Refugee Studies Centre
The Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, is a global leader in multidisciplinary research on forced migration.
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- The International Online School in Forced Migration brings together people working on displacement, from policy and research to frontline practice and advocacy. A week to step back, reflect and learn with others in the field. Apply here : www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/intern... ©OUImages/Whitaker Studio
- Join us tomorrow for an in-person public seminar with Dr Aristel Skrbic The price of Fortress Europe: Critical reflections on the EU’s migration policies and constitutional horizons 📍Oxford Department for International Development 📅 5pm, 4 Feb Registration not required www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events
- Working in forced migration often means responding to urgent needs and tight timelines. Yet where is the space to step back and engage critically with the issues shaping displacement today? The International Online School in Forced Migration offers that space. www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/intern...
- Refugee camps: a persistent paradox - Visiting Fellow Jeff Crisp discusses why refugee camps persist despite all the evidence about the negative characteristics and consequences of camps. bit.ly/4rlLwup Photo: An aerial view of one of the camps at Dadaab, Kenya. © UNHCR / B Bannon
- We are looking forward to today's in-person public seminar - Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe Dr Hannah Pool (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies) 📍Oxford Department for International Development 📅 5pm-6pm Registration not required bit.ly/3Z0Z4zx
- Has global poverty fallen since 1990? Depending on which poverty line you use, the answer ranges from “we’ve made huge progress” to “nothing has changed”. Writing for VoxDev, Associate Professor Olivier Sterck discusses a new way of measuring poverty. voxdev.org/topic/method...
- We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for the International Online School in Forced Migration, taking place 16-20 March 2026. Join a global classroom for critical engagement on forced migration and refugee movements. Apply now : www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/intern...
- Our Palestine Refugees & International Law course offers a rigorous examination of the Palestinian refugee case, international human rights & refugee law, with expert lectures & interactive discussion. 📍 In person | Beirut 📅 13-14 March 2026 Apply now, spaces are limited! 🔗 bit.ly/3DXHx3Q
- On our blog, DPhil candidate Alessandra Enrico Headrington reflects on what recent US intervention in Venezuela could mean for displaced Venezuelans across Latin America, drawing on her ongoing research on asylum and temporary protection in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador.
- 🚨 One week to go until the deadline to apply for the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies! Our nine-month degree offers an intellectually demanding, interdisciplinary route to understanding forced migration. Find out more and apply by 27 January: bit.ly/3LCPhwq
- We look forward to welcoming Michelle Pace, Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University for tomorrow’s public seminar. Join us online for Unwelcome to Denmark: The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration. 🗓 Wednesday, 21 January 2026 | 5–6pm 🔗 bit.ly/unwelcome-to-denmark
- A warm welcome to our Visiting Fellows for Hilary Term: Desislava Dimitrova, Maria Flinder Stierna, Harry Legg, Alice Neikirk and Anne K. Schlüter. Visiting Fellows enhance the academic work of the Refugee Studies Centre through mutual exchange. Read more about them: f.mtr.cool/vyamozrozm
- We are looking forward to the start of term next week and of our Public Seminar Series. Get the dates in your diary and join us! The series starts next Wednesday with 'Unwelcome to Denmark: The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration' Full details: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events
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- The Making of Modern Syria: History, Politics, Geography 📙 🔸 Venue: The British Academy, London & Online (via Zoom) 🔸 Date: Friday, 6 February 2026 🔸 Time: 6 PM UK time 📧 Book in person by Monday 26 January: events@cbrl.ac.uk 🔗 Register online via Zoom: bit.ly/3YCl6Ix
- The paradox of North Korea’s Overseas Labour Programme, a new post on the RSC blog from Yeji Kim: 'A state that demands absolute obedience at home deliberately sends its citizens abroad, risking ideological exposure in exchange for financial gain.' f.mtr.cool/wpgjhtvqgq
- We are delighted to announce that Emeritus Professor Dawn Chatty has been recognised for her outstanding contribution to the study of nomadic pastoral societies with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Read about her work and achievements: bit.ly/4pvyn0t
- Waiting for academia: The impact of research on UNHCR policy, programmes and practice Writing for our new RSC blog 🎉, Jeff Crisp asks whether current developments in the refugee studies landscape might strengthen the impact of research on UNHCR. www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/blog/waiting...
