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Box 4

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The Growth of an Academic Field of Study: From Refugees to Forced Migration

Date

Developments

1981

- Special issue of International Migration Review lays foundation for new field of “refugee studies” (read esp. "Foreword," pp. 5-7);

- Refugee Documentation Project is created at York University (Canada);

- Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees is launched

1982

- Refugee Studies Programme (RSP) is established at Oxford University (UK) (re-named Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) in 2000)

1985

- Refugee Studies Programme is established at Juba University (Sudan) 

1988

- Journal of Refugee Studies is launched;

- Refugee Participation Network (RPN) (periodical) is started;

- Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS, Canada) succeeds Refugee Documentation Project

1989

- International Journal of Refugee Law is launched

1990

- International Research and Advisory Panel (IRAP) begins holding regular meetings to review the state of the field and identify new directions for research

1992

- Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) is established at Moi University (Kenya)

1994

- Refugee Survey Quarterly is launched (formerly Refugee Abstracts)

1995

- Centre for Study of Forced Migration (CSFM) is established at University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)

1996

- International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) is established (evolved out of IRAP)

UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Forced Migration Studies is formed to link academic research centres

1997

- The Refugees, Displaced Persons & Forced Migration Studies Center (RDFMSC) is established at Yarmouk University (Jordan)

- The Studies in Forced Migration book series is launched by Berghahn Books

1998

- First Master of science programme in forced migration is offered by Refugee Studies Centre (formerly RSP);

- Forced Migration Studies Programme (FMSP) is established at Wits University (re-named African Centre for Migration & Society in 2011)

- RPN becomes Forced Migration Review

- Conference held on "The Growth of Forced Migration: New Directions in Research, Policy and Practice

2000

- Forced Migration & Refugee Studies Program (FMRS) is established at American University in Cairo (re-named Center for Migration and Refugee Studies in 2008)

2001

- “Fifty Years of Refugee Studies: From Theory to Policy" article published in International Migration Review, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 57-78. 

2002

- Forced Migration Online (FMO) is launched

2005

- Three volume encyclopedia Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present is published

2007 - Conference held at RSC on “An Unsettled Future? Forced Migration and Refugee Studies in the 21st Century” (temp. unavailable)
2010 - The Center for Forced Migration Studies (CFMS) is launched at Northwestern University (United States)

2011

- The Centre for Refugee and IDP Studies (CESI) is established at the University of Sarajevo (Bosnia)

2014 The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies is published by Oxford University Press in June

 

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