This research aims to understand how Syrian refugee families who came to Oxfordshire via the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Scheme (SVPRS) have been adapting to life in the UK. Following the completion of the second phase of research in April 2019, with new funding from the John Fell Fund this study has entered a third phase from September 2019. The scope is now expanded to include: 1) SVPRS families who were settled in other districts of Oxfordshire, and 2) Syrian refugees who did not use SVPRS but spontaneously chose to settle in Oxford of their own accord.

The Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) team at the UK's Department for Education (DfE) has observed that the increase in the number of UASC arriving in the country over the last couple of years has created a particular challenge for the team: the mandatory National Transfer Scheme has meant that UASC are increasingly less concentrated geographically.

This Leverhulme Trust funded project focuses on the experiences of refugee children from a range of geographical spaces: North Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, Rwanda, Iran, Iraq and Syria. The focus is on those who have sought asylum in either neighbouring countries or the UK, Europe and the USA.