Workshop: Queering Migrations: orientations, rights and sexualities in motion

Apologies for cross-posting.

Queering Migrations: orientations, rights and sexualities in motion

The ISET seminar series addresses key issues in the making and remaking of Europe, whether economic, political, social or cultural. In the context of globalization, these extend beyond Europe’s borders, and interrogate definitions of European identity.

The queer deconstruction of heteronormativity is a strategic tool to study the nexus between migration, gender and sexuality.  Its intersectional focus on gender, sexuality and materiality potentially allows a better understanding of the social mobilities, identities and divisions underpinning migration.

During this half day workshop we will explore the theoretical and methodological potential offered by queer analyses of the nexus between migration and sexual orientations.  We will also discuss the complex entanglement of rights and identities characterising the experience of people claiming asylum on the grounds of their sexual orientation and gender identity in the UK.

This workshop will bring together a unique combination of scholars and practitioners addressing these issues from a variety of academic disciplines and fields in the UK

Panel 1: Queer mobilities, methodologies and intersections

Jon Binnie, Manchester Metropolitan University
‘Like a Bomb in the Gasoline Station’: East-West Migration and Transnational Activism around Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland – co-authored with Chris Klesse
Kath Browne, University of Brighton
Queer travels: Unfixing through movement
Nick Mai, ISET, London Metropolitan University
The Fractal Queerness of Non-Heteronormative Sex Workers in the UK and in the EU

Panel 2: Framing non-heteronormative migration and asylum in the UK

Calogero Giametta, ISET, London Metropolitan University
The making of Knowable and Liberated Subjectivities in Queer Asylum Cases in the UK
S.Chelvan, Barrister, No 5 Chambers and King’s College London
Analysing homo and hetero normativities in the narratives of lesbian and gay asylum seekers in the United Kingdom
Erin Power, UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group-UKLGIG
Translating Queer Migration Histories into LGBTI Asylum Cases

The Seminar will take place in the Old Staff Café, T1-20, Tower Building, London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB

Attendance is free but places are limited so it is essential to register in advance at
http://isetspringseminar2012.eventbrite.com/

New Publications on Arab Spring, Humanitarian Emergencies, Children and Minors

Year of Rebellion

The Arab Spring and the Death Toll in the Mediterranean: The True Face of Fortress Europe (StateWatch, Jan. 2012) [text]
See Also : Migrants At Sea blog posting – Statewatch Analysis: The Arab Spring and the death toll in the Mediterranean: the true face of Fortress Europe.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

The EU’s Self-interested Response to Unrest in North Africa: The Meaning of Treaties and Readmission Agreements between Italy and North African States (StateWatch, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies.
A new report published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
[Download Full Report]
(Source:   ALNAP).

Real Time Evaluation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Response to the MENA Civil Unrest (IFRC, Aug. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Year of Rebellion: The State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (Amnesty International, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Landing in Dover

 

Comparative Study on Practices in the Field of Return of Minors (ECRE & Save the Children, Dec. 2011) [text via Refworld]
- See also related checklist. For more information about this project, visit ECRE’s web page.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Higher Education for Refugees. Special issue of Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees, vol. 27, no. 2 (2010) [full-text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Landing in Dover: The Immigration Process Undergone by Unaccompanied Children Arriving in Kent (Children’s Commissioner of England, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

“Supporting Refugee Students in Schools: What Constitutes Inclusive Education?,” International Journal of Inclusive Education, vol. 16, no. 1 (2012) [preprint]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Voice of Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers on Guardianship: A Study on Guardians of Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers in Cyprus (Hope for Children, 2011) [text via Terre des Hommes]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Winding Pathways: Supporting Refugee Students in High School – A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of One EAL Teacher in Manitoba, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies (University of Manitoba, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Forthcoming publication:

 ”I just want to study”: Access to Higher Education for Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Refugee Support Network, Jan. 2012) [info]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Off-Air Recordings WB: 30 January 2012

The following off-air recordings have been requested for the Refugee Council Archive for the week beginning Monday 3o January 2012:

Monday 30 January

2100-2200: BBC2 (1/3) Protecting Our Children.  VideoPlus 1769.  Whole Series Requested.

2100-2200: BBC4: (1/4) Lost Kingdoms of Africa.  VideoPlus 1637635.  Whole Series Requested.

Tuesday 31 January

2100-2200: BBC2: Wonderland – My Son the Rioter.  VideoPlus  1238

2200-2300: BBC4: (2/3) The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard From Johannesburg?  (Series recording).

Wednesday 1 February

2300-0000: Channel 5: (1/5) Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan.  VideoPlus 7449352.  Whole Series Requested.

2320-0035: BBC2: Storyville – Sex, Death and the Gods.  VideoPlus  666994.

Thursday 2 February

2100-2200: BBC2: (3/3) Putin Russia and the West. (Series Recording).

Friday 3 February

 1900-2000: BBC2: Egypt: Children of the Revolution.  VideoPlus: 8999.

Call for Papers: Special 60th Anniversary Issue: “Is the 1951 Convention Outdated?”

Details from the Forced Migration Discussion List.

Call for Papers:   Special 60th Anniversary Issue: “Is the 1951 Convention Outdated?”

Many commentators who criticise the alleged widespread abuse of the refugee protection system point to the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention as the source of the problem. Its supposed generosity constrains government actions and allegedly prevents the adoption of measures that would make the system more effective and efficient. If we consider developments in global modes of transportation and border controls, it becomes apparent that conditions have changed considerably since governments adopted this historic treaty following the Second World War. It is therefore not surprising that the Refugee Convention’s relevance has been questioned in recent years. Yet a closer look at the Convention reveals that it does not include anything relating to status determination procedures which constitute the most burdensome aspect of protection in many rich countries. It does not even guarantee a right to asylum for persecuted people who are granted refugee status. Have national procedures become inefficient because of the Convention or do other factors explain this situation?

The common response from advocates and academics suggests that any opening of discussions on the Refugee Convention will result in diminishing standards which will leave refugees with even less protection. Aside from legitimate fears about a general lack of solidarity and generosity, what specific forms of protection offered in the Convention risk being abandoned? Is there any fundamental right in this refugee treaty that would be threatened or that is not already covered in other areas of international law? Recent cases suggest courts have relied to a large extent on other human rights treaties to provide actual legal protection. What particular reasons lead advocates to prefer the status quo with regards to the Refugee Convention?

For its special issue on the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention, REFUGE invites submissions that explore the debate surrounding the relevance of this historic treaty. In particular, we are interested in papers that recognise the diverging assessments in order to propose approaches that might address current and future problems in a more effective manner.

Submission Deadline: **March 30, 2012**

For more information, visit the Refuge web site at http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/refuge/index.

Human Rights Rights – New Publications

Human Rights Watch World Report

The following publications have recently been published by Human Rights Watch:

Human Rights Watch World Report 2012: Events of 2011.
This is the flagship annual report produced by Human Rights Watch.  “This 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. “

Human Rights Watch state that:

The introductory essay examines the Arab Spring, which has created an extraordinary opportunity for change. The global community has a responsibility to help the long suppressed people of the region seize control of their destiny from often-brutal authoritarian rulers. Standing firmly with people as they demand their legitimate rights is the best way to stop the bloodshed, while principled insistence on respect for rights is the best way to help these popular movements avoid intolerance, lawlessness, and summary revenge once in power.

[Download Full Report]
Human Rights Watch Press Release.
(Source: Human Rights Watch).

The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead: A Human Rights Agenda for Egypt’s New Parliament

This 45-page report sets out nine areas of Egyptian law that the newly elected parliament must urgently reform if the law is to become an instrument that protects Egyptians’ rights rather than represses them. Egypt’s existing laws – the penal code, associations law, assembly law, and emergency law – limit public freedoms necessary for a democratic transition, challenge respect for the rule of law, and impede accountability for abuses by the police and the military.

[Download Full Report]
(Source: Human Rights Watch).

Justice for Serious Crimes before National Courts

Justice for Serious Crimes before National Courts: Uganda’s International Crimes Division

This 29-page briefing paper provides a snapshot of progress from Uganda’s complementarity-related initiative: the International Crimes Division (ICD). The ICD is a division of the High Court with a mandate to prosecute genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, in addition to crimes such as terrorism. Based on research by Human Rights Watch in Uganda in September 2011, this briefing paper analyzes the ICD’s work to date, the obstacles it has encountered, and challenges both for the future work of the ICD and for national accountability efforts more broadly.

[Download Full Report]
(Source: Human Rights Watch).

“They Hunt Us Down for Fun”

“They Hunt Us Down for Fun”: Discrimination and Police Violence Against Transgender Women in Kuwait

This 63-page report documents the physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and persecution that transgender women – individuals who are born male, but identify as female – have faced at the hands of police. The report also documents the discrimination that transgender women have faced on a daily basis – including by members of the public – as a result of the law, an amendment to penal code article 198. Based on interviews with 40 transgender women, as well as with ministry of interior officials, lawyers, doctors, and members of Kuwaiti civil society, the report found that the arbitrary, ill-defined provisions of the law has allowed for numerous abuses to take place.

[Download Full Report]
(Source: Human Rights Watch).

CMRB Events: Imaging Migrants Seminar Series 2012

CMRB

The following seminars have been planned as part of the UEL Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) Semester B seminar series 2012:

Imaging Migrants Seminar Series 2012

25th January 2012

Documentary: Calais: The Last Border and discussion

Marc Issacs (film-maker)

13th Februaury 2012 (Monday 5pm-7pm)

The Cleaners’ Voice

Luis C.Sotelo (film-maker)

Anna Lopes  (University of East London)

29th February 2012

Gevald and the role of truth in documentary

Yohai Hakak (University of Portsmouth)

28th April 2012

Evidence of the transformative moment of decision to migrate, explored through image as archive and memory as testimony.

March Helene Kazan (Goldsmith’s College)

25th April 2012

A Visual Journey through the Balkans: from Socialism to the UK.

Nela Milic (journalist and film-maker)

2nd May 2012

Imagined diasporas: domestic violence migrants within the UK

Janet Bowstead  (London Metropolitan University)

For more details on these seminars, click here.

Call For Papers: Migration Studies

Apologies for cross-posting.

CALL FOR PAPERS: MIGRATION STUDIES

Migration Studies is a new multi-disciplinary refereed journal from Oxford University Press. It will publish work that significantly advances our understanding of the determinants, processes and outcomes of human migration in all its manifestations.

Migration has always defined human populations, and today it is one of the most powerful currents shaping global society. In recent decades, the increasing scope, complexity and salience of human migration have inspired new conceptual and policy vocabularies, and stimulated ground-breaking research efforts across many different academic disciplines.

Migration Studies will contribute to the consolidation of this still-fragmented field of study, developing the core concepts that link different disciplinary perspectives on migration, and bringing new voices into ongoing debates and discussions. Drawing on the expertise and networks of a Global Editorial Board of senior migration scholars, the journal will publish articles of exceptional quality and general interest from around the world.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Migration Studies invites papers that contribute substantively to a core scholarly discipline or sub-discipline, while engaging with migration research in other disciplines. Papers will be reviewed through a global editorial board including senior scholars in each of the following fields:

*Anthropology

*Demography

*Economics

*Forced Migration

*Geography

*History

*International Relations

*Sociology

*Political Science

The editorial team also welcomes book reviews, special issue proposals, and ideas for presenting content in new ways.

HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER

Please send submissions or expressions of interest to migration.studies.oup@gmail.com.

Warm regards,

The Editorial Team: Alan Gamlen (Editor), Alexander Betts, Thomas  Lacroix, Emanuela Paoletti, Nando Sigona and Carlos Vargas-Silva (Associate Editors).

Event: Intersectionality and the Spaces of Belonging

CMRB

Details taken from the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) website at the University of East London:

Intersectionality and the Spaces of Belonging

28-29 June 2012 Bangor University, UK

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London, UK.   Nira Yuval-Davis will speak on the subject of her recent book, The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations.
Prof. Jie-Hyun Lim, Director of the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea/ Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.  Jie-Hyun Lim will speak on his current research project, ‘A transnational history of victimhood nationalism: national mourning and global accountability’. Dr Gurminder K. Bhambra, Director of the Social Theory Centre, University of Warwick, UK .  Gurminder K. Bhambra will speak on her current research on early African-American sociologists and their conceptions of identity, inequality, and social theory.

Overview:
Current debates on gender, nation, sexuality, religion and other categories of social divisions and belonging often address the relations between these categories with the term ‘intersectionality’: intersecting in an infinite variety of ways, each of these categories helps construct all the others. What we are, what we suffer, what we belong to, or what we long to be, is multifaceted and contradictory. Our longings, or aversions, are related to our belongings in but complicated and ambiguous ways, and what social group or category we belong to does not determine our political or cultural values, goals or dreams. And yet: the former inform the latter, if only to the extent that we do not wish to remain tomorrow what we are today. Nor do our positionings, situatedness and belongings simply add up to an ‘identity’ (a being so and not other) – as if my hold of ‘ethnicity no. 7’ plus ‘gender no. 2’ plus ‘citizenship in state no. 11’ etcetera could ever equate to exactly what ‘I am’: ‘citizenship in state no. 11’ does not mean the same depending on whether I am of this or that sex, or sexuality, or age, or ethnicity. These intersections complicate, perhaps thwart, any efforts to ground the cultural and political projects, coalitions, emancipation that we long for in the spaces (physical, virtual, rhetorical) we belong to. The organisers welcome critical contributions on all aspects of ‘spaces of belonging’ under the perspective of the concept of intersectionality. Theoretically informed contributions from scholars in all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, broadly conceived, are invited, as well as from social and community activists or artists. Key themes of interest to the conference include, but are in no way limited to:

• Citizenship, cultural and state membership • Nation, race, ethnicity, nationality • Indigeneity •         Diasporas •  Religion •  Cosmopolitanism and human rights • Longing and the non-space of utopia • Majority-minority relations • Class and belonging •  Sex, gender and sexuality • Standpoints, dialogues and politics of recognition •   Virtual spaces of belonging • Belonging, feeling, intimacy •  Belonging and equality •   Age-spaces and ability-spaces

Abstract Submission:

Please submit, by January 22nd 2012, a proposal of between 300-500 words, including title and references, prepared for blind review, alongside a brief biographical note (max. 100 words), in separate electronic files to berg@bangor.ac.uk<mailto:berg@bangor.ac.uk>

Contacts for questions:

Prof. Howard Davis  h.h.davis@bangor.ac.uk

Dr. Sally Baker :s.baker@bangor.ac.uk

Dr. Marcel Stoetzler:m.stoetzler@bangor.ac.uk

Dr. Robin Mann:  r.mann@bangor.ac.uk

A conference website containing programme and registration details will be launched in January 2012. The conference is sponsored by the Belonging and Ethnicity Research Group (BERG), the Bangor University School of Social Sciences and the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods (WISERD).

New Publications on Ethiopia, Arab Spring, FRONTEX, Racial Justice, Systematic Reviews

“Waiting Here for Death”

“Waiting Here for Death”: Forced Displacement and “Villagization” in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Ending the Displacement Cycle: Finding Durable Solutions through Return and Resettlement (Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, June 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Arab Spring, Tunisia and Turkey
A Policy Debate publication produced by the SETA Foundation.

Tunisia triggered a wave of protests that has been sweeping all over the North Africa and the Middle East since the early 2011. It set the motion in the so-called Arab Spring and successfully demonstrated that social and political transformation is possible without resorting to violence. Through fair and transparent elections that was held on October 23, 2011, Tunisians elected a Constituent Assembly that is mandated to draft the new Constitution of Tunisia. The new political actors in Tunisia has shown great interest in increasing the level of cooperation with Turkey, a country whose experience in political transformation and economic development has become a source of inspiration for the people in the region.

[Download Report]
(Source: DocuBase).

FRAN Quarterly Q3 2011

The Frontex Risk Analysis Unit (RAU) released its 3^rd Quarter Report (July-September) for 2011 on 18 January.  (See also  2^nd Quarter Report (April-June 2011) and 1^st Quarter Report (Jan-March 2011).)

The reports contain a significant amount of information, graphs, and statistical tables regarding detections of illegal border crossings, irregular migration routes, detections of facilitators, detections of illegal stays, refusals of entry, asylum claims, and more.  The Report is based on data provided by Member States.  The Report states that “Frontex and the Member States are currently harmonising their illegal-migration data, a process that is not yet finalised. Therefore more detailed data and trends in this report should be interpreted with caution and, where possible, cross-referenced with information from other sources.”

[Download Report]
See Also – Frontex:  FRAN Quarterly | Q03 2011.
Click here for previous post on Q1 and Q2 Reports.
(Source: Migrants At Sea blog).

Criminal Justice v Racial Justice: Minority ethnic overrepresentation in the criminal justice system.
Edited by Kjartan Páll Sveinsson.
A new report published by The Runnymede Trust.
[Access to the Report]
See Also – Runnymede Trust Press Release.
(Source: Runnymede Trust)

Making systematic reviews work for international development research

Making systematic reviews work for international development research
Discussion papers, January 2012.
Authors: Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Maren Duvendack, Richard Mallett and Rachel Slater with Samuel Carpenter and Mathieu Tromme.
[Download Full Summary and the Full Report]
(Source: Overseas Development Institute).

 

New Reports and Publications

A new research paper has been published by NICEM (Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities) and the Alliance of Filipino Communities in Northern Ireland entitled:  Bayanihan : the Filipino Community in Northern Ireland.
[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – Research on the Filipino Community in Northern Ireland).

‘Nationality at point of National Insurance number registrationof DWP claiments” is a newly published report by the Department for Work  and Pensions and the Home Office.
[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – DWP report on nationality of benefit claimants).

Seeking support: a guide to the rights and entitlements of separated refugee and migrant children in England

http://www.seekingsupport.co.uk/

(Source: refed, http://www.refugeeeducation.co.uk/mailing.htm)
4^th edition of this guide “to the rights and entitlements of separated refugee and migrant children in England, and [which] provides advice to professionals on how to support young people in accessing those rights.”
[Download report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights News, 16 January)

The Children’s Society has published research on the 2011 August riots based on a survey with over 1000 people: ‘Behind the riots’.
Download the research at:
http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/the_childrens_society_riots_report.pdf (pdf file, 268kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations).

The Trust for London has published a report: ‘Are you saying I’m Racist? An evaluation of work to tackle racist violence in three areas of London’.
Download the full report at:
http://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/PVR_Full%20Report.pdf (pdf file, 456kb)
Download the summary
http://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/PVR_Summary.pdf (pdf file, 276kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations).

The Runnymede Trust has published a report: ‘Criminal Justice v. Racial Justice: Minority ethnic overrepresentation in the criminal justice system’.
Download the report at:
http://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/172/32.html
(Source: Institute for Race Relations).

The Jesuit Refugee Service Europe has published a report: ‘From Deprivation to liberty: Alternatives to detention in Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom’.
Download the report at:
http://www.jrseurope.org/JRSEuropeFromDeprivationToLiberty20122011.pdf (pdf file, 1.5mb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations).

The Pan London HIV Prevention Programme (PLHPP) has published a needs assessment.
Download the report and associated documents at:
http://www.northwestlondon.nhs.uk/publications/?category=1669-HIV-d
(Source: Institute for Race Relations).

HM Inspector of Prisons has published a: ‘Report on an unannounced inspection of the short-term holding facility at: Festival Court, Glasgow’.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/inspectorate-reports/hmipris/glasgow-festival-court-2011.pdf (pdf file, 124kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations).

HM Inspector of Prisons has published a: ‘Report on an unannounced inspection of the short-term holding facility at: Glasgow International Airport’.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/inspectorate-reports/hmipris/glasgow-airport-2011.pdf ()pdf file, 128kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations).

HM Inspector of Prisons has published a: ‘Report on an unannounced inspection of the short-term holding facility at: Eaton House, Hounslow’.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/inspectorate-reports/hmipris/eaton-house-2011.pdf (pdf file, 140kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations).

The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has published a report on: ‘UK Border Controls’.
Download the report at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmhaff/1647/1647.pdf (pdf file, 1.2mb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations).

New Journal Articles on Refugee Issues (weekly)

• Social and Political Transnationalism Among Central Asian Migrants and Return Migrants A Case Study of Kyrgyzstan

  Each year thousands of labor migrants leave Central Asia to look for work in Russia and Kazakhstan. Many studies have examined the impact of their remittances on the domestic economy of their home country. This case study of Kyrgyzstan asks whether returning migrants have a political impact as well.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Illuminating the Lived Experiences of Research with Indigenous Communities – Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work – Volume 20, Issue 4

  The historical exploitation experienced by indigenous people in the United States has left a number of negative legacies, including distrust toward research. This distrust poses a barrier to progress made through culturally sensitive research. Given the complex history of research with indigenous groups, the purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to illuminate the lived experiences of both indigenous and non-indigenous researchers conducting culturally competent research with indigenous people. Interviews from 13 social science research experts revealed 6 underlying themes about their research with indigenous people, including respect and commitment, mutual trust, affirmation, harmony among multiple worldviews, responsibility, and spiritual/personal growth.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• The politics of belonging in Britain | openDemocracy

  ‘There is no opposite to belonging’: Nira Yuval-Davis in conversation with Jenny Allsopp on religion, migration and the politics of belonging. So is it time to open up the debate and ask what it means to belong ‘in’ – rather than ‘to’ – contemporary Britain?

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Legislating Gender Inequalities

  Research on domestic violence documents the particular vulnerability of immigrant women due to reasons including social isolation, language barriers, lack of awareness about services, and racism on the part of services. Based on qualitative interviews with 30 South Asian women with insecure immigration status residing in Yorkshire and Northwest England, this article explores how inequalities created by culture, gender, class, and race intersect with state immigration and welfare policies in the United Kingdom, thereby exacerbating structures of patriarchy within minority communities. It is within these contexts that South Asian women with insecure immigration status experience intensified forms and specific patterns of abuse.

  tags: newjournalarticles gender

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Off Air Recording Requests: WB 23/01/2012

The following off-air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Council Archive for the week beginning Monday, 23 January 2012:

Tuesday 24 January

2200-2300: BBC4: (1/5) The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard from Johannesburg?  VideoPlus:  7617140.  Whole Series Please.

Wednesday 25 January

 2000-2100: ITV4: (4/13) Border Security USA.    (Series recording)

Thursday 26 January

2100-2200: BBC2: (2/4) Putin, Russia and the West.  VideoPlus: 9074.  (Series recording)

New IRR Annual Report and Pubs. on Asylum Support, Prisons, Citizenship and Identity

The Institute of Race Relations has published its 2011 Annual Report.
Download a copy at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/Annual_Report_2011 (pdf file, 926kb)
(Source: The Institute of Race Relations).

The Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP) has published a new factsheet which provides advice for asylum-seeking women, and women refused asylum, who are experiencing domestic violence.  The factsheet is entitled: Asylum support for women who are victims of domestic violence.
[Download Factsheet]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network).

The Prison Reform Trust has published a new entitled No Way Out which deals with the situation of foreign national women in prison in England and Wales.
[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network).

The new thinktank on citizenship and identity issues, British Future,  has published its report, Hopes and Fears: state of the nation report 2012.
[Download Report]
See Also – British Future Press Release.
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network).

Welcome to the Refugee Archives Blog

Hello and welcome to the Refugee Archives blog.  This blog has been designed to support the Refugee Archives collection at the University of East London.   This blog has been created by the Archivist, Paul Dudman.  It is designed primarily to support students on the MA in Refugee Studies which is taught here at the University of East London, but it will also be useful for students and researchers in the fields of refugee studies and forced migration.

Please feel free to read this blog and to contribute comments where possible as all feedback and ideas will be very much appreciated.

Paul Dudman
Archivist

UEL Refugee Research Centre Seminar

Resiliance and social capital in asylum seeking families in Sweden

Professor Ulla Björnberg,

Department of Sociology, University of Gotehnburg, Sweden

October 8 2008, 6.00 – 7.30pm, Room EB.G08, East Building, UEL Docklands Campus

Abstract Research has suggested that social networks are important resources for children as well as for adults to resist health problems. For asylum seeking children social networking might be hard to accomplish due to constraints linked to social and legal contexts in the host country. Constraints can also be linked to the family situation and the circumstances they have to cope with in every day life. The situation of parents, in particular mothers, are important for the coping of children. In the paper I draw on results from an ongoing study on the experiences of asylum seeking children and their families in Sweden. The over arching research objective is to identify factors that are important for well being of children seeking asylum and to study how they cope with their experiences as asylum seekers. The tension between excluding experiences and expectations regarding how the situation of the child and it’s family should improve or deteriorate after the flight is for a child a constitutive reference for how coping strategies are developed. In the analysis I draw on theoretical concepts of resilience, empowerment and social capital. The main focus is on families who have waited for decisions regarding permanent residence for several months and sometimes more than a year. The empirical data are based on qualitative interviews with children from 9 years and with one parent for each child. Bio Dr. Ulla Björnberg is full professor of Sociology at the university of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is currently directing a research program on the health and wellbeing of asylum-seeking children and their families in Sweden. She has been engaged in several international projects on family policy and family life in Europe. She lectures on a variety of topics involving gender relations and gender structures, the welfare state and family policy. Dr. Björnberg has a long record of research on families, gender equality, lone mothers,  reconciliation of employment and family life. Recently she has finalised a research programme on Family ties between generations. Public and private transfers between generations in different family forms. Ulla.Bjornberg@sociology.gu.se

ALL WELCOME!

Posted in:  Refugee Studies.

New Refugee Archives Accession List

I’ve just added our latest Refugee Archvies Accession List to the main Refugee Archives webiste.  The document covers the period July-September 2008 and is available on our website at:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/new_accessions.htm

Alternatively, you may download a copy by Clicking Here.

Anita Fabos Book Launch

Anita Fabos, who is part of the Refugee Studies academic team here at UEL, will be launching her new book by giving a lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies, (London Middle East Institute). This will take place on Tuesday 21st October 2008 and will start at 5.30pm in the Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS. This lecture and book launch will be free to attend and there is no need to book. A reception will follow.

Further information can be found here and additional information can be provided on request by emailing us at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

Posted in: Refugee Studies and News.

Refugee Archive: Open on Saturday 18 October

Just a very quick reminder to say that the Refugee Archives at UEL will be open this coming Saturday, the 18 October, between 10am and 5pm.  The full list of Saturday openiings for Semester A are as follows:

Saturday, 18 October:  10am-5pm

Saturday, 1 November:  10am-5pm

Saturday, 6 December:  10am-5pm

Saturday, 10 january (2009):  10am-5pm.

If you need any further information then do contact us on 020 8223 7676 or library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

Posted in: Refugee Studies.

UNHCR ExCom documents on protection

We would like to draw your attention to the following documents, which were released and posted on
UNHCR’s Refworld website in relation to the 59th (2008) session of UNHCR’s Executive Committee (ExCom):

Statement by Ms. Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner -
Protection, at the fifty-ninth session of the Executive Committee of the
High Commissioner’s Programme: “Protection makes a difference. It can
mean the difference”
8 October 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48ecd5f62.html

Note on International Protection
A/AC.96/1053, 30 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486902122.html

Preliminary Summary Report on Feedback by States on Their
Implementation of the Agenda for Protection
1 October 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48ecd0702.html

More information on ExCom is available on the general UNHCR website at:
http://www.unhcr.org/excom. Other documentation of the 59th (2008)
session, besides the above-mentioned ones, is available at
http://www.unhcr.org/excom/486c900d2.html. The documents are also
available in French at http://www.unhcr.fr/excom.

In addition, we would like to highlight the following report, which was
presented at ExCom:

Refugee Realities: Meeting the needs of refugees and other people of
concern globally
October 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48ef42352.html

This is the pilot report for the annual Global Needs Assessment (GNA )
that UNHCR is launching in 2009, of its operations worldwide aimed at
comprehensively mapping the real state of the world’s refugees and
people of concern under its mandate. The pilot GNA used a methodology
drawn from UNHCR’s Strengthening Protection Capacity Project
(http://www.unhcr.org/spcp). More information is available on UNHCR’s
website at http://www.unhcr.org/gna.

We hope to have informed you. Previous alerts are available at
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/alerts.html.
Web: http://www.refworld.org

Posted in: Publications.

Supporting disabled refugees and asylum seekers

The launch of new research into disabled refugees and asylum seekers will be held at London City Hall on Friday 14th November from 9am-1pm.  The research has been commissed by the Research and Consultancy Unit at the Metropolitan Support Trust.

The event will be by invite only and further information can be found on the Refugee Support website.  Publicity for this event can additionaly be found via the Institute for Race Relations website.

Posted in: Conferences & Events.

Refugee Archives Open Saturday 1 November

Just a very quick reminder to say that the Refugee Archives at UEL will be open this coming Saturday, the 1 November, between 10am and 5pm.  The current list of Saturday openings for Semester A are as follows:

Saturday, 1 November:  10am-5pm

Saturday, 6 December:  10am-5pm

Saturday, 10 january (2009):  10am-5pm.

If you need any further information then do contact us on 020 8223 7676 or library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

Posted in: Refugee Studies.

Conferences and Events

New events from ODI: A long road home Thursday, 13 November, 17.00 – 18.30 Palace of Westminster, Committee Room 12, St. Steven’s entrance

Speakers Include: Sara Pantuliano, Margie Buchanan-Smith and Paul Murphy.

Sudan‘s peace agreement is approaching its most testing time. As up to two million displaced people attempt to re-settle in areas that are impoverished and ill-prepared, a number of colossal challenges present themselves. Action is urgently needed to address massive and rapid urbanisation, encourage civilians to disarm and provide opportunities for the sustainable use of natural resources, including land in urban areas. Infrastructure and markets need to be developed and equitable access to essential services must be put in place. This ODI meeting, hosted by the Associate Parliamentary Group on Sudan, will launch the second phase of a study by the Humanitarian Policy Group on reintegration in Southern Sudan and the Three Areas. The authors, Sara Pantuliano, Margie Buchanan-Smith and Paul Murphy, will outline the key obstacles faced by returnees and the strategies that must be put in place to support one of the world’s largest return and reintegration processes. Wendy Fenton, an independent consultant with over 20 years of experience working in Sudan, will act as a discussant at this event. Source: ODI. Further Information and to book a place, please visit: http://www.odi.org.uk/events/2008/11/11-long-road/index.html The following three events were listed on the Welcome To Your Library (WTYL) email digest. Further details of the WTYL project can be found here:

Asylum seeker and refugee seminars

(Source: IRR e-digest)

http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/CWDC_leaflet.pdf

Tue 4 November, Coventry

Thu 27 November Sheffield

Tue 2 Dec, Southampton

The Children’s Workforce Development Council, working with Northumbria University and the National Foundation for Educational Research, have set up a series of seminars to understand the skills and knowledge of people working with refugee and asylum seeker families. The long term aim is to provide training for individuals or groups to fill skills or knowledge gaps in relation to work in this area. Anyone working in local authorities or voluntary organisations with this audience is invited to attend to share understanding and good practice. Booking form: http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/CWDC_form.doc

Promoting integration of vulnerable migrant groups

http://www.ippr.org/events/?id=3264

24 November, ippr, London This is the third in a seminar series supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and draws on the findings of the JRF’s Immigration and Inclusion Programme. It will focus on irregular migrants, transient labour migrants and asylum-seekers and refugees. Participants will receive copies of new ippr research on the integration of Bangladeshi, Iranian, Nigerian and Somali migrants. The seminar aims to:

• translate recent research on immigrant integration and social inclusion into policy recommendations
• consider the impact of policy interventions targeted at irregular migrants, transient labour migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees
• share work and to consolidate networks between researchers and policymakers
• disseminate best practice in migrant integration and social cohesion.

More information and details of speakers at weblink above. For further information or to confirm attendance please contact Holly Andrew, Migration and Equalities Team, ippr 0207 470 6170 or h.andrew@ippr.org

Fortress Britain: is immigration working? http://www.ippr.org/ipprnorth/events/?id=3221

1 December, Urban Café, Dance City, Newcastle Professor Andrew Geddes from Sheffield University will argue that immigration frenzies in the media and politics are largely missing the point. He will explore what he believes are more relevant questions on how to effectively manage migration, past, present and future. For more information email north@ippr.org

Moroccan Memories in Britain

http://moroccanmemories.org.uk/index.html

(Source: Community Archives & Identities blog)

Wealth of resources from the project run by the Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum. The following events taken from the Institute for race relations email digest, (http://www.irr.org.uk/):

e v e n t Demo against crisis in DRC http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/november/ha000015.html 11:00am, 8 November 2008 — Demonstration in Manchester to protest against deportations to the Congo. e v e n t Lesbian and gay asylum seekers http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/november/bw000012.html 1:00pm, 28 November 2008 — Training on issues faced by lesbian and gay asylum seekers when claiming asylum in the UK.

Posted in: Refugee Studies and Conferences & Events.

New Publications and Research

Please find below a list of updated and new publications on refugee studies and related topics. These have been accumulated from a range of online sources and links to the relevant full-text document are given where appropriate. This list will be made available on a regular basis via our Refugee Studies blog (http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com), as new resources become available.

If you find any other new resources, then do please let us know at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

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Title: The changing pattern of earnings: employees, migrants and low-paid families.

Authors: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: https://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/pdf/2323.pdf
Source: Welcome To Your Library Email Digest – http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/ (Web)

Additional Info: JRF Press Release – https://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/2323.asp

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Title: UNHCR Report to the UNHCR General Assembly.

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/63/12(SUPP)
Source: UN Pulse – http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf (Web)

Additional Info: The report of the UN High Commissioner for Reguees to the 63rd session of the General Assembly is now available (A/63/12). The report covers the work of the UNHCR for the period from 1 January 2007 to 30 June 2008.

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Title: Your Place or Mine? The local economics of migration.

Authors: Max Nathan / Institute for Public Policy Research, (IPPR).
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=627
Source: IPPR – http://www.ippr.org/ (Web)

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Title: 2007 Yearbook on Immigration Statistics

Authors: U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/019705.html
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

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Title: Does Deployment Matter? Examining the Conditions under which Peacekeeping Missions Effectively Protect Displaced Persons and Refugees

Authors: Ford Institute for Human Security
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.fordinstitute.pitt.edu/ford_bulletins/DoesDeploymentMatter.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info:

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Title: ECRE Recommendations to the 2008 Ministerial Conference on Integration

Authors: ECRE
Publication Date: November 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.ecre.org/resources/Policy_papers/1262
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

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Title: Iraqi Refugees: Plan for Ongoing Support in an Unstable Region

Authors: Refugees International
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/10873
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info:

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Title: OECD Factbook 2008: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics

Authors: OECD
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://masetto.sourceoecd.org/vl=12005221/cl=37/nw=1/rpsv/factbook/
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info:

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Title: Humanitarian Action and Older Persons: An Essential Brief for Humanitarian Actors

Authors: IASC
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-7KQDRK?OpenDocument
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info: Via ReliefWeb (http://www.reliefweb.int/)

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Title: Manual for the Health Care of Children in Humanitarian Emergencies

Authors: World Health Organization
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.who.int/diseasecontrol_emergencies/guidelines/child_health_care.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info:

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Title: Isolated, Exploited, Abused: Jordan’s women migrant domestic workers

Authors: Amnesty International
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE16/002/2008/en
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

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Title: Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

Authors: UN General Assembly.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/63/35(SUPP)
Source: UN Pulse – http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf (Web)

Additional Info: Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (A/63/35) was issued. The report covers activities of and actions taken by the Committee from 5 October 2007 to 6 October 2008.

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Title: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – report

Authors: UN General Assembly.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/63/38(SUPP)
Source: UN Pulse – http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf (Web)

Additional Info: Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (A/63/38) was issued. The report covers 40th and 41st sessions of the Committee that took place 14 Jan.-1 Feb. 2008 and 30 June-18 July 2008 respectively.

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Title: Migration and Development: Achieving Policy Coherence

Authors: International Organization for Migration, (IOM).
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/1674?entryId=19847
Source: International Organization for Migration – http://www.iom.int/ (Web)

Additional Info: MRS N°34.

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Title: Africa’s Human Rights Architecture

Authors: Centre for Conflict Resolution
Publication Date: June 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7FVGUF?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

Additional Info:

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Title: The Use of Private Security Providers and Services in Humanitarian
Operations

Authors: ODI – Humanitarian Policy Group
Publication Date: September 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-7KW8S6?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

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Title: Consolidating the Profession: The Human Rights Field Officer – Fourth Expert Consultation on Human Rights Fieldwork

Authors: University of Nottingham.
Publication Date: September 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7KWEH2?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

Additional Info:

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Title: Operating in Insecure Environments

Authors: Government of the United Kingdom
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-7KWJ8V?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

Additional Info:

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Title: The Struggle after Combat. The Role of NGOs in DDR Processes:
Synthesis Study

Authors: Cordaid
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7L3EPS?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

Additional Info:

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Title: Data and Research on Human Trafficking: Bibliography of Research-Based Literature

Authors: Institute for the Study of International Migration
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://isim.georgetown.edu/Publications/ElzPubs/NIJ_BIB_FINAL_REPORT-1.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info:

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Title: miniAtlas of Human Security

Authors: Human Security Report Project, Simon Fraser University & World Bank.
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.miniatlasofhumansecurity.info/en/
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info: Access.

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Title: A Tale of Two Disasters: The plight of migrants caught up in Hurricane Katrina and the Asian Tsunami

Authors: Journal of Humanitarian Assistance.
Publication Date: November 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://jha.ac/
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info:

Posted in: Refugee Studies and Publications.

`Race & Class’ Journal

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is currently offering free online access to their influential journal, “Race & Class” until the end of 2008.  The offer is free but you will need to register for access on the journal website at:

https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=RAC2008

This was advertised in the IRR Digest which is sent around regularly by email and is again free to sign up for.  Further details can br found on the IRR website at:

Copy of the IRR News release:

Get free online access to the IRR’s scholarly journal ‘Race & Class’ until the end of 2008. To register for this special offer of access to the leading English-language journal on racism, empire and globalisation, click here:
https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=RAC2008

Read recent highlights from the journal, including:
* A. Sivanandan on ‘Race and resistance: the IRR story’
* Arun Kundnani on ‘Islamism and the roots of liberal rage’
* Gholam Khiabany and Milly Williamson on ‘Veiled bodies – naked racism: culture, politics and race in the Sun’
* Hilary Rose and Steven Rose on ‘Israel, Europe and the academic boycott’

And read hundreds of other articles normally only available to paying subscribers.

Posted in: Periodicals.

New ECRE website

The European Council on Refugees and Exiles, (ECRE), have recently launched their new web site.  The ECRE mission statement stated that, “ECRE is a pan-European network of non-governmental organisations, concerned with the needs of all individuals seeking refuge and protection within Europe.”  The website contains a range of informative resources and their is also the option to sign up to a regular e-mail digest.

The website can be found at:  http://www.ecre.org/

Posted in: Web Sites & Tools.

Framing Muslims Seminar: ‘Islam and Civic Responsibility: the City Circle experience’ by Dr Usama Hasan AND ‘Resisting Blackness: Transnational Sudanese Women and Islamic Cultural Space in the Diaspora’ by Dr Anita Fabos

SOAS/UEL Framing Muslims Seminar Series

Framing Muslims: Representation in Culture and Society Post 9/11 – Seminar

Date: Thursday, 27 November 2008
Venue: Room EB.G.18 (University of East London, Docklands Campus)
Time: 5:30-7:00pm

Dr Usama Hasan
‘Islam and Civic Responsibility: the City Circle experience’

Dr Usama Hasan is Senior Lecturer in Engineering & Information Sciences at Middlesex University, an imam at Tawhid Mosque in Leyton and Director of the City Circle, a London-based network of Muslim professionals that has been at the forefront of forging an authentic Muslim identity in Britain for the last decade.

Dr Anita Fabos
‘Resisting Blackness: Transnational Sudanese Women and Islamic Cultural Space in the Diaspora’

Dr Anita Fabos researches in the areas of ethnicity and race, gender, refugees in urban settings, immigration and naturalization policy, Arab nationalism, and Islam at UEL. She was formerly the Director of the Program in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. She has conducted ethnographic research among Muslim Arab Sudanese forced migrants in Cairo, published as ‘Brothers’ or Others? Gender and Propriety for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt (Berghahn Books). Her current research interests include transnational strategies of women and men in the Sudanese diaspora, livelihoods of urban refugees, and refugee narratives.

Abstract:

This presentation explores the embodied strategies of Arab Muslim Sudanese in Egypt and the United Kingdom within a framework of a ‘Muslim diaspora’. It compares discourses of belonging in two distinct socio-legal contexts whereby key elements of Muslim Arab Sudanese identity are performed according to local conditions, taking on different meanings. Egypt and Britain are both familiar to Sudanese through colonial relationships of domination and occupation, and later as locations for study, recreation and exile, but the contemporary legal, political and socio-cultural environments in Britain and Egypt have shaped Sudanese identity in the diaspora in distinctive ways. In Egypt, a Muslim nation with a long history of entanglement with the Muslim Arab people of  northern Sudan, Sudanese immigrants and exiles have asserted their superior performance of the shared value of propriety, claimed by both as fundamental to a ‘Muslim’ and ‘Arab’ identity. In the UK Sudanese similarly present themselves in morally superior terms, joining other voices in the Muslim diaspora and finding solidarity within an Arab cultural framework. I analyse a number of bodily practices that promote a Sudanese identity abroad, tying the use of beautification procedures, and skin-lightening creams in particular, to Sudanese assertions of Arab ethnicity and Muslim belonging within a racial hierarchy that derives primary meaning from Sudan¹s own history and racial categories.

All are Welcome.  Booking is not required.
For further information contact: Peter Morey on p.g.morey@uel.ac.uk

Posted in: Refugee Studies / Conferences & Events.

Promoting the Integration of Vulnerable Migrant Groups

On Monday 24 November I attended a seminar arranged by the Institute for Public Policy Research, (IPPR), entitled “Promoting the Integration of Vulnerable Migrant Groups: irregular migrants, transient labour migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees.” This formed part of a series of seminars arranged by the IPPR and supported by the Joeseph Rowntree Foundation, (web).

The main emphasis of this event was focused on the important topics of migrant integration and social cohesion.  Special consideration throughout the afternoon seminar was given to presentations and discussions of how best to approach the integation of the most vulnerable migrant groups, especially in terms of how best to transfer into policy recommendations, recommendations from the most recent research on both integration and social inclusion and to consider the impact of recent policy decisions upon these migrant groups.  Papers were presented by a number of speakers, including Jill Rutter and Danny Sriskandarajah, both of IPPR, and a number of interesting and thought-provoking external speakers.  Outlines of the papers can be found on the IPPR website.

The seminar also witnessed the launch of a new report, written by Jill Rutter … [et al.], and entitled, “Moving Up Together: Promoting Equality and Integration among the UK’s Diverse Communities.” This research focuses on four case study communities of people born in Bangladesh, Iran, Nigeria and Somalia who are now living in the UK.  The report considers to what degree these groups have “integrated” and considers the reasons why some migrant/minority groups are falling behind in their progress towards equality.  The report then considers what policy measures can be utilised to promote greater equality and integration.

A free copy of this report, along with additional supportive materials from both the IPPR and the Jospeh Rowntree Foundation, were included in the seminar pack, and these will be added to the Archive in due course.

Further information can also be found from the following links:

IPPR Migration Section -http://www.ippr.org.uk/research/themes/?id=3093

Joseph Rowntree Foundation (immigration & inclusion) -http://www.jrf.org.uk/research-and-policy/immigration-and-inclusion/

The Barrow Cadbury Trust -http://www.bctrust.org.uk/

Metropolitan Housing Trust -http://www.mht.co.uk/

Off Air Recordings WB 29/11/08

The UEL Library holds a number of licences, including the Educational Recording Agency (ERA) licence,  which enable us to record broadcast media “off-air” to be recorded for teaching purposes.  We are also able to make use of this service to record programmes of related interest to the fields covered by the Refugee Council Archive.

I will normally check the Radio Times once a week to produce a list of programmes to be recorded for the week ahead and details for this weeks recordings are as follows:

Saturday 29 November

2005-2105: BB2 (1/2) After Rome: holy War and Conquest.  Both parts please.

Monday 1 December

1900-2000: BBC2: (4/4) This World – Forced to Marry.

2100-2200: BBC2: (4/6) WWII: Behind Closed Doors.

Tuesday 2 December

BBC1: 2235-2325: Imagine ….: Heavy metal in Baghdad.

Friday 5 December

1935-2000: Channel 4: (8/10) Unreported World – Thailand: Lessons in Terror.

Requests for programmes to be recorded for the Archive can be made directly to the Archivist at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk

InFluxEvent@UniversityofEastLondon

In Flux Event @

University of East London

The Refugee Research Centre/UEL invite you to IN FLUX, the culmination of artist Marie Ange Bordas’ Leverhulme Residency at UEL.

During her time at UEL, the artist has developed work around displacement and belonging through informal encounters with students and use of the Refugee Archive resources. She has also collaborated with Anita Fábos on her MA and undergraduate refugee modules, with the aim of stimulating students to challenge their assumptions about the research process and to encourage them to find new approaches to interact with people and explore concepts.

The event will open on December 10th at 17:00 in Matrix East when Marie Ange will show part of the artwork she produced, along with students’ creative projects, and Anita Fábos will address the learning and teaching possibilities of this kind of collaboration for university programmes.

Throughout the week - 11th to the 17th of December- the creative projects produced by Anthropology of Refugees and Cultures of Exile students will be on display in the Library Foyer and the Refugee Archive, (from the 15th).

And on December 15th, Anita Fábos will give the lecture “Refugees as Actors” and, together with John Nassari, host a roundtable discussion on approaches to refugee-centred representation in the Main Lecture Theatre at Business School.

For more information see flyer – [JPEG format] or [PDF format].  These details are also on the Refugee Council Archive web site at:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/news.htm#influx

Contact: influx.uel@gmail.com

Marie Ange Bordas – http://www.displacements.info/

Posted in: Refugee Studies and Conferences & Events.

Saturday Opening

Just a very quick remainder that the Refugee Archive at UEL will be open this coming Saturday, Saturday 06 December, between 10am and 5pm.  This is the last Saturday opening before Christmas so any donations of mince pies will be very much appreciated.

The Archive will also be open on Saturday 10 January 2009, between 10am and 5pm, as I believe this is just before the deadline for some of the assignment submissions.

Posted in: Refugee Studies.

Off Air recordings: WB 06/12/08

Details of the Archive’s list of off-air recordings for the week starting 06/12/08:
Saturday 06 December

2010-2110: (2/2) After Rome: Holy War and Conquest.

Monday 08 December

1955-2000: C4: (1/4) Three-Minute Wonder: Rights Universal Now.

2100-2200: BBC2: (5/6) WWII – Behind Closed Doors

Tuesday 09 December

1955-2000: C4: (2/4) Three-Minute Wonder: Rights Universal Now.

Wednesday 10 December

1955-2000: C4: (3/4) Three-Minute Wonder: Rights Universal Now.

2100-2200: BBC1: Jack – A Soldier’s Story.

Thursday 11 December

1955-2000: C4: (4/4) Three-Minute Wonder: Rights Universal Now.

Friday 12 December

1935-2000: C4: (9/10) Unreported World – Yemen: Sea of Tears

Off Air Recordings: WB 13/12/08

Details of the Archive’s list of off-air recordings for the week starting 13/12/08:

Saturday 13 December

1900-2000: Channel 4: Iraq – the Legacy.

Monday 15 December

2030-2100: BBC1: Panorama – Britain’s Terror Heartland.

2100-2200: BBC2: (6/6) WWII – Behind Closed Doors

Tuesday 16 December

2200-2340: More4: True Stories: The Hunger Season.

Friday 19 December

1935-2000: C4: (9/10) Unreported World – Mexico: Seven Days in Hell

Reminder: InFluxEvent@UniversityofEastLondon

In Flux Event @

University of East London

The Refugee Research Centre/UEL invite you to IN FLUX, the culmination of artist Marie Ange Bordas’ Leverhulme Residency at UEL.

During her time at UEL, the artist has developed work around displacement and belonging through informal encounters with students and use of the Refugee Archive resources. She has also collaborated with Anita Fábos on her MA and undergraduate refugee modules, with the aim of stimulating students to challenge their assumptions about the research process and to encourage them to find new approaches to interact with people and explore concepts.

The event will open on December 10th at 17:00 in Matrix East when Marie Ange will show part of the artwork she produced, along with students’ creative projects, and Anita Fábos will address the learning and teaching possibilities of this kind of collaboration for university programmes.

Throughout the week - 11th to the 17th of December- the creative projects produced by Anthropology of Refugees and Cultures of Exile students will be on display in the Library Foyer and the Refugee Archive, (from the 15^th).

And on December 15th, Anita Fábos will give the lecture “Refugees as Actors” and, together with John Nassari, host a roundtable discussion on approaches to refugee-centred representation in the Main Lecture Theatre at Business School.

For more information see: http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/news.htm#influx

Contact: influx.uel@gmail.com

In Flux Exhibition Flyer

Posted in Refugee Studies and Conferences & Events.

Forced Migration Review

A special supplement edition of the Forced Migration Review journal has just been published and is entitled:  Islam, human rights and displacement.

Now online at: http://www.fmreview.org/human-rights.htm

Full details form the press release are available as follows and hard copies will me made available in the Refugee Archive in due course:

FMR’s 12-page supplement on Islam, human rights and displacement will soon be available in Arabic and English.

We hope it will enhance debate and understanding of the concepts and
instruments of international human rights in the Islamic world. More
information is online at http://www.fmreview.org/human-rights.htm

How to request copies:

All readers who usually receive the Arabic edition (NHQ) of FMR will receive a copy of the supplement in Arabic with their copy of NHQ 31 in January. You therefore do not need to request it UNLESS you would like to receive multiple copies for training purposes and/or onward distribution.

The English version of the supplement will NOT be mailed out to regular readers of FMR. You need to email us to request copies. We are keen to distribute copies to organisations which would find it useful for training and awareness-raising purposes. We would also be happy to send it to libraries and resource centres.

