@nicholasmaple.bsky.social
Lecturer at Refugee Law Initiative, University of London | Working on displacement and mobility | Co-Editor in Chief Refugee Survey Quarterly | Research Associate at African Centre for Migration and Society
📢 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.
New 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/...
📝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
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-...
25.06.2025 07:51 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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:
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
📢 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
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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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
06.06.2025 13:40 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0New 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...
30.05.2025 11:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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
04.06.2025 12:01 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
"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...
03.06.2025 22:23 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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
rli.sas.ac.uk/events/break...
#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:
rli.sas.ac.uk/news/apply-a...
Read our latest #RLI monthly update at the link below 👇👇👇
mailchi.mp/london/refug...
#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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@idmc-geneva.bsky.social
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!
rli.sas.ac.uk/study-us/sho...
#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
rli.sas.ac.uk/events/unsun...
#Asylum #Refugees #RefugeeLaw #CommunistStates #Communism #AuthoritarianStates
Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
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New 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
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.
uolpress.co.uk/book-series/...
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
rli.sas.ac.uk/events/marit...
#IndochineseRefugees #Refugees #MaritimeRefugee
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.
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...