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Forced Migration Online is based at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). The RSC carries out multidisciplinary research and teaching on the causes and consequences of forced migration and aims to understand the experience of forced migration from the point of view of the affected populations.

PDF versions of the RSC Working Papers are available to download free of charge by clicking on each Working Paper title below. Bound hard copies may also be purchased for £5.00 each plus £2.00 overseas or £.50 within the UK for postage and packing sent to: Working Papers, c/o Paul Ryder, Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB, United Kingdom.

Working Paper Author(s) Date
Deportation, non-deportability and ideas of membership Emanuela Paoletti July 2010
No refuge: Palestinians in Lebanon Refugee Studies Centre June 2010
The African Union, the United Nations and civilian protection challenges in Darfur Linnea Bergholm May 2010
Livelihoods under protracted conflict: A case study of Sri Lanka Sasini T.K Kulatunga and Rajith W.D. Lakshman May 2010
Making States, Displacing Peoples: A Comparative Perspective of Xinjiang and Tibet in the People’s Republic of China Valentine Guerif May 2010
Refugee advocacy and the biopolitics of asylum in Britain: The precarious position of young male asylum seekers and refugees Ruth Judge May 2010
From ethnic insiders to refugee outsiders Rebecca Brubaker January 2010
Civilian protection in Sri Lanka under threat Refugee Studies Centre January 2010
Prima facie determination of refugee status Matthew Albert January 2010
The securitization of asylum Joshua Seidman-Zager January 2010
Did 9/11 matter? Dace Schlentz January 2010
How long is too long?: Questioning the legality of long-term encampment through a human rights lens Sarah Deardorff December 2009
Displaced adolescent girls’ protection: Could casuistry be a methodology for humanitarians? Veronika Talviste December 2009
Understanding and Addressing the Phenomenon of ‘Child Soldiers’ (PDF file 272 KB) Ah-Jung Lee January 2009
Family Reunification: A Right for Forced Migrants? (PDF file 207 KB) Anne Staver December 2008
UNHCR as an Autonomous Organisation: Complex Operations and the Case of Kosovo (PDF file 203 KB) Ann McKittrick November 2008
Salah Sheekh is a refugee: New insights into primary and subsidiary forms of protection (PDF file 139 KB) Jean-François Durieux October 2008
State, Nation, Citizen: rethinking repatriation (PDF file 328 KB) Katy Long August 2008
Conflict-induced migration and remittances: exploring conceptual frameworks (PDF file 191 KB) Anna Lindley May 2008
‘Voluntary Repatriation’ and the Case of Afghanistan: A Critical Examination (PDF file 208 KB) Agata Bialczyk January 2008
Displacement in the 2006 Dili Crisis: Dynamics of an Ongoing Conflict (PDF file 372 KB) Sara Gonzalez Devant January 2008
Unprotected Among Brothers: Palestinians in the Arab World (PDF file 224 KB) Maher Bitar January 2008
Repatriation and Reconciliation in Divided Societies: The Case of Rwanda’s ‘Ingando’ (PDF file 336 KB) Andrea Purdeková January 2008
Dynamics of Conflict and Displacement in Papua, Indonesia (PDF file 489 KB) Eva-Lotta E. Hedman (Editor) September 2007
Free Movement and the Movement’s Forgotten Freedoms: South African Representation of Undocumented Migrants (PDF file 152 KB) Darshan Vigneswaran July 2007
Return in Dignity: A Neglected Protection Challenge (PDF file 108 KB) Megan Bradley June 2007
Burma: the Changing Nature of Displacement Crises (PDF file 438 KB) Ashley South February 2007
Conceptualising Interconnections in Global Governance: the Case of Refugee Protection (PDF file 186 KB) Alexander Betts December 2006
The Medium of Testimony: Testimony as Re-Presentation (PDF file 210 KB) Marie Godin, Jennifer Kishan, David Muraskin and Léonie Newhouse October 2006
The Politics of Extraterritorial Processing: Offshore Asylum Policies in Europe and the Pacific (PDF file 348 KB) Karin Fathimath Afeef October 2006
Protection Against Torture in Western Security Frameworks: The Erosion of Non-Refoulement in the UK-Libya MOU (PDF file 357 KB) Rebekah Braswell October 2006
Asylum and Childhood in the UK: A Highly Political Relationship (PDF file 311 KB) Clotilde Giner October 2006
Negotiating Access and Culture: Organizational Responses to the Healthcare Needs of Refugees and Asylum Seekers living with HIV in the UK (PDF file 347 KB) Lina Cherfas October 2006