If you would like copies of the supplement, please email us at
fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk, indicating:
- which language
- how many
- your full postal address
- and, preferably, how you propose using it.

REMINDER
If you have not already done so, we would be extremely grateful if you would complete our reader survey at http://www.fmreview.org/2008survey.htm This will help us make sure FMR is meeting your needs and give us ideas of how we might improve it. Thank you!

Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson & Musab Hayatli
Forced Migration Review

fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk www.fmreview.org
+44 1865 280700  Skype: fmreview

Posted in: Refugee Studies and Periodicals.

Refugee Archive: Christmas 2008 Opening Hours

The Refugee Archive at UEL will continue to open at the normal times listed on our web site until Wednesday 17 December, the last day of teaching for the MA in Refugee Studies course this semester.

The Archive will then be Closed for Christmas between Thursday 18 December and Sunday 04 January. The Archive will re-open at 9am on Monday 05 January 2009.

Important dates for your for your diary are therefore:

Wednesday 17 December, 2008: Archive Open, 9am-6pm.

Thursday 18 December, 2008 to Sunday 04 January, 2009: Archive Closed.

Monday 05 January, 2009: Archive re-opens, usual times.

Monday 12 January to Friday 24 January, 2009: Reduced Service available to enable Archive stock-checking to be carried out.

Full details are also available on our website at:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/using-rca.htm#Xmas

Posted in: Refugee Studies and News.

6th Annual Forced Migration Student Conference Call for Papers Call for Papers. “Refugees: Lives Pushed to the Margins?”

The 6th Annual Forced Migration Student Conference organised by postgraduates and hosted by the Refugee Research Centre at the University of East London on Saturday the 25^th and Sunday the 26^th of April.

Living a life in the margins or a marginalised life is a recurrent trope in the field of forced migration studies. Throughout the whole refugee experience from persecution and flight to settlement and integration, refugees find themselves pushed to the margins and often excluded. The marginalisation of various categories of forced migrants brings into question the effectiveness of protection regimes. Livelihood strategies of forced migrants are formulated at the very margins of society, some of whom are compelled to do so ‘outside’ the law. How do refugees negotiate identities that help them to combat social exclusion? Adopting a reflexive gaze, as researchers and aspiring academics we must ask ourselves how considerable and pertinent are the dialogues of practitioners and academics? Is academia to be confined to the sidelines or can it be more engaged with forced migrants? In which ways can the study of forced migration be related to wider global issues?

The conference invites papers that fit within the broad theme of the conference and forced migration more generally. We solicit papers that converge on the following sub-themes of the conference:

1)    Conversations and interdisciplinary dialogues (scholarly, policy, practitioners, NGOs)

2)    Sites of liminality and change (state; regional; local, trans-national; familial; individual)

3)    Conversations in issue-areas (development; human rights; migration; security; post-conflict)

4)    Sites of experience (gender; flight; re-settlement; camps; exclusion)

Postgraduate students (Masters/MPhil/PhD) are invited to submit abstracts for papers (no more than 250 words) and a personal profile (no more than 100 words). They should be sent, with full contact details, by 4pm on 26th January 2009 to: fmconference2009@googlemail.com

Posted in:  Refugee Studies and Conferences & Events.

Off Air Recordings: WB10/01/09

The details of the requested programmes to be recorded off-ir for the Refugee Archives are detailed as follows:

Sunday 11 January

1900-2000: Channel 4: 1/8. Christianity: A History.  Whole Series Please.

Monday 12 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (1/4) Three Minute Wonder: Voices.  Whole Series Please.

Tuesday 13 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (2/4) Three Minute Wonder: Voices.  Whole Series Please.

Wednesday 13 January

1930-2000: BBC1 London: Inside Out – Iraqi Soldiers.

1955-2000: Channel 4: (3/4) Three Minute Wonder: Voices.  Whole Series Please.

Thursday 14 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (4/4) Three Minute Wonder: Voices.  Whole Series Please.

Off-Air recordings WB: 17/01/09

Details of next weeks off air recordings are as follows:

Sunday 18 January

1900-2000: Channel 4: ( 2/8 ) Christianity: A History.

Monday 19 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (1/4) Three Minute Wonder – My Home is in My Shoes.

Tuesday 20 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (2/4) Three Minute Wonder – My Home is in My Shoes.

Wednesday 21 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (3/4) Three Minute Wonder – My Home is in My Shoes.

2100-2200: BBC2: Stockwell.

Thursday 22 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (4/4) Three Minute Wonder – My Home is in My Shoes.

Off Air Recordings: 24/01/2009

Details of the off-air recordings requested for next week are as follows:

Sunday 25 January

1900-2000: Channel 4: ( 3/8 ) Christianity: a History.

1900-2000: BBC2: (1/6) Amazon with Bruce Perry.  Whole Series Please.

Thursday 29 January

2320-2350: BBC2: Explore: Argentina’s Dirty War.

Jewish Londoners Conference

When:           Sunday 15 February 2009
Where:          London Metropolitan Archives, 40, Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB
Time: 10am-4.30pm
Cost:           £30 / £20 (including lunch)
Booking:        Call on 020 7332 3851 or email ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk

PROGRAMME

10  am          Arrival, Registration and Welcome

10.30 am Memory and The Jewish East End

Rachel Lichtenstein. Artist, archivist and writer, Rachel is the author of Rodinsky’s Whitechapel and co-author, with Iain Sinclair of Rodinsky’s Room. Her most recent publication is On Brick Lane, the first of a trilogy of books on London streets. This talk explores approaches to discovering and recording history through recollection.

11.15 am Responses to Mosley and the British Union of Fascists

David Rosenberg. David is a teacher and local historian who has done research on how different sectors of the Jewish community understood and responded to the threat posed by Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in the East End; how they helped defeat Mosley and what it revealed about the fault lines within the Jewish community of the 1930s.

12.15pm London Synagogues

Dr Sharman Kadish is Director of Jewish Heritage UK and AHRC Research Fellow and Part-time Lecturer in the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester. She has written several books and numerous articles on Anglo-Jewish history and heritage, including Jewish Heritage in England: An Architectural Guide , published by English Heritage in 2006.

1pm Lunch (includes behind the scenes tour and a look at some original documents and a chance to view a reminiscence film )

2.30pm The Jewish Community and Freemasonry

Susan Snell is Archivist and Records Manager at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry. This talk explores the Jewish community in Freemasonry, with particular reference to the Jewish community in Jamaica and its interchange with Hoxton and other areas in London.

3.15 pm Benjamin Disraeli

Helen Langley. Helen is Head of Modern Political Papers in the Bodleian Library and the editor of Benjamin Disraeli: Scenes From an Extraordinary Life. This presentation will explore aspects of his life with consideration given to his being compelled to convert from the Jewish faith to Christianity at age 13, his London associations and his youthful visits to the Middle East.

4pm Tea and close

Refugee Archives – Changes to Opening Hours and Staff Availability

This is a quick note just to update everyone on some forthcoming changes to the opening hours and staffing arrangements for the Refugee Archives and to detail the Saturday Opening timetable for Semester B.

There are three main strands to this message and these will be detailed as follows:

1). Due to unforeseen circumstances, Paul Dudman, (the Archivist), will be away from the office for a two week period between Monday 2^nd February and Friday 13 February. A reduced Archive service will therefore operate during this period and please enquire at the Library Enquiry Desk for further information, (Tel: 020 8223 3434).

2) From Monday 16rh February when Paul Dudman returns to the Archive, he will only be available in the Archive during the normal office hours on Mondays (9am-6pm) ; Tuesdays (10am-7pm) ; and Wednesdays (9am-6pm). For al day on Thursday and on Friday mornings until 1pm, the Archive will be managed by a member of Library Staff subject to staff availability. Please bear in mind it might take a little longer to answer your enquiries so please be patient.

3) The initial plan for Saturday openings in Semester B will be to open the Archive on the dates listed below. Hopefully there will not be any changes to this list but it is still provisional until I can confirm the dates on my return. I will let you know as soon as possible when the official dates are know.

The provisional dates are therefore as follows:

Saturday 21 February : 10am-5pm

Saturday 21 March : 10am-5pm

Saturday 28 March: 10am-5pm

April No Saturday Opening Possible.

Saturday 9 May : 10am- 5pm

Saturday 16 May : 10am – 5pm.

Many thanks in advance for your help and co-operation.  Any questions then please email us at: Library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

Yours Sincerely,

Paul Dudman

Archivist.

Posted in: Refugee Studies.

Off Air Recordings: WB 31/01/2009.

Details of the off-air recordings requested for the Refugee Archives for the week beginning Saturday 31 January 2009 are detailed below:

Saturday 32 January

1900-2100: BBC4: Anne Frank Remembered.

2100-2200: BBC2: Mandela at 90

Sunday 01 February

1900-2000: Channel 4: ( 4/8 ) Christianity: a History.

1900-2000: BBC2: (2/6) Amazon with Bruce Perry.

2100-2200: BBC2: (2/4) Explore.  Port of a Series.

Monday 02 February

1955-2000: Channel 4:  (1/4) Three Minute Wonder – Foreign Correspondents. Whole Series Requested.

2000-2100: Channel 4:  Dispatches – Congo’s Forgotten Children.

2100-2200: BBC1: (1/5) Who Do You Think You Are?  Whole Series Requested.

2100-2200: ITV1: (1/3) Whitechapel.  Whole Series Requested.

Tuesday 03 February

1955-2000: Channel 4:  (2/4) Three Minute Wonder – Foreign Correspondents.

2000-2100: ITV1: (1/3) Doctors and Nurses at War.  Whole Series Requested.

Wednesday 03 February

1955-2000: Channel 4:  (3/4) Three Minute Wonder – Foreign Correspondents.

Thursday 04 February

1955-2000: Channel 4:  (4/4) Three Minute Wonder – Foreign Correspondents.

2320-2350: BBC2: Explore: Kenya’s Violent Rift.

Off Air Recordings: WB 21/02/2009

Saturday 21 February

2100-2200: BBC2: (3/3) Iran and the West.

2245-0015: BBC2: True North

Sunday 22 February

1805-1905: BBC2: (5/6) Amazon with Bruce Perry

1900-2000: Channel 4: (7/8) Christianity: A History.

Monday 23 February

2100-2200: BBC1: (4/5) Who Do You Think You Are?

Refugee Archives Saturday Openings for Semester B

The following dates are the now confirmed dates for the Refugee Archives at UEL to be open on a Saturday during Semester B. Apologies for the delay in confirming these dates and for there being no dates available during April, this is due to a combination of Easter and the prior commitments of the Archivist.

I hope these dates will be fixed now but if the need arises for any alterations then these will be advertised well in advance.

The Archive will therefore be open on the following Saturdays during the times listed:

• Saturday 7 March: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 28 March: 10am-5pm
• April: No Saturday Openings Possible.
• Saturday 9 May: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 16 May: 10am-5pm
  

These dates are also available on our web site at:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/using-rca.htm#saturday

If you have any comments, then please let us know my leaving a reply to this posting or by contacting us at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

Revised Saturday Openings (New Date in April)

Since my earlier posting regarding Saturday openings for the Refugee Archive during Semester B 2009, I am now able to confirm that the Archive will now be open on a Saturday in April to tie-in with The 6th Annual Forced Migration Student Conference**.

I hope these dates will be fixed now but if the need arises for any alterations then these will be advertised well in advance.

The Archive will therefore be open on the following Saturdays during the times listed:

• Saturday 7 March: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 28 March: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 25 April: 10am-5pm**.
• Saturday 9 May: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 16 May: 10am-5pm
  

These dates are also available on our web site at:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/using-rca.htm#saturday

If you have any comments, then please let us know my leaving a reply to this posting or by contacting us at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

** Further details on The 6th Annual Firced Migration Student Conference can be found be clicking on the following link:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/programmes/postgraduate/refugeestudies/FMSC09.htm

Posted in: Refugee Studies.

Off Air Recordings: WB 07/03/2009

Details of the off-air recordings requested for the Refugee Archive for the week beginning Saturday 07 March, 2009 are detailed as follows:

Saturday 7 July

2100-2230: BBC2: The Satanic Verses Affair.  6587

Sunday 8 March

0200-0300: Channel 4: Death in the Bay: the Cockle-Picker’s Story.  32828  (early hours of Monday morning).

Monday 9 March

2030-2100: BBC1: Panorama – Immigration: Time for an Amnesty? 4016

Friday 13 March

1935-2000: Channel 4: (1/9) Unreported World.  (Congo – Forest of the Dead). 329145  Whole Series Requested

Off Air Recordings: WB 28/03/2009.

I have requested the  following television programmes to be recorded via our UEL off-air service for the week beginning 28 March 2009.  Details are as follows:

Saturday 28 March

2115-2215: BBC2: (3/3) The Lost World of Communism 514288

2350-0255: Channel 4: Monster’s Ball.  53151751

Friday 3 April

1935-200: Channel 4: (4/9) Unreported World – Sierra Leone: Insanity of War. 640680

Refugee Archives New Accessions First Quarter 2009

The Refugee Council Archive at UEL is pleased to announce the launch of their latest Accessions List for the First Quarter (January-March) of 2009.  A PDF version of this document can be found on our web site at:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/new_accessions.htm

Any questions or for further information, please contact the Archivist Paul Dudman at: Library-archives@uel.ac.uk

Posted in: Refugee Studies Current Awareness Blog.

CARA Archive at UEL

This is a brief introductory message to draw youe attention to the important work being underataken by CARA, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and to provide information in regard to the availability of their Archive.

CARA was originaly founded in 1933 as the Academic Assistance Council in order to help support academics who facing persecution within their home country.  In light of the international situation at the time, in 1936 the Academic Assistance Council re-formed itself as the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) and continued to play a hugely important role supporting refugee academics and defending academic freedom.  Further details on the history of CARA can be found on their website here – http://www.academic-refugees.org/history.asp – and also in the launch of a recent book to celebrate 75 years of the organisation entitled “The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the flight from Tyranny” By Jeremy Seabrook.  Please contact CARA if you would like to purchase this book and copies are available for consultation here at the Refugee Archive.

We are pleased to say that we are currently working with CARA to make their Archive of modern records available.  The Archive has now arrived at UEL and the next stage is for us to accession and catalogue the material and once this is complete, then decisions can be made in regard to how best to enable access to the collection.  Obviously these decisions will need to made with due consideration to the Data Protection Acr and with full consultation with CARA.

In the meantime, I would also like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to the CARA Archive collection which is held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.  This collection covers the dates between 1933 and 1987.  Further information can be found both on the CARA website and by following this link – http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/online.htm – to the Bodeian Library website.  To access the Archive, you will first need to contact the CARA office at: info.cara@lsbu.ac.uk or call 020 7021 0880.

Further updates to this posting will be available in due course.

Recent Conferences and Talks Attended

Over the last few weeks, I have attended the following conferences and talks related to the field of both Archvies and Refugee Studies.  Further details are as follows:

Friday 1 May

`Recovering Stolen Generations, Land & Culture: Indigenous Rights & Transitional Justice’ conference held at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies.

http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/list/icws_events

Tuesday 28 April

`Researching Poverty: Definitions, measurements and experiences.’ A half-day workshop jointly hosted by The National Archives and The British Library.  To be held at the British Library Conference Centre.

Monday 27 April

`I was dismissed from University and Forced to Flee for my Life: The Rt Hon David Lammy, Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property, ‘in conversation with persecuted academics from Iraq, Sudan and Zimbabwe.’’  To be held on Monday 27th April 2009, 6.00pm at the  Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, (SOAS).  Held in conjunction with The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, (CARA), and The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).  CARA – http://www.academic-refugees.org/

Monday 6 April

`Archives and the Heritage Lottery Fund: Working with Young People.’  A training event organised by the Society of Archivists and to be held at the British Library.  Further details: http://www.archives.org.uk/events.asp?id=236

Overhaul of Refugee Archive Online Resources

This is a quick posting to let everyone know that there will now be a limited output on the Refugee Archive at UEL blogs over the next few months. this is to enable us to undertake a review of our online presence and to make some necessary changes and upgrades, and hopefully some improvements too, to our online presence.

Many apologies in advance for the reduced service but we hope to have a new and revised online presence available in time for the start of the new academic year in August/September 2009.

Many thanks in advance for your cooperation.

Yours Sincerely,

Paul Dudman
Archivist.

Nazi Persecution: Britain’s Gift (CARA Lecture)

The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) and the Friends of Imperial College invite you to:

Nazi Persecution: Britain’s Gift

A lecture by Dr Ralph Kohn FRS FMedSci, FRAM

Introduced by the Rector of Imperial College, Sir Roy Anderson FRS

Dr Ralph Kohn arrived in Britain as a very young refugee during World War II from Germany and Holland. During the course of the years he had close contacts and working relationships with many who subsequently enriched this country in many areas of human endeavour. Dr Kohn will describe the persecution of scientists in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and illustrate the ‘unique and dedicated work of extraordinary British subjects’ to help persecuted academics find a safe haven for their work and life in the UK.

Tuesday 3rd November 2009, 6.00pm, followed by a reception.

Lecture Theatre G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ.

Space is limited. Please RSVP to cara.development@lsbu.ac.uk

Off Air Recordings: WB 17/10/2009

The following off-air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Archive this week:

Monday 19 October

2030-2100: BBC1: Panorama: Undercover – Hate on the Doorstep. 5258

Tuesday 20 October

2100-2200: C4: (2/3) The Force.  4-49

Wednesday 21 October

2315-0040: C4: (3/7) Generation Kill. 804995

Friday 16 October

1930-2000: C4: (5/10).  Unreported World: Guatemala – Riding With The Devil.  762

Off Air Recordings: WB 26/10/2009

The following list of Off-Air Recordings for the week ahead were requested for the Refugee Archives:

Monday 26 October

2100-2220: C4: Race and Intelligence – Science’s Last Taboo.  5775336

Tuesday 27 October

2100-2200: C4: (3/3) The Force.  5553

2200-2305: C4: Bleach, Nip, Tuck: the White Beauty Myth  4515553

Wednesday 28 October

2100-2200: BBC2: (1/6): Andrew Marr’s The Making of Modern Britain.  5593.  Whole Series Requested.

2315-0035: C4: (347) Generation Kill. 800664

Thursday 29 October

2200-2300: C4: The Event: How Racist Are You?  7184

Friday 30 October

1930-2000: C4: (6/10).  Unreported World: Greece – The Unwanted. 943

Off Air Recordings: WB 31/10/09

The following list of programmes were requersted for off-air recording for the Refugee Archive this week:

Sunday 1st November

1900-2000: C4: The Human Zoo: Science’s Dirty Secret.  8246

Monday 2nd November

2000-2100: C4: Is it better to be Mixed Race?  8869

Tuesday 3rd November

2200-2300: C4: (2/2) Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth.  9357

Wednesday 4^th November

2100-2200: BBC2: (2/6) Andrew Marr’s the making of Modern Britain.  9549

2315-0040: C4: (5/7) Generation Kill. 777297

Friday 6^th November

1935-2000: C4: (7/10) Unreported World – Sudan.  311548

Off Air Recordings: WB07/11/09

The following off-air recording requests have been placed for the Refugee Archives for this week:

Saturday 7 November

2005-2135: BBC2: The Secret Life of the Berlin Wall.  1802026

Monday 9 November

2000-2100: C4: Not Forgotten: Soldiers of Empire.  3170

Wednesday 11^th November

2100-2200: BBC2: (3/6) Andrew Marr’s the making of Modern Britain.  4850

2315-0035: C4: (6/7) Generation Kill. 846411

Thursday 12^th November

2200-2255: C4: Without a Trace – Hard reset. 303831.  (Just this episode).

Friday 13^th November

1935-2000: C4: (8/10) Unreported World – Nepal: the Living Dead.  334077

Off Air Recordings: WB 14/11/09

The following off-air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Archives this week:

Monday 16 November

2000-2100: C4: Dispatches – Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby.  5581

Wednesday 18 November

2100-2200: BBC2: (4/6) Andrew Marr’s The Meaning of Modern Britain.  9789

2315-0035: C4: (7/7) Generation Kill. (137760).

Thursday 19 November

2100-2200: C4: Confessions of a Traffic Warden.  5722

Friday 20 November

1930-2000: C4: (9/10): Unreported World – Malaysia: Refugees for Sale.  469

Off Air Recordings: WB 23/11/2009

The following programme requests were made on behalf of the Refugee Archive for this week:

Monday 23 November

2000-2100: C4: Dispatches – Return to Africa’s Witch Children. 1110

2100-2200: BBC2: This World: An Iranian “Martyr” 6453

 

Wednesday 25 November

2100-2200: BBC2: (5/6) Andrew Marr’s The Making of Modern Britain.  1380

 

Friday 27 November

1930-2000: C4: (10/10) Unreported World – The Battle for Israel’s Soul. 553

New Reports Available in Archive

The following UK Government reports, published by The Stationary Office, have recented been purchased and made available in the Archive.  Further details on the publications are as follows:

 

QU21 FCO

Annual Report on Human Rights 2008.

Command Papers: 7557.

Produced by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Great Britain).

London : The Stationary Office, 2009.

192 p. : col. ill., tables ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Equality and Human Rights Commission Annual Reports and Accounts 18 April 2006 – 31 March 2008: Presented to Parliament Pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Equality Act 2006.

Produced by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (Great Britain).

London : The Stationary Office, 2009.

86p. ; col. Ill, tables; 30cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Fifteenth Report): Annual Renewal of 28 Days 2009: Eighteenth Report of Session 2008-2009.

HL Paper 119 / HC 726.

Produced by the House of Lords/House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights.

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

27p. : tables; 30cm.

 

QU44 TSO

The Work of the Committee in 2007-08: Second Report of Session 2007-08: Report, together with formal minutes and oral and written evidence.

HL Paper 10 / HC 92.

Produced by the House of Lords/House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights.

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

[2], 60, Ev. 27 p. : tables; 30cm.

 

QU44 TSO
Management of Asylum Applications: Twenty-eight Report of Session 2008-09: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence.

HC 325.

Produced by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee.

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

[2], 23, Ev 26 p. : figs, tables ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

DFID Annual Report 2008: Second Report of Session 2008-09: Volume II oral and written evidence.

HC220-II.

Produced by the House of Commons International Development Committee.

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

[3], Ev 92 p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

DFID Annual Report 2008: Second Report of Session 2008-09: [Volume I] Report, together with formal minutes.

Produced by the House of Commons International Development Committee.

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

[2], 50 p. : figs ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Passing the Life in the UK Test: Official Practice Questions and Answers.

Produced by The Stationary Office.

Norwich: The Stationary Office, 2009.

144p. ; 21cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Immigration Appeal Reports: [2009 – 1^st Issue] Imm AR 1-212.

Produced by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

212p. ; 25cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Closing the Impunity Gap: UK law on genocide (and related crimes) and redress for torture victims: Twenty-fourth Report of Session 2008-09: Report, together with formal minutes and oral and written evidence.

HL Paper 153 ; HC 553.

Produced by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

[2], 38, Ev 55 p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Allegations of UK Complicity in Torture: Twenty-third Report of Session 2008-2009: Report, together with formal minutes and oral and written evidence.

HL Paper 152 ; HC 230.

Produced by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

[2], 57, Ev 81 p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Legislative Scrutiny: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill: Ninth Report of Session 2008-2009: Report, together with formal minutes and written evidence.

HL Paper 62 ; HC 375.

Produced by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

[2], 21, Ev 159, [3] p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Borders. Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]: Fifth Report of Session 2008-09: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence.

HC 425.

Produced by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

31, Ev 196 p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

The Trade in Human Beings: Human Trafficking in the UK: Sixth Report of Session 2008-09: Volume 1: Report, together with formal minutes.

HC 23-I.

Produced by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

[2] 88p. : tables ; 30cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings: Warsaw, 16 May 2005.

Cm 7465 ; Miscellaneous No. 7 (2008).

Produced by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2008.

28p. ; 30cm.

 

QU44 TSO

The Rights of Gurkhas to Settle in the UK: Oral and Written Evidence: 4 November 2008.

HC 1140-I of Session 2007-08.

Produced by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee (Great Britain).

London : The Stationary Office, 2009.

[2], Ev 14 p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Immigration and Human Rights: Oral and written evidence, Tuesday 19 February 2008: Mr Liam Byrne MP, Minister of State of Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration, Home Office, and Ms Lin Homer, Chief Executive, Border and Immigration Agency.

HC 357-I [Session 2007-2008] ; HL 77 [Session 2007-2008].

Produced by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (Great Britain).

London : The Stationary Office, 2009.

[3], Ev 40 p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

The Government Response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights Report: Closing the Impunity Gap: UK law on genocide (and related crimes) and redress for torture victims.

Cm. 7704.

Produced by the Ministry of Justice (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

[2], 12 p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Allegations of UK Complicity on Torture: The Government Reply to the Twenty-third Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights Session 2008-09 HL Paper 152, HC 230.

Cm. 7714.

Produced by the Home Office (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

[2], 8 p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Government Response to the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee report on Community Cohesion and Migration.

Cm. 7489.

Produced by the Department for Communities and Local Government (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2008.

20p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill: Explanatory Notes.

House of Commons Bills 1.

Produced by the House of Commons (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2007.

[1], viii, 239, [1]p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL].

[HC] Bill 86.

Produced by the House of Commons (Great Britain).

London : The Stationary Office, 2009.

[1], iv, 49, [1] p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]: [as amended on report].

HL Bill 36.

Produced by the House of Lords (Great Britain).

London : The Stationary Office, 2009.

iv, 49 [1]p. ; 30cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]: [as amended in Committee].

HL Bill 29.

Produced by the House of Lords.

London : The Stationary Office, 2009.

iii, 48, [1] p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]: Explanatory Notes.

HL Bill 15-EN.

Produced by the House of Lords (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

42, [1] p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]: Explanatory Notes.

[HC] Bill 85-EN.

Produced by the House of Commons (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

49, [1] p. ; 30 cm.

 

QU44 TSO

Tribunals and Inquiries: The Transfer of Functions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Order 2009.

Produced by the Ministry of Justice (Great Britain).

London: The Stationary Office, 2009.

19 [1] p. ; 30cm.

New Refugee Archives Acquisitions List

Firstly, may take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy and successful New Year in 2010!

The Refugee Archives here at UEL have hust published their latest Archive Acquisitions List detailing the newly catalogues materials made available within the Refugee Council Archive and associated collections during the Fourth Quarter (October-December) 2009.  The list is available via our websitye and full details are given below:

• Refugee Archives Accession List Fourth Quarter 2009 – PDF Download
• Alternatively, please follow this link:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/new_accessions.htm

If you have any questions or feedback, then please let us know by contacting us at:  library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

Off Air Recordings: WB 06/02/2010

The following programmes have been requested to be recorded for the Refugee Archives this week:

Saturday 30 January

1815-1915: BBC2: (4/6) A History Of Christianity.  242254

Sunday 7 January

1900-2000: BBC2: (3/4) Lost Kingdoms of Africa.  399304

1900-2000:  Channel 4: (3/7) The Bible: A History.  7668

Monday 8 February

2100-2200: Channel 4: (2/4) Tower Block of Commons.  8472

2100-2200: BBC2: (1/3) Generation Jihad.  3359.  Whole Series Requested.

Wednesday 10 February

2100-2200: BBC4: (1/5) Syrian School.  551942.  Whole Series Requested.

Friday 12 February

1930-2000: Channel 4: Young, Angry and White.  473

Revised Archive Opening Hours

From February 2010, the opening hours for the Refugee Archives at UEL have been revised.  The changes are fairly minor in the sense that the only real change is that the Archive will now open at 10am every weekday.

Full details are as follows:

• Mondays:  10am – 6pm
• Tuesdays:  10am – 7pm
• Wednesdays:  10am – 6pm
• Thursdays:  10am – 5pm
• Fridays:  10am – 1pm
• Saturdays:  Closed
• Sundays:  Closed

If  you have any further enquiries about these changes, please contact us on: library-archives@uel.ac.uk

Posted in: Refugee Studies Current Awareness Blog.

From Congo With Love

Exhibitions

From Congo With Love (copyright: Rogan / Oxfam)

An exhibition by the portrait photographer Rankin entitled From Congo with Love is currently featuring in a large exhibition being held at London’s South Bank.  The exhibition has been develope din conjunction with Oxfam and displays “images and stories exploring romantic love, love lost, mother’s love and the kindness of strangers, as well as photos taken by Congolese villagers with Rankin’s guidance, providing an extraordinary insight into their everyday life.”  There is also a book to accompany the exhibtion entitled `We Are Congo’ which is available to purchase online.

Image Copyright: Rankin / Oxfam.

Conference: Migration, the Media and the Message, 29-30 March 2010

Migration, the Media and the Message

Migrants using media to turn around the immigration debate

University of East London, 29-30 March 2010

A European conference jointly organised by the ‘Migrants and the Media Project’ (MMP) and CMRB for groups involved in media and cultural activities, which promote a positive engagement with the issue of migration.

Contributors to plenary sessions will include: Don Flynn (Migrants’ Rights Network), Nazek Ramadan, Aine O’Brien (FOMACS, Ireland) and Mica Nava (UEL).

Workshops include: FOMACS’ digital video-making and radio journalism (Ireland), CEPAIM’s ‘La Ruta Prometida ‘ exhibition (Spain), Mendek’s poster campaign (Hungary), Migrant Resource Centre’s ‘New Londoners’ journalism project (UK), Playback Theatre (UK), CRWI on women and the media (Greece).

For information, please contact: Cristina Andreatta at Migrants’ Rights Networkc.andreatta@migrantsrights.org.uk

Off Air Recording Requests WB: 20/02/2010

The following programme requests have been requested to be recorded for the Refugee Archives for the WB 20 February 2010.  Those marked with (**) are for the British Olympic Association Archive.

Saturday 20 February

**1200-1400: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Highlights.  88556
1915-2015: BBC2: (6/6) A History of Christianity.  339730

Sunday 21 February

**1200-1335: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Highlights.  784315
1855-1955: Channel 4: (5/7): The Bible – A History.  509044

Monday 22 February

**1345-1545: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Highlights.  314975
2100-2200: BBC2: (3/3) Generation Jihad.  2613
2100-2200: Channel 4: (4/4) Tower Block of Commons.  5939

Tuesday 23 February

1345-1545: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Highlights.  800675

Wednesday 24 February

**1400 -1545: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Highlights.  116502
2100-2200:  BBC1: The Day the Immigrants Left.  2601
2100-2200: BBC4: (3/5) Syrian School.  5166250

Thursday 25 February

**1345-1545: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Highlights.  648835
**2000-2100: BBC2: British Columbia – Canada’s Olympic Wilderness.  5274

Friday 26 February

**1345-1545: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Highlights. 456355

Off Air Recording Requests WB: 27/02/10

The following programmes have been requested to be recorded off-air for the Archives next week.  Details are as follows, those marked (**) are for the British Olympic Association Archive:

Saturday 27 February

**1200-1330: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Highlights.  22398.

Sunday 28 February

**1200–1400: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Highlights.  31886.

1900-2000: Channel 4: (6/7) The Bible: A History.  2867.

**0100-0345: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Closing Ceremony.  76137449

Monday 1 March

**1345-1545: BBC2: Winter Olympics – Highlights.  329791.

2000-2100: Channel 4: Dispatches – Britain’s Islamic Republic. 5265

2030-2100: BBC1: Panorama – More Than Just A Game. 8130.

2100-2230: BBC4: Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children.  5608352

Wednesday 3 March

2100-2200: (4/5) Syrian School.  5566680

Thursday 4 March

2100-2200: BBC2: How Safe Are Our Skies? Detroit Flight 253.  9365

Refugee Archive Closure on Tuesday 2 March

Important Notice:

The Refugee Council Archive will be closed all day on Tuesday 2^nd March due to refurbishment work being undertaken in the Archive reading room.  We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Many thanks in advance for your co-operation,

Paul Dudman

Archivist.

Off Air Recording Requests: WB 06/03/2010

The following off air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Archives for the week begininng 06/03/2010.

Sunday 7 March

1900-2000: Channel 4: (7/7) The Bible: A History.  4571

Wednesday 10 March

2100-2200: BBC4: (5/5) Syrian School.  5239584

Thursday 11 March

2220-2340: BBC4: Buddha Collapsed out of Shame.  48076275

2320-0020: BBC2: (1/3) Women.  575695.  Whole Series Please.

Friday 12 March

1930-2000: Channel 4: White Boy, Black Nanny.  893

2100-2200: BBC3: Stag Weekends: the Dirty Secrets.  (The sex slave trade n Europe’s tourism hotspots).

Off Air Recordings WB: 27/03/2010

The following off-air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Archives at UEL for the week beginning Saturday 27 March, 2010.

Monday 29 March

2030-2100: BBC1: Panorama – Passports to Kill.  7558

2100-2230: BBC2: (1/2) Blood and Oil.  17782894.  Both Parts Please.

Tuesday 30 March

2100-2200: BBC3: The World’s Most Dangerous Place for Women.  2223653

2100-2230: BBC2: (2/2) Blood and Oil.  1759566

Thursday 1 April

2100-2200:  BBC3: Lindsay Lohan’s Indian Journey (child trafficking).  6675081.

Friday 2 April

1930-2000:  Channel 4:  (2/10) Unreported World – Nigeria’s Killing Fields.  27

Off Air Recordings: WB 03/04/2010

The following off air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Archive for the week beginning 03 April 2010:

Sunday 4 April

2250-2350:  BBC1: Are Christians Being Persecuted?   837704

Monday 5 April

2215-2250:  BBC1: The Orphans Who Survived the Concentration camp.  282124

Friday 9 April

1930-2000: Channel 4: (3/10): Unreported World – Pakistan’s Terror Central. 118

CARA Event at UEL

The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA)  would kindly like to invite you to an upcoming event

‘Academic Freedom in the 21st Century’
15th April , 5:30-6:30pm
University of East London, Docklands campus, East Building G08

A panel discussion of three academic refugees, chaired by Mark Stephens,  Index on Censorship.

Wherever there is a dictatorship or totalitarian regime, its first quarrel is with those who oppose. They are often found in universities, places where teaching and research should flourish. Around the world, university lecturers and researchers can face persecution, imprisonment and torture for challenging those in power. The three speakers will discuss the personal threats and difficulties in carrying out their academic work in Rwanda, Cameroon and Iraq.

We hope to see you there,

For further questions please email adi.cara@lsbu.ac.uk

Refugee Archive Newsletter & Acquisitions

The Refugee Archives have just published two new publications on the Refugee Council Archive website.

First up, the latest Refugee Archives newsletter (March 2010) is now

BOA Materials in the new Archive Reading Room.

available online viw the RCA wesbite.  This newsletter provides current news in relation to the work of the Archive, including the recent work undertaken to refurbish the reading room.

Full Link: www.uel.ac.uk/rca or Download Here (PDF – 4.75 MB).

Secondly, The Refugee Archives have also published their latest quarterly accessions list for the First Quarter (January – March) of 2010.  This document gives an update of new materials which have been catalogued and made available within the Archive.

Full Link:  www.uel.ac.uk/rca or Download Here (PDF – 0.3MB).

If you have any questions or feedback, please let us know.  Either leave a message here on contact us on: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

Refugee Archives Summer Opening Hours 2010

Please read the whole email, including the important paragraph at the end.

Please find below the revised opening hours for the Refugee Archive at UEL and the Docklands Library over the summer months.  We have tried to keep the Archive open every day.  However, we would recommend that you either make an appointment or contact us in advance of your trip just to confirm that the Archive will be open and staffed on the day you wish to come.

Our contact details are:  020 8223 7676 (reading room) or 020 8223 7817 (Paul Dudman) or 020 8223 6462 (Caroline Lam) in the office.  Our email address is library-archives@uel.ac.uk

Alternatively, if coming to the Docklands Campus is a problem, you might want to make use of the SCONUL Card service which can give you access to other University libraries in London.  Further details can be found on the Library website by following the link below:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/lls/services/sconulfaq.htm

Archive Summer Opening Hours

The summer opening hours for the Refugee Archive will come into effect from Saturday 22 May, 2010.

Therefore, the revised opening hours from Monday 24 May, 2010 will be as follows:

Mondays:                   1pm – 4.30pm

Tuesdays:                  1pm – 4.30pm

Wednesdays:            10am – 1pm

Thursdays:                 1pm – 4.30pm

Fridays:                      10am – 1pm

Sat / Sun:                   Closed

These are also available on our website at:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/using-rca.htm#top
Library Summer Opening Hours

The summer opening hours for the Docklands Library start from Saturday 5 June.

So the building closes at 9pm on Friday 4 June, then it’s:

Monday-Friday: 9am-9pm (Security only from 5pm)

Saturday: 10am-5pm (Security only)

Sunday: closed

Potential for Possible Disruption

It is possible that there may be further disruption to these opening hours over the course of the summer.  As soon as we have further information we will of course let you know, but at the moment disruption to the archive may be caused by:

i) Building works in the Library.  Work on the library air conditioning system is due to start on Tuesday 8 June. The work itself is supposed to take place between 9pm and 6am. However, there is a small possibility that the library may close at some point.

ii) Scanning of the British Olympic Association (BOA) archive.  We are due to have a company on site in the Archive to scan materials from Monday 14 June for a period of between 2-4 weeks.  Disruption of the archive service during this period is inevitable and we strongly recommend that you make an appointment for to access the Archive as we cannot guarantee that the archive will be available fro general access during this period.

iii)  Staff leave.  There will be staff on leave over the summer months and we hope this will not cause too much disruption to the service.

Off Air Recording Requests

The following programmes have been requested for the Archive as part of our ongoing off-air recording project:

Monday 11 October

2100-2200: ITV1: (1/3) Whitechapel.  6188  Whole Series Please.

Thursday 14 October

2100-2200: BBC3: (2/2) Sex Trafficking in Cambodia – Stacey Dooley Investigates  1831288

Friday 15 October

1930-2000: Channel 4: (3/10) Unreported World – Philippines: The City with Too Many People. 318

Requests for the previous week:
Wednesday 6 October 2010.

2100-2200: BBC2: (2/2) Secret Iraq.  4273

2100-2200: BBC4: (3/6) Michael Wood’s Story of England.  1785728

Thursday 7 October, 2010.

2100-2230: Channel 4: Dispatches – Bravo’s Deadly Mission.  1378

2100-2200: BBC3: (1/2) Kids With Guns – Stacey Dooley Investigate.  1095484.  Whole Series Please.

Friday 8 October, 2010.

1930-2000: Channel 4: (2/10): Unreported World – Afghanistan’s Child Drug Addicts.  137

For the Previous Week:

Monday 27 September, 2010

2255-0000: Channel 4: (3/4) This is England ’86.  3312973

Tuesday 28 September, 2010

2200-2305: Channel 4: (4/4) This is England ’86.  6140799

2200-2310: More 4: True Stories: The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan  17247003

2310-0105: More 4: Afghan Star   26035799

Wednesday 29 September

2100-2200: BBC2: (1/2) Secret Iraq – Insurgency. 6349 Whole Series Please.

2100-2200: BBC4: (2/6) Michael Wood’s Story of England  5743368

Friday 01 October, 2010

1930-2000: Channel 4: (1/10) Unreported World – Malaria Town. 4  Whole Series
Please.

Archive Weekly Newsletter Number 2

The latest copy of our new weekly Archives Newsletter is now avaialble.  Copies can also be found online at:

Our Website:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/newsletter.htm

Our Blog:  http://refugeearchives.wordpress.com/weekly-newsletter/

Many thanks,

Paul

Archive Weekly Newsletter Number 3

The latest copy of our new weekly Archives Newsletter is now avaialble.  Copies can also be found online at:

Our Website:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/newsletter.htm

Our Blog:  http://refugeearchives.wordpress.com/weekly-newsletter/

Many thanks,

Paul

Off Air Recordings: WB 08 November 2010

The following off air recordings have been requested for the Refugee Archive this week:

Monday 08 November

2000-2100: Channel 4: Dispatches – Fashion’s Dirty Secret.  3595

Wednesday 10 November

2100-2200: BBC2: (1/6) Ancient Worlds. 3749.  Whole Series Please.

Friday 12 November

1930-2000: Channel 4: (7/10): Unreported World – Central African Republic: Witches on Trial. 893

Archive Weekly Newsletter Number 4

The latest copy of our new weekly Archives Newsletter is now available.  Copies can also be found online at:

Our Website:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/newsletter.htm

Our Blog:  http://refugeearchives.wordpress.com/weekly-newsletter/

The newsletter is also distributed, along with other useful messages and emails, via our Email list.  Further details can be found at:  https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=REFUGEE-RESEARCH

Refugee Archive News Update

First of all, an update on Archive opening hours for December 2010.  The opening times will be as follows:

Mondays:  1400 – 1700

Tuesdays:  1000 – 1300

Wednesdays:  1000 – 1800

Thursdays: Closed

Fridays:  1000 – 1300

The weekly newsletter will also now be suspended until the New Year 2011, but we will try and keep the Refugee Studies blog updated with relevant information, for example, recent posts include:

• New Publications and Journal Volumes
• News Stories
• Websites and Events

Secularism, racism and the politics of belonging: a conference on race, religion, and public policy

A quick reminder for the upcoming conference to be held at UEL on Thursday 27 January, 2010.  Full details are below and in the attached flyer:

Secularism, racism and the politics of belonging: a conference on race, religion, and public policy

Information and conference schedule

Welcome to the conference on Secularism, Racism and the Politics of Belonging, organised by the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB), and Runnymede Trust: Thursday 27 January 2010.

Location: Docklands Campus, University of East London, University Way, London E16 2RD.

The campus is adjacent to Cyprus Station on the Docklands Light Railway. Trains from Canning Town (Jubilee Line) run at five-to-10 minute intervals: the journey takes some 30 minutes from Central London. Full details and map at:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands.htm

Refreshments and Lunch: will be provided for all participants.

Resources: organisations are invited to bring literature and other resources. Display tables will be provided.

Record of proceedings: presentations will be recorded on video, with permission of participants.

Themes: discussion will be wide-ranging but the organisers ask you to consider your contributions on a number of key issues:

•           how matters of faith are constructed in relation to old and new forms of racism;

•           implications of ideas about ‘faith communities’ for citizenship and social solidarity;

•           the place of religion in equality legislation and legal pluralism;

•           debates about religious traditions and dress codes;

•           effects of particular forms of religious education, including faith schools.

The conference aims to engage participants in a discussion which encompasses secular, religious, academic and activist discourses.

Further details on the CMRB website:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/news.htm

Migration: a joint Birkbeck College/University of East London Symposium

Migration: a joint Birkbeck College / University of London Symposium

Event type:  Seminar

Date:  4 February 2011

Further Details:

Symposium to be held at the Bishopsgate Institute on Friday 4th February 2011, 1.00pm to 5.30 p.m.

All welcome, no need to book.

Speakers:

‘Migration and Citizenship in Modern Asia’, Dr Sunil Amrith, Lecturer, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College.

‘Sanctuary past and present’, Professor Philip Marfleet, Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies at the University of East London.

‘Transnational health seeking strategies: a study of Latin American migrants in London’, Dr Jasmine Gideon, Lecturer in Development Studies, Birkbeck College.

‘Exile, diaspora and the politics of belonging’, Dr Nira Yuval-Davis, Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London.

Followed by a panel discussion with Dr Karen Wells.

Convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre.

URL:

http://www.raphael-samuel.org.uk/events/Refugee_Migration_Seminar.php

Organiser(s):

Katy Pettit, Administrator, Raphael Samuel History Centre

Event Location:

Goss Room, Bishopsgate Institute

230 Bishopsgate

London EC2M 4QH

United Kingdom

Contact details

Katy Pettit

k.pettit@uel.ac.uk

Seminar Events: Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration, Oxford and UEL

‘Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration’

CMRB is very pleased to announce the schedule for the ‘Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration’ series, jointly organised with the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford.

Seminars will take place at 5.00pm on Wednesdays, in either the UEL or RSC location.

The RSC location is: Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Rd, Oxford, OX1 3LA.

The UEL location is: Room EBG.08, East Building, Docklands Campus, London E16 2RD. Docklands Campus is adjacent to Cyprus Station, Docklands Light Railway..

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The Refugee Studies Centre with the University of East London Wednesday

Seminar Series:

Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration

Seminars will take place at 5.00pm on Wednesdays, in either the UEL or

RSC location, as indicated.

The RSC location is Seminar Room 1, Department of International

Development (ODID), 3 Mansfield Rd, Oxford, OX1 3LA

The UEL location is Room EBG.08, East Building, UEL Docklands Campus,

London E16 2RD

 

19 Jan:

Refugees, exiles and other forced migrants in the late Ottoman Empire

Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)

Location: RSC

 

26 Jan:

Citizenship, autochthony and the question of forced migration

Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)

Location: RSC

 

2 Feb:

Reconciling integration and return: Rethinking Palestinian Refugeehood

Ruba Salih (School of Oriental and African Studies)

Location: UEL

 

9 Feb:

‘Collective amnesia’ – refugees and the problem of History

Philip Marfleet (University of East London)

Location: RSC

 

16 Feb: Refugees and the definition of Syria

Benjamin White

Location: RSC

 

23 Feb:

Citizenship and residence: rights, mobility and refugees

Catherine Long (University of Oxford)

Location: UEL

 

2 Mar: Is deportation a form of forced migration?

Matthew Gibney (University of Oxford)

Location: RSC

 

9 Mar:

Refugees, the state and the concept of home

Helen Taylor (University of East London)

Location: RSC

 

16 Mar Refugees, states and the ‘security’ agenda

Khalid Koser (Geneva Centre for Security Policy)

Location: UEL

 

Seminars are subject to change, please visit www.rsc.ox.ac.uk or email

rsc@qeh.ox.ac.uk for updates.  Further details also available on the CMRB website at:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/seminars.htm#imagingmigrants

Please send all replies to: rsc@qeh.ox.ac.uk

New Refugee Archives Accessions List

On behalf of the Refugee Archives here at UEL, I would just like to draw your attention to our new Refugee Archives Accessions List which I have just published on our archive website.  This accessions list details all of the publications which have been recived (and catalogued!) during the second half of 2010.

We are continuing to try and develop the Refugee Archive in order t0 best meet the need the teaching and research needs of our UEL academic and student communities whilst also being consious of trying to make the Archive accessible to communities and geoups beyond our immediate academic environment.

All of the items detailed in the Accessions List can be found on our online catalogue, which is called Primo [click here to be taken to Primo].  We try to collect a broad range of materials as best we can and if there is anything you would like to recommend for the archive, please do let us know.  Our email address is library-archives@uel.ac.uk or please leave a comment on this blog posting.

To access the Accessions List, please take one of the following options:

• To Download in PDF format:  [Click to Download here]
• Visit the Refugee Archive Website:  [Front Page]; and [New Accessions Page]
• Visit our Refugee Archives WordPress blog at:  http://refugeearchives.wordpress.com/
• Sign up to our Refugee Research email list hosted by Jiscmail.  Details on how to subscribe can be found at:  [Subscribe to Email List]

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Paul Dudman
Archivist

North Africa in Transition: Mobility, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crises

 

 

North Africa in Transition: Mobility, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crises
May 6 2011 (13h00-18h00)
Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford
3Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Background and aims of workshop:

From the end of 2010, a series of unexpected popular uprisings have spread across North Africa and the Middle East. The dramatic unfolding of events has disrupted the ever changing patterns of mobility in the region in new and disturbing ways, including uprooting people,
transforming existing migrants into refugees and constraining the movement of mobile populations. Some events, as in Egypt and Tunisia, have been largely peaceful, with political transitions under the mediation of the army. Other events have been brutal, with a witnessing of force of arms and violent suppression of the opposition in Libya, for example.

These diverse crises have resulted in ‘mixed’ migration flows: economic migrants becoming forced migrants and forced migrants entering irregular migration channels in the search for survival, while other migrants have become ‘involuntarily immobile’, such as migrant workers stuck inside Libya.

This workshop will provide a space for interested academics, practitioners and policy makers to critically engage with the evolving contemporary crises in North Africa, focusing in particular on the challenges surrounding the displacement of people in their wake, including: migrant workers from across the African continent, internally displaced nationals, and Sub- Saharan African and Middle Eastern asylum-seekers and refugees who had formerly sought
refuge within countries including Libya and Egypt. Organized around two panels with presentations by leading academics and practitioners working on the region, this interactive workshop will explore two intersecting questions:

1. How have these crises influenced different forms of population displacement?

2. What are the key protection and legal challenges faced by the international community in light of the internal and international displacement of populations as a consequence of the contemporary popular uprisings in North Africa?

If you would like to attend please contact:
Heidi El-Megrisi: heidi.el-megrisi@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 281728/9

These details are also alavailable on the Refugee Studies Centre website at:  http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/

Easter Open/Closure Times over Easter, 2011

I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you all know the opening and closure times for the Refugee Council Archive over the Easter period.  The relevant details are as follows:

Opening Hours for Week Beginning : Monday 18^th April

Monday 18^th April : 1pm – 6pm

Tuesday 19^th April : 10am – 6pm

Wednesday 20^th April: 10am – 6pm

Thursday 21^st April:  10am – 1pm

The Archive will then be Closed between Friday 22 April and Friday 6 May and will re-open from Monday 9 May as usual.

 I will be away on annual leave for most of this period so if you do have any enquiries, please send them to me via e-mail at: p.v.dudman@uel.ac.uk and I will do my best to respond to hem on my return to the office.  My last day in the office before Easter will be Thursday 21 April between 10am and 1pm.

