Publication: RSC Policy Briefing 9 (April 2012)

RSC Policy Briefing 9 (April 2012):

Displacement, transitional justice and reconciliation: Assumptions,
challenges and lessons:

www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/policy-briefings/rscpb9-displacement-transitional-justice-reconciliation-250412-en.pdf

Written by Dr Megan Bradley (Fellow in the Foreign Policy Programme at the
Brookings Institution in Washington DC), this policy briefing explores the
links between reconciliation, forced migration and transitional justice,
bringing into focus the ways in which displaced persons figure in
transitional justice processes, and the potential implications of this
involvement for reconciliation. The briefing addresses the interlinked
conceptual and practical challenges associated with trying to advance
reconciliation in post-conflict societies affected by large-scale
displacement, and highlights some of the ways in which policymakers and
practitioners have sought to support reconciliation between displaced
populations and other actors. It analyses some of the assumptions that have
characterised these efforts, and suggests ways in which the challenges
surrounding the interface of displacement, transitional justice and
reconciliation may be more effectively navigated.

This policy briefing builds on discussions at the Conference on Displacement
and Reconciliation convened at Saint Paul University in Ottawa from 9-10 June
2011.

Feedback and comments can be directed to the author of the briefing, Dr Megan
Bradley at mbradley@brookings.edu. To request hard copies of the current or
previous briefings (for a full list click here:
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/rsc-policy-briefings-list-0412.pdf) or for any otherqueries contact the series editor, Héloïse Ruaudel at heloise.ruaudel@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Call for Papers: Refugee Studies Centre 30th Anniversary Conference,

RSC 30th Anniversary Conference

From the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford:

Refugee Studies Centre 30th Anniversary Conference,
‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’
Call for Papers

The Refugee Studies Centre’s 30th Anniversary Conference will take place on 6-7 December 2012, focusing on the theme ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’.

This conference aims to examine and theorise the policy-making processes relating to refugees and forced migration at the global level. Critical reflection upon the processes through which global public policy on refugees, internally displaced persons, statelessness, human trafficking, and other areas of forced migration is made is intended to offer new and valuable insights for scholars, policy makers and practitioners.

This conference therefore provides a forum for a critical discussion on ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’ by bringing together academics, policy makers, practitioners, advocates and displaced people to engage in a debate on how we might begin to make sense of and conceptualise the global refugee policy process. It seeks to explore the nature, content and implications of
‘global refugee policy’ with questions such as: What is ‘global refugee policy’? How can we theorise global refugee policy? What factors explain variation both in the motivations for policies, and in outcomes? To what extent do the diverse interests and priorities of key stakeholders shape global refugee policy, and to what effect?

The conference invites contributions that explore any aspect of the policy-making process: emergence, negotiation, development, implementation, and outcomes, examining global policy at the multilateral, regional, bilateral, or transnational levels. It invites reflections from politics, law, history, anthropology, and sociology, and seeks to involve contributors with case
specific studies in addition to those with a broad focus on regional, bilateral, international and global policy-making processes.

Papers might fall within one or more of the following categories:

1) Reflections
In order to lay the foundations for a critical academic understanding of global refugee policy processes, the conference invites
reflection pieces on the experience of working on or within regional, bilateral, international and global refugee policy. Such
reflections may explore the intersection between and across these different levels of policy making and implementation.

2) Case Studies
Papers might revisit important ‘moments’ or processes in which attempts to

Call For Papers

develop global refugee or forced migration policies have emerged, such as in relation to the Global Consultations, CIREFCA, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement,Australia’s “Pacific Solution”, the EU Asylum Qualification Directive, or the role of international actors in influencing national refugee legislation, for example.

3) Theories of Process
Papers might focus on conceptualising, theorising and critiquing aspects of the policy process in particular areas of refugee or forced migration policy. They may seek to explain variation in outcomes or they may aim to conceptualise how power, interests and ideas shape policy and its relationship to practice, or to examine how particular actors play particular roles in different
stages of the policy process.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted to:
Heidi El-Megrisi: rsc-conference@qeh.ox.ac.uk by 1 July 2012 at the latest.