- Professor Maja Janmyr (University of Oslo) explores how international refugee law is reshaped when actors in non-signatory states engage with its norms, and how national legal and protection landscapes are reconfigured. 🎧 Listen on SoundCloud: bit.ly/49feGoM
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- 📢 Registration is now open for 'Unwelcome to Denmark: The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration' 📅 21 January 2026 ⏰ 17:00 -18:00 UTC 💻 Online Professor Michelle Pace will examine Denmark’s migration policies and approach to integration, and the experiences of refugees. bit.ly/unwelcome-to...
- Start the New Year by investing in focused, high-impact study. Applications remain open for our short course on Palestine Refugees and International Law, taking place in Beirut on 13–14 March 2026. Places are limited.
- Professor Larissa Fast (University of Manchester) explores the dynamics of attacks on healthcare, and asks what does it mean for the healthcare system, for conflict-affected populations, and for international law? 🎧 Listen on SoundCloud: bit.ly/49eJwxG
- Refugee and Forced Migration Studies: How It Started. How It’s Going youtube.com/watch?v=g05px8yqnec Dr Jeff Crisp’s keynote speech at the 2025 Refugee Law Initiative Conference
- Season’s greetings from Oxford and the Refugee Studies Centre. We extend our best wishes to our students, colleagues and associates around the world who are celebrating, and wish you a peaceful Christmas break and a happy New Year. © OUImages / Public Affairs Directorate
- 🎧 Listen back to our Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture with Lea Ypi (LSE): bit.ly/4oVFKxS Professor Ypi reads from her book Indignity: A Life Reimagined and reflects on the enduring legacies of migration, displacement, and forced removal.
- What if… the United Nations was disbanded next Friday? Jeff Crisp, RSC Visiting Fellow, has been quoted in an Al Jazeera article among leading experts questioned about about what would happen if the world decided to get rid of the UN.
- We’re delighted to share details of our Public Seminar Series for Hilary Term 2026. This interdisciplinary series brings together scholars and practitioners to explore pressing issues in forced migration and refugee studies. We hope you can join us… www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/public-...
- Dr Alvina Hoffman (SOAS) discusses the biographical trajectories of UN experts in special human rights missions which laid the foundations for today’s UN special procedures system. She focuses on Felix Ermacora, an Austrian human rights expert. 🎧 Listen on SoundCloud: bit.ly/48QA1Uc
- Reposted by Refugee Studies CentreWhat's the link between #freespeech, #bordering, and Trump's #MAGA project? @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I address this question in the latest episode of #whodowethinkweare #podcast with a special guest: Dr @hebagowayed.bsky.social Listen, share, follow: whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who...
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- Ensuring a Human Rights-Compliant End to Refugeehood through Integration, Naturalisation or Voluntary Repatriation. New thematic paper co-authored by @catbriddick.bsky.social, @profccostello.bsky.social & Minos Mouzourakis for @coe.int Read more and download: bit.ly/3N0awZa
- Reposted by Refugee Studies Centre75 years of the ECHR ✨⚖️ A system that shaped human rights across Europe — and far beyond — now faces profound new challenges. Our new symposium with @mpil.de brings together voices from across the globe to reflect on its past, present and future. verfassungsblog.de/category/deb...
- Applications are open for our short course on Palestine Refugees and International Law, Beirut, 13-14 March, 2026 Join this course to explore key human rights and legal issues with subject experts Emerita Professor Dawn Chatty and Clinical professor Susan M. Akram: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/short-...
- Displacement, solidarity, counter-government David Owen (University of Southampton) discusses how different forms of solidarity relate to government power and to the experiences of displaced and precarious migrants. 🎧 Listen on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/refugeestudi...
- Why it’s a bad idea to triage refugee food aid when everyone's hungry: bit.ly/4pUTXMA Madison Bakewell, Vittorio Bruni and Olivier Sterck explain why implementing differentiated assistance among refugees in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp isn’t just unfair — it’s harmful.
