
28 January 2025
Oxford Brookes applies for University of Sanctuary status
Oxford Brookes University has taken a significant step forward in its commitment to supporting refugees and asylum seekers by applying for University of Sanctuary status.
Today more people than ever before are on the move: within countries, over borders, across continents. In 2019 the UN estimated, globally, there were over 270 million migrants and those figures rise, year on year.
Dealing with the challenges and transformations caused by this shift pose major problems and some opportunities for governments at every level, from the broadly international to the intensely local.
Our Network engages directly with these issues. It embraces an enriching interdisciplinarity, with researchers and practitioners from social anthropology, refugee studies, sociology, political science, computer science, media studies, psychology, legal scholars, business studies, among other disciplines.
From whatever disciplines we come, whatever research partnerships we form, our work centres on the predicament and opportunities of migrants and refugees today, globally. Our research includes, for example, studies into refugee entrepreneurship and their integration into the labour market, migrants as political agents, housing for forced migrants, migrant children in education, and computing models for managing migrants’ data.
We will work together with both colleagues in other universities and research centres, both in Europe and beyond. Above all, we will seek to collaborate with institutions, government agents, and practitioners in charitable and public policy sectors, on projects of mutual interest.
The history of migration into Britain, 1905 to 2020. This session forms part of the Dialogue in Migration and Refugee Studies Lecture and Seminar Series.
Oxford Brookes University has taken a significant step forward in its commitment to supporting refugees and asylum seekers by applying for University of Sanctuary status.
In October 2023, the Migration and Refugee Network partnered with the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) and the ShelterBox Book Club to co-organize an event titled "The Power of Literature for Peace and Equality."
Three RIKE Networks have been awarded the Brookes Research Excellence Award (22/23) for research titled: Ageing in Displacement: Improving older refugees’ experiences of migration and ageing in the UK.
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Who can join?
External partners: Work with us
If partners outside of Oxford Brookes University are interested to work with the Migration and Refugees network, please contact us via the email mrncontact@brookes.ac.uk
Banner image: Syrian refugee by FreedomHouse is marked with CC PDM 1.0
About image: Portrait of a Refugee by babasteve is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0