Oxford Department of International Development

The Oxford Department of International Development is the hub for the University of Oxford's work in development and a unit of the University's Social Sciences Division. Its objective is to conduct high level research which advances understanding of the complex economic, social and political processes of change in countries in the poorer parts of the world and to educate students to understand these processes in disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspective. The Department is located at Queen Elizabeth House in Mansfield Road and is often referred to as 'QEH'.

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Title	Description	People	Date
Hyper-mobile migrant workers and the lack of social protection within the European Union: a case study from the Netherlands	Case study of hyper-mobile migrants employed on large-scale construction sites in the Netherlands, highlighting the ways these workers express their agency in dealing with a cross-border employment context in which social protection is difficult to access	Lisa Berntsen	26 November, 2015
Access to social protection for internal migrants and the obstacles to adequate coverage	The main destinations of migrants are the mega cities and other urban areas, yet governments are ill-prepared to receive this large influx of people and internal migrants are exposed to a new set of risks and vulnerabilities.	Jessica Hagen-Zanker	19 November, 2015
Hope and uncertainty in African migration: Life after deportation to Ghana	IMI Visiting Fellow Nauja Kleist presents her research on return migration in the context of restrictive mobility regimes in Europe and Africa, within theories on hope, (im)mobility, social fields, gender, and belonging.	Nauja Kleist	19 November, 2015
Reverse welfare magnet	Would a narrower gap in social services provision help to manage migration from developing countries?	Edo Mahendra	9 November, 2015
The changing face of social protection in Africa's cities	Examining how social protection is conceptualised in research in African contexts and reviewing the extent to which these different approaches can take into account the changing populations of urban spaces, especially those experiencing high migration	Oliver Bakewell	3 November, 2015
Immigrant integration and social capital formation: evidence from New Zealand	Comparing immigrant and native-born social capital formation via New Zealand data which permits a distinction between indicators of stocks of social capital and indicators of investment in the form of participation in community and voluntary activities	Jacques Poot	26 October, 2015
Legislating for transnational ageing: a challenge for the Dutch and French welfare states	What motivates policymakers to initially develop these very specifically-targeted policy proposals which contradict the territorial logic of the welfare state?	Alistair Hunter	26 October, 2015
FMR 50 - From the Editors	An introductory note on FMR 50, 'Dayton + 20: twenty years on from the Dayton Agreement in the Balkans', from the Editors.	Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Foreword: Addressing the legacy of violence	The aim of creating ethnically homogeneous statelets was curbed at Dayton but the dominance of ethnic politics was not.	Valentin Inzko	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Annex 7: why are we still discussing it?	Annex 7 to the Dayton Peace Agreement was designed to address the displacement of 2.2 million people during the Bosnian war of 1992-95. Its job is not yet done.	María del Pilar Valledor Álvarez	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Political and social consequences of continuing displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina	Twenty years after Dayton, failures to facilitate effective refugee and IDP return have had a social and political impact at both community and state level.	Lana Pašić	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 years on from Dayton	The coming two-and-a-half years represent what is possibly the last window of opportunity to accomplish what the Dayton Peace Agreement’s Annex 7 set out to achieve.	Andrew Mayne	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Resolving a protracted refugee situation through a regional process	Despite its shortcomings, the Regional Process in the Western Balkans offers a number of lessons for resolving protracted refugee situations.	Olga Mitrovic	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Voices in displacement	“These people are as if lost in time and space.” Still displaced after 20 years, residents of collective centres in Bosnia and Herzegovina share their frustration. They need to be listened to.	Claudia Meyerhoefer	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Property rights and reconstruction in the Bosnian return process	Sidelining a rights-based approach in the area of property restitution and reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina resulted in an unequal impact on rural versus urban displaced populations.	Inmaculada Serrano	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Resolving protracted displacement through social housing	A social housing methodology recently introduced in Bosnia and Herzegovina illustrates the need for certain key components in any strategy to address the shelter and livelihoods needs of vulnerable citizens.	Marc D’Silva, Sanela Imamovic	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Asking the right questions in research on psychosocial well-being	New research is attempting to address the lack of empirical grounding for much of the psychosocial programming in post-war trauma in the Western Balkans.	Selma Porobic	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Wartime division in peacetime schools	An ethnically divided educational system in Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to limit the sustainable return of those displaced by the war, and to hamper reconciliation and the reconstruction of society.	