years on | Ali Ali
- The movement of refugees to Europe will continue, regardless of how dangerous EU states make it | Ali Ali
- No country of asylum: 'legitimizing' Lebanon's rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention | Professor Maja Janmyr
- Call for articles: 20 years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, FMR 59
- The duty to be generous: challenging European ideas on forced migration | Dawn Chatty
- The ‘better data’ panacea for refugees and migrants: a reality check | Jeff Crisp
- Leaving Libya by boat: What happens after interception? | Jeff Crisp
- How we treat people in exile will shape the future of their own economies and societies | Alexander Betts
- We need to empower refugees through jobs and education | Alexander Betts
- Refugee Economies Programme highly commended in O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards
- RSC Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2018
- Refugees need not be a burden, if they are allowed to work
- Alexander Betts completes World Marathon Majors series in record time, and celebrates the London Marathon
- A question of identity: telling stories without showing faces, in Forced Migration Review
- Book launch for ‘Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State’ | Professor Dawn Chatty
- Rethinking the promotion of 'self-reliance' for refugees – a new article by Evan Easton-Calabria and Naohiko Omata
- Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis before the Storm | Dr Sophia Hoffmann
- Vacancy: Pedro Arrupe Research Fellowship in Forced Migration
- Syrian labour in the Turkish economy | Dr Emre Eren Korkmaz
- Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria | Dr Tahir Zaman
- New RSC Working Paper asks what is the perceived ‘value’ of refugee status?
- Outsourcing Border Control: The Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco | Dr Federica Infantino
- “Let language not betray us”: immigration, enforcement and modern slavery | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2018
- A self-reliance model for refugees | Alexander Betts
- Introducing our new Early Career Fellow in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Dr Anne-Line Rodriguez
- Forced Migration Review 58 on ‘Economies: rights and access to work’ now online
- What Europe could learn from the way Africa treats refugees | Alexander Betts
- Barbara Harrell-Bond, OBE, 1932-2018
- Fear versus reality when it comes to migration | Alexander Betts on CNN’s Amanpour
- The 1951 Refugee Convention today is under serious threat | Alexander Betts
- New journal article by Georgia Cole asks "But if locals are poorer than you, how would you justify additional help?"
- Barbara Harrell-Bond obituary, by Professor Roger Zetter
- Self-Reliance in Kalobeyei?, a new report from the Refugee Economies Programme
- New article by Matthew Gibney on the ethics of refugees
- New RSC Newsletter 2017-2018 now online
- Introducing new staff at the RSC
- Fixing the refugee crisis: holding the Commission accountable | Cathryn Costello and Elspeth Guild
- The EU’s commitment to combatting violence against women: rhetoric or reality? | Catherine Briddick
- “It simply isn’t safe for refugees to return yet” | Ali Ali
- Barbara Harrell-Bond Memorial
- Deconstructing Biometric Refugee Registration | Workshop Podcasts
- Call for papers: 'Democratizing Displacement', RSC Conference 2019
- Forced Migration Review 59 on ‘Twenty Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement’ now online
- New Research in Brief on Refugee Energy
- New Research in Brief on Resettled Syrian Refugees in Oxford
- Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2018
- Sustainable migration: how Europe can reconcile democracy and mobility | Alexander Betts
- How Europe can reform its migration policy: the importance of being sustainable | Alexander Betts
- To be or not to be: questioning the value of refugee status | Dr Georgia Cole
- In a troubled and polarized Middle-East: challenges for Palestine refugees and UNRWA | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2018
- Alexander Betts gives evidence to House of Commons International Development Committee
- Asylum after empire: postcolonial legacies in the politics of asylum seeking | Dr Lucy Mayblin
- New working paper explores how humanitarian and development nutrition became dominated by medical science
- The business of modern slavery: forced migration and forced labour in a failed state | Professor Brad K Blitz
- ‘Negotiating place, culture and new Dutch identities’, a new RSC Working Paper
- International society and the risk of statelessness | Dr Kelly Staples
- Solidarity, vulnerability, and the labour of refugee activism | Dr Jonathan Darling
- Matthew Gibney questions UK Home Office asylum decision-making and conflict of interest
- In Kenya refugee policy is changing, offering a model beyond isolated encampment | Alexander Betts
- The Kindertransport: Contesting memory | Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton
- New research brief looks at refugees’ role as providers of social protection and assistance
- 'The Myth of Self-Reliance' by Naohiko Omata shortlisted for two awards
- Border rescue | Dr Kieran Oberman
- RSC Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2019
- “A time for bold vision” | Mixed Migration Centre interviews Alexander Betts
- Inaccuracies spreading about UN migration pact refuted by Cathryn Costello on Full Fact
- New RSC working paper on Central Americans seeking ‘informal asylum’ in the United States
- Uganda’s self-reliance strategy: what difference does it make?