Details of the Docklands Library opening hours over the Easter period can be found on the website at:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/lls/about/openinghours.htm

Off Air Recordings WB : 30/05/2011

The following off-air recordings were requested for the Refugee Council Archive at UEL for the week beginng Monday, 30 May 2011.  Details as follows:

Monday 30^th May

2100-2230: BBC4: Storyville – Pol Pot’s Executioner: Welcome to Hell.  5725740

Tuesday 31 May

0110-0210: BBC4: Justice – A Citizen’s Guide to the 21^st Century.  4519238
2100-2210: BBC4: Storyville – Amnesty! When They Are All Free.  92729580
2325-0055: BBC4: Mrs Mandela.  5651431

Wednesday 1 June

2200-2330: BBC4: Storyville – Fight to Save the World: Sergio.  8522710

Thursday 2 June

2000-2100: BBC1: (1/3) Andrew Marr’s Megacities (Part 1- Living in the City).  Whole Series Please.  1531

2100-2200: BBC4: Storyville – Prosecutor.  2261753

Friday 3 June

1930-1955: Channel 4: (9/10): Unreported World – Breaking into Israel.  367574

Off Air Recordings : WB 06 June 2011

The following off-air recordings were requested for the Refugee Council Archive at UEL for the week beginng Monday, 06 June 2011.  Details as follows:

Monday 6^th June

2340-0010: More 4: Unreported World – South Sudan : How to fuel a famine.  VIDEO Plus+: 43943964

Thursday 9^th June

2000-2100: BBC1 (2/3): Andre Marr’s Megacities.  VIDEO Plus+: 2080
2345-0045 : BBC3:  Tourism & the Truth: Stacey Dooley Investigates Kenya  VIDEO Plus+: 4748538

Friday 10^th June

1925-1955: Channel 4 (10/10):  Unreported World : Indonesia’s Wildlife Warriors  VIDEO Plus+: 909010

Latest Journal Releases

The following new journal volumes have recently been published:

1)  Ethnopolitics: Volume 10 Issue 2 : Special Issue: Migration and Divided Societies, Edited by: Chris Gilligan and Susan Ball.
Link to Table of Contents : http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g937702432~db=all?jumptype=alert&alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

2)  International Journal of  Refugee Law Table of Contents for July 2011; Vol. 23, No. 2
Link to Table of Contents : http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/2.toc?etoc

3)  Journal of Refugee Studies Table of Contents for June 2011 : Vol. 24, No. 2
Link to Table of Contents : http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

4)  Refugee Survey Quarterly Table of Contents for :
Vol.30, No. 2
Link to Table of Contents : http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

New Research and Publications, Part 1

After a long overdue absence, I’ve managed to trawl though a number of emails and online resources and have collected together a number of new research reports and publications which have been produced in relation to refugee and forced migration studies.  I hope in future to keep these updated in a slightly more regular frequency.

In the meantime, please find enclosed below post number one of several detailing a broad range of recently published research documentation:

IDMC Reports:

Sri Lanka: IDPs and returnees remain in need of protection and assistance – Read the Overview (html / pdf)
“In late 2010, over 320,000 people who had fled their homes due to the armed conflict before and after 2008 were estimated to
remain internally displaced in Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, over 190,000 IDPs had returned to their homes, but were still in need of
protection and assistance.”

Lebanon: No new displacement but causes of past conflicts unresolved – Read the Overview (html / pdf)
“In 2009 and 2010 no new internal displacements took place but a number of displacement situations persisted following three periods
of conflict or violence: the 1975-1990 civil war and the related interventions by Israel until 2000 and Syria until 2005; the 33-day war of
July 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah; and the armed conflict that led to the destruction of the Nahr el-Bared camp for Palestinian
refugees in 2007. Sectarian violence also caused significant temporary displacement in 2008.”

Sudan: Durable solutions elusive as southern IDPs return and Darfur remains tense – Read the Overview (html / pdf)
“At the end of 2010 at least 4.5 million people were internally displaced in Darfur, the Greater Khartoum area, South Kordofan and the ten
states of Southern Sudan. It is thought that in December 2010 there were between 4.5 and 5.2 million IDPs, in the western region of Darfur
(where estimates ranged between 1.9 million and 2.7 million), in and around Khartoum, in the state of South Kordofan and in Southern Sudan.
In addition, there were unknown numbers of IDPs in the other northern and eastern states.”

Serbia: Ten years after displacement, returns remain stalled but integration prospects improving – Read the Overview (html / pdf)
“In 1999, over 245,000 members of local minorities fled from or within Kosovo in fear of reprisals from the majority Albanian population after
NATO air strikes forced the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops and ended years of oppression of ethnic Albanians.”

Democratic Republic of Congo: IDPs pay an unacceptable price – Read the Overview (html / pdf)
“As of September 2010, there were more than 1.7 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the vast
majority of them in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu. Most fled their homes to escape fighting between rebels groups and the Congolese
armed forces supported (in some cases) by the UN, while others are victims of direct attacks and violence perpetrated by the warring parties.”

Indonesia/Central Sulawesi: IDP return and recovery hampered by persistent tensions, land disputes and limited access to livelihoods
- Read the Overview (html / pdf)
“From the end of 1998 to 2002 there were several waves of conflict in the province of Central Sulawesi between Christians and Muslims. The cause lay in
competition for land, employment and political influence at a time when post-Suharto Indonesia was in the early stages of democratic transition and
decentralisation. The government was slow to respond and the arrival of Islamic militants from elsewhere in Indonesia frustrated efforts to contain the
conflict. Despatch of additional military and police personnel in 2001 eventually ended most of the violence and displacement.”

Azerbaijan: After some 20 years, IDPs still face barriers to self-reliance – Read the Overview (html / pdf)
“Over 586,000 people remain internally displaced in Azerbaijan after the Nagorno-Karabakh war ended with a ceasefire in 1994. The figure includes
approximately 230,000 children born to internally displaced people (IDPs) since they fled their homes. Insecurity near the line of contact with Armenia
continues to disrupt the livelihoods of IDPs and others who live nearby.”

Colombia: Government response improves but still fails to meet needs of growing IDP population – Read the Overview (html / pdf)
“Colombia’s long-standing internal armed conflict and the human rights abuses perpetrated by combatants and illegal armed groups had by 2010 caused
the displacement of 3.4 million people according to the government, and over 4.9 million people according to the reliable non-governmental Observatory
on Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES).”

Iraq: Political wrangling leaves around 2.8 million displaced Iraqis with no durable solutions in sight – Read the Overview (html / pdf)
“Seven years after the March 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq remains deeply divided. Iraqis have been internally displaced in three periods: either under the former  Ba’ath government; from the March 2003 invasion until the February 2006 Samarra bombing; and since then. Today, one in ten Iraqi is still internally displaced,  totalling 2.8 million people. They face continuing threats to their physical security and difficulties accessing basic necessities and essential services.”

From Recent ICAR Newsletters:

This Year’s Conflicts by the International Crisis Group.

European Immigration and Asylum Law: A Commentary edited by Kay Hailbronner. Oxford: Hart Publishing.

Detention on the Borders of Europe – NGO workshop report published by the Global Detention Project.

Financial Inclusion amongst New Migrants in Northern Ireland – new ICAR research report officially launched on Monday 6th December at Citizens Advice Belfast AGM. Read more

The Wages of Fear: risk, safety and undocumented work – a report by Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PARFAS) and the University of Liverpool. Interviewees are all refused asylum seekers.

Briefings from the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) on the impact of anti-terrorism legislation on the right to asylum and refugee communities in the UK:

• Baluchistan under state terror: The UK ban on the Baluchistan Liberation Army
• Euskal Herria: The struggle for independence in the Basque Country and the impact of ‘terrorist’ bans
• The UK ban on the PKK: Persecuting the Kurds
• The Tamils of Sri Lanka – oppressed at home and persecuted in the UK

Refugee Council Impact Report 2009/10 including costs of service provision.

New from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):

• UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2009 covers statistical developments for seven groups: refugees; asylum-seekers; internally displaced persons (IDPs) protected/assisted by UNHCR; stateless persons; returned refugees; returned IDPs; and others of concern.’
• Monthly asylum applications statistics: January-October 2010 – new asylum applications lodged in selected countries in Europe, North America, Oceania and Asia 2010, disaggregated by country of origin.

World Migration Report 2010 – The Future of Migration: Building Capacities for Change

by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). See also New Internationalist debate: Should nation-states open their borders to refugees and migrants?

Separated, asylum-seeking children in European Union Member States – a comparative report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Ending the Detention of Children: Developing an Alternative Approach to Family Returns by Heaven Crawley, Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University.

Financial Inclusion amongst New Migrants in Northern Ireland – report by ICAR in collaboration with Citizens Advice Belfast, and written by Julie Gibbs. More details here and in the CAB Belfast press release

The Coming of a Stranger: asylum seekers, trust and hospitality in a British city by Christine Goodall. UNHCR New Issues in Refugee Research, Research Paper No. 195.

Beyond Extremism and Ideology: The Unanticipated Constructive Roles played by North African Islamists and Jihadis in Contemporary British Society by Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Includes sub-section on ‘Britain as safe space.’ George Mason University Global Migration and Transnational Politics Working Paper no. 16.

Hope costs nothing: the lives of undocumented migrants in the UK (2010 report)

Published by the Migrants Resource Centre

Black Africans in Britain: Integration or segregation? research report by Dr Lavinia Mitton and Peter Aspinall (University of Kent). See also ESRC press release
Bonds, Bridges and Links: Exploring the role of how a community centre can strengthen the social capital of Iraqi and British elders for improved health and psychosocial wellbeing  by Aliza Amlani. LSE Migration Studies Unit Working Papers No 2010/02.

Human rights, sex work and the challenge of trafficking (human rights impact assessment of anti-trafficking policy in the UK). A report by the X:talk Project, including discussion of the use of the detained fast-track asylum process in trafficking cases.

New asylum applications lodged in selected countries in Europe, North America, Oceania and Asia, 2010 -  comparative monthly data from UNHCR

Analysis of Law in the EU and a Selection of Member States pertaining to Cross-Border Disaster Relief (synthesis report and recommendations), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Countries examined include the UK.

Buffeted in the Borderland (the treatment of asylum seekers and migrants in Ukraine): Human Rights Watch report. See also article by co-author.

Unaccompanied Minors in the Migration Process  -  a ‘Tailored Risk Analysis’ by Frontex for the European Commission.

Feeling like a sponge’: the emotional labour produced by solicitors in their interactions with clients seeking asylum by Westaby, Chalen. International Journal of the Legal Profession Vol 17 No 2.

A Study of Black Minority Ethnic (BME) Service User Distribution by Integration by the Scottish Refugee Council for Glasgow City Council. Includes information on Glasgow’s refugee and asylum seeking population.

Inquiry into Migration and Trafficking (Equal Opportunities Committee Report SP Paper 543 5th Report. Published by the Scottish Parliament. See also press release and Scottish Refugee Council comment

Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan (UNHCR update).

New working papers from the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford:

• Negotiating Childhood: Age Assessment in the UK Asylum System by Kvittingen, Anna Verley (RSC Working Paper no. 67)
• Tony Blair’s Asylum Policies: The Narratives and Conceptualisations at the Heart of New Labour’s Restrictionism by Maughan, Bethany (RSC Working Paper, no. 69)

Migration Statistics November 2010 is a briefing from the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) on the annual migration statistics to March 2010 released by the Office for National Statistics.

From the Migrants Rights Group Newsletters:

The Wages of Fear: risk, safety and undoc­u­mented work

The Wages of Fear, a new publication by Positive Action For Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS), a Leeds based NGO, explores the expe­ri­ences of undocumented work­ers in the UK. It inves­ti­gates the occu­pa­tional risks and finds evi­dence of rou­tine exploita­tion, injury, and harm. It fur­ther pro­vides a snap­shot of the vio­lent con­se­quences of increased work­place raids.

IPPR: Immigration from Ireland likely to increase in 2011 – total net migration figure will remain high

A new briefing on migration trends by ippr suggests that net migration is unlikely to fall much below 200,000 in 2011 – roughly the annual level it has been at for much of the last decade.

New publication on occasion of International Migrants Day 2010

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UN Migrant Workers Convention, December 18 released a new publication: Ratification of the UN Migrant Workers Convention in the European Union – Survey on the Positions of Governments and Civil Society Actors.

The coming of the stranger: asylum seekers, trust and hospitality in a British city

This paper written for the UNHCR by Christine Goodall is an investigation into the interaction between host populations and new arrivals in communities changed by forced migration.

 

Ending the Detention of Children: Developing an Alternative Approach to Family Returns

Professor Heaven Crawley director of the Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University was commissioned by the Wales Family Returns Group to produce a briefing paper on alternatives to detention which can inform the review process. The paper draws upon an existing body of research in the UK and internationally to develop an alternative approach which does not rely upon detention to secure family returns.

From The Network Bulletin:

http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/uploaded_files/Wales/not_just_another_stat
istic_email.pdf

This new report from the EHRC “explores the life experiences of Gypsy
Travellers, asylum seekers and refugees, transgender people and people with a
mental health condition” in Wales.

“Our hope is that by seeing life as others experience it, all of us will be
moved to take responsibility, in our own area, for tackling prejudice and
speeding up progress towards our goal – a society where everyone can be
confident, living without fear of reprisal for being open about who they are.

We hope that our report inspires you to rise to this challenge.”

Migration statistics briefing: November 2010

http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=792

(Source: ippr weekly update, 25 November)

Latest briefing from ippr – headline: “Net migration is continuing to rise,
but this is largely explained by decreased net emigration by British
citizens, rather than increased net immigration by non-British citizens.”

Immigration under Labour

http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=790

(Source: ippr weekly update, 25 November)

“This collection of essays, which draws together contributions from people
who worked on immigration during the Blair-Brown years – both inside and
outside government – sets out to answer why the issue caused such problems
for Labour.

‘Black Africans’ in Britain: integration or segregation?

http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/PO/releases/2010/november/Bl
ack_Africans_in_Britain.aspx

Headline research findings have just been published by the ESRC – they
identify the importance of looking at the different needs of different
communities, for example: “The Somalis and Congolese are the most
disadvantaged and deprived communities amongst the ‘Black African’ group.”

Red Cross Positive images toolkit

http://www.redcross.org.uk/~/media/BritishRedCross/Documents/What%20we%20do/T
eaching%20resources/Teaching%20packages/Positive%20images/2010Positive%20Imag
es%20Toolkit.ashx

(Source: Migrants Rights News, 6 December)
Updated version of the toolkit which “is for teachers and anyone working with
young people aged 12 and up, and includes lesson plans, games, videos and
interactive activities, all aimed at promoting discussion and understanding
of issues around migration and development .”

The coming of the stranger: asylum seekers, trust and hospitality in a
British city

http://www.unhcr.org.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/images/Updates/december_update/
The_coming_of_a_stranger.pdf

(Source: Migrants Rights News, 13 December)
Taking Stoke on Trent as its example, this research paper from UNHCR looks at
how “relations between host communities and new arrivals in Britain might be
improved.”

Hope costs nothing: the lives of undocumented migrants in the UK

http://www.migrantsresourcecentre.org.uk/images/umr.pdf

(Source: ICAR Weekly Asylum Update, 14 December)

Report, based on interviews, which aims to give a voice to people “who are
generally both unheard and maligned”.
Bonds, bridges and links: exploring the role of how a community centre can
strengthen the social capital of Iraqi and British elders for improved health
and psychosocial wellbeing

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/MSU/documents/workingPape
rs/WP_2010_02.pdf
(Source: ICAR Weekly Asylum Update, 14 December)

RDS website update news

The following have been posted by RDS and can be downloaded via http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html

• Home Office Research Report 49 – Users’ views of the Points-Based System
  Summary
  Main report
  Abstract « (13.01.11)
• Occasional Paper 92 -
  A feasibility study for a survey of migrants
  A feasibility study for a survey of migrants technical report
  A feasibility study for a survey of migrants questionnaire
  Abstract « (13.01.11)
• Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers, by age and place of initial detention, (excluding Harwich), November 2010
  (30.12.10)
• Monthly Asylum Statistics – October 2010
  (30.12.10)

To download the above, visit the “what’s new” page at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html

Other Publications

In October, the Global Detention Project (GDP) held a workshop with
representatives of non-governmental organisations from 12 countries in
Europe and neighbouring areas to highlight pressing issues in the region
and develop techniques for improving documentation of immigration
detention practices and policies. The workshop, which was held at the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva,
was jointly organised with the International Detention Coalition and the
Programme for the Study of Global Migration, and was made possible by
the generous support of Zennstrom Philanthropies. The report on the
workshop, titled “Detention on the Borders of Europe,” is available here:
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/publications/project-publications.html

World Migration Report 2010: Background Papers

Future Trends in Migration: Global Outlook

“The Future of Migration Policies in Africa” by Aderanti Adepoju

“The Future of Migration Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region” by Graeme Hugo

“The Future of Migration Policies in the Americas” by Agustín Escobar Latapí

“The Future of European Migration: Policy Options for the European Union and its Member States” by Rainer Münz and Elizabeth Collett

” Building Capacity to Manage Labour Mobility in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries” by Mohamed Dito

“Building State Capacities for Managing Contract Worker Mobility: The Asia – GCC Context” by Nasra Shah

“The Future of Migration Policies in the Caribbean” by Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Migration Governance

“Migration Governance: Alternative Futures” by Alexander Betts

“Irregular Migration and Mixed Flows” by Ryszard Cholewinski

“The Global Economic Crisis and Governance of Human Mobility: Can We Turn the Current Crisis Into a Global Opportunity for the Future?” by Bimal Gosh

“The Future of Migration Governance and Regional Consultative Processes” by Randall Hansen and Jobst Koehler

“The Future of Labour Migration Costs” by Philip Martin

Migration and its Linkages with Employment, Health, Integration and Development

“The Future of Diaspora Policy” by Dovelyn Agunias

“The Future of Integration Policy” by Thomas Huddleston

“Family Migration Issues in North-East Asia” by Hye-Kyung Lee

“Future Capacity Needs in Managing the Health Aspects of Migration” by Greg Irving and Davide Mosca

“The Future of Health Worker Migration” by Binod Khadria

“Welfare Provision for Migrants: Current Trends and Future Challenges” by Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

Climate Change and Environmental Degradation: Migration as an Adaptation Strategy

“Climate Change and International Migration” by Susan Martin

 

 

 

New Research and Publications, Part 2

Further to my earlier email, please find part 2 of my listing of recently published reports and publications relating to refugee and forced migration studies :

Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Annual Report and Accounts 2009-2010 [text] and also on TSO Shop website [text]

Human Trafficking and Conflict, Policy Brief, no. 49 (Inst. for Security & Development Policy, Dec. 2010) [text]

International Cooperation and the Antitrafficking Regime, Working Paper, no. 71 (RSC, Dec. 2010) [text]

Right of Asylum in Europe: The “Dublin Regulation” – An Unfair System both for Asylum Seekers and for States (PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population, Dec. 2010) [text]

Unaccompanied Minors in the Migration Process (Frontex, Dec. 2010) [text]

Analysis of Law in the EU and a Selection of Member States pertaining to Cross-Border Disaster Relief: Synthesis Report and Recommendations (IFRC, Dec. 2010) [text via ReliefWeb]

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Displacement and Reintegration in Post-referendum Southern Sudan (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2010) [text]

Inter-agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings: 2010 Revision for Field Review (Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, 2010) [text via Refworld]

Internal Displacement and Refugee Status Determination (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Dec. 2010) [text]

Living in Limbo: Iraqi Refugees and U.S. Resettlement (Human Rights First, Dec. 2010) [text]

Should I stay or Should I go? A review of UNHCR’s response to the protracted refugee situation in Serbia and Croatia, PDES/2010/14 (UNHCR, Dec. 2010) [text]

World Development Report 2011: Input Papers (World Bank, July 2010) [access]
- Relevant titles include “The Impacts of Refugees on Neighboring Countries” and “The Development Challenge of Finding Durable Solutions for Refugees and Internally Displaced People.”

Climate Change and Displacement: Identifying Gaps and Responses, Expert Roundtable, Bellagio Conference Centre, 22-26 February 2011 – Concept Note (UNHCR, Dec. 2010) [text]

Complementarities between International Refugee Law, International Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law: Concept Note (UNHCR, Dec. 2010) [text]

Excluding Migrants from Justice: The Legal Aid Cuts (Institute of Race Relations, Dec. 2010) [text]

Unsustainable: The Quality of Initial Decision-making in Women’s Asylum Claims (Asylum Aid, Jan. 2011) [text]

Responding to Protracted Refugee Situations: Lessons from a Decade of Discussion, Forced Migration Policy Briefing, no. 6 (RSC, Jan. 2011) [text]

To Transfer or Not to Transfer: Identifying and Protecting Relevant Human Rights Interests in Non-Refoulement, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 319 (Cardozo School of Law, Dec. 2010) [text]

Refugee Council Client Experiences in the Asylum Process (Refugee Council, Nov. 2010) [text]

“Affirmatively Denied: The Detrimental Effects of a Reduced Grant Rate for Affirmative Asylum Seekers,” Boston University International Law Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2009 (posted Jan. 2011) [text via SSRN]

Away from Iraq: Post 2003 Iraqi Migration to Neighboring Countries and to Turkey (ORSAM, Nov. 2010) [text]

Baltic Sea Region: Information Management to Prevent Trafficking (Expert Group for Cooperation on Children at Risk, Dec. 2010) [text]

Gender related persecution and the Refugee Convention Art 1A(2) (IARLJ, Dec. 2010) [text]

The Palestinian Refugees on the Day After “Independence” (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Dec. 2010) [text]

Protecting Refugees Information Pack (CoE & UNHCR, Dec. 2010) [text]

New Research and Publications, Part 3

Further to my earlier email, please find part 3 of my listing of recently published reports and publications relating to refugee and forced migration studies :

Journals and Periodicals

International Journal of Refugee Law (Table of Contents – Volume 23 Number 1, March 2011): http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/

Refugee Survey Quarterly (Table of Contents – Volume 30, Number 1, March 2011): http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/

CrisisWatch N°91, 1 March 2011 – Download the full issue of CrisisWatch N°91

Forced Migration Review issue 37, entitled ‘Armed non-state actors and
displacement’ is now online at http://www.fmreview.org/non-state/

Some armed non-state actors behave responsibly and humanely, at least some of the time. Others seem to have no regard for the damage, distress or deaths
that they cause – and may actually use displacement as a deliberate tactic – in pursuit of their goals of power, resources or justice. FMR 37 looks at a
variety of such actors, at their behaviours and at efforts to bring them into frameworks of responsibility and accountability.

HUMANITARIAN EXCHANGE MAGAZINE 49 – HUMANITARIAN SPACE IN PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN

This issue of Humanitarian Exchange is themed Humanitarian Space in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A combination of violent conflict and natural
disasters has led to widespread humanitarian needs in both contexts. Yet, humanitarian organisations are increasingly challenged in their ability to
respond.
To view the issue online visit http://www.odihpn.org/report.asp?id=3182.

It is a pleasure to inform you of the second issue of Diversities, published jointly by UNESCO and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. The issue is dedicated to female migration outcomes and published at the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March).

Diversities is a continuation of the International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS), which is published by UNESCO since 1999.

How do women benefit from migration? This special issue of Diversities is focused on how migrant women fare in terms of human rights, gender justice and gender empowerment. The Journal takes an innovative human rights based approach in defining migration outcomes beyond the more conventional economic approach. Papers in the issue provide a broad geographic perspective, including migration following the Haiti earthquake in 2010, South-South migration in Latin America, and migration from Africa to Europe. Data and analysis is provided on the way to measure the outcomes of migration for female migrants in gender equality terms.

Diversities Vol. 13, No. 1, 2011

Female Migration Outcomes: Human Rights Perspectives

Guest Editors: Nicola Piper and Amber French

Do Women Benefit from Migration? An Editorial Introduction, pp. 1-4

Nicola Piper and Amber French

Notions of Rights and Entitlements Among Peruvian Female Workers in Chile, pp. 5-18

Claudia Mora and Nicola Piper

Transnational Migration and Changing Gender Relations in Peruvian and Bolivian Cities, pp. 19-34
Tanja Bastia and Erika Busse

Social Change and Female Involvement: Sinthiane’s Associations at Home and Abroad, pp. 35-48
Georgia Barbara Jettinger

Measuring Women’s Empowerment through Migration, pp. 49-66

Amie Gaye and Shreyasi Jha

Shaking up the Grounds for Human Trafficking on Hispaniola, pp. 67-81

Bridget Wooding

Publications:

New IDMC Reports:

Ethiopia: Monitoring of conflict, human rights violations and resulting displacement still problematic – Read the Overview (html / pdf).

Links made available by ICAR:

The European Court of Human Rights – Facts and figures is a new book published by the Council of Europe.

House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee: UK Border Agency and Glasgow City Council – third report of session 2010-11.

Report on an unannounced full follow-up inspection of Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre and Short Term Holding Facility by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.

Coping with Destitution: Survival and livelihood strategies of refused asylum seekers living in the UK by Heaven Crawley, Joanne Hemmings and Neil Price is a new research report from Oxfam. See also IRIN article.

The Management of Oppression: Focussing on relationships between refugees and the British state in Newcastle upon Tyne by Tom Vickers. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Becoming British Citizens? Experiences and Opinions of Refugees Living in Scotland – Refugee Council research report by Emma Stewart and Gareth Mulvey.

Children and youth:

• Landing in Kent: The experience of unaccompanied children arriving in the UK is a new report from the Children’s Commissioner. See also Refugee Council press statement and Children and Young People Now
• The experiences of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in and leaving the out-of-home care system in the UK and Australia: A critical review of the literature by Larissa Barrie and Philip Mendes in International Social Work 54.
• Understanding the experiences and emotional needs of unaccompanied asylum-seeking adolescents in the UK by Claire Groark and Irene Sclare in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
• Lives in the Balance: The Quality of Immigration Legal Advice Given to Separated Children Seeking Asylum – Refugee Council report by Laura Brownlees and Terry Smith.
• Something to smile about: Promoting and supporting the educational and recreational needs of refugee children – Refugee Council report on its SMILE project for refugee children. See also Children and Young People Now
• Families New to the UK: Confident families in cohesive communities – new report by 4Children.

Rights on the Line: Human Rights Watch Work on Abuses against Migrants in 2010

Protection Gaps in Europe? Persons fleeing the indiscriminate effects of generalized violence by UNHCR. See also press release

New reports from Frontex:

• Joint Operation Agelaus: Children in Irregular Migration
• FRAN Quarterly – quarterly EU illegal migration figures

Occasional Paper 92 – A feasibility study for a survey of migrants published by the Home Office.

An inspection of entry clearance in Abu Dhabi and Islamabad by the Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency.

Unsustainable: the quality of initial decision-making in women’s asylum claims is a new report by Asylum Aid.

Report on an unannounced full follow-up inspection of Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre and short-term holding facility (16-27 August 2010) by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.

UNHCR Position on Returns to Côte d’Ivoire

 Summary Conclusions: Asylum-Seekers and Refugees Seeking Protection on Account of their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity from UNCHR Expert Roundtable, Geneva, 30 Sept-1 Oct 2010.

Are Undocumented Migrants and Asylum Seekers Entitled to Access Health Care in the EU? A Comparative Overview in 16 Countries  by the HUMA Network (Health for Undocumented Migrants and Asylum Seekers). See also European declaration of health professionals towards non-discriminatory access to healthcare

Protecting Europe and Protecting Migrants? Strategies for Managing Unauthorised Migration from Africa by Carling, Jørgen and Hernández-Carretero, María in the British Journal of Politics & International Relations Volume 13, No1.

Health and Social Needs of Traumatized Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Exploratory Study by Patricia J. M. Strijk, Berno van Meijel, Claudia J. Gamel in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care Vol 47 No 1.

Working with Interpreters in Child Mental Health by Cécile Rousseau, Toby Measham, and Marie-Rose Moro Child in Adolescent Mental Health Volume 16, No 1.

Unsustainable: the quality of initial decision-making in women’s asylum claims – new Asylum Aid research report. See also Executive Summary

Child Detention Review: Interim Assessment of family return pilots by the UK Border Agency. See also intlawgrrls blog analysis of child detainee decisions in UK/Europe

Asylum Seekers and the Right to Access Health Care by Stevens, Dallal in Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 4.

Asylum in the Margins of Contemporary Britain: The Spatial Practices of Desire in Gypo by Kirsten Emiko McAllister. Space and Culture 14 (1), (online only)

Reports made abailable through IRR:

Calais Migrant Solidarity has published issue no.3 of: ‘Without Borders’.
Download the issue at:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2011/03//475212.pdf (pd file, 188kb)

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published new research on: ‘A review of poverty and ethnicity in Scotland’.
Download the summary at:
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/poverty-ethnicity-Scotland-summary.pdf (pdf file, 132kb)

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published new research on: ‘Ethnic diversity and inequality: ethical and scientific rigour in social research
Download the full report at:
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/ethnicity-social-policy-research-full.pdf (pdf file, 376kb)

South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) has published the February edition of: ‘SYMAAG News’.
To receive copies email: dignitynotdetention@yahoo.co.uk

The Children’s Commissioner for England has published a report: ‘Landing in Kent: The experience of unaccompanied children arriving in the UK’.
Download the report at:
http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/force_download.php?fp=%2Fclient_assets%2Fcp%2Fpublication%2F465%2FLanding_in_Kent_-_The_experience_of_unaccompanied_children_arriving_in_the_UK.pdf (pdf file, 396kb)

The Scottish Affairs Committee has published its third report: ‘UK Border Agency and Glasgow City Council’.
View the report at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmscotaf/733/73302.htm

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary has published a report: ‘Policing Public Order: An overview and review of progress against the recommendations of Adapting to Protest and Nurturing the British Model of Policing’.
Download the report at:
http://www.hmic.gov.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/PPR/PPR_20110209.pdf (pdf file, 282kb)

The Chief Inspector of The UK Border Agency has published a report: ‘A Thematic Inspection of the Points-Based System: Tier 2 (Skilled Workers), July – August 2010′.
Download the report at:
http://icinspector.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/A-thematic-inspection-of-the-PBS-Tier-2_Skilled-Workers.pdf (pdf file, 656kb)

Research Development and Statistics at the Home Office has published a Statistical Bulletin: ‘Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation: Arrests, outcomes and stop & searches, Quarterly update to September 2010, Great Britain’.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs11/hosb0411.pdf

Research Development and Statistics at the Home Office has published: ‘Monthly Asylum Statistics – December 2010′.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs11/asylum-dec2010.xls (excel file, 76kb)

Research Development and Statistics at the Home Office has published: ‘Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers, by age and place of initial detention, (excluding Harwich), January 2011′.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs11/child-detention-jan2011.xls (excel file, 20kb)

Research Development and Statistics at the Home Office has published: ‘Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom – Fourth Quarter 2010′.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs11/control-immigration-q4-2010.pdf (pdf file, 252kb)

The UK Border Agency at the Home Office has published the: ‘Terms of Reference – Independent Family Returns Panel’.
View the document at:
http://nds.coi.gov.uk/imagelibrary/DownloadMedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=3246 (pdf file, 1.8mb)

The UK Border Agency has published:’ Annual update to the codes of practice for sponsored skilled workers’.
View the codes of practice at:
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2011/march/01-annual-update-to-the-cop

A new report has been published by the Qalb Mental Health Centre and Cheetah Books, written by Dr Qadir Bakhsh: ‘Mental Health: South Asian Communities Delivering Racial Equality in Mental Health Care – 2010 and Beyond A legacy report’.
Email: cheetah_qb@yahoo.co.uk for a copy of the report

The Migrants’ Rights Network has published its 2010 Annual Report.
Download the report at:
http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/files/publications/MRN_annual_report_2010.pdf (pdf file, 1.1mb)

Joint Enterprise, Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) has published issue no.3 of its latest newsletter.
Download the newsletter at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/JENGbA_Newsletter_issue_3.pdf (pdf file, 464kb)

The Community Security Trust has published its: ‘Antisemitic Incidents Report 2010′.
Download the report at:
http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/Incidents%20Report%202010.pdf (pdf file, 2.8mb)

Qa research has published a summary report for Children & Young People Now magazine on: ‘Children and Gangs’.
Download the report at:
http://www.qaresearch.co.uk/index.php?/component/option,com_rokdownloads/id,60/task,download/view,file/ (pdf file 684kb)

The Home Office has published a report on: Knife, gun and gang-related youth violence.
Download the report at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/crime/tackling-knife-crime-together/

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a: ‘Report on an unannounced full inspection of the short-term holding facility at: Luton Airport, 18 October 2010′.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/inspectorates/hmi-prisons/docs/2010-Luton_Airport_STHF_final_report.pdf (pdf file 68kb)

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a: ‘Report on an unannounced full follow-up inspection of Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre and short-term holding facility, 16-27 August 2010′.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/inspectorates/hmi-prisons/docs/Colnbrook_2010_rps.pdf (pdf file, 580kb)

The Home Office has published a report by Lord Carlile of Berriew Q.C: ‘Sixth Report of the Independent Reviewer pursuant to Section 14(3) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005′.
Download the report at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/counter-terrorism/independent-reviews/lord-carlile-sixth-report?view=Binary (pdf file, 788kb)

Oxfam has published a report by the Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR), Swansea University: ‘Coping with Destitution: Survival and livelihood strategies of refused asylum seekers living in the UK’.
Download the full report at:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/right_heard/downloads/rr-coping-with-destitution-survival-strategies-uk-040211-en.pdf (pdf file, 612kb)
Download the summary at:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/right_heard/downloads/rr-coping-with-destitution-survival-strategies-uk-040211-summ-en.pdf (pdf file, 302kb)

HM Inspectorate of Prisons has published the: ‘Monitoring places of detention: First Annual Report of the United Kingdom’s National Preventive Mechanism 2009-10′.
Download the full report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/inspectorates/hmi-prisons/docs/National_Preventive_Mechanism_Annual_report_2009-2010(web).pdf (pdf file, 1mb)

Positive Action For Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS) has published a report by Jon Burnett and David Whyte on: ‘The Wages of Fear: risk, safety and undocumented work’.
Download the report at:
http://www.pafras.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The_Wages_of-Fear.pdf (pdf file, 352kb)

Asylum Aid has published a report: ‘Unsustainable: the quality of initial decision-making in women’s asylum claims’.
Download the report at:
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/data/files/unsustainableweb.pdf (pdf file, 2.4mb)

The Migrants Resource Centre has published a report: ‘”Hope Costs Nothing” – A report on the lives of undocumented migrants in the UK – 2010′.
Download the report at:
http://www.migrantsresourcecentre.org.uk/images/umr.pdf (pdf file, 5.8mb)

The Children’s Legal Centre has published its: Migrants Children Project update, January 2011′.
View the update at:
http://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=727f7cb511aa9ca211dde2fbc&id=40d67cdb2a

The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has published a report: ‘The work of the UK Border Agency’.
Download the report at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmhaff/587/587.pdf (pdf file, 684kb)

Research Development Statistics at the Home Office has published statistics on: ‘Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers, by age and place of initial detention, (excluding Harwich), November 2010′.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/child-detention-nov2010.xls (excel file, 28kb)

Research Development Statistics at the Home Office has published: ‘Monthly Asylum Statistics – October 2010
’.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/asylum-oct2010.xls (excel file, 36kb)

Research Development Statistics at the Home Office has published: ‘Occasional Paper 92 – A feasibility study for a survey of migrants’.
Download the paper at:
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html

Research Development Statistics at the Home Office has published: ‘Home Office Research Report 49 – Users’ views of the Points-Based System’.
Download the report at:
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html

Reports detailed from the Network Ebulletin:

Health Protection Agency “Migrant Health Guide” – http://www.hpa.org.uk/migranthealthguide
(Source: EoE AS&R/MW Newsflash 31 Jan- 4 Feb 2011)

“This resource aims to assist primary health care practitioners to look after people who have come to live in the UK from abroad. It is organised on
a country specific basis and outlines a range of health issues that might affect someone coming from each country, making their health care needs
different to that of the UK born population. It also provides practical guidance and resources to assess and manage a wide range of health needs.”

Coping with destitution: survival and livelihood strategies of refused asylum seekers living in the UK

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/right_heard/downloads/rr-coping-with
-destitution-survival-strategies-uk-040211-en.pdf

New research from Swansea University’s Centre for Migration Policy Research and Oxfam, which “. uncovers how the hundreds of thousands of people
currently living in the UK, with no access to legitimate means of securing a livelihood, survive on a day-to-day and longer-term basis.”

Publications from Other Sources

‘Migration and Climate Change: an Overview’,  by Étienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud and Paul de Guchteneire

Summary:  Climate change has become a major concern for the international community. Among its consequences, its impact on migration is the object of increasing
attention from both policy-makers and researchers. Yet, knowledge in this field remains limited and fragmented.

Download the Working Paper
<http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/files/docs/WP1079%20Piguet-Pecoud-de%20
Guchteneire_01.pdf>  [English, PDF].

The International Detention Coalition (IDC) has published a new report on developments at the UN level on the issue of immigration detention.

The report indicates that developments at the UN level over the last 18 months suggest there is growing international recognition among UN
agencies of the issue of immigration detention, particularly the detention of children, and the importance of exploring and promoting
alternatives to immigration detention.

The report can be downloaded at:
http://idcoalition.org/idc-report-the-issue-of-immigration-detention-at-the-u
n-level/

Monthly Asylum Statistics – November 2010

Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers, by age and place of initial detention (excluding Harwich), December 2010

To download the above, visit the “what’s new” page at
http://www.mailingm.co.uk/6/link.php?M=436645&N=2914&L=1&F=T

From the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford:

We are delighted to attach the Winter 2010-2011 issue of our newsletter and our 2009-2010 Academic Record in PDF format. You can also find both documents
at: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk

If you know of anyone else who may be interested in receiving the newsletter or Academic Record, we would be grateful if you would provide us with their details.

• Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers, by age and place of initial detention, (excluding Harwich), January 2011
  (24.02.11)
• Statistical News Release
• Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom – Fourth Quarter 2010
  Also available: Main excel tables Q4 2010 and Supplementary excel tables Q4 2010
  (24.02.11)

A new guide on including migrants in the process of commissioning health services has been published. It is available here:
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=25719135

Please circulate to anyone involved in health needs assessment. Thank you.

Rose N, Stirling S, Ricketts A, Chappel D. Including migrant populations in Joint Strategic Needs Assessment: a guide. February 2011

This Guide has been written to assist those writing a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) as part of the process of commissioning. A JSNA
acts as a critical part of the steps taken in commissioning. It pinpoints areas of concern that require changes to provision in order to
inform mid to longterm strategy; and areas needing further focused assessment.

Some understanding of migration and how it might be changing the local population is essential, as migrants to any given area form part of the
demography. Knowledge of local migration and needs is also important in assessing equity of provision as migrants are in all areas, even when
not visible or seldom heard.

This Guide will help planners and commissioners to build an objective analysis of population needs, taking into account issues of perception
and prioritisation.

To read this informative guide in full see: A Guide to including migrant populations in Joint Strategic Needs
Assessment <http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/25890015>
(PDF, 48 pages, 575KB)

Migration Profile Shows 6.9 Million Affected by Migration and Displacement in Sudan

Sudan – A new IOM migration country profile of Sudan shows that out of a population of 39.2 million, an estimated 6.9 million people in the
country are affected by migration and displacement. These include 4.9 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), 750,000 foreign migrants
and refugees living in Sudan and at least 1.2 million Sudanese living abroad.
The Sudan Migration Country Profile can be accessed at: http://bit.ly/fCS3sI

New Research and Publications, Part 4

Further to my earlier email, please find part 4 of my listing of recently published reports and publications relating to refugee and forced migration studies :

Darfur in the Shadows : The Sudanese Government’s Ongoing Attacks on Civilians and Human Rights
By Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2011/06/05/darfur-shadows-0
(Source: Human Rights Watch – http://www.hrw.org/)

Pakistan: Impact of flood-induced displacement on women in Sindh province
The July and August 2010 floods in Pakistan caused the largest displacement in the country’s history, of over 11 million people. Women faced particular challenges and discrimination in the extreme circumstances which followed, before, during and after their displacement.
Download the briefing paper (pdf)
Pakistan country page
Source (IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Displacement due to natural hazard-induced disasters: Global estimates 2009 and 2010
Millions of men, women and children around the world are displaced from their homes each year by sudden-onset natural disasters. This report finds that over 17 million people were newly displaced in 2009 and over 42 million in 2010, most of them by extreme weather events. The sheer scale of displacement should leave no doubt as to the seriousness and immediacy of the challenge facing affected populations, governments and the international community. People displaced by disasters have the right to be protected and assisted, and greater efforts and collaboration between actors from different fields are required to strengthen preparedness and response.”
View the report
Press release
Source (IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Pakistan: Returns continue in some areas but comprehensive IDP policy needed
The population of north-west Pakistan has suffered conflict-induced displacement for the past seven years, with the phenomenon reaching its peak in 2009 when there were more than three million internally displaced people (IDPs) in the region. By May 2010, the figure was down to one million, but returns since then have been offset by new displacements. As of May 2011, ongoing military operations and militant activities were causing new displacements in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
The official criteria for registration as an IDP have barred many displaced people from assistance. A multi-agency IDP vulnerability assessment profiling (IVAP) found that only around half of all IDPs were registered, but that hundreds of thousands of ineligible people were. (…)
Read the Overview (html / pdf)
Pakistan country page

 

IDPs return to face slow land allocation, and no shelter, basic services or livelihoods
In August 2010, the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) announced an ambitious initiative aimed at facilitating the rapid return to the south of up to 1.5 million Southern Sudanese living in the north and Egypt. However, the return of Southern Sudanese people to the south has been slower than the GoSS anticipated, and up to now only around 300,000 IDPs have returned.
Achievement of durable solutions has been difficult in a region ravaged by war, still plagued by insecurity and offering limited access to water, health care, education or livelihood opportunities. Upon return many IDPs are faced with no services, no livelihood opportunities and no land to settle on. So far, the GoSS has provided little or no support for integration of returning IDPs an a large share of the facilitation for the returnees has been taken on by the international community.
Download the briefing paper (pdf)
Sudan country page

Source (IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

 

Central African Republic: Grave violations against children including internally displaced children
Children in the Central African Republic (CAR) are being abducted, recruited into armed groups, and denied access to humanitarian assistance, according to a report released today by the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist) and IDMC.
The report, An Uncertain Future? Children and Armed Conflict in the Central African Republic, finds that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is still present and active in CAR, where it is abducting children. Abducted children are raped, used as sex slaves, and forced to attack villages and kill others, including other children.
Watchlist and IDMC interviewed former child soldiers, internally displaced children and their families, community leaders and teachers, defense and security forces, and members of self-defense militias.
IDMC has called for a stronger international response to the humanitarian and human rights crisis in CAR. Despite the range, extent and gravity of the violations which children in CAR face, the country continues to receive a relative lack of international attention.
View the report (PDF)
Press release
CAR country page
Source (IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Libya: Increasing reports of internal displacement
The continuing internal conflict in Libya started on 15 February when rioters in Benghazi demanded the end of the 41-year rule of Muammar Qadhafi. As of 14 April, repeated advances and retreats of both pro-Qadhafi and opposition forces had left cities and villages deserted, with civilians increasingly bearing the brunt of the combat.
As of 14 April, aid organisations reported that about 106,000 people had been internally displaced many of them several times. The Libyan Committee for Humanitarian Aid and Relief had reported that 35,000 people had been displaced from Ajdabiya to Benghazi; UNHCR reported that about 6,000 IDPs were seeking shelter in Tubruq. As of 25 March, International Medical Corps’ East Libya Team reported that 25,000 IDPs had gathered in Al Butwen. Meanwhile, according to the Libyan Red Crescent, some 5,000 people were displaced in Derna. (…)
Read the Overview (html / pdf)
Libya country page
Source (IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Communication & engagement toolkit

http://www.evelynoldfield.co.uk/files/publications/EOU%20Engagement%20and%20Communication%20Toolkit.pdf

New from the Evelyn Oldfield Unit is this important toolkit (intended for “supporting RCOs to better connect with their beneficiaries” [p7]) and which looks at mapping; “tools for engagement”; social media; removing barriers; “human resources” – sources of help and support.
NB Fuller assessment to appear in The Network Newsletter.
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

“Eastern European workers under attack”

http://www.irr.org.uk/2011/may/ha000023.html
(Source: IRR Weekly Digest, 27 May)

“Research by the Institute of Race Relations shows that eastern Europeans in the UK face a significant threat of racial violence. Cases over the last twelve months reveal incidents ranging from graffiti and abuse to brutal attacks causing long-lasting physical damage. Some people have resorted to moving away to escape from danger and although incidents occur throughout the UK, there is a particularly high number of cases in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Most of the cases we have recorded involve Polish people.”
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

Who’s still missing? Refugees, migrants and the equality agenda

http://www.edf.org.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/EDF-Report_Whos-Still-Missing_May-2011_Web-2-2.pdf
(Source: email from the Equality and Diversity Forum)

“Coinciding with the introduction of the new public sector Equality Duty, EDF commissioned research to explore what lessons can be learnt from the implementation of the previous Race Equality Duty and to consider how public authorities can most effectively use the new Duty to incorporate refugee and migrant communities into their core work.”
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

 

Refugee Integration in Scotland – Briefing 1: Key Findings from Stage 1

http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/policy_and_research/research_reports
(Source: MEMO [Minority Ethnic Matters Overview], 265, 30 May 2011)

The Scottish Refugee Council is undertaking a longitudinal study of refugee integration in Scotland. This briefing paper is the first in a series that will highlight the findings of each stage.
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

“Should we be upset by a silent ‘amnesty’ of asylum seekers in the UK?”

http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/2011/06/coalition-must-stop-making-undeliverable-promises-immigration
(Source: Migrants Rights News, 6 June)

Thoughtful blog posting from Ruth Grove-White, which questions whether there really has been an amnesty …
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

“Population Estimates by Ethnic Group (experimental)”

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/product.asp?vlnk=14238
(Source: Migrants Rights News, 23 May)

The Office of National Statistics has just published these new figures: “Population estimates by ethnic group are available for mid-2001 to mid-2009 for England and Wales and for constituent areas (regions, counties and local authorities). The estimates are provided by age, sex and ethnic group as defined in the 2001 Census.”
However, as you may have seen, there have been some ‘knee-jerk’ reactions to these figures. Ruth Grove-White at Migrants’ Rights Network takes a more analytical look at what they mean in her blog-post at: http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/2011/05/looking-those-immigration-stats-beyond-hysteria.
Also, The Guardian has produced an interactive map: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/may/19/ethnic-breakdown-england-wales.
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

Migration issues – Other Agencies

Glossary on migration

http://www.west-info.eu/files/iom.pdf
(Source: Migrants Rights News, 9 May)

This is the 2^nd edition of the Glossary first published in 2004, and which is a valuable source for governments, practitioners, NGOs and students working in the field of migration.

(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

“The Plight of Chinese Migrant Workers in the UK: Survey findings from East Midlands”

http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/migration-pulse/2011/plight-chinese-migrant-workers-uk-survey-findings-east-midlands
(Source: Migrants Rights News, 11 April)

“Migration Pulse” blog entry from Dr. Bin Wu, a senior research fellow in the China Policy Institute, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, which highlights research findings from a pilot survey on Chinese migrant employment in East Midlands two years ago.
The full report, Employment conditions of Chinese migrant workers in the East Midlands, is available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cpi/documents/funded-projects/ilo-employment-conditions-migrant-workers-final.pdf.
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

33^rd IBBY International Congress, August 2012 – call for papers

http://www.ibbycongress2012.org/

The themes are translation and migration; submissions accepted up to Thursday 30 June 2011.
Further info on the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) weblink (above).
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

What have I done? The experiences of children and families in UK immigration detention

http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/research_docs/ExperiencesOfDetention_ExecSummaryRecs_FINAL.pdf (Summary)

http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/research_docs/immigration%20experiences_full%20report.pdf (Full report)
(Source: IRR Weekly Digest, 20 May)

Important new report from the Children’s Society, which “investigates the experiences of UK immigration detention of children and their families”, and which found that “the majority of the 79 children and parents in the sample were detrimentally affected by a period in immigration detention.”
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

Ending the abuse: policies that work to protect migrant domestic workers – report from Kalayaan

(Source: EoE AS&R/MW Newsflash 16-20 May 2011)

“Kalayaan, the charity which provides advocacy and advice to Britain’s migrant domestic workers … has published a new report which draws on evidence collected over the last decade and demonstrates that migrant domestic workers are highly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.”
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

No easy options: irregular immigration in the UK

http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=815
(Source: ippr E-newsletter, 27 April)

New report from ippr, available to download from the above weblink. It takes as its starting point:“A major reduction in irregular immigration in the UK will be difficult to achieve and will take a long time, particularly with respect to reducing significantly the population of irregulars that is long established in this country.” [p4]
It then investigates key options, and makes a series of recommendations. It’s a depressing read, as it places this work in the current UK context:

“Ippr has long backed earned regularisation as one option for dealing with a portion of the UK’s large irregular stock which has built up in recent years. We remain of the view that, properly managed and properly explained to the public, it would be a useful policy tool … There are strong moral and practical arguments in favour of regularisation, given the UK’s recent history of immigration mismanagement, and excluding it as an option will certainly make the task of reducing irregularity that much harder. However, our conclusion in this report – hard-nosed but, we think, self-evident – is that the outcome of the general election in 2010 has ended any prospect of a large-scale regularisation programme.” [p7]

NB The Institute of Race Relations has just published a strong critique of this ippr paper – see: http://www.irr.org.uk/2011/april/ha000027.html.
(Source: Network e-Bulletin – NETWORKEBULLETIN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK)

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration’s assessment of immigration policy

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Migration met for the second time this year in Parliament to debate the Coalition Government’s immigration policy of the past 12 months in a meeting entitled, ‘Immigration under the Coalition Government: looking back, moving forward’. On the occassion a briefing paper was published to inform the debate.

Parliamentary Accounts Committee report criticises Points Based System

A new report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has criticised the UK Border Agency over the operation of the Points Based System work routes, which were introduced in 2008.

