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The emergence of refugee studies as a distinct field of study has been criticized by scholars due to terminological difficulty. Since no universally accepted definition for the term "refugee" exists, the academic respectability of the policy-based definition, as outlined in the 1951 Refugee Convention, is disputed. Additionally, academics have ...
The definition of a refugee varies considerably within the refugee-studies community, with some insisting on the strict definitions of 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and others relying on more fluid or amorphous definitions.
A hospital in a camp for refugees of the Nigerian-Biagfran Civil War, late 1960s (CDC). Refugee health is the field of study on the health effects experienced by people who have been displaced into another country or even to another part of the world, as a result of unsafe circumstances such as war or persecution.
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.
That inevitable nervousness is especially heightened for newcomers — immigrant or refugee students — starting their first day at a new school, in a new country, perhaps in a new language. ...
In immigration studies, social scientists assign distinct definitions to various immigrant generations. In sociology, the word "generation" is used as a "measure of distance from the 'old country'". [ 7 ]
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 ...
Newcomer education is a need with international implications. The Refugee Convention of the UNHCR in 1951 listed public education as one of the fundamental rights of refugees, stating that “elementary education satisfies an urgent need [and] schools are the most rapid and effective instrument of assimilation.”