Nicholas Maple

📝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

Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges Abstract. This article seeks to conceptualise evacuations as a form of human mobility. Although evacuations represent a large proportion of annual global “

I'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-...

My 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/...

For 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:
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Refugee Survey Quarterly | Oxford Academic Publishes 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...

📢 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/rsq

Who belongs? Rethinking migration, citizenship, and the politics of labels Interdisciplinary scholars explore how governments draw the line between inclusion and exclusionand why those lines matter more than ever

How 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.

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Towards 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

New 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/...

Pleased 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

New 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...

New 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/...

New 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/...

‪Refugee 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

What if displacement studies could be a tool for resistance—not just reflection? In this response to David Owen’s reframing in RSQ, I explore how centering intersectionality and reclaiming “place” can move the field toward a more decolonial, justice-oriented praxis: academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...

Refuting 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

"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-...

... and I'm glad to be in the excellent company of @jasminldiab.bsky.social in this forum! 4/ bsky.app/profile/jasm...

EVENT 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

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#Migration #Displacement #ForcedDisplacement #AmericanHistory

Happy 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.

Apply 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:

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Read our latest #RLI monthly update at the link below 👇👇👇

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#Refugees #RefugeeLaw #ForcedDisplacement

This 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...
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Research Methods in the Refugee and Forced Migration Field

Our 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!

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#phdstudents #earlycareerresearchers

Online #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

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#Asylum #Refugees #RefugeeLaw #CommunistStates #Communism #AuthoritarianStates

Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget Exclusive: 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…

Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget

New on the #RLI blog - 'Trauma-Informed Participatory Research: Ethical Pathways in #Displacement and #Migration Studies' written by Dr Jasmin Lilian Diab

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#Syria #Palestine #LGBTQI #Trauma

1st 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...

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We'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.

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Online #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

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#IndochineseRefugees #Refugees #MaritimeRefugee

Rwanda does a Putin in Congo To understand the seizure of Goma, consider a parallel with Ukraine

400'000 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.

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New 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...

Insightful 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.
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