New RSC website

From The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC)  at Oxford:

The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) has re-launched its site. The new design is cleaner and better organized, so much easier to navigate. Note: You will need to update any sub-links, as they have changed.

Link:-  http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/

Easter Open/Closure Times over Easter, 2011

I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you all know the opening and closure times for the Refugee Council Archive over the Easter period.  The relevant details are as follows:

Opening Hours for Week Beginning : Monday 18^th April

Monday 18^th April : 1pm – 6pm

Tuesday 19^th April : 10am – 6pm

Wednesday 20^th April: 10am – 6pm

Thursday 21^st April:  10am – 1pm

The Archive will then be Closed between Friday 22 April and Friday 6 May and will re-open from Monday 9 May as usual.

 I will be away on annual leave for most of this period so if you do have any enquiries, please send them to me via e-mail at: p.v.dudman@uel.ac.uk and I will do my best to respond to hem on my return to the office.  My last day in the office before Easter will be Thursday 21 April between 10am and 1pm.

Details of the Docklands Library opening hours over the Easter period can be found on the website at:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/lls/about/openinghours.htm

North Africa in Transition: Mobility, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crises

 

 

North Africa in Transition: Mobility, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crises
May 6 2011 (13h00-18h00)
Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford
3Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Background and aims of workshop:

From the end of 2010, a series of unexpected popular uprisings have spread across North Africa and the Middle East. The dramatic unfolding of events has disrupted the ever changing patterns of mobility in the region in new and disturbing ways, including uprooting people,
transforming existing migrants into refugees and constraining the movement of mobile populations. Some events, as in Egypt and Tunisia, have been largely peaceful, with political transitions under the mediation of the army. Other events have been brutal, with a witnessing of force of arms and violent suppression of the opposition in Libya, for example.

These diverse crises have resulted in ‘mixed’ migration flows: economic migrants becoming forced migrants and forced migrants entering irregular migration channels in the search for survival, while other migrants have become ‘involuntarily immobile’, such as migrant workers stuck inside Libya.

This workshop will provide a space for interested academics, practitioners and policy makers to critically engage with the evolving contemporary crises in North Africa, focusing in particular on the challenges surrounding the displacement of people in their wake, including: migrant workers from across the African continent, internally displaced nationals, and Sub- Saharan African and Middle Eastern asylum-seekers and refugees who had formerly sought
refuge within countries including Libya and Egypt. Organized around two panels with presentations by leading academics and practitioners working on the region, this interactive workshop will explore two intersecting questions:

1. How have these crises influenced different forms of population displacement?

2. What are the key protection and legal challenges faced by the international community in light of the internal and international displacement of populations as a consequence of the contemporary popular uprisings in North Africa?

If you would like to attend please contact:
Heidi El-Megrisi: heidi.el-megrisi@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 281728/9

These details are also alavailable on the Refugee Studies Centre website at:  http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/