Events: RSC Public Seminar: Constitutionalism, ethnicity and minority rights in Africa – Wednesday, 5pm, Oxford

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

Constitutionalism, ethnicity and minority rights in Africa: a legal appraisal from the Great Lakes region Dr Jeremie Gilbert (Middlesex University)

Time:  5pm, 22 May 2013

Location: Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development – QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

The last decade has witnessed a constitutional revival in Africa, with several countries adopting new constitutions. Several of these constitutions have been adopted following serious ethnic tensions, especially in the Great Lakes region. Because of the nature of the ethnic conflicts which were rooted in the repression of minority communities, the new constitutional frameworks regarding ethnicity and minority rights are going to be extremely significant for the peace and stability of the region.

By analysing the recently adopted constitutions of Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, this presentation will examine the extent to which some of the most recently adopted constitutions of the continent are addressing, or not, the rights of the most marginalised minority communities. By focusing on the Great Lakes region, this presentation wishes to explore why there is still a general reluctance towards the recognition of minority rights in most African constitutions.

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/constitutionalism-ethnicity-and-minority-rights-in-africa-a-legal-appraisal-from-the-great-lakes-region

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Recent podcasts

Public Seminar Series

Evidence about torture in the UK asylum system Dr Toby Kelly (University of Edinburgh) http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/evidence-about-torture-in-the-uk-asylum-system

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2013

Tracks Across Sand: the dispossession of the ‡Khomani San of the southern Kalahari Professor Hugh Brody (University of the Fraser Valley)

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/elizabeth-colson-lecture-2013

Workshop

The deportation of unaccompanied minors from the EU: family-tracing and government accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) project http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/erpum-workshop

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For any enquiries, get in touch at rsc@qeh.ox.ac.uk

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Events: RSC Public Seminar Series – Evidence about torture in the UK asylum system – tomorrow, 5pm, SR1, QEH

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

Evidence about torture in the UK asylum system Dr Toby Kelly (University of Edinburgh)

Time: 5pm, 15 May 2013

Location: Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development – QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

This presentation will examine some of the difficulties involved in the production and assessment of evidence about torture in the British asylum system.

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/evidence-about-torture-in-the-uk-asylum-system

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Recent podcasts

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2013

Tracks Across Sand: the dispossession of the ‡Khomani San of the southern Kalahari Hugh Brody (University of the Fraser Valley

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/elizabeth-colson-lecture-2013

Workshop

The deportation of unaccompanied minors from the EU: family-tracing and government accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) project http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/erpum-workshop

Special seminar

MapAction: Geospatial support for humanitarian disasters Roy Wood (MapAction) http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/mapaction-emergency-responses-to-humanitarian-crises

 

Course Update: RSC International Summer School in Forced Migration – Extended Deadline

University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre

International Summer School in Forced Migration 01 – 19 July 2013

Applications are still being accepted from suitably qualified/experienced candidates
For further details and how to apply go to:

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school

or email: Heidi El-Megrisi at summer.school@qeh.ox.ac.uk
The Refugee Studies Centre’s International Summer School fosters dialogue between academics, practitioners and policymakers working to improve the situation of refugees and other forced migrants. It provides the time and space for them to reflect on their experiences and to think critically about some of the aims and assumptions underlying their work. It aims to enable people working with refugees and other forced migrants to reflect critically on the forces and institutions that dominate the world of the displaced.

Modules include: Human Trafficking, Psychosocial wellbeing, Palestinian refugees and international law, Asylum policy and international law, Conceptualising forced migration, Internally displaced persons and The globalisation of forced migration

 

Tutors:
Summer School Director: Matthew Gibney, Deputy Director, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Jane McAdam Scientia Professor of Law, The University of New South Wales
Maryanne Loughry, Associate Director, Jesuit Refugee Service Australia and Research Professor, Boston College
Cathryn Costello, University of Oxford
Tom Scott-Smith, University of Oxford
Nora Danielson, University of Oxford
2013 Guest lecturers include:

 

Professor Susan Akram Clinical Professor, Boston University School of Law

 

Dr Bridget Anderson Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director of COMPAS

 

Dr Alex Betts, University Lecturer in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

 

Dr Chaloka Beyani: UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons and Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics

 

Professor Dawn Chatty, Director, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

 

Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

 

Professor Guy S. Goodwin Gill Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of International Refugee Law in the University of Oxford

 

Dr Jason Hart, Senior Lecturer University of Bath

 

Walter Kälin: Former Representative of the Secretary General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons 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 at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy

 

Dr Kirsten McConnachie, Junior Research Fellow, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

 

The fee for 2013 is £3,220. This covers 19 nights’ bed-and-breakfast accommodation and all weekday lunches; all tuition; all course materials, including reading materials; and a range of social activities.
Please note that the programme qualifies for Continuing Professional Development with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (CPD SRA) in the United Kingdom

 
Apologies for any cross-posting.