The Use of Diplomatic Assurances in the Prevention of Prohibited Treatment (PDF file 364 KB) Nina Larsaeus October 2006
Resolving the Liberal Paradox: Citizen Rights and Alien Rights in the UK (PDF file 330 KB) George Gigauri July 2006
Research with Children Living in Situations of Armed Conflict: Concepts, Ethics & Methods (PDF file 599 KB) Jason Hart and Bex Tyrer May 2006
Stories of a Nation: Historical Narratives and Visions of the Future in Saharawi Refugee Camps (PDF file 489 KB) Robert Chamberlain September 2005
Palestine Online: An Emerging Virtual Homeland? (PDF file 1574 KB) Sophia Chloe Stamatopoulou-Robbins September 2005
The Evolution of Immigration Detention in the UK: The Involvement of Private Prison Companies (PDF file 336 KB) Christine Bacon September 2005
Politics as Usual: The Criminalization of Asylum Seekers in the United States (PDF file 345 KB) Brett Story September 2005
International Cooperation Between North and South to Enhance Refugee Protection in Regions of Origin (PDF file 604 KB) Alexander Betts July 2005
Aceh Under Martial Law: Conflict, Violence and Displacement (PDF file 584 KB) Eva-Lotta E. Hedman (Editor) July 2005
Contesting and Reinforcing Patriarchy: An Analysis of Domestic Violence in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp (PDF file 803 KB) Sharon Carlson March 2005
The Outside Inside: Chechen IDPs, Identity Documents and the Right to Free Movement in the Russian Federation (PDF file 496 KB) Kate Desormeau March 2005
The Conditions of Just Return: State Responsibility and Restitution for Refugees (PDF file 261 KB) Megan Bradley March 2005
Protection Through Participation: Young People Affected by Forced Migration and Political Crisis (PDF file 504 KB) Jesse Newman March 2005
AIDS, Gender and the Refugee Protection Framework (PDF file 250 KB) Katharine Williamson August 2004
The Meaning of Place in a World of Movement: Lessons from Long-Term Field Research in Southern Ethiopia (PDF file 418 KB) Dr David Turton August 2004
Refugees and their Human Rights (PDF file 136 KB) Guy S. Goodwin-Gill Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College University of Oxford August 2004
When Forced Migrants Return ‘Home’: The Psychosocial Difficulties Returnees Encounter in the Reintegration Process (PDF file 315 KB) Tania Ghanem October 2003
Narrating Displacement: Oral Histories of Sri Lankan Women (PDF file 382 KB) Jesse Newman October 2003
Financing Matters: Where funding arrangements meet resettlement in three Mexican dam projects (PDF file 395 KB) Jason Stanley October 2003
Refugees and ‘Other Forced Migrants’ (PDF file 128 KB) Dr David Turton October 2003
Conceptualising Forced Migration (PDF file 114 KB) Dr David Turton October 2003
Addressing the Root Causes of Forced Migration: A European Union policy of containment? (PDF file 426 KB) Channe Lindstrom September 2003
Experiences of Integration: Accessing resources in a new society - the case of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Milton Keynes (PDF file 980 KB) Aruni John, Channe Lindstrom, Zuzanna Olszewska, Katharine Williamson and Krista Zongolowicz November 2002
Displacement, Resistance and the Critique of Development: From the grass-roots to the global (PDF file 790 KB) Prof. Anthony Oliver-Smith, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida August 2002
Toward local development and mitigating impoverishment in development-induced displacement and resettlement (PDF file 712 KB) Dr Dolores Koenig, Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington DC August 2002
Children Affected by Armed Conflict in South Asia: A review of trends and isues identified through secondary research (PDF file 867 KB) Jo Boyden PhD., Jo de Berry PhD., Thomas Feeny & Jason Hart PhD. January 2002
Outside the Protection of the Law: The Situation of Irregular Migrants in Europe (PDF file 116 KB) Matthew J Gibney December 2000
Refugees on Screen (PDF file 1264 KB) Terence Wright November 2000
Sharing the Security Burden: Towards the Convergence of Refugee Protection and State Security (PDF file 111 KB) James Milner May 2000
Globalisation, Humanitarianism and the Erosion of Refugee Protection (PDF file 71 KB) B.S.Chimni (Professor of International Law, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) February 2000
UNHCR and International Protection (PDF file 95 KB) Dennis MacNamara and Guy Goodwin-Gill June 1999
The Kosovo Crisis: Papers from a Workshop held on 18 May 1998 at Green College, University of Oxford (PDF file 166 KB) Michael Barutciski et al June 1999