Event: RSC Public Seminar Series: Forward, backward, stalling? Critical reflections on the completion of the Common European Asylum System-reminder 9 May

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RSC Public Seminar Series Trinity Term 2012

Wednesday May 9 at 5.00pm Seminar Room One, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, OX1 3TB

Maria-Teresa Gil-Bazo will present “The Future of International Cooperation on Refugee Protection“

Abstract:

International cooperation has long been recognized as a necessary prerequisite for the satisfactory solution to the plight of refugees (Preamble to the 1951 Refugee Convention). Yet, its actual implementation remains one of the most controversial issues in refugee protection.

The most sophisticated mechanism developed by States to embody this principle, currently contained in the so-called Dublin II Regulation, has been subject to scrutiny from its inception by domestic as well as international courts. The only consensus among all actors involved seems to be its unsatisfactory performance and its continuous need for reform. The EU is currently negotiating a recast Dublin II Regulation that needs to provide an appropriate response to Member States obligations of protection in the context of international cooperation, as interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights in the M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece case (judgment of 21 January 2011) and by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the N.S. v Secretary of State for the Home Department (C-411/10) case (judgment of 21 December 2011).

Bio:

Dr María-Teresa Gil Bazo is Lecturer in Law at Newcastle University (UK), where she teaches Public International Law, EU Law, Human Rights, and a postgraduate course on “The Movement of Persons in a Global World”. She is also a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford) and a member of the Spanish Bar Council.

Previously, she was Lecturer in International Refugee and Human Rights Law at Oxford University, where she has also been the Director of its Summer School in Forced Migration. Dr Gil-Bazo has undertaken research stays at the Centre for European Studies at The Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), and the United Nations (Geneva, Switzerland). Her recent publications include an analysis of the right to be granted asylum under article 18 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (cited by UNHCR in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the EU in Case C-411/10 N.S. v Secretary of State for the Home Department), commentaries to Articles 40 (territorial clause) and 41 (federal clause) of the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees, and a study on secondary movements of refugees commissioned by UNHCR for the Expert Meeting on “International Cooperation to Share Burden and Responsibilities” (Amman, Jordan, June 2011) in the context of UNHCR’s commemorations of the 60 the Anniversary of the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees.

Dr Gil-Bazo has acted as consultant for the Council of Europe, UNHCR, and the European Commission. She regularly teaches at seminars and conferences in universities abroad, as well as at events organized by international organisations for judges, practising lawyers, government officials, and the military. Dr Gil-Bazo has been a member to OSCE and UN Missions in Albania and in Bosnia-Herzegovina .

A reception will be held after the lecture. All welcome.
For further info email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Event: Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2012 – Wednesday 6 June, 5 p.m

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Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2012 – Wednesday 6 June, 5 p.m

“States, Sovereignties and Refugees: A View from the Margins?”

Wednesday, 6 June 2012, 5pm
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW

Professor Alessandro Monsutti, Research Director at the Programme for the
Study of Global Migration, Associate Professor at the Department of
Anthropology and Sociology of Development, Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies, Geneva and Research Associate, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford will deliver the Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecure 2012.

Refugees are defined as people who have lost the protection of their state of
origin and therefore fall under the responsibility of the international
community, represented by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. They are situated at the interstice of national and international
sovereignty.

Building on the Afghan case, one of the most massive forced displacements of
population since World War II, the lecture will examine the growth of a
global bureaucracy linked to the action of international and non-governmental
organisations, philanthropic foundations, think tanks, and even private
security contractors. They promote new forms of transnational governmentality
that involve benevolence and welfare programmes but also coercion and
repression; they may by turns support or challenge the more familiar
territorialised expressions of state authority.

As frequently announced, are we really facing the ultimate crisis of the
nation-state? Viewed from Afghanistan, the situation appears more complex and hardly novel. The state has probably never been the exclusive locus of
legitimate power; a layered and divided national administration has always
coexisted with alternative and segmented de facto sovereignties. But the
general reinforcement of non-state forms of sovereignty does not prevent the
pervasiveness of the state as the organisational entity of today’s
international politics.

Far from being situated at the margins of today’s world, Afghanistan may
paradoxically appear as a laboratory to highlight social and political
processes present in much of the colonial and postcolonial world, and
increasingly in the West.

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/states-sovereignties-refugees

To confirm your attendance please RSVP: Heidi El-Megrisi
Tel: 01865 281728/9 email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Course: International Summer School in Forced Migration – Deadline Extended!

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DEADLINE EXTENDED:
Please note that there are limited places available in the International
Summer School in Forced Migration which takes place at the Refugee Studies
Centre, University of Oxford, from 2 – 20 July 2012.

The modules offered are:

Week one:
The globalisation of forced migration
Conceptualising forced migration

Week two:
Asylum policy and international refugee law
Negotiating institutional responses

Week three:
One elective from three: human trafficking and smuggling, Palestine refugees
and international law, or statelessness
Internally displaced persons

Guest Lecturers include:

PROFESSOR SUSAN AKRAM
Clinical Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law

DR RUTVICA ANDRIJASEVIC
Lecturer
University of Leicester

DR ALEXANDER BETTS
University Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

PROFESSOR DAWN CHATTY
Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration
Director, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

JEAN-FRANCOIS DURIEUX
Departmental Lecturer in International Human Rights and Refugee Law
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

DR ELENA FIDDIAN-QASMIYEH
Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

DR MATTHEW GIBNEY
University Reader in Politics and Forced Migration
Course Director on the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

DR MARÍA-TERESA GIL-BAZO
Lecturer in Law at Newcastle Law School

PROFESSOR GUY GOODWIN-GILL
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College
Professor of International Refugee Law, was formerly Professor of Asylum Law
at the University of Amsterdam, and served as a Legal Adviser in the Office
of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1976-1988

DR JASON HART
Lecturer
University of Bath

MR.WALTER KÄLIN
Professor of International Law, Institute of Public Law,
Faculty of Law, University of Bern

DR KHALID KOSER
Academic Dean and Head of the New Issues in Security Programme Director of
the New Issues in Security Course (NISC), Geneva Centre for Security Policy

DENNIS MCNAMARA
Humanitarian Adviser
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

PROFESSOR ALESSANDRO MONSUTTI
Professor and Research Director, Transnational Studies/Development Studies,
Graduate Institute,
University of Geneva

To apply please see:
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school

International Summer School in Forced Migration
Refugee Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development
University of Oxford
3 Mansfield Road
Oxford, OX1 3TB
UK
tel: +44 (0) 1865 281728/9
fax:+44 (0) 1865 281730
email: summer.school@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Event: International Symposium “The Arab Spring and Beyond: Human Mobility, Forced Migration and Institutional Responses”

The Arab Spring and Beyond: Human Mobility, Forced Migration and Institutional Responses

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You are cordially invited to attend the forthcoming International Symposium “The Arab Spring and Beyond: Human Mobility, Forced Migration and Institutional Responses”

Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, 20 March 2012

Migration in its various forms has been a key part of the popular uprisings that spread across North Africa and the Levant in 2011. The columns of vehicles escaping from cities and villages under siege in Libya, the boats crammed with Tunisians crossing the Mediterranean Sea and landing on the island of Lampedusa, and the numerous Egyptian émigrés and university students returning to Cairo to join the protests in Tahrir Square are a few examples of the ways in which human mobility intersects current events in North Africa and the Levant.

The North Africa in Transition: Mobility, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crises? workshop organised by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) and the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford on 6 May 2011 offered a platform to begin exploring how these events have impacted existing patterns of mobility in the region and generated new ?mixed? migration flows. Panelists observed that the regional crises had prompted some economic migrants to become forced migrants; pushed forced migrants into irregular migration channels; and made multiple migrant groups, including seasonal and long established migrants, ?involuntarily immobile?. Panelists also observed that apart from large-scale displacement within and from Libya, migration patterns from most other countries, such as Tunisia and Egypt, seemed to have remained remarkably unaffected by the political turmoil, in stark contrast with predictions made by some politicians, journalists and researchers about mass displacement.

