📢 Call for Extended Abstracts – Refugee Survey Quarterly’s Perspectives on Displacement If you would be interested in writing a piece for the Perspectives on Displacement series, for publication in late 2026, please submit an extended abstract (maximum 600 words) 📝 Deadline: 29 September 2025.

New Advance Article from our Perspectives on Displacement series [OPEN ACCESS] Romola Sanyal examines The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection 🔗Read more: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

📝Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) Volume 44, Issue 2 is now out! The new issue features: Perspectives on Displacement Paper Series responding to David Owen’s: “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” and Six original research articles. 📄 Contents below 🔗 Read the issue online: lnkd.in/dFWfc4FP

I'm pleased to say that the published version of my article 'Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges' is now out in the latest issue of the Refugee Survey Quarterly academic.oup.com/rsq/article-...

My piece on the need for frameworks that embrace critical, decolonial, non-state-centric approaches is now up as "editor's choice" & free to download! @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social It's a response to Owen's invitation to think w "displacement" as framing concept academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...

For World Refugee Day, we'd like to highlight this recent #OpenAccess title in the #CriticalHumanRightsStudies series, published with @hrc-sas.bsky.social & @icws-sas.bsky.social: #Refugee Reception in Southern Africa by @nicholasmaple.bsky.social. Available here: uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...

📢 Great news from Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ)! Our 2024 journal metrics are in: 📈 Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.2 📈 5-Year Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.3 📈 CiteScore: 3.0 Thanks to our amazing authors, reviewers & readers for making this possible! 🔗 Read & submit here: academic.oup.com/rsq

How do labels like ‘migrant’ or ‘citizen’ affect lives? An interview with @ashleymhollands.bsky.social to talk about the annual conference organised by @globalcit.bsky.social and @mpc-eui.bsky.social at @eui-schuman.bsky.social. www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

New on our Advance Articles Series: Towards Global Displacement Studies?: A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' by @alibhagat.bsky.social Read the Full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

Pleased to have my short piece “Towards Global Displacement Studies?” Out in @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social . The article is a response to David Owen’s thought-provoking article “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” :https://academic.oup.com/rsq/article/doi/10.1093/rsq/hdaf005/8157466

New publication announcement! here we challenge prevailing assumptions re humanitarian governance by exposing how gender-blind and gender-sensitive protection regimes often reinforce, rather than resolve, vulnerabilities faced by forcibly displaced women. academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

New Advance Article : @jasminldiab.bsky.social examines Displacement as Decolonial Praxis: Centring Intersectionality in Forced Migration Studies. A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

New on our new Perspectives on Displacement series: Refuting State-Centric Framings: Response to David Owen’s 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' by @eleanorbpaynter.net Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

‪Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) is now on Bluesky! One of the oldest refugee studies journals, RSQ publishes peer-reviewed work at the intersection of research, policy & practice on forced displacement. Follow us @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social for updates, calls & critical insights. #RSQonBluesky

"no framing is neutral & reproducing state- & institution-driven terms or outputs upholds the world they inscribe" In this piece just out with Refugee Survey Quarterly, I take up David Owen's discussion of "displacement" as field-framing concept 1/ free access: academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...

... and I'm glad to be in the excellent company of @jasminldiab.bsky.social in this forum! 4/ bsky.app/profile/jasm...

EVENT NEXT WEEK - Breaking through the Wall: Taking Forced Migration Research Outside the Academy, Tuesday 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30 BST, Beveridge Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU rli.sas.ac.uk/events/break... #Migration #Displacement #ForcedDisplacement #AmericanHistory

Happy to see the below (with Dr Lucy Hovil) in the latest issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies: academic.oup.com/jrs/issue/38/1 If interested in a copy and have access issues, please message me.

Apply now for a full scholarship to the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies!!! We are pleased to again be partnering with Commonwealth Scholarship Commission to offer 10 full scholarships for the October 2025 intake. Learn more here: rli.sas.ac.uk/news/apply-a...

Read our latest #RLI monthly update at the link below 👇👇👇 mailchi.mp/london/refug... #Refugees #RefugeeLaw #ForcedDisplacement

This third piece in the new RLI series examines both IHR Law and IH Law and argues for reorienting protection frameworks to ensure fuller protection of people displaced by criminal violence. Link: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces... @rli-sas.bsky.social @idmc-geneva.bsky.social

Our Research Methods short course started today with a global cohort of participants and engaging modules related to methods, #methodology and #ethics of conducting #research within the fields of #refugee and #forcedmigration! rli.sas.ac.uk/study-us/sho... #phdstudents #earlycareerresearchers

Online #RLI Seminar THIS MONTH 👇👇👇 Unsung asylum: The law and practice of refugee hosting in communist and authoritarian states, 21 March 2025, 11:00AM - 12:30AM GMT online via Zoom rli.sas.ac.uk/events/unsun... #Asylum #Refugees #RefugeeLaw #CommunistStates #Communism #AuthoritarianStates

Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget

New on the #RLI blog - 'Trauma-Informed Participatory Research: Ethical Pathways in #Displacement and #Migration Studies' written by Dr Jasmin Lilian Diab rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/02/16/t... #Syria #Palestine #LGBTQI #Trauma

1st paper in our new series on organsed crime, drawing on research by experts at the RLI working with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs for her 2025 Call for Inputs. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces... @rli-sas.bsky.social @idmc-geneva.bsky.social @unhcr.org

We're excited to have started receiving proposals for our #HumanitiesFutures book series! Please get in touch if you have an idea for this new #OpenAccess initiative on topics like the value of the humanities and the future of humanities disciplines. uolpress.co.uk/book-series/...

Online #RLI Seminar NEXT WEEK 👇👇👇 Maritime refugee journeys: Solidarity, regional processing and saving lives at sea, 28 February 2025, 9:00AM - 10:30AM GMT, Online via Zoom rli.sas.ac.uk/events/marit... #IndochineseRefugees #Refugees #MaritimeRefugee

400'000 people have been displaced in Congo in the past month alone. Yet, hardly anyone outside Central Africa knows who #M23 are or why they are fighting. The Economist has a curious analogy to explain. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

New blog on Afghan IDPs shows how prolonged conflict has eroded resilience strategies rooted in traditional culture. Lacking institutional support, many IDPs resort to harmful survival strategies, affecting wellbeing & the ability to cope. Link: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...

Insightful blog by Sarah Edgcumbe calls attention to the lack of sustainable reintegration pathways for internally displaced Iraqi Gypsies and Bedouin. Long-standing discrimination and inadequate humanitarian efforts are to blame. @rli-sas.bsky.social @nicholasmaple.bsky.social

Extremely interesting research fellowship open at Oxford to carry out independent research on forced migration for three years but with a focus on advocacy/impact given the partnership with the Jesuit Refugee Services. See more below 👇

Researching Internal Displacement has just published this fascinating new short piece by Farid Guliyev, looking at the challenges of the government-led resettlement of #internallydisplaced #Azerbaijanis following two wars with #Armenia. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...

Online #RLI Seminar this month 👇👇👇 Maritime refugee journeys: Solidarity, regional processing and saving lives at sea, 28 February 2025, 9:00AM - 10:30AM, online via Zoom rli.sas.ac.uk/events/marit... #IndochineseRefugees #Refugees #MaritimeRefugee

New article with Lucy Hovil in JRS: "Durable solutions: to what and for whom?" academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-... Abstract below If interested in a copy and have access issues, please message me

The theme of @rli-sas.bsky.social annual conference in June is on Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies. I'm thinking of proposing a panel on #statelessness and forced migration studies. Anyone interested in submitting an abstract? rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c...

New article with Lucy Hovil in JRS: "Durable solutions: to what and for whom?" academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-... Abstract below If interested in a copy and have access issues, please message me

Chancellor’s Fellow/Lythe Lectureship in Race, Ethnicity & Migration with our History subject team. strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/...

New blog piece on the ongoing influence of historical laws and traditional conceptualisations of refugees in Zambia: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/12/10/t...

New blog by author @nicholasmaple.bsky.social on his recent #OpenAccess book ‘Refugee Reception in Southern Africa': www.africanlawmatters.com/blog/the-ong... @icws-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social #Zambia #refugees #SouthAfrica

Good thread on refugee law and cessation of refugee status. Some quick extra thoughts: 1. States should not revoke refugee status until it is clear that a durable solution has been reached in the country of origin.

Please consider coming to this event on Sudan next week (10th December) in London Radhouane Nouicer, the Designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights will be speaking, along with other experts on this urgent issue. Please register as we have limited seats:

Please consider coming to this event on Sudan next week (10th December) in London Radhouane Nouicer, the Designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights will be speaking, along with other experts on this urgent issue. Please register as we have limited seats:

Migration, mobility and displacement consultant researcher wanted at IIED: www.iied.org/wanted-migra...

Thank you to Rohini Mitra (@rohinimitra.bsky.social) for the generous review in the JRS of 'Refugee Reception in Southern Africa': academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-... @rli-sas.bsky.social

It's official #PubDay for Emergency in Transit! In paperback & open-access @ucpress.bsky.social #CriticalRefugeeStudies series Immense thanks to all who've been part of the book's journey, from the people who shared their stories w/ me to readers & press editors www.ucpress.edu/books/emerge...

For all forced migration scholars - please do check out the call for papers and panels for our annual conference next June. Do please consider submitting before the deadline!

CALL FOR PAPERS - "Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures’’, 15th Anniversary Conference, 2 - 4 June 2025 - DEADLINE: 27 JANUARY 2025 rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c... #law #refugees #refugeeprotection #inequality #change #policy #displaced #displacedpeople