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The Journal of Refugee Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research on forced migration. It was established in 1988 by the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford , with its first issue published that May. [ 1 ]
The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was established in 1982, as part of the University of Oxford's Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), [1] in order to promote the understanding of the causes and consequences of forced migration and to improve the lives of some of the world's most marginalised people.
The IASFM is governed by an International Secretariat. This was initially based at the Refugee Studies Centre, at the University of Oxford.The Secretariat has since moved to the Institute for the Study of International Migration, at Georgetown University and also receives support from Centre for Refugee Studies at York University.
Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration was founded in 2010 by graduate students at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre. [9] The first issue was published in February 2011 with a foreword by Roger Zetter, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre.
It was founded in 1987 as the Refugee Participation Network newsletter. The first issue was published in November 1987. [1] In April 1998 it was re-launched as Forced Migration Review (FMR). It is published by the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre [2] in four languages, [1] namely English, Arabic, Spanish and French. It is also ...
James Hathaway (born 1956) is a Canadian-American scholar of international refugee law and related aspects of human rights and public international law.His work has been frequently cited by the most senior courts of the common law world, and has played a pivotal role in the evolution of refugee studies scholarship.
Stephen Castles (1944–2022) was a major scholar of migration studies. He studied sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt , and completed postgraduate studies at the University of Sussex . [ 1 ] Castles was Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Multicultural Studies, a pioneering institution in its field, at the University of ...
Forced displacement (also forced migration or forced relocation) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region.The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence or human rights violations".