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Annual Report 2000–2001 Annual Report 2000 - 2001 Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was founded in 1982 as part of the University of Oxford’s International Development Centre at Queen Elizabeth House. The Centre has three major objectives: CONTENTS • to carry out multidisciplinary research and teaching on the causes and consequences of forced Director’s Foreword 1 migration • to disseminate the results of its research to academics, policy makers and practitioners in the Feature Article: 20 years of the RSC 2 field of forced migration • to understand the experience of forced migration Current Research at the RSC 3-6 from the point of view of forced migrants themselves Feature Article: Child-Focused Research 7 Research: The RSC currently has a staff of twenty-seven, at the RSC of whom eight are researchers representing the following disciplines: anthropology, sociology, political science, law Teaching 8-9 and psychology. Research at the Centre is focused around four inter-related themes: • asylum from an international legal and political Library 10 perspective • conflict and the transition from war to peace Forced Migration Online 11 • transnational communities and diasporas • development-induced displacement Institutional Links 12 The RSC’s Visiting Fellowship Programme enables experienced practitioners and academics to pursue Feature Article: A Report from the CSFM, 13 individual writing and research projects, to make use of Dar es Salaam the library and to share their experiences with staff and students. Formal institutional links exist between the RSC and universities in Africa, South and South East Asia, Latin Publications 14-15 America and the Middle East, with the aim of strengthen- ing research and teaching capacity in the field of forced Staff Publications and Presentations 16 migration. Teaching: The Centre offers a nine-month taught Master Students and Visiting Fellows 17 of Studies degree course (MSt) in Forced Migration, which will be converted to an MSc course in 2002. MPhil Seminars, Conferences and Workshops 18 students in Development Studies registered at QEH may participate in parts of this course. Supervision is also provided by the RSC for DPhil students registered at QEH Development 19 and in other departments who are working on topics related to forced migration. The Centre provides several Accounts 20 short courses a year which are aimed at experienced practitioners and policy makers. These include an International Summer School held in Oxford and a Regional Staff, Associates and Patrons Inside back cover School held in Bangkok, which bring together agency and government personnel from around the world to reflect on Funders Back cover and share their experiences of the legal, psychological, political and social dimensions of assistance to refugees and other forced migrants. Various weekend courses are Compiled by Paul Ryder hosted at the Centre, including one on international law Design and production by Corinne Owen and refugee status. Printed by Oxuniprint Cover photo: Returnees in Myanmar: a family is Dissemination: The RSC Library is the largest collection reunited in Maungdaw township of its kind in the world. The Digital Library and Forced UNHCR/A.Hollman Migration Online projects, which are currently being developed with funding from the Andrew W Mellon Refugee Studies Centre Foundation, will allow dissemination via the internet and Queen Elizabeth House CD-ROM of part of the Library’s extensive and unique University of Oxford collection of unpublished literature. The RSC publishes 21 St Giles Forced Migration Review which appears three times a year Oxford, OX1 3LA, UK in English, Spanish and Arabic, and is distributed to a wide Tel: +44 (0)1865 270722 international network of policy makers and practitioners. It Fax: +44 (0)1865 270721 also sponsors the quarterly Journal of Refugee Studies, E-mail: [email protected] published by Oxford University Press, and the Studies in Website: http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsc/ Forced Migration series, published by Berghahn Books. he last twelve months have been a Refugee Studies Programme. I feel very fortunate challenging period for anyone concerned to come into a centre with a unique academic and Twith refugees and forced migration. In the policy role, with highly committed and professional UK, asylum remains an emotive issue, despite the staff, and with effective management structures. I relatively small numbers – the UK does not even am delighted that both my predecessors will make it onto UNHCR’s 1999 list of the 40 maintain their links with the RSC, and continue to countries with most refugees per 1000 of total give us the benefit of their advice and collabora- population. The overwhelming majority of forced tion. David’s support together with the guidance of Foreword Director’s migrants remain in the poorest countries of the Deputy Director Dawn Chatty and the warm South. Nonetheless, Britain’s tabloid press is full of reception by the RSC staff made my