Partners: FMRS, Egypt

The Forced Migration and Refugee Studies (FMRS) Programme at the American University at Cairo, Egypt, has a regional research agenda on forced migration and refugees in urban centres of the 'South'. With funding from the Ford Foundation, FMRS has established a one-year graduate Diploma in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies. FMRS currently includes 12 faculty members from anthropology, political science, law, psychology and journalism and communication studies and has a library with online catalogue and resources funded by the Mellon Foundation.

FMRS role in the DRC

Following a focus on DFID priority countries in 2008-09, FMRS is not currently actively participating in DRC research, but it is still partnering on number of other projects.
FMRS has been closely involved in establishing the DRC and deciding its research themes. FMRS has worked on the following DRC research projects:

	1e: Gendered 'return home' - Sudanese refugees are coming back
	5a: Internal and International migration in Egypt
	6b: Forced Migration and Policy in the Middle East
	6d: A social profile and analysis of migrant domestic employees in Cairo