Nicholas Maple
@nicholasmaple.bsky.social
Lecturer at Refugee Law Initiative, University of London | Working on displacement and mobility | Co-Editor in Chief Refugee Survey Quarterly | Research Associate at African Centre for Migration and Society
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Nicholas Maple
@nicholasmaple.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Refugee Reception in Southern Africa - University of London Press
A new understanding of state-based refugee reception that reflects the complex dynamics of contemporary refugee arrival. It is no longer realistic (if it ever was) to understand persons who flee acros...
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The book sets out a new understanding of state-based refugee reception that reflects the complex dynamics of contemporary refugee arrival in Southern Africa.
It's out now and open access through @uolpress.bsky.social -
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
It's out now and open access through @uolpress.bsky.social -
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
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📢 Call for Extended Abstracts – Refugee Survey Quarterly’s Perspectives on Displacement
If you would be interested in writing a piece for the Perspectives on Displacement series, for publication in late 2026, please submit an extended abstract (maximum 600 words)
📝 Deadline: 29 September 2025.
If you would be interested in writing a piece for the Perspectives on Displacement series, for publication in late 2026, please submit an extended abstract (maximum 600 words)
📝 Deadline: 29 September 2025.
August 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
📢 Call for Extended Abstracts – Refugee Survey Quarterly’s Perspectives on Displacement
If you would be interested in writing a piece for the Perspectives on Displacement series, for publication in late 2026, please submit an extended abstract (maximum 600 words)
📝 Deadline: 29 September 2025.
If you would be interested in writing a piece for the Perspectives on Displacement series, for publication in late 2026, please submit an extended abstract (maximum 600 words)
📝 Deadline: 29 September 2025.
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New Advance Article from our Perspectives on Displacement series [OPEN ACCESS]
Romola Sanyal examines The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection
🔗Read more: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
Romola Sanyal examines The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection
🔗Read more: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
August 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
New Advance Article from our Perspectives on Displacement series [OPEN ACCESS]
Romola Sanyal examines The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection
🔗Read more: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
Romola Sanyal examines The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection
🔗Read more: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
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📝Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) Volume 44, Issue 2 is now out!
The new issue features: Perspectives on Displacement Paper Series responding to David Owen’s: “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” and Six original research articles.
📄 Contents below
🔗 Read the issue online: lnkd.in/dFWfc4FP
The new issue features: Perspectives on Displacement Paper Series responding to David Owen’s: “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” and Six original research articles.
📄 Contents below
🔗 Read the issue online: lnkd.in/dFWfc4FP
June 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
📝Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) Volume 44, Issue 2 is now out!
The new issue features: Perspectives on Displacement Paper Series responding to David Owen’s: “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” and Six original research articles.
📄 Contents below
🔗 Read the issue online: lnkd.in/dFWfc4FP
The new issue features: Perspectives on Displacement Paper Series responding to David Owen’s: “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” and Six original research articles.
📄 Contents below
🔗 Read the issue online: lnkd.in/dFWfc4FP
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I'm pleased to say that the published version of my article 'Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges' is now out in the latest issue of the Refugee Survey Quarterly academic.oup.com/rsq/article-...
Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges
Abstract. This article seeks to conceptualise evacuations as a form of human mobility. Although evacuations represent a large proportion of annual global “
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June 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I'm pleased to say that the published version of my article 'Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges' is now out in the latest issue of the Refugee Survey Quarterly academic.oup.com/rsq/article-...
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My piece on the need for frameworks that embrace critical, decolonial, non-state-centric approaches is now up as "editor's choice" & free to download! @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social
It's a response to Owen's invitation to think w "displacement" as framing concept academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...
It's a response to Owen's invitation to think w "displacement" as framing concept academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...
June 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My piece on the need for frameworks that embrace critical, decolonial, non-state-centric approaches is now up as "editor's choice" & free to download! @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social
It's a response to Owen's invitation to think w "displacement" as framing concept academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...
It's a response to Owen's invitation to think w "displacement" as framing concept academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...
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For World Refugee Day, we'd like to highlight this recent #OpenAccess title in the #CriticalHumanRightsStudies series, published with @hrc-sas.bsky.social & @icws-sas.bsky.social: #Refugee Reception in Southern Africa by @nicholasmaple.bsky.social.
Available here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
Available here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
June 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
For World Refugee Day, we'd like to highlight this recent #OpenAccess title in the #CriticalHumanRightsStudies series, published with @hrc-sas.bsky.social & @icws-sas.bsky.social: #Refugee Reception in Southern Africa by @nicholasmaple.bsky.social.
Available here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
Available here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
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📢 Great news from Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ)!
Our 2024 journal metrics are in:
📈 Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.2
📈 5-Year Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.3
📈 CiteScore: 3.0
Thanks to our amazing authors, reviewers & readers for making this possible!
🔗 Read & submit here: academic.oup.com/rsq
Our 2024 journal metrics are in:
📈 Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.2
📈 5-Year Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.3
📈 CiteScore: 3.0
Thanks to our amazing authors, reviewers & readers for making this possible!
🔗 Read & submit here: academic.oup.com/rsq
Refugee Survey Quarterly | Oxford Academic
Publishes research focusing on the challenges of forced migration from multidisciplinary and policy-oriented perspectives. The journal provides a vehicle for wide-ranging analyses and exploration of f...
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June 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
📢 Great news from Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ)!
Our 2024 journal metrics are in:
📈 Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.2
📈 5-Year Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.3
📈 CiteScore: 3.0
Thanks to our amazing authors, reviewers & readers for making this possible!
🔗 Read & submit here: academic.oup.com/rsq
Our 2024 journal metrics are in:
📈 Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.2
📈 5-Year Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.3
📈 CiteScore: 3.0
Thanks to our amazing authors, reviewers & readers for making this possible!
🔗 Read & submit here: academic.oup.com/rsq
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How do labels like ‘migrant’ or ‘citizen’ affect lives?
An interview with @ashleymhollands.bsky.social to talk about the annual conference organised by @globalcit.bsky.social and @mpc-eui.bsky.social at @eui-schuman.bsky.social.
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
An interview with @ashleymhollands.bsky.social to talk about the annual conference organised by @globalcit.bsky.social and @mpc-eui.bsky.social at @eui-schuman.bsky.social.
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
Who belongs? Rethinking migration, citizenship, and the politics of labels
Interdisciplinary scholars explore how governments draw the line between inclusion and exclusionand why those lines matter more than ever
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June 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
How do labels like ‘migrant’ or ‘citizen’ affect lives?
An interview with @ashleymhollands.bsky.social to talk about the annual conference organised by @globalcit.bsky.social and @mpc-eui.bsky.social at @eui-schuman.bsky.social.
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
An interview with @ashleymhollands.bsky.social to talk about the annual conference organised by @globalcit.bsky.social and @mpc-eui.bsky.social at @eui-schuman.bsky.social.
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
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New on our Advance Articles Series: Towards Global Displacement Studies?: A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' by @alibhagat.bsky.social
Read the Full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
Read the Full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
Towards Global Displacement Studies?: A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?'
Abstract. This response advocates for the conceptual utility of displacement and the potential emergence of Global Displacement Studies (GDS). I argue that
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June 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New on our Advance Articles Series: Towards Global Displacement Studies?: A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' by @alibhagat.bsky.social
Read the Full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
Read the Full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
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Pleased to have my short piece “Towards Global Displacement Studies?” Out in @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social . The article is a response to David Owen’s thought-provoking article “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” :https://academic.oup.com/rsq/article/doi/10.1093/rsq/hdaf005/8157466
June 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Pleased to have my short piece “Towards Global Displacement Studies?” Out in @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social . The article is a response to David Owen’s thought-provoking article “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” :https://academic.oup.com/rsq/article/doi/10.1093/rsq/hdaf005/8157466
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New publication announcement! here we challenge prevailing assumptions re humanitarian governance by exposing how gender-blind and gender-sensitive protection regimes often reinforce, rather than resolve, vulnerabilities faced by forcibly displaced women. academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
May 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New publication announcement! here we challenge prevailing assumptions re humanitarian governance by exposing how gender-blind and gender-sensitive protection regimes often reinforce, rather than resolve, vulnerabilities faced by forcibly displaced women. academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
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New Advance Article : @jasminldiab.bsky.social examines Displacement as Decolonial Praxis: Centring Intersectionality in Forced Migration Studies. A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?'
Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
doi.org
June 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
New Advance Article : @jasminldiab.bsky.social examines Displacement as Decolonial Praxis: Centring Intersectionality in Forced Migration Studies. A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?'
Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
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New on our new Perspectives on Displacement series: Refuting State-Centric Framings: Response to David Owen’s 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' by @eleanorbpaynter.net
Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
doi.org
June 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
New on our new Perspectives on Displacement series: Refuting State-Centric Framings: Response to David Owen’s 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' by @eleanorbpaynter.net
Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
Read the full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
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Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) is now on Bluesky! One of the oldest refugee studies journals, RSQ publishes peer-reviewed work at the intersection of research, policy & practice on forced displacement. Follow us @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social for updates, calls & critical insights. #RSQonBluesky
June 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) is now on Bluesky! One of the oldest refugee studies journals, RSQ publishes peer-reviewed work at the intersection of research, policy & practice on forced displacement. Follow us @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social for updates, calls & critical insights. #RSQonBluesky
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"no framing is neutral & reproducing state- & institution-driven terms or outputs upholds the world they inscribe"
In this piece just out with Refugee Survey Quarterly, I take up David Owen's discussion of "displacement" as field-framing concept 1/
free access: academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...
In this piece just out with Refugee Survey Quarterly, I take up David Owen's discussion of "displacement" as field-framing concept 1/
free access: academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...
Refuting State-Centric Framings: Response to David Owen’s 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?'
Abstract. Building on Owen’s discussion of “displacement” as a potential reorienting concept for Forced Migration Studies, and recognising the interdiscipl
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June 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"no framing is neutral & reproducing state- & institution-driven terms or outputs upholds the world they inscribe"
In this piece just out with Refugee Survey Quarterly, I take up David Owen's discussion of "displacement" as field-framing concept 1/
free access: academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...
In this piece just out with Refugee Survey Quarterly, I take up David Owen's discussion of "displacement" as field-framing concept 1/
free access: academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...
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... and I'm glad to be in the excellent company of @jasminldiab.bsky.social in this forum! 4/ bsky.app/profile/jasm...
June 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
... and I'm glad to be in the excellent company of @jasminldiab.bsky.social in this forum! 4/ bsky.app/profile/jasm...
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EVENT NEXT WEEK - Breaking through the Wall: Taking Forced Migration Research Outside the Academy, Tuesday 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30 BST, Beveridge Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
rli.sas.ac.uk/events/break...
#Migration #Displacement #ForcedDisplacement #AmericanHistory
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#Migration #Displacement #ForcedDisplacement #AmericanHistory
May 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
EVENT NEXT WEEK - Breaking through the Wall: Taking Forced Migration Research Outside the Academy, Tuesday 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30 BST, Beveridge Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
rli.sas.ac.uk/events/break...
#Migration #Displacement #ForcedDisplacement #AmericanHistory
rli.sas.ac.uk/events/break...
#Migration #Displacement #ForcedDisplacement #AmericanHistory
Happy to see the below (with Dr Lucy Hovil) in the latest issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies:
academic.oup.com/jrs/issue/38/1
If interested in a copy and have access issues, please message me.
academic.oup.com/jrs/issue/38/1
If interested in a copy and have access issues, please message me.
May 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Happy to see the below (with Dr Lucy Hovil) in the latest issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies:
academic.oup.com/jrs/issue/38/1
If interested in a copy and have access issues, please message me.
academic.oup.com/jrs/issue/38/1
If interested in a copy and have access issues, please message me.
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Apply now for a full scholarship to the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies!!!
We are pleased to again be partnering with Commonwealth Scholarship Commission to offer 10 full scholarships for the October 2025 intake.
Learn more here:
rli.sas.ac.uk/news/apply-a...
