Centre for Refugee Studies
The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) at York University, Toronto, Canada, is an interdisciplinary community of researchers dedicated to advancing the well-being of refugees and others displaced by violence, persecution, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation through innovative research, education, and policy engagement. Since its inception in 1988, CRS is recognized as an international leader in the creation, mobilization, and dissemination of new knowledge that addresses forced migration issues in local, national and global contexts.
2025 CRS Summer Course Introduction
Refugee Protection in Japan and Canada: Some Musings on Sovereignty, Borders and Human Rights
When USAID Freezes, Who Pays? The Dangerous Myth of Remittances in Global Crises
Questions of Privileged Migration to North America in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Meet the editors of Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees!
Rencontre avec la rédaction de Refuge: revue canadienne sur les réfugiés!
Future Returns: Labor, Revolution and Sudan in the Middle East
Singing my own story
Book Launch: Canada-Chile Solidarity 1973-1990: Testimonies of Civil Society Action
Exploring belonging: Experiences of refugee children and families in Camp Cosmos
From Sovereignty to Solidarity: National vs. Urban Approaches to Migration
Stories that Save Lives: The Boom of Iranian Refugee Memoirs
Climate Change, Migration, and Pandemics: Human Rights in the Anthropocene
Deporting Refugees: Hidden Injustice in Canada
The history and role of meaningful refugee participation in the global refugee regime
Absorptive capacity of refugee host communities
Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential
Annual Howard Adelman Lecture - Who Gets In: Musings on Race, Migration and Belonging
CRS Expert Seminar: Development-induced displacement engaging intersections in a quest for solutions
Maritime Refugee Arrivals and Security Inadmissibility in Canada
A definitional issue? Postcolonial paradox of the refugee/migrant binary in the subcontinent
The Return Question Under Protracted Refugee Situation: Perspectives from Syrians in Turkey
The Land of Open Graves
Meet a speaker: Michaela Hynie, Professor, Department of Psychology/Centre for Refugee Studies
Meet a speaker: James Milner, Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University
Meet a speaker: Christina Clark-Kazak, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
Meet the speakers: BHER CRS Summer Course Introduction
Does Research on Refugees Help Refugees? - Howard Adelman, April 10, 2008
SINGH V MEI–An Expectation Fulfilled? Reflections on the 1985 Singh Decision - Barbara Jackman, 2009
A View from Guantanamo Bay: Omar Khadr and Canada’s Commitment to Human Rights - Alex Neve, 2010