- Transnationalism, return visits, home and belonging: second generation from refugee backgrounds | Professor Alice Bloch
- Refugees and the UK labour market | Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva and Dr Isabel Ruiz
- Building inclusive cities: emerging learning from a knowledge exchange with UK cities| Jacqueline Broadhead
- 'Refuge' shortlisted for Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2019
- Denationalisation and discrimination, a new paper by Matthew J Gibney
- Urban refugee economies in Ethiopia | Professor Alison Brown and Dr Peter Mackie
- The accidental city of Kakuma, Kenya: humanitarian urbanism and the development of the refugee camp environment | Dr Bram J Jansen
- Why Sajid Javid’s decision on Shamima Begum cheapened British citizenship | Matthew J Gibney
- Dr Cathryn Costello appointed as visiting Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
- Why Venezuelan migrants need to be regarded as refugees | Alexander Betts
- Sudanese constellations of home: refugee NGOs, social networks and urban homemaking in Cairo | Dr Anita Fábos
- How Rwanda can do a better job of supporting refugees | The Conversation Africa interviews Evan Easton-Calabria
- New research brief on Venezuelan survival migration as a development opportunity
- Exploring gendered ‘vulnerability’: Syrian refugee men and humanitarianism in urban Jordan | Dr Lewis Turner
- Forced Migration Review 60 on ‘Education: needs, rights and access in displacement’ is now online
- ‘Self-reliance’ for refugees? Badly handled it can make matters worse | Evan Easton-Calabria
- New article by Naohiko Omata examines the complexity of refugee-host economic relationships
- How UK immigration law discriminates against women | new article by Catherine Briddick
- Podcasts from the RSC Conference 2019 ‘Democratizing Displacement’ are now online
- RSC Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2019
- Civil solidarity and the hunt for undocumented migrants: resisting the politics of bare life. Two Belgian case studies | Dr Robin Vandevoordt
- A tale of two camps: the dissociation of Kakuma and Dadaab under the self-reliance agenda in Kenya | Cory Rodgers
- Sonopolis: Sound, citizenship, and migrant activisms in Athens | Dr Tom Western
- New RSC Working Paper on the politics of Palestinian refugees resettlement in Chile
- A Mobile Milieu: Humanitarian Equipment and the Politics of Need | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2019
- New ‘Rethinking Refuge’ platform launched today
- FMR 61: The Ethics issue, with special tribute to Barbara Harrell-Bond, published today
- On the Inside: 401 Days of Fieldwork in Buduburam Camp in Ghana | a new book by Naohiko Omata
- Evan Easton-Calabria appointed as Wadham College Social Sciences Junior Research Fellow
- RSC Newsletter 2018-2019 now online
- Cathryn Costello awarded title of professor
- New research brief explores the assumptions behind ‘voluntary’ returns from North Africa
- New working paper on the integration of resettled Syrian refugees in Oxford
- New research brief examines why people choose to avoid refugee status
- Roger Zetter theorizes development-led responses to protracted refugee crises in the Journal of Refugee Studies
- Four new reports from the Refugee Economies Programme on research in Ethiopia and Kenya
- Alexander Betts named University Public Engagement with Research Leader
- Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2019
- Dilar Dirik discusses the Turkish offensive into northern Syria on BBC Newshour
- Forced Migration Review 62 on ‘Return: voluntary, safe, dignified and durable?’ is online today
- Unwilling and fearful refugees should not be forced to return home, by Jeff Crisp
- New working paper on uti possidetis and the decolonization of South Asia
- How governments in the Americas are bungling the migration crisis | Alexander Betts
- RSC Annual Report 2018–2019 now available online
- Postcolonial boundaries, self-determination and the Rohingya refugee crisis | Dr Mohammad Shahabuddin
- The political economy of refugee self-reliance | Professor Alexander Betts
- Report ‘Refugee Economies in Dollo Ado’ now published in Somali
- The Map is Not the Territory: Story-making, Place and Performance | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2019
- Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State | A lecture by Dawn Chatty
- Congratulations to RSC alum Chesa Boudin, the new District Attorney of San Francisco
- A human right to international freedom of movement | Dr Sarah Fine
- Humanitarian wearables and digital bodies: problems of gifts and labour | Professor Kristin Sandvik
