Welcome to CRS

The Centre for Refugee Studies is engaged in research on refugee issues; it informs public discussion as well as policy development and practice innovation by international, governmental, advocacy and service organizations; and it supports teaching in refugee and migration studies. Refugee studies is conceived in broad terms, as being concerned with the displacement of populations and individuals across and within borders, for reasons of persecution, expulsion, violence, violation of fundamental human rights and loss of essential human security and livelihood. It covers not only accommodation, protection, and assistance for refugees through asylum, settlement, resettlement and reintegration, but also the prevention of displacement. Its approach is necessarily interdisciplinary and it respects diversity in perspectives.

CRS in the News

(April 10, 2012) Online learning inspires refugees, IRIN Africa: www.irinnews.org/Report/95259/EDUCATION-Online-learning-inspires-refugees

(Mar. 14, 2012) Refugee policies should be based on fact, not fiction, Embassy Magazine: www.embassymag.ca/page/view/refugeepolicy-03-14-2012

CRS Student Conference

The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Student Caucus is pleased to announce that theAnnual Student Conference will take place on April 27th and 28st, 2012 at York University,
Toronto, Canada.
 

CRS Student Caucus

The CRS grad student caucus

We are an enthusiast energetic group of graduate students at York University studying, researching, and doing volunteer and advocacy work on refugee and forced migration issues. In most of the cases, it was the personal experience of being migrants or refugee ourselves that determined us to be deeply involved in the advancement of knowledge, deepening of policy contributions, and improvement of practices related to refugees and forced migration issues.

CARFMS12: Restructuring Refuge and Settlement

by mmillard | Mon, 09/12/2011 - 15:30
Deadline / Event Date: 
05/16/2012 (All day) - 05/18/2012 (All day)
(le français suit)

 

RESTRUCTURING REFUGE AND SETTLEMENT: RESPONDING TO THE GLOBAL DYNAMICS OF DISPLACEMENT

Conference organized by

The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS)

Hosted by Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS)

York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

May 16-18, 2012

Contact email: 
mmillard@yorku.ca

CERIS-CRS 2011-12 PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES

Changes in Contemporary Refugee and Immigration Policy and Practice

WINTER TERM SCHEDULE

 

FRIDAY, JAN. 6th,12:00 pm –2:00 pm

LOCATION: Room TR321, CAMH, 33 Russell Street (at Spadina)

‘Canadian Experience’ in the Media and Public Policy

Izumi Sakamoto, University of Toronto

About BHER

BHER is committed to improving opportunities for the tertiary education of long-term refugees by designing and strengthening a locally based higher education provision strategy.

GOALS