Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 25/08/2025📢 Call for Extended Abstracts – Refugee Survey Quarterly’s Perspectives on Displacement If you would be interested in writing a piece for the Perspectives on Displacement series, for publication in late 2026, please submit an extended abstract (maximum 600 words) 📝 Deadline: 29 September 2025. 022
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 19/08/2025New Advance Article from our Perspectives on Displacement series [OPEN ACCESS] Romola Sanyal examines The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection 🔗Read more: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/... 022
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 26/06/2025📝Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) Volume 44, Issue 2 is now out! The new issue features: Perspectives on Displacement Paper Series responding to David Owen’s: “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” and Six original research articles. 📄 Contents below 🔗 Read the issue online: lnkd.in/dFWfc4FP 054
Reposted by Nicholas MapleJane McAdam @profjmcadam.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I'm pleased to say that the published version of my article 'Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges' is now out in the latest issue of the Refugee Survey Quarterly academic.oup.com/rsq/article-...academic.oup.comEvacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal ChallengesAbstract. This article seeks to conceptualise evacuations as a form of human mobility. Although evacuations represent a large proportion of annual global “ 0106
Reposted by Nicholas MapleEleanor Paynter @eleanorbpaynter.net · 24/06/2025My piece on the need for frameworks that embrace critical, decolonial, non-state-centric approaches is now up as "editor's choice" & free to download! @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social It's a response to Owen's invitation to think w "displacement" as framing concept academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...academic.oup.comRefuting State-Centric Framings: Response to David Owen’s ‘From Forced Migration to Displacement?’Abstract. Building on Owen’s discussion of “displacement” as a potential reorienting concept for Forced Migration Studies, and recognising the interdiscipl 054
Reposted by Nicholas MapleUniversity of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 20/06/2025For World Refugee Day, we'd like to highlight this recent #OpenAccess title in the #CriticalHumanRightsStudies series, published with @hrc-sas.bsky.social & @icws-sas.bsky.social: #Refugee Reception in Southern Africa by @nicholasmaple.bsky.social. Available here: uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...uolpress.co.ukRefugee Reception in Southern Africa - University of London PressA new understanding of state-based refugee reception that reflects the complex dynamics of contemporary refugee arrival. It is no longer realistic (if it ever was) to understand persons who flee acros... 098
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025📢 Great news from Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ)! Our 2024 journal metrics are in: 📈 Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.2 📈 5-Year Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.3 📈 CiteScore: 3.0 Thanks to our amazing authors, reviewers & readers for making this possible! 🔗 Read & submit here: academic.oup.com/rsqacademic.oup.comRefugee Survey Quarterly | Oxford AcademicPublishes research focusing on the challenges of forced migration from multidisciplinary and policy-oriented perspectives. The journal provides a vehicle for wide-ranging analyses and exploration of f... 033
Reposted by Nicholas MapleLorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 10/06/2025How do labels like ‘migrant’ or ‘citizen’ affect lives? An interview with @ashleymhollands.bsky.social to talk about the annual conference organised by @globalcit.bsky.social and @mpc-eui.bsky.social at @eui-schuman.bsky.social. www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...eui.euWho belongs? Rethinking migration, citizenship, and the politics of labelsInterdisciplinary scholars explore how governments draw the line between inclusion and exclusionand why those lines matter more than ever 072
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 06/06/2025New on our Advance Articles Series: Towards Global Displacement Studies?: A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' by @alibhagat.bsky.social Read the Full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...doi.orgTowards Global Displacement Studies?: A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?'Abstract. This response advocates for the conceptual utility of displacement and the potential emergence of Global Displacement Studies (GDS). I argue that 022
Reposted by Nicholas MapleAli Bhagat @alibhagat.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Pleased to have my short piece “Towards Global Displacement Studies?” Out in @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social . The article is a response to David Owen’s thought-provoking article “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” :https://academic.oup.com/rsq/article/doi/10.1093/rsq/hdaf005/8157466 032
