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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 ]
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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".
The Edinburgh Centre For Global History is based at The University of Edinburgh and has a Migration, Slavery, and Diaspora Studies hub. [84] The Global Refugee Studies Research Group is based at The University of Aalborg. [85] The Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration is based at Yale University. [86]
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 ...