- Call for articles: Climate crisis and local communities, FMR 64
- Beyond the boxes: Refugee shelter and the humanitarian politics of life | new article by Tom Scott-Smith
- Continuums of exploitation - the legal framework on trafficking in persons | Professor Siobhán Mullally
- New working paper on humanitarian versus development aid for refugees
- Cathryn Costello to join Hertie School of Governance in Berlin as Professor of Fundamental Rights
- New article by Matthew Gibney examines the history of banishment and its contemporary 'revival'
- Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen writes on inclusive energy solutions in refugee camps in Nature Energy
- Latest RSC Working Paper focuses on solutions and accountability in the Rohingya refugee crisis
- RSC Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2020
- Cory Rodgers writes on ‘host community’ labelling and identity in the Journal of Refugee Studies
- Overcoming refugee containment and crisis | New article by Cathryn Costello
- Kurdish women's knowledge of the state: from the guerrilla to the refugee camp | Dr Dilar Dirik
- Degradation by design: corrosive control in the lives of women seeking asylum in bordered Britain | Dr Victoria Canning
- New RSC Working Paper analyses the border-management industry in the United States
- Colonial mobilities and global inequality: why European settlers ought not to be regarded as migrants | Professor Gurminder K Bhambra
- Forced Migration Review 63 on ‘Cities and towns’ is online today
- Refugee studies without refugees | New blog by Claire Walkey
- Tom Scott-Smith named as one of the 2020 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinkers
- Has the world learned the lessons of the 2015 refugee crisis? | New article by Matthew Gibney
- The role of mayors in Turkey and Lebanon’s response to Syrian refugees | New article by Alexander Betts
- Statement on the RSC and the COVID-19 pandemic
- New book | The Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance
- Alexander Betts elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
- Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations | Special issue co-edited by Cathryn Costello
- On an Empty Stomach | A new book by Tom Scott-Smith
- New Rethinking Refuge articles focus on refugee self-reliance
- Rethinking Refugee Self-Reliance | Journal of Refugee Studies special issue co-edited by Evan Easton-Calabria
- COVID-19 has Kenyan refugee camp on edge | Cory Rodgers
- Participatory research: still a one-sided research agenda? | New article by Derya Özkul
- New article on the PLO and UNRWA in the 1970s, by Anne Irfan
- Professor Gil Loescher, 1945-2020
- RSC Public Seminar Series: Strengthening refugee-led humanitarian response during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Refugee groups fill gaps in COVID-19 response, and they need support | New article
- IDP-led women’s assistance in Ethiopia | A new article on Rethinking Refuge
- Building Refugee Economies: An evaluation of the IKEA Foundation’s programmes in Dollo Ado
- COVID-19 in the Palestinian refugee camps | New blog by Anne Irfan
- Many refugees living in Nairobi struggle to survive because of COVID-19 | Naohiko Omata
- Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter | New book by Tom Scott-Smith
- Child repatriation in the time of COVID-19 | New on Rethinking Refuge
- Refugee Week 2020
- Refugee Week 2020 | #ByRefugees
- A refugee-led response to COVID-19 in Uganda
- Online today, Forced Migration Review 64 has two themes – climate crisis, and trafficking and smuggling
- Tom Scott-Smith shares research findings on refugee shelter with BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking
- Black Lives Matter
- When hospitality turns into hostility in prolonged forced migration | Dawn Chatty
- Evan Easton-Calabria analyses Syrian refugee-led organisations and integration in Berlin
- Challenging stereotypes and reviving the ‘benefit of the doubt’ in refugee eligibility
- A Tribute to Gil Loescher | by Alexander Betts
- New report on cash transfer models and debt in Kalobeyei from the Refugee Economies Programme
- Rethinking humanitarianism at sea | Imogen Dobie
- Anne Irfan wins Contemporary Levant's Best Paper Award for 2020
- Explaining the fragmentation of global migration governance | Alexander Betts
- Catherine Briddick evaluates the residence rights of migrant victims of domestic violence in Europe
- Refugee-led organisations in humanitarian governance | By Alexander Betts, Evan Easton-Calabria & Kate Pincock
- Syrian civil war threatening ancient Bedouin way of life | Dawn Chatty