Events: RSC Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture, tomorrow, 5pm, Oxford – ‘Tracks Across Sand: the dispossession of the Khomani San of the southern Kalahari’ by Hugh Brody

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture:

Tracks Across Sand: the dispossession of the ‡Khomani San of the southern Kalahari Hugh Brody (University of the Fraser Valley)

Time: 5pm, 8 May 2013

Location: Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development – QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Register to attend: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/register-2013-colson-lecture

The 2013 Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture will set out the history of the drastic and often violent dispossession of the peoples of the southern Kalahari. This is an area reached by the 1908 German wars of extermination against indigenous peoples, and where all the forces of colonial occupation have been brought to bear.

For the San living within South Africa, the apartheid regime meant a final eviction from their last remaining lands. This meant that the ‡Khomani became a diaspora of people without rights to land, work or even a place to live; refugees in what was supposed to be their own country. In 1999, a small group of ‡Khomani San succeeded in winning a land claim, as a result of which many were deemed to have rights to land and places to live in new security.

The lecture will follow the events and aftermath of this land claim, looking at how a settlement might achieve justice but may not necessarily bring well-being. As part of the lecture, a 35 minute film will be shown, which follows the people as they launch and then celebrate their claim.

About Hugh Brody

Hugh Brody is an anthropologist, film-maker and writer. He worked in the High Arctic in the 1970s, where he immersed himself in the daily life of Inuit who lived in government settlements yet spent much of their time on the land. He has been involved in land rights and aboriginal research in the USA, India, Australia and Southern Africa, as well as across Canada.

His books include Maps And Dreams and Living Arctic and The Other Side of Eden. His films include Nineteen Nineteen, Time Immemorial, The Washing of Tears, Hunters and Bombers, Inside Australia and The Meaning of Life.

His most recent research and filming has been in the southern Kalahari in South Africa and is centred on the land claim, heritage and languages of the ‡Khomani San.

Hugh Brody is an Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at the Univeristy of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada.

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Recent podcasts

MapAction: Geospatial support for humanitarian disasters Roy Wood (MapAction) http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/mapaction-emergency-responses-to-humanitarian-crises

Opportunities and risk: enacting socio-cultural transformation in refugee camps in Uganda Dr Tania Kaiser (School of Oriental and African Studies) http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/opportunities-and-risk-enacting-socio-cultural-transformation-in-refugee-camps-in-uganda

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RSC Short Course – Palestine Refugees and International Law 13-14 September 2013

Palestine Refugees and International Law 13-14 September 2013

Venue – The British Institute, 102 Uhod Street, Tia’Al-Ali, Amman, Jordan

This two-day, non-residential short course places the Palestine refugee case study within the broader context of the international human rights regime.  It 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

Maximum twenty-five places on the workshop.

Fee rate £350. The fee includes tuition, lunches, tea/coffee breaks, and course materials.

To apply online http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/palestine-refugees-international-law-092013

For further information contact: Heidi El-Megrisi,
Tel +44 (0)1865 281728
Email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

 

Courses: International Summer School in Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre:

International Summer School in Forced Migration 01 – 19 July 2013

Deadline for applications is 1 May 2013

For further details and how to apply go to:

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school

email: Heidi El-Megrisi at summer.school@qeh.ox.ac.uk

The Refugee Studies Centre’s International Summer School fosters dialogue between academics, practitioners and policymakers working to improve the situation of refugees and other forced migrants. It provides the time and space for them to reflect on their experiences and to think critically about some of the aims and assumptions underlying their work.

It aims to enable people working with refugees and other forced migrants to reflect critically on the forces and institutions that dominate the world of the displaced.

