Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions
On World Refugee Day 2014, we launched a major new report challenging five common myths about refugees
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© UNHCR / B Sokol
FMR 48: Faith and responses to displacement
FMR 48 includes 36 articles on ‘Faith’ plus seven ‘general’ articles
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© UNHCR / F Noy
Migrants at Work
Cathryn Costello explores the intersections between immigration law and labour law
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© IOM / UNHCR / B Bannon
International Summer School in Forced Migration
Our Summer School takes place in Oxford from 6 - 24 July 2015. Application deadline 1 May 2015
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© Ibrahim El-Salahi
Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
RSC staff and Associates edit major volume analysing key contemporary and future challenges in the field of study
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© UNHCR / P Behan
Self-Governance of Burma's Refugees
Kirsten McConnachie examines how local, community-level governance can help refugees cope with displacement
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Ensuring quality education for young refugees from Syria (12–25 years)
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Banishment, Denationalisation and Deportation
Matthew Gibney examines how deportation reinforces, re-constitutes and destabilises citizenship
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© UNHCR / G Gubaeva
Refugees from Syria: Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
Dawn Chatty addresses the protection needs of Syria’s refugees
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The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was founded in 1982 and is part of the Oxford Department of International Development. Our mission is to build knowledge and understanding of forced migration in order to help improve the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Find out moreLatest publications
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The rise and fall of the ERPUM pilot: tracing the European policy drive to deport unaccompanied minors
Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, (2015), RSC Working Paper Series, 108
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Innovation spaces: transforming humanitarian practice in the United Nations
Louise Bloom and Romy Faulkner, (2015), RSC Working Paper Series, 107
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Protection in Crisis: Forced Migration and Protection in a Global Era
Roger Zetter, (2015)
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Book Review Symposium on "Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement"
Alexander Betts, (2015), European Political Science, 14 (1), 59 - 73
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Smuggled migrant or migrant smuggler: erosion of sea-borne asylum seekers’ access to refugee protection in Canada
Chelsea Bin Han, (2015), RSC Working Paper Series, 106
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Beware states piercing holes into citizenship
Matthew Gibney (Audrey Macklin & Rainer Baubock, editors), (2015), The Return of Banishment: Do the New Denationalisation Policies Weaken Citizenship?
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‘We Need to Talk about Dublin’: responsibility under the Dublin System as a blockage to asylum burden-sharing in the European Union
Minos Mouzourakis, (2014), RSC Working Paper Series, 105
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Protecting Forced Migrants: A State of the Art Report of Concepts, Challenges and Ways Forward
Roger Zetter, (2014)
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Reflections on Reading Tarakhel
Cathryn Costello and Minos Mouzourakis, (2014), Asiel&Migrantenrecht, 10, 404 - 411
Latest news
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Cathryn Costello: 'Any comprehensive solution has to include safe access to asylum'
12 May 2015
Media coverage
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HIP researchers visit Jordan
12 May 2015
General
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Better late than never? The evolution and implementation of UNHCR's urban refugee policy | Dr Jeff Crisp and MaryBeth Morand
8 May 2015
Podcasts
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Dawn Chatty talks to CBC's The Sunday Edition about the global displacement crisis
7 May 2015
Media coverage
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Understanding global refugee policy: the case of naturalisation in Tanzania | Dr James Milner
1 May 2015
Podcasts
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RSC Director, Alexander Betts, runs London Marathon in aid of Asylum Welcome
30 April 2015
General
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Drowning refugees, migrants, and shame at sea: The EU response | Cathryn Costello and Mariagiulia Giuffré
29 April 2015
Blogs / articles
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‘Tragedy’ and responsibility in the Mediterranean | Mariagiulia Giuffré and Cathryn Costello
28 April 2015
Blogs / articles Media coverage