- Marie Godin analyses the role of mobile digital devices in the everyday lives of migrants in transit
- Alexander Betts discusses the EU’s ‘New Pact on Migration’ on CNN
- New look Refugee Economies Programme website launched today
- New research brief on cash transfer models and debt in Kalobeyei
- Dawn Chatty puts the facts straight on the ‘invasion’ of migrants crossing the Channel
- An unusual revolution | Anne Irfan examines the Palestinian thawra in Lebanon, 1969-1982
- Petitioning for Palestine | A new paper by Anne Irfan
- Tom Scott-Smith awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship
- Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2020
- Shelter without Shelter shortlisted for the AHRC Research in Film Awards 2020
- Now online, Forced Migration Review 65 on Recognising Refugees and the GP20 Plan of Action
- UNHCR at 70, by Jeff Crisp
- Shelter Without Shelter wins at AHRC Research in Film Awards 2020
- Anne Irfan wins Alixa Naff Article Prize for article on educating Palestinian refugees
- Tom Scott-Smith discusses the history of hunger relief in Hidden Histories podcast
- RSC Annual Report 2019–2020 now available online
- Alexander Betts takes part in Refugee Nights, a virtual festival from the Imperial War Museums
- Building economies in refugee-hosting regions l New research briefs from the Refugee Economies Programme
- Unpacking the new EU approach to asylum and migration | New on Rethinking Refuge
- Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2021 | Refugee Histories in the Global South
- The success and challenge of an urban IDP response in Ethiopia | Evan Easton-Calabria
- Naohiko Omata explores the phenomena of over-researched and under-researched refugee groups
- Building a bed for the night | Tom Scott-Smith writes on the politics of humanitarian architecture
- Palestine Refugees and International Law | RSC short course to be held online
- Forced Migration Review issue 66 is now online
- Reimagining Refugee Camps: Transforming Livelihoods in Dollo Ado
- New RSC Working Paper on the internal Palestinian refugees in Israel
- International Summer School to be held online, twice
- Whether or not Kenya closes its camps, much damage has been done | Cory Rodgers
- Alexander Betts examines the political history of Uganda’s ‘progressive’ refugee policies
- The Wealth of Refugees | A new book by Alexander Betts
- Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2021 | ‘Localising’ Refugee Research and Practice
- A Social History of Soup, with Tom Scott-Smith
- Collective Memory in International Relations | A new book by Kathrin Bachleitner
- Oxford Refugee Scholarship
- Responsibility-sharing – comparing asylum and climate governance
- International institutions and refugees’ cross-border activities | New article from the Refugee Economies Programme
- Refugees: A Very Short Introduction | Gil Loescher’s final book
- Foreign Policy focuses on funding for refugee-run organisations
- Published today, The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law
- Two new working papers on rethinking solutions for Palestinian refugees
- Refugee Week 2021 | We Cannot Walk Alone
- Shelter Without Shelter selected as closing film for the London Architecture Film Festival 2021
- The United States Can Afford More Refugees | by Alexander Betts
- Refugee Economies Programme: Activities and Impact 2016-2021, published today
- Alexander Betts writes on the political history of Uganda’s widely-praised refugee policies
- Fellowship for aspiring researchers with lived experience of displacement
- Forced Migration Review issue 67 is now online
- Olivier Sterck wins Teaching Excellence Award
- RSC Newsletter 2020-2021 now online
- The Global North is closing its doors to migration | Matthew Gibney
- AJIL Unbound Symposium on Undoing Discriminatory Borders
- Major new funding from the IKEA Foundation to study the socio-economic inclusion of refugees
- Empire, Asylum, and Refugee Responsibility Sharing | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2021
- FMR 68 on Externalisation / Mobility and agency in protracted displacement
- Research on refugee-led social protection during COVID-19 wins at ESRC Celebrating Impact Awards
- English Channel tragedy | Alexander Betts speaks to CNN and BBC World News
- RSC Annual Report 2020–2021 now available online
- New research project on Venezuelan LGBT refugees in Brazil and Colombia amid COVID-19
- Safe passage for refugees and public support are not mutually exclusive | Alexander Betts and Enver Solomon
- Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2022 | Race, Borders, and Global (Im)mobility
- Special seminar series: Rupture and Reconciliation in Contexts of Displacement
