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39 Refuge 1 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/rfgcjr39 and id is 1 raw text is: Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees / Refuge : revue canadienne sur les refugies 2023, Vol. 39, No. 1, 1-4 https://doi.org/0.25071/1920-7336.41169 Filling a Critical Gap: Refuge at 40 Jennifer Hyndmana HISTORY Published 2023-03-28 KEY WORDs forced migration studies; refugees; Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees Refuge is an engaged scholarly outcome of the fraught Cold War in Vietnam and the human displacement that it spawned. It is a fundamental catalyst of Refugee Studies, also known as Forced Migration Studies, as an interdisciplinary scholarly field and vital medium for mobilizing knowledge about human displacement. As I begin to co-author my next paper for Refuge, I accepted this invitation to mark the journal's four decades of publishing as an opportunity to reflect on how critical this venue has been to the emergence of the field of refugee studies, and on my own avid interest in the journal as a scholar. My engagement with Refuge has been as frequent author and co-author (Brunner et al., 2014; Hyndman, 1996, 1997a, 1997b, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2013; Hyndman & Reynolds, 2020; Hynie et al., 2019; Khan & Hyndman, 2015; Sherrell & Hyndman, 2006) beginning in the 1990s as a graduate student. I later served as an editorial board member, and as champion of the journal from 2013 to 2019 in my role as Director of York Uni- versity's Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), during which time I contributed to funding submissions and editorial searches to support Refuge. While I have witnessed Refuge's impact factor soar in the last decade (Clark-Kazak et al., 2022), that has never been my motiva- tion to publish in the journal. Refuge stands out for other reasons, in many ways leading the modest pack of periodicals in the field by addressing forced migration issues with an open-access, peer-reviewed, bilingual approach, making new research findings and insights easier to access and share in regions of the Global South and among aca- demics who may not have subscriptions that transcend the paywalls that characterize so many periodicals today. With more than 85% of refugees in Global South locations and many scholarly refugee and forced migration research centres based there (UNHCR, 2022), this open access enables much wider and more inclusive participation in conversations with scholars from across the world. Understanding the founding of the inter- disciplinary field known loosely as Refugee Studies, or Forced Migration Studies, is in- separable from the foundation of Refuge in 1981 and underscores its fundamental role in translating interdisciplinary knowl- edge, while also being produced by it. Both the interdisciplinary field of refugee studies and the journal can be traced back to the 1980s and massive human displacement in Southeast Asia. They are scholarly legacies of global human displacement generated CONTACT a 0 jhyndman@yorku.ca, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada © Hyndman, J. 2023

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