To build on this event and take stock of further political and economic developments in the region, the RSC, IMI and the Oxford Diasporas Programme are organising a second international symposium on migration and forced migration in North Africa and the Levant on 20 March 2012 with the participation of international scholars, practitioners and policy makers. This second workshop will examine the extent to which the Arab Spring has shifted migration dynamics and migration and refugee governance.

For the full conference programme – [The Arab Spring and Beyond Final programme]

The workshop will address the following questions: How have varying processes

The Arab Spring and Beyond: Human Mobility, Forced Migration and Institutional Responses

of political, economic, and social contestation in North Africa and the Levant affected human mobility? To what extent have events transformed or impacted the institutional behaviour and responses of international organisations and civil society groups working in the field of migration and refugee protection? How have publics and governments in North Africa and the Levant positioned or repositioned themselves in relation to issues of asylum and migration?

For further information, please contact Heidi El-Megrisi: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Seminar: RSC Public Seminar Series Hilary Term 2012

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RSC Public Seminar Series Hilary Term 2012

 Dr Francois Gemmene will present Migration as an Environmental Policy: pitfalls, opportunities, and rhetorics

Wednesday February 1 at 5.00 p.m. seminar room one

 François Gemenne is a research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), and he teaches the international politics of climate change and the governance of migration at Sciences Po Paris, the University of Paris 13 and the Free University of Brussels.

RSC Public Seminar Series Hilary Term 2012

His research deals with populations displaced by environmental changes and the policies of adaptation to climate change. He has conducted field studies in New Orleans (United States) after hurricane Katrina, and in the archipelago of Tuvalu, threatened by sea-level rise, as well as in China, Central Asia and Mauritius.

Between 2007 and 2009, he supervised the research clusters on Asia-Pacific and Central Asia of the European research project EACH-FOR (Environmental Changes and Forced Migration Scenarios). The project aimed to describe the empirical linkages between migration and environmental changes, in a comparative perspective. He has also been the scientific advisor of the exhibition “Native Land. Stop Eject”, held at the Fondation Cartier for contemporary art in Paris in Winter 2008. He has consulted for the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

He holds a joint doctorate in political science from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Liege (Belgium). He also holds a Master in Development, Environment and Societies from the University of Louvain, and a Master of Research in Political Science from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he also taught some courses. He has authored three books: Anticiper pour s’adapter (with L. Tubiana and A. Magnan, in French, Pearson 2010), Géopolitique du changement climatique (in French, Armand Colin 2009), and Nations and their Histories: Constructions and Representations (edited with S. Carvalho, Palgrave Macmillan 2009).

A reception will be held after the lecture. All welcome.

For further info email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/public-seminars

Refugee Studies Centre 30th Anniversary Conference – Call for Papers

 

Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford 30th Anniversary Conference: ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’

Call for Papers

The Refugee Studies Centre’s 30th Anniversary Conference will take place on 6-7 December 2012, focusing on the theme ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’. This conference aims to examine and theorise the policy-making processes relating to refugees and forced migration at the global level. Critical reflection upon the processes through which global public policy on refugees, internally displaced persons, statelessness, human trafficking, and other areas of forced migration is made is intended to offer new and valuable insights for scholars, policy makers and practitioners.

This conference therefore provides a forum for a critical discussion on ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’ by bringing together academics, policy makers, practitioners, advocates and displaced people to engage in a debate on how we might begin to make sense of and conceptualise the global refugee policy process. It seeks to explore the nature, content and implications of ‘global refugee policy’ with questions such as: What is ‘global refugee policy’? How can we theorise global refugee policy? What factors explain variation both in the motivations for policies, and in outcomes? To what extent do the diverse interests and priorities of key stakeholders shape global refugee policy, and to what effect?