- The December 2025 International Online School in Forced Migration is underway. Participants from more than 20 countries are joining Oxford academics, UN staff, and practitioners to explore the key debates in refugee and forced migration studies. Welcome to all participants.
- In recent decades many Mobile Indigenous Peoples have been displaced, dispossessed, and expelled from their traditional territories. Professor Dawn Chatty discusses ‘Mobile Indigenous Peoples and the quest for human rights’ (in French with summary in English). nomopolis.org/nomopolis-3-...
- URGENT UPDATE: Unfortunately, the public seminar scheduled for this evening, ‘Decolonization’s forgotten children: Refugees and the stateless as ecological agents in South Asia’ has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash
- Six of this term's seminars are now available as podcasts, starting with... A short history of the Gaza Strip Dr Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London Visit soundcloud for all our recordings: soundcloud.com/refugeestudi...
- Uttara Shahani, RSC Research Fellow in the History of Forced Migration, has co-authored this insightful Op-ed in the Times of India commenting on the enduring impacts of Partition on the Sindhi Hindu community 70 years on. The image shows the full article: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-ed...
- Calling all researchers in forced migration, apply now for the RSC Michaelmas Term (Oct – Dec) 2026 Visiting Fellowship programme & the new Sally Hogg Prize to support applicants from low-income countries or with lived experience of forced displacement. More info: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/the-sal...
- Join us for this week's public seminar on Non-signatory states in international refugee law. Speaker: Maja Janmyr, Professor of International Migration Law at the University of Oslo Wednesday, 26 November, 5pm, Oxford Department of International Development More info: bit.ly/3Xi4YeK
- We recently welcomed Dr Maggie Neil as our 2025-2028 Pedro Arrupe Research Fellow in Forced Migration. In this interview for Campion Hall, Maggie offers an engaging insight into the experiences and ideas that shape her work in migration and anthropology. www.campion.ox.ac.uk/news/convers...
- Displaced Venezuelans’ experiences of navigating temporary protection in Latin America Alessandra Enrico-Headrington shares insights from focus groups with Venezuelans in Colombia, Peru & Ecuador. Her findings reveal a complex & diverse landscape of preferences & experiences. bit.ly/4pxDwWr
- Only a few places remain for Professor Dawn Chatty's event focused on education in Palestine. Education under Occupation II Speaker: Mohammed Natsheh, Director of the Hebron International Resource Network Friday 21 November, 4-5pm London and online Register here: bit.ly/education-oc...
- We are looking forward to the online launch event for Forced Migration Review 76: Climate change - choices for displaced people on November 26th at 14:00 UK time / 09:00 New York / 15:00 Geneva / 17:00 Nairobi / 19:30 Delhi. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi... @fmreview.bsky.social
- 'Cutting aid in humanitarian settings is not just a policy choice, it is a moral failure' write Madison Bakewell, Vittorio Bruni, and Olivier Sterck
- We are delighted to announce that our Annual Report 2024-2025 has now been published. The report provides details of all our research and activities over the past year and includes several feature articles. Read and download the report: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/files/files-...
- Join us Wed 19 Nov, 5pm (ODID, Oxford) for a Public Seminar with Larissa Fast, Professor of Humanitarian and Conflict Studies, University of Manchester. Attacking health: Understanding the dynamics and broader impacts of violence against healthcare. More info: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events
- Martyna Maciejewska reflects on the June 2025 International Online School in Forced Migration: “A truly engaging and eye-opening experience, especially the focus on how colonialism shapes displacement. Learning with a diverse cohort broadened my perspective.” Apply: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/intern...
- Looking for a good read during #COP30? The latest issue of @fmreview.bsky.social Forced Migration Review focuses on climate change and choices for displaced people. It includes 23 articles from authors from across 5 continents. All articles are open access: www.fmreview.org/climate-choi...
- 📘 Book Launch: Cities at the Forefront 🗓️ 20 Nov | 5PM | Somerville College - Oxford Register for the launch of Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered 🔗 Register: bit.ly/cities-foref...
