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Where is home base (city/state/country)? Oxford, United Kingdom | |
What is key constituency or audience? Policy makers, practitioners and the academic community | |
What are the agency’s main activities? Are to research and understand forced migration for future reference in policy making. | |
Mission statement? "Its objectives are to carry out multidisciplinary research and teaching on the caused and consequences of forced Migration; to disseminate the results of that research to policy makers and practitioners, as well as within the academic community; and to understand the experience of forced migration from the point of view of the affected population" ---Global Health Council | |
What are key im/migration issues of concern to this agency? Forced migration, the experience and management of displacement, and institutional and normative responses to forced migration | |
What is the most common basis for statements issued, agency’s research, press releases, etc.? They use mostly their publications and research to establish what they have discovered | |
Is the agency noticeably pro or con immigration? The agency is to learn about forced migration and the effects it has on them, the economy, and the people surrounding them. | |
Any publications? (what types, titles) RSC Working Papers, Journal of Refugee Studies, Forced Migration Review (magazine), and Studies in Forced Migration (book series). | |
Names of key spokespersons/officers None Given | |
Other issues of interest? Internal displacement, person(s) forced to migrate from one part of the country to another. | |
Web site? www.rsc.ox.ac.uk |