The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) at York 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 has been 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.
Upcoming events
May 2025
Making Migration Methodologies Series: Embodying Migration: How to do Body Mapping
June 2025
Making Migration Methodologies Series: Migrant Lives Online: Practicing Digital Research Methods
Making Migration Methodologies Series: Drawing the City: Social Cartographies of Lives on the Move
View past events
Access to Education at York University for Students with Forced Migration Backgrounds
Sept 10 2024
Message from incoming CRS Director Yvonne Su
August 26 2024
Saying goodbye to Michael Creal
June 28 2024
Message from outgoing CRS Director Sean Rehaag
June 19 2024
Marriage economics, bargaining and strategic agency: Egyptian-Syrian intermarriage practices in the context of displacement (Dina Taha, International Journal of Intercultural Relations)
May 5 2024
Setting the record straight on refugee claims by international students (Yvonne Su, Corey Robinson, Sean Rehaag, The Conversation)
Nov 16 2023
Canada must stop treating climate disasters like unexpected humanitarian crises (Yvonne Su, Will Greaves, The Conversation)
Nov 8 2023
Unpacking Elon Musk’s convoluted U.S.-Mexico border visit (Yvonne Su, The Conversation, Nov 5 2023)
July 25 2023
Saying Goodbye to Howard Adelman
July 24 2023
Yvonne Su on CBC Radio: How climate change is affecting people's movements around the planet
April 30 2023
Canada’s costly housing market leaves international students open to exploitation (The Conversation)
April 24 2023
Fellowship for Refugees on Surveillance Technologies
Sept 12 2022
Geopolitics of Education for Peace: Spaces of Struggle & Resistance (featured project website)
June 9 2022
Central America’s caravan of mothers: Personal grief and political grievance (The Conversation)
by Linn Biorklund
June 8 2022
How LGBTQI+ to LGBTQI+ support is helping Ukrainian refugees find safety in the EU (The New Humanitarian)
Co-authors: Yvonne Su, Tyler Valiquette, Aydan Greatrick, Corey Robinson
May 30 2022
Visualizing Asylum Applications (Canada 2000-2020)
The CRS-co-hosted Refugee Law Laboratory has released new asylum data visualizations, using UNHCR data.
Jan 24 2022
Why migrants risk everything to cross borders in unsafe conditions (Global News)
Nov 25, 2021
Immigrant workers at Alberta meat plants vulnerable to dangerous conditions, research finds, (Calgary Herald)
Sept 23, 2021
Wildfire and flood disasters are causing ‘climate migration’ within Canada, by Yvonne Su, (The Conversation)
January 2021
Message from the Director
January 2021
2020 Winner of "Haiku Your Research" Contest
