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Turning wrongful convictions into rights? Asylum seekers and the criminal law

Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Dr Ana Aliverti (Warwick School of Law) recorded on 29 January 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford....

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The child in international refugee law

Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Jason Pobjoy (Blackstone Chambers) recorded on 5 February 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford....

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Three asylum paradigms

Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Jean-François Durieux (RSC and the Graduate Institute, Geneva) recorded on 12 February 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development,...

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The right to seek and obtain asylum under the African human rights system

Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Dr Chaloka Beyani (London School of Economics and the United Nations). Recorded on 26 February 2014 at the Oxford Department of International...

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Creation, imagination, speculation: age assessment and the asylum procedure

Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Professor Gregor Noll (Lund University) recorded on 5 March 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Asylum...

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The rise and decline of a global security actor: UNHCR, refugee protection...

Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Dr Anne Hammerstad (University of Kent), recorded on 12 March 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. In...

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RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices: Opening plenary – In search of...

RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices. Lecture by Dr Jeff Crisp (Refugees International) with an introduction by Professor Dawn Chatty, Director of the RSC. Recorded on 24 March 2014 at St Anne's...

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RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices: Panel 14 – Detention and deportation

RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices. Lectures by Louise Newman; Julian Caruana and Alexia Rossi; Devorah Wainer; and Mollie Gerver. Recorded on 25 March 2014 at St Anne's College, University of Oxford....

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RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices: Panel 18 – Refugees from Syria

RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices. Lectures by Cathrine Thorleifsson; Dina Jane Kiwan; Ruba Al Akash and Karen Boswall; Veronica Ferreri. Recorded on 25 March 2014 at St Anne's College, University of...

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RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices: Panel 22 – Statelessness: the Rohingya

RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices. Lectures by Tun Khin; Amal de Chickera; Maung Zarni. Recorded on 25 March 2014 at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. This recording begins with a lecture by...

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Weapons of mass migration: forced displacement, coercion and foreign policy

Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2014. Seminar by Professor Kelly M. Greenhill (Tufts University). Recorded on 7 May 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford....

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Solidarity and responsibility-sharing for refugee protection in the EU’s...

Public Seminar Series Trinity term 2014. Madeline Garlick (Radboud University). Recorded on 14 May 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Madeline Garlick is...

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Arbitrary detention of asylum seekers: a comparison of some recent practice...

Public Seminar Series Trinity term 2014. Dr Daniel Wilsher (City University London) & Francesca Cancellaro (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna). Recorded on 28 May 2014 at the Oxford...

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The politics of nation-building: making co-nationals, refugees, and minorities

RSC and Oxford Diasporas Programme special seminar. Professor Harris Mylonas (George Washington University). Recorded on 27 May 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of...

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RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices: Panel 3 – Refugees from Burma/Myanmar

RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices. Lectures by Matthew Wilch; Zo Tum Hmung; Victoria Jack. Recorded on 24 March 2014 at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. This recording begins with a talk from...

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Panel 2: The role of artists and institutions in challenging popular...

The second panel discussion of the Silent University event which took place at the Oxford Department of International Development on 20 May 2014. Panel 2: The role of artists and institutions in...

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A lost generation? Education opportunities for Syrian refugee children in...

Special seminar by Dr Maha Shuayb (Centre for Lebanese Studies), which took place at the Oxford Department of International Development on 19 May 2014. Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011,...

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The Syrian Crisis (The Arab Uprisings – Part 1)

Part 1 of 3 of a series of podcasts from the special workshop 'The Arab Uprisings: Displacement and Migration', held at the Oxford Department of International Development on 16 May 2014 The aim of this...

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Migration, transnationalism and social change (The Arab Uprisings – Part 2)

Part 2 of 3 of a series of podcasts from the special workshop 'The Arab Uprisings: Displacement and Migration', held at the Oxford Department of International Development on 16 May 2014 The aim of this...

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Migration and revolution (The Arab Uprisings – Part 3)

Part 3 of 3 of a series of podcasts from the special workshop 'The Arab Uprisings: Displacement and Migration', held at the Oxford Department of International Development on 16 May 2014 The aim of this...

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Citizenship revocation and the privilege to have rights

Seminar given on 3 December 2014 by Professor Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto), part of the RSC Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series. Citizenship revocation has emerged in the UK and Canada...

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Inequality, immigration and refugee protection

Seminar given on 26 November 2014 by Dr Katy Long (Stanford University and University of Edinburgh), part of the RSC Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series. Katy Long is Lecturer in International...

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Sans Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants

Seminar given on 19 November 2014 by Dr Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) and Professor Roger Zetter (Refugee Studies Centre), part of the RSC Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series....

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Love of women and a place in the world: romantic love and political...

Seminar given on 12 November 2014 by Professor Jonny Steinberg (African Studies Centre and the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford), part of the RSC Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series....

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Forced Migration to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: Burden or Boon

The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture, given by Her Royal Highness Princess Basma bint Talal on 5 November 2014 at the University of Oxford Examination Schools. The communities comprising the modern...

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Governing Refugees: Justice, Order, and Legal Plauralism on the Thai-Burma...

Seminar given on 29 October 2014 by Dr Kirsten McConnachie (Refugee Studies Centre), part of the RSC Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series. Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with...

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The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam and the Sahwari Politics of Survivial [Book...

