Howard Adelman, CRS Founding Director, Philosophy and Social &  Political Thought

• (Sudanese and Somali refugees as well as IDPs in Darfur. Historically, Palestinians and all pre-1990 resettled refugees in Canada, asylum policies, war and peace, genocide, early warning of conflict and displacement, peace processes, humanitarian intervention, ethics, Africa, Southwest Asia, border harmonization as efforts to create security perimeters, areas relevant to the September, 11th 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, and The New Immigration Regulations.

Sharryn Aiken, Editor of Refuge and former Director of the CRS Summer Course on Refugee Issues (refugee law, immigration law, international criminal law)

Bruce Collet, CRS Research Associate and Summer Course Academic Director (refugee education)

Michael Creal, CRS NGO Liaison Coordinator (refugees in limbo)

M. Khalis Hassan, CRS Faculty (Kurdish migration and refugee affairs in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria, politics in Iraq)

Lawrence Lam, Education Coordinator, Sociology (resettlement and integration, East and South-East Asian diasporas)

Michael Lanphier, CRS Deputy Director, Sociology (asylum policies, resettlement and integration, ethnic studies)

Susan McGrath, Director of CRS, School of Social Work, (refugee women’s mental health, rehabilitation of survivors of torture, community education and practice, community-based social development and trauma rehabilitation in Rwanda)

Haideh Moghissi, Social Sciences and Women’s Studies (Islamic diasporas, racism, gender issues)

Peter Penz, former Director of CRS, Environmental Studies (development-induced displacement, humanitarian intervention, justice and burden-sharing, ethics, South Asia)

Anthony Richmond, (Sociology, Emeritus) comparative studies of immigration, refugee policies and ethnic relations in Canada and other countries, particularly the U.K.

Alan Simmons, Sociology (migration, refugee return and national reconstruction, Latin America)

Please call CRS for contact information for the above-listed CRS Faculty Members.

Andrew Forbes Refugee Resource Centre

In 2001, the CRS' Andrew Forbes Refugee Resource Centre bibliographic database, featuring over 12,000 records went on-line.

Please call the Resource Centre at (416) 736-2100 ext.66560 for step-by-step instructions on how to use this database. 

Please click one of the following links.  It is recommended researchers use Version 5.5 (or later,) of Microsoft's Internet Explorer when searching our database - as the 'Word Wheel' function (an important feature of the database software,) is currently not reliable with certain versions of the Netscape Navigator browser.

Search Screens:

Advanced/Detailed Query Screen

(SELECT THIS LINK IF YOU ARE A RESEARCHER INTERESTED IN SEARCHING THE WHOLE CRS COLLECTION - 12,000 RECORDS)

Basic Query Screen

(not recommended for first-time users)

EMPIRICAL (Video) Query Screen

SELECT THIS LINK IF YOU ARE AN EMPIRICAL PROJECT COURSE DIRECTOR, STUDENT, OR RESEARCHER.

ATTENTION -  EMPIRICAL Course Directors / Researchers:  Please click here for detailed instructions on how to use this new database.

The CRS Resource Centre

The collection of the Andrew Forbes Refugee Resource Centre at York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies consists of independent documents (monographs), dependant documents (works within documents), primary documents, conference paper collections, journals, newsletters, audio-visual material and photographs. The subject topics for which expanded research collections exist include the following:

• Canadian and comparative refugee policy

• Early warning

• Humanitarian Intervention and Law

• Repatriation

• Resettlement in Canada

• Refugee definitions

• Refugee status determination in Canada

• Refugee aid and development

• Country of origin conditions

• Human Rights

• Immigration policy and statistics

The Resource Centre has a mandate to support the research and teaching activities at CRS. The CRS currently maintains a collection of over 12,000 fully catalogued and indexed documents and over 300 journals and newsletters. The Resource Centre has also actively sought out information in electronic format, including the REFWORLD CD-ROM produced by the UNHCR. The Resource Centre has received donations of significant archival material from leading researchers, NGOs and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The Resource Centre is well-used by York faculty, researchers and students as well as external scholars, NGOs and refugee lawyers.

The Centre for Refugee Studies web site (www.yorku.ca/crs), set up in 1995, provides a gateway to refugee and human rights information on the Internet and is an excellent source of information for international legal instruments on refugees, government documents, scholarly papers, bibliographic citations and general information on refugee issues as well as updates on the work of the Centre itself.

In recent years, the Centre has also received a number of special collections from individual scholars and non-governmental organizations in the field.

Circulation Policy

Please note that, because of the nature of this specialized research library - containing catalogued and often rare or difficult-to-replace documents, this collection does not circulate. Resource Centre staff may occasionally be able to assist or re-direct researchers in the event another copy of a document may be available through some other means/location.

Donations of Books/Research Material

Canadian NGOs and individuals are invited to donate working papers, conference reports, newsletters, archival materials to the Andrew Forbes Refugee Resource Centre at the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.
 

Please contact the CRS Resource Centre Coordinator for more information on resources available to researchers visiting CRS and its web site:

Alternate (old) query screens:  (not recommended)

Search the Resource Centre Database for audio/visual material (advanced/detailed query screen) (http://info.library.yorku.ca/webpub/crs/resource/crsvideo.htm )