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Academic Record 2009–2010 Academic record 2009 – 2010 Introduction The Centre Academic record August 2009–July 2010 The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) contributes to knowledge This document gives details of recently completed and ongoing and understanding of the causes and effects of forced migration activities at the RSC alongside information on staffing and in order to help improve the lives of some of the world’s the Centre’s finances. It provides a record of achievements most vulnerable people. This is achieved by pursuing three and presents an overview of current priorities and research interrelated activities: research, teaching and dissemination. interests. Further details on specific aspects of our work can be found on the RSC website or by contacting the relevant The RSC provides multidisciplinary, independent and critical researcher or project officer directly. scholarship on factors determining and resulting from the forced displacement of populations. Contents The Centre’s teaching programme is designed to support and develop the next generation of scholars and thinkers, as well Research 3 as to foster a culture of critical reflection within the wider Workshops, conferences and events 10 humanitarian community. Teaching 16 Publications 18 A varied portfolio of publications, information resources and Information resources 22 networking initiatives promotes influential engagement with a People 23 full range of academics, policymakers and practitioners. Financial information 25 2 INTRODUCTION Research The RSC is a world leader in multidisciplinary research on forced dislocation, and in some cases forced settlement, results. The migration. Our work contributes to pressing policy-related research project aims to show the importance of indigenous social concerns, as well as to conceptual and methodological peoples in sustaining biodiversity. The Dana Declaration on academic debates. Details of recent and ongoing projects and Mobile Peoples and Conservation (www.danadeclaration.org) activities are presented below. Projects are grouped on thematic was officially endorsed at the 5th Congress of the International lines that reflect the various interests of its researchers. Union for Conservation of Nature in Barcelona. In 2009 Dr Chatty gave a distinguished lecture to the XVI Congress of Current focal themes are: the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological • Environmental change and mobility Sciences in Kunming, China. This focused on the displacement • Belonging, formal status and changes in citizenship of mobile peoples from their traditional grazing lands for the • Detention, deportation and the control of migration establishment of nature reserves. • Lived experience of forced migrants • State instability, development and forced migration Range enclosure on the Tibetan Plateau of China: • Forced migration, international institutions and world politics impacts on pastoral livelihoods, marketing, livestock • Politics and practices of humanitarian response productivity and rangeland biodiversity European Commission – 6th Framework Further details on these and newly-funded research projects January 2007–December 2010 can be found on the RSC website: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk. Dr Dawn Chatty Dr Dawn Chatty and Dr Kenneth Bauer are working closely with five partner research institutes – two in Europe and three Environmental change and mobility in China – to understand the impact that range enclosures, derived from recent government policy, have had on the Environmentally displaced people sustainable livelihoods of herders on the Tibetan Plateau of Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Swiss Ministry of Foreign China. The research has a special focus on the impacts of recent Affairs, UNHCR efforts to sedentarise these populations. As part of the project, September 2007–ongoing the RSC hosted a three-week research training workshop in social Prof Roger Zetter science methods. This was co-ordinated by Dr Dawn Chatty and Environmental change is potentially one of the most significant managed by Dr Troy Sternberg. Dr Kenneth Bauer took part in the generators of forced displacement. However, we know fieldwork element of the workshop which took place in Scotland. remarkably little about the interplay between climate change, Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh also taught some of the training environmental transformations, stresses on ecological systems, modules. Visit the project online at http://retpec.macaulay.ac.uk. socio-economic vulnerability of lives and livelihoods and potential outcomes in terms of patterns of forced migration. These relationships are often reduced to simplistic causal Belonging, formal status and changes in explanations which deny the complex and multivariate citizenship processes – environmental, political, social and economic – at the root of forced migration. The executive summary of a four- De facto statelessness and the meaning of ‘effective country research project investigating how legal and normative nationality’ frameworks can be used to protect environmentally displaced British Academy Small Grant people has been published on the RSC website. Prof Zetter has June 2010–November 2011 also been funded by the MacArthur Foundation to undertake Dr Alice Edwards a new two-year study, commencing in April 2011, to investigate This project critically examines the meaning ofde facto the conjuncture between environmental change, population statelessness and ‘effective nationality’ as they have emerged displacement and frameworks of rights protection. under international law and in academic literature and policy discourse. Statelessness is increasingly an issue on Mobile peoples and conservation the international human rights agenda, and there has been September 1999–ongoing an emerging body of work on this topic, not least driven by Dr Dawn Chatty the size of the problem with an estimated 12 million persons Dr Dawn Chatty continues research and advocacy work globally living without nationality. There is also growing with mobile peoples adversely affected by aspects of global consensus that international law should be as much engaged environmental governance. Mobile indigenous peoples are with legal nationality as with whether a person’s nationality often excluded from accessing land they have lived off for is ‘effective’, yet there has been no study about whether the centuries, or have their access so severely restricted that statelessness regime is the appropriate mechanism to respond 3 RESEARCH to the myriad issues relating to ineffective nationality, nor is Detention, deportation and the control of there a clear understanding of what these terms mean. The aim migration of this project is to articulate a legal position on these questions, as well as to feed into policy and strategic discourse and to offer Conditional citizenship: denationalisation and the liberal some potentially alternative viewpoints to this area of growing state in historical, political and ethical perspective international importance. January 2009–ongoing Dr Matthew J Gibney Gender equality, refugee women and displacement This project examines the historical, political and normative August 2009–ongoing contours of the practice of denationalisation (the involuntary Dr Alice Edwards withdrawal of nationality/citizenship) by liberal democratic With the twentieth anniversary of the UNHCR’s first policy states. Taking as its point of departure recent attempts across on refugee women in 2010, this multi-level and ongoing Western states to assert the conditionality of citizenship project explores the development and emergence of specific (especially in the aftermath of September 11), this work explores policies on refugee and other displaced women and their the twentieth century history of denationalisation in liberal implementation at the field level in order to explore new states, with particular emphasis on the contrasting experiences methodologies and theories about gender, human rights, and of the UK and the United States. The normative justifications refugee women. It is particularly interested in the role and for conceptualising citizenship as a status conditional upon impact of international human rights standards relating to a certain standard of behaviour are also explored, in part by women within the displacement and statelessness contexts. drawing on discussions of banishment in the historical of Outputs have included a background paper prepared for the political thought, as well as more accounts of the value and first ever joint seminar held between the United Nations High meaning of citizenship in contemporary political thought. Commissioner for Refugees and the UN Committee on the Outputs have included several paper presentations, listed under Elimination on Discrimination against Women and a special Dr Gibney in the publications section of this report. issue of the Refugee Survey Quarterly on gender equality and refugee women which included a contribution by Dr Elena Deportation and the development of citizenship Fiddian-Qasmiyeh. John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund December 2008–December 2009 Mapping contemporary Roma mobilities in the EU Dr Matthew J Gibney and Dr Emanuela Paoletti John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund A collaboration with Dr Bridget Anderson (COMPAS), this March 2009–April 2011 research examines how deportation reinforces, re-constitutes Dr Nando Sigona and Prof Roger Zetter and destabilises citizenship. In the past decade, deportation, In the last two decades large groups of Roma have migrated broadly understood
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