- Fortress Europe and the Syrian refugee crisis | A panel discussion
- Application support scheme for prospective students with a displacement background
- The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora | New book by Derya Ozkul
- LGBT Colombians embrace visibility in town with a legacy of abuse | by Samuel Ritholtz
- Ukraine: the UK is failing to meet its obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention | Catherine Briddick
- The UK government is putting paperwork before protection for Ukrainian refugees | Catherine Briddick
- We need responsibility-sharing across Europe for Ukraine’s refugees | Alexander Betts
- Ukraine crisis: a rare chance for Europe to create refugee policies fit for the 21st century | Alexander Betts
- FMR 69 on Climate crisis and displacement: from commitment to action
- ‘The Wealth of Refugees’ by Alexander Betts wins Distinguished Book Award
- Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2022 | Resistance, Justice, Liberation: Critical Approaches to Knowledge Production on War, Violence and Colonization
- The Refugee-Led Research Hub publishes Annual Report for 2021-2022
- AFAR project hosts stakeholder workshop with civil society members
- The Refugee-Led Research Hub holds its inaugural Refugee-Led Research Festival
- RSC Pathways: an online course in Refugee Studies for learners affected by displacement
- Bordering and Ordering among Refugees from Burma/Myanmar | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2022
- Asylum after the Act | A panel discussion
- Rwanda and refoulement: Can the 1951 Refugee Convention survive? | Podcast
- Mobility and sanctuary: how to revive asylum in Europe
- Asylum plan ignores viable alternatives | Enver Solomon and Alexander Betts
- Refugee Week 2022 | Healing
- Refugee-Led Research Hub recognised in Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Awards
- Naohiko Omata receives Teaching Excellence Award
- New Women & War podcast series by Dilar Dirik
- Journal of Refugee Studies special issue on Displaced Syrians
- The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice, by Dilar Dirik
- Report Launch: State of the Humanitarian Energy Sector 2022 (SOHES) Report
- Professor Stephen Castles, 1944-2022
- Call for papers: 'Recognising Refugees', RSC Conference 2023
- Hanno Brankamp examines counterterror governance and refugee encampment in Kenya
- Catherine Briddick writes on CEDAW and discrimination in migration control
- The emerging world of humanitarian energy | by Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen
- FMR 70 | Knowledge, voice and power
- Become a mentor: RLRH application support programme for students affected by forced displacement
- New Report: A British National Refugee Policy
- 20th Anniversary of the Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation
- RLRH launches Oxford’s Graduate Application Support Scheme for scholars affected by displacement
- Russians fleeing the draft may have the right to asylum | Nicole Stybnarova
- Social cohesion policies in displacement-affected contexts | Cory Rodgers and Watfa Najdi
- The secret life of energy in refugee camps | Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen
- Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2022 | What Justice for Famine Crimes?
- The freedom to choose | New findings on the impact of cash transfer restrictions
- What do we know about humanitarian energy? | Podcast with Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen
- Cathryn Costello argues against the High Court ruling on the UK government’s Rwanda plan
- Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2023 | Forced Migration and Digital Technologies: (Dis)continuities in Actors and Power Relations
- New AFAR report shows a multitude of new technologies used in asylum and immigration governance in Europe
- Expectations and mismatches between aid agencies and refugee beneficiaries | by Naohiko Omata
- RSC 40th Anniversary Conference – Cancelled due to Strikes
- Displaced Syrians and the Global Compact on Refugees | Workshop Statement
- FMR 71 | Socio-economic integration: towards solutions for displaced people
- Hiba Salem examines quality and social justice in refugee education in Jordan
- Alexander Betts et al. challenge dominant policy assumptions about secondary movements of refugees
- Why do the Swedish and Danish Social Democratic parties diverge on refugee policy? | New working paper
- UNRWA and the Palestinian refugees | New working paper
- Digital labour platforms and migration: making of commoditised workers | Jonas Valente
- RSC Pathways: Applications for 2023 cohort are now open!
