Title: Refugee Studies Centre

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Refugee Studies Centre; University of Oxford. Centre for Development Studies

URL: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/

Date Checked: 7/12/2007      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 7/12/2007

Topics: Human Rights Law; International Law

Other keywords: Immigration Law; Refugees

Contents: The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), founded in 1982, is part of the University of Oxford’s Centre for Development Studies. Social anthropologist Barbara Harrell-Bond established RSC to develop scholarship devoted to refugees and the issues of forced migration. The website is a source of information about the RSC and its work, as well as the group’s publications and materials. Researchers will want to focus on three of the site’s many sections: Research, Publications, and the Library. Within the Research section, users can access various reports and articles addressing topics such as the effects of forced migration on Palestinian children. Under Publications, researchers can find information, including tables of contents, of the RSC journals Forced Migration Review and the Journal of Refugee Studies. Numerous working papers are also made available covering topics of displacement, asylum, and refugee protection. The site also provides an introduction to the RSC library, which is a part of the Oxford University Library Services. Accession lists and access to the catalogue are provided.

Author of Annotation: M. Morrison