The conference invites contributions that explore any aspect of the policy-making process: emergence, negotiation, development, implementation, and outcomes, examining global policy at the multilateral, regional, bilateral, or transnational levels. It invites reflections from politics, law, history, anthropology, and sociology, and seeks to involve contributors with case specific studies in addition to those with a broad focus on regional, bilateral, international and global policy-making processes. Papers might fall within one or more of the following categories:

Reflections

In order to lay the foundations for a critical academic understanding of global refugee policy processes, the conference invites reflection pieces on the experience of working on or within regional, bilateral, international and global refugee policy. Such reflections may explore the intersection between and across these different levels of policy making and implementation.

Case Studies

Papers might revisit important ‘moments’ or processes in which attempts to develop global refugee or forced migration policies have emerged, such as in relation to the Global Consultations, CIREFCA, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, Australia’s “Pacific Solution”, the EU Asylum Qualification Directive, or the role of international actors in influencing national refugee legislation, for example.

Theories of Process

Papers might focus on conceptualising, theorising and critiquing aspects of the policy process in particular areas of refugee or forced migration policy. They may seek to explain variation in outcomes or they may aim to conceptualise how power, interests and ideas shape policy and its relationship to practice, or to examine how particular actors play particular roles in different stages of the policy process.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted to:

Heidi El-Megrisi:  rsc-conference@qeh.ox.ac.uk  by 1 July 2012 at the latest.

Event: Palestine Refugees and International Law

Palestine Refugees and International Law

Date: 09:00am, Saturday, March 10, 2012 – 05:30pm, Sunday, March 11, 2012

Palestine Refugees and International Law

Presenter/Convenor: Refugee Studies Centre

Location: QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Series: Conferences and workshops

The workshop examines, within a human rights framework, the policies and practices of Middle Eastern states as they impinge upon Palestinian refugees. Through a mix of lectures, working group exercises and interactive sessions, participants engage actively and critically with the contemporary debates in international law and analyse the specific context of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza).

The workshop commences with the background of the Palestinian refugee crisis, with special attention to the socio- political historical context and legal status of Palestinian refugees in the region. This is followed by a careful examination of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights including its philosophical underpinnings and ensuing human rights instruments in international law. The key themes, which have taken centre stage in the debate on the Palestinian refugee crisis, are statelessness, right of return, repatriation, self-determination, restitution compensation and protection. These themes are critically examined along with current discussions about the respective roles of UNRWA, UNHCR and the UNCCP in the Palestinian refugee case.

Instructors

Professor Dawn Chatty is University Professor in Anthropology and Forced Migration and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She is a social anthropologist and has conducted extensive research among Palestinian and other forced migrants in the Middle East. Some of her recent works include Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East (ed. with Gillian Lewando-Hundt), Berghahn Press, 2005, and
Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Dr Susan M. Akram is Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Law, teaching immigration law, comparative refugee law, and international human rights law. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC (JD), and the Institut International des Droits de l‘Homme, Strasbourg (Diploma in international human rights). She is a past Fulbright Senior Scholar in Palestine, teaching at Al-Quds University/Palestine School of Law in East Jerusalem

Application

Fee: £300

Maximum twenty-five places on the workshop.

For further information contact:
Heidi El-Megrisi
Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB, United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)1865 281728
Email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

RSC Policy Briefing 8 (December 2011): Stabilising the Congo

Stabilising the Congo

The latest Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) policy brief has just been published.  Details from the accompanying RSC press release are detailed as follows:

RSC Policy Briefing 8 (December 2011)
Stabilising the Congo
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/policy-briefings/RSCPB8-StabilisingCongo
.pdf

Written by Emily Paddon (University of Oxford) and Guillaume Lacaille
(independent expert), this policy briefing considers the ‘stabilisation
approach’ adopted by both the international community and national government
to address the continued insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC).

Considering stabilisation also offers a way of conceptualising and engaging
with the root causes of displacement. Political implications of the
stabilisation agenda are brought into sharper relief by focusing on a single
question: stabilisation by whom and for whom? Rather than continuing to
support the State unconditionally, the briefing calls on international actors
to strengthen and exercise their combined leverage in critical priority areas
that together form a comprehensive ‘road map’ to long-term peace and
stability following the elections.

