Editors
Simon Turner
Megan Bradley
Editorial Board
The Journal of Refugee Studies is pleased to welcome three new members to its editorial team:
Matthew Bird: Associate Editor
Nassim Majidi and Dalia Malek: Associate Editors for Field Reflections
Journal of Refugee Studies Early-Career Researcher Prize
The annual Prize will recognize an outstanding article published in an issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies in the preceding calendar year by an early-career researcher.
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New Reviews section of Journal of Refugee Studies
From 2021, Journal of Refugee Studies has replaced the Book Reviews section of the journal with a more inclusive Reviews section. We encourage submissions of materials and sources including written texts and academic manuscripts, but wish to expand significantly beyond these formats.
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High Impact Research
Keep up to date with the latest research your peers are reading and citing, with a collection of the most cited articles published in Journal of Refugee Studies in recent years.
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Special Issue: What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda
Browse this special issue where we have collated research to help bridge the gap between refugee law and refugee studies and foster a broader transdisciplinary research agenda on law within refugee studies scholarship.
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Refugee studies on the OUPblog
- The important role of animals in refugee lives
- Performing for their lives: LGBT individuals seeking asylum
- Europe’s real refugee crisis: unaccompanied minors
View all articles by Khalid Koser on the OUPblog.

Special section
This December 2023 issue features a special section exploring education for refugees.

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Forced Migration and Refugee Studies
Explore a collection of leading refugee studies research from Oxford University Press books, journals, and online resources. This collection covers a diverse breadth of regions and topics, including climate migrants, asylum policy in rich democracies, and the impact of COVID-19 on refugees.
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Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) Initiative
Your institution could be eligible to free or deeply discounted online access to Journal of Refugee Studies through the Oxford Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) Initiative.
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