- The UK is abandoning the right to seek asylum with the Illegal Migration Bill | Alexander Betts
- Ashwiny Kistnareddy selected to participate in BA/Humboldt Foundation symposium
- Professor Cathryn Costello gives evidence to Joint Committee on Human Rights
- Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2023 | Refugee History
- The Gil Loescher Memorial Fund opens for applications
- A deconstructive approach to refugee self-reliance | New working paper
- Special seminar series: Hope in Hopeless Situations
- Oxford hosts first Sanctuary Fair
- Oxford University is awarded University of Sanctuary status
- The British churches, refugee ‘crises’ and anti-migrant sentiment 1903-1918 | Dr Daniel Renshaw
- Making refugees in India | Dr Ria Kapoor
- Oxford Sanctuary Fair a great success
- Refuge and resistance: Palestinians and the global refugee regime | Dr Anne Irfan
- Oxford Sanctuary Fair podcasts now available
- Refugee Week 2023 events in Oxford
- IOM Unbound? | New book focuses on the International Organization for Migration
- Instead of Resettlement Schemes, Make Migration Easier | Matthew Gibney
- Leaders 'burying their heads in the sand' on new drivers of displacement | Alexander Betts
- Refugees’ Access to Work Permits and Business Licences in Kenya | New RLRH report
- The first Gil Loescher Memorial Fund award recipients are announced
- On the passing of Professor Howard Adelman
- The Aftermath of Forced Return | New podcast
- The Refugee-Led Research Hub launches Graduate Horizons
- The Refugee-Led Research Festival 2023 takes place in Nairobi
- Refugee entrepreneurship in Rwanda | A new research brief
- FMR 72 | Ukraine: Insights and implications
- The use of new technologies in immigration and asylum governance: implications for human rights
- Introducing our Visiting Fellows for Michaelmas term 2023
- The US-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement and gender-based discrimination
- Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2023 | Who Gets Believed? A conversation with Dina Nayeri
- Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 1: International Refugee Law and Safe Third Countries
- Supreme Judgecraft | Comment on the UK-Rwanda deal Supreme Court judgment
- Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2023 | Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees
- David Turton: 1940-2023
- Oxford Human Rights Hub | Catherine Briddick on the UK Rwanda Decision
- Oxford Human Rights Hub | Catherine Briddick on Equality and Off-Shoring
- Launching the new RSC logo
- The UK-Rwanda Agreement does not make Rwanda a safe third country
- Beyond Livelihoods: A Protracted Displacement Economy Approach
- Displacement from Conflict: Old Realities, New Protections? | Dr Reuven Ziegler
- Democracy after Right-Wing Populism | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2020
- UK government’s Rwanda policy is incompatible with our human rights obligations | Alexander Betts
- Education, ontological security, and preserving hope in liminality | Hiba Salem
- Depression, violence and socio-economic outcomes among refugees in East Africa
- RSC Online School bursaries to be renamed the David Turton Awards
- Colonial echoes of the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership
- Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 2: Borders, Racialisation, and Refugee Protection in Rwanda
- Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 3: Enabling Refoulement? The UK-Rwanda Agreement and Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
- Evacuations as Displacement | Professor Jane McAdam AO
- Sexual and gender-based violence among protracted refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement | RSC Working Paper
- Refugee history, human rights and the occupied Palestinian territory | Seminar mini-series
- Dana +20 Manifesto reaches the attention of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights
- Book launch: Becoming Adult on the Move | Elaine Chase et al
- Protection of the right to nationality: Resolution No. 02/23 of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Reviewing the contribution of the private sector to economic and labour market development in forced displacement contexts
- Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2024
- The Gil Loescher Memorial Fund is open for applications
- Resisting domestic violence | Catherine Briddick
- Must refugees be grateful? | Matthew J Gibney
- Dr Ashinwy Kistnareddy awarded John Fell Fund award for NACEPP research