arrival sensational headlines implying that the country is smooth and enjoyable. being swamped by ‘bogus asylum seekers’. In the June 2001 election, some Conservative politicians I have the sad duty of noting the passing of Robert 1 tried to make political capital out of such fears but A Johnson, one of the RSC’s greatest friends and made little headway, with voters focusing on issues benefactors. Bob Johnson’s first job was as a junior of health, transport and education. On the brighter butcher, though by the time we first met him at the side, European leaders are beginning to realise that RSC he had become the head of a multi-million a more rational immigration policy is vital. Home pound company, Kleeneze. But Bob was far more Secretary David Blunkett announced a new than a businessman: in his twenties he studied for approach modelled on the US Green Card system, the priesthood for five years with the White while the EU held its first-ever ministerial Fathers, a missionary order, in Ireland. Once he conference on immigration and refugee policy. became a successful businessman he also became a considerable philanthropist, for instance supporting In Africa, Asia and other parts of the South there the orthopaedic surgeon, Hein Raat, on forty are continued mass flows of forced migrants expeditions to the South, where he performed escaping war, internal conflict and destruction of 3,200 operations on patients with congenital livelihoods through development projects and deformities. Bob Johnson contributed substantial environmental degradation. Yet, UNHCR has donations towards the endowment of the RSC undergone major budget cuts in the last year, and Lectureship in Forced Migration. We will miss his the rich countries seem too pre-occupied with wise counsel, which was delivered in a kind, their own economic and environmental problems imaginative – and modest – manner. to do anything serious to combat global inequality. The aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the In noting these major events for the RSC, I have USA is casting a dark shadow over refugee policies left myself little space to talk about our ongoing and humanitarian assistance. Fear of terrorism is work in research, teaching and documentation. It likely to strengthen existing trends to suspicion and has been a year of considerable achievement. Our hostility of asylum seekers, and is leading to the work has become even more diverse in character, rapid introduction of new restrictive rules – with with research on a wide range of aspects of forced unpredictable consequences for civil liberties and migration. Through partnerships in Africa, Asia and the rights of persecuted people. The US-led the Middle East, the RSC has contributed to military actions in Afghanistan are making capacity building in the South. Through conditions even worse for millions of people publications, conferences, workshops, media already suffering oppression, hunger and appearances and presentations, we have participated displacement. The humanitarian organisations are in public debates and policy formation. Our finding it harder than ever to provide protection Library, ably managed by Sarah Rhodes, makes the and assistance in this situation. RSC a major pole of attraction for students and researchers. Our electronic portal project, Forced All this indicates that the work of the RSC is more Migration, led by Marilyn Deegan and generously urgent than ever. The politicisation of forced funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and migration noted in the 1999-2000 Annual Report the European Union, will open a new era in by my predecessor, David Turton, has become even documentation of more marked. This is therefore a time of change for forced migration the Centre too. One important change has indeed when it goes on-line been David’s departure at the end of 2000. David in early 2002. All steered the RSC with great skill and sensitivity these activities – and through four years of growth. As incoming many more – are Director, I see David’s greatest achievement in described in the pages having provided the effective leadership needed to of the Annual Report. consolidate the RSC as a professional research, It is regrettable that teaching and documentation unit which meets the the world needs high standards to be expected in an international centres like ours but research university like Oxford. He built on the there is no doubt that principles of interdisciplinary research designed to it does, and will give refugees a voice which had been developed by continue to for the Barbara Harrell-Bond in the founding years of the foreseeable future. Stephen Castles, Director 20 Years of the RSC In 1982, social anthropologist Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond, with a humanitarian field who got their start at the RSP include three-year fellowship to study humanitarian relief in the Sudan, Chaloka Beyani, Claudena Skran, David Keen and Alex de was invited by Prof Arthur Hazlewood to establish the Refugee Waal.
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