Valery Perry	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Their last name is ‘refugee’: return and local activism	Sustainable refugee return can only take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina when ordinary people and human rights activists are included as full participants in the recovery process.	Peter Lippman	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Human rights shortcomings of the Dayton Peace Agreement	When a peace agreement guarantees the rights of certain groups but not all, limitations to the enjoyment of human rights are inevitable.	LIsbeth Pilegaard, Jasminka Dzumhur	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - If women are left out of peace talks	The exclusion of women from the process of making peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina has diminished the prospects for sustainable peace. When will we learn that no peace can be sustainable and just without the active and meaningful participation of women?	Gorana Mlinarević, Nela Porobić Isaković, Madeleine Rees	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Interpretations of Annex 7: assessing the impact on non-returnees in the UK	Emphasising the crucial role of refugee returns to the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina risks minimising the agency of those who choose not to exercise their rights under Annex 7.	Gayle Munro	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - The role of remote voting in encouraging return	Once there is a genuine possibility of going home, what influences a forced migrant’s decision to return to a pre-conflict residence, often in the face of very difficult conditions? What role can remote voting play?	Djordje Stefanovic, Neophytos Loizides	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Home after Dayton: IDPs in Sarajevo	The experiences of displaced people in Sarajevo show that living in a place that people perceive to be safe and to provide opportunities can be more desirable than returning to one’s place of origin. Participatory urban projects can help foster community.	Gruia Badescu	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - The compound effects of conflict and disaster displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina	Some IDPs living in protracted displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, such as many Roma IDPs, were especially vulnerable to the effects of the May 2014 flooding and landslides.	Wesli H Turner	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Prijedor: re-imagining the future	Public memorialisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina today is an act of remembering not just those who died in the conflict but also the multi-ethnic reality of earlier times. Articulation of this, however, is being obstructed in cities like Prijedor.	Damir Mitrić, Sudbin Musić	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Mass evacuations: learning from the past	Twenty years after the evacuations from the Bosnian ‘safe areas’, humanitarians continue to struggle with dilemmas around humanitarian evacuations.	Caelin Briggs	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 - Bosnia revisited: a retrospective on the legacy of the conflict	It is instructive to review the legacy the conflict in Bosnia and the post-war settlement in order to appreciate how this conflict set the stage for major institutional developments in the field of humanitarian protection.	Brad K Blitz	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 General - Inconsistency in asylum appeal adjudication	New research findings indicate that factors such as the gender of the judge and of the appellant, and where the appellant lives, are influencing asylum appeal adjudication.	Nick Gill, Rebecca Rotter, Andrew Burridge, Melanie Griffiths, Jennifer Allsopp	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 General - Sheltering displaced persons from sexual and gender-based violence	Providing a variety of safe shelter types, each with its own unique strengths and limitations, within a single area could help meet the diverse and changing needs of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.	Julie Freccero	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 General - Changing how we measure success in resettlement	Refugees should be treated not as poor, traumatised foreigners but as strong and capable people who can be resources in their countries of resettlement.	Justin S Lee, Suzie S Weng, Sarah Ivory	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 General - Young Afghans facing return	A project in the UK aiming to prepare young men for return to Afghanistan through an assisted voluntary return programme was unsuccessful. A different, longer-term approach might have been more appropriate and more effective.	Kim Robinson, Lucy Williams	1 September, 2015
FMR 50 General - A fragmented landscape of protection	Changing concepts of protection and a growing diversity in the practice of protection and in the range of humanitarian and other actors doing protection work have led to a fragmentation of effective protection for forced migrants.	Roger Zetter	1 September, 2015
Children in Poverty:Vectors of shame?	A seminar by Elaine Chase of the University of Oxford Department of Social Policy and Intervention delivered on 5 March 2013	Elaine Chase	30 June, 2015
School Quality and Inequality: A three country comparison	A seminar by Elisabetta Aurino of Young Lives, Oxford Department of International Development delivered on 12 February 2013	Elisabetta Aurino	30 June, 2015
Empowerment or Tokenism? Challenges and Opportunities of Child Advisory Groups in Quantitative and Qualitative Research	A seminar by Lucie Cluver of the University of Oxford Department of Social Policy and Intervention delivered on 5 February 2013	Lucie Cluver	30 June, 2015
Education and Childhood in Africa	A seminar by David Johnson of the University of Oxford Education Department delivered on 22 January 2013	David Johnson	30 June, 2015