Seminar given on 22 October 2014 by Dr Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University College London and the Refugee Studies Centre), part of the RSC Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series. Refugee camps are...

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The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration studies [Book launch]

Launch of the Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Seminar given on 15 October 2014 as part of the RSC Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series Refugee and Forced Migration...

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An afternoon on Syrian displacement, and protection in Europe (Part 1)

This event marked the launch of the RSC Policy Briefing 'Protection in Europe for refugees from Syria' and Forced Migration Review issue 47 on 'The Syria crisis, displacement and protection' There are...

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The law and politics of non-entrée

Seminar given on 4th June 2014 by Dr Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (The Danish Institute for Human Rights), part of the Trinity term 2014 Public Seminar Series International refugee law, in particular the...

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An afternoon on Syrian displacement, and protection in Europe (Part 2)

This event marked the launch of the RSC Policy Briefing 'Protection in Europe for refugees from Syria' and Forced Migration Review issue 47 on 'The Syria crisis, displacement and protection' There are...

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Refugees and the Roman Empire

Seminar given on 21 January 2015 by Professor Peter Heather (King's College London), part of the RSC Hilary term 2015 Public Seminar Series Up to the mid-fourth century AD, the language of refuge...

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Refuge and protection in the late Ottoman Empire

Seminar given on 28 January 2015 by Professor Dawn Chatty (RSC), part of the RSC Hilary term 2015 Public Seminar Series Refugee studies rarely address historical matters; yet understanding ideas about...

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Migrants at Work: Immigration & Vulnerability in Labour Law (Book launch)

Launch of 'Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law' (Oxford University Press 2014), held on 13 February 2015. The volume is edited by Professor Cathryn Costello (RSC) and Emeritus...

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Exile, refuge and the Greek polis: between justice and humanity

Seminar given on 18 February 2015 by Dr Benjamin Gray (University of Edinburgh), part of the RSC Hilary term 2015 Public Seminar Series This seminar addresses the place of exiles and refugees in the...

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Refugees – what’s wrong with history?

Peter Gatrell gives a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre podcast series.

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Understanding global refugee policy: the case of naturalisation in Tanzania

Dr James Milner gives a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre seminar series. Despite the attention paid to new examples of ‘global refugee policy’, we know surprisingly little about the process by which...

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UNHCR's urban refugee policy

Dr Jeff Crisp and MaryBeth Morand give a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre podcast series.

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UNHCR's protection guidelines: what role for external voices?

Guy Goodwin-Gill gives a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre podcast series. In 1977, as national refugee status determination procedures were gaining new life, State members of UNHCR’s Executive...

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Global policy for IDPs: a parallel process?

Dr Phil Orchard gives a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre podcast series. In the past two decades, global policy on internal displacement has become a discernible area of activity for the United...

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RSC Special Seminars: Historical cross-border relocations in the Pacific

Professor Jane McAdam focuses here on the relocation of the Banaban population from Ocean Island (previously one of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands, now Kiribati) to Rabi Island in Fiji after the...

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Making sense of the EU-Turkey deal

A panel discuss the deal between the EU and Turkey regarding immigration

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HIP2015, Session: Humanitarian Innovation: How to balance short-term results...

Parallel session: Humanitarian Innovation: How to balance short-term results with long-term vision? 17 July 2015, 14:00-15:30. Panellists Kim Scriven, Humanitarian Innovation Fund, Pascal Daudin, ICRC,...

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HIP2015, Session: Community-based Food Production in Humanitarian Contexts

Parallel session: Community-based Food Production in Humanitarian Contexts 18 July 2015, 13:45-15:15. Panellists; Mikey Tomkins, CitizenD: ‘Refugee communities in Dallas: Develop community based urban...

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HIP2015, Session: Ethics for Technology and Big Data in Humanitarian Innovation

Parallel session: Ethics for Technology and Big Data in Humanitarian Innovation 17 July 2015, 14:00-15:30, 1st Panel Room. Nathaniel Raymond, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s Signal Program: ‘Applying...

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HIP2015, Session: Facilitating Bottom-Up Innovation

Parallel session: Facilitating Bottom-Up Innovation, 18 July 2015, 13:34-15:15, 2nd Panel Room Gavin Ackerly, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Innovation Hub, Robert Hakiza, Young African Refugees for...

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HIP2015, Session: Understanding Humanitarian Innovation In Resettlement...

Parallel session: Understanding Humanitarian Innovation in Resettlement Contexts, 18 July 2015, 11:0--12:30, 2nd Panel Room. Gavin Ackerly, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Innovation Hub: ‘Innovative...

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HIP2015, Session: Humanitarian Innovation and The Military

Parallel session: Humanitarian Innovation and the Military 18 July 2015, 11:00-12:30, 1st Panel Room. Nathaniel Raymond, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, James Ryan, University of London. Chair: Josiah...

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The Silent University Visible Award Ceremony 2013

The Silent University Visible Award Ceremony 2013 took place at the Oxford Department of International Development on 20 May 2014. Ahmet Öğüt, Silent University founder, was presented with the Visible...

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Ten Types of Arabic Calligraphy; Sexually Transmitted Diseases and the...

Two presentations and the first panel discussion of the Silent University event which took place at the Oxford Department of International Development on 20 May 2014. Recording details:...

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