Reposted by Nicholas MaplePía Riggirozzi @piariggirozzi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025New publication announcement! here we challenge prevailing assumptions re humanitarian governance by exposing how gender-blind and gender-sensitive protection regimes often reinforce, rather than resolve, vulnerabilities faced by forcibly displaced women. academic.oup.com/migration/ar... 132
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 04/06/2025New Advance Article : @jasminldiab.bsky.social examines Displacement as Decolonial Praxis: Centring Intersectionality in Forced Migration Studies. A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...doi.org 032
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 04/06/2025New on our new Perspectives on Displacement series: Refuting State-Centric Framings: Response to David Owen’s 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' by @eleanorbpaynter.net Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...doi.org 022
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) is now on Bluesky! One of the oldest refugee studies journals, RSQ publishes peer-reviewed work at the intersection of research, policy & practice on forced displacement. Follow us @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social for updates, calls & critical insights. #RSQonBluesky 142
Reposted by Nicholas MapleEleanor Paynter @eleanorbpaynter.net · 03/06/2025"no framing is neutral & reproducing state- & institution-driven terms or outputs upholds the world they inscribe" In this piece just out with Refugee Survey Quarterly, I take up David Owen's discussion of "displacement" as field-framing concept 1/ free access: academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...academic.oup.comRefuting State-Centric Framings: Response to David Owen’s 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?'Abstract. Building on Owen’s discussion of “displacement” as a potential reorienting concept for Forced Migration Studies, and recognising the interdiscipl 144
Reposted by Nicholas MapleEleanor Paynter @eleanorbpaynter.net · 03/06/2025... and I'm glad to be in the excellent company of @jasminldiab.bsky.social in this forum! 4/ bsky.app/profile/jasm... 023
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · 30/05/2025EVENT NEXT WEEK - Breaking through the Wall: Taking Forced Migration Research Outside the Academy, Tuesday 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30 BST, Beveridge Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU rli.sas.ac.uk/events/break... #Migration #Displacement #ForcedDisplacement #AmericanHistory 043
Nicholas Maple @nicholasmaple.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Happy to see the below (with Dr Lucy Hovil) in the latest issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies: academic.oup.com/jrs/issue/38/1 If interested in a copy and have access issues, please message me.academic.oup.comVolume 38 Issue 1 | Journal of Refugee Studies | Oxford AcademicA multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes research that explores the complex problems of forced migration and national, regional and international responses. Coverage includes all categ... 032
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Apply now for a full scholarship to the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies!!! We are pleased to again be partnering with Commonwealth Scholarship Commission to offer 10 full scholarships for the October 2025 intake. Learn more here: rli.sas.ac.uk/news/apply-a... 054
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Read our latest #RLI monthly update at the link below 👇👇👇 mailchi.mp/london/refug... #Refugees #RefugeeLaw #ForcedDisplacement 042
Reposted by Nicholas MapleResearching Internal Displacement @rid-networks.bsky.social · 06/03/2025This third piece in the new RLI series examines both IHR Law and IH Law and argues for reorienting protection frameworks to ensure fuller protection of people displaced by criminal violence. Link: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces... @rli-sas.bsky.social @idmc-geneva.bsky.social 044
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Our Research Methods short course started today with a global cohort of participants and engaging modules related to methods, #methodology and #ethics of conducting #research within the fields of #refugee and #forcedmigration! rli.sas.ac.uk/study-us/sho... #phdstudents #earlycareerresearchersrli.sas.ac.ukResearch Methods in the Refugee and Forced Migration Field 032
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Online #RLI Seminar THIS MONTH 👇👇👇 Unsung asylum: The law and practice of refugee hosting in communist and authoritarian states, 21 March 2025, 11:00AM - 12:30AM GMT online via Zoom rli.sas.ac.uk/events/unsun... #Asylum #Refugees #RefugeeLaw #CommunistStates #Communism #AuthoritarianStates 064