New Research and Publications, Part 5

Further to my earlier email, please find part 5 of my listing of recently published reports and publications relating to refugee and forced migration studies :
(these documents have been compiled from lists of resources made available on the Forced Migration Curent Awareness Blog) :

African Migrants are Drowning in the Mediterranean (Human Rights Comment, June 2011) [text]

Briefing Paper on Flood-displaced Women in Sindh Province, Pakistan (IDMC and NRC, June 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Last Resort or First Resort? Immigration Detention of Children in the UK (Bail for Immigration Detainees, May 2011) [access]

“Malaria in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Turkana, Kenya: Facilitation of Anopheles Arabiensis Vector Populations by Installed Water Distribution and Catchment Systems,” Malaria Journal 10:149 (2011) [open access article]

Paving the Way: A Handbook on the Reception and Integration of Resettled Refugees (ICMC, June 2011) [text]

African Migrants are Drowning in the Mediterranean (Human Rights Comment, June 2011) [text]

Briefing Paper on Flood-displaced Women in Sindh Province, Pakistan (IDMC and NRC, June 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Last Resort or First Resort? Immigration Detention of Children in the UK (Bail for Immigration Detainees, May 2011) [access]

“Malaria in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Turkana, Kenya: Facilitation of Anopheles Arabiensis Vector Populations by Installed Water Distribution and Catchment Systems,” Malaria Journal 10:149 (2011) [open access article]

Paving the Way: A Handbook on the Reception and Integration of Resettled Refugees (ICMC, June 2011) [text]

Natural Disaster Response in Japan and Fiji, Foreign Policy Trip Report, no. 27 (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, June 2011) [text]

Refugee Integration in Scotland (Scottish Refugee Council, May 2011) [text]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/17/35 (UN General Assembly, Human Rights Council, April 2011) [text]

What Have I Done? The Experiences of Children and Families in UK Immigration Detention (Children’s Society, May 2011) [text]

Who’s Still Missing? Refugees, Migrants and the Equality Agenda (Equality and Diversity Forum, May 2011) [text]

2010 Annual Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC, May 2011) [access]

Critical Reflections on Anti-Human Trafficking: The Case of Timor Leste, NTS Alert (Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, May 2011) [text]

Electing Displacement: Political Cleansing in Apartadó, Colombia, HiCN Working Paper 96 (Households in Conflict, May 2011) [text]

“The Resettlement of Nauruans in Australia: An Early Case of Failed Environmental Migration,” Journal of Pacific History, vol. 46, no. 2 (2011) [full-text via SSRN]

Shahram Khosravi on a World of Borders (The Browser, May 2011) [text]

Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2010: The Numbers and Trends (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, May 2011) [text]

Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum (2010) (European Commission, May 2011) [text]

Body of Evidence: Treatment of Medico-legal Reports for Survivors of Torture in the UK Asylum System (Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, May 2011) [text]

The Italian Approach to Asylum: System and Core Problems (Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers, April 2011) [text]

“Searching for the Key in the Wrong Place: Why ‘Common Sense’ Credibility Rules Consistently Harm Refugees,” Boston University International Law Journal, vol. 30, no. 1 (2011) [preprint via SSRN]

Selected Bibliography: Displacement to Urban Areas (UNHCR, updated May 2011) [text]

“Alien Language: Immigration Metaphors and the Jurisprudence of Otherness,” Fordham Law Review, vol. 79, no. 4 (March 2011) [full-text]

Asylum Procedure and Reception Conditions in Italy: Report on the Situation of Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Persons under Subsidiary or Humanitarian Protection, with Focus on Dublin Returnees (Swiss Refugee Council & and the Norwegian Law Student’s Legal Aid Office (Juss-Buss), May 2011) [text]

Beyond Making Ends Meet: Urban Refugees and Microfinance (Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy, April 2011) [text]

Legal and Policy Review: Responses to Human Trafficking in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka (UNODC, April 2011) [text]
Meanwhile, Back in Iraq… (IntLawGrrls, May 2011) [text]

Reconsidering the Role of Conflict in the Lives of Refugees: The Case of Somalis in Europe, Working Paper no. 45 (MICROCON, May 2011) [text]

The 2010 Humanitarian Accountability Report (Humanitarian Accountability Partnership, 2011) [text]

“The Impact of Direct Provision Accommodation for Asylum Seekers on Organisation and Delivery of Local Primary Care and Social Care Services: A Case Study,” BMC Family Practice 12:32 (May 2011) [open access article]

Regional Dialogues with Refugee Women and Girls, Reports (It Begins with Me…, 2011) [access]- See earlier post for more information.

Settlement Outcomes of New Arrivals (Australian Government, Dept. of Immigration and Citizenship, April 2011) [text]

Tearing Down the Bridge to Inclusion for Young Asylum Seekers (openDemocracy, April 2011) [text]

Finally, Some Clarity for Gender-Based Asylum Claims (Health Rights Advocate, May 2011) [text]

“Refugee” Status Should Protect Victims of Gang Violence (Health Rights Advocate, May 2011) [text]

There Are Alternatives: A Handbook for Preventing Unnecessary Immigration Detention around the World (International Detention Coalition & La Trobe Refugee Research Centre, May 2011) [text]

The UN Refugee Convention: Still Valid? (Jesuit Refugee Service, May 2011) [text]

Without Citizenship: Statelessness, Discrimination and Repression in Kuwait (Refugees International & Open Society Justice Initiative, May 2011) [text]

Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh and Thailand: Fact Finding Mission to Bangladesh and Thailand, 4-17 February 2011 (Danish Immigration Service, May 2011) [text via Refworld]

Annual Risk Analysis 2011 (Frontex, April 2011) [access]
- “[R]ecords the main trends in regular and irregular migration into the European Union in 2010 and offers predictions for the coming year’s trends.”

Crisis and Opportunity: Protracted Displacement in Sudan (Refugee Cooperation, May 2011) [text]

Migration and International Human Rights Law, Practitioners Guide, no. 6 (International Commission of Jurists, April 2011) [text]

Peoples under Threat 2011 (Minority Rights Group International, May 2011) [access]

Voice after Exit: Revolution and Migration in the Arab World (Migration Information Source, May 2011) [text]

Country Information and Evidence Assessment in New Zealand (New Zealand Refugee Law, April 2011) [text]

DR Congo: Support Community-Based Tools for MONUSCO (Refugees International, May 2011) [text]

“Power and Politics in Resettlement: A Case Study of Bhutanese Refugees in the USA,” New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 208 (UNHCR, May 2011) [text]

“Protracted Sahrawi Displacement: Challenges and Opportunities Beyond Encampment,” Policy Briefing, no. 7 (RSC, May 2011) [text]

“Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices,” World Development, forthcoming (2011) [preprint]

Displacement in Georgia: IDP Attitudes to Conflict, Return and Justice (Conciliation Resources, Feb. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2011: Revealing Risk, Redefining Development (UN, 2011) [text]
- See esp. chapter 2 for disaster-induced displacement.

Mexican Internal Forced Displacement Gains Salience (Oxford Analytica, May 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protracted Refugee Situations: An Iraq Case Study (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, April 2011) [text]

“Protection of Civilians in 2010: Facts, Figures, and the UN Security Council’s Response,” Briefing Paper, no. 147 (Oxfam, May 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Trafficking for Forced Labour and Labour Exploitation in Finland, Poland and Estonia (European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, 2011) [text]

Back to Basics: The Right to Liberty and Security of Person and ‘Alternatives to Detention’ of Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, Stateless Persons and Other Migrants (UNHCR, April 2011) [text]

Cash in Hand: Urban Refugees, the Right to Work and UNHCR’s Advocacy Activities, PDES/2011/05 (UNHCR, May 2011) [text]

“The End of History? Conflict, Displacement and Durable Solutions in the Post-Cold War Era,” New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 207 (UNHCR, May 2011) [text]

EXCOM Membership by Admission of Members (UNHCR, posted May 2011) [text]

 

“Look Who’s Coming to Europe,” New York Times, 9 May 2011 [text]

- OpEd by António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Statistical Report on UNHCR Registered Iraqis and Non-Iraqis: Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and the GCC countries (UNHCR, April 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journals, Periodicals and Newsletters

Further to my earlier email, please find part a selected listing of recently published journals, periodicals, and newsletters relating to refugee and forced migration studies :
(these documents have been compiled from lists of resources made available on the Forced Migration Curent Awareness Blog) :

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 25, no. 2 (Winter 2011) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including “Welcoming the Unwanted: Italy’s Response to the Immigration Phenomenon and European Union Involvement” and “China’s ‘Way Out’ of the North Korean Refugee Crisis: Developing a Legal Framework for the Deportation of North Korean Migrants.”

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 50 (April 2011) [full-text]
- Theme is “Humanitarian Partnerships.”Medicine, Conflict and Survival, vol. 27, no. 1 (2011) [contents]
- Special section highlighting student essay winners of the “Holdstock-Piachaud Prize 2010,” which includes “Border-controlled health inequality: the international community’s neglect of internally displaced persons.”

RSC Newsletter, no. 11 (Spring 2011) [full-text]
- Provides details of recent RSC activities.

The Women’s Press, no. 11 (May & June 2011) [full-text]
- Includes articles on Roma refugees and LGBT refugees, among others.

APRRN Newsletter (May 2011) [full-text]

- Information on the activities of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network.

European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 13, no. 2 (2011) [contents]

- Mix of articles including “Legislative Update EU Immigration and Asylum Law 2010: Extension of Long-term Residence Rights and Amending the Law on Trafficking in Human Beings” and a review of Susan Kneebone’s book Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Rule of Law: Comparative Perspectives.

Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2 (May 2011) [contents]
- Mix of articles including “A Note from Bosnia and Herzegovina: Leading a Displaced Life.”

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 37, no. 6 (2011) [contents]
- Special issue on “The Limits of the Liberal State: Migration, Identity and Belonging in Europe and the United States.”

Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (May 2011) [full-text]
- New article posted entitled “Neo-Realism and Humanitarian Action: From Cold War to Our Days.”

Call for Papers:

The next issue of Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana (REMHU), no. 37, will focus on “human trafficking.” Submit articles by 31 July 2011.

New Issues:

Human Rights Brief, vol. 18, no. 2 (Winter 2011) [full-text]
- Mix of articles.

Perspective, no. 1 (2010) [full-text]

- New foreign policy magazine from the Norwegian Refugee Council; the current issue is not available in full-text, but past issues are. This issue includes an op-ed by the High Commissioner for Refugees, profiles of Barbara Hendricks and Fridtjof Nansen, a special report on climate change, and a field report on Haiti.Refugee Watch Online (May 2011) [full-text]
- Mix of news, views, workshop overviews, and reports on Tibetans in Nepal and Eritrean refugees.Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, no. 36 (Jan./June 2011) [contents]
- The theme of this issue is “Refugiados Ambientais” (“Environmental Refugees”).

Runnymede Bulletin, no. 365 (Spring 2011) [full-text]

- Includes articles on the misrepresentation of refugees in the media and refugees and education in the UK.

Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 16 (June 2011) [full-text] [blog]

- Lead article is “Expert advice in asylum cases: Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom.”

Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (Dec. 2010) [contents]

- Mix of articles, including “Wasted Lives: Internally Displaced Persons Living in Camps in Kenya” and “The Interplay Between International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law.”

Journal of Palestinian Refugee Studies, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2011) [full-text]

- New journal; articles include “”Palestinian Refugees – A Brief Overview,” “Syria’s Palestinian Refugees: a Brief Overview,” “An Introduction to Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, No way out?,” “Internal Displacement in the Occupied Palestine Territories,” “UNRWA, Meeting Evolving Goals in the Face of Challenges,” “International Refugees Law and the Palestinian Issues: A Double Standard Approach to Protection and Return?,” “The Refugee Issue and the Peace Process,” “Palestinian Refugees and the Mainstream Media,” and “The Right of Return Is Inevitable.”

Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 2 (June 2011) [contents]
- Articles include “Failed Asylum-Seekers’ Responses to Arrangements Promoting Return: Experiences from Norway,” “Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India: Rehabilitation Mechanisms, Livelihood Strategies, and Lasting Solutions,” “Danger, Loss, and Disruption in Somalia After 1991: Practicalities and Needs Behind Refugee Decision-Making,” “The Unwanted Service Provider: Implementation of WTO and EU Liberalisation of Service Mobility in the Dutch Legal Order,” and “Asylum Claims Made in Bad Faith Under the Refugees Convention – The Australian Experience.”

Other Journal Resources:

1948: Sixty Three Years On… (Institute for Palestine Studies) [access]

- Resource created to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba, with articles selected from the Journal of Palestine Studies. See esp. section on “Exodus and Refugees.”

Historical Archive of PDF Journals (Association of Jewish Refugees) [access]

- Includes issues of the AJR Journal dating back to 1946. AJR was established to provide “financial assistance to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution living in Great Britain.”

Field Exchange Digest (Emergency Nutrition Network) [access]

- A digest of key articles in Field Exchange from the past year. Produced annually.

The International Journal of Transitional Justice – New Volume

The latest volume of The International Journal of Transitional Justice (Volume 5 Issue 1 March 2011) is now available on the Oxford Journals website.  A selection of the articles in this volume include :

Susan Thomson andRosemary Nagy
Law, Power and Justice: What Legalism Fails to Address in the Functioning of Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts
IJTJ (2011) 5(1): 11-30 doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijq024
Abstract

Anonymous
Against the Grain: Pursuing a Transitional Justice Agenda in Postwar Sri Lanka
IJTJ (2011) 5(1): 31-51 doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijq028
Abstract

Victor Peskin and Mieczysław P. Boduszyński

Balancing International Justice in the Balkans: Surrogate Enforcers, Uncertain Transitions and the Road to Europe
IJTJ (2011) 5(1): 52-74 doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijq030
Abstract

Simon Robins
Towards Victim-Centred Transitional Justice: Understanding the Needs of Families of the Disappeared in Postconflict Nepal
IJTJ (2011) 5(1): 75-98 doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijq027
Abstract

Marcos Zunino
Releasing Transitional Justice from the Technical Asylum: Judicial Reform in Guatemala seen through Technē and Phronēsis
IJTJ (2011) 5(1): 99-118 doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijq026
Abstract

Rebecca Saunders
Questionable Associations: The Role of Forgiveness in Transitional Justice
IJTJ (2011) 5(1): 119-141 doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijr003
Abstract

Randle C. DeFalco
Accounting for Famine at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: The Crimes against Humanity of Extermination, Inhumane Acts and Persecution
IJTJ (2011) 5(1): 142-158 doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijr001
Abstract

Recently Published Articles and New Journal Volumes

The following articles and newly published journalvolumes have recently been made available.  Full details as follows:

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Migration and Climate Change: An OverviewBy Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud, and Paul de Guchteneire*
Refugee Survey Quarterly (2011) doi: 10.1093/rsq/hdr006 First published online: June 8, 2011
Link : http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/06/08/rsq.hdr006.short?rss=1

 

Making Bengali Brick Lane: claiming and contesting space in East London
Author: Alexander, Claire
Source: The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 62, Number 2, June 2011 , pp. 201-220(20)
Link : http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/bjos/2011/00000062/00000002/art00001

Paths to citizenship? Public views on the extension of rights to legal and second-generation immigrants in Europe
Authors: Ceobanu, Alin M.; Escandell, Xavier
Source: The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 62, Number 2, June 2011 , pp. 221-240(20)
Link : http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/bjos/2011/00000062/00000002/art00002

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Volume 8 / 2006 – Volume 13 / 2011
Formerly Journal of Immigrant Health (1999-2005)
Link : http://www.springerlink.com/content/1557-1912/13/3/

New List of Publications Available Online

The following list of poublications, available online, have recently come to my attention:

Strategising Online Activism: A Toolkit
(Source : HURIDOCS – http://www.huridocs.org/2011/06/strategising-online-activism-a-toolkit/)

Managing Online Activism : A Toolkit

Published by Association for Progressive Communication Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) and Violence is not our Culture (VNC), 2011.  The toolkit is  intended to provide the following skills to campaigners:

• An understanding of why and how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be appropriated by women’s rights and human rights groups in their advocacy skills through their use of online tools, including networking and mobile tools for advocacy and campaigning
• The ability to develop an advocacy / communication strategy
• Knowing what social networking is and the various spaces and tools they could use in their online activism
• An understanding of online privacy and security issues relevant to building their online activism.

Age, Gender and Diversity Policy: Working with People and Communities for Equality and Protection (UNHCR, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Border Control and the Limits of the Sovereign State, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 32/2011 (University of Oxford, May 2011) [text via SSRN]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Positive Energy: A Review of the Role of Artistic Activities in Refugee Camps, PDES/2011/06 (UNHCR, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Background Paper on Access to Social Assistance for Refugees in South Africa (CoRMSA, Feb. 2011) [text via ACMS]

- Note: Provided in .doc format.

(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Forced Migration and Climate Change (Immigration Advice & Rights Centre, April 2011) [text]

(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, following his visit to Malta from 23 to 25 March 2011 (Council of Europe, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The Role of Organized Crime in the Smuggling of Migrants from West Africa to the European Union (UNODC, posted May 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The Work of the UK Border Agency (November 2010-March 2011) (UK Home Affairs Committee, May 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

New Edition of Feminist Review Journal

The latest edition of the Feminist Revew Journal, namewly Volume 98, Issue 1 (July 2011), is now available.  Further details on this volume can be found on the Feminist Revew website and a selection of the articles included in this journal can be found below:

dialogue as a governmental technique: managing gendered Islam in Germany

Schirin Amir-Moazami
Fem Rev 98: 9-27; doi:10.1057/fr.2011.8
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subjects of debate: secular and sexual exceptionalism, and Muslim women in the Netherlands

Sarah Bracke
Fem Rev 98: 28-46; doi:10.1057/fr.2011.5
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beyond emancipation: subjectivities and ethics among women in Europe’s Islamic revival communities

Jeanette S Jouili
Fem Rev 98: 47-64; doi:10.1057/fr.2011.4
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troublesome threesome: feminism, anthropology and Muslim women’s piety

Christine M Jacobsen
Fem Rev 98: 65-82; doi:10.1057/fr.2011.10
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not-/unveiling as an ethical practice

Nadia Fadil
Fem Rev 98: 83-109; doi:10.1057/fr.2011.12
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regimes of visibility: representing violence against women in the French banlieue

Sarah Dornhof
Fem Rev 98: 110-127; doi:10.1057/fr.2011.2
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New Refugee Archive Newsletter

Archive Newsletter

The latest edition of the Archive Focus newsletter for the Refugee Council Archive is now available online on the Refugee Council Archive website : namely, Volume 4 Number (Summer 2011).  This newsletter includes information on the work of the Refugee Archive at UEL, incorporating details of new additions to the Archive and various news stories of relevance.

This current edition of the newsletter can be downloaded directly from this link : Download Now (1.63 MB).

The newsletter, along with previous editions, are all available online in PDF format from the main Refugee Council Archive website at : http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/newsletter.htm

New Publication : IDC Handbook on Alternatives to Immigration Detention

The Immigration Detention Coalition (IDC) have just published a report on immigration detention entitled: `There Are Alternatives : A handbook for preventing unnecessary immigration detention.’

Further background information on the launch of the report can be found on the IDC website along with instructions on how to download a copy.  A link to the IDC can be found here : IDC website.

This publication has also been reviewed on the Migrants’ Rights Network – link here.

 

On The Run : Photography by Espen Rasmussen

A recent news posting on the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) website gives an intersting insight into the work of photographer Espen Rasmussen.  The news story is entitled `On The Run : Photography has a Voice‘ (*1)  and details the work of Espen Rasmussen in recording the stories of refugees and internally  displaced over a six year period over a six year period , from the refugee camps in Congo to those suffering displacement in Georgia.

Due to the heat Somali refugees sleep outside at the Mayfa'ah reception centre in Yemen. Between 100 and 400 refugees arrive at UNHCR centre every day

A selection of Rasmussen’s photographs are included in the article by the BBC’s picture editor, Phil Coomes, who states that :

These simple pictures, say so much: the powerless individual caught up in events beyond control or comprehension and those who are trying to work through a system of bureaucracy. Yet it also includes moments of hope and humanity as throughout the book the individuals come through.

Somali refugees who had just arrived on the coast of Yemen are crammed into a UNHCR truck before being taken to the Ahwar reception centre two hours away. In 2008 over 40,000 Somali refugees arrived in Yemen, bringing the total number close to 250,000

These images by Espen Rasmussen have also been included in a recently published book entitled Transit, which also includes an exhibition at The Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo.  The book is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing and further details can be found on their website at : http://www.dewilewispublishing.com/

Copies of Transit can also be purchased directly on Amazon via the following link : Transit Link on Amazon.

Ana Melinda’s 11 children are just some of the 30,000 IDPs who live on the outskirts of the jungle town of Quibdo on the western side of Colombia. Rasmussen was there in 2007. Melinda said: 'One morning several men knocked on our door. They wanted to take my 14-year-old son as a fighter. He wanted to go with them but I did not want him or any of my children to end up with the guerrillas or paramilitary. Our only choice was to flee'

Selection of Recently Published Journal Articles

The following are a selection of recently published articles within the fields of refugee and forced migration studies :

REASON -SANTA BARBARA THEN LOS ANGELES- VOL 43; NUMB 3 (2011) pp. 48-57
Muddled Masses: The immigration detention system treats suspected illegal aliens like criminals, but with fewer rights
DeConto, J.J.
http://www.southerncoalition.org/node/451

JOURNAL OF FAMILY STUDIES VOL 17; ISSU 1 (2011) pp. 71-79
The impact of a parenting intervention in Australia among migrants and refugees from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, and Burundi: Results from the African Migrant Parenting Program
Renzaho, A.M.N.; Vignjevic, S.
http://jfs.e-contentmanagement.com/archives/vol/17/issue/1/article/3931

VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW VOL 44; NUMB 3 (2011) pp. 711-744
Forced to Flee and Forced to Repatriate? How the Cessation Clause of Article 1C(5) and (6) of the 1951 Refugee Convention Operates in International Law and Practice
Cwik, M.E.
http://law.vanderbilt.edu/publications/journal-of-transnational-law/index.aspx

RACE GENDER AND CLASS VOL 18; NUMB 1/2 (2011) pp. 151-170
Promises and Human Rights: The Obama Administration on Immigrant Detention Policy Reform
Villalobos, J.D.
http://works.bepress.com/jdvillalobos/23/

SPACE AND CULTURE VOL 14; NUMB 2 (2011) pp. 165-182
Asylum in the Margins of Contemporary Britain: The Spatial Practices of Desire in Gypo
McAllister, K.E.
http://sac.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/01/07/1206331210392698.abstract

JOURNAL OF BALTIC STUDIES VOL 42; NUMBER 2 (2011) pp. 263-288
White, European, and Hardworking: East European Migrants’ Relationships with Other Communities in London
Parutis, V.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a937835574~db=all~jumptype=rss

ISSUES IN MENTAL HEALTH NURSING VOL 32; NUMBER 5 (2011) pp. 279-290
If I Was Going to Kill Myself, I Wouldn’t Be Calling You. I am Asking for Help: Challenges Influencing Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Mental Health
Donnelly, T. T.; Hwang, J. J.; Este, D.; Ewashen, C.; Adair, C.; Clinton, M.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21574842

BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION VOL 32; NUMBER 3 (2011) pp. 407-430
Primary and secondary effects in the explanation of disadvantage in education: the children of immigrant families in France
Boado, H. C.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a937574074~frm=abslink

EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY VOL 41; NUMB 2 (2011) pp. 213-230
Female Domestic Servants as Desirable Refugees: Gender, Labour Needs and Immigration Policy in Belgium, The Netherlands and Great Britain
Caestecker, F.; Moore, B.
http://ehq.sagepub.com/content/41/2/213.abstract

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MIGRATION AND LAW VOL 13; NUMB 1 (2011) pp. 1-30
Pre-departure Integration Strategies in the European Union: Integration or Immigration Policy?
Groenendijk, K.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/emil/2011/00000013/00000001/art00001
JOURNAL OF MONEY LAUNDERING CONTROL VOL 14; NUMBER 2 (2011) pp. 158-169
The dark side of European immigration policy
Duca, R.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1368-5201&volume=14&issue=2&articleid=1923941&show=abstract

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND METHOD IN EDUCATION -ELECTRONIC EDITION- VOL 34; NUMBER 1 (2011) pp. 31-47
Developing qualitative coding frameworks for educational research: immigration, education and the Children Crossing Borders project
Adair, J. K.; Pastori, G.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a936690935~frm=abslink

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY VOL 27; NUMBER 2 (2011) pp. 241-256
The unemployment impact of immigration in OECD countries
Jean, S.; Jimenez, M.
http://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/ecoaaa/563-en.html

BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL VOL 37; NUMBER 3 (2011) pp. 539-540
Education, asylum and the ‘non-citizen’ child: the politics of compassion and belonging
Hasumi, J.
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=279123

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION VOL 15; NUMBER 3 (2011) pp. 317-329
Monitoring for equality? Asylum seekers and refugees’ retention and achievement in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
Phillimore, J.
http://www.mendeley.com/research/monitoring-equality-asylum-seekers-refugees-retention-achievement-english-speakers-other-languages-esol/

REVUE EUROPEENNE DES MIGRATIONS INTERNATIONALES VOL 26; NUMB 3 (2010) pp. 199-214
Refugee or Displaced? The Stakes of a Re-Qualification: the Georgian Sample after the 2008 War
de Montclos, A.P.
http://remi.revues.org/5240

JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH VOL 48; NUMB 2 (2011) pp. 235-248
Origins of the Palestinian refugee problem: Changes in the historical memory of Israelis/Jews 1949-2004
Nets-Zehngut, R.
http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/origins-of-the-palestinian-refugee-problem-changes-in-the-historical-BxJTPfp3pe

EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS VOL 12; NUMB 1 (2011) pp. 3-20
Talking Turkey: Anti-immigrant attitudes and their effect on support for Turkish membership of the EU
Azrout, R.; van Spanje, J.; de Vreese, C.
http://eup.sagepub.com/content/12/1/3.abstract?rss=1

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIGRATION HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE VOL 6; ISSU 4 (2010) pp. 3-19
Asylum Seekers’ Perspectives on their Mental Health and Views on Health and Social Services: Contributions for Service Provision Using a Mixed-Methods Approach
Bernardes, D.; Wright, J.; Edwards, C.; Tomkins, H.; Dlfoz, D.; Livingstone, A.G.
http://www.pierprofessional.com/ijmhscflyer/downloads/IJMHSC-6.4.pdf

JOURNAL OF FAMILY SOCIAL WORK VOL 14; NUMB 1 (2011) pp. 43-53
Posttraumatic Psychological Distress and Resettlement: The Need for a Different Practice in Assisting Refugee Families
http://www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=90a0c481-9550-4cea-908c-6eae858261c6

JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES VOL 37; NUMBER 4 (2011) pp. 657-573
Stateless By Any Other Name: Refused Asylum-Seekers in the United Kingdom
Blitz, B.; Otero-Iglesias, M. Lacroix, M.; Sabbah, C.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a933025228~db=all~jumptype=rss

JOURNAL OF GENDER RACE AND JUSTICE VOL 14; NUMB 1 (2010) pp. 1-40
The Unspoken Voices of Indigenous Women in Immigration Raids
McKanders, K.M.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1713374

Recent Programmes on BBC and Channel 4

It has been an interesting week for the airing of documentaries on UK television on issues relating to refugee and forced migration issues.  These will be touched upon below.

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields is currently available online (UK only) on the 4OD website.

On Tuesday 14 June, Channel 4 presented a documentary entitled `Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ which presented `a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.’ The Channel 4 website goes on to describe how the programme attempts to capture what appear to be serious war crimes committed in the final weeks of the conflict between the government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers:

Captured on mobile phones, both by Tamils under attack and government soldiers as war trophies, the disturbing footage shows: the extra-judicial executions of prisoners; the aftermath of targeted shelling of civilian camps; and dead female Tamil fighters who appear to have been raped or sexually assaulted, abused and murdered.

A full programme description is available on both the Channel 4 website and on the BUFVC Trilt database.  In light of this programme, several news stories detail the UK’s attempts to deport around 40 Sri Lankans back to potential danger.  On the Channel 4 news site, there is an article entitled `Sri Lanka’s face deportation despite safety fears‘ and Amnesty International have also published an article entitled, `Tamil set for UK deportation following suicide attempt.’

The BBC have shown two interesting documentaries this week.  The first of these was also shown on Tuesday 14 June as part of the This World strand.  It was entitled `The Invasion of Lampedusa’ and, according to the BBC wesbite the programme aimed to document:

How a crisis on a tiny island in the middle of the Mediterranean is changing the face of immigration in Europe. This spring, in the wake of the uprisings across the Arab world, the Italian island of Lampedusa, just 70 miles from the African coast, has seen the arrival of over 40,000 migrants from Tunisia and Libya.

This programme charts how, within weeks, its small migrant reception centre is overflowing, and the island’s tourist economy faces meltdown. The islanders openly revolt, blockading the small port and riot in the streets. Local mayor Bernadino de Rubeis makes desperate attempts to keep everyone calm, with limited results.

Photo: Kate Thomas/IRIN A boat carrying sub-Saharan African migrant workers arrives in Lampedusa from Tripoli

A recent article on the IRIN website, entitled, `LIBYA-ITALY: By boat to Lampedusa and a new life‘ further goes to demonstrate the difficulties currently being experienced.

Lastly, on Thursday 16 June,  BBC1 broadcaste a documentary entitled `Breaking into Britain’  as part of the Panorama documentary series.  The programme details the difficult and often distressing stories of the attempts by refugees to gain access to Britian, often thro

ugh the port of Calais in France.  Further details can be found on the BBC article entitled `The migrants risking death to break into Britain.’

Both of the BBC programmes are currently available on the BBC iPlayer service, for UK users, for a limited time.

Torture Journal – New Volume Now Available

Articles from the latest edition of the journal Torture, (Volume 21, Number 2, 2011), are now available to view on the International Rehanilitation Council for Torture Victtims, (IRCT) website.  The direct link is here : http://www.irct.org/library/torture-journal/latest-issue.aspx

Articles Include :

• Reconciliation in Cambodia: thirty years after the terror of the Khmer Rouge regime
  Estelle Bockers, Nadine Stammel & Christine Knaevelsrud
• Psychotherapy and psychosocial care of torture survivor refugees in Hungary
  Lilla Hárdi & Adrienn Kroo
• Evaluating the services of torture rehabilitation programmes
  James M. Jaranson & José Quiroga
• Torture rehabilitation: Reflections on treatment outcome studies
  Edith Montgomery & Nimisha Patel

UNHCR 2010 Global Trends Report

The latest 2010 edition of UNHCR’s annual publication entitled `Global Trends Report’ is now available to view online from the statistics section of the UNHCR website.  In their publicity circulated to launch the new report, UNHCR state :

The 48-page report reflects many of the major humanitarian developments between January and December 2010. It analyses the statistical trends
and changes in the global populations of concern to UNHCR, i.e. refugees, returnees, stateless persons and certain groups of internally displaced persons (IDPs).

A selection of the statistical data, which is also made available on the statistics section (http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c4d6.html) of the UNHCR website, indicates that:

- There were 43.7 million forcibly displaced people worldwide at the end of 2010, the highest number in 15 years. Of these, 15.4 million were refugees; 10.55 million under UNHCR’s mandate and 4.82 million
Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA. The figure also includes
837,000 asylum-seekers and 27.5 million internally displaced persons.

- More than 25.2 million people – 10.55 million refugees and 14.7 million IDPs – were receiving protection or assistance from UNHCR at the
end of 2010.

- By the end of 2010, UNHCR had identified some 3.5 million stateless persons in 65 countries. However, the Office estimated that the overall number of stateless persons worldwide could be far higher – about 12
million people.

The full report can be downloaded from the UNHCR statistics website – full report download ; and an interactive version is also available to view from the following link : http://www.unhcr.org/gr10/index.html#/home

New Publications Available Online

Tier 4 Fears: Why government student visa proposals are unfair,
By Mark Lloyd and Chris Nicholson for Centreforum.
http://www.centreforum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=272:tier-4-fears&catid=38:publications&Itemid=56
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Ntetwork – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/)

“The real ‘immigration debate’”

http://www.irr.org.uk/2011/june/ha000015.html

(Source: IRR Weekly Digest, 10 June)
A powerful keynote address to the annual conference of the Churches’ Refugee Network by barrister Frances Webber.
(Source: The Network e-bulletin : http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

Empowering Kurdish women in London: a consultation on their needs

http://rojwomen.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/empowering-kurdish-women-in-london.pdf

Roj Women’s Association has just published this piece of research which starts with a very useful brief overview of who Kurdish women in London are; and then goes on to explore their needs; followed by the interviewees’ own assessments of how the needs can be met; and an outline of services available in Hackney and Haringey. Of particular interest to us is the demand for literacy and ESOL provision.
(Source: The Network e-bulletin : http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

No longer invisible: the Latin American community in London

http://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/publications-research/migration-new-communities/new-research-highlights-that-the.html?dm_i=679,FTJ4,SEW7N,1A4ON,1

This report provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the Latin American population living and working in London.

“The size of the Latin American community in London is estimated to be 113,500 and it has grown nearly four-fold since the 2001 census (the UK figure is estimated to be 186,500). This means that Latin Americans now represent a significant part of the city’s total population. Their numbers compare in size to other large migrant and ethnic groups, such as the Polish-born population, which comprises around 122,000. The largest national group are Brazilians followed by Colombians. There are also large numbers of Ecuadorians, Bolivians and Peruvians.”

The full report (4.23 Mb) is at: http://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/No%20Longer%20Invisible%20report.pdf;
Key findings: http://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/No%20Longer%20Invisible%20Findings.pdf.
(Source: The Network e-bulletin : http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

UNHCR’s Recommendations to Poland for its EU Presidency, July – December 2011
(UNHCR, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Unprepared for Peace: Education in Northern Uganda in Displacement and Beyond: Case Study on Education and Internal Displacement
(IDMC, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

New APPG Reports

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration, (APPG),  has recently published a number of reports of relevance to this list.  Full details of the relvant publications are as follows:

• APPG Migration Briefing 1 – Student immigration reforms and their anticipated economic impacts (2 March 2011)
• APPG Migration Meeting 1 Follow up notes – Student immigration reforms and their anticipated economic impacts – Note on meeting (16 March 2011)
• APPG Press Release – Economic assessment of student immigration reforms is urgently needed (17 March 2011)
• APPG Migration Briefing 2 – Twelve months of Coalition Government immigration policy: Looking back, moving forward (18 May 2011)
• APPG Migration Meeting 2 Follow up notes – Twelve months of Coalition Government immigration policy – Note on meeting (20 May 2011)

Further details and information can be found on the APPG website at : http://appgmigration.org.uk/frontpage

Special Virtual Issue of Disasters Journal

A special virtual issue of the Disasters Journal has been published to coincide wth the 60th anniversary of the UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.  This special virtual issue is entitled : Refugees and the Displaced and is edited by Sara Pantuliano, Helen Young and David Alexander.

Disasters Journal

Co-editor Sara Pantuliano states that :

“this special issue of Disasters features a selection of the most relevant and original articles about refugee and displacement issues published by the journal over the past 35 years.

These articles provide a rich source of informed thinking on humanitarian responses to the needs of populations fleeing persecution, war and disaster, with much to contribute to our understanding of refugee and displacement crises past, present and future.

Common to all these contributions are the complexities which arise when people are forced to flee en masse, and the challenges faced by humanitarian workers in providing assistance and protection following a crisis.”

A list of the article contents are given below and further details on this special issue can be found on the webpage at : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/

Contents
Refugee Camps and Camp Planning: The State of the Art
Frederick C. Cuny

Settlement of Rural Refugees in Africa
Brian W. Neldner

Women and Men as Refugees: Differential Assimilation of Angolan Refugees in Zambia
Anita Spring

Rural Refugees in Africa: What the Eye Does Not See
Robert Chambers

Who is a Refugee? Definitions and Assistance
F. D’Souza

Camps as Communities
Julius Holt

Rural Refugees in Africa: Past Experience, Future Pointers
Robert Chambers

The Impact of Refugees on the Health Status and Health Services of Host Communities: Compounding Bad with Worse?
Bruce Dick

A Review of Feeding Programmes in Refugee Reception Centres in Eastern Sudan
Catherine Gibb

Refugee Repatriation During Conflict: Grounds for Scepticism
Enoch O. Opondo

Repatriation of 150,000 Sudanese Refugees from Ethiopia: The Manipulation of Civilians in a Situation of Civil Conflict
Alastair Scott-Villiers, Patta Scott-Villiers & Cole P. Dodge

Representing Refugees: The Role of Elites in Burundi Refugee Society
Marc Sommers

From Relief to Development: The Long-term Effects of “Temporary” Accommodation on Refugees and Displaced Persons in the Republic of Croatia
Sue Ellis, Sultan Barakat

Refugee Density and Dependence: Practical Implications of Camp Size
John Cosgrave

Internal Displacement in Burma
Steven Lanjouw, Graham Mortimer, Vicky Bamforth

Refugee Perceptions of the Quality of Healthcare: Findings from a Participatory Assessment in Ngara, Tanzania
Edmund Rutta, Holly Williams, Andwele Mwansasu, Fredrick Mung’ong’o, Heather Burke, Ramadhani Gongo, Rwegasira Veneranda, Mohamed Qassim

Tsumai Mortality and Displacement in Aceh Province, Indonesia
Abdur Rofi, Shannon Doocy, Courtland Robinson

Returning Home: Resettlement of Formerly Abducted Children in Northern Uganda
Joanne N. Corbin

Financing of Internal Displacement: Excerpts from the Sri Lankan Experience
Kopalapillai Amirthalingam, Rajith W.D. Lakshman

Forced Displacement and Women’s Security in Colombia
Donny Meertens

Spring Edition of International Migration Review

International Migration Review

The spring edition of the International Migration Review journal, volume 45 number 1, (Spring 2011) is now available online at : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.2011.45.issue-1/issuetoc

Articles include :

• What Explains the Increasing Trend in African Emigration to the U.S.? (pages 3–28)  By Kevin J. A. Thomas
• Assimilation Choices Among Immigrant Families: Does School Context Matter? (pages 29–67) By Emily Greenman
• Exposure to International Migration and Its Effect on Childbearing in Turkey (pages 123–147) By Kari White and Cynthia J. Buckley

Kevin J. A. Thomas

Off Air Recordings: WB 20 June 2011

The following off-air recordings were requested to be recorded for the Refugee Council Archive at UEL this week:

Monday 20 June, 2011

2030-2100 : BBC1 : Panorama – Land of the Bandits.  VIDEO Plus+: 8391

Tuesday 21 June, 2011

2100-2200 : BBC3: (3/3) Our War – Caught in the Crossfire.  VIDEO Plus+:
6212063
2200-2340 : More4 : True Stories: For Neda.  VIDEO Plus+: 37636678

Wednesday 22 June, 2011

2100-2200: BBC2 : Afghanistan: War without End?  VIDEO Plus+: 2025

Reports and Publications Available Online

A Costly Move : Far and Frequent Transfers Impede Hearings for Immigrant Detainees in the United States.  By Human Rights Watch (June 2011) : [Downloadable Version]
(Source : Human Rights Watch – http://www.hrw.org/)

Challenges of Forced Migration in Serbia: Position of Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, Returnees and Asylum Seekers (Group 484, June 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

“Managing International Migration in Australia: Human Rights and the ‘Last Major Redoubt of Unfettered National Sovereignty’,” International Migration Review (forthcoming, 2011) [text via SSRN]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Some Reflections on the Institutional Aspects of Responding to Internal Displacement in Iraq (Refugee Cooperation, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UNHCR’s Observations on Future Arrangements for EU Funding in the Area of Home Affairs after 2013 (UNHCR, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Prisoners of the Past: Kuwaiti Bidun and the Burden of Statelessness (Human Rights Watch, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ / Human Rights Watch – http://www.hrw.org/)

Internal Displacement, Land Restoration, and the Ongoing Conflict in Colombia By Jose Serralvo. Published in the Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, (June 2011)
Link : http://jha.ac/2011/06/14/internal-displacement-land-restoration-and-the-ongoing-conflict-in-colombia/

Off-Air Recordings WB: 27 June 2011

The following off-air recording requests were made for the Refugee Council Archive this week :

Monday 27 June

2000-2100: Channel 4 : Dispatches – The Real Price of Gold.  VIDEO Plus+: 9176

2030-2100 : BBC1 : Panorama – Surgery’s Dirty Secrets.  VIDEO Plus+: 7008

Tuesday 28 June

2100-2200 : BBC3 : Thailand: Tourism and the Truth – Stacey Dooley Investigates.  VIDEO Plus+: 6058867

 Wednesday 29 June

2100-2200 : BBC2 : Afghanistan: The Battle for Helmand.  VIDEO Plus+: 5146

Thursday 30 June

2245-2345 : BBC4 : The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 – The Truth Behind the Third Tower.  VIDEO Plus+: 4386214  (Updated Version).

New Periodicals and Journals

The following new periodical and journal volumes have recently been released:

Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE).
Produced by the European Centre for Minority Issues with further details to be found on the website at : http://www.ecmi.de/publications/jemie/2011/  Articles include :

Minority Consultative Bodies in Kosovo: A quest for effective emancipation or elusive participation? By Gezim Visoka and Adem Beha

The dilemma in the Nation-Building Process: The Kazakh or Kazakhstani Nation?  By Özgecan Kesici

Homogenisation and the ‘New Russian Citizen’: A Road to Stability or Ethnic Tension?  By Federica Prina

Tatar nation building since 1991: Ethnic mobilisation in historical perspective
By Christopher Williams

The Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Focus on the Neighbourhood and on a European Roma Strategy
By Balázs Vizi

Coping with Crisis, no. 2/2011 (June 2011) [full-text]
- Includes a focus on Japan.

International Migration Review, vol. 45, no. 2 (Summer 2011) [contents]
- Mix of articles including “Human Smuggling in Austria: A Comparative Analysis of Data on Smuggled Migrants from Former Yugoslavia and the Russian Federation.”IOM Research Newsletter (May 2011) [full-text]
- New periodical with updates on IOM’s research activities.

Women’s Asylum News, no. 102 (May/June 2011) [full-text via Refworld]
- Lead article is “Women seeking asylum in Merseyside: Access to support for survivors of sexual violence in conflict and civil unrest.”

Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 30 Number 2, (June 2011).

Table of Contents available on the Oxford Journals website at : http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/2.toc

Articles inlude :

• Failed Asylum-Seekers’ Responses to Arrangements Promoting Return: Experiences from Norway.  By Marko Valenta and Kristin Thorshaug
• Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India: Rehabilitation Mechanisms, Livelihood Strategies, and Lasting Solutions.  By C. Valatheeswaran and S. Irudaya Rajan
• Danger, Loss, and Disruption in Somalia After 1991: Practicalities and Needs Behind Refugee Decision-Making.  By Susan E. Zimmermann.
• The Unwanted Service Provider: Implementation of WTO and EU Liberalisation of Service Mobility in the Dutch Legal Order.  By Simon Tans.

Race and Class, July 2011.

Published by the Institute of Race Relations.  Further details – http://www.irr.org.uk/2011/june/ha000024.html

The July 2011 issue contains four key articles, leading with ‘What postcolonial theory doesn’t say’ by Neil Lazarus in which he exposes the category error at the heart of the postcolonial studies field – a failure to situate colonialism and imperialism and acknowledge the impact of capitalism and uneven development even as the idea of ‘the West’ is ever dematerialised. He reviews the work of scholars and novelists.

Selection of Recently Published Journal Articles

The following are a selection of recently published journal articles:

The construction of political agency: South Asian women and political activism By Shaminder Takhar
Community Dev J (2011) 46 (3): 341-350. doi: 10.1093/cdj/bsr039

Link : http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/3/341.short?rss=1

Abstract : “This article draws on research conducted with South Asian women working in a variety of organizations ranging from those that provide specialist services to training and anti-racist work. It is argued that despite stereotyping, these women have shown agency through involvement in civic organizations which has been crucial in understanding issues that are specifically relevant to South Asian women, for example, forced marriage and honour killings. The article also engages with feminist debates around the construction of political agency and its role in influencing social change and transformation within the South Asian community. The empowerment of women is discussed with reference to its central role in enabling them to take control over their lives

Women’s leadership in camps for internally displaced people in Darfur, western Sudan.  By Devanna De La Puente.
Community Dev J (2011) 46 (3): 365-377. doi: 10.1093/cdj/bsr036

Link : http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/3/365.short?rss=1

Abstract : “This paper explores the nature and extent of women’s participation in the internally displaced person (IDP) camps in Darfur. Community leaders and committees always play a key role in the implementation of humanitarian assi stance in Darfur; but women, the majority of the population in the camps, are often underrepresented in community participation and leadership. This is due to the influence of traditional patriarchal structures and compounded by the approach of some service providers and other institutions which often rely on existing and customary structures. This fails to acknowledge or promote the real and potential role of female leadership and equal participation and often reinforces exclusion based on gender. The paper analyses the potential offered by conflict to transform traditional gender roles and emphasizes the importance of ensuring that humanitarian response international NGOs acknowledge the often ignored role of traditional female community leaders and support women’s leadership opportunities more broadly. The paper concludes by highlighting the positive impact of women’s wider role in the community and the potential for long-term change this brings”

Whispering truth to power: The everyday resistance of Rwandan peasants to post-genocide reconciliation. By Susan Thomson.

Afr Aff (Lond) (2011) 110 (440): 439-456. doi: 10.1093/afraf/adr021

Link : http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/110/440/439.abstract

Abstact : “The government in post-genocide Rwanda stakes its moral claim to legitimacy on a policy of national unity and reconciliation, claiming to create a ‘Rwanda for all Rwandans’. This article investigates peasant resistance to this policy. Focusing on everyday acts of resistance among the rural poor, it demonstrates that despite the appearance of widespread popular support, many peasant Rwandans consider the various mechanisms of national unity and reconciliation to be unjust and illegitimate. Obedience to the dictates of the policy of national unity is frequently tactical, rather than sincere, as peasants employ various strategies to avoid participation. Through a focus on everyday acts of resistance, the article reveals how the post-genocide state through the policy of national unity and reconciliation seeks to depoliticize peasant people by orchestrating public performances and by closing off the possibility for individuals to join together to organize politically. “

A Double Bind: Malta and the Rescue of Unwanted Migrants at Sea, a Legal Anthropological Perspective on the Humanitarian Law of the Se.  By Silja Klepp.

Int J Refugee Law (2011) doi: 10.1093/ijrl/eer017

Link : http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/06/22/ijrl.eer017.short?rss=1
Abstract : “This paper discusses research results from anthropological fieldwork carried out in Malta in 2007. The island, which is situated in the central Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia, Libya and Italy, is a focal point regarding the continuing refugee situation. One of the research aims was to investigate the situation at sea concerning Search and Rescue (SAR) operations for migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean by boat. In the year 2006, 556 missing and drowned migrants were registered in the central Mediterranean between Libya, Malta and Italy, this number increased to 642 in 2008.1 The goal of the research in Malta was therefore to understand why an increasing number of migrants were dying at sea and what role the European security forces play in this context. “

New Publications Part 1

Recent online publications available as follows :

‘Indigenous’ Transnationalism: Life geographies of the ‘White Working Class’
ISET Working Paper 21 written by Ben Rogaly
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/wps/wps_home.cfm
(Source : Institute for the Study of European Transformations, (ISET)  – http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/)

Shelter from the Storm: A Real-time Evaluation of UNHCR’s Response to the Emergency in Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia, PDES/2011/07 (UNHCR, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Disposable Victims: How the TVPA Fails to Protect Victims of Human Trafficking (ExpressO, 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Joint United Nations Submission on the Future European Union Comprehensive Anti-Trafficking Strategy (UNHCR et al., May 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Asylum Improvement Project: Report on Progress (UK Border Agency, May 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Asylum Lawmaking in the EU and Codecision, Paper presented at the 2011 Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Rennes, France, 28 April-1 May 2011 [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

En-gendering the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) (Amnesty International et al., May 2011) [text]

(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Improving Policies in the Field of Asylum and Human Rights Protection in the US and EU, EU-US Immigration Systems, no. 2011/13 (European University Institute, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UNHCR-NGO Toolkit for Practical Cooperation on Resettlement (UNHCR, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UNHCR’s Contribution to the Secretary-General’s Report with Recommendations on Global Trends in the Fight against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance to the General Assembly for Its 66th Session Pursuant to A/RES/64/148 (UNHCR, June 2011)[text]- See also GA Resolution A/RES/64/148.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Action against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: An Updated Strategy (UNHCR, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Cause for Hope? DFID’s Response to the Humanitarian Emergency Response Review, HPG Briefing Note (ODI, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Q&A: What You Need to Know about Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (Badil, May 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

New Publications Part 2

Longitudinal study of migrant workers in the East of England 2008-2010: final report

http://www.eelga.gov.uk/documents/Policy%20and%20Priorities/Strategic%20Migration%20Partnership/Migrant%20workers/EEDA%20Report%202011%20Final%20(DCS).pdf

(Source: EoE AS&R/MW Newsflash 13-17 June 2011).  This “study explored the perspectives of migrant workers (and stakeholders) in relation to: factors that influence decisions on coming to the UK and length of stay; barriers to full participation in the regional economy; and, barriers to social inclusion in local communities.”
(Source: The Network – http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

Improving immigrants’ employment prospects through work-focused language instruction

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/workfocusedlanguageinstruction.pdf

(Source: EoE AS&R/MW Newsflash 13-17 June 2011).  This new report from the Migration Policy Institute looks at how to deliver host-country language skills which are necessary for success in the workplace. Useful background for those of us involved in ESOL provision.
(Source: The Network – http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

Giorgia Dona

Migration, Representation and Citizenship in the Wake of the Arab Spring
By Giorgia Dona.

http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/migration-pulse/2011/migration-representation-and-citizenship-wake-arab-spring
“Though only a small proportion of refugees arrive in Western countries, they have a profound impact on national dialogues. This article is a republished version of the original that appeared on the www.thinkafricapress.com website and is published with their and the author’s kind permission.”
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/)

“Off Target …”

http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/commentary/target-government-policies-are-not-track-reducing-net-migration-tens-thousands-2015

(Source: Migrants Rights News 27 June).  “The latest report by the Migration Observatory at Oxford University has dealt a painful blow to the credibility of the Coalition government’s immigration policy. It concludes that the government is ‘unlikely’ to meet the prime minister’s target of reducing net migration to the ‘tens of thousands’ by 2015.”
(Source: The Network – http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

Chad: Improvements in security allow for the return of some IDPs
Read the Overview (html / pdf)

As of June 2011, there were 131,000 IDPs living in 38 IDP camps in eastern Chad. The majority of them had limited access to livelihoods and continued to rely on protection and assistance from international humanitarian organisations. No new internal displacements were reported in 2010 or in the first five months of 2011. (…)
(Source: IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Off-Air Recording Requests : WB 04/07/2011

The following off-air recording requests were made for the Refugee Council Archive for the week beginning Monday 4^th July, 2011 :

Monday 04 July

2000-2100: Channel 4 : Dispatches – Landlords from Hell.  VIDEO Plus+: 2297

Tuesday 05 July

2200-0005 : More 4 : True Stories: Voices from the Killing Fields.  VIDEO Plus+: 25944679

Wednesday 06 July

2100-2200 : BBC2 : Afghanistan – The Unknown Country.  VIDEO Plus+: 9525

2230-2330: BBC4: (1/5) Syrian School – (part 1) Changing Schools.  VIDEO Plus+: 5045231.   Whole Series Please.

