Refugee Research in Context (RRIC) is an online resource that makes academic research about forced migration accessible to the public, the media, practitioners, and policymakers. We assemble and present an in-depth look at timely issues, some of which have garnered significant public and media attention while others are under-examined.
We aim to:
- Provide content and analysis that will increase public engagement with the historical, political, economic, and social justice questions underlying contemporary refugee issues
- Identify emerging and/or ongoing Issues of forced migration
- Synthesize relevant research on contemporary situations of forced migration
- Contribute to the decolonization and democratization of knowledge
The RRIC launched in 2018 and emerged out of the Refugee Research Network (RRN) [hyperlink: http://refugeeresearch.net/] project, which has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) since 2007. The RRN is a global network of researchers and research centres [hyperlink- international research centres] committed to the study of refugee and forced migration issues and to engaging policymakers and practitioners in these discussions. One of the strengths of the RRN is the development of new intellectual spaces in refugee research that foster networking, collaboration, and knowledge mobilization. This can be seen through the active online community that reaches over 40 thousand people across sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia. We continue this work through the RRIC to encourage a deeper and more critical understanding of global displacement.