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As of September 1 2009, the CRS Resource Collection has moved to its new location on the 6th floor, York Research Tower. A new online searchable catalogue is now available (see link below). Please note that this catalogue is still a work in progress, and that there are resources contained in the collection that are not yet listed in the database.

  • Andrew Forbes Refugee Resource Collection (online RefWorks database)
    Please contact CRS Coordinator Michele Millard if you need any immediate assistance or would like to schedule an appointment. Telephone(416) 736-2100 ext. 30391; E-mail: mmillard@yorku.ca The Andrew Forbes Refugee Resource Collection at York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies consists of independent documents (monographs), dependant documents (works within documents), primary documents, conference paper collections, journals, newsletters, audio-visual material and photographs. The subject topics for which expanded research collections exist include the following:
    • Canadian and comparative refugee policy
    • Early warning
    • Humanitarian Intervention and Law
    • Repatriation
    • Resettlement in Canada
    • Refugee definitions
    • Refugee status determination in Canada
    • Refugee aid and development
    • Country of origin conditions
    • Human Rights
    • Immigration policy and statistics

    The Resource Collection has a mandate to support the research and teaching activities at CRS. The CRS currently maintains a collection of over 12,000 fully catalogued and indexed documents and over 300 journals and newsletters. The Resource Centre has also actively sought out information in electronic format, including the REFWORLD CD-ROM produced by the UNHCR. The Resource Centre has received donations of significant archival material from leading researchers, NGOs and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The Resource Centre is well-used by York faculty, researchers and students as well as external scholars, NGOs and refugee lawyers. The Centre for Refugee Studies web site (www.yorku.ca/crs), set up in 1995, provides a gateway to refugee and human rights information on the Internet and is an excellent source of information for international legal instruments on refugees, government documents, scholarly papers, bibliographic citations and general information on refugee issues as well as updates on the work of the Centre itself. In recent years, the Centre has also received a number of special collections from individual scholars and non-governmental organizations in the field. Circulation Policy Please note that, because of the nature of this specialized research library - containing catalogued and often rare or difficult-to-replace documents, this collection does not circulate. Resource Centre staff may occasionally be able to assist or re-direct researchers in the event another copy of a document may be available through some other means/location. Donations of Books/Research Material Canadian NGOs and individuals are invited to donate working papers, conference reports, newsletters, archival materials to the Andrew Forbes Refugee Resource Centre at the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.