Modules include: Human Trafficking, Psychosocial wellbeing, Palestinian refugees and international law, Asylum policy and international law, Conceptualising forced migration, Internally displaced persons and The globalisation of forced migration

2013 Guest lecturers include:

Professor Susan Akram Clinical Professor, Boston University School of Law

Dr Bridget Anderson Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director of COMPAS

Chaloka Beyani: UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons and Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics

Professor Guy S. Goodwin Gill Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of International Refugee Law in the University of Oxford

Dr Jason Hart, Senior Lecturer University of Bath

Walter Kälin: Former Representative of the Secretary General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons 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 at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy

The fee for 2013 is £3,220. This covers 19 nights’ bed-and-breakfast accommodation and all weekday lunches; all tuition; all course materials, including reading materials; and a range of social activities.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

 

Events: RSC Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2013

TRACKS ACROSS SANDS: THE DISPOSSESSION OF THE ‡KHOMANI SAN OF THE SOUTHERN KALAHARI Professor Hugh Brody

Date: 05:00pm, Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Location: Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Series: Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Public Seminar Series

Register to attend – http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/register-2013-colson-lecture

The 2013 Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture will set out the history of the drastic and often violent dispossession of the peoples of the southern Kalahari. This is an area reached by the 1908 German wars of extermination against indigenous peoples, and where all the forces of colonial occupation have been brought to bear.

For the San living within South Africa, the apartheid regime meant a final eviction from their last remaining lands. This meant that the ‡Khomani became a diaspora of people without rights to land, work or even a place to live; refugees in what was supposed to be their own country. In 1999, a small group of ‡Khomani San succeeded in winning a land claim, as a result of which many were deemed to have rights to land and places to live in new security.

The lecture will follow the events and aftermath of this land claim, looking at how a settlement might achieve justice but may not necessarily bring well-being. As part of the lecture, a 35 minute film will be shown, which follows the people as they launch and then celebrate their claim.

About Hugh Brody

Hugh Brody is an anthropologist, film-maker and writer. He worked in the High Arctic in the 1970s, where he immersed himself in the daily life of Inuit who lived in government settlements yet spent much of their time on the land. He has been involved in land rights and aboriginal research in the USA, India, Australia and Southern Africa, as well as across Canada.

His books include Maps And Dreams and Living Arctic and The Other Side of Eden. His films include Nineteen Nineteen, Time Immemorial, The Washing of Tears, Hunters and Bombers, Inside Australia and The Meaning of Life.

His most recent research and filming has been in the southern Kalahari in South Africa and is centred on the land claim, heritage and languages of the ‡Khomani San.

Hugh Brody is an Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at the Univeristy of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada.

 

RSC Workshop – The deportation of unaccompanied minors: family-tracing and government accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) project

Workshop – The deportation of unaccompanied minors: family-tracing and government accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) project

Date: 10:30am, Friday, May 03, 2013

Presenter/Convenor: Professor Dawn Chatty and Dr Martin Lemberg-Pedersen

Location: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Series: Conferences and workshops

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About the workshop | Programme | Registration | Livestream

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About the workshop

Credit: UNHCR / Helene Caux

The European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) is an EU project to find new methods for the return of unaccompanied minors, mainly from Afghanistan, who have received a final rejection of their asylum application.

By European law, unaccompanied children cannot be removed before they reach 18 years of age. However, deportations of children from partner countries of the ERPUM project – including the UK – are taking place now, and the lack of consultation or public access to information about the project raises serious questions of government accountability.

This one-day workshop will convene academics and policymakers to discuss this urgent and critical issue.

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Programme

10:30-11:00 Registration and coffee/tea

11:00-11.15 Introduction – Dawn Chatty, RSC

11:15-11.45 ‘The evolution of the ERPUM project’ – Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen

11:45-12:30 ‘Afghan perspectives on ERPUM’ – Liza Schuster, City University London.

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:15 ‘ERPUM and the Convention on the Rights of the Child’ – Rebecca Stern, University of Uppsala

14:15-15:00 ‘The legal and political viability of ERPUM under international law’ – Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Danish Institute for International Studies

15:00-16:00 Coffee/tea

16:00-16:45 ‘Ethical reflections on ERPUM’ – Matthew J Gibney, RSC

16:45-17:30  Panel discussion

17:30-18:00  Summary and closing session

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Registration

A limited number of places are available to attend this workshop. To register your interest, please complete the online registration form.

