RSC Conference 2017 | Session IV, Room 2: Contemporary debates on refugee resettlement by Refugee Studies Centre published on 2017-04-27T12:56:04Z Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies RSC Conference 2017 16-17 March 2017 Keble College, Oxford The Refugee Studies Centre hosted this major international conference in March 2017, 35 years after the RSC was founded. Its purpose was to reflect on the role that Refugee Studies can play in the world. In the context of profound changes in the nature of forced displacement, the conference assessed what kinds of knowledge, evidence, and concepts are needed to understand and respond to contemporary challenges. Conference programme available at: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/files/downloads/conference-programme-final_web-1.pdf Friday, 17 March Session IV, Room 2: Contemporary Debates on Refugee Resettlement Presentations: Adèle Garnier, Université Libre de Bruxelles: Power, politics and refugee resettlement: comparing Canada and Australia’s responses to the Syrian crisis Naoko Hashimoto, University of Sussex: Reconceiving refugee resettlement in (unforced) migration studies Suzanne Shanahan, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, and Catherine Ward, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University: Civic engagement and resettled refugee youth Marcia Vera-Espinoza, University of Sheffield: Understanding resettlement through refugee integration: paradoxes between the politics of humanitarianism and the politics of belonging Chair: Marcia Vera-Espinoza, University of Sheffield Genre Learning