Learning how to feel: Spiritual knowledge and emotionally-based narratives of social transformation amongst Nigerian and Congolese pastors in diaspora	IMI Trinity term Visiting Fellow Rafael Cazarin gives an exceptional seminar on narratives of social transformation amongst Nigerian and Congolese pastors in diaspora	Rafael Cazarin	26 June, 2015
Refugees – what’s wrong with history?	Peter Gatrell gives a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre podcast series.	Peter Gatrell	23 June, 2015
UNHCR's protection guidelines: what role for external voices?	Guy Goodwin-Gill gives a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre podcast series.	Guy Goodwin-Gill	23 June, 2015
Understanding global refugee policy: the case of naturalisation in Tanzania	Dr James Milner gives a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre seminar series.	James Milner	23 June, 2015
UNHCR's urban refugee policy	Dr Jeff Crisp and MaryBeth Morand give a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre podcast series.	Jeff Crisp, Beth Morand	23 June, 2015
Global policy for IDPs: a parallel process?	Dr Phil Orchard gives a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre podcast series.	Phil Orchard	23 June, 2015
RSC Special Seminars: Historical cross-border relocations in the Pacific	Professor Jane McAdam focuses here on the relocation of the Banaban population from Ocean Island (previously one of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands, now Kiribati) to Rabi Island in Fiji after the Second World War.	Jane McAdam	23 June, 2015
FMR 49 - From the Editors	An introductory note on FMR 49, 'Disasters and displacement in a changing climate', from the Editors.	Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Foreward	In order to make progress on disasters, climate change and human mobility, it is essential to bring together different strands of the discussion to develop a comprehensive response that also anticipates future challenges associated with climate change.	Børge Brende, Didier Burkhalter	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - The Nansen Initiative: building consensus on displacement in disaster contexts	The Nansen Initiative consultative process has identified a toolbox of potential policy options to prevent, prepare for and respond to the challenges of cross-border displacement in disaster contexts, including the effects of climate change.	Walter Kälin	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - National Adaptation Plans and human mobility	In order to avoid displacement when possible, displacement and human mobility issues need to be better integrated within national and regional adaptation planning processes.	Koko Warner, Walter Kälin, Susan Martin, Youssef Nassef	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - The state of the evidence	Researchers have much to do, not only to understand climate- and disaster-induced migration but also to transmit their understanding for the use of policymakers and practitioners.	Justin Ginnetti	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - The necessity for an ethnographic approach in Peru	A movement of people is rarely explained by environmental or climatic factors alone. Therefore an analysis which does not take into consideration the cultural consequences of climate change for affected societies is incomplete.	Geremia Cometti	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - An integrated focus	The key to successfully addressing the challenges of environmental, climatic and natural disasters is integrating migration concerns – including displacement – into all climate change, disaster risk reduction and development policies and frameworks.	William Lacy Swing	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - West Africa: a testing ground for regional solutions	West Africa has a very mobile population and high vulnerability to natural hazards. It also, however, has a number of regional cooperation agreements and may therefore be a useful testing ground for addressing cross-border disaster displacement.	Julia Blocher, Dalila Gharbaoui, Sara Vigil	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Development and displacement risks	The impact of climate change induces systemic patterns of socio-economic erosion that also affect the dynamics of disaster displacement and that require parallel responses.	Glaucia Boyer, Matthew McKinnon	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Developing temporary protection in Africa	Formalised temporary protection arrangements in Africa could significantly improve access to territory and human rights for people displaced across borders by disasters. Such arrangements must adhere to states’ existing protection obligations.	Tamara Wood	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Climate effects on nomadic pastoralist societies	Oman and Mongolia reflect the modern climatic and social challenges to mobile pastoral livelihoods.	Dawn Chatty, Troy Sternberg	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Guidance for ‘managed’ relocation	The international community has been slow to develop climate change-specific instruments to guide the relocation process beyond those that relate to displacement generally.	Brent Doberstein, Anne Tadgell	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Preparing for planned relocation	Preparing for planned relocation	FMR	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Lessons from planned relocation and resettlement in the past	Placing contemporary deliberations about relocation within a longer historical and intellectual framework reveals unexpected connections and salutary lessons.	Jane McAdam	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Post-disaster resettlement in urban Bolivia	Post-disaster resettlement programmes can be unsuitable and ineffective, often exacerbating the vulnerability of people to the effects of climate change.	