If you are unable to attend in person but would like to follow the event live and contribute to the discussion online, please see the following section.

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Livestream

This event will be streamed online and we greatly encourage the participation of academics, policymakers, students and activists involved in asylum welfare. Online participants will be able to follow the event live and join the conversation through Twitter. More information to follow.

 @refugeestudies  #RSC_ERPUM

RSC Event: Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2013

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2013

Date: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Time: 5 – 6.30 p.m
Venue: Refugee Studies Centre, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Tracks Across Sand: the dispossession of the ‡Khomani San of the southern Kalahari

The 2013 Annual Elizabeth Colson lecture will be given by Hugh Brody, anthropologist, film-maker and writer.

The lecture will set out the history of the drastic and often violent dispossession of the peoples of the southern Kalahari. This is an area reached

Professor Didier Fassin (above) delivered the 2011 Colson lecture. Copyright: RSC.

by the 1908 German wars of extermination against indigenous peoples, and where all the forces of colonial occupation have been brought to bear.

For the San living within South Africa, the apartheid regime meant a final eviction from their last remaining lands. This meant that the ‡Khomani became a diaspora of people without rights to land, work or even a place to live; refugees in what was supposed to be their own country. In 1999, a small group of ‡Khomani San succeeded in winning a land claim, as a result of which many were deemed to have rights to land and places to live in new security.

The lecture will follow the events and aftermath of this land claim, looking at how a settlement might achieve justice but may not necessarily bring well-being. As part of the lecture, a 35 minute film will be shown, which follows the people as they launch and then celebrate their claim.

Places are limited.  Please register your attendance at: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/elizabeth-colson-lecture-2013

 

International Summer School in Forced Migration 2013

International Summer School in Forced Migration 1-19 July 2013 Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University

Application is now open!

International Summer School in Forced Migration

The summer school is aimed at mid-career or senior policy makers and practitioners involved with humanitarian assistance and policy making for forced migrants. Participants typically include host government officials, intergovernmental and non-governmental agency personnel engaged in planning, administering and co-ordinating assistance. We also accept applications from Researchers specialising in the study of forced migration.

The Refugee Studies Centre’s International Summer School fosters dialogue between participants working to improve the situation of refugees and other forced migrants. It provides the time and space for them to reflect on their experiences and to think critically about some of the aims and assumptions underlying their work.

Over three weeks, around 70–80 participants from all over the world study together, take part in group activities and produce independent presentations. The course looks at the complex phenomenon of forced migration from a number of different angles. Beginning with reflection on the diverse ways of conceptualising forced migration, the course considers the political, legal and well being issues associated with contemporary displacement. Individual course modules also tackle a range of other topics, including globalisation and forced migration, negotiating strategies in humanitarian situations and human trafficking and smuggling.

The fee for 2013 is £3,220 (Pay by 31 March to qualify for a reduced fee of £3,050). This covers 19 nights’ bed-and-breakfast accommodation and all weekday lunches; all tuition; all course materials, including reading materials; and a range of social activities.

Please note that the deadline for applications is 1 May 2013

For further details and how to apply see:

www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school

Download the leaflet (PDF 401KB)

Complete the online application form

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
web: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk

 

Courses: International Summer School in Forced Migration and Palestine Refugees and International Law Short Course

The Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford has forwarded details of the following course:

International Summer School in Forced Migration 1-19 July 2013
Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University

Application is now open!

The summer school is aimed at mid-career or senior policy makers and practitioners involved with humanitarian assistance and policy making for forced migrants. Participants typically include host government officials, intergovernmental and non-governmental agency personnel engaged in planning, administering and co-ordinating assistance. We also accept applications from Researchers specialising in the study of forced migration.

The Refugee Studies Centre’s International Summer School fosters dialogue between participants working to improve the situation of refugees and other forced migrants. It provides the time and space for them to reflect on their experiences and to think critically about some of the aims and assumptions underlying their work.

Over three weeks, around 70–80 participants from all over the world study together, take part in group activities and produce independent presentations. The course looks at the complex phenomenon of forced migration from a number of different angles. Beginning with reflection on the diverse ways of conceptualising forced migration, the course considers the political, legal and well being issues associated with contemporary displacement. Individual course modules also tackle a range of other topics, including globalisation and forced migration, and negotiating strategies in humanitarian situations.

The fee for 2013 is £3,220 (Pay by 31 March to qualify for a reduced fee of £3,050). This covers 19 nights’ bed-and-breakfast accommodation and all weekday lunches; all tuition; all course materials, including reading materials; and a range of social activities.

Please note that the deadline for applications is 1 May 2013

For further details and how to apply see:
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school

Palestine Refugees and International Law 15-16 March 2013 The British Institute, Amman, Jordan

Convenors: Professor Dawn Chatty (RSC) and Professor Susan Akram (Boston University)

This two-day non-residential workshop places the Palestinian refugee case study within the broader context of the international human rights regime. It 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 engaged 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, Gaza and Israel).

The fee for this short course is £350 and includes a course pack of materials, and refreshments (lunches, morning and afternoon tea/coffee breaks).

The course has a maximum of twenty-five spaces.

For further details and how to apply see:
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/palestine-refugees-international-law-2013

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
web: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk

 

RSC Public Seminar Series Hilary Term 2013

The Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford has published details of their Public Seminar Series for the Hilary Term 2013.  Further information on these can be found below:

Seminars will take place at 5pm on Wednesdays in Seminar Room One, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB.

Seminars are subject to change at the last minute; please check the website. If you require special access, please contact us in advance. Email:rsc@qeh.ox.ac.uk

The first seminar took place on the 16 Hanuary on the issue if Protection and was presented by Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill (University of Oxford).  Upcoming seminars include:

Date	Details
23 January, 2013	Protection and the ICRC Pierre Gentile Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
30 January, 2013	Flocks without shepherds? Governmentality, sovereignty and the paradoxical politics of IDP protection policy Dr Simon Addison Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
06 February, 2013	The Rohingya: a population facing violence, displacement, segregation, and statelessness Melanie Teff Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
13 February, 2013	A numbers game: counting refugees and international burden-sharing  Dr Alice Edwards Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
20 February, 2013	Statelessness and citizenship: camps and the creation of ‘political space’ Dr Victoria Redclift Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
27 February, 2013	Access to protection and the limitations on extraterritorial border control: the case of refugees at sea Dr Roland Bank Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
06 March, 2013	‘Here, man is nothing!’: Gendered tensions and male failed asylum seekers  Melanie Griffiths Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Download schedule of the Hilary term 2013 Public Seminar Series (PDF 68KB)

Course: Palestine Refugees and International Law

The following course has been advertised by the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford:

Palestine Refugees and International Law

Date: 12:00am, Friday, March 15, 2013 – 12:00am, Saturday, March 16, 2013

Presenter/Convenor: Professor Dawn Chatty and Dr Susan M Akram

Location: The British Institute, 102 Uhod Street, Tla’ Al-Ali, Amman, Jordan

Series: Short courses

This two-day short course places the Palestinian refugee case study within the broader context of the international human rights regime. It 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, Gaza and Israel).

The short course 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.

Apply

Cost: £350
Maximum twenty-five spaces

Complete the online application form

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: 01865 281728/9 Email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

 

Refugee Studies Centre: Palestine Refugees and International Law Short Course

Palestine Refugees and International Law
Date: 12:00am, Friday, March 15, 2013 – 12:00am, Saturday, March 16, 2013
Presenter/Convenor: Professor Dawn Chatty and Dr Susan M Akram
Location: The British Institute, 102 Uhod Street, Tla’ Al-Ali, Amman, Jordan

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/palestine-refugees-international-law-2013

This two-day short course places the Palestinian refugee case study within the broader context of the international human rights regime. It 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, Gaza and Israel).

The short course 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.

Professor 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.

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Cost: £350

Maximum twenty-five spaces

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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: 01865 281728/9 Email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

 

Podcast: Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2012

The podcast of the Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2012: The architecture of refugee protection is now available online to download from the Forced Migration Online website.  The podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture on 7 November 2012. The lecture was delivered by Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Co-Director of the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Tens of millions of people in nearly every inhabited corner of the planet face the challenge of life as refugees or internally-displaced people. Countries and organisations throughout the world often recognise that such displaced people (and particularly refugees) have legal rights and merit considerable attention. Nonetheless, the complex structures shaping the laws, organisations, and ideas in this domain – what could be called the ‘architecture’ of refugee protection – often fails to live up to its promise.

To download the Podcast, please visit:  http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts-videos-photos/podcasts/annual-harrell-bond-lecture-2012