• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Tuesdays at 1pm during terms
• Web Address: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events
• Organising department: Refugee Studies Centre

Tuesday 17 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding Turkey's policy towards Syrian refugees: unpacking national and local level politics
  Dr Fulya Memişoğlu (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Interpretation of the right to family reunification of unaccompanied asylum seeking children under international law
  Yulia Ioffe (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - "I had to build my way again": an anthropological exploration of struggles to build good lives in the face of war among Syrian refugee youth in Amman
  Emilie Mortensen (Aarhus University)

Tuesday 7 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The power of norms: protracted refugee situations and the international refugee regime
  Hugh Tuckfield (University of Sydney)

Tuesday 14 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Failing to manage or managing to fail: Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian responses to the refugee crisis
  Mikolaj Pawlak (University of Warsaw)

Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Unaccompanied young migrants and refugees coming of age in the UK and Italy: pathways through immigration control and welfare regimes
  Jenny Allsopp (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A life suspended: impending repatriation and the temporal experience of exile along the Thai-Burma border
  Carrie Perkins (Southern Methodist University, Texas)

Tuesday 7 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Ulrike Krause (Philipps University of Marburg)

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Buddhist people smuggler - challenges problematic rhetoric on people smugglers
  Bodean Hedwards (Monash University)

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Non-refoulement as a norm in international and EU law
  Jenny Poon (University of Western Ontario)

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - International refugee protection and the secondary forced displacement of Palestinian refugees
  Jasmin Fritzsche (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Rethinking Labour, Rethinking Refugee: The Untold History of Refugees and the ILO
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Evan Easton-Calabria (University of Oxford), Dr William Allen (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - International Advocacy in the Digital Era: Campaigning for Refugee Rights in 2015 & 2016
  Dr Nina Hall (Hertie School of Governance)

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - “What’s hospitality got to do with it?” Revisiting the guest discourse in the anthropology of humanitarianism
  Ann-Christin Wagner (University of Edinburgh)

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - A work in progress: a critical analysis of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework
  Dr Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre)

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Just bureaucracy? An ethnography of the unification of the registration of refugees in Kenya by Government of Keyna and UNHCR
  Claire Walkey (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Roundtable discussion featuring 'Contesting expulsion' and 'The rise of reconnection'
  Jennifer Barrett (University of Oxford), Diletta Lauro (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Chinese refugee law and policy
  Dr Lili Song (University of the South Pacific)

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The health reception of children in Danish asylum centres: a qualitative study in its early phase
  Amina Barghadouch (University of Copenhagen)

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - To Whom Should We Grant Asylum? Liberal Democracy and the Right to Refugeehood
  Felix Bender (Central European University)

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The situation of refugees in Hungary after 2015
  Felix Bender (Central European University)

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The impact of Congolese refugees on social cohesion and labour market outcomes in Uganda
  Jana Kuhnt (University of Goettingen)

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Ayat Hamdan (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Unravelling memories of family separation among Sri Lankan Tamils resettled in Australia, 1983-2000
  Niro Kandasamy (University of Melbourne)

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Fourth Pillar? Education and forced migration
  Dr Jacqueline Mosselson (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Defining political human security: the case of Rohingya refugees in India
  Ashvina Patel (Southern Methodist University)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Ransom tales: the refugee as storyteller
  Dr Carrie Dawson (Dalhousie University)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - What digitalization of humanitarian operations looks like: data, maps and new technologies in Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan
  Léa Macias (EHESS (Paris))

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - A spatial model of internal displacement and forced migration
  Jon Echevarria (University of Basque Country)

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Dublin IV recast: A new institutionalist approach to explaining policy continuity
  Tamara Tubakovic (University of Melbourne)

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - When does harmonization backfire? Understanding the conditions that transformed the Family Reunification Directive into a tool that protects migrants and refugees' rights in the Netherlands
  Virginia Passalacqua (European University Institute)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Renewable energy in humanitarian contexts and the UN Global Plan of Action: embedding research into international policy?
  Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh: A Case of “Subhuman”
  Professor Nasir Uddin (Chittagong University)

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Employment barriers of Syrian refugees in Lebanon
  Dr Saja Al Zoubi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Why Muslim men also care: ethnographic perspectives on ways of loving and caring among young Syrian men in exile in Amman
  Emilie Mortensen (Aarhus University)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Solidarity as co-responsibility: EU member states and the pursuit of justice in the field of refugee protection
  Eleonora Milazzo (European University Institute)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - What is owed to refugees when attributing responsibilities to states in institutionalized responsibility sharing regimes?
  Lukas Dziedzic (Tilburg University)

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Network analysis techniques for refugee and forced migration research
  Dr Alex Tasker (University of Sussex)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Who illegally migrates and why? Descriptive evidence from the Comoros archipelago
  Jules Gazeaud (CERDI)

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Conceptualizing forced migration: beyond the open orders debate
  Laura Santi Amantini (University of Genoa)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Intergenerational impacts of IDPs on children’s early childhood development in host communities: evidence from Burundi
  Soazic Elise Wang Sonne (United Nations University in Maastricht)

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - What would an ethical, but feasible, response to the refugee crisis look like? An exploration
  Adam Dalgleish (University of Auckland)

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From emergency shelters to dwellings: on the role of refugees as architects and the construction of dwellings in Zaatari Camp, Jordan
  Ayham Dalal (Habitat Unit)

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime: early lessons from the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)
  Prof James Milner (Carleton University)

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Localized integration: Syrian refugee experience with German bureaucracy
  Morgan Etzel (Ludwig Maximilian’s University Munich)

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Returns Network: Journalism, academia and measuring post-deportation risks
  Daniel Howden (Lighthouse Reports)

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Member States contribution to refugee protection provision in the EU: a public goods perspective
  Diego Caballero Vélez (Sant´Anna School of Advanced Studies)

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Seeking protection from a place of refuge: refugees as the modern day Tantalus
  Dr Kate Ogg (Australian National University)

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Bargains of inclusion: why some states give refugees the right to work
  CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Externalization and the erosion of refugee protection: an initial enquiry
  Dr Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Bargains of Inclusion: Why Some States Give Refugees the Right to Work
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Multilocality and Refugee-Nomad Interchange in Northern Mauritania
  Matthew Porges (RSC Student Visitor)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Examination of the Causes of Persecution
  Mohammad Didarul Islam (University of Leeds), Ayesha Siddikha (University of Dhaka)

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Doing the Game: An Ethnography of Undocumented Migration Trajectories from Afghanistan to Germany
  Hannah Pool (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Role(s) of Higher Education in Emergencies
  Prof Barbara Moser-Mercer (University of Nairobi)

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Refugee Camps: From Temporary to Permanency in the Sub-Saharan and Mediterranean Area
  Juana Canet Rosselló (School of Architecture of Madrid)

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The 'local turn', 'hybridity', and 'friction' in refugee governance: an ethnography of Refugee-Led Organizations (RLOs) in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
  Dr Salehin Mohammad (UiT-The Arctic University of Norway)