We are pleased to again be partnering with Commonwealth Scholarship Commission to offer 10 full scholarships for the October 2025 intake.
Learn more here:
rli.sas.ac.uk/news/apply-a...
April 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Apply now for a full scholarship to the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies!!!
We are pleased to again be partnering with Commonwealth Scholarship Commission to offer 10 full scholarships for the October 2025 intake.
Learn more here:
rli.sas.ac.uk/news/apply-a...
We are pleased to again be partnering with Commonwealth Scholarship Commission to offer 10 full scholarships for the October 2025 intake.
Learn more here:
rli.sas.ac.uk/news/apply-a...
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Read our latest #RLI monthly update at the link below 👇👇👇
mailchi.mp/london/refug...
#Refugees #RefugeeLaw #ForcedDisplacement
mailchi.mp/london/refug...
#Refugees #RefugeeLaw #ForcedDisplacement
March 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Read our latest #RLI monthly update at the link below 👇👇👇
mailchi.mp/london/refug...
#Refugees #RefugeeLaw #ForcedDisplacement
mailchi.mp/london/refug...
#Refugees #RefugeeLaw #ForcedDisplacement
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This third piece in the new RLI series examines both IHR Law and IH Law and argues for reorienting protection frameworks to ensure fuller protection of people displaced by criminal violence.
Link: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
@rli-sas.bsky.social
@idmc-geneva.bsky.social
Link: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
@rli-sas.bsky.social
@idmc-geneva.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This third piece in the new RLI series examines both IHR Law and IH Law and argues for reorienting protection frameworks to ensure fuller protection of people displaced by criminal violence.
Link: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
@rli-sas.bsky.social
@idmc-geneva.bsky.social
Link: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
@rli-sas.bsky.social
@idmc-geneva.bsky.social
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Our Research Methods short course started today with a global cohort of participants and engaging modules related to methods, #methodology and #ethics of conducting #research within the fields of #refugee and #forcedmigration!
rli.sas.ac.uk/study-us/sho...
#phdstudents #earlycareerresearchers
rli.sas.ac.uk/study-us/sho...
#phdstudents #earlycareerresearchers
Research Methods in the Refugee and Forced Migration Field
rli.sas.ac.uk
March 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Our Research Methods short course started today with a global cohort of participants and engaging modules related to methods, #methodology and #ethics of conducting #research within the fields of #refugee and #forcedmigration!
rli.sas.ac.uk/study-us/sho...
#phdstudents #earlycareerresearchers
rli.sas.ac.uk/study-us/sho...
#phdstudents #earlycareerresearchers
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Online #RLI Seminar THIS MONTH 👇👇👇
Unsung asylum: The law and practice of refugee hosting in communist and authoritarian states, 21 March 2025, 11:00AM - 12:30AM GMT online via Zoom
rli.sas.ac.uk/events/unsun...
#Asylum #Refugees #RefugeeLaw #CommunistStates #Communism #AuthoritarianStates
Unsung asylum: The law and practice of refugee hosting in communist and authoritarian states, 21 March 2025, 11:00AM - 12:30AM GMT online via Zoom
rli.sas.ac.uk/events/unsun...
#Asylum #Refugees #RefugeeLaw #CommunistStates #Communism #AuthoritarianStates
March 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Online #RLI Seminar THIS MONTH 👇👇👇
Unsung asylum: The law and practice of refugee hosting in communist and authoritarian states, 21 March 2025, 11:00AM - 12:30AM GMT online via Zoom
rli.sas.ac.uk/events/unsun...
#Asylum #Refugees #RefugeeLaw #CommunistStates #Communism #AuthoritarianStates
Unsung asylum: The law and practice of refugee hosting in communist and authoritarian states, 21 March 2025, 11:00AM - 12:30AM GMT online via Zoom
rli.sas.ac.uk/events/unsun...
#Asylum #Refugees #RefugeeLaw #CommunistStates #Communism #AuthoritarianStates
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Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine
* Anneliese Dodds: soft left intellectual pushed to resign over Starmer’s slide right
* UK politics live – latest updates…
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February 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget