Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ)

Advance Article
Refugee Sponsorship’s Unrealised Objectives and Unanticipated Benefits: A New Perspective on the Meaning of “Complementary” Pathways?
By Prof. Kate Ogg ANU Law School The Australian National University
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📜 New Advance Article

The Place of Safety in Refugees’ Subjective Well-Being
By Daisy Pollenne Center On Migration, Policy and Society University of Oxford

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From the RSQ Archives is back!

This November, Refugee Survey Quarterly revisits key articles on RESETTLEMENT — exploring its past, present, and future in refugee protection.

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📢 Publication Alert
NEW ADVANCE ARTICLE
Complementary Pathways at the Crossroads Between Migration and Asylum: Enhancing or Diluting the International Refugee Regime? by Emiliya Bratanova van Harten Lund University
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The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection Abstract. Space is foundational to questions of refuge and asylum, but this space is one of conditional hospitality, extended to those deemed worthy of pro

RSQ is still accepting short responses to Dr. Romola Sanyal's Article, "The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection". doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
Responses should be between 1,000 and 2,500 words
Submissions should be made via the RSQ website
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Volume 44, Issue 3
Meltem Ineli Ciger writes on Rethinking Mass Influx and Derogation in the Age of AI: The Role of New Technologies in Redefining Crisis, Protection and State Obligations.
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📢 Call for Applications
The Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) is seeking applications for an Assistant Editor position. Applications, including a cover letter and CV, should be sent to Sharmin Islam (sharmin.islam@oup.com) by Monday, 30 October.
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📝Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) Volume 44, Issue 3 is now out!
The new issue features the Perspectives on Displacement Paper on The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection by Romola Sanyal, among other articles
🔗 Read the issue online: academic.oup.com/rsq/issue/44/3

First-Time Authors: What Do Reviewers Look For? Authors often ask what editors and reviewers look for in a submission to the RSQ. The following pointers may help orient (new) authors who are keen to publish i

What do RSQ reviewers look for:

🔹 Does it engage refugee & forced migration debates?
🔹Does it go beyond description and add fresh insights?
🔹 Clear intro, argument, conclusion, sound methodology?
🔹 RSQ style guide, references, submission rules?

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📢 Call for Extended Abstracts
Refugee Survey Quarterly invites extended abstracts (max 600 words) for its Perspectives on Displacement series.
📌 Deadline: 29 September 2025
📧 Submissions: nicholas.maple@sas.ac.uk
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📢 New in Refugee Survey Quarterly:
“Agency in Action: Mobilisation Efforts of South Sudanese Refugees in Ethiopia” by Samuel Zewdie Hagos
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📢 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.

The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection Abstract. Space is foundational to questions of refuge and asylum, but this space is one of conditional hospitality, extended to those deemed worthy of pro

📢 Call for Short Responses
We invite short responses to Dr. Romola Sanyal's article, The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection
See: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
✅ Responses should be between 1,000 and 2,500 words submitted via the RSQ website: academic.oup.com/rsq

New Advance Article from our Perspectives on Displacement series [OPEN ACCESS]
Romola Sanyal examines The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection
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📢New Advance Article [OPEN ACCESS]
‘Vulnerability’ in Decisions on International Protection in Austria: A Contribution to Equality?
By Margit Ammer and Monika Mayrhofer
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New Advance Article (OPEN ACCESS)
Spectrums of Power: The Plight of Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia
By James Rochlin
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New Advance Article [OPEN ACCESS]
Rethinking Mass Influx and Derogation in the Age of AI: The Role of New Technologies in Redefining Crisis, Protection and State Obligations
By Meltem Ineli Ciger
🔗Read More: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

📄From RSQ Volume 44, Issue 2
Failing Asylum-Seekers: Limited Judicial Review of Refugee Status Determination Decisions in Brazil (OPEN ACCESS)
By Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle @gvagrad.bsky.social
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📄From RSQ Volume 44, Issue 2
"Criminalisation and Control: Mediterranean Maritime Search and Rescue Workers’ Perceptions of Uses of Law" (Open Access)
By Neil Graffin, Matt Howard and Joanne Vincett
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Read the #RLI blog series on 'Deserters, Draft Evaders and Refugee Law' including this piece:

'Slave Soldiers and their Protection under International Refugee Law' written by Dr Sara Arapiles.

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📄From RSQ Volume 44, Issue 2
"Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges" by Jane McAdam @kaldorcentre.bsky.social
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First-Time Authors: What Do Reviewers Look For? Authors often ask what editors and reviewers look for in a submission to the RSQ. The following pointers may help orient (new) authors who are keen to publish i

📝 If you are a first-time author or early-career researcher, understanding what peer reviewers look for is essential to navigating academic publishing.
We’ve just published a new piece: “First-Time Authors: What Do Reviewers Look For?”
🔗 Read the article here: academic.oup.com/rsq/pages/fi...

📝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

🚨 New Issue Alert!
📘 Refugee Survey Quarterly – Volume 44, Issue 2 (2025) – is now out!
🆓 Enjoy open access to select articles in this issue.
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New on the #RLI blog:

Part three of a series - 'Conscience vs. State: The Evolving Legal Status of Conscientious Objectors in International Refugee Law' written by Prof Özgür Heval Çɪnar

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