Gemma Sou	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Focusing on climate-related internal displacement	Global attention should place a primary focus on the application of best practice and the development of innovative initiatives to solve climate-related internal displacement, rather than on grappling with the far rarer movements of people across borders.	Scott Leckie, Ezekiel Simperingham	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Brazil’s draft law for environmental migrants	Brazil is developing a long-term solution for filling a legislative gap affecting environmental migrants.	Isabela Piacentini de Andrade	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Disasters, displacement and a new framework in the Americas	There is a startling range of positive examples of national law, policy and practice all across the Americas that states have used to respond to the migratory consequences of disasters.	David James Cantor	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Temporary protection arrangements to fill a gap in the protection regime	Predictable measures are needed to provide protection for people displaced across borders by disasters, where there is currently a gap.	Volker Türk	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Refugees, climate change and international law	How can the category of ‘climate refugee’ be considered within international law in the 21st century?	María José Fernández	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Displacement as a consequence of climate change mitigation policies	Climate change mitigation policies and ‘green solutions’, such as biofuels, are also creating displacement.	Sara Vigil	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Statelessness and environmental displacement	Stateless people and migrants are at greater risk of displacement and are less likely to receive assistance; in turn, environmental displacement (especially multiple migrations) heightens the risk of becoming stateless.	Jessie Connell	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - A role for strategic litigation	Strategic litigation to protect individuals at risk can usefully support higher-level protection initiatives.	Matthew Scott	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Floods and migration in the Czech Republic	Residents’ strategies are generally aimed at either protection from or adaptation to flooding. Large-scale migration from the floodplains of rivers has not been seriously considered, even in high-risk zones.	Robert Stojanov, Ilan Kelman, Barbora Duží	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - 'One Safe Future’ in the Philippines	The Philippine government’s ‘One Safe Future’ programme relocated disaster-affected poor families in areas where structures enabling opportunities are lacking.	Lloyd Ranque, Melissa Quetulio-Navarra	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Post-disaster resettlement in the Philippines: a risky strategy	Experience in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan suggests that resettlement as a strategy for mitigating disaster-induced displacement can create significant protection risks.	Alice R Thomas	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Cross-border migration with dignity in Kiribati	The ‘migration with dignity’ policy is part of Kiribati’s long-term nation-wide relocation strategy.	Karen E McNamara	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Land, disasters and mobility in the South Pacific	The adaptive characteristics of customary land systems deserve greater recognition in disaster or climate change policy frameworks.	Daniel Fitzpatrick	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Not drowning but fighting: Pacific Islands activists	Focusing on climate-induced migration, rather than mitigation, can be at odds with grassroots demands and can make the future uninhabitability of some Pacific Islands appear as a foregone conclusion.	Hannah Fair	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Samoa: local knowledge, climate change and population movements	The voices of scientists, academics, politicians and development practitioners dominate the climate change debate, yet local knowledge, values and beliefs are essential elements of navigating the way forward for affected communities.	Ximena Flores-Palacios	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Facilitating voluntary adaptive migration in the Pacific	Voluntary adaptive migration across int'l borders will be a critical component of an overall adaptation strategy for at-risk individuals and households in the Pacific in order to increase their resilience to natural hazards and prevent future displicement	Bruce Burson, Richard Bedford	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Integrating resilience in South Asia	Communities can strengthen their resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction measures.	Mi Zhou, Dorien Braam	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - “Everyone likes it here”	Sea-level rise threatens communities of the Lakshadweep islands. But what happens when belongingness, religious beliefs and the identity of being an islander make them stay?	Himani Upadhyay, Ilan Kelman, Divya Mohan	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Building adaptive capacity in Assam	A starting point for adapting to longer-term climate change could be adaptation to short-term climate variability and extreme events. Making more informed choices about the use of remittances can enhance the adaptive capacity of receiving households.	Soumyadeep Banerjee, Suman Bisht, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Mixed motivations and complex causality in the Mekong	Many climate change-affected communities have already been using migration as a means to adapt to and withstand the challenges to their livelihoods and security. Strengthening of existing protections for all migrants is clearly advantageous.	Jessica Marsh	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - One good reason to speak of ‘climate refugees’	The concept of ‘environmental refugees’, or ‘climate refugees’, has been progressively abandoned, as having no legal basis. I want to argue that there are good reasons to use the term.	Francois Gemenne	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Governance questions for the international community	The Nansen Initiative has highlighted significant questions about how the international community should collectively think about displacement and mobility issues relating to natural disasters and climate change, and how to improve the governance thereof.	Alexander Betts	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 - Building respectful solutions	Tribes in coastal Alaska and Louisiana in the United States are among the communities at immediate risk of displacement due to climate change impacts.	Colleen Swan, Chief Albert P Naquin, Stanley Tom	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 General - The Cartagena process: 30 years of innovation and solidarity	The 30th anniversary of the 1984 Cartagena Declaration offers the opportunity to consider the achievements of the Cartagena process and the specific characteristics that make it so remarkable.	Carlos Maldonado Castillo	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 General - Trafficking for human organs	Trafficking of people for their organs is an emerging transnational crime that has failed to receive sufficient international attention.	Vladimir Makei	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 General - Sweet tea and cigarettes: a taste of refugee life in Jordan	Among refugees in Jordan, utter boredom – the result of restrictions on mobility, prohibitions on employment, and feelings of marginalisation – is an unmistakable source of anguish.	Rana B Khoury	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 General - Refugee-state distrust on the Thai-Burma border	Distrust between refugees and their state of origin must be given due consideration in institutional approaches to repatriation of refugees, on the Thai-Burma border and in other refugee contexts worldwide.	Karen Hargrave	18 June, 2015
FMR 49 General - Animals and forced migration	Harm to animals resulting from forced migration of people is intricately interwoven with and contingent upon the simultaneous suffering of humans.	Piers Beirne, Caitlin Kelty-Huber	18 June, 2015
FMR 49, FGM - Editors’ Introduction	An introductory note from the Editors of a special mini-feature on 'FGM and Asylum in Europe' in FMR 49.	Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson	4 June, 2015
FMR 49, FGM - Female genital mutilation: a case for asylum in Europe	With some 71% of female EU asylum applicants from FGM-practising countries estimated to be survivors of this harmful traditional practice, it is time to accept that this subject demands greater scrutiny and a more dedicated response.	Fadela Novak-Irons	4 June, 2015
FMR 49, FGM - FGM: challenges for asylum applicants and officials	Asylum authorities in the European Union need to establish better procedures to help address the specific vulnerabilities and protection needs of women and girls who have undergone or are at risk of female genital mutilation.	Christine Flamand	4 June, 2015
FMR 49, FGM - The medicalisation of female genital mutilation	The ‘medicalisation’ of female genital mutilation should be denounced on two counts.Firstly, it is usually anatomically more damaging and, secondly, it goes against the ethical basis of the medical profession.	Pierre Foldes, Frédérique Martz	4 June, 2015
FMR 49, FGM - The Istanbul Convention: new treaty, new tool	The new Istanbul Convention provides a powerful tool for more effectively guaranteeing the protection of asylum seekers at risk of gender-based persecution and at risk of FGM in particular.	Elise Petitpas, Johanna Nelles	4 June, 2015
FMR 49, FGM - Changing attitudes in Finland towards FGM	Former refugee women are now working as professional educators among immigrant and refugee communities in Finland to tackle ignorance of the impact and extent of female genital mutilation/cutting.	Saido Mohamed, Solomie Teshome	4 June, 2015
What archaeological data tell us about the movement of populations in the last millenia	What archaeological data tell us about the movement of populations in the last millenia: presented by Nicolas Zorzin	Nicolas Zorzin	4 June, 2015
FMR 48 - From the Editors	An introductory note on FMR 48, 'Faith and Responses to Displacement', from the Editors.	Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson	4 June, 2015
Applying a gender lens to migration and development: insights from research in Southern Africa	Applying a gender lens to migration and development: insights from research in Southern Africa: presented by Belinda Dodson	Belinda Dodson	4 June, 2015
FMR 48 - Religious leaders unite to disarm hearts and minds	In the Central African Republic, where religion has been used as a tool to divide and manipulate the population, religious leaders have come together to promote tolerance and forgiveness as a basis for rebuilding peaceful cohabitation.	Monsignor Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Imam Omar Kobine Layama, Pastor Nicolas Guerekoyame Gbangou	4 June, 2015
FMR 48 - Local faith actors and protection in complex and insecure environments	Faith leaders, faith-based organisations and local faith communities play a major role in the protection of people affected by conflict, disaster and displacement. Humanitarians, however, have only recently begun to fully appreciate their protection work.	James Thomson	4 June, 2015
FMR 48 - The value of accompaniment	Friendship and compassionate companionship with the most vulnerable provide a powerful type of humanitarian service giving priority to personal accompaniment.	Joe Hampson, Thomas M Crea, Rocío Calvo, Francisco Álvarez	4 June, 2015
FMR 48 - How local faith communities can aid asylum seekers	Local faith communities are able to offer assistance to asylum seekers in ways that faith-based organisations, constrained by eligibility criteria, are not.	Kelly Barneche, ‘Joe’	4 June, 2015

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