Reposted by Nicholas MapleThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/02/2025Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budgettheguardian.comAnneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budgetExclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine * Anneliese Dodds: soft left intellectual pushed to resign over Starmer’s slide right * UK politics live – latest updates… 2723368
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · 18/02/2025New on the #RLI blog - 'Trauma-Informed Participatory Research: Ethical Pathways in #Displacement and #Migration Studies' written by Dr Jasmin Lilian Diab rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/02/16/t... #Syria #Palestine #LGBTQI #Trauma 064
Reposted by Nicholas MapleResearching Internal Displacement @rid-networks.bsky.social · 20/02/20251st paper in our new series on organsed crime, drawing on research by experts at the RLI working with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs for her 2025 Call for Inputs. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces... @rli-sas.bsky.social @idmc-geneva.bsky.social @unhcr.org 066
Reposted by Nicholas MapleUniversity of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025We're excited to have started receiving proposals for our #HumanitiesFutures book series! Please get in touch if you have an idea for this new #OpenAccess initiative on topics like the value of the humanities and the future of humanities disciplines. uolpress.co.uk/book-series/...uolpress.co.ukHumanities Futures Archives - University of London Press 063
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Online #RLI Seminar NEXT WEEK 👇👇👇 Maritime refugee journeys: Solidarity, regional processing and saving lives at sea, 28 February 2025, 9:00AM - 10:30AM GMT, Online via Zoom rli.sas.ac.uk/events/marit... #IndochineseRefugees #Refugees #MaritimeRefugee 043
Reposted by Nicholas MapleLorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 18/02/2025400'000 people have been displaced in Congo in the past month alone. Yet, hardly anyone outside Central Africa knows who #M23 are or why they are fighting. The Economist has a curious analogy to explain. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...economist.comRwanda does a Putin in CongoTo understand the seizure of Goma, consider a parallel with Ukraine 011
Reposted by Nicholas MapleResearching Internal Displacement @rid-networks.bsky.social · 18/02/2025New blog on Afghan IDPs shows how prolonged conflict has eroded resilience strategies rooted in traditional culture. Lacking institutional support, many IDPs resort to harmful survival strategies, affecting wellbeing & the ability to cope. Link: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces... 023
Reposted by Nicholas MapleResearching Internal Displacement @rid-networks.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Insightful blog by Sarah Edgcumbe calls attention to the lack of sustainable reintegration pathways for internally displaced Iraqi Gypsies and Bedouin. Long-standing discrimination and inadequate humanitarian efforts are to blame. @rli-sas.bsky.social @nicholasmaple.bsky.social 022
Reposted by Nicholas MapleNatalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Extremely interesting research fellowship open at Oxford to carry out independent research on forced migration for three years but with a focus on advocacy/impact given the partnership with the Jesuit Refugee Services. See more below 👇 024
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Researching Internal Displacement has just published this fascinating new short piece by Farid Guliyev, looking at the challenges of the government-led resettlement of #internallydisplaced #Azerbaijanis following two wars with #Armenia. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces... 021
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Online #RLI Seminar this month 👇👇👇 Maritime refugee journeys: Solidarity, regional processing and saving lives at sea, 28 February 2025, 9:00AM - 10:30AM, online via Zoom rli.sas.ac.uk/events/marit... #IndochineseRefugees #Refugees #MaritimeRefugee 034
Reposted by Nicholas MapleNicholas Maple @nicholasmaple.bsky.social · 08/01/2025New article with Lucy Hovil in JRS: "Durable solutions: to what and for whom?" academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-... Abstract below If interested in a copy and have access issues, please message me 044
Reposted by Nicholas MapleBronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 09/01/2025The theme of @rli-sas.bsky.social annual conference in June is on Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies. I'm thinking of proposing a panel on #statelessness and forced migration studies. Anyone interested in submitting an abstract? rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c...rli.sas.ac.ukRLI Annual Conference 143
Nicholas Maple @nicholasmaple.bsky.social · 08/01/2025New article with Lucy Hovil in JRS: "Durable solutions: to what and for whom?" academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-... Abstract below If interested in a copy and have access issues, please message me 044
Reposted by Nicholas MapleKaren Boyle @profkarenboyle.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Chancellor’s Fellow/Lythe Lectureship in Race, Ethnicity & Migration with our History subject team. strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/...strathvacancies.engageats.co.ukStrathclyde Chancellor's Fellow/Lythe Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Migration (667128)Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow/Lythe Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Migration (667128), Through our Strathclyde Global Talent Programme, we will recruit early career researchers to help us achieve S... 112
Nicholas Maple @nicholasmaple.bsky.social · 10/12/2024New blog piece on the ongoing influence of historical laws and traditional conceptualisations of refugees in Zambia: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/12/10/t...rli.blogs.sas.ac.ukThe Reception of Refugees: The ongoing influence of historical laws and traditional conceptualisations of refugees in Zambia - Refugee Law Initiative BlogBlog post by Dr Nicholas Maple, Lecturer in Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Initiative, University of London* This post was originally published on the African Law Matters blog here. In the book ‘Refugee... 000
Reposted by Nicholas MapleUniversity of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 10/12/2024New blog by author @nicholasmaple.bsky.social on his recent #OpenAccess book ‘Refugee Reception in Southern Africa': www.africanlawmatters.com/blog/the-ong... @icws-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social #Zambia #refugees #SouthAfricaafricanlawmatters.comRefugee Reception: The Ongoing Influence of Historical Laws and Traditional Conceptualisations of Refugees in Zambia — African Law MattersIn this post, Nicholas Maple examines the complexities of refugee reception in Southern Africa. Using Zambia as a case study, he highlights how the historical 1970 Refugee (Control) Act continues to i... 043
Reposted by Nicholas MapleColin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Good thread on refugee law and cessation of refugee status. Some quick extra thoughts: 1. States should not revoke refugee status until it is clear that a durable solution has been reached in the country of origin. 23814
Reposted by Nicholas MapleNicholas Maple @nicholasmaple.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Please consider coming to this event on Sudan next week (10th December) in London Radhouane Nouicer, the Designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights will be speaking, along with other experts on this urgent issue. Please register as we have limited seats: 184
Nicholas Maple @nicholasmaple.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Please consider coming to this event on Sudan next week (10th December) in London Radhouane Nouicer, the Designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights will be speaking, along with other experts on this urgent issue. Please register as we have limited seats: 184
Reposted by Nicholas MapleLaura Hammond @laurahammond.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Migration, mobility and displacement consultant researcher wanted at IIED: www.iied.org/wanted-migra...iied.orgWanted: Migration, mobility and displacement consultant researcherIIED is seeking a research consultant for projects on protracted displacement in East and the Horn of Africa 096
Nicholas Maple @nicholasmaple.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Thank you to Rohini Mitra (@rohinimitra.bsky.social) for the generous review in the JRS of 'Refugee Reception in Southern Africa': academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-... @rli-sas.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comRefugee reception in Southern Africa: national and local policies in Zambia and South Africa. By Nicholas MapleRefugee reception is a complex and dynamic issue that is only now emerging as a growing area of inquiry for countries of the Global South, which host a vas 100
Reposted by Nicholas MapleEleanor Paynter @eleanorbpaynter.net · 26/11/2024It's official #PubDay for Emergency in Transit! In paperback & open-access @ucpress.bsky.social #CriticalRefugeeStudies series Immense thanks to all who've been part of the book's journey, from the people who shared their stories w/ me to readers & press editors www.ucpress.edu/books/emerge... 21311
Nicholas Maple @nicholasmaple.bsky.social · 25/11/2024For all forced migration scholars - please do check out the call for papers and panels for our annual conference next June. Do please consider submitting before the deadline! 021
Reposted by Nicholas MapleRefugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024CALL FOR PAPERS - "Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures’’, 15th Anniversary Conference, 2 - 4 June 2025 - DEADLINE: 27 JANUARY 2025 rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c... #law #refugees #refugeeprotection #inequality #change #policy #displaced #displacedpeople 086