• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 14 February 2017

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 2 May 2017

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

Tuesday 16 May 2017

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

Tuesday 23 May 2017

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

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 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

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

Tuesday 20 February 2018

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

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 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

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

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 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

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

Tuesday 15 May 2018

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

Tuesday 16 October 2018

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

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 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

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

Tuesday 6 November 2018

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

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 15 January 2019

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 5 March 2019

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

Tuesday 21 May 2019

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

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 5 November 2019

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

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 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

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

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 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

• 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

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

Friday 3 March 2023

• 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

• 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)