Refugee studies

Refugee studies is the academic study of refugees and forced migration. It is an interdisciplinary field associated with the humanities, the social sciences and the political sciences. It is concerned with defining the concept of the refugee, with its own relations to policymaking and with issues of displacement, settlement and integration, and family and kinship networks. The field of refugee studies emerged in the twentieth century and has produced several (sub)fields and critiques, including forced migration studies and critical refugee studies. Important contributions to the field are published in the Journal of Refugee Studies, established by the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.