Off Air Recording Requests : WB 11 July 2011

The following off-air recording requests have been made on behalf of the Refugee Council Archive for the week beginning Monday 11 July 2011:

Monday 11 July

2100-2200 :  BBC2:  (1/3)  The Life of Muhammad.  Whole series please.  VIDEO Plus+:  8409

2100-2200:  ITV1 :  Strictly Kosher.  VIDEO Plus+:  8643

2320-0015:  BBC2 :  Imagine: Ai Weiwei – Without Fear or Favour.  VIDEO Plus+: 691091

Tuesday 12 July

2320-0020 :  BBC2 :  Afghanistan:  The Unknown Country.  VIDEO Plus+: 342831

Wednesday 13 July

2100-2200:  BBC3 :  Roger: Genocide Baby.  VIDEO Plus+: 5866416

2225-2324:  BBC4 :  (2/5)  Syrian School.  VIDEO Plus+: 6946400

State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2011

State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2011

Minority Rights Group International have just published the 2011 edition of their flagship publication entitled, `State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2011: Events of 2010.’

This year, the focus of the report is on the rights of women, and includes:

• Discussions of gender-based violence and armed conflict, including the violence that indigenous and minority women experience within their own communities, and the difficulties that they face in accessing justice and support from outside.
• Consideration of the lack of progress made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals for minority and indigenous women, with special focus on reproductive rights and maternal mortality.
• Interviews and special reports on trafficking, intersectional discrimination, land seizures and women’s political representation.
• Overviews of the human rights situation of minorities and indigenous peoples in every major world region.
• ‘Peoples Under Threat 2011′ – MRG’s unique statistical analysis and ranking of countries.

The main web page for the report is here : http://www.minorityrights.org/10848/state-of-the-worlds-minorities/state-of-the-worlds-minorities-and-indigenous-peoples-2011.html

A PDF version of the report can also be downloaded here : http://www.minorityrights.org/download.php?id=1011

Recent Publications Online

Getting Away with Torture Report

A new report has been published by Human Rights Watch, entitled `Getting Away with Torture : The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees.’  the report was publ;ished on July 12, 2011, and Human Rights Watch write:

“This 107-page report presents substantial information warranting criminal investigations of Bush and senior administration officials, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and CIA Director George Tenet, for ordering practices such as “waterboarding,” the use of secret CIA prisons, and the transfer of detainees to countries where they were tortured.”

Further details can be found on the Human Rights Watch web-site here  http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2011/07/12/getting-away-torture-0 ; along with a Press Release and the PDF Download of the entire report.

New Resource: No Other Option: Testimonies from Asylum Seekers in Ukraine, JRS Europe

JRS Europe has published a new report, No Other Option: Testimonies from Asylum Seekers in Ukraine. Its based on interviews done with asylum seekers living in the JRS Ukraine refugee house in Lviv (western border), as well as with Ukrainian border officials, UNHCR, Caritas, lawyers and doctors.  The report is avaialbel to download from:

http://www.jrseurope.org/publications/JRS%20Europe_Asylum%20Seekers%20in%20Ukraine_June2011.pdf

The press release is also available at :
(http://www.jrseurope.org/news_releases/UkrainePostLaunchPR29062011.htm); and a testimony (http://www.jrseurope.org/news_releases/Ukraine%20refugee%20testimony.htm) from a refugee living in Ukraine.

New Amnesty International Publication entitled `Crackdown in Syria : Terror in Tell Kelakh.’  This report by Amnesty International :

“documents deaths in custody, torture and arbitrary detention that took place in May when Syrian army and security forces mounted a broad security sweep, lasting less than a week, against residents of the town near the Lebanese border.

“The accounts we have heard from witnesses to events in Tell Kalakh paint a deeply disturbing picture of systematic, targeted abuses to crush dissent,” said Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director.”

A press release by Amnesty International entitled `Report reveals crimes against humanity in Syrian town‘ fives an initial insight into the research (AI Index: PRE01/338/2011) and the full report can be accessed in PDF format – [here].

Amnesty International UK have also published a media briefing tackling the issues surrounding the use of private contractors in the forced removals of deportees from the UK.

In a press release on the 7 July 2011, entitled `UK: Ill-trained, dangerous and unaccountable – Amnesty calls for complete overhaul of enforced removals by private security companies‘ Amnesty stated that:

Private security companies, contracted by the UK Government, have reportedly used dangerous and improper control and restraint techniques. In the 2010 case of Jimmy Mubenga at least, these appear to have resulted in someone’s death. One such technique was nick-named by contractors “Carpet Karaoke”, as it involved forcing an individual’s face down towards the carpet with such force that they were only able to scream inarticulately ‘like a bad karaoke singer’. It involves the seated detainee being handcuffed, with a tight seatbelt through the cuffs and their head pushed down between their legs. There is a serious risk of death by positional asphyxia when this technique is used

This was also reported in The Guardian newspaper and the news story can be found – [here]. Download the full media briefing – ‘Out of Control: The case for a complete overhaul of enforced removals by private contractors’ (pdf)

The Feinstein International Centre have also recently published a report entitled, `Winning Hearts and Minds? Examining the Relationship between Aid and Security in Balkh Province.’  This report was written by Paul Fishtein in November 2010 and argues that :

Afghanistan has been a testing ground for a key aspect of counterinsurgency doctrine, namely that humanitarian and development projects can help to bring or maintain security in strategically important environments, and by “winning hearts and minds” undermine support for radical, insurgent, or terrorist groups. The assumption that aid projects improve security has lead to a sharp increase in overall development funding, an increased percentage of activities programmed based on strategic security considerations, and a shift of development activities to the military. Given what is at stake, it is essential that policy makers understand whether and how aid projects can actually contribute to security.

The report can be accessed from the feinstein website at : https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=42671653

Journal Cover Page

New Article : Transitional Justice and Displacement by Roger Duthie.  International Journal of Transitional Justice (2011) doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijr009   First published online: June 9, 2011
Link : http://ijtj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/06/09/ijtj.ijr009.short?rss=1&ssource=mfr

 

New OECD Migration Report and Further Publications

International Migration Outlook 2011

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, (OECD), have just released the latest edition of their annual publication entitled, `The International Migration Outlook 2011.‘  According to the OECD,

This publication provides an analysis of recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries and two analytical chapters, covering migrant entrepreneurship and international migration to Israel.

Further information on this publication and a Free preview  can be found on the OECD website here :  [access page]
A Guardian newspaper article is also available, entitled : International migration: where do people go and where from?

A new report published by Human Rights Watch and entitled, `Dead Men Walking : Convict Porters on the Front Lines in Eastern Burma.’  Details from the Human Rights Watch website state that :

This 70-page report details abuses against convict

Dead Men Walking by Human Rights Watch

porters including summary executions, torture, and the use of the convicts as “human shields.” The military should stop forcibly recruiting prisoners as porters and mistreating them, and those responsible for ordering or participating in suchtreatment should be prosecuted, Human Rights Watch and the Karen Human Rights Group said.

The link to this document is here : http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2011/07/12/dead-men-walking-0

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, (UNPO), has published a report entitled, `Special report on violence against indigenous Jumma in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.’   The press release states that,

`JusticeMakers Bangladesh Trust (JMBangladesh), along with Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD), The Hague, The Netherlands have [provided a report of their recent] fact finding investigation into the arson attacks against minority Jumma communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region of Bangladesh, which occurred in February and April of 2011.’

The full report, in PDF format, is available to download – [here] ;
The press release is also available online – [here].

New IDMC report entitled, `Occupied Palestinian Terrortory : No end to the internal displacement.’  Read the report in [HTML] or [PDF] format.  The relevant IDMC country page is also available – [here].

New IDMC briefing paper entitled, `Iraq : IDPs and their prospects for durable solutions.’  This briefing paper is available for download in PDF format – [here].  The IDMC Iraq country page is also available.

New report from the UK Home Office science website.  A new report entitled, `Family Migration:  evidence and analysis.’  This can be downloaded in PDF format – [here].

`Suspect Communities’? Launch of New Report

The Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP, Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee launching the above report in Parliament on 7 July 2011. Copyright: ISET.

On Thursday 7 July, 2011, I attended a report launch at the House of Commons for the latest research publication from the Institute for the Study of European Transformations, (ISET), entitled `Suspect Communities’? Counterterrorism Policy, the Press, and the Impact on Irish and Muslim Communities in Britain.’

The research for this report was led by Professor Mary Hickmen at london Metropolitan University, in conjunction with Professor Lyn Thomas and Dr. Henri Nickels, with support from Dr Sara Silvestri from City University London, who is a specialist on Islam in Europe.  The report argues that,

“the ideas underpinning counter-terrorism measures and the way politicians, policymakers and the emdia discuss who might be responsible for bombings have not changed over four decades.”

The full report can be found on the ISET website [here] and can be downloaded in PDF format by clicking – [here].

Newly Published Journals and Articles

Oxford Journals have just published the latest edition of their journal, the International Journal of Transitional Justice.  Further detail on volume 5 sssue 2,  (July 2011), including the table of contents and article abstracts, can be found on the Oxford Journals websute: [link here]

The latest edition of the International Journal of Refugee law, namely volume 23 number 3, (October 2011), has also now been released on the Oxford Journals website.  Articles from this volume include : `The Right to Seek Asylum: Interception at Sea and the Principle of Non-Refoulement’ by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill ; and `Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking Within a ‘Non-Refoulement’ Framework: is Complementary Protection an Effective Alternative in Canada and Australia?’ By Udara Jayasinghe and Sasha Baglay.  the table of contents and article abstracts can be found : [link here].

The latest issue of the Journal of International Migration and Integration, volume 12 number 3 (August 2011), is now available online via the Springer website.  The table of contents can be found : [link here]

Oxford Journals have published the following advance access article from the Journal of Refugee Studies :  ` The Pragmatics of Performance: Putting ‘Faith’ in Aid in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps.’  By Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh   The Link to the Article is : [here].

Oxford Journals have also published the following advance access article from Refugee Survey Quarterly:  `Sex Trafficking or Sex Work? Conceptions of Trafficking Among Anti-Trafficking Organizations in Nepal.’  By Miranda Worthen*   The Link to the Article is : [here].

 

New Reports Published by Human Rights Watch

Three new reports have been published so far this month by the Human Rights Watch organisation.  these will be introduced below:

The first of these reports is entitled `”No justice no pain”: Killings, Disappearances, and Impunity in the Philippines.’  Published on the 18 July, 2011, this is a report of 96 pages which,

“details strong evidence of military involvement in seven killings and three enforced disappearances of leftist activists since President Benigno Aquino III took office on June 30, 2010.”

A Link to the document can be found : [here] ; A Link to the PDF of the Full Document can be found : [here] ; and there is also a press release : [here].

The second of these reports is entitled, `Living in Limbo : Rights of Ethnic Georgians Returnees to the Gali District of Abkhazia.’  Published on the 15 July, 2011,

“This 71-page report documents the arbitrary interference by Abkhazia’s de facto authorities with returnees’ rights to freedom of movement, education, and other political and economic rights. Although Abkhazia is not recognized as an independent state under international law, the authorities there nevertheless have obligations under international law to respect and protect rights and freedoms, Human Rights Watch said. They should ensure freedom of movement across the administrative boundary that separates Abkhazia from uncontested areas of Georgia and should end discrimination, in particular with access to identity documents and education, Human Rights Watch said.”

A Link to the document can be found : [here] ; A Link to the PDF of the Full Document can be found : [here] ; and there is also a press release : [here].

The third of these reports is entitled, `”Even Dead Bodies Must Work”: Health, Hard Labor, and Abuse in Ugandan Prisons.’  Published on July 14, 2011,

“This 80-page report documents routine physical abuse and the failure of the criminal justice system to protect the rights of prisoners. Prisoners at rural prisons, including the elderly, individuals with disabilities, and pregnant women, are frequently caned, or are even stoned, handcuffed to a tree, or burned, when they refuse to perform hard labor. HIV and tuberculosis (TB) patients may be denied care and sent to farm prisons far from treatment programs.”

A Link to the document can be found : [here] ; A Link to the PDF of the Full Document can be found : [here] ; and there is also a press release : [here].

Off Air Recordings : WB 25 July 2011

The following off-air recordings have been requested for the Refugee Archive for the week beginning Monday 25 July, 2011 :

Monday 25 July

2100-2200: BBC2: (3/3) The Life of Muhammad.  VIDEO Plus+: 5583

2340-005: More 4: (3/10) Unreported World – Turkey: Killing for Honour.  VIDEO Plus+: 90141106

Tuesday 26 July

2000-2100: Channel 5: One Year To Go: Building Stratford.  VIDEO Plus+: 4176775
 Wednesday 27 July

2230-2330: BBC4 : (4/5).  Syrian School.   VIDEO Plus+: 7116403

New Publications Online (Part 1)

Myanmar : Displacement continues in context of armed conflicts

By the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).
“In November 2010 the first national elections since 1990 were held in Myanmar. While the party set up by the previous government and the armed forces retain most legislative and executive power, the elections may nevertheless have opened up a window of opportunity for greater civilian governance and power-sharing. At the same time, recent fighting between opposition non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and government forces in Kayin/Karen, Kachin, and Shan States, which displaced many within eastern Myanmar and into Thailand and China, is a sign that ethnic tensions remain serious and peace elusive.”

Read the Overview (html / pdf)
Full Internal Displacement Profile
Myanmar country page

Conference report on armed non-State actors and the protection of internally displaced people
IDMC and Geneva Call organised in March 2011 an expert conference in Geneva, Switzerland, which explored different aspects of the complex interface between armed non-State actors (ANSAs) and IDPs. The conference report details the findings of this event, during which current and former ANSAs and members of civil society from areas undergoing internal displacement expressed their views and perspectives, and humanitarian organisations and academics shared their experience and presented the findings of their academic and field research. The report also presents a series of recommendations to enhance the protection of IDPs in situations where ANSAs are active.

For more information, please see IDMC’s page on IDPs and Non State Armed Groups (NSAGs):
http://www.internal-displacement.org/thematic/non-state-armed-groups
The report can be downloaded in PDF Format : Download the report

A new briefing by Amnesty International entitled, `Out of Control: The case for a complete overhaul of enforced removals by private contractors.’
Amnesty’s new briefing report is available to download in PDF format:-  [here]
Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/out-control-amnesty-briefing-enforced-removals-private-security-companies

The Equality and Diversity Forum has produced two new briefings on migrants and the Equality Act 2010 for public authorities and refugee and migrant community organisations.

The first of these is entitled, ` Refugees, migrants and the Equality Act 2010 : A briefing for public authorities.’  Link : http://www.edf.org.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/EDF-Briefing_Public-Authorities_Web_draft-32.pdf

The second is entitled, ` Refugees, migrants and theEquality Act 2010 : A briefing for refugee and migrant community organisations.’
Link : http://www.edf.org.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/EDF-Briefing_Public-Authorities_Web_draft-32.pdf

(Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/new-briefings-migrants-and-equality-act-2010)

The HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published reports on ‘unannounced inspections’ of short-term holding facilities at Heathrow Terminals 3 and 4.  The reports can be found here and here.   According to the press release on the Migrant’s Rights Website,

Recommendations from the report include: implementing sensitive approaches to managing and addressing people being removed; ensuring detention forms are read to detainees and signed; providing better and more accessible information to detainees on the reasons for detention; improving search practices; providing better access to communication; improving resting and sleeping facilities; and increasing awareness amongst staff of the inter-agency national referral mechanism to identify trafficked children.

(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – Inspection report of detention facilities at Heathrow finds possibly unlawful detention of child

Resource List Compiled by ICAR

The following list of documents were orginally compiled by the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees, (ICAR).  Full details about ICAR can be found on their website at : http://www.icar.org.uk/

UK Border Agency (UKBA) report – Asylum Improvement project progress report UKBA outlines the progress made so far on 25 elements of the project and explains the next steps for asylum reform.

BEING A REFUGEE: learning and identity. By Linda Morrice – University of Sussex, describes lives of refugees before and after they arrive in the UK. It features stories of highly qualified professionals and shows how their experiences as refugees have significant implications for policy and practice.

The Human Rights Act and the Assault on Liberty: Rights and Asylum in the UK By Parnesh Sharma, is a result of over three years on in-depth fieldwork and research on the treatment of asylum-seekers in the UK and examines the role of rights in bringing social changes and whether a culture of rights is developing in the UK.

Asylum seeker ‘vulnerability’: the official explanation of service providers and the emotive responses of asylum seekers By Sophia Rainbird – Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal, explores the way service providers in East Anglia, in 2002-2003 represented asylum seekers as problematic and largely vulnerable dependents, pointing out potential development of an active dialogue between asylum seekers and the services that assist them can be considered.

Mind your language: banning asylum or saving sanctuary? By Jonathan Cox – Open democracy. Following the Independent Asylum Commission’s first report of conclusions and recommendations BBC reflected on how appropriate is the word “asylum and apart from this linguistic one, the report included other 64 recommendations.

‘It is about integration’: The discursive construction of integration among professionals who work with asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland. By S Kirkwood –  The University of Edinburgh, seeks to address the criticisms concerning UK migration policies negatively affecting the integration of refugees, through the discursive analysis of interview data from people who work with asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland.

Gender, Asylum Seekers and Mental Distress: Challenges for Mental Health Social Work. By Khatidja Chantler – University of Manchester, engages with the critique that mental health social work with asylum seekers requires urgent attention, as current practice is inadequate. It discusses key aspects of the UK’s current asylum policy and highlights the importance of maintaining a social model of understanding post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Women seeking asylum in Merseyside: Access to support for survivors of sexual violence in conflict and civil unrest. By Vicky Canning – Women’s Asylum News, outlines preliminary PhD findings from research in Merseyside exploring access to sexual violence support for women seeking asylum.

Young Female Asylum Seekers: Implications for Social Work Intervention By S Lees and J Lovett – British Journal of Social Work, documents the composition and social work response to this vulnerable group, and points out the profile and experiences of these young women both before and during their time in care.

Asylum and the path to citizenship:a case study of Somalis in the United Kingdom By Rebecca Tuck – UNHCR’s Policy Development and Evaluation Service, analyses the major changes introduced by the Borders, Immigration and Citizenship Bill and asses the impact of ‘active citizenship’ on and refugee integration, choosing the Somali community as a case study.

Pro-asylum Advocacy in the EU: Challenging the State of Exception By H Hintjens, R Kumar and A  Pouri –  Transnational Migration and Human Security, explores examples of how pro-asylum advocates challenge the harsh measures used to punish those who try to enter or reside in the EU illegally, taking examples from The Netherlands and the UK.

New Publications Online (Part 2)

Independence for South Sudan, Uncertainty for Those Displaced from the South (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Indications of Progress? Assessing the Use of Indicators in UNHCR Operations, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 214 (UNHCR, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Unequal Before the Law? The Future of Legal Aid (Solicitors Journal & Jures, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Longer-Term Disaster Displaced: A Forgotten Group (UN RCHC Office, Nepal, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Non-DAC Donors and Humanitarian Aid: Shifting Structures, Changing Trends (GHA, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

“Stresses of Passage, Balms of Resettlement, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 56, no. 6 (June 2011) [full-text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Surviving in Limbo (Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel, June 2011) [texts via War Child]
- Part I: Lived Experiences among Sudanese and Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel; Part II: Community Formation among Sudanese and Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Refugee Status Report: A Report on How Refugee Children and Young People in Victoria are Faring (Dept. of Education and Early Childhood Development, July 2011) [text via BroCAP]
- See also background information.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Strangers at Home: North Koreans in the South (International Crisis Group, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

“Welfare-to-Work and the Responsiveness of Employment Providers to the Needs of Refugees,” Journal of Social Policy, vol. 40, no. 3 (2011) [free full-text article]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Implementation of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Beneath the Surface: Methodological Issues in Research and Data Collection with Assisted Trafficking Victims (IOM, Dec. 2010; posted May 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The State of Counter-Trafficking Research: Researcher, Programmer, and Donor Perspectives (SIREN, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

British Journal of Sociology, vol. 62, no. 1 (March 2011) [free full-text]
- Focus is on “The Displaced and Dispossessed of Darfur.” See also related podcast.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 42, no. 3 (Spring 2011) [contents via PPL catalogue]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

New Publications Online (Part 3)

GHA Report 2011

Global Humanitarian Assistance have published the 2011 edition of their GHA Annual Report.  The report focuses on international expenditures in relation to humanitarian aid and the it argues that :

“The latter part of the last decade has been underscored by deepening vulnerability in many developing countries associated with the global financial and food crises. Meanwhile, conflict and climate change-related hazards have remained a major threat to the lives and livelihoods of many.”
GHA Report 2011

The report synopis can be found [here] and the report itself can be downloaded in PDF format – [here].
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Ensuring Access to Health Care: Operational Guidance on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas (UNHCR, 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UNHCR’s Response to the Somali Displacement Crisis into Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya (UNHCR, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Humanitarian Action under Scrutiny: Criminalizing Humanitarian Engagement (HPCR, Feb. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Migrants in an Irregular Situation Employed in Domestic Work: Fundamental Rights Challenges for the European Union and its Member States (European Agency for Fundamental Rights, July 2011) [text via Refworld]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Diaspora Peacebuilding Capacity: Women in Exile on the Thai/Burmese Border (Peacebuild/Paix Durable, March 2011) [text via Human Security Gateway]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Internal Displacement in Afghanistan (Refugee Cooperation, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Iraqi Refugees and IDPs: From Humanitarian Intervention to Durable Solutions (Refugee Cooperation, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

A Lost Cause: Australia-Malaysia’s Asylum Deal (Malaysian Insider, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Refugee Swap Deal: Will it Reduce Irregular Migration?, RSIS Commentaries, no. 99/2011 (RSIS, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

New Publications Online (Part 4)

Armed Non-State Actors and the Protection of Internally Displaced People, Geneva, 23-24 March 2011 [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Conference on the Implementation and the Further Development of EAC, Valletta, 21-22 June 2011 [summary] [UNHCR speech]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Iraq: IDPs and Their Prospects for Durable Solutions: Briefing paper presented at the UNHCR annual consultations with non-governmental organisations, 28–30 June 2011, Geneva (IDMC, June 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

North Africa in Transition: Mobility, Forced Migration & Humanitarian Crises, Oxford, 6 May 2011 [workshop report]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Regional Conferences on Refugee Protection and International Migration in Central America, Western Africa, Eastern Africa and Asia: Selected Conference Materials (UNHCR, June 2011) [text] – Reproduces materials from six conferences.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Annual Report 2010 (Danish Refugee Council, May 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Annual Report 2010 (La Trobe Refugee Research Centre, 2011) [text via Refugee Research Network]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Annual Report 2010: Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Annual Report 2010 on the European Union’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Policies and their Implementation (European Commission, June 2011) [text via Human Security Gateway]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

OCHA Annual Report 2010 (OCHA, June 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UNHCR Global Report 2010 (UNHCR, June 2011) [access]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The Use of Country of Origin Information in Deciding Asylum Applications: A Thematic Inspection (Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UEL MA Students Archive Survey and August Opening Hours

Dear UEL Refugee Studies MA Students,

I hope that you will be able to spare a few minutes to complete our online survey  about the Refugee Archive. I have created the short survey (only 10 questions) to try and get some feedback on the service provided by the Archive and how it can be improved for the future. The survey is Ananymous and I will circulate feedback once the survey has closed.

The link to the survey is here : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DPLV8MP and the survey will be open until Friday 2nd September 2011. A link will also be available on the main Refugee Archive webpage (www.uel.ac.uk/rca) and via our blog (http://refugeearchives.wordpress.com/)

On a different note, both my colleague Caroline and I will be taking annual leave at various times during the month of August. Please contact me via email to confirm opening times during this period or ask at the Docklands Library issue desk counter if the Archive is closed.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Paul

Journal of Refugee Studies : Advance Access Articles

Journal of Refugee Studes Advance Access

The Journal of Refugee Studies has recently published the following advance access articles on their website, via Oxford Journals, at :  [Advance Access].     The articles include :

Understanding ‘Sanctuary’: Faith and Traditions of Asylum.  By Philip Marfleet.
From the Abstract,

`Sanctuary movements emerged in North America in the 1980s as a means of providing support, advocacy and protection for refugees and other vulnerable migrants. In recent years they have grown quickly in Europe, animated largely by faith activists who invoke moral principles associated with religious traditions. This article examines ancient and modern histories of sanctuary and the implications for understanding contemporary ideas about protection, refuge and asylum.’

The Role of Faith and Faith-Based Organizations among Internally Displaced Persons in Kenya.  By Damaris Seleina Parsitau
Link :  http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/07/27/jrs.fer035.short?rss=1

Faith-Based Aid to People Affected by Conflict in Jos, Nigeria: An Analysis of the Role of Christian and Muslim Organizations. By Nkwachukwu Orji
Link :  http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/07/27/jrs.fer034.short?rss=1

 

Un/settling Angels: Faith-Based Organizations and Asylum-Seeking in the UK .  By Susanna Snyder

Link :  http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/07/27/jrs.fer029.short?rss=1

 

New UN and HRW Publications

The following publications and reports have recently been published by the United Nations and Human Rights Watch Respectively:

United Nations Publications

Civil Society, Conflicts and the Politicization of Human Rights
“This publication explores violence, conflict and peace. It focuses on the non-governmental component in ethno-policitcal conflicts.”
Link : https://unp.un.org/Details.aspx?pid=21619

Progress of the World’s Women 2011-2012: In Pursuit of Justice.
“In recent years, there have been impressive gains in reforming laws to recognize women’s rights. However, women continue to lack control over resources, access to services, voice in decision-making and protection from violence.”
Link : https://unp.un.org/Details.aspx?pid=21705

Human Rights Watch Reports

“We Can Torture, Kill, or Keep You for Years” : Enforced Disappearances by Pakistan Security Forces in Balochistan.
By Human Rights Watch.
“The 132-page report documents dozens of enforced disappearances, in which the authorities take people into custody and then deny all responsibility or knowledge of their fate or whereabouts. The report details 45 alleged cases of enforced disappearances, the majority in 2009 and 2010. While hundreds of people have been forcibly disappeared in Balochistan since 2005, dozens of new enforced disappearances have occurred since Pakistan returned to civilian rule in 2008.”
Link : http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/07/28/we-can-torture-kill-or-keep-you-years

Righting Military Injustice  : Addressing Uganda’s Unlawful Prosecutions of Civilians in Military Courts.
By Human Rights Watch
“This report documents the pattern of trials of civilians before military courts, the ways in which such trials violate international legal principles, and the steps Uganda should take to address these fair-trial violations. Since 2002, military courts in Uganda have prosecuted over 1,000 civilians on charges under the criminal code, such as murder and armed robbery. A 2006 Ugandan Constitutional Court ruling, upheld on appeal in 2009 before the Supreme Court and consistent with international law, that military courts are not competent to try civilians accused of common crimes has not been enforced.”
Link : http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/07/27/righting-military-injustice

Schools and Armed Conflict

Schools and Armed Conflict  : A Global Survey of Domestic Laws and State Practice Protecting Schools from Attack and Military Use.
By Human Rights Watch.
“This 162-page report examines domestic laws and military policies in 56 countries around the world. Governments have been slow to update and align their domestic legislation with the explicit prohibitions on attacks on schools under international criminal law, Human Rights Watch said. They are also failing to account for the negative consequences for children’s right to education when armed forces convert schools into bases and barracks.”
Link : http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/07/20/schools-and-armed-conflict-0

“No Justice Just Adds to the Pain”  : Killings, Disappearances, and Impunity in the Philippines.
By Human Rights Watch.
“This 96-page report details strong evidence of military involvement in seven killings and three enforced disappearances of leftist activists since President Benigno Aquino III took office on June 30, 2010.”
Link : http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/07/18/no-justice-just-adds-pain-0

New Reports and Publications Available

Newly published reports and publications are detailed below:

From the UK Home Office Science website :

• Monthly Asylum Statistics May 2011
• Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers, by age and place of initial detention, June 2011

For enquiries about the contents of publications or the research and statistics produced by HOS, please contact public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

From UNHCR :

Publication from UNHCR Refworld

“Safe at Last? Law and Practice in Selected EU Member States with
Respect to Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Indiscriminate Violence”, 27 July
2011, available at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4e2ee0022.html

The study examines the application in particular of Article 15(c) of the EU’s Qualification Directive (QD), under which Member States are required to grant subsidiary protection to persons fleeing ”serious and
individual threat to a civilian’s life or person by reason of indiscriminate violence in situations of internal or international armed conflict.”

Surrey Heritage: discovering, preserving, celebrating
Link : [click here]
Surrey Heritage’s excellent review of 2010, which “shows the exciting range of work that Surrey Heritage has carried out over the last 12 months, including dynamic projects which support health and well-being and children and young people, and encourage stronger communities.  Statistics can be found for our searchroom visitors, enquiries service, FOI & DP requests, new accessions to the library and archive, publicity and website. There are also features on our digitisation developments, HLF funded Ockenden refugee project, community engagement initiatives, and our mental health work.”
(Source : The Network E-Bulletin – http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

The new geographies of racism
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/New_geographies_racism_Plymouth.pdf
This new research from the IRR “investigates how geographies of racism throughout the UK are changing in a wider climate of economic austerity, shifting patterns of migration and settlement and against the backdrop of new forms of racism exacerbated by national policies.”
(Source : The Network E-Bulletin – http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

The latestvolume of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies has just been published on the Taylor and Francis website.  Volume 37 Number 8 (2011) is a special issue on the subject of Transnational Migration and Childhood.

The Table of contents can be found – [here].

Off Air Recordings WB: 01 August 2011

The following off-air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Archive for the week beginning Monday 1 August, 2011:

Monday 1 August

2340-0010: More 4 (4/10): Unreported World – Sierra Leone: Insanity of War.
VIDEO Plus+: 13243517 (Part of Series)

Tuesday 2 August

2200-0000: More 4 : True Stories: The Redemption of General Butt Naked.
VIDEO Plus+: 90894289

Wednesday 3 August

2235-2335: BBC4 (5/5): Syrian School (Part 5: Marked for Life).  VIDEO Plus+:
4544574  (Part of Series)

Recently Published Journal Articles

The following are a selection of recently published journal articles within the fields of refugee and forced migration studies.  Details of these articles have been listed on the Mimas Zetoc database.

“Zetoc provides access to the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis. It includes an email alerting service, to enable you to keep up-to-date with relevant new articles and papers.”

A selection of the articles I have recently received are as follows:

JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES VOL 37; NUMBER 7 (2011) pp. 1017-1037
Acceptable and Unacceptable Immigrants: How Opposition to Immigration in Britain is Affected by Migrants’ Region of Origin
Ford, R.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294998480&field=zid

JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES VOL 37; NUMBER 7 (2011) pp. 1119-1135
Time and Transnationalism: A Longitudinal Study of Immigration, Endurance and Settlement in Canada
Waters, J.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294998548&field=zid

JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES VOL 37; NUMBER 7 (2011) pp. 977-997
Nativism and the Obsolescence of Grand Narrative: Comprehending the Quandary of Anti-Immigration Groups in the Neoliberal Era
de Oliver, M.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294998572&field=zid

JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE FAMILY STUDIES VOL 42; NUMB 4 (2011) pp. 599-614
Needs of Refugee Children in Canada: What Can Roma Refugee Families Tell Us?
Walsh, C.; Estes, D.; Krieg, B.; Giurgiu, B.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294716992&field=zid

QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH VOL 21; NUMB 7 (2011) pp. 976-986
Improving Qualitative Interviews With Newly Arrived Migrant Women
Merry, L.; Clausen, C.; Gagnon, A.J.; Carnevale, F.; Jeannotte, J.; Saucier, J.-F.; Oxman-Martinez, J.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294578028&field=zid

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL WORK VOL 54; NUMB 4 (2011) pp. 485-504
The experiences of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in and leaving the out-of-home care system in the UK and Australia: A critical review of the literature
Barrie, L.; Mendes, P.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294568576&field=zid

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MIGRATION AND LAW VOL 13; NUMB 2 (2011) pp. 201-218
Legislative Update EU Immigration and Asylum Law 2010: Extension of Long-term Residence Rights and Amending the Law on Trafficking in Human Beings
Peers, S.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294472123&field=zid

ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES VOL 34; NUMBER 8 (2011) pp. 1392-1407
Turning refugees into ‘illegal migrants’: Afghan asylum seekers in Europe
Schuster, L.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294460262&field=zid

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION VOL 12; NUMBER 3 (2011) pp. 253-274
The Development of Migrant Entrepreneurship in Japan: Case of Bangladeshis
Rahman, M. M.; Lian, K. F.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294386218&field=zid

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF FAMILY THERAPY VOL 32; NUMB 2 (2011) pp. 129-143
Lost in Translation? Embracing the Challenges of Working With Families From a Refugee Background
Codrington, R.; Iqbal, A.; Segal, J.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294223056&field=zid

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW VOL 63; NUMB 2 (2011) pp. 283-322
The Board of Immigration Appeals’ Standard of Review: An Argument for Regulatory Reform
Rempell, S.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294165159&field=zid

AFRICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH VOL 14; NUMB 4 (2010) pp. 17-26
Contraceptive Use: Knowledge, Perceptions and Attitudes of Refugee Youths in Oru Refugee Camp, Nigeria
Okanlawon, K.; Reeves, M.; Agbaje, O.F.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294199870&field=zid

SEXUALITIES -LONDON- VOL 14; NUMB 3 (2011) pp. 334-353
`Having words for everything’. Institutionalizing gender migration in Spain (1998-2008)
Soley-Beltran, P.; Coll-Planas, G.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN293863323&field=zid

JOURNAL OF CANADIAN STUDIES VOL 45; NUMB 2 (2011) pp. 229-237
New Directions in Immigration and Ethnic History
Patrias, C.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294798090&field=zid

JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY VOL 83; NUMB 2 (2011) pp. 435-436
Elisa Camiscioli, Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century
Lewis, M.D.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN294044448&field=zid

NEW YORKER -NEW YORKER MAGAZINE INCORPORATED- 04-JUL-2011 (2011) pp. 28-34
England, Their England: Immigration and resurgent nationalism
Collins, L.
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?db=etoc&terms=RN293934379&field=zid

Newly Published Research

How many migrants are there in the West Midlands and who are they?

http://www.wmcouncils.gov.uk/media/upload/Library/Migration%20Documents/Publications/WMPHO_WM_MigrantHealth.pdf

Report from the West Midlands Public Health Observatory, which “describes what is known about the numbers and characteristics of migrants in the West Midlands. The purpose of the report is to provide local health partners with an understanding of migrant data sources and an evaluation of their usefulness in building a picture of local migrant populations and assist those writing a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment … as part of the process of commissioning.”
(Source : The Network E-bulletin – http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

Refugees, migrants and the Equality Act 2010: a briefing for public authorities 

http://www.edf.org.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/EDF-Briefing_Public-Authorities_Web_draft-32.pdf

This briefing from the Equality & Diversity Forum is “intended to provide clear information about the rights of refugees and migrants that will help authorities to meet the needs of these individuals.”
(Source : The Network E-bulletin – http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

The barriers to challenging racism & promoting race equality in England’s schools

http://www.pdf-2-flashbook.com:8080/viewBook.cfm?b=d88ea4f24d49acb34947891d9ebd34b9

New report from Show Racism the Red Card, which “found that, within the sample, racist attitudes and behaviours are common amongst both pupils and teachers. However, many school leaders are not engaging with the issue of race equality and are often unaware of the attitudes that exist amongst their pupils. Most of the teachers surveyed had received little or no education with regards to tackling racism or promoting race equality whilst training or teaching.”
(Source : The Network E-bulletin – http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

Bright Lights, Big City: Urban Refugees Struggle to Make a Living in New Delhi. 

The Women’s Refugee Commission has just released the new report detailed above and a copy can be downloaded
from :  http://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/reports/doc_download/733-bright-lights-big-city-urban-refugees-struggle-to-make-a-living-in-new-delhi
(Source : Forced Migration Jiscmail List – List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

‘Settled In? Views and Experiences of Migrant Workers Working and Living in Greater Manchester’

Published by t he Greater Manchester Pay and Employment Rights Advice Service(GMPERAS), this research was conducted through a survey of 54 migrants.

The report found that of the migrants who responded 71% felt settled in the UK and 66% felt part of the local community. Although finding work contributed to migrants feeling settled, 64% of respondents reported that they had faced problems in the workplace. Figures from GMPERAS show that the most common employment problem faced is underpayment. Learning English was found to be important to migrants’ ability to understand and assert their rights in the workplace and to their experience of living in the UK more generally.

Copies of the ‘Settled In?’ are available from GMPERAS at info@gmemploymentrights
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/settled-report-migrant-workers-experiences-manchester )

‘Listen and try to understand: refugees’ stories of loss, exile and rebuilding’

A new collection of stories from the lives of eight refugees living in north east England, and is now available in hard copy and will also soon be available on line.

Describing experiences they most want others to hear and understand, the participants answer some very difficult questions: When do you decide it’s too dangerous to stay and you have to leave? What are your priorities once you’ve found refuge? How do you set about rebuilding your life? What, and who, do you leave behind? And where is home now?

For a hard copy: (86 pages, A4 ring-bound, free of charge) contact mandy.jetter@durham.ac.uk before end August, or amanda.jetter@btinternet.com from end August.
(Source : Migrant’s Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/new-collection-stories-refugees)

Immigration Detention : A Handbook for Visitors

The new seventh edition of the AVID Handbook for Visitors is as a complete guide to immigration detention in the UK and is a useful resource for all volunteers and anyone interested in immigration detention or providing support to this vulnerable group.

This publication contains information on an extensive range of issues including: asylum law and policy; current detention policy and practice in the UK; legal and medical issues in detention; supporting detainees; how to get out of detention and much more. There are also useful tips and tools to support volunteers, and guidance to help with any difficult issues that may arise while visiting or supporting an immigration detainee, such as removal.

The Handbook has been produced since 1997, and is now in its seventh edition. You can find out more at www.aviddetention.org.uk   To find out more or to order a copy (£10.00 plus postage) please contact enquiries@aviddetention.org.uk

(Source : Migrant’s Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/immigration-detention-handbook-visitors)

UNHCR Related Publications

The Benefits of Belonging: Local Integration Options and Opportunities for Host Countries, Communities and Refugees (2011) [text]

Exclusion at a Crossroads: The Interplay between International Criminal Law and Refugee Law in the Area of Extended Liability, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series (June 2011) [text]

Global Roundtable on Alternatives to Detention of Asylum-Seekers, Refugees, Migrants and Stateless Persons: Summary Conclusions (July 2011) [text]

Living in a World of Violence: An Introduction to the Gang Phenomenon, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series (July 2011) [text]

Safe at Last? Law and Practice in Selected EU Member States with Respect to Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Indiscriminate Violence (July 2011) [text]

UNHCR Statement on the Reception Conditions of Asylum-seekers under the Dublin Procedure (August 2011) [text]

An Independent Impact Evaluation of UNHCR’s Community Based Reintegration Programme in Southern Sudan (UNHCR, March 2011) [text]

“International Institutions and Individualized Decision-Making: An Example of UNHCR’s Refugee Status Determination,” Chapter in The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions: Advancing International Institutional Law (Springer, Dec. 2010) [info]
- An earlier version of this piece appeared in the German Law Journal.

Research Summary on Resettled Refugee Integration in Canada (Centre for Refugee Studies, May 2011) [text via UNHCR]

Restitution, Compensation, Satisfaction: Transnational Reparations and Colombia’s Victims’ Law, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 215 (UNHCR, August 2011) [text]

The Way to San José: A Review of the Implementation of UNHCR’s Urban Refugee Policy in Costa Rica, PDES/2011/08 (UNHCR, August 2011) [text]

Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog : http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/

New Journal Volumes

International Journal of Refugee Law  Volume 23 Issue 3 October 2011 [table of contents]

AWR Bulletin, vol. 49, no. 1 (2011) [contents]
- Mix of articles.

AWR Bulletin, vol. 49, no. 2 (2011) [contents]
- Mix of articles.

International Migration, vol. 49, no. 4 (August 2011) [contents]- Focus on “Immigrants in Sweden”; includes “Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants’ Increased Social Rights in Sweden.”

International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 92, no. 880 (Dec. 2010) [free full-text]
- The theme, “Conflict in Afghanistan,” is covered in two issues, both published at the same time. Access Part I by navigating via the menu bar on the left.

International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 93, no. 881 (March 2011) [contents]- Part II of “Conflict in Afghanistan.”

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 37, no. 8 (2011) [contents]
- Special issue on “Transnational Migration and Childhood.” Includes “‘Asexual, Apolitical Beings’: The Interpretation of Children’s Identities and Experiences in the UK Asylum System” and “In the Best Interest of the Child? The Politics of Vulnerability and Negotiations for Asylum in Sweden.”

Social Dialogue, vol. 3 (2011) [full-text]
- Special focus on “War and Society.” Includes “What War is Good For: An Exploration of How Wartime Displacement Can Promote Community Development,” “White Hearts: Mental Health Among Iraqi Refugees in the United States,” and “Two Pathways Through Which the University of Utah Can Further Support the Integration of Refugees in Utah.”

Disability and Society, vol. 26, no. 5 (2011) [contents]
- Special issue on “Disability: shifting frontiers and boundaries.” Includes “Disability and cross-border mobility: comparing resettlement experiences of Cambodian and Somali refugees with disabilities” and “Between protection and assistance: is there refuge for asylum seekers with disabilities in Europe?”

Journal of Peace Research, vol. 48, no. 4 (July 2011) [contents]
- Mix of articles including a data feature on armed conflict from 1946-2010.

Medicine, Conflict, Survival, vol. 27, no. 1 (2011) [contents]
- Includes special section featuring winners of the Holdstock-Piachaud Prize 2010; titles include “Climate change-induced conflict: a threat to human health,” “Health, peace, conflict: challenges for maternal and child health in the occupied Palestinian territories,” and “Border-controlled health inequality: the international community’s neglect of internally displaced persons.”

The Researcher, vol. 6, no. 2 (July 2011) [full-text via Refworld]
- Lead article is “The Evolution and Elusiveness of EU Citizenship: The Court of Justice Decision in McCarthy.” Also includes “The Persuasiveness of UNHCR’s Eligibility Guidelines.”

Women’s Asylum News, no. 103 (July 2011) [full-text via Refworld]
- Lead article is “Accessing justice in the age of austerity: what legal aid reform means for women seeking asylum.”

New Publications Available

Source – Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog : http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/

Bright Lights, Big City: Urban Refugees Struggle to Make a Living in New Delhi (Women’s Refugee Commission, July 2011 [text via ReliefWeb]

A Costly Move: Far and Frequent Transfers Impede Hearings for Immigrant Detainees in the United States (Human Rights Watch, June 2011) [text]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Too Soon To Walk Away (Refugees International, July 2011) [text]

Displaced, Disabled and Disturbed: Narratives of Trauma and Resilience among Acehnese Survivors of the 2004 Tsunami (Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, 2011) [text]

Uprooted Again: Forced Evictions of Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia (Amnesty International, August 2011) [text]

“We Want to Go Home, but We Can’t”: Côte d’Ivoire’s Continuing Crisis of Displacement and Insecurity (Amnesty International, August 2011) [text]

Annual Report 2010 (JRS Europe, Aug. 2011) [text]

“Chamber Ruling on Rejected Somali Asylum-seekers Would, If Upheld, Make It Almost Impossible to Carry Out Expulsions to Somalia,” Migration News Sheet (July 2011) [text]

Common European Asylum System Closer than Before (UNHCR, July 2011) [text]

Cutting Off the Flow: Extraterritorial Controls to Prevent Migration (Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, July 2011) [text]

“Practice Problems Concerning the Decision to Grant Access to Asylum in Romania under the ‘Dublin II’ Regulation,” EIRP Proceedings, vol. 6 (2011) [text]

Seeking Asylum: Trends and Policies in the OECD (Centre for Economic Policy Research, July 2011) [text]

“Serious Doubts about Bulgaria’s Judicial System after Several Provisions of the Convention Violated in the Case of an Afghan Refugee,” Migration News Sheet (Aug. 2011) [text]

Several Hundred Thousand People in Europe Are Stateless – They Need Extra Protection (Human Rights Comment, Aug. 2011) [text]

Unsafe Haven: The Security Challenges Facing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Turkey (Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly – Turkey & ORAM, June 2011) [text]

Young Lives in Limbo: the protection of age disputed young people in Wales

The Welsh Refugee Council (http://www.welshrefugeecouncil.org/) has recently published a new report entitled, “Young Lives in Limbo: the protection of age disputed young people in Wales”.  This report “describes the experiences of young asylum seekers whose lives are in limbo because their age is disputed by the UKBA and Local Authorities.”

Copies of the Exexutive Summary and the Full Report are available in PDF format from the links below:

Executive Summary – English

Executive Summary – Welsh

WRC Young Lives in Limbo WEB

 

Newly Published Research

HPG Working Paper

Humanitarian action, early recovery and stabilisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  By Sarah Bailey.  A new working paper in the HPG Working Papers publication series :

This paper examines the challenges facing the protracted crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo as they relate to the international response in eastern DRC, with a particular focus on the relationship between humanitarian assistance, early recovery and stabilisation.

“Evidence-based Clinical Guidelines for Immigrants and Refugees,” CMAJ, Early Release (27 July 2011) [full-text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Refugee Children at “High Risk” of Mental-health Problems (IRIN, Aug. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Reviewing the Application of the Cessation Clause of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in Africa, Working Paper, no. 76 (RSC, August 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Should Citizenship Be Conditional? Denationalisation and Liberal Principles, Working Paper, no. 75 (RSC, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Progress Report on Criminal Justice Responses to Trafficking in Persons in the ASEAN Region (Asia Regional Trafficking in Persons Project, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Prosecution of Trafficking in Persons Cases: Integrating a Human Rights-Based Approach in the Administration of Criminal Justice, Background Paper for Expert Meeting of the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Ms Joy Ngozi Ezeilo (OHCHR, July 2011) [text] (Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The Protection Project Review of the Trafficking in Persons Report 2011 (Protection Project, July 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Smuggling Roundtable Meeting Report, Bangkok, 20-22 June 2011 (GAATW & OHCHR, 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Body of Evidence

Body of evidence: treatment of medico-legal reports for survivors of torture in the UK asylum tribunal.  A new report publishged by Freedom from Torture and The Helen Bamber Foundation.  This report :

documents the common ways in which expert medical reports submitted in support of asylum claims are marginalised or rejected, and demands that medico-legal reports (MLRs) be treated with respect by UK Border Agency (UKBA) officials and by immigration judges dealing with asylum claims. It calls on the Tribunal’s president to issue specific guidelines to immigration judges on how to address expert medical evidence, and for more training on the issue, to avoid some of the more common errors judges make. It makes similar recommendations to the Home Office, calling for urgent revision of the policy guidance and training for caseworkers.

The report can be downloaded in PDF format – [here].
(Source : Institute for Race Relations – Double standards in MLRs

Home Sweet Home Exhibition

An article in The Observer newspaper on Sunday details an interesting upcoming exhibition due to take place at the House of Commons from 12 September 2011 and the the Riverside Studies from the 18 September entitled, “Home from Home”.  The exhibition has been developed by a charity, Women for Refugee Women, which describes the exhibition as :

the show is not about individual asylum cases but about the “importance of letting people know how difficult circumstances are for these women. The vast majority who come to this group have fled serious human rights abuses, including sexual violence, ethnic and political persecution. They are traumatised by the loss of their homes and families. And what is so awful about their experiences here is that the struggle to find asylum can traumatise them all over again; they have to negotiate a very complex system, and however real their persecution, they are very often disbelieved.”

Further details and a selection of the photographs can be found in the Guardian articles at :

Asylum life: the trials of women refugees, through their own eyes

Asylum life: the daily struggles of women refugees – in pictures

“Home Sweet Home” can be seen at the House of Commons from 12 September by prior arrangement (email admin@refugeewomen.co.uk for details) and at Riverside Studios, London W6 from 18 September

International Journal of Refugee Law – New Volume

The latest edition of the International Journal of Refugee Law is now available on the Oxford Journals website.  Table of contents for Volume 23 Issue 3 October 2011 :

http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

Off-Air Recording Requests : WB 29/08/2011

The following off-air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Council Archive for the week beginning Monday 29 August, 2011:

Monday 29 August

2100-2200: BBC2: The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 Ten Years On.  VIDEO Plus+: 5900 **(repeated on Thursday)

Tuesday 30 August

2000-2100: Channel 5: Children of 9/11: Revealed.  VIDEO Plus+: 3746276

2200-2320: More 4 : True Stories – Contact in the Outback.  VIDEO Plus+: 29753127

Wednesday 31 August

2100-2200: Channel 5 : 9/11 – The Fireman’s Story.  VIDEO Plus+: 1986

2320-0020: BBC1 : (1/2) The Secret War on Terror.  VIDEO Plus+: 768257.  Whole Series Please.

Thursday 1 September

2100-2245: ITV1 : 9/11: Day That Changed the World.  VIDEO Plus+: 25727913.

**2320-0020: BBC2: The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 Ten Years On.  VIDEO Plus+: 5900

Off Air Recordings : WB 05/09/2011

The following off-air recording requests have been made on behalf of the Refugee Council Archive for the week beginning Monday 5th September, 2011 :

Monday 5 September

2000-2100: Channel 4: The Ground Zero Mosque.  VIDEO Plus+: 2227

2100-2200: Channel 4: 9/11: Emergency Room.  VIDEO Plus+: 3501

2100-2200: BBC2: (1/2) How Facebook Changed the World : The Arab Spring.  VIDEO Plus+: 5105.  Whole Series Please.

2340-0010: More 4: (8/10) Unreported World: Afghanistan: Waiting for the Taliban.  VIDEO Plus+: 33491367 (part of an existing series recording).

Tuesday 6 September

2235-2335: BBC1: The Twins of the Twin Towers.  VIDEO Plus+: 557983

Wednesday 7 September

2100-2240: Channel 4: Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill.  VIDEO Plus+: 22909939

2320-0020: BBC2 : (2/2) The Secret War on Terror.  VIDEO Plus+: 452262

Thursday 8 September

2100-2200: BBC3: 9/11 Conspiracy Road Trip.  VIDEO Plus+: 3752156

2235-2335: BBC1: Question Time 9/11 Special.  VIDEO Plus+: 420021

Friday 9 September

2230-2335: BBC2: Newsnight: The 9/11 Decade.  VIDEO Plus+: 4950731

Off-Air Recordings : WB 12/09/2011

The following off-air recording requests have been made on behalf of the Refugee Council Archive for the week beginning Saturday 10 September, 2011 :

Saturday 10 September

 1945-2115: Channel 4: Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill.  VIDEO Plus+: 801107

Sunday 11 September

 1330-1515: BBC2 : America Remembers September 11^th.  VIDEO Plus+: 78781904

1515-1615: BBC1 : Britain Remembers September 11^th.   VIDEO Plus+: 188966

2100-2235 : Channel 4 : Children of 9/11.  VIDEO Plus+: 42544966

 Monday 12 September

 2030-2100: BBC1 : Panorama – Tsunami : The Survivors; Stories.  VIDEO Plus+: 3473

2100-2255: ITV4 : 9/11: Day That Changed the World.  VIDEO Plus+: 99781015

2340-0010: More4: (8/10) Unreported World – Afghanistan: Waiting for the Taliban.   VIDEO Plus+: 33491367

 Tuesday 13 September

 2235-2335: BBC1: (1/2) The Bomb Squad.  VIDEO Plus+: 329348 .  Whole Series Please.

 Thursday 15 September

 2100-2200: (2/2) How Facebook Changed the World : The Arab Spring.  VIDEO Plus+: 6641

Newly Released Publications Online

Colombia: Property restitution in sight but integration still distant
Read the Overview (html / pdf)
(Source : IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Burundi: Secure tenure and land access still challenges for long-term IDPs
Read the Overview (html / pdf)
(Source : IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

IRR Briefing Paper no.5, Breivik, the conspiracy theory and the Oslo massacre. here (pdf file, 444kb)
(Source : Institute for Race Relations – http://www.irr.org.uk)

IOM Counter-Trafficking Directory for the UK
Download the Directory (PDF)
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/iom-publishes-counter-trafficking-directory-uk)

The Prisons inspectorate this week published two reports on the forced removal of immigration detainees to, respectively, Jamaica and Nigeria.
The reports can be accessed from HERE
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/hm-prisons-inspector-criticises-immigration-removal-practices-jamaica-and-nigeria)

MRN Briefing Paper – The Proposed Changes to Legal Aid and what they Could Mean for Migrant’s Access to Justice.
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/2011/09/mrn-concerned-over-legal-aid-reform-campaign).

UK migration: the leadership role of housing providers.  New report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Download copy of the report HERE.
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/migration-pulse/2011/migration-who-will-take-lead-local-level).

ONS Quarterly Migration Statistics : August 2011.
Download the report
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/quarterly-migration-statistics-august-2011).

UK Home Office Occasional Paper Number 96 : Mirage-related Migration to the UK
Download the Report
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/home-office-marriage-related-migration-uk).

Joint submission by UK NGOs Against Racism to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) with regard to the UK Government’s 18th and 19th Periodic Reports
Download the Report
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/joint-submission-uk-ngos-against-racism-un-committee-elimination-racial-discrimination).

Compas Briefing : Migrants and Housing in the UK: Experiences and Impacts
Download the Report
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/migrants-and-housing-uk-experiences-and-impacts).

Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder : Border Watchlisting a Decade after 9/11.
Download the Report
(Source : Center for Immigration Studies – http://cis.org/border-watchlisting-9-11).

New International Crisis Group Report entitled :  Liberia: How Sustainable Is the Recovery?
Download the Report
(Source : International Crisis Group – http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/africa/west-africa/liberia/177-liberia-how-sustainable-is-the-recovery.aspx).

Commentary on the Afghanistan Operational Guidance Note (OGN), issued by UKBA in March 2011.  This is the first in a series that will be published in the coming months as new OGNs are issued.  These documents will be published on the Still Human, Still Here website: http://stillhumanstillhere.wordpress.com/resources/
(Source : ICAR – http://www.icar.org.uk/)

“Young Lives in Limbo: The Protection of Age Disputed Young People in Wales.” Is a new report from The Welsh Refugee Council has just produced a research report
(Source : ICAR – http://www.icar.org.uk/)

Journal of Refugee Studies

Journal of Refugee Studies

New issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies which is a Special Issue  on the topic of : Faith-Based Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement: September 2011; Vol. 24, No. 3.

Table of Contents :

Introduction

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

Introduction: Faith-Based Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 429-439; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer033 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Articles

Philip Marfleet

Understanding ‘Sanctuary’: Faith and Traditions of Asylum
Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published on July 28, 2011
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 440-455; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer040 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Alastair Ager and Joey Ager

Faith and the Discourse of Secular Humanitarianism
Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published on August 4, 2011
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 456-472; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer030 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Nkwachukwu Orji

Faith-Based Aid to People Affected by Conflict in Jos, Nigeria: An Analysis of the Role of Christian and Muslim Organizations
Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published on July 28, 2011
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 473-492; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer034 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

The Role of Faith and Faith-Based Organizations among Internally Displaced Persons in Kenya
Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published on July 28, 2011
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 493-512; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Alexander Horstmann

Ethical Dilemmas and Identifications of Faith-Based Humanitarian Organizations in the Karen Refugee Crisis
Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published on July 30, 2011
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 513-532; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

The Pragmatics of Performance: Putting ‘Faith’ in Aid in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps
Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published on July 18, 2011
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 533-547; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Erin Wilson

Much to be Proud of, Much to be Done: Faith-based Organizations and the Politics of Asylum in Australia
Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published on August 13, 2011
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 548-564; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer037 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Susanna Snyder

Un/settling Angels: Faith-Based Organizations and Asylum-Seeking in the UK
Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published on July 28, 2011
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 565-585; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer029 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jessica Eby, Erika Iverson, Jenifer Smyers, and Erol Kekic

The Faith Community’s Role in Refugee Resettlement in the United States
Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published on July 28, 2011
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 586-605; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Elizabeth Ferris

Faith and Humanitarianism: It’s Complicated
Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published on July 18, 2011
Journal of Refugee Studies 2011 24: 606-625; doi:10.1093/jrs/fer028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Refugee Survey Quarterly Table of Contents for September 2011; Vol. 30, No. 3

Refugee Survey Quarterly

A new issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly is available online:

September 2011; Vol. 30, No. 3

The below Table of Contents is available online at:
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol30/issue3/index.dtl

 

Articles

Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud,, and Paul de Guchteneire

Migration and Climate Change: An Overview
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access published on June 8, 2011
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 1-23; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Francesca Ippolito and Samantha Velluti

The Recast Process of the EU Asylum System: A Balancing Act Between Efficiency and Fairness
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 24-62; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Liliana Lyra Jubilut and Wellington Pereira Carneiro

Resettlement in Solidarity: A New Regional Approach Towards a More Humane Durable Solution
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 63-86; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Miranda Worthen

Sex Trafficking or Sex Work? Conceptions of Trafficking Among Anti-Trafficking Organizations in Nepal
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access published on July 15, 2011
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 87-106; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Notes and Comments

Patricia Mallia

Case of M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece: A Catalyst in the Re-thinking of the Dublin II Regulation
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 107-128; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Publications from Amnesty International and ODI

Libya: The battle for Libya: Killings, disappearances and torture
Download File
(Source : Amnesty International – http://www.amnesty.org/)

Deadly Detention: Deaths In Custody and Popular Protest in Syria
Download Report
(Source : Amnesty International – http://www.amnesty.org/)

Egypt: ‘We are not dirt’: Forced evictions in Egypt’s informal settlements
Download Report
(Source : Amnesty International – http://www.amnesty.org/)

Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability in Nairobi
Download Working Paper
(Source : ODI – http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?id=5943&title=sanctuary-city-urban-displacement-vulnerability-nairobi)

Coordinating post-conflict aid in Southern Sudan
Download Working Paper
(Source : ODI – http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?id=5946&title=bsi-southern-sudan-aid-fragility-conflict-aid-effectiveness-budget-planning).

How the 9/11 decade changed the aid, security and development landscape
Download Article
(Source : ODI – http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?id=5956&title=911-development-security-stabilisation).

Recently Published Periodical Volumes

Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, no. 1 (2011) [full-text]
- Mix of articles including “Culture-Sensitive and Resource Oriented Peer (CROP) Groups as a Community Based Intervention for Trauma Survivors: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study with Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Chechnya.”

Conflict Trends

Conflict Trends, no. 2 (2011) [full-text]
- Focus is on climate change.

European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 13, no. 3 (2011) [contents]
- Focus is on “irregular migration.”

Field Exchange, no. 41 (Aug. 2011) [full-text]
- Mix of articles.

Hommes et Migrations, no. 1291 (mai-juin 2011) [contents]
- Focus is on “Diasporas sri lankaises: Entre guerre et paix”; includes “Les récits de vie des demandeurs d’asile tamouls.”

Journal on Internal Displacement, vol. 1, no. 2 (Aug. 2011) [open access text with registration]
- Second issue of new journal; articles include “Beyond Squatters’ Rights: Durable Solutions and Development in Monrovia, Liberia,” “Africa’s Last Colony: Sahrawi People – Refugees, IDPs and Nationals?,” “Internal Displacement: A Study of Homelessness in the City of Toronto,” and Managing Rehabilitation and Resettlement of the Involuntary Displaced People: Lessons from Selected Narmada Project in India.”

Protection Cluster Digest: The Newsletter of the Global Protection Cluster, vol. 1 (2011) [full-text]
- First edition of this “communication tool with humanitarian workers implementing the Cluster Approach at the global and field levels.”

Refugee Watch, no. 37 (June 2011) [contents]
- Mix of articles including “Security among the Refugees and Quality of Life: Case of Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees Living in Camp in Tamil Nadu,” “Practising the ‘Guiding Principles’ for Development’s Displacees: Problems and Prospects,” and “Rethinking ‘Women’ in Forced Displacement.”

Citizenship Studies, vol.15, no. 5 (2011) [contents]
- Special issue on “Boundaries of Belonging: Deportation and the Constitution and Contestation of Citizenship.”

Disasters, Virtual Issue on Famine (Aug. 2011) [full-text]
- This issue “brings together a number of seminal articles on previous famines in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere.” Articles will be available until 24 Nov. 2011.

Disasters, Virtual Issue on Refugees and the Displaced (June 2011) [full-text]
- “To mark the 60th anniversary of the UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, this special issue of Disasters features a selection of the most relevant and original articles about refugee and displacement issues published by the journal over the past 35 years.” Articles will be available until 31 Dec. 2011.

International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 15, no. 7 (2011) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including “Human rights and the rightless: the case of Gaza refugees in Jordan.”

Kakuma News Reflector (Aug. 2011) [full-text]
- Mix of articles in this blog-format news service from Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya.

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, vol. 13 (2010) [contents]
- Mix of articles.

Lisitng produced with thanks to the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog by Elisa Mason : http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/

New Publications Update – Part 1

Beyond Squatters’ Rights: Durable Solutions and Development-induced Displacement in Monrovia, Liberia (Norwegian Refugee Council, May 2011) [text]
- This report also appeared in article form in the Journal of Internal Displacement.

From a Rock to a Hard Place: The Neglected Victims of the Conflict in Libya (MSF, June 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

How the 9/11 Decade Changed the Aid, Security and Development Landscape, ODI Opinions, no. 155 (ODI, Sept. 2011) [text]

Outsourcing Asia’s Refugees (IRIN, Sept. 2011) [text]

Protection of and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons, UN Doc. No. A/66/285 (UN General Assembly, Aug. 2011) [text]

Uprooted and Unrestored: A Comparative Review of Durable Solutions for People Displaced by Conflict in Colombia and Liberia, PDES/2011/09 (UNHCR, Aug. 2011) [text]

Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, New York, 30 August 1961: Introduction (UN Audiovisual Library of International Law, Sept. 2011) [text]
- See also procedural history and list of preparatory documents.

Fleeing Homophobia: Asylum Claims Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Europe (COC Netherlands & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Sept. 2011) [text]

- HT LGBT Asylum News.

“Reform for Refugees,” 10 Ideas for Equal Justice (Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, 2011) [text]
- Scroll to p. 26 of the publication.

Shadows of Return: The Dilemmas of Congolese Refugees in Rwanda, Citizenship and Displacement in the Great Lakes Region, Working Paper, no. 6 (International Refugee Rights Initiative, July 2011) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Statelessness and the European Court of Human Rights: The Kuric Case (Statelessness Programme Blog, Sept. 2011) [text]

9/11 and Humanitarian Assistance: A Disturbing Legacy (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Sept. 2011) [text]

From Persecution to Persecution: LGBTI Refugees in Uganda and Kenya (Human Rights First Blog, Aug. 2011) [text]

Get Up and Go: Refugee Resettlement and Secondary Migration in the USA, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 219 (UNHCR, Sept. 2011) [text]

No Place to Call Home: Repatriation from Germany to Kosovo as Seen and Experienced by Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian Children (UNICEF, Aug. 2011) [text via Refworld]

No Regrets? (Inside Story, Sept. 2011) [text]

Sanctuary in the City? Urban Displacement and Vulnerability in Nairobi (ODI et al., Sept. 2011) [text]

Conflict and its Impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What We Can Learn from Recent IDPs, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 5939 (Institute for the Study of Labor, Aug. 2011) [text]

“EMDR versus Stabilisation in Traumatised Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Results of a Pilot Study,” European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 2 (2011) [open access article]

“‘No God and No Norway’: Collective Resource Loss among Members of Tamil NGO’s in Norway during and after the Last Phase of the Civil War in Sri Lanka,” International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 5: 18 (Aug. 2011) [open access article]

Pakistan: Flood Survivors Still Struggling to Recover (Refugees International, Aug. 2011) [text]

“Trauma and Second Language Learning Among Laotian Refugees,” Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement, vol. 6 (2011) [open access article]

Activity Choices of Internally Displaced Persons and Returnees: Quantitative Survey Evidence from Post-War Northern Uganda, HiCN Working Paper 98 (Households in Conflict Network, August 2011) [text]

Displaced Populations, Humanitarian Assistance and Hosts: A Framework for Analyzing Impacts on Semi-urban Households (Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, May 2011) [text]
The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post-War Germany, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 5855 (Institute for the Study of Labor, July 2011) [text]

The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants’ Economic Situations?, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 5829 (Institute for the Study of Labor, June 2011) [text]

From Persecution to Poverty: The Costs of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program’s Narrow Emphasis on Early Employment (PolicyMatters, July 2011) [text]

Winners and Losers among a Refugee-Hosting Population, Paper presented at 8th Midwest International Economic Development Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 2011 [text]
- Revised version of earlier working paper.

Lisitng produced with thanks to the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog by Elisa Mason : http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/

New Publications Update – Part 2

The Welsh Refugee Council has just produced a research report entitled “Young Lives in Limbo: The Protection of Age Disputed Young People in Wales.” The issue of age assessments of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum has been addressed fairly regularly in the literature recently, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Here are some other references that I have come across:

“Age Determination of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors in the European Union: A Health Law Perspective,” European Journal of Health Law, vol. 18, no. 1 (2011) [abstract]

Age Assessment Practices: A Literature Review & Annotated Bibliography (UNICEF, 2011) [text]

Assessing Age or Assessing Needs: A Literature Review of Age Assessment of Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children (Univ. of Copenhagen, 2010) [text]

“Assessing Chronological Age of Unaccompanied Minors in Southern Italy,” American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology, Advance Access, 30 June 2011 [abstract]

“How Old Are You? Ethical Dilemmas in Working with Age-Disputed Young Asylum Seekers,” Practice, Forthcoming Article, 5 Aug. 2011 [abstract]

Methods for Assessing the Age of Migrant Children Must Be Improved (Human Rights Comment, Aug. 2011) [text]

“A New Approach to Age Assessment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children: Current Practices and Challenges in the UK,” Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 11 (Jan. 2011) [text]

Negotiating Childhood: Age Assessment in the UK Asylum System, Working Paper, no. 67 (RSC, Nov. 2010) [text]

Displacement in Libya: Humanitarian Priorities (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Aug. 2011) [text]

The Implications of the US Anti-Human Trafficking Strategy for National Policies: The Case of Malaysia, NTS Alert (Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, Aug. 2011) [text]

Field Handbook for the Implementation of UNHCR BID Guidelines (UNHCR & IRC, Aug. 2011) [text]
- Serves as a “a complementary source of guidance” to the UNHCR Guidelines for Determining the Best Interests of the Child (2008).

The Legal Dimension of Migration: The Palestinian Case, CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes 2011/28 (Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration, March 2011) [text]

Occupied Palestinian Territory: No End to Internal Displacement (IDMC, July 2011) [text]

Do Natural Disasters Really Lead to Forced Migration? Evidence from Indonesia (SSRN, Aug. 2011) [text]

Homophobia and the Governance of Sexuality in Uganda: The Concomitant Implications for Forced Migration (York University, June 2011) [text via SSRN]

New Zealand’s Refugee Sector: Perspectives and Developments, 1987-2010 (New Zealand Dept. of Labour, 2011) [text]

Recognition and Narrative Identities: The Legal Creation, Alienation and Liberation of the Refugee, ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11-22 (Australian National University, Aug. 2011) [text via SSRN]

Selected Bibliography: Displacement to Urban Areas (UNHCR, updated Aug. 2011) [text]

Sex and Age Matter: Improving Humanitarian Response in Emergencies (Feinstein International Center, Aug. 2011) [text]

Commentaries on the UK Border Agency’s Operational Guidance Notes (Still Human Still Here, 2010-2011) [access]
- Series produced by the Asylum Research Consultancy for the Still Human Still Here coalition; the aim of the commentaries is to “identify inconsistencies and omissions between the available country of origin information and case law and the conclusions reached in the most recent OGN.”

Law School Clinics: A Crucial Resource for Asylum Seekers (Human Rights First Blog, Aug. 2011) [text]

Legal Framework and Standards relating to the Detention of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants: A Guide (International Detention Coaliation, July 2011) [text]

The Recast of the EU Asylum Procedure and Reception Directives (ILGA Europe, July 2011) [text]

Resources Guide for Legal Practitioners Working with Refugee Children (ILPA, May 2011) [access]

Community and Household Surveillance in North Western Tanzania: Programme Outcome Monitoring in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp (UNHCR & WFP, June 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Operational Guidance for Coordinated Assessments in Humanitarian Crises (IASC, Feb. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Provisional version.

Protecting Refugees and Other Persons on the Move in the ECOWAS Space (UNHCR, Jan. 2011) [text]

Rebuilding Livelihoods after Dam-induced Relocation in Koga, Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia, Working Paper, no. 83 (Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Aug. 2011) [text]

Refugees and Asylees in the United States (Migration Information Source, Aug. 2011) [text]

Climate Change and Migration: Rethinking Policies for Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (UNU-EHS & Munich Re, April 2011) [text]
- Includes “Vulnerability and Population Displacements due to Climate-Induced Disasters in Coastal Bangladesh” and “Climate Change and Institutional Change in UNHCR.”

Fear and Loathing in the Asylum System, Part Deux (The Asylumist, Aug. 2011) [text]- Part 1 was included in this post.

Think Protection! A Protection Mainstreaming Tool for Drought, Famine and Displacement in Somalia (Somalia Protection Cluster, Aug. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

United States v. Malenge: Prosecutorial Discretion and the Problem of Non-Self-Executing Treaties in the Adjudication of Criminal Charges Against Asylum Seekers (ExpressO, 2011) [text]

Who Are Refugees? (ExpressO, 2011) [text]

EU Initiatives Supporting the Integration of Third-country Nationals (European Commission, July 2011) [text]

Field Guide to Humanitarian Mapping, 2nd ed. (MapAction, July 2011) [text]

Living Hand to Mouth: Protection Funding and Coordination in South Sudan, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 218 (UNHCR, Aug. 2011) [text]

“Notes from the Field: Mortality Among Refugees Fleeing Somalia – Dadaab Refugee Camps, Kenya, July-August 2011,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, vol. 60, no. 33 (Aug. 2011) [text]

Refugee Roulette, European Style (IntLawGrrls, Aug. 2011) [text]

Uprooted and Unrestored: A Comparative Review of Durable Solutions for People Displaced by Conflict in Colombia and Liberia, PDES/2011/09 (UNHCR, Aug. 2011) [text]

Gender-related Claims for Asylum (Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, July 2011) [text via Refworld]

Good News from Down Under (IntLawGrrls Blog, Sept. 2011) [text]
- Discusses recent High Court decision in Australia which struck down the government’s refugee exchange agreement with Malaysia.
“The Rights of Refugees: What Europe’s Problems Can Teach Canada about a Growing International Concern,” Literary Review of Canada (1 July 2011) [text]

Towards Ratification of the Statelessness Treaties (Lawyers for Human Rights, Aug. 2011) [text]

Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Persons in Forced Displacement (UNHCR, 2011) [text]

Working with Persons with Disabilities in Forced Displacement (UNHCR, 2011) [text]

Corruption and Human Trafficking (Transparency International, 2011) [access via UN.GIFT]

Evaluation of the International Organization for Migration and its Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking (Norad, Feb. 2011) [access]- See links to report and annexes.

The Fight against Trafficking in Selected SEM and EU States (Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration, 2011) [text]
- “This report tries to give an insight into what case law on trafficking and exploitation has told us about implementation of trafficking legislation, focusing especially on the Mediterranean Region.”

Responding to Protection Gaps in Malaysia’s Anti-Human Trafficking Policies, NTS Alert (Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, Aug. 2011) [text]

“Complementary Protection for Victims of Human Trafficking under the European Convention on Human Rights,” Göttingen Journal of International Law, Forthcoming (2011) [abstract]

“Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking within a ‘Non-Refoulement‘ Framework: Is Complementary Protection an Effective Alternative in Canada and Australia?,” International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 23, no. 3 (Oct. 2011) [abstract]

A Study of the Protection Afforded to Persons at Risk of Trafficking by Article 1A(2) of the Geneva Convention Regarding the Status of Refugees (1951) as Amended by the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (1967) (Univ. of Gothenburg, Aug. 2010) [text]
- “considers protection for trafficking victims under the Refugee Convention and concludes that it ‘may sometimes prove more fruitful to claim complementary protection under the European Union Refugee Qualification Directive or Art. 3 European Convention of Human Rights’.”

Can/Will Italy Be Held Accountable for Its ‘Push Back’ Policy in Relation to International Refugee, Human Rights and European Union Law?, Migration Studies Unit Working Paper, no. 12 (LSE, 2011) [access]- Select from list.

ECRE Comments and Recommendations on the Amended Commission Proposal to Recast the Asylum Procedures Directive (COM(2011) 319 final) (ECRE, Sept. 2011) [text]

The EU Legislation Game: The Case of Asylum Law, BETA Working Paper, no. 116 (Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée, Aug. 2011) [text via IDEAS]

Prospects for the Governance of Refugee Protection: Exploring the Effect of an Unbalanced Level of Asylum Recognition Rates amongst European Countries, Migration Studies Unit Working Paper, no. 10 (LSE, 2011) [access]
- Select from list.

Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Following His Visit to Italy from 26 to 27 May 2011 (Council of Europe, Sept. 2011) [text]

Lisitng produced with thanks to the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog by Elisa Mason : http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/

Refugee Archive at UEL Opening Hours for Semester A, 2011

The Refugee Council Archive at UEL will be open during the following staffed hours for Semester A, 2011:

Mondays :      10am – 6pm
Tuesdays:      10am – 7pm
Wednesdays:            10am – 6pm
Thursdays:    1pm – 5pm
Fridays:          9am – 1pm
Sat/Sun:        Closed

if you have any feedback on these then do please let us know as we will be reviewing these times on a regular basis in order to make sure they are as relevant and helpful as possible for our users.

Archive staff can be contact via email on : library-archives @uel.ac.uk.

Refugee Archive Induction – Powerpoint Presentation

Refugee Archive Induction Presentation

For students on the postgraduate MA in Refugee Studies here at the University of East London, I am including a PDF copy here of the Powerpoint Presentation I have created for the Archive Induction session tonight.  I hope you will find this useful?

Archive Induction Powerpoint Presentation – [PDF Download]

Sociology, Politics, Thinking and Acting : A Festschrift for Nira Yuval-Davis

Sociology, Politics, Thinking and Acting : A Festschrift for Nira Yuval-Davis

Organised by :

The Centre for Migration Refugees and Belonging (UEL)
The Centre for Narrative Research (UEL)
The Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS)

26 November 2011, Saturday, SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre

With the launch of Nira’s Latest Book

Nira Yuval-Davis in conversation with Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education

 

Sociology, Politics, Thinking and Acting : A Festschrift for Nira Yuval-Davis

Speakers:

Gender and national reproduction: Floya Anthias, Roehampton University; Nadje Al-Ali, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Intersectionalities: Avtar Brah, Birkbeck College, University of London; Georgie Wemyss, Roehampton University

Transformative pedagogy: A panel discussion with some of Nira’s former postgraduate students: Cass Balchin, Muslim Women’s Network; Samia Bano, Reading

University; Umut Erel, Open University; Marcel Stoetzler, Bangor University; Ulrike Vieten, University of Amsterdam

Women and fundamentalisms: Pragnal Patel, Southall Black Sisters;  Gita Sahgal, Centre for Secular Space

Settler societies: Haim Bresheeth, University of East London;  Avishai Ehrlich, Tel Aviv University

East London, racisms, refugees: Phil Marfleet, University of East London Erene Kaptani, The Open University

RSVPto Mastoureh Fathi at fathi.mastoureh@gmail.com by 10 November 2011

Recent Off-Air Recording Requests

For the week beginnging 02 October, 2011:

Sunday 2 October

 2000-2100: BBC2: (3/3) A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby

 2100-2200: Channel 4: Fighting on the Frontline.

 Monday 3 October

 2100-2200: BBC3: The Truth About Child Brides.

 Friday 7 October

 1930-1955: Channel 4: Unreported World – South Africa: Trouble with the Townships.  Whole Series Requested.

For the week beginnging 25 September, 2011:

Sunday 25 September

2000-2100: BBC2: (2/3) A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby.
VIDEO Plus+: 7941

Monday 26 September

2030-2100: BBC1: Syria: Inside the Secret Revolution – Panorama.  VIDEO
Plus+: 4171

2235-2335: ITV1: Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA.  VIDEO Plus+: 828423

2340/0010: More4: (10/10) Unreported World – Brazil: The Killables.  VIDEO
Plus+: 33993775

Tuesday 27 September

2315-2345: BBC1: What’s the Point of Religion?  VIDEO Plus+: 702553

For the week beginning 18 September, 2011:

Sunday 18 September 

 2000-2100: BBC2: (1/3)  A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby.  VIDEO Plus+: 4895.  Whole Series Requested.

 Monday 19 September

 2000-2100: Channel 4: Gypsy Eviction – The Fight for Dale Farm: Dispatches.   VIDEO Plus+: 9109

2100-2200: BBC3:  My Forced Unwanted Wedding.  VIDEO Plus+: 3496548.

2340-0010: More 4: (9/10) Unreported World - Papua New Guinea: Bush Knives and Black Magic.  VIDEO Plus+: 33157971

 Tuesday 20 September

 2235-2335: BBC1: (1/2) The Bomb Squad.  VIDEO Plus+: 326925

HPN/HPG Events

Escaping the hunger cycle: pathways to resilience in the Sahel

New HPN event – Escaping the hunger cycle: pathways to resilience in the Sahel, 21 October 2011, 13.00 – 14.30 BST (GMT+01), Public event, Overseas Development Institute, London (directions) and screened live online.

Just after World Food Day, this event launches the new report Escaping the Hunger Cycle: Pathways to Resilience in the Sahel, commissioned by the Sahel Working Group. It guides decision makers to strengthen preparedness, early response and rural livelihoods; and emphasise policies on social protection, disaster risk reduction, malnutrition and food price volatility. This important research has already generated considerable interest among the aid community and policy makers in the Sahel. It is based on interviews with over 70 practitioners, researchers, representatives from donors, governments and the UN, as well as field visits in Niger and Chad, and relevant literature and reports.

To register to attend this event in person, or to view the live video stream, please visit the ODI website.

Rules of the range: natural resources management in Kenya–Ethiopia border areas

New HPG Event – Rules of the range: natural resources management in Kenya–Ethiopia border areas, 21 October 2011 13:00-14:30 (GMT+01 (BST)) – Public event, Overseas Development Institute and screened live online

The current crisis in the Horn of Africa is exposing the need to better support the resilience of pastoralist livelihoods in the region. This event launches Rules of the range: Natural resources management in Kenya – Ethiopia border areas, a study which explores institutional issues around rangeland management and mobility in these areas, and the links between institutions and livelihoods resilience.

To register to attend this event in person, or to view the live video stream, please visit the ODI website.

 

RSC Public Seminar Series: Stateless diasporas and forced migration

RSC Public Seminar Series: Stateless diasporas and forced migration

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness,  Refugee Studies Centre in association with the Leverhulme-funded Oxford Diasporas Programme will devote the next RSC Public Seminar Series to explore contemporary statelessness in international and national arenas.

Drawing on a range of disciplinary and institutional perspectives, invited speakers will contribute to the  reconceptualisation of statelessness and assess the effectiveness of current international tools to address the plight of stateless diasporas world-wide.

The seminars, except the Harrell Bond lecture on the 16th November,  will take place on Wednesdays at 4.30pm in Seminar Room Two at the Department of International Development (3 Mansfield Road, Oxford).

The first seminar of the series  on ‘Stateless diasporas and immigration and citizenship regimes’ by Dr Elena Fiddian Qasmiyeh and Dr Nando Sigona (Refugee Studies Centre) will be held on Wednesday 12 October at 4.30pm.

For the full programme please see the attached link – http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/wednesday-seminars. Refreshments will be provided after each seminar.  For further details please contact  rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

‘In Whose Name? Migration, Sex Work and Trafficking’

‘In Whose Name? Migration, Sex Work and Trafficking’

MONDAY 31 OCTOBER 2011, 3pm to 6pm

London Metropolitan University, Libeskind Building, 166-220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB

This seminar will explore the relationship between migration, the sex industry and trafficking in the UK by presenting the findings of the ESRC-funded ‘Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry’, led by Dr Nick Mai, Institute for the Study of European Transformations at London Metropolitan University. The findings will be presented with other recent and relevant research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London-based x-talk project. The presentation will be followed by a screening of Dr Nick Mai’s documentary drawing on his research findings.
More information about the ESRC ‘Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry’ research project is available at:
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/projects/esrc-migrant-workers.cfm

To register for the seminar please email: iset@londonmet.ac.uk
**Please note that, as space is limited, registration will be allocated on a first come basis**

The Festival of Social Science is run by the Economic and Social Research Council and runs from 29 October to 5 November 2011. Events from some of the country’s leading social scientists, the festival celebrates the very best of British Social Science research and how it influences our social, economic and political lives – both now and in the future. This year’s Festival of Social Science has over 130 creative and exciting events aimed at encouraging businesses, charities, government agencies; and schools or college students to discuss, discover and debate topical social science issues. Press releases detailing some of the varied events are available at the Festival website. You can now follow updates from the Festival on twitter using #esrcfestival.
ESRC RES-622-26-367

Updated Resource: Launch of Redesigned Forced Migration Online Website

Forced Migration Online (FMO) is pleased to announce the launch of the
redesigned FMO website at: www.forcedmigration.org

Forced Migration Online is home to a large collection of resources
relating to refugees and forced migration. The website is designed for
use by academics, practitioners, policy makers, the media, or anyone
else interested in the field of forced migration.

What’s New:

* A cleaner, less cluttered interface.
* A more consistent layout and navigation structure.
* Clearer copyright information throughout the site.

We would like to reassure visitors to the site that all the content
available on the old FMO site has been preserved. As far as is possible,
individual page links (URLs) have been maintained, so that bookmarks and
links from external sites should still work.

We hope that the redesign will make it easier for visitors to discover,
download and share resources on forced migration. We would love to hear
any feedback that you might have.

Please email us at: fmo@qeh.ox.ac.uk.

Event: Annual Harrell Bond lecture, 16 November 2011

The Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford is delighted to
announce the forthcoming Annual Harrell-Bond lecture.

Mr Filippo Grandi
Commissioner-General
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

Waiting for solutions in uncertain times: Palestine refugees in the
Middle East context

Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 5pm
Examination Schools, University of Oxford, 75-81 High Street, Oxford OX1 3BG

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception

Further details : http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/2011-harrell-bond

RSVP
Heidi El-Megrisi: International Summer School and Conferences Manager
Erol Canpunar: Outreach Programme Assistant
tel:             01865 281729
email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict: Autumn 2011 Seminar Series

 

 

 

The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict: Autumn 2011 Seminar Series

Further details : http://www.uel.ac.uk/chrc/about/index.htm

 

Human Rights: Ten Years After September 11th: Wednesday 28 September, 3.30 – 5pm (Room 110, Duncan House)
John Strawson, Reader and Interim Director of the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, School of Law and Social Sciences, UEL. Refreshments provided, all welcome. For further information visit www.uel.ac.uk/chrc or contact Johanna Herman on j.herman@uel.ac.uk

Doing justice or meddling in transitions? Universal jurisdiction and Spanish prosecution of crimes committed in Rwanda and DRC: Wednesday 12 October, 3.30 – 5pm (Room 110, Duncan House)
Rosa Ana Fernandez Alija, Lecturer, University of Barcelona. This event is co-hosted by the London Transitional Justice Network. Refreshments provided, all welcome. For further information visit www.uel.ac.uk/chrc or contact Johanna Herman on j.herman@uel.ac.uk

Migrant workers and camel jockeys: a look at exploitation in the Gulf: Wednesday 26 October, 3.30 – 5pm (Room 110, Duncan House)
David Keane, Lecturer, Department of Law, Middlesex University. Refreshments provided, all welcome. For further information visit www.uel.ac.uk/chrc or contact Johanna Herman on j.herman@uel.ac.uk

Gender-based violence in war and the question of accountability: the case of Bosnia: Wednesday 9 November, 3.30 – 5pm (Room 110, Duncan House)
Maja Korac, Reader, School of Law and Social Sciences, and Olga Martin-Ortega, Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, School of Law and Social Sciences (UEL). Chair: Johanna Herman, Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, UEL. For further information visit www.uel.ac.uk/chrc or contact Johanna Herman on j.herman@uel.ac.uk

The Human-Rights Compliance of UK Anti-Terrorism Legislation in the Light of Domestic and International Case Law: Wednesday 23 November, 3.30 – 5pm (Room 110, Duncan House)
Carmen Draghici, Lecturer, School of Law, City University. For further information visit www.uel.ac.uk/chrc or contact Johanna Herman on j.herman@uel.ac.uk

New Journal Volumes

Conflict and Health (Sept. 2011) [open access articles]

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 51 (July 2011) [full-text]

- Theme is “Humanitarian Action in the Middle East.” Includes an article on Iraqi refugees.

International Migration Review, vol. 45, no. 3 (Fall 2011) [contents]

- Mix of articles. Includes review of Palestinians in Lebanon: Refugees Living with Long-Term Displacement (I.B. Tauris, Sept. 2010).

Refugee Watch Online (Sept. 2011) [full-text]
- Includes reports on “The Implementation of Urban Refugee Policy in Delhi” and “Conditions of IDP Settlements in Andhra Pradesh and Chattisgarh.”

APRRN Updates (Sept. 2011) [full-text]
- Newsletter of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN).

Goettingen Journal of International Law, vol. 3, no. 2 (2011) [open access full-text]
- Mix of articles, including “Refugees on the High Seas: International Refugee Law Solutions to a Law of the Sea Problem,” “Rights at the Frontier: Border Control and Human Rights Protection of Irregular International Migrants,” and “Complementary Protection for Victims of Human Trafficking under the European Convention on Human Rights.”

International Migration, vol. 49, no. 5 (Oct. 2011) [contents]

- Includes special feature on “Irregular Migration from a European Perspective.” Also included is “Return of Separated Children: The Impact of Dutch Policies.”

International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 92, no. 880 (Dec. 2010) [full-text]

- Now available in full-text. The theme of this issue is “Conflict in Afghanistan: Part I.”

International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 93, no. 881 (March 2011) [full-text]

- Part II of “Conflict in Afghanistan,” also in full-text.

Mobilities, vol. 6, no. 3 (2011) [contents]

Information sourced from the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog, (http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

New Publications 2

Resource information compiled from the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/

Border Control: The Unanswered Calls (openDemocracy, Sept. 2011) [text]

How to Protect ‘Invisible’ People (openDemocracy, Sept. 2011) [text]

Populations at Risk of Disaster: A Resettlement Guide (GFDRR & World Bank, 2011) [text]- See also companion report.

Stolen Lives: Human Trafficking from Palaung Area of Burma to China (Palaung Women’s Organization, 2011) [text via Human Security Gateway]

(updated)
“African Refugees and the Challenges to UNHCR,” Chapter in The African State in a Changing Global Context: Breakdowns and Transformations (LIT Verlag, 2011) [Google preview] [info]

African Refugees and Immigrants 60 years after the Refugee Convention: Challenges and Opportunities, Washington, DC, 2-4 May 2011 [conf. summary]

African Refugees in the Amazon (IPS, Sept. 2011) [text]

Mixed Responses to Mixed Migration in Africa (IRIN, Sept. 2011) [text]

Protecting Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants in South Africa during 2010 (CoRMSA, April 2011) [text]

Somalia: A Humanitarian and Human Rights Catastrophe (Amnesty International, Sept. 2011) [text]

Somalia and the International Status Quo in Refugee Management (MSF CRASH, Sept. 2011) [text]

Stateless in Zimbabwe, the Only Country They’ve Ever Called Home (Statelessness Programme Blog, Sept. 2011) [text]

Yemen: 2011 Humanitarian Response Plan (OCHA, Dec. 2010) [text via Refworld]

The Different National Practices concerning Granting of non-EU Harmonised Protection Statuses: Synthesis Report (European Migration Network, Dec. 2010) [access]- See also annexes and individual country reports.

Implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and its Impact on EU Home Affairs Agencies: Frontex, Europol and the European Asylum Support Office (European Parliament, Sept. 2011) [text via Migrants at Sea]

Refugees at the Border: Country Reports on Activities Related to the Access to the Territory and Asylum Procedure for Persons in Need of International Protection (UNHCR Central Europe, Nov. 2010) [text]

Serbia as a Safe Third Country: A Wrong Presumption (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Sept. 2011) [text]

They Can’t Send Me Back: Uyghur Asylum Seekers in Europe (Uyghur Human Rights Project, Sept. 2011) [text]

Information sourced from the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog, (http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

New Publications Part 3

Resource information compiled from the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/

Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming Forward Plan 2011‐2016 (UNHCR, Sept. 2011) [text]

- See also related AGDM documents.

Draft Report of the 51st Meeting of the Standing Committee (21-23 June 2011) (EXCOM Standing Committee, Sept. 2011) [text]

- See other documents from the 52nd meeting, which took place 20-21 September 2011.

The HESPER: WHO’s Measurement Answer to the Problem of Identifying Needs within Displaced Populations (Andrew Rasmussen’s Blog, Sept. 2011) [text]

World Disasters Report (IFRC, Sept. 2011) [access]

- This year’s focus is “Hunger and Malnutrition.”

Casamance Refugees in The Gambia: Self-settlement and the Challenges of Integration, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 220 (UNHCR, Sept. 2011) [text]

Mind the Gap: Refugees and Communications Technology Literacy (Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, Sept. 2011) [text via BroCap]

Rwanda’s Ingando Camps: Liminality and the Reproduction of Power, Working Paper, no. 80 (RSC, Sept. 2011) [text]

Sanctuary and Solidarity: Urban Community Responses to Refugees and Asylum Seekers on Three Continents, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 221 (UNHCR, Sept. 2011) [text]

“Unequal in Exile: Gender Equality, Sexual Identity and Refugee Status,” Amsterdam Law Forum, vol. 3, no. 2 (2011) [text via SSRN]

Lampedusa and Beyond: Recognition, Implementation and Justiciability of Stateless Persons’ Rights under International Law, IGLP Working Paper, no. 5 (Institute for Global Law and Policy, 2011) [text]

New Publications Part 4

Resource information compiled from the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/

Aid Worker Security Report 2011 (Humanitarian Outcomes, Aug. 2011) [text]

“Building a Newcomer School for Refugees with the Community in Mind,” Education in a Democracy: A Journal of the NNER, vol. 3 (Oct. 2011) [full-text]

The EU’s Dirty Hands: Frontex Involvement in Ill-Treatment of Migrant Detainees in Greece (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2011) [text]

Europe, Now Is Your Time to Act: Refugees Forced out of Libya Urgently Need Resettlement (Amnesty International, Sept. 2011) [text]
- See also related news report and slideshow.

From North Africa to Italy: Seeking Refuge, Finding Suffering (MSF, May 2011) [text]

Quagmire and Cooperation: IOM and UNHCR Action in the Arab Spring (Programme for the Study of Global Migration, June 2011) [text]

Recent Arrivals of Migrants and Asylum Seekers by Sea to Italy: Problems and Reactions, ARI Working Paper, no. 75 (Real Instituto Elcano, April 2011) [text]

The Situation of Migrants and Asylum-seekers Fleeing Recent Events in North Africa, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/18/54 (UN Human Rights Council, Sept. 2011) [text via Refworld]

Trapped in Transit: The Neglected Victims of the War in Libya (MSF, June 2011) [text]

Human Trafficking in Western Europe: A Comparative Public Opinion Study of Fifteen Nations (SSRN, Aug. 2011) [text]

The web page for UNHCR’s Policy Development and Evaluation Section (PDES) now offers access to a collection of “UNHCR policy statements on key global and thematic issues.”

A few other compilations/compendia recently made available include:

International Legal Frameworks for Humanitarian Advocacy: Compendium (UN, 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Legal Framework and Standards relating to the Detention of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants: A Guide [text]

Resources on Complementary Protection (Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law) [access]

Thematic Compilation of Executive Committee Conclusions, 6th ed. (UNHCR, June 2011) [text]

Latest Publications

The Long Reach of the Mukhabaraat  is a new report by Amnesty International (AI Index: PRE01/496/2011).  Published on 4 October 2011, this report :

“includes cases of more than 30 activists in eight countries – Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA – who say that they have faced intimidation from embassy officials and others and that their relatives in Syria have as a result, in some cases, apparently   been exposed to harassment, detention and even torture.”

[Download Report]
(Source: Amnesty International – https://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/syria-campaign-silence-protesters-overseas-revealed-2011-10-04).

A new Policy Brief from DIIS by Nauja Kleist, “Europe Fighting Irregular Migration – Consequences of European non-entry policies for West African Mobility.”Abstract: “In collaboration with African countries, the EU is fighting irregular migration to Europe through border control and deportations. However, rather than halting irregular migration, such policies reconfigure mobility flows and make migration routes more dangerous and difficult. The phenomenon of migrants and asylum-seekers crossing the Mediterranean in boats to reach Europe is just one example of this phenomenon.
[Download Report]
(Source : Migrants at Sea blog – http://migrantsatsea.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/diis-policy-brief-europe-fighting-irregular-migration-consequences-of-european-non-entry-policies-for-west-african-mobility/)

The Frontex Risk Analysis Unit (RAU) released its 2^nd Quarter Report (April-June) for 2011 on 4 October.  The 1^st Quarter Report (Jan-March 2011) was released on 21 July.
Frontex Website : http://www.frontex.europa.eu/
(Source : Migrants at Sea blog – http://migrantsatsea.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/frontex-quarterly-reports-for-2011-q1-and-q2/).

Asylum and the ‘Forced Marriage’ Paradox: Petitions, Translation, and Courts as Institutional Perpetrators of Gender Violence (SSRN, Sept. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Boosting Regional Settlement of Migrants and Refugees in Australia: Policy Initiatives and Challenges, Paper presented at the Australian Political Science Association Conference, Canberra, 26-28 Sept. 2011 [text]

Kidnapping, Hostage-Taking and Ransoming of Eritrean Asylum Seekers in the Sinai Desert (Release Eritrea, March 2011; posted Sept. 2011) [text via SSRN]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UNHCR Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2012 (UNHCR, July 2011) [text]- See also related post.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

New Publications 1

The Climate Diaspora: Indo-Pacific Emigration from Small Island Developing States, Thesis submitted to the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies (Univ. of Massachusetts, May 2011) [text via SSRN]
- One section “examines the unique possibility of climate-induced statelessness.”
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

International Law and Climate Migrants: A Human Rights Perspective, Sustainable Development Law on Climate Change Legal Working Paper Series (International Development Law Organization, March 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

The Climate Diaspora: Indo-Pacific Emigration from Small Island Developing States, Thesis submitted to the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies (Univ. of Massachusetts, May 2011) [text via SSRN]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).The Development of the Common European Asylum System and the Greek Example, Thesis submitted to the International Law Faculty (Tilburg University, August 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Dream of the Hanging Gardens: Male Iraqi Refugees and Exiles in Jordan, their Migration and Adaptation Experiences, Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies (University of British Columbia, August 2011) [text]

Finding a Home: The Housing Experiences of Government Assisted Refugees and Refugee Claimants in Winnipeg and Vancouver, Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies (University of British Columbia, September 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Greek Aid: Inside and Outside the Borders – An Overview of External Humanitarian/Developmental Policy and Internal Policy towards Refugees and Asylum Seekers of Greece, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts (University of Groningen, September 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Problems of Integration of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Serbia, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science (Palacký University, August 2010) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

New Publication 2

 Aid Delivery in Yemen Becoming Ever More Complex (IRIN News, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)Inquiry into the Agreement between Australia and Malaysia on the Transfer of Asylum Seekers to Malaysia (Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law et al., Sept. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

“Iraqi Refugees: Still There,” Chapter in A Global Agenda: Issues Before the United Nations 2011-2012 (United Nations Association of the USA, 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Report on the Visit to Lampedusa (Italy) (23-24 May 2011) (PACE Ad Hoc Sub-Committee on the Large-scale Arrival of Irregular Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees on Europe’s Southern Shores, Sept. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Security Council, Internal Displacement and Protection: Recommendations for Strengthening Action through Resolutions (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Sept. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Trafficking in Workers: The Human Rights Paradigm to Trafficking in Persons and the Challenge of Labor Rights (ExpressO, 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

A Commentary on the April 2011 Zimbabwe Operational Guidance Note (ARC & Still Human, Still Here, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)Coping with the Refugee Implications and International Obligations as a Result of the New South Sudan (Human Rights Brief, March 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Europe Fighting Irregular Migration – Consequences for West African Mobility, DIIS Policy Brief (Danish Inst. for International Studies, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The European Union Evades its Obligations to Refugees Fleeing Libya (Human Rights Brief, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Internal Displacement in Colombia and Beyond: An International Framework for Protection and Assistance (U.S. Dept. of State, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Yemen: New displacement due to unrest, displacement due to Sa’ada conflict continues.  A new IDMC report:

In the wave of civil protests which have swept across the Middle East and North Africa, political instability and increasing violence involving the Yemeni government, protestors, rival tribal militias and militants have led to new waves of displacement in southern, central and northern areas of the country.

[Download the Report]

(Source: IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/).

Report on an unannounced short follow-up inspection of Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre (16 – 18 May 2011) by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons
[Download the Report]
(Source: HM Inspectorate of Prisons – http://www.justice.gov.uk/).

New Periodicals Published

“Post-Election Crisis in Kenya and Internally Displaced Persons: A Critical Appraisal,” Journal of Politics and Law, vol. 4, no. 2 (Sept. 2011) [open access text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Child Abuse Review, vol. 20, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 2011) [free full-text]
- Special themed issue on “Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children.”
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 19 (Oct. 2011) [full-text] [blog]
- Includes a special focus on the cessation clause for Rwandan refugees.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 1, no. 2 (Oct. 2011) [full-text]

- Includes mix of articles on destitution, Liberian refugees in Ghana, asylum in Hong Kong, land restitution in Colombia, children, refoulement in Russia, IDPs in Darfur, HIV-positive forced migrants, North Korean refugee youth, smuggling, among others.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees, vol. 27, no. 1 (2010) [full-text]
- First issue under new editor, Michael Barutciski; includes mix of articles on East Africa, integration, HIV-positive refugees, climate change, reforming the Canadian RSD system, among others.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Off Air Recording Requests : WB 08/10/2011

The following off-air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Archive for the week beginning Saturday 08 October, 2011:

Saturday 8 December:

2145-2315:  BBC2: Mixed Race Britain L: How the World Got Mixed Up.  VIDEO Plus+: 204514**
** Missed recording – will be requested from TRILT – http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/trilt/

Monday 10^th October

2030-2100: BBC1:  BNP: The Fraud Exposed – Panorama.  VIDEO Plus+: 3229

2340-0010: More 4: (2/10): Unreported World - Philippines: Holy Warriors.  VIDEO Plus+: 59583774.  Whole Series Requested.

Tuesday 11^th October

2200-0010: More 4: True Stories : Kissenger.  VIDEO Plus+: 80353985

Thursday 13^th October

2100-2200: BBC2: (2/3) Mixed Britannia.  VIDEO Plus+: 4416

Friday 14^th October

1930-1955: Channel 4: (2/10): Unreported World – Undercover Syria.  VIDEO Plus+: 112066

Newly Published Research Reports

Students Under Watch report

Students under Watch: Visa checks and the rise of surveillance in UK universities.  A new report has been published by the Manifesto Club looking at the impacts of the visa system on the students and staff working in Higher Education.
Download the report (PDF)
(Source: Migrant’s Rights Network : http://bit.ly/qC9aEM and see also : Media misses the point, again: Student Visa Checks

Flowers that grow from Concrete: How support services determine a young refugee’s life opportunities.  A summary of the Praxis project “Brighter Futures London” which concluded with their exhibition “Flowers that grow from concrete” on 28th September at City Hall.
Donwload the report (PDF)
(Source: Migrant’s Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/brighter-futures-social-worker-award-launch-and-exhibition

The Canada-Czech Republic Visa Dispute Two Years On: Implications for the EU’s Migration and Asylum Policies, CEPS Paper in Liberty and Security in Europe (Centre for European Policy Studies, Oct. 2011) [text via Archive of European Integration]
- Note: Here is a list of earlier CEPS working papers.

The Europeanization of Asylum Policy: An Assessment of the EU Impact on Asylum Applications and Recognitions Rates (Institute of Public Administration, Sept. 2011) [text]

Report of the Joint Mission UNHCR-WFP for the Revision and Re-evaluation of the Relief and Recovery Operation in Favor of Colombian Refugees in Ecuador (UNHCR & WFP, Oct. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Towards Durable Solutions for Displaced Ivoirians (CARE, DRC & Oxfam, Oct. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Transnational Philanthropy: Somali Youth in Canada and Kenya, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 222 (UNHCR, Oct. 2011) [text]

Iraq: Response still centred on return despite increasing IDP demands for local integration.  A new IDMC report.
Read the Overview (html / pdf)
Full Internal Displacement Profile
Iraq country page
(Source :  IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/).

FMR38 and Latest Reports on Haslar, Statelessness, etc

The latest edition of Forced Migration Review has just been published.  This is issue number 38 and entitled, “The Technology Issue.”  Full details, along with acess to back issues, are available here.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

New HM Inspectorate of Prisons report on Hasler Immigration Detention Centre:
Report on an unannounced short follow-up inspection of Haslar Immigration Removal Centre (31 May – 3 June 2011) by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (PDF 0.15mb)
This has been reported by the Refugee Council – Vulnerable detainees at risk at Portsmouth removal centre ; and The Portsmouth News – Haslar failing its most vulnerable inmates – report

Promoting integration through English & multiculturalism: Australia & Canada compared to the UK

http://www.mipex.eu/blog/unlike-uk-australia-canada-promote-english-and-multiculturalism-too

New report from the Migration Integration Policy Index (MIPEX).

 “Today, Australia, Canada, and the UK benefit from policies that slightly encourage legal residents to put down permanent roots in their community, become full citizens, and fight discrimination. Before they can naturalise, most will have weak political rights in the three countries, especially compared to Ireland or other Northern European countries. During this time, many temporary workers in the UK and Australia will also have to live without the equal job support and flexibility that everyone enjoys in Canada. “

(Source : Network E-bulletin – https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=NETWORKEBULLETIN).

Feinstein International Center Annual Report : July 2010 to June 2011.
[Download Report]
(Source : Feinstein Internation Center – https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/FIC/Annual+Report+2010-2011).

 

Off Air Recording Requests : WB17/10/2011

The following off-air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Council Archive for the week beginning Monday 17 October, 2011.  The details are as follows :

Monday 17 October

2235-2335: ITV1: Exposure: The World’s Deadliest Arms Race. VIDEO Plus+: 171185

2340-0005: More 4: (3/10) Unreported World - Peru: Blood and Oil.  VIDEO Plus+: 59085182

0000-0100: Channel 4: (1/3)  Fighting on the Frontline.  VIDEO Plus+: 99708.  Whole Series Please.  (Tuesday 18 October).

0005-0125:  BBC1: Bigga than Ben: a Guide to Ripping Off London.  VIDEO Plus+: 7761857  (Tuesday 18 October).

 Tuesday 18 October

2100-2200: BBC2 : This World: Spain’s Stolen Babies.  VIDEO Plus+: 3925.

 Wednesday 19 October

2100-2200 : BBC1: Britain’s Child Beggars – Panorama.  VIDEO Plus+: 6258

 Thursday 20 October

2100-2200: BBC2 : (3/3) Mixed Britannia.  VIDEO Plus+: 9117

 Friday 21 October

1930-1955: Channel 4: (3/10) Unreported World - Uganda’s Miracle Babies.  VIDEO Plus+: 761150

New Reports from the UN Special Rapporteurs

A recent posting on the UN Pulse blog provides details of several newly published reports from the United Nations Special Rapporteurs ahead of the 66th session meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.  Special Rapporteurs are independen of governments and are appointed directly by the UN Secretary with individual mandates to investigate and report back to the UN on human rights issues relating to a specific country or theme, (for example, arbitarary detention, internal displacement, torture, etc).

Details of the reports published can be found here:

• Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (A/66/254).
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (A/66/255).
• Interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (A/66/268).
• Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons (A/66/285).
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples (A/66/288).
• Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers (A/66/289).
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (A/66/290).

(Copyright: United Nations).  the UN Pulse blog posting in full can also be found here :  Special Rapporteurs Reports.

New Periodicals and Reports Published

Environment and Urbanization, vol. 23, no. 2 (Oct. 2011) [contents]
- Focus is on “Community-Driven Disaster Risk Reduction.”
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Global Public Health, vol. 6, no. 5 (2011) [contents]
- Special issue on “Violent Conflict and Population Health in the Middle East.” Includes “Conflict, displacement and health in the Middle East” and “Predictors of displacement behaviour during the 2006 Lebanon war.”
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Torture: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, vol. 21, no. 3 (2011) [full-text]
- Mix of articles, including “Comparison of two methods of inquiry for torture with East African refugees: Single query versus checklist.”
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Thinking Behind the Numbers : Understanding Public Opinion on Immigration in Britain.  A new report by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford.
[Download Report]
(Source : The Refugee Council – http://bit.ly/qmHOJN).

Forced labour and UK immigration policy: status matters?  A new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
[Download the Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – http://bit.ly/qhbvZg).

Barriers to Support Appeals for Asylum-Seeking Women.  A research report undertaken by the Asylum Support Appeals Project, (ASAP).
[Download Report]
(Source : Migrant’s Rights Network – http://bit.ly/okMs9c).

Refugee Council 60th Anniversary Seminar Series in partnership with the The Refugee Law Initiative, University of London

News from the Refugee Council:

Dear Colleagues,

Refugee Council

The Refugee Council is delighted to announce a series of six seminars presented in partnership with The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the Human Rights Consortium of the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

This seminar series ‘New Challenges in Refugee Integration’ continues our 60th Anniversary celebrations by bringing together leading academics in the field of refugee integration.

The first seminar, presented by Professor Loren B Landau from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) will examine Authority and inclusion: reconsidering the meaning of integration in a fragmented age.  The seminar will be chaired by Refugee Council Chief Executive Donna Covey.

Date: 26th October, 2011
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: Chancellors Hall, Senate House, London 

Admission free – All welcome. Please email to reserve your place. RLI@sas.ac.uk

The remaining seminars are as follows:

30 November 2011, 5.30pm | Refugee-centred versus State-centred approaches to integration: processes, practices and narratives.  Dr Maja Korac-Sanderson, University of East London.  Chair: Dhananjayan Sriskandarjah, Director, Royal Commonwealth Society

14 December 2011, 5.30pm | Employment: integration, exclusion and human rights. Professor Alice Bloch, City University London. Chair: Sir John Ashworth, President, Council for assisting refugee academics (CARA)

26 January 2012, 5.30pm | Changing identities, declining protection: the securitisation of asylum and refugee policy in Europe. Professor Roger Zetter, University of Oxford. Chair: Medhi Hasan, Senior Editor (Politics), the New Statesman

23 February 2012, 5.30pm |Integration: global perspectives on the transition from being apart to being a part (of something). Professor Alastair Kenneth Ager, Columbia University (USA). Chair: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Journalist and Author

15 March 2012, 5.00pm | Open debate with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. Chair: Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cambridge

For more details on the series go to http://www.sas.ac.uk/rli.html or email RLI@sas.ac.uk to reserve your place

Publication: UNHCR: Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries,First Half 2011

The latest UNHCR statistics publication has just been published.  Further details and a link can be found in the press release below which was circulated to me by email today:

UNHCR: Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries,First Half 2011

This is to inform you that the following report has been published
today and is available from the UNHCR statistics website at
www.unhcr.org/statistics .

- Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, First Half
2011

Key findings
A.  An estimated 198,300 asylum applications were recorded during the
first six months of 2011 in the 44 industrialized countries included in
the report. This is 17 per cent more than during the  same period 2010
(169,300), and is nearly identical to the number of applications
recorded  during the second half of 2010 (197,600).

B. As application rates normally peak during the second half of the
year, UNHCR projects that 2011 may see 420,000 applications by year’s
end – the highest total in eight years.

C. 2011 has so far seen major forced displacement crises in West,
North, and East Africa. The report finds related increases in asylum
claims among Tunisians, Ivorians, and Libyans (4,600, 3,300 and 2,000
claims respectively) but overall, the impact of these events on
application rates in industrialized countries has been limited.

D. Taking the 44 countries surveyed in the report as a whole, the main
countries of origin of asylum-seekers remained largely unchanged from
previous reports: Afghanistan (15,300 claims), China (11,700 claims),
Serbia [and Kosovo: SC Res. 1244] (10,300 claims), Iraq (10,100 claims),
and the Islamic Republic of Iran (7,600 claims).

E.  By country, the United States of America had more claims (36,400)
than any other industrialized nation, followed by France (26,100),
Germany (20,100), Sweden (12,600), and the United Kingdom (12,200).

F. The Nordic region was the only part of Europe to see a fall in
asylum applications. The largest relative increase was registered in
southern Europe which received 25,100 asylum requests during the first
semester of 2011: a 57 per cent increase compared to the first six
months of 2010 (16,000 claims).

The report itself in PDF format can be downloaded here : Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries,First Half 2011

Event: Gender, Migration and Religion Symposium

GENDER, MIGRATION AND RELIGION
Friday 4 November 2011
Social Policy Research Centre,
Middlesex University
Hendon Campus, London

This symposium brings together leading scholars in the field who will share
their experiences of researching different faith groups and communities.
Through the lens of gender and migration, this event provides the opportunity to analyse comparisons and contrasts across these diverse communities – including Jewish, Muslim, Jainist, Hindu and Christian.
This comparative approach is particularly innovative given that most research tends to focus on a single religious group.

The symposium is free to attend but places must be booked by 14th October.

Please click here for further information about the conference and booking details:

http://gendermigrationreligion.blogspot.com/

The symposium is organised by Dr. Louise Ryan, Dr. Elena Vacchelli and
Clare Choak, Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University, London.

Event : Sociology, Politics, Thinking and Acting : A Festschrift for Nira Yuval-Davis

Sociology, Politics, Thinking and Acting : A Festschrift for Nira Yuval-Davis

Organised by :

The Centre for Migration Refugees and Belonging (UEL)
The Centre for Narrative Research (UEL)
The Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS)

26 November 2011, Saturday, SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre

With the launch of Nira’s Latest Book

Nira Yuval-Davis in conversation with Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education

Speakers:

Gender and national reproduction: Floya Anthias, Roehampton University; Nadje Al-Ali, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Intersectionalities: Avtar Brah, Birkbeck College, University of London; Georgie Wemyss, Roehampton University

Transformative pedagogy: A panel discussion with some of Nira’s former postgraduate students: Cass Balchin, Muslim Women’s Network; Samia Bano, Reading

University; Umut Erel, Open University; Marcel Stoetzler, Bangor University; Ulrike Vieten, University of Amsterdam

Women and fundamentalisms: Pragnal Patel, Southall Black Sisters;  Gita Sahgal, Centre for Secular Space

Settler societies: Haim Bresheeth, University of East London;  Avishai Ehrlich, Tel Aviv University

East London, racisms, refugees: Phil Marfleet, University of East London Erene Kaptani, The Open University

RSVPto Mastoureh Fathi at fathi.mastoureh@gmail.com by 10 November 2011

Recent Off Air Recording Requests

The following off-air recording requests have recently been made for the Refugee Archive at UEL.

For the week beginning Monday, 31 October :

Monday 31^st October

 2330-0000: More 4: (4/10): Unreported World : Libreria – Stiolen Childhood.  VIDEO Plus+: 70217141

 Tuesday 1 November

 2200-0005: More 4 : The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Afghanistan.  VIDEO Plus+: 33648888

2315-0015: BBC4 : Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children – Update.  VIDEO Plus+: 1992604

 Wednesday 2 November

 2100-2200: BBC2: (2/2) Secret Pakistan.  VIDEO Plus+: 6227

Friday 4 November

1930-1955: Channel 4: (5/10): Unreported World - Russia: Vlad’s Army.  VIDEO Plus+: 461384

For the week beginning Monday, 24 October :

Monday 24 October

2100-2200:  BBC3:  Young, Foreign and Over Here.  VIDEO Plus+: 1580908

2340-0005: More 4: (3/10) Unreported World - Peru: Blood and Oil.  VIDEO Plus+: 59085182

 Wednesday 26 October

 2100-2200: BBC2: (1/2) Secret Pakistan.  VIDEO Plus+: 1171.  Whole Series Please – One Disc.

 Thursday 27 October

2100-2200: BBC2: The Future State of Welfare with John Humphrys.  VIDEO Plus+: 3992

Friday 28 October

1930-1955: Channel 4: (4/10) Unreported World - Nigeria’s Millionaire Preachers.  VIDEO Plus+: 507190.

New Issues of IJRL, RSQ, Environ. & Urbanization, Global Public Health, Torture

International Journal of Refugee Law

International Journal of Refugee Law,Volume 23 Issue 3 October 2011
- [table of contents]

Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 30 Number 3, (September 2011).
- [table of contents]

Environment and Urbanization, vol. 23, no. 2 (Oct. 2011) [contents]
- Focus is on “Community-Driven Disaster Risk Reduction.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Global Public Health, vol. 6, no. 5 (2011) [contents]
- Special issue on “Violent Conflict and Population Health in the Middle East.” Includes “Conflict, displacement and health in the Middle East” and “Predictors of displacement behaviour during the 2006 Lebanon war.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Torture: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, vol. 21, no. 3 (2011) [full-text]
- Mix of articles, including “Comparison of two methods of inquiry for torture with East African refugees: Single query versus checklist.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Update – Newly Published Research and Reports 1

European Journal of Migration and Law, Volume 13 Number 3, (2011).  [Table of Contents].

Armed Conflicts Report 2011 (Project Ploughshares, 2011) [access]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Counter-terrorism and Humanitarian Action, HPG Policy Brief, no. 43 (ODI, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Humanitarian Action in Drought-related Emergencies (ALNAP, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

“Informal Plurilateralism: The Impossibility of Multilateralism in the Steering of Migration,” British Journal of Politics & International Relations, vol. 13, no. 1 (Feb. 2011) [free full-text]
- This article uses the Intergovernmental Consultations on Asylum, Refugee and Migration Policies in Europe, North America and Australia (IGC) as a case study “to show how informal plurilateralism has crept into policy-making in international fora on migration.”
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Migration Trends and Patterns in Jordan: The Human Rights Context (Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The 50th Anniversary of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness: What Progress? (Chatham House, July 2011) [text]- Summary of a meeting held to commemorate the statelessness convention.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

CEDAW Statement on the Anniversaries of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 50th Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (19 Oct. 2011) [text via Refworld]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Update – Newly Published Research and Reports 2

EU Immigration Policies are Inconsistent and Overly Restrictive (IP-Global, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

“How Can Civil Society Contribute to the Lawfulness of the Treatment of Illegal Migrants and Asylum Seekers?”, Chapter in Collection of Policy Papers on Police Reform in Serbia, no. 5 (Belgrade Center for Human Rights & Belgrade Center for Security Policy, July 2011) [text]
- Scroll down to p. 21.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Permanent Crises? Unlocking the Protracted Displacement of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (RSC et al., Oct. 2011) [text]
- See also related case studies.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Placing Shibboleths at the Institutional Gate: LADO Tests and the Construction of Asylum Seekers’ Identities, Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies, no. 8 (Tilburg University, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Reconsidering West African Migration: Changing Focus from European Immigration to Intra-regional Flows, DIIS Working Paper, no. 21 (Danish Institute of International Studies, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Humanitarian Emergency Response to the Libyan Crisis: Seven-month Report on IOM’s Response, 28 Feb – 27 Sep 2011 (IOM, Oct. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

DNA Tests: A Barrier to Speedy Family Reunification (Canadian Council for Refugees, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Immigration Detention in Switzerland: A Global Detention Project Special Report (Global Detention Project, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Precarious Housing & Hidden Homelessness Among Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Immigrants: Bibliography and Review of Canadian Literature from 2005 to 2010, CERIS Working Paper No. 84 (CERIS, Aug. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Shared Responsibility in a New Egypt: A Strategy for Refugee Protection (Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, Sept. 2011) [text]

Migration Trends and Patterns in Jordan: The Human Rights Context (Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Response Still Centred on Return Despite Increasing IDP Demands for Local Integration (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Statistical Report on UNHCR Registered Iraqis and Non-Iraqis: Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and the GCC Countries (UNHCR, Sept. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Unlocking Protracted Displacement: An Iraqi Case Study, Working Paper, no. 78 (RSC et al., Aug. 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UNHCR has released the companion to its annual Global Trends publication. The report, Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries: Statistical Overview of Asylum Applications Lodged in Europe and Selected non-European Countries.
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Fiona MacTaggart MP and Matthew Lawrence have released a new report entitled, ‘Service not servitude: protecting the rights of domestic workers’
(Source : Migrants’ Rights Watch – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/publication-service-not-servitude-protecting-rights-domestic-workers

Migrants in an irregular situation: access to healthcare in 10 European Union Member States.  A new report by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) 
[Download Full Report]
(Source Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/access-healthcare-vulnerable-migrants-gives-concern-10-eu-countries-and-uk)

Temporary and Circular Migration: empirical evidence, current policy practice and future options in EU Member States.  A new report by the European Migration Network.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2011/new-study-looks-circular-and-temporary-migration-policies-eu)

Off Air Recordings : WB 07 November 2011

The following off-air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Council Archive for the week beginning Monday, 7 November 2011.  Details are as follows:

Monday 7 November

 2100-2200: BBC4: Shankill Butchers.  VIDEO Plus+: 7358026

2230-2335: Channel 4 : Britain’s Sex Gangs.  VIDEO Plus+: 8322129

2335-0005: More 4: (5/10) Unreported World - Guatemala: Riding with the Devil.  VIDEO Plus+: 99191281

Tuesday 8 November

2000-2100: Channel 5: (1/5) London : The Inside Story.  VIDEO Plus+: 6842663.  Whole Series Please.

 Thursday 10 November

1930-2000: ITV1: Life After the Riots: Tonight.  VIDEO Plus+: 869.

 Friday 11 November

1930-1955: Channel 4: (6/10): Unreported World - Going for Gold in Gaza.  VIDEO Plus+: 311053

Off Air recording Requests : WB Monday 14 November, 2011

Off air recording requests for the week beginning Monday 14 November are as follows:

Monday 14 November

 2030-2100: BBC1: Inside the Riots – Panorama.  VIDEO Plus+: 7207

2100-2200: BBC3 : Mixed Up in the Middle East.  VIDEO Plus+: 4925675

2235-0005: More 4: (6/10)  Unreported World – Greece: the Unwanted.  VIDEO Plus+: 99937085

 Tuesday 15 November

 2000-2100: Channel 5: (2/6) London: The Inside Story.  VIDEO Plus+: 6688467

2200-0000: More 4 : True Stories – To Hell and Back Again.  VIDEO Plus+: 68443134

 Friday 18 November

 1930-1955: Channel 4: (7/10)  Unreported World – India’s Child Savers.  VIDEO Plus+: 841586

New Reports and Publications

Manual on International Criminal Defence ADC-ICTY Developed Practices.
A new manual developed by the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).
[Download Manual]
(Source : Launch of International Criminal Defence Manual)

Syria: State policies and military actions continue to threaten further displacement
IDMC.
Read the Overview (html / pdf)
Syria country page
(Source: IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Libya: Many IDPs return but concerns persist for certain displaced groups.
IDMC.
Read the Overview (html / pdf)
Libya country page
(Source: IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

The New Face of Digital Populism
A new Report by Demos, written by Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell, and Mark Littler.

The New Face of Digital Populism calls on mainstream politicians to respond and address concerns over immigration and cultural identity without succumbing to xenophobic solutions. People must be encouraged to become actively involved in political and civic life, whatever their political persuasion — it is important to engage and debate forcefully with these parties and their supporters, not shut them out as beyond the pale.

[Download Report]
(Source: The Guardian – Far right on rise in Europe, says report).

Guest workers: Settlement, temporary economic migration and a critique of the government’s plans.
New report by IPPR and written by Matt Cavanagh.
[Download Report]
(Source – IPPR: http://www.ippr.org/).

A thematic inspection of how the UK Border Agency manages foreign national prisoners.
A new report by Independent Chief Inspector of UKBA, Mr John Vine.
[Download report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – UKBA Chief Inspector reports on the management of foreign national prisoners).

Universal Access to Healthcare in the Age of Migration.
A summary report by the Migrants’ Rights Network.
[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – Universal Access to Healthcare conference report published).

MAC publishes reports on settlement and restrictions on workers from Bulgaria and Romania.
Published by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC).
[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – MAC publishes reports on settlement and restrictions on workers from Bulgaria and Romania).

Experiences of forced labour among Chinese migrant workers.
Report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – JRF Report: Experiences of forced labour among Chinese migrant workers).

Home Affairs Committee - Fifteenth Report The work of the UK Border Agency (April July 2011).
Home Affairs Select Committee.
[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – Home Affairs Committee concerned about 124,000 unresolved immigration cases).

Updated List of Reports and Publications Part 1

The following list of reports and publications available online has been collated in various postings on the the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog managed by Elisa Mason.
Overview of Displacement in the Central African Republic (OCHA, Oct. 2011) [text]

Rwandan Refugees Fear Cessation Clause (IPS, Nov. 2011) [text]

“Environmental Migrants and Canada’s Refugee Policy,” Refuge, vol. 27, no. 1 (2010 [full-text]

Migration and Global Environmental Change: Future Challenges and Opportunities (UK Government Office for Science & Foresight, Oct. 2011 [text]- See also background studies for and other publications related to this project.

Refugees and the Peacebuilding Process, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 224 (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [text]

Population, Immigration and Asylum Seekers: Patterns in Australian Public Opinion (Pre-Election Policy Unit of the Parliamentary Library, May 2011) [text]

“Migrant Women and Discrimination in Australia: A Tiered Narrative Study,” Citizenship and Globalisation Research Papers, vol. 2, no. 2 (Aug. 2011) [text]

“Public Opinion and Asylum Policy,” Chapter 7 in Seeking Asylum: Trends and Policies in the OECD, pp. 55-66 (Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2011) [text]

Angolan Repatriation Resumes (UNHCR, 2011) [text]

No Turning Back: A Review of UNHCR’s Response to the Protracted Refugee Situation in Eastern Sudan, PDES/2011/12 (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [text]

Past UK Experience of the Arrival of Populations Displaced by Extreme Events, Commissioned Paper (UK Government Office for Science & Foresight, Oct. 2011) [text]

Who ‘Deserves’ to be Stateless? (Statelessness Programme Blog, Nov. 2011) [text]

Why Humanitarian Aid in Darfur is not a Practice of the “Responsibility to Protect,” Discussion Paper, no. 60 (Nordic Africa Institute, Oct. 2011) [text]

 

Updated List of Reports and Publications Part 2

The following list of reports and publications available online has been collated in various postings on the the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog managed by Elisa Mason.

“Counterinsurgency and the Internally Displaced: Aligning Doctrine with Reality,” Small Wars Journal (23 Oct. 2011) [full-text]

“Managing Asylum Seeking in Europe: How to Revise the Dublin II Convention,” Chapter in Think Global, Act European (Notre Europe et al., June 2011) [text]
- Go to p. 192.

“The Rocky Road from Empty Prescriptions to Meaningful Policy: Four Imperatives for a Better Immigration and Asylum Policy,” Chapter in Think Global, Act European (Notre Europe et al., June 2011) [text]
- Go to p. 186.

Sexual Orientation Issues in the Asylum Claim (UK Home Office, Oct. 2011) [text via Refworld]

Structural Differences and Access to COI at European Courts Dealing with Asylum (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, July 2011) [text via ecoi.net]

Vulnerability and Human Rights of Protracted Refugees in the Arab Region, MOST Policy Brief (UNESCO, 2011) [text]

From ‘One Nation, One People’ to ‘Operation Swaagatem’: Bhutanese Refugees in Coquitlam, BC, Working Paper, no. 11-11 (Metropolis British Columbia, Sept. 2011) [text]

The Growing Culture of Exclusion: Trends in Canadian Refugee Exclusions, Working Paper, no. 11-06 (Metropolis British Columbia, June 2011) [text]

How Effective are Migration and Non-migration Policies that Affect Forced Migration? Migration Studies Unit Working Paper, no. 2011/14 (London School of Economics, 2011) [text]

Invisible Refugees: Protecting Sahrawis and Palestinians Displaced by the 2011 Libyan Uprising, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 225 (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [text]

Palestinians in Lebanon: Malja versus Bayt Refugees, Birzeit University Working Paper 2011/53 (Birzeit University, May 2011) [text]

Asylum Seekers and the Right to Work (House of Commons Library, Nov. 2011) [text via Hans & Tomar Oppenheimer Chair]

Azerbaijan – Building Assets and Promoting Self Reliance: The Livelihoods of Internally Displaced Persons (World Bank, Oct. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Civilian Harm in Somalia: Creating an Appropriate Response (CIVIC, Nov. 2011) [text]
- See related UNHCR news story.

New Technologies and the Monitoring and Management of Migration Flows and Population Displacement (UK Government Office for Science & Foresight, Oct. 2011) [text]

Responding to Migration from Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Libya (Chatham House, Nov. 2011) [text]

Scaling up the Community-based Health Workforce for Emergencies (Global Health Workforce Alliance, Oct. 2011) [text]

Refugee Education: A Global Review (UNHCR, Nov. 2011). 

How Can I Help a Palestine Refugee? The Second Edition of 25 Ways to Help Palestine Refugees, September–December 2011 (UNRWA, Nov. 2011) [text]

“Institutionalizing Statelessness: The Revocation of Residency Rights of Palestinians of East Jerusalem,” International Journal of Refugee Law, Forthcoming [eprintvia SSRN]

Invisible Refugees: Protecting Sahrawis and Palestinians Displaced by the 2011 Libyan Uprising, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 225 (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [text]

Ensuring Access to Education: Operational Guidance on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas.  UNHCR -  text

Ensuring Access to Health Care: Operational Guidance on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas.  UNHCR.   [text]

New Pubs. on Digital Londoners and on Migration and Trafficking,

Autumn 2011 edition of the digital New Londoners magazine.
[Download here]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – Digital New Londoners magazine – Launch of autumn edition).

A new Chatham House Briefing Paper by Dr Khalid Koser entitled “Responding to Migration from Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Libya” has been released.
[Download Paper]
(Source: Migrants at Sea blog – http://migrantsatsea.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/chatham-house-briefing-paper-responding-to-migration-from-complex-humanitarian-emergencies-lessons-learned-from-libya/)

A new study on migration and trafficking by Dr Nick Mai of the Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET) at Lodon Metropolitan University.
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Watch – Research suggests immigration status a bigger problem for sex workers than trafficking).

“Comparative Analysis of Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Persons,” Module 2 in In-depth Training Manual on Investigating and Prosecuting the Smuggling of Migrants (UNODC, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

GRETA Reports (Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, Sept. 2011) [access]- First evaluations of States Parties to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Joint Statement of the Heads of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Agencies, 5th EU Anti-Trafficking Day, 18 Oct. 2011 [text]

Organised Crime, Corruption and the Movement of People Across Borders in the New Enlarged EU: A Case Study of Estonia, Finland and the UK (HEUNI, 2011) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Trafficking in Persons and the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg Observers, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Trafficking in Persons in East Asia and the Pacific, Statement Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights (U.S. Dept. of State, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Off Air Recordings : WB Monday 21 November, 2011

The following off-air recordings have been requested for the Refugee Archive for the week beginning Monday 21 November 2011:

Monday 21^st November

2100-2200: BBC3: The Boarding School Bomber.  VIDEO Plus+: 2183709

2200-2300: Channel 5: The Lost Orphan: Mirela’s Story.  VIDEO Plus+: 6463150

2235-0005: More 4: (7/10) Unreported World - South Sudan: How to Fuel a Famine.  VIDEO Plus+: 99773889

Tuesday 22^nd November

2000-2100: Channel 5: (3/6)  London: The Inside Story.  VIDEO Plus+: 6344071

Thursday 24 November

2100-2200: Channel 4: (1/6) Living with the Amish.  VIDEO Plus+: 6873.  Whole Series Please.

Friday 25 November

 1930-1955: (7/10) Unreported World - Trinidad: Guns, Drugs and Secrets.  VIDEO Plus+: 691729

New Publications on Asylum, Development, Humanitarian Emergencies, Survey of London, Family Migration

Mapping Asylum

“Mapping Statelessness in the United Kingdom”.  A joint UNHCR and Asylum
Aid study, 22 November 2011.  Further details:

“The research maps the number and profile of stateless persons in the UK and puts a human face on their situation. It also examines the UK’s
legal obligations to stateless persons under international law and analyses the impact of current policy and practice. Based on these
findings the report makes recommendations for improvement. While the work owes a debt to previous studies, this is the first time that this
hidden issue has been subject to such comprehensive quantitative and qualitative research.”

[Download the Full Report]
[Download the Executive Summary]
(Source : UNHCR Refworld – http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4ecb6a192.html)

Least Developed Countries Report 2011, produced by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, (UNCTD).  Read the UNCTD Press Release.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: DocuTicker – http://web.docuticker.com/go/docubase/65583)

The City of London Corporation published a research report, entitled Access to Global Talent: the impact of migration limits on UK financial and professional business services.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Watch – Survey of London business suggests that immigration policy will become a bigger problem as firms fight to return to growth).

Responding to Migration from Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Lessons Leaned from Libya.  A new research briefing produced by Chatham House.
[Download Full Briefing]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – Responding to Migration from Complex Humanitarian Emergencies.)

Points Based System: Review of the minimum income requirement for sponsorship under the family migration route.  A new report by the Migration Advisory Committee, (MAC).  See Also Migrants’ Rights Network briefing on the report – `MAC family settlement report – Not just a matter of pounds and pence‘.[Download Full Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – MAC publishes report on the family migration route).

New Publications Update

The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (UNHCR, Sept. 2011) [text]

- A brochure promoting accession to the Convention and Protocol.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)Protectors, Providers, Survivors: A Dialogue with Refugee Women in Finland (UNHCR, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Refugees of Climate Change Rising Steadily (IPS, Nov. 2011) [text](Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Rwanda: From Post-Conflict to Environmentally Sustainable Development (UNEP, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Terminal Decline? Palestinian Refugee Health in Lebanon (Medical Aid for Palestinians, Nov. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Global Appeal 2012-13 (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [access]

(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)Helpdesk Research Report: Policies on Displacement and Resettlement (Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, Sept. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Human Rights Concerns in Hydroelectric Projects, Paper prepared for 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment, Bangkok, Thailand, November 23-25, 2011 (now postponed to 27-29 Feb. 2012) [text via SSRN]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Involuntary Resettlement Safeguards: A Planning and Implementation Good Practice Sourcebook (Draft Working Document) (Asian Development Bank, March 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Losing Your Home: Assessing the Impact of Eviction (UN Habitat & OHCHR, 2011) [access]
- See also review by Michael Cernea.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Publications on the Arab Spring, Egypt, Balkans, Internal Dispalcement in Serbia

Turkey and the Arab Spring: Implications for Turkish Foreign Policy from a Transatlantic Perspective. A new report by Istituto Affari Internazionali.
[Download Report]
(Source: DocuTicker – Turkey and the Arab Spring: Implications for Turkish Foreign Policy from a Transatlantic Perspective).

Broken Promises: Egypt’s Military Rulers Erode Human Rights.  A new report published by Amnesty International.
[Access Report]
(Source: Amnesty International – New Amnesty International report on abuses under Military Council in Egypt).

Access to Free Legal Aid for Displaced Persons in the Western Balkans Countries: Overview of the Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro (Group 484, Nov. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Access to Rights and Integration of Returnees on the Basis of the Readmission Agreements: Analysis of the Main Problems and Obstacles (Praxis, Aug. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Assessment of the Needs of Internally Displaced Persons in Serbia (UNHCR et al., Feb. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Legally Invisible Persons in Serbia: Still without a Solution (Praxis, June 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Only Genuine Justice Can Ensure Durable Peace in the Balkans (Human Rights Comment, Nov. 2011) [text]

Serbia as a Safe Third County: A Wrong Presumption (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Sept. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

New Publications on Forced Displacement, Refugee Protection, Syria, & others

Forced Displacement in Europe and Central Asia (World Bank, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Mobilizing for Refugee Protection: Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of UNHCR and the 1951 Refugee Convention, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 226 (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Thailand: Buddhist minority declines in the `deep south’ due to protratced armed conflict.  A new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).
[Download Report]
(Source: IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Syria: State policies and military actions continue to threaten further displacement.  A new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).
[Download Report]
(Source: IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Promoting Livelihoods and Self-reliance: Operational Guidance on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas (UNHCR, 2011) [text]
- Other operational guidance notes are listed in this post.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Recovery or Trapped in Poverty? The Economic Consequences of Forced Displacement in Northern Uganda, Paper presented at 4th Migration and Development Conference, Boston, 10-11 June 2011 [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Q&A: Swiss Trumpet Blower for the Rights of the Internally Displaced (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Applying Conflict Sensitivity in Emergency Response: Current Practice and Ways Forward, Network Paper, no. 70 (Humanitarian Practice Network, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

A Commentary on the September 2011 Eritrea Operational Guidance Note (ARC & Still Human, Still Here, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Diaspora and Peacebuilding in Post-conflict Settings: Insights from Somaliland, Global Migration Research Paper, no. 2 (Programme for the Study of Global Migration, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Donors Still Far from Transparent (IRIN, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Mental Health Care for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Immigration Detention Centres (Mental Health Council of Australia, Nov. 2011) [text via BroCAP]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Publications on Poverty in London, Eritreans in Egypt, Education, and more.

Focus on London report

The latest report in the Focus on London series – Poverty: The Hidden City, authored by Rachel Leeser in the GLA Intelligence Unit, has been released.
[Download Report]
(Source:  Focus on London page on the GLA main website.).

Asylum and Humanitarian Protection for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) People (Stonewall, Aug. 2011) [text]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Educating Refugees (IntLawGrrls, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Egypt: Don’t Deport Eritreans – Those Forcibly Returned Face Likely Persecution (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The Forgotten Path to Asylum: “Other Serious Harm” (The Asylumist, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Libya: Protect Vulnerable Minorities & Assist Civilians Harmed (Refugees International & CIVIC, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

On the Edge: Why Older People’s Needs Are Not Being Met in Humanitarian Emergencies (Age UK & HelpAge, 2011) [text via Refworld]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The Right to Leave One’s Country Should be Applied without Discrimination (Human Rights Comment, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Off Air Recoring Requests: WB 28 November 2011

The following off air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Council Archvie for the week beginning Monday, 28 November 2011:

Tuesday 29 November

 2000-2100: Channel 5: (4/6) London: The Inside Story.

 Thursday 1 December

 2100-2200: Channel 4: (2/6) Living with the Amish. 

Friday 2 December

 1930-1855: Channel 4: (9/10) Unreported World – Honduras: Diving into Danger.

Event: ‘Seeking Sanctuary’ Launch – 12 January 2012

‘Seeking Sanctuary’

A serious board game that puts you through the paces of the UK asylum
system

Official Launch Event!

Thursday 12 January 2012
6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
New Horizon Youth Centre
68 Chalton St, London, NW1 1JR

The wait is finally over!  The first edition of ‘Seeking Sanctuary’
will soon be available!

Join us in celebrating the launch of this unique resource for raising
social awareness and fostering better understanding of the experiences
of asylum seekers in the UK.

‘Seeking Sanctuary’ is a character-based board game that explores
what it’s like living day-to-day through the UK’s asylum process.
This ‘serious’ game has been developed for use in education and
training, advising, advocacy and awareness-raising work for a range
of organisations and communities.  Through the power of experiential
learning, ‘Seeking Sanctuary’ promotes informed reflection and
dialogue on the current state of refugee protection in the UK.

At the launch you’ll get to:
* Play ‘Seeking Sanctuary’
* Meet the game’s creator, Jana Gigl, and the g.e.t. game team, along
with people who’ve inspired, contributed to and supported the
project’s development
* Learn about other g.e.t. game tools and projects
* Enter a raffle to win a ‘Seeking Sanctuary’ board game and other
prizes
* Mix, mingle and network
* Enjoy the music, dancing, food and drinks

This is a free event.  Everyone’s invited!  You don’t need to book, but
please let us know that you’ll be joining us:
jana@getgameeducation.org

* The ‘Seeking Sanctuary’ board game is offered at discounted
rates to asylum and refugee support organisations, and refugee
community organisations, that are operating on limited funds.  Please
get in touch with us for more information:  jana@getgameeducation.org

The production and launch of the first edition of ‘Seeking Sanctuary’
was made possible through the support of an UnLtd Level 1 Award.

Launch venue sponsored by New Horizon Youth Centre.

< G.E.T. Game – Global Education Toolbox
Human Rights. Human Creativity. Humans Learning >

Off Air Recording Requests for December, 2011

The following off-air recordings have been requsted for the Refugee Council Archive for December 2011.  Full weekly details are as follows:

For the week beginning Monday 19 December, 2011:

Monday 19^th December

 2200-2340: More 4: Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill. VideoPlus  30996242

2310-0005: Channel 4 : Syria’s Torture Machine.  VideoPlus:  474180

 Thursday 22^nd December

 2100-2200: Channel 4: London’s Burning.  VideoPlus:  8209

2100-2200: BBC4: (3/3) Jerusalem: the Making of a Holy City.  VideoPlus: 8388919

For the week beginning Monday 12 December, 2011:

Monday 12 December

1900-2000: BBC2: This World – Return of the Lost Boys of Sudan.  VideoPlus: 8251

2230-0000: More 4: (9/10) Unreported World – Malaysia: Refugees for Sale.  VIDEO Plus+: 99553270

Tuesday 13 December

2000-2100: Channel 5: (6/6) London: the Inside Story.  VideoPlus: 5628394

2200-2310: Channel 4: (1/3) This Is England ’88.  VideoPlus: 2362329.  Whole Series Please

2200-2315: More 4: True Stories: Transgenders – Pakistan’s Open Secret.  VideoPlus: 25700435

Wednesday 14 December

2200-2310: Channel 4: (2/3) This Is England ’88.  VideoPlus: 2259801

 Thursday 15 December

2100-2200: Channel 4: (4/6) Living with the Amish.  VideoPlus: 8486

 2100-2200: BBC4: (2/3) Jerusalem: the Making of a Holy City.  VideoPlus: 8542115

2200-2305: Channel 4: (3/3) This Is England ’88.  VideoPlus: 6537365

2245-2330: BBC1: Up In Flames: Mr Reeves and the Riots.  VideoPlus: 730221

For the week beginning Monday 05 December, 2011:

Monday 5 December

2330-0000: More 4: (8/10) Unreported World – Nepal – The Living Dead.  VIDEO Plus+: 99724766

Tuesday 6 December

2000-2100: Channel 5: (5/6) London: The Inside Story.  VideoPlus: 5955490

Thursday 8 December

2100-2200: Channel 4: (3/6) Living with the Amish.  VideoPlus: 3359

2100-2200: BBC4: (1/3) Jerusalem: the Making of a Holy City.  VideoPlus: 8706311.  Whole Series Please.

Friday 9 December

 1930-2000: Channel 4: (10/10) Unreported World – Australia’s Hidden Valley.  322441

Refugee Council Publish Short Film

Ram Gidoomal passport. Copyright - Refugee Council.

The Refugee Council has just published a new short film charting its own history in responding to refugee protection issues since 1951.  The film, “Protecting refugees: 60 years and beyond”, has been released to mark Human Rights Day which was on Saturday 10 December, and it also represents the culmination of the Refugee Council’s 60th anniversery celebrations in 2011.

The Refugee Council state that the film, “Protecting refugees: 60 years and beyond”, “features the testimonies and thoughts of refugees who fled conflicts around the world and rebuilt their lives in the UK, in each decade since 1951 – the year the charity came together to offer support and advice to refugees. With British actress Zoe Wanamaker narrating, the film features:

• Bob Vertes, who arrived from Hungary in 1956
• Ram Gidoomal, who arrived from Kenya in 1967
• Pablo Aguirre, who arrived from Chile in 1976
• Nyeya Yen, who arrived from Ghana in 1984
• Nora Lupki, who arrived from Kosovo 1991
• Rose Bazzie, who arrived from Liberia in 2004″

Rose with pic. Copyright - Refugee Council.

To watch the film, visit the Refugee Council’s Youtube Channel. The film was directed by filmmaker Martin Scanlan and produced by Inside Job Productions.

Further information can be found on the Refugee Council’s press release – Refugee Council launches film celebrating protection of refugees since 1951.

Fortcoming Events and Seminars

The following details about forthcoming events and seminars are detailed below:

‘Seeking Sanctuary’ Official Launch Event
a serious board game that puts you through the paces of the UK asylum system
Thursday 12 January 2012.  6 p.m. – 9 p.m.  New Horizon Youth Centre, 68 Chalton St, London, NW1 1JR
Link: http://refugeearchives.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/event-seeking-sanctuary-launch-12-january-2012-2/

RSC-OCAF SEMINAR
Friday 24 February 2012, 4:30pm, Seminar Room 2
The Oxford Central Africa Forum (OCAF) and the Refugee Studies Centre present:
From DR Congo to Tel-Aviv: A Story of Congolese Refugees, Activism and Microfinance.
Further Details : https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=FORCED-MIGRATION;5a134f62.1112

Palestine Refugees and International Law Weekend WorkshopSaturday 10 – Sunday 11 March 2012
Refugee Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development
Fee : £300
Further Details : Palestine Refugees and International Law

Event: Hilary Term 2012 RSC Public Seminar Series: Critical Approaches to Environmental Displacement

Apologies for Cross Posting

The Refugee Studies Centre atOxford will devote the Hilary Term 2012 Public Seminar Series to Critical Approaches to Environmental Displacement. The seminar series is convened by Dr Alexander Betts,

University Lecturer in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre.

The Public Seminar Series will take place each Wednesday, from 5 p.m in Seminar Room 1 at QEH, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB.

Seminars may be subject to change at the last minute; please visit www.rsc.ox.ac.uk

If you require special access please contact us in advance. Email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

New UNODC Publication on Smuggling By Sea

Smuggling of Migrants by Sea

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has just published a new Issue Paper entitled “Smuggling of Migrants By Sea.”   The report has been drafted by Ms Marika McAdam and is based largely on “answers received to questionnaires and discussions that took place in the context of an expert group meeting held in Vienna, Austria on the 13th to the 15th of September 2011.”

Further information can be found on the following links below:

Issue paper on the smuggling of migrants by sea (pdf)

Full statement by UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov on International Migrants Day

UNODC on the smuggling of migrants

Video clip on the smuggling of migrants in Africa

UNODC Issue Paper: Smuggling of Migrants by Sea – blog posting on the Migrants at Sea blog.

New Reports on the UN, Somalia, Yarl’s Wood, Transatlantic Trends, Alabama, ICMC

UN integration and humanitarian space

UN Integration and Humanitarian Space: An Independent Study
Commissioned by the UN Integration Steering Group.
By Victoria Metcalfe, Alison Giffen and Samir Elhawary.
A new story carried out jointly by the Humanitarian Policy Group and the Stimson Center, was commissioned by the UN Integration Steering Group to look in detail at the impacts of UN integration on humanitarian action.
[Download Report]
(Source – Humanitarian Policy Group)

Somalia: New displacement and worsening humanitarian and protection crisis for IDPs
Produced by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
[Download Report]
(Source – Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre).

Report on an announced inspection of Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (4 – 8 July 2011)
by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.
[Download report]
(Source: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons)
(Guardian Article: Yarl’s Wood detains too many pregnant women, prisons inspector says).

Transatlantic Trends

Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2011 report.
[Download Report]
(Source: Transatlantic Trends website]
(Guardian Article: What do Europeans think about immigration?)
(Migrants at Sea: Transatlantic Trends: Immigration Survey 2011 / US and European Public Opinion).

EJML Article, B Nascimbene and A Di Pascale: “The ‘Arab Spring’ and the Extraordinary Influx of People who Arrived in Italy from North Africa”

“The latest edition of the European Journal of Migration and Law, Volume 13, Number 4, contains an article by Bruno Nascimbene, Professor of European Union Law, Faculty of Law, University of Milan, and Alessia Di Pascale, Research Fellow, European Union Law, Faculty of Law, University of Milan, entitled “The ‘Arab Spring’ and the Extraordinary Influx of People who Arrived in Italy from North Africa”.”

(Source: Migrants At Sea blog).

No Way To Live: Alabama’s Immigrant Law.  A new report published by the Human Rights Watch.
[Download Report]
(Source: Human Rights Watch)

“MAYDAY! Strengthening responses of assistance and protection to boat people and other migrants arriving in Southern Europe.”
A new report by the International Catholic Migration Commission.

“Scope of this report – Gathering the results of nearly a half thousand surveys of first responders and other actors as well as the migrants themselves, this report examines what happens—or does not happen— to identify migrants in need of protection and assistance upon their arrival in Europe. In particular, it sheds light on the mechanisms developed, and gaps both in practice and in policy in responses to boat people and other migrants arriving in mixed migratory movements in four countries at Europe’s Southern door: Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain.
(Source: Migrants At Sea blog – ICMC Europe Report: “MAYDAY! Strengthening responses of assistance and protection to boat people and other migrants arriving in Southern Europe”)

[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants At Sea blog – ICMC Europe Report: “MAYDAY! Strengthening responses of assistance and protection to boat people and other migrants arriving in Southern Europe”)

RSQ Table of Contents

Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 30 Issue 4 December 2011: Protracted Displacement: The Challenges of Protection

The latest table of contents for the December 2011 issue of the journal Refugee Survey Quarterly has now been published on the Oxford Journals website.  This is for the latest thematic issue which is entitled, “Protracted Displacement: The Challenges of Protection”: (namely Volume 30, Number 4, December 2011).

Further details are as follows:

Introduction

Roger Zetter

Unlocking the Protracted Displacement of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: An Overview
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 1-13; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr015 [Full Text] [PDF]

Articles

Anna Lindley

Between a Protracted and a Crisis Situation: Policy Responses to Somali Refugees in Kenya
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access published on November 13, 2011
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 14-49; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Dawn Chatty and Nisrine Mansour

Unlocking Protracted Displacement: An Iraqi Case Study
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access published on November 3, 2011
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 50-83; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Megan Bradley

Unlocking Protracted Displacement: Central America’s “Success Story” Reconsidered
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access published on November 3, 2011
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 84-121; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr011 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Documents

Documents
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 122-133; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr014 [Full Text] [PDF]

The below Table of Contents is available online at:
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol30/issue4/index.dtl

(Source: Oxford Journals).

Publications: Horn of Africa, Roma Pupils, Migrants in London, Trafficked Children, A8 Migrants, Ireland

Copyright: Jaspreet Kindra / IRIN

HPN Network Paper Number 71 – System failure? Revisiting the problems of timely response to crises in the Horn of Africa.
By Simon Levine, with Alexandra Crosskey and Mohammed Abdinoor.
[Download Report]
(Source: Humanitarian Practice Network).

From segregation to inclusion – Roma Pupils in the United Kingdom, A Pilot Research Project.  A new report from the Roma Education Fund.
[Download Report]
(Source: refed – refugee education mailing list

Advice and support provision for migrants in London: a view from the field
“A new MRN briefing provides a picture of shifts in the provision of advice and support for migrants in London. Provision has been affected by cuts to funding but the effects have been unequally spread. Some areas of London are relatively well provided while others show big gaps. Legal aid proposals which have been postponed for six months could have a big effect in the future.”)
[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network).

Working with Trafficked Children and Young People: Complexities in Practice .  By Jenny J. Pearce.
British Journal of Social Work Advance Access published on March 30, 2011
Br J Soc Work 2011 41: 1424-1441; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcr029 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
(Source: British Journal of Social Work)

Public perception of A8 migrants: the discourse of the media and its impacts
[Download report]
(Source: MEMO [Minority Ethnic Matters Overview], 286, 21 November 2011)
Interesting piece of work (part of a MSc) which looks at media coverage – much of it positive, except for the Sun.
(Source: The Network)

“Making Ireland home”
Link: http://www.mrci.ie/-Young-immigrants-launch-film-about-their-experiences-in-Ireland–detail-news/
(Source: MEMO [Minority Ethnic Matters Overview], 286, 21 November 2011)
New film, produced by eleven young people from Migrant Rights Centre Ireland’s mPower Youth Project, “reveals experiences of isolation, racism, barriers in education and in accessing residency and citizenship whilst exploring identity and sharing hopes for the future.”
(Source: The Network)

World Migration Report 2011

IOM World Migration Report 2011

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has recently published the World Migration 2011: Communication Effectively about Migration.

The offiical IOM press release describes the new report as follows:

Description: The recent global economic crisis has highlighted the resilience of migration and further confirmed that human mobility forms an integral part of our globalized world. Migration is one of the ways in which the exchange of talent, services, skills and a diversity of experience is achieved. Yet migration remains politically sensitive and governments face the difficult task of dispelling the misunderstandings surrounding it. Indeed, misinformation and misperception can trigger a vicious cycle which influences government policy, and in turn, perpetuates negative attitudes in mass media and the community at large. Policies and political discourse can therefore play a major role in shaping the image of migrants in home and host societies. Communicating effectively about migrants and migration policy to the wider public remains one of the biggest challenges governments in countries of origin and destination face.

Part A of the World Migration Report 2011 addresses this year’s chosen theme: Communicating Effectively about Migration. It also analyses major migration trends in 2010/2011 offering an overview of developments in policy, legislation, international cooperation and dialogue on migration at the global and regional level.  In celebration of IOM’s 60th Anniversary, Part B reviews the evolution of IOM’s approach to migration management and the diversification of its programmatic activities since the end of the Cold War. It also presents a statistical overview of IOM’s programmes and projects over the last decade.

IOM World Migration Report 2011 – [Download Full Report]

IOM News Release – Let’s Raise Migrants’ Voices for an Open and Constructive Debate on Migration, Says IOM’s 2011 World Migration Report

Special Issue of Child Abuse Review Journal

Child Abuse Review

The journal, Child Abuse Review, has recently published a new thematic volume entitled on `Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children.’  The full details are as follows:

• Child Abuse Review, Volume 20 Issue 5,  (September/October 2011).  Special Issue: Themed issue on Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children.  Pages 307–390.

The articles are currently free-to-access until the 31st December 2011 on the Child Abuse Review website at : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/car.v20.5/issuetoc

Articles include:

• Working to Ensure Safety, Belonging and Success for Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children (pages 311–323)
• Separated and Trafficked Children: The Challenges for Child Protection Professionals (pages 324–340)
• Issues in Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children and Young People: Research and Practice (pages 341–360)
• ‘Often They Fall Through the Cracks’: Separated Children in Ireland and the Role of Guardians (pages 361–373)
• Good Practice in Social Care for Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children (pages 374–390)

New Pubs. on Trafficking, Migration Stats., Migration Reform, Displacement, UKBA

What's the Cost of a Rumour?

What’s the Cost of a Rumour? A guide to sorting out the myths and the facts about sporting events and trafficking.
A new report published by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, (GAATW).
From the GAATW website,

In this guide, we review the literature from past sporting events, and find that they do not cause increases in trafficking for prostitution. The guide takes a closer look at why this unsubstantiated idea still captures the imagination of politicians and some media, and offers stakeholders a more constructive approach to address trafficking beyond short-term events. We hope this guide will help stakeholders quickly correct misinformation about trafficking, develop evidence-based anti-trafficking responses, and learn what worked and what didn’t in past host cities.

[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network).

Migration Statistics Quarterly Report November 2011 – Statistical Bulletin
[Download Statistical Bulletin]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network).

Migration Reform:  Caps Don’t Fit.
A new report by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
[Download Report]
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Press Release – Impact of immigration is far wider than many realise).
(Souce: Migrants’ Rights Network).

Beyond ‘Supply and Demand’ Catchphrases

Beyond ‘Supply and Demand’ Catchphrases: Assessing the Uses and Limitations of Demand-Based Approaches in Anti-Trafficking
Produced by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, (GAATW).
[Download Report]
(Source:  Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women).

Pastoralist displacement in northern Kenya: Findings of a Scoping Study.
By the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).
A new scoping study from the IDMC which details:

 

A range of factors has led to the displacement of thousands of pastoralists in northern Kenya. Notwithstanding the humanitarian consequences, the situation remains under-reported and under-studied, and internally displaced people (IDPs) in northern Kenya have received little assistance.  Against this backdrop, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and IDMC conducted a scoping study on pastoralist displacement in northern Kenya to draw attention to the plight of IDPs and the consequences of their displacement. They presented these findings in Nairobi on 15 November to representatives of the Kenyan government, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Internal Displacement, and the diplomatic, academic and civil society communities.

View Meeting Summary with Key Findings of the Study
(Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre)

Mexico: Displacement due to criminal and communal violence
By the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).
Read the Overview (html / pdf)
Full Internal Displacement Profile
(Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre)

Three new reports published by the Independent Chief Inspector of UKBA, Mr John Vine.  The three reports are as follows:

• Annual report for 2010-11 ,
• A global review of entry clearance December 2010 – June 2011 , and
• An inspection report of the UKBA New York visa section January – March 2011.

(Source: Migrant’s Rights Network).

New Pubs. on Somalia, Europe, Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, (et al)

A Commentary on the October 2011 Somalia Operational Guidance Note (Still
Human, Still Here & ARC, Dec. 2011)
http://stillhumanstillhere.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/still-human-still-here
-commentary-on-the-somalia-ogn.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

Safe and Secure: How Do Refugees Experience Europe’s Borders? Modern
Challenges to Protection and the 1951 Refugee Convention (JRS Europe, Dec.
2011)
http://www.jrseurope.org/publications/JRSEuropeRefugeesAtEUBorder08122011-1.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

States of Denial: A Review of UNHCR’s Response to the Protracted Situation of
Stateless Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, PDES/2011/13 (UNHCR, Dec. 2011)
http://www.unhcr.org/4ee754c19.html
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

From Crisis to Community Development: Needs and Assets of Oakland’s Refugees
from Burma (Burma Refugee Family Network, November 2011)
http://cci.sfsu.edu/files/Crisis_to_Community_Development.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

“Key features and outcomes of recent EU humanitarian aid directed at refugee
crises in Libya and the Horn of Africa,” Interview with Kristalina Georgieva,
EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis
Response (EurAsylum, November 2011)
http://www.eurasylum.org/Portal/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=2&tabid=19
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

Mapping Statelessness in the United Kingdom (UNHCR UK & Asylum Aid, November 2011)
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4ecb6a192.html
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

The Migration-Displacement Nexus: Patterns, Processes, and Policies, Edited
by Khalid Koser and Susan Martin (Berghahn Books, September 2011)
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/extras/docs/flyer/KoserMigration_9780857451910.html
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

Protecting the rights of Roma (Council of Europe, November 2011)
http://www.coe.int/AboutCoe/media/interface/publications/roms_en.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

Refugees, Migrants, and Development: An analysis of current trends in
global-level dialogues on migration, forced migration, and development, by
Saskia Koppenberg (Ibidem-Verlag, November 2011)
http://www.migration4development.org/sites/m4d.emakina-eu.net/files/koppenberg_isbn_978-3-8382-0262-4_0.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

“This is Our Land”: Ethnic Violence and Internal Displacement in North-east
India (NRC & IDMC, November 2011)
http://www.internal-displacement.org/idmc/website/resources.nsf/%28httpPublic
ations%29/14A33897CD419AE0C12579530039FAA9?OpenDocument
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

[ToC Alert] Journal of Refugee Studies Table of Contents for December 2011; Vol. 24, No. 4

Journal of Refugee Studies

The latest edition of the Journal of Refugee Studies – Volume 24 Number 4, (December 2011) – is no available on the Oxford Journals website. The table of contents is available from the link below:

• Table of Contents – http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol24/issue4/index.dtl

Articles from this volume include:

• Classical Diasporas of the Third Kind: The Hidden History of Christian Dispersion.  [Abstract].
• Human Agency and the Meaning of Informed Consent: Reflections on Research with Refugees. [Abstract].
• ‘People Look at Us, the Way We Dress, and They Think We’re Gangsters’: Bonds, Bridges, Gangs and Refugees: A Qualitative Study of Inter-Cultural Social Capital in Glasgow. [Abstract].
• Ambiguous Expectations and Reduced Confidence: Experience of Somali Refugees Encountering Swedish Health Care. [Abstract].

 

Updated List of New Reports and Publications

The Living Conditions of Refugees in Italy (Pro Asyl, July 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Authority and Inclusion: Reconsidering Integration in a Fragmented Age, Working Paper Series, no. 1 (Refugee Law Initiative, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Dawn in the City: Guidance for Achieving Self-Reliance for Urban Refugees (Women’s Refugee Commission, Oct. 2011) [text]- See also the accompanying guidelines detailed in “Framework for Urban Refugee Self-Reliance: A How-to Guide.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Fundamental Rights of Migrants in an Irregular Situation in the European Union (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

After the Arab Spring (IntLawGrrls, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

No Place Called Home: A Report on Urban Refugees Living in in Dar es Salaam (Asylum Access, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

The Effects of Internal Displacement on Host Communities: A Case Study of Suba and Ciudad Bolívar Localities in Bogotá, Colombia (Brookings-LSE Project on International Displacement, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

From Crisis to Community Development: Needs and Assets of Oakland’s Refugees from Burma (Burma Refugee Family Network, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

A Commentary on the August 2011 Sudan Operational Guidance Note (Still Human, Still Here & ARC, Nov. 2011) [text via Refworld]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Italy: ‘Zero Tolerance for Roma’: Forced Evictions and Discrimination against Roma in Milan (Amnesty International, Nov. 2011) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Protecting the Rights of Roma (Council of Europe, 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

From Responsibility to Response: Assessing National Approaches to Internal Displacement (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Hundreds of Refugees Held Hostage in Sinai Torture Camps Need Rescuing (Physicians for Human Rights et al., Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Prevent. Combat. Protect: Human Trafficking. Joint UN Commentary on the EU Directive – A Human Rights-Based Approach (OHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNODC, UN Women and ILO, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

The Risks of Rescue at Sea (IRIN, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Sanctuary in the City? Urban Displacement and Vulnerability in Damascus: A Desk Study, HPG Working Paper (ODI, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Impact of Arab Revolts on Migration, CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes 2011/68 (Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration, 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Poverty Reduction in a Refugee-hosting Economy: A Natural Experiment, IFPRI Discussion Paper 01132 (International Food Policy Research Institute, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Engaging with Refugee Protection? The Organization of African Unity and African Union since 1963, New Issues of Refugee Research, no. 226 (UNHCR, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Population Displacement and Export Credit: The Safeguards for Human Rights and Livelihoods Need Professional Support and Reinforcement (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Refugee Resettlement to Australia: What are the Facts? (Parliamentary Library of Australia, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Chronology: European Migration and Asylum Policies (Migreurop, updated Sept. 2011) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

State of Exception: An Agambenian Perspective on the Detention of North Koreans in South Korea, Working Paper, no. 2 (Refugee Law Initiative, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Distress at Sea: How Best to Respond? Expert Meeting in Djibouti, 8 to 10 November 2011 – Summary Conclusions (UNHCR, Dec. 2011) [text].
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

‘Best Interests of the Child’ as a Uniting Principle for Citizenship (Oecumene Blog, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Consultative Meeting: “Challenges faced by young refugees and asylum seekers in accessing their social rights and their integration, while in transition to adulthood,” Strasbourg, 17‐18 November 2011 [info] [mapping study]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Core Standards for Guardians of Separated Children in Europe: Goals for Guardians and Authorities (Defence for Children et al., 2011) [text via Refworld]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas: Review of Urban Humanitarian Challenges in Port-au-Prince, Manila, Nairobi, Eldoret (UN HABITAT, 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

The Employment Rights of Refugees in Africa under the 1969 African Refugee Convention (Refugees and the Right to Work, Dec. 2011) [text]
- Note: The author of this post, Marina Sharpe, recently wrote a New Issues in Refugee Research working paper entitled “Engaging with Refugee Protection? The Organization of African Unity and African Union since 1963.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

From Deprivation to Liberty: Alternatives to Detention in Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom (JRS Europe, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Mapping Statelessness in the Netherlands (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Between Two Societies: Review of the Information, Return and Reintegration of Iraqi Nationals to Iraq (IRRINI) Programme (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Conference: `London: City of Paradox’

Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees & Belonging (CMRB)

London – City of Paradox:   An international conference at the University of East London, 3-5 April 2012

Further details : http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/documents/LondonCityofParadoxNotice.pdf

Organised by CMRB, in co-operation with Runnymede Trust, Iniva, London East Research Institute, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Centre for Cultural Studies Research, Matrix East Research Lab, and the Centre for Performance Studies.

The Olympic Games have focused attention on London. “Official” approaches towards the Games stress the city’s inclusiveness – a history and contemporary reality in which London brings together the peoples and cultures of the world.
This is an important part of London’s stories past and present – but only a part. Recent riots have summoned other histories – of tension and conflict, of exclusion as well as inclusion – highlighting current issues of security, surveillance and the criminalisation of young Londoners. How do we evaluate these different accounts? How to understand the city in all its complexity?
This conference examines London as a site of inclusion and exclusion – a city which has both encouraged and discouraged migration and settlement, and which has stimulated both cultural heterogeneity and homogeneity. It will provide opportunities to consider how powerful institutions have shaped discourses of nation and empire, of internationalism and globalism. It will examine multiple contradictions associated with the past and the present – London, City of Paradox.

Holistic approach

The conference embraces a multi-disciplinary perspective, drawing on insights from Urban Studies, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Development Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Migration Studies and Refugee Studies. It will also address key issues in cultural production, especially in relation to public representation of cultural diversity. Participants come from academic networks and Third Sector organisations undertaking community initiatives, especially in the arts.

The organisers have identified a number of themes:

• contending histories: London as an object of historical study; London in the national narrative; “peoples’ ” histories; London, gender and history; history and community today; “official” history and the Olympic project

• London and the world: colonialism, neo-colonialism and the metropolitan city; commerce, slavery and empire; London and the neo-liberal networks; global city: London and the cities of the South

• race, racism and the city: “hidden” and “invisible” populations; inclusion and exclusion; geographies of community; immigration, work and settlement; refuge and asylum; citizenship, multiculturalism, “cohesion” and integration today

• East London: the East End in narratives of London and nation; East London and the maritime networks; the East End as refuge; East End, gender and sexuality; resistance and radicalism; regeneration and the “new” East End

• imaging and performing London: visual cultures yesterday and today – film, photography, multimedia, performance

• city and spectacle: London and the Olympic cities – global spectacle and local reality. Documenting the Olympics then and now (UEL holds the Library and Archive of the British Olympic Association, including materials on the 1948 London Olympics).

Conference format

The conference will take place from 3 to 5 April 2012 at the Docklands Campus of the University of East London. It will include plenary sessions, discussion groups and parallel panels and workshops.

All participants will have opportunities to listen to experts and activists, and to participate in collective thinking and analysis. In this way the conference will include best practices of academic and non-academic workshops. There will also be opportunities to perform, to meet local NGOs, go for walks in East London and to observe exhibitions by local artists, scholars and activists.
Among many who have already agreed to take part in the conference are (in alphabetical order):

Claire Alexander, Floya Anthias, Rob Berkeley, Penny Bernstock, Avtar Brah, Craig Calhoun, Mary Chamberlain, Matt Cook, David Feldman, Ben Gidley, David Gilbert, Paul Gilroy, Vassil Girginov, Michael Keith, Roshini Kempadoo, Yosefa Loshitzky, Philip Marfleet, Doreen Massey, Mica Nava, Ann Phoenix, Gavin Poynter, Mike Raco, Michael Rustin, Nicola Samson, Saskia Sassen, Corinne Squire, Helen Taylor, Judith Walkowitz, Vron Ware, Georgie Wemyss, Jane Wills, Jerry White and Nira Yuval-Davis.

Regular conference fee £60; concessions (unwaged, students, seniors) £30.
Refreshments included.

(You are encouraged to register for the whole conference,
facilitating active engagement in discussion groups.)

Daily rate available at the conference £25; concessions £12.
Register at: http://uel-iis-b.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/booking/

All enquiries please contact Masi Fathi: m.fathi@uel.ac.uk

UEL Docklands Campus is adjacent to Cyprus Station, Docklands Light Railway: http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands.htm

CMRB, University of East London, Docklands Campus, London, E16 2RD
http://ww.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/

RSC Policy Briefing 8 (December 2011): Stabilising the Congo

Stabilising the Congo

The latest Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) policy brief has just been published.  Details from the accompanying RSC press release are detailed as follows:

RSC Policy Briefing 8 (December 2011)
Stabilising the Congo
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/policy-briefings/RSCPB8-StabilisingCongo
.pdf

Written by Emily Paddon (University of Oxford) and Guillaume Lacaille
(independent expert), this policy briefing considers the ‘stabilisation
approach’ adopted by both the international community and national government
to address the continued insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC).

Considering stabilisation also offers a way of conceptualising and engaging
with the root causes of displacement. Political implications of the
stabilisation agenda are brought into sharper relief by focusing on a single
question: stabilisation by whom and for whom? Rather than continuing to
support the State unconditionally, the briefing calls on international actors
to strengthen and exercise their combined leverage in critical priority areas
that together form a comprehensive ‘road map’ to long-term peace and
stability following the elections.

The briefing is the outcome of a series of RSC inter-related activities on
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that took place in 2010 and 2011,
including a special issue of Forced Migration Review
(http://www.fmreview.org/DRCongo/) and an experts’ workshop on ‘the dynamics
of conflict and forced migration in the DRC’
(http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/experts-workshop-DRC) as well as
dissemination and consultations in the DRC.

For feedback, comments, and to request hard copies of the briefing, contact
the series editor, Héloïse Ruaudel: heloise.ruaudel@qeh.ox.ac.uk.

All RSC policy briefings are available online:
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/policy-briefings.

CMRB Events: Imaging Migrants Seminar Series

Imaging Migrants Seminar Series

All Welcome!

Please contact Dr Marta Rabikowska: m.rabikowska@uel.ac.uk

Centre for Research on  Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB)

University of East London, Docklands Campus,
Room EB1.37 (Matrix East Research Lab),

Wednesdays 3-5 (exp: 13th February Monday 5pm-7pm)
25th January 2012
Documentary: Calais: The Last Border and discussion
Marc Issacs (Film-maker)

13th Februaury 2012 (Monday 5pm-7pm)
The Cleaners’ Voice
Luis C.Sotelo (Film-maker)
Anna Lopes  (University of East London)

29th February 2012
Gevald and the role of truth in documentary
Yohai Hakak (University of Portsmouth)

28th April 2012
Evidence of the transformative moment of decision to migrate, explored through image as archive and memory as testimony
March Helene Kazan (Goldsmiths College)

25th April 2012

A Visual Journey through the Balkans: from Socialism to the UK
Nela Milic (Journalist and Film-maker)

2nd May 2012
Imagined diasporas: domestic violence migrants within the UK
Janet Bowstead  (London Metropolitan University)

For more information, please see the attached document. Feel free to circulate. All inquiries please contact Dr Marta Rabikowska: m.rabikowska@uel.ac.uk

For more details on these seminars, click here.

Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at UEL – http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/seminars.htm

UEL Library Opening Hours over the Christmas Period

The following opening hours apply to UEL libraries across all sites over the festive and new year period:

• 19 – 22 December: open 24 hours
• 23 December: open until 3pm
• 24 – 26 December: CLOSED
• 27 – 30 December: 10am – 5pm
• 31 December – 2 January: CLOSED
• 3 January – 5 January: open 24 hours
• 6 January: open until 9pm
• 7 – 8 January: CLOSED
• 9 January: open 24 hours

More details of staffed and self-service opening hours can be found on the library website at www.uel.ac.uk/library

New Reports from Human Rights Watch

The following reports have been published in December (2011) by Human Rights Watch:

Tunisia’s Repressive Laws

Tunisia’s Repressive Laws: The Reform Agenda

Abstract:

This report identifies freedom of speech and independent courts as two of ten priorities for legal reform. The others are freedom of movement, association and assembly, freedom to form political parties, the right of citizens to run for public office and choose candidates, the protection of rights while fighting terrorism, internet freedom, and immunity for the president of the republic – all areas where harsh laws inherited from the presidency of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali remain in effect.

[Download Report]

“By All Means necessary!”  Individual and Command Responsibility for Crimes against Humanity in Syria.

Abstract:

This report is based on more than 60 interviews with defectors from the Syrian military and intelligence agencies. The defectors provided detailed information about their units’ participation in attacks, abuses against Syrian citizens, and the orders they received from commanders and officials at various levels, who are named in the report.

[Download Report]

No Way to Live

No Way to Live: Alabama’s Immigrant Law

Abstract:

This 52-page report documents the effect of the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer Citizen and Protection Act, commonly known as HB 56, on unauthorized immigrants and their families, as well as the larger Alabama communities in which they live. It is based in part on first-hand accounts by 57 Alabama residents, including citizens and permanent residents, who reported abuse or discrimination under the law.

[Download Report]

“Turning Pebbles”

“Turning Pebbles”: Evading Accountability for Post-Election Violence in Kenya

Abstract:

This report examines the police and judicial response to the violence following the 2007 elections, which pitted ruling party supporters and the police against opposition-linked armed groups and civilians. Human Rights Watch found that of the 1,133 or more killings committed during the violence, only two have resulted in murder convictions. Victims of rape, assault, arson, and other crimes similarly await justice. Police officers, who killed at least 405 people during the violence, injured over 500 more, and raped dozens of women and girls, enjoy absolute impunity.

[Download Report]

“How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?”

“How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?”: Child Marriage in Yemen

Abstract:

This 54-page report documents the lifelong damage to girls who are forced to marry young. Yemeni girls and women told Human Rights Watch about being forced into child marriages by their families, and then having no control over whether and when to bear children and other important aspects of their lives. They said that marrying early had cut short their education, and some said they had been subjected to marital rape and domestic abuse. There is no legal minimum age for girls to marry in Yemen. Many girls are forced into marriage, and some are as young as 8.

[Download Report]

Adding Insult to Injury

Adding Insult to Injury: Continued Impunity for Wartime Abuses in Nepal

Abstract:

This 59-page report calls for the government to stand by its public commitments and international treaty obligations to conduct credible investigations and prosecute those responsible for abuses. The report follows three previous joint reports by Human Rights Watch and Advocacy Forum on impunity in Nepal and provides a detailed look at six emblematic cases of killings, disappearances, and torture. A separate appendix provides an update on the lack of progress in 62 wartime cases pending before the courts.

[Download Report]

New IDMC Report on Indonesia

IDMC

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) have just published a new report on Indonesia in relation to intertnal displacement.  The report is entitled, “Indonesia: Durable Solutions remain elusive for many IDPs wile thousands are newly displaced my military operations in Papua.”

Further information on this publication can be found in the abstract, which states:

During 2011, thousands of people were displaced by renewed inter-communal violence in Maluku province and by counter-insurgency operations targeting Free Papua Movement (OPM) rebels in Papua province. Between April and December, an unknown number of Papuans were displaced in the central highlands region of Puncak Jaya. The largest reported displacement took place in mid-December in Paniai regency, where more than 10,000 people were forced from their homes in more than a hundred different villages. In September, as many as 500 homes in Maluku’s capital of Ambon were set on fire and nearly 5,000 people were displaced, some of them losing their homes for the fourth time in 12 years.

[Download Report]
(Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre).

New Pubs. on Being a Refugee ; UN Integration ; Racism ; Migration ; and new Working Papers

UNHCR’s Central Europe office has published its Participatory Assessment Report for 2010: Being a Refugee: How Refugees and Asylum-seekers Experience Life in Central Europe.   Earlier reports can be viewed here under AGDM Reports.

(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UN Integration and Humanitarian Space: An Independent Study Commissioned by the UN Integration Steering Group.
Authors: Vicki Metcalfe, Alison Giffen and Samir Elhawary

Published by the ODI and Stimson Center .
[Download Report]
(Source: ODI).

Are You Saying I’m Racist?
A new report published by Trust for London, in partnership with the Runnymede Trust.
Details from the Runnymede Trust website state that:

The report finds that racist violence continues to be a serious problem in the UK, particularly amongst young people in London.
It argues that a “zero tolerance” approach to racism, such as teachers excluding pupils for such behaviour from school, has failed and can drive the problem underground.
Instead, the report argues, a more proactive response that draws out the problem and confronts it with the aim of prevention is needed.
The report focuses on three initiatives taking place across London which specialise in preventative approaches to tackling racist violence, based in Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich and Bexley.

[Download Full Report]
[Download Report Summary]
Further Information: Runnymede Trust Press Release and the Trust for London website.

IPPR Migration Review 2011/12
[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network).

Displacement in Post-War Southern Sudan: Survival and Accumulation within Urban Perimeters, Research Working Paper, no. 57 (MICROCON, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Forced Migration, Female Labour Force Participation, and Intra-household Bargaining: Does Conflict Empower Women?, Research Working Paper, no. 56 (MICROCON, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The ‘Next Generation’ Visa: Belt and Braces or the Emperor’s New Clothes?, CEPS Paper on Liberty and Security in Europe (Centre for European Policy Studies, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Precarious Housing and Hidden Homelessness among Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Immigrants in the Toronto Metropolitan Area, Working Paper, no. 87 (CERIS, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source:  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

New Publications on Internal Displacement in Columbia and Bangladesh and Age-related Young People in Wales

Young Lives in Limbo

Young Lives in Limbo: The protection of age-disputed young people in Wales.
By S. Clarke for the Welsh Refugee Council.
[Download Report]
(Source: Welsh Refugee Council,)

Colombia: Improved government response yet to have impact for IDPs
A new report by IDMC.

Colombia’s government, led since 2010 by President Juan Manuel Santos, has changed its discourse in favour of those who have suffered human rights violations due the conflict and violence within the country. However, it is yet to translate this into effective action to protect the rights of Colombia’s internally displaced people (IDPs) and other victims of conflict. Displacement has continued in 2011 at the same rate as in previous years, as have attacks on IDPs and human rights activists. IDPs continue to have only limited access to the basic necessities of life. (…)

Read the Overview (html / pdf)
(Source: IDMC).

Bangladesh: Progress on internal displacement response needed
A new report by IDMC.

Twenty years of armed struggle in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), pitting the armed forces and Bengali settlers against indigenous groups seeking greater autonomy, formally ended in 1997 with the signing of the CHT Peace Accord. The accord granted cultural recognition and a degree of self-government to indigenous groups and foresaw the rehabilitation of internally displaced people (IDPs), but the situation of displaced indigenous people and Bengalis has not been resolved. (…)

Read the Overview (html / pdf).
(Source: IDMC).

New Pubs. on Refugee Research, Youth, Newly Arrived Migrants, Employment

Journal of Refugee Studies

Forcing the Issue: Migration Crises and the Uneasy Dialogue between Refugee Research and Policy
By Nicholas Van Hear
Journal of Refugee Studies – Advanced Access.

Abstract from the Oxford Journals website:

Refugee studies are often said to be a product of the policy world, shaped by global power relations and in particular by the interests of the global north. This article attempts to refine this view by exploring the relationship between refugees and forced migration as ‘real world’ phenomena and refugee or forced migration studies as a field of enquiry. The article takes two upheavals—the collapse of communist regimes in 1989–1991 and the financial and economic crisis of 2008–2011—to mark out or ‘bookend’ a period of about two decades during which we may track migration crises and upheavals of varying magnitudes and depth, and relate these developments to the unfolding of refugee or forced migration studies. Taking issue with some commentators’ views about the relationship between ‘real world’ forced migration and the development of forced migration studies as an analytical field, the article addresses the relations among three types of thinking: social science understandings of refugees and forced migration; thinking about refugees and forced migration in the world of policy and practice; and popular or everyday thinking about refugees. Concepts travel among these spheres of thinking and are shaped and transformed en route. Subject to power relations like other forms of knowledge, social science research on forced migration may influence both popular and governmental thinking as much as policy categories shape forced migration research.

[Access]
(Source: Oxford Journals)

The Employment Rights of Refugees in Africa under the 1969 African Refugee Convention (Refugees and the Right to Work, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Making Our Way: Resettled Refugee and Asylee Youth in New York City (Women’s Refugee Commission, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Participation and Employment: A Survey of Newly Arrived Migrants and Refugees in Melbourne (AMES, 2011) [text via BroCAP]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Preventing Gender-Based Violence, Building Livelihoods: Guidance and Tools for Improved Programming (Women’s Refugee Commission, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

New Edition of UNHCR Statistical Yearbook

UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2010

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recently published the latest edition of their annual statistucal publications, the Statistical Yearbook.  This represents the 10th edition of this publication, whose full title is the: ` Statistical Yearbook: Trends in Displacement, Protection and Solutions.’

The full report along with a large quantity of additional statistical information can be found on the UNHCR Statistics and Operational Data webpage.  the scope of the actual report can be detailed as follows:

The scope of the 2010 Yearbook remains unchanged from previous years. Since the introduction in 2006 of special features on specific topics within regions, the Yearbook has aimed to provide more analytical information designed to facilitate decision- making. In addition to reviewing global statistical trends and shifts in the populations of concern to UNHCR between January and December 2010, the Yearbook provides a number of case studies that examine issues such as health or IDP profiling.

[Download Options]
[UNHCR Statistics and Operational Data webpage.]

Midland History Journal – Ethnic Community Histories in the Midlands

Midland History Journal

The Midland History Journal has recently published a new special issue volume entitled `Ethnic Community Histories in the Midlands.’  This volume includes a number of papers in relation to the history and development of ethnic communities within the English Midlands, namely the counties of Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

Further details are as follows:

Midland History Journal
Volume 36, Number 2, Autumn 2011
Ethnic Community Histories in the Midlands.
http://maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/mdh/

Introduction: Ethnic Community Histories in the Midlands
pp. 143-148(6)
Authors: Dick, Malcolm; Dudrah, Rajinder

Birmingham Stories: Local Histories of Migration and Settlement and the Practice of History
pp. 149-162(14)
Authors: Myers, Kevin; Grosvenor, Ian

‘The Anarchy of Empire’: Reimagining Birmingham’s Civic Gospel
pp. 163-179(17)
Author: Green, Andy

The Black Presence in the West Midlands, 1650-1918
pp. 180-194(15)
Author: Callaghan, D.I.

Birmingham Anglo-Jewry c. 1780 to c. 1880: Origins, Experiences and Representations
pp. 195-214(20)
Author: Dick, Malcolm

Legacy of Partition, 1947-2009: Creating New Archives from the Memories of Leicestershire People
pp. 215-224(10)
Authors: Bonney, Richard; Hyde, Colin; Martin, John

‘Coventry Irish’: Community, Class, Culture and Narrative in the Formation of a Migrant Identity, 1940-1970
pp. 225-244(20)
Author: Ewart, Henrietta

The Cultural Currency of Afro-Caribbeans in Northamptonshire c. 1960-1990
pp. 245-261(17)
Author: Watley, George

Representing Race and Place: Black Midlanders on Television in the 1960s and 1970s
pp. 262-277(16)
Author: Long, Paul

British Bhangra Music as Soundscapes of the Midlands
pp. 278-291(14)
Author: Dudrah, Rajinder

Remembering the Alum Rock Road: Reputational Geographies and Spatial Biographies
pp. 292-309(18)
Authors: Parker, David; Karner, Christian

(Source : Maney Publishing – http://maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/mdh/)

ICA December Human Rights Working Group News

ICA Human Rights Working Group

The International Council on Archives Human Rights Working Group has recently published the December 2011 edition of their newsletter on their website.  The December 2011 can be downloaded – [here].

The Human Rights Working Group disseminates information on the importance of archives to defend human rights and the use of archives in protesting the violations of human rights. It issues a monthly newsletter on archives and human rights, it develops projects to increase the cooperation between ICA and archival services and administrations in the field of human rights, and it supports better and wider use of the archives in the defense of human rights.

An archives of newsletters from April 2008 is also available from the website – [here].

 

 

New Pubs. on Forced Displacement and Resettlement Research and Health

Journal of Refugee Studies

A New Path Forward: Researching and Reflecting on Forced Displacement and Resettlement:Report on the International Resettlement Conference: Economics, Social Justice, and Ethics in Development-Caused Involuntary Migration, the Hague, 4–8 October 2010
A new article to be published in the Journal of Refugee Studies, available as an Advance Access article.

Abstract:

Forced displacement by development projects is occurring around the world at increasing rates. While some institutions have adopted detailed policies to guide resettlement efforts post-displacement, those forcibly displaced by development projects continue to experience intense impoverishment and increased marginalization. Looking to develop new pathways forward to mitigate the negative impacts of development-caused forced displacement and resettlement, resettlement researchers and practitioners met for a conference in the Hague in October 2010. The conference interrogated current involuntary resettlement policies, examined the pitfalls and gaps between policy theories and implementation and began to develop a new framework for displacement and resettlement research, in which imposed development-caused displacement is analysed through the lens of both social justice and human rights.

[Access]
(Source: Oxford Journals).

Family Planning in Malakal, South Sudan: Results of a Community-based Pilot Project (American Refugee Committee, Women’s Refugee Commission & Centers for Disease Control, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Refocusing Family Planning in Refugee Settings: Findings and Recommendations from a Multi-­‐Country Baseline Study (UNHCR & Women’s Refugee Commission, Nov. 2011) [text]

- Note: Baseline studies conducted for this report are available via the Women’s Refugee Commission’s “reproductive health” section.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Towards Improving Forced Migrant Access to Health and Psychosocial Rights in Urban South Africa: A Focus on Johannesburg, Migration Issue Brief, no. 8 (African Centre for Migration & Society, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

UNHCR Operational Guidance on the Use of Special Nutritional Products to Reduce Micronutrient Deficiencies and Malnutrition in Refugee Populations (UNHCR, 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

UNHCR’s Essential Medicines and Medical Supplies: Policy and Guidance 2011 (UNHCR, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

New Journal Articles on Refugee Issues (weekly)

• WE REALLY ARE ALL MULTICULTURALISTS NOW – Kivisto – 2012 – The Sociological Quarterly – Wiley Online Library

  

  The Sociological Quarterly

  Treating multiculturalism as a social fact, this article develops the argument that it ought to be construed as a form of political claims-making advanced by spokespersons on behalf of what can be described as communities of fate. After brief examinations of the claims-makers and those groups that claims are made on behalf of, five types of claims are analyzed: (1) exemption, (2) accommodation, (3) preservation, (4) redress, and (5) inclusion. This leads to a concluding section devoted to analyzing the politics of identity as constituting an effort to ovecome the burdens of stigmatization, with a focus on the respective contributions of Goffman, Taylor, and Alexander.

• tags: newjournalarticles

• A New Path Forward: Researching and Reflecting on Forced Displacement and Resettlement

  tags: newjournalarticles

• ingentaconnect Genocide as a matter of degree

  This article employs Max Weber’s ideal-type method to classify genocides based on their degree of mass killing, unilateralism, and ethnic liability. The identification of the elements of genocide draws from a general theory of genocide (Campbell 2009, 2010) and from theories of social control employing Donald Black’s (1995, 1998) theoretical approach, known as pure sociology. Because these theories identify the social features associated with each element of genocide, they can explain the form genocides take.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• ‘Migration Control and the Solutions Impasse in South and Southeast Asia: Implications from the Rohingya Experience’

  By examining the comparative experiences of Rohingya who fled in the early 1990s to Bangladesh and Malaysia, this paper discusses implications for refugee protection in an Asian regional context characterized by generally applicable immigration measures and a reluctance to offer formal durable solutions. Somewhat secure from refoulement but undifferentiated or even deliberately invisible among larger irregular migrant populations, refugees in the region develop certain protection strategies and livelihood mechanisms outside the boundaries of formal asylum, which suggest they possess significant capacities to carve out their own protection space and achieve a level of de facto integration. Given the migration-focused discourse among states and regional processes as well as the impasse on solutions in Asia, this paper makes the case for further recognition of available, intermediate solutions which capitalize on ambiguities between migration management and refugee protection and empower refugee-driven solutions in all dimensions.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Forcing the Issue: Migration Crises and the Uneasy Dialogue between Refugee Research and Policy

  Refugee studies are often said to be a product of the policy world, shaped by global power relations and in particular by the interests of the global north. This article attempts to refine this view by exploring the relationship between refugees and forced migration as ‘real world’ phenomena and refugee or forced migration studies as a field of enquiry. The article takes two upheavals—the collapse of communist regimes in 1989–1991 and the financial and economic crisis of 2008–2011—to mark out or ‘bookend’ a period of about two decades during which we may track migration crises and upheavals of varying magnitudes and depth, and relate these developments to the unfolding of refugee or forced migration studies. Taking issue with some commentators’ views about the relationship between ‘real world’ forced migration and the development of forced migration studies as an analytical field, the article addresses the relations among three types of thinking: social science understandings of refugees and forced migration; thinking about refugees and forced migration in the world of policy and practice; and popular or everyday thinking about refugees. Concepts travel among these spheres of thinking and are shaped and transformed en route. Subject to power relations like other forms of knowledge, social science research on forced migration may influence both popular and governmental thinking as much as policy categories shape forced migration research.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Welcoming the Unwelcome: The Politics of Minimum Reception Standards for Asylum Seekers in Austria

  Despite considerable efforts to harmonize reception conditions for asylum seekers in the European Union, the adoption of Directive 2003/9/EC reflects domestic interests, producing substantially different standards at the national level. By drawing upon the Austrian case, this article examines the politics and policies of reception that have emerged in the context of the adoption, transposition and implementation of the Directive. Based on analysis of policy documents, house rules and expert interviews, it will be demonstrated to what extent and why outcomes differ widely even at the sub-state level. The prevailing variations are ascribed to, first, wide margins of administrative discretion and, second, conflicting interests between regional and federal governments, regarding financial and executive competences but also over the mere presence of asylum seekers. Thus, the concept of ‘minimum standards’ translates into minimum welfare and restricted enjoyment of personal freedom but not into measures supportive of a dignified life for asylum seekers.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Household Economy and Livelihoods among Iraqi Refugees in Syria

  According to current estimates, Syria hosts the largest number of Iraqi refugees in the region. This study aimed to provide information on the household economy and livelihoods among Iraqi refugees residing in urban areas of Syria. A nationally representative 80 × 10 cluster survey of Iraqi refugee households (total n = 800) was conducted in March 2009. Overall, 69 per cent of households reported having financial difficulties; 14 per cent fell below the poverty line of US$1/person/day and 41 per cent were living on less than US$2/person/day. High levels of dependency on remittances, pensions, and UN support were observed. Nearly 40 per cent of households reported an employed member, of whom 58 per cent reported workplace difficulties. Uncertain legal status and inability to work in the formal sector are principal concerns among the Iraqi population in Syria. Humanitarian assistance planners should consider livelihoods and cash transfer programmes that promote income generation and reduce dependency on savings and other outside sources.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Between a Protracted and a Crisis Situation: Policy Responses to Somali Refugees in Kenya

  The displaced from Iraq now constitute one of the largest refugee populations worldwide manifesting the evolving conditions of “protracted displacement”. Unlocking this protracted crisis of displacement requires analysis of the perceptions of solutions, durable and not-so-durable, among all stakeholders. This article focuses on the local-level perceptions of practitioners, policy-makers, and Iraqi refugees in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. It is based on desk research and interviews in the field in April and May 2011. Our findings show that the three classical durable solutions are largely unworkable for the majority of Iraqis in exile in the Middle East. Their migration is often circular and involves movement in and out of Iraq as well as across wider transnational networks in the Middle East and further afield. There is a need for an analytical shift from transitory humanitarian (emergency) assistance to fostering inclusive local assistance and accommodation to cater to the large group of Iraqi refugees who are increasingly “stuck” in host countries of the Middle East. It is worth exploring the possibility of a multi-directional approach to unlocking this prolonged crisis that taps into legal, policy, and operational opportunities.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Unlocking Protracted Displacement: An Iraqi Case Study

  The displaced from Iraq now constitute one of the largest refugee populations worldwide manifesting the evolving conditions of “protracted displacement”. Unlocking this protracted crisis of displacement requires analysis of the perceptions of solutions, durable and not-so-durable, among all stakeholders. This article focuses on the local-level perceptions of practitioners, policy-makers, and Iraqi refugees in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. It is based on desk research and interviews in the field in April and May 2011. Our findings show that the three classical durable solutions are largely unworkable for the majority of Iraqis in exile in the Middle East. Their migration is often circular and involves movement in and out of Iraq as well as across wider transnational networks in the Middle East and further afield. There is a need for an analytical shift from transitory humanitarian (emergency) assistance to fostering inclusive local assistance and accommodation to cater to the large group of Iraqi refugees who are increasingly “stuck” in host countries of the Middle East. It is worth exploring the possibility of a multi-directional approach to unlocking this prolonged crisis that taps into legal, policy, and operational opportunities.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Working with Trafficked Children and Young People: Complexities in Practice

  This article argues for a review of children’s services responses to trafficked children. It draws on findings from research funded by the National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), which took place between 2006 and 2009 exploring practitioners’ understandings of and responses to trafficked children and young people. Accompanied by an ongoing literature search, the project underwent three stages of data collection. Nine focus groups were run with a generic sample of practitioners from three locations in England. These were followed by interviews with practitioners who had detailed experience of working with trafficked children. A total of seventy-two practitioners took part in the focus groups and interviews. Finally, thirty-seven case studies of trafficked children were analysed. The findings explored in this article highlight variations in practitioners’ understanding of the meaning of trafficking; problems with the delivery of child-centred practice; confusions about the distinction between ‘trafficking’ and ‘smuggling’; and the meaning of ‘internal’ trafficking. Despite excellent examples of service delivery, further training for child-care and law-enforcement practitioners is needed for them to be equipped to respond to the full range of needs of trafficked children and young people.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• The Politics of Home: Dual Citizenship and the African Diaspora1 – Whitaker – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Intercountry Adoption Flows from Africa to the U.S.: A Fifth Wave of Intercountry Adoptions? – Davis – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  This article addresses whether there is the beginning of a fifth wave of intercountry adoptions (ICAs) from Africa to the United States (U.S.). ICAs function as a “quiet migration” of children [Weil (1984)International Migration Review 18(2):276–293; Lovelock (2000)International Migration Review 34 (3):907–949; Selman (2002)Population Research and Policy Review 21:205–225]. U.S. Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) data from 1971 to 2009 indicate that there were 421,085 ICAs to the U.S. Tarmann (2003:2, http://www.prb.org/Articles/2003/InternationalAdoptionRateinUSDoubledinthe1990s.aspx?p=1) reported that in 2000, U.S. parents completed one ICA for every 200 births. In the past, top sending countries have followed flows from Europe, South America, and Asia. INS data are used to analyze the increase in the intercountry adoptees from Africa from 1996 to 2009. Similar Hague Convention data are used for the comparison of the number of ICAs from Africa to other top recipient nations. Demographic and economic data are used to support the suggestion that ICAs, similar to other migratory flows, are from developing to developed countries.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Religion and Migration around the Globe: Introducing the Global Religion and Migration Database – Connor – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  International migration is a global phenomenon involving nearly 215 million people, equivalent to 3% of the world’s population. Previous databases of global migration catalog international migration using a variety of variables (sex, education, age); however, religion is rarely addressed within these data sets. Representing nearly half a million data points, the Global Religion and Migration Database (GRMD) was constructed – the only global database estimating the global migrant population (stock) by origin, destination, and religious affiliation. This research note serves as an introduction to the GRMD, detailing the construction of the database and providing key findings from a global perspective.

  tags: newjournalarticles

  • International migration is a global phenomenon involving nearly 215 million people, equivalent to 3% of the world’s population. Previous databases of global migration catalog international migration using a variety of variables (sex, education, age); however, religion is rarely addressed within these data sets. Representing nearly half a million data points, the Global Religion and Migration Database (GRMD) was constructed – the only global database estimating the global migrant population (stock) by origin, destination, and religious affiliation. This research note serves as an introduction to the GRMD, detailing the construction of the database and providing key findings from a global perspective.

• The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany: Are East Europeans Worse Off? – Lehmer – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  Using employment register data, this study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labor market between 1995 and 2000 with those of male German workers. Although the wage differentials are highest for Poles, results from Oaxaca/Blinder type decompositions show that the East Europeans are not generally worse off. Actually, we find considerable heterogeneity also within nationality groups. Quantile decompositions show that coefficients effects tend to be larger at the bottom of the wage distribution and, by that, give evidence for sticky floors.

  tags: newjournalarticles

  • Using employment register data, this study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labor market between 1995 and 2000 with those of male German workers. Although the wage differentials are highest for Poles, results from Oaxaca/Blinder type decompositions show that the East Europeans are not generally worse off. Actually, we find considerable heterogeneity also within nationality groups. Quantile decompositions show that coefficients effects tend to be larger at the bottom of the wage distribution and, by that, give evidence for sticky floors.

• Data Sets on International Migration – Henning – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  International migration figures prominently on the agenda of the United Nations. Solid migration data are crucial for supporting this global debate. This article describes the international migration data sets produced by the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations. The Population Division’s Migration Section produces migrant stock estimates for the world’s countries by sex and, more recently, by age. The Section also produces a database containing annual data on inflows, outflows, and net flows of international migrants by country of origin for major destination countries. The Section maintains the Global Migration Database, containing the world’s most complete set of empirical statistics on the international migrant stock by country of birth, citizenship, sex, and age for more than 200 countries and territories for recent decades. The data and associated publications are available from the Migration Section’s Web site at http://www.unmigration.org.

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• Dissecting Discrimination in Refugee Law: an Analysis of its Meaning and its Cumulative Effect

  The concept of ‘discrimination’ has several meanings and usages in refugee law. It goes to the very core of the refugee law regime, yet it does not have a clear definition. This article seeks to explore and critique the ways in which ‘discrimination’ is interpreted and applied by decision makers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. It is primarily concerned with ‘cumulative grounds discrimination’: namely, the understanding in refugee law that the cumulative effect of various discriminatory measures can amount to persecution, even where each incident of discrimination alone would not suffice. It critically analyzes the approaches of decision makers in such cases, in light of various statements of principle made by UNHCR. This article raises a number of questions, issues and inconsistencies that merit further research and consideration. It argues that decision makers should adopt a broader approach in discrimination cases: they should consider the impact of discrimination on the meaningful and effective enjoyment of rights, as well as on the individual and his or her ability to live a dignified life. The article concludes that adopting a broader approach in discrimination cases would be more consistent with fundamental principles of international human rights and refugee law: equality, non-discrimination and the inherent dignity of all human beings.

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• ingentaconnect The Right of Irregular Immigrants to Outstanding Remuneration und…

  This article will analyse the provisions of, and the rationale for, the EU Sanctions Directive and the significant divergence in treatment of irregular immigrants in EU Member States, in particular, in relation to the provision of outstanding remuneration, which the EU Sanctions Directive has highlighted. Ireland, a state that has chosen to opt-out of the Directive, has been selected as a case study to analyse some of the issues that states encounter in bringing domestic labour policy in line with globalisation. In particular, this article will address the phenomenon of irregular immigration to Ireland, the current approach to the provision of outstanding remuneration and the rationale behind this current approach. Finally, the article will conclude that the reasoning behind the Irish opt-out was based upon misinformed assumptions about the purpose of the provision of outstanding remuneration arising out of a `disconnect’ between immigration and labour policy at a domestic level.

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• Anti-Terrorism Measures and Refugee Law Challenges in Canada

  Canada’s security policies have had an impact on refugee protection. Canadian judges use international law principles in refugee issues, and ensure constitutional human rights protection to “everyone”, including refugees and asylum-seekers. Canada has expanded the refugee definition to persons at threat of torture, according to the United Nations Convention against Torture. But, on recent security issues, Canada has had difficulty to reconcile international law and domestic law, in terms of human rights guarantees. Return to torture has been technically rendered possible by the Supreme Court of Canada, as a matter of constitutional interpretation. One particular mechanism, the “security certificate”, has been intensely scrutinised by courts and found wanting in many cases. The secrecy surrounding the information on which the certificate is based has been criticised, as have been the ex parte proceedings, the indefiniteness of the detention, the limitations on the role of the “special advocate”, and so forth. Judges have felt increasingly irritated by the intrusion of security intelligence in judicial proceedings. Canada is (now more than before) reluctant to submit to international human rights scrutiny on migration and security issues, arguing that it relates to territorial sovereignty.

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• International Migration – Volume 49, Issue 6 – December 2011 – Wiley Online Library

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• When Policy Creates Politics: the Problematizing of Immigration and the Consequences for Refugee Integration in the UK

  This article starts from the premise that the way that policy is made plays an important role in how it is subsequently received. It is argued here that New Labour asylum policy and the symbols and rhetoric that accompanied policy-making, constructed asylum seekers as a threat. This construction problematized immigration generally and created a sense of crisis within the policy field. This assumed crisis then acted to encourage hostility within the general population. The hostile political environment then raises significant problems in terms of integration for all migrant groups, but particularly for asylum seekers and refugees. The article contextualizes these developments and locates cohesion and integration ‘problems’ within the policy-making processes of the Government.

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• Irregular Immigration Control in Italy and Greece: Strong Fencing and Weak Gate-keeping serving the Labour Market  »  Brill Online

  Italy and Greece have been often blamed by their fellow EU Member States for the excessive permeability of their borders, their inability to stop irregular migration, and their inefficient asylum systems. In addition the two countries have weak internal controls, especially as regards the sectors of the labour market where immigrants are usually employed e.g. agriculture, domestic work, tourism and catering. This article seeks to make sense of these fundamentally contradictory policies that characterise Greece’s and Italy’s approach to managing migration. The article starts by outlining the common features of Italian and Greek immigration policies and proposes an analysis of immigration control regimes along two dimensions: their internal (within the country’s territory) or external (at the border or outside the border) character, and their fencing (stopping) vs. gate-keeping (preventing) nature. Section 3 discusses critically the irregular migration inflows in Greece, the policies implemented to address them and their contradictory results. Section 4 reviews the related policies in Italy and casts light to their inconsistencies. In the concluding section, we highlight the possible explanations for these two countries’ lack of direction in immigration management pointing to the opposition between excessively regulated labour markets, large informal economies and strict border controls which however become lax and ineffective once irregular migrants or asylum seekers are within the country.

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• Environmental survey of segregated habitats of Roma in Hungary: a way to be empowering and reliable in minority research

  Background: Roma people, the largest minority in Europe live in segregated communites in several countries. The size of the Roma population is based on estimations deriving from various sources, whereas only narrative accounts of their living conditions have been available. Methