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.

Lecture: Framing ‘Amal’: witnessing asylum seeker testimony

Deadline / Event Date: 
05/31/2012 - 12:30 - 14:00

Thursday May 31, 2012
12:30pm - 2:00pm
626 York Research Tower
York University

Guest Lecturer: Leili Golafshani, School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland

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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