The briefing is the outcome of a series of RSC inter-related activities on
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that took place in 2010 and 2011,
including a special issue of Forced Migration Review
(http://www.fmreview.org/DRCongo/) and an experts’ workshop on ‘the dynamics
of conflict and forced migration in the DRC’
(http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/experts-workshop-DRC) as well as
dissemination and consultations in the DRC.

For feedback, comments, and to request hard copies of the briefing, contact
the series editor, Héloïse Ruaudel: heloise.ruaudel@qeh.ox.ac.uk.

All RSC policy briefings are available online:
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/policy-briefings.

Event: Hilary Term 2012 RSC Public Seminar Series: Critical Approaches to Environmental Displacement

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The Refugee Studies Centre atOxford will devote the Hilary Term 2012 Public Seminar Series to Critical Approaches to Environmental Displacement. The seminar series is convened by Dr Alexander Betts,

University Lecturer in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre.

The Public Seminar Series will take place each Wednesday, from 5 p.m in Seminar Room 1 at QEH, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB.

Seminars may be subject to change at the last minute; please visit www.rsc.ox.ac.uk

If you require special access please contact us in advance. Email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Fortcoming Events and Seminars

The following details about forthcoming events and seminars are detailed below:

‘Seeking Sanctuary’ Official Launch Event
a serious board game that puts you through the paces of the UK asylum system
Thursday 12 January 2012.  6 p.m. – 9 p.m.  New Horizon Youth Centre, 68 Chalton St, London, NW1 1JR
Link: http://refugeearchives.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/event-seeking-sanctuary-launch-12-january-2012-2/

RSC-OCAF SEMINAR
Friday 24 February 2012, 4:30pm, Seminar Room 2
The Oxford Central Africa Forum (OCAF) and the Refugee Studies Centre present:
From DR Congo to Tel-Aviv: A Story of Congolese Refugees, Activism and Microfinance.
Further Details : https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=FORCED-MIGRATION;5a134f62.1112

Palestine Refugees and International Law Weekend WorkshopSaturday 10 – Sunday 11 March 2012
Refugee Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development
Fee : £300
Further Details : Palestine Refugees and International Law

Event: Annual Harrell Bond lecture, 16 November 2011

The Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford is delighted to
announce the forthcoming Annual Harrell-Bond lecture.

Mr Filippo Grandi
Commissioner-General
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

Waiting for solutions in uncertain times: Palestine refugees in the
Middle East context

Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 5pm
Examination Schools, University of Oxford, 75-81 High Street, Oxford OX1 3BG

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception

Further details : http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/2011-harrell-bond

RSVP
Heidi El-Megrisi: International Summer School and Conferences Manager
Erol Canpunar: Outreach Programme Assistant
tel:             01865 281729
email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

RSC Public Seminar Series: Stateless diasporas and forced migration

RSC Public Seminar Series: Stateless diasporas and forced migration

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness,  Refugee Studies Centre in association with the Leverhulme-funded Oxford Diasporas Programme will devote the next RSC Public Seminar Series to explore contemporary statelessness in international and national arenas.

Drawing on a range of disciplinary and institutional perspectives, invited speakers will contribute to the  reconceptualisation of statelessness and assess the effectiveness of current international tools to address the plight of stateless diasporas world-wide.

The seminars, except the Harrell Bond lecture on the 16th November,  will take place on Wednesdays at 4.30pm in Seminar Room Two at the Department of International Development (3 Mansfield Road, Oxford).

The first seminar of the series  on ‘Stateless diasporas and immigration and citizenship regimes’ by Dr Elena Fiddian Qasmiyeh and Dr Nando Sigona (Refugee Studies Centre) will be held on Wednesday 12 October at 4.30pm.

For the full programme please see the attached link – http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/wednesday-seminars. Refreshments will be provided after each seminar.  For further details please contact  rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

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/