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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:
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'Key Isssues in Global Refugee Policy:
Analysis, Commentary and Advocacy, 2015-2026'.
An updated compilation of e-links to around 80 articles I've published over the past decade, most of them brief and easily readable!
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Waiting for academia: The impact of research on UNHCR policy, programmes and practice -
@JFCrisp writes on our new RSC blog. @RLRH_Oxford
rsc.ox.ac.uk/blog/waiting-fo…
Can Trump Dismantle the UN Refugee Convention? A new article in PassBlue from @JFCrisp: passblue.com/2025/12/01/can-…
📢 Registration 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 and integration policies, and refugees' experiences.
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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
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
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@JFCrisp’s keynote speech at the 2025 Refugee Law Initiative Conference
🎧 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?
@JFCrisp, RSC Visiting Fellow, 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.
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We are delighted to share details of our Public Seminar Series for Hilary Term 2026. This interdisciplinary series brings together scholars & practitioners to explore pressing issues in forced migration and refugee studies.
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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: bit.ly/48QA1Uc
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🌍 R-Space at GRF Progress Review 2025
From 15 to 17 December 2025, R-Space will return to Geneva for the GRF Progress Review with an expanded programme featuring 27 refugee-led sessions. Rooted in refugee realities, R-Space brings together diverse refugee leaders, organizations, and allies to drive conversations shaped, led, and owned by refugees.
Over the course of three days, sessions will examine solutions, innovations, and lived-experience perspectives across protection, localization, disability inclusion, climate, economic inclusion, gender, and more.
🌐 Check the website for more information: shorturl.at/79JlD
📄Download the program here: static1.squarespace.com/stat…
🌍 R-Space at GRF Progress Review 2025
From 15 to 17 December 2025, R-Space will return to Geneva for the GRF Progress Review with an expanded programme featuring 27 refugee-led sessions. Rooted in refugee realities, R-Space brings together diverse refugee leaders, organizations, and allies to drive conversations shaped, led, and owned by refugees.
Over the course of three days, sessions will examine solutions, innovations, and lived-experience perspectives across protection, localization, disability inclusion, climate, economic inclusion, gender, and more.
🌐 Check the website for more information: shorturl.at/79JlD
📄 Download the program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1xvl…
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'The architecture of containment'.
A very useful amd Open Access analysis of key trends in asylum and refugee protection:
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
@perisadavutoglu
Ensuring a Human Rights-Compliant End to Refugeehood through Integration, Naturalisation or Voluntary Repatriation. New thematic paper co-authored by Catherine Briddick, Cathryn Costello & Minos Mouzourakis @NewsFromTheCoE
Read more and download:
bit.ly/3N0awZa
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Refugees at work.
The latest literature:
fm-cab.blogspot.com/2025/12/…
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New books about refugees:
forced-migration-information…
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New LERRN synthesis report: Refugee-Led Responses and Agency in East Africa, the Middle East, and South America
Author, Stephanie López Villamil (@stephlomig), shares findings from 5 years of research with 400+ RLOs across 9 countries
The full report: carleton.ca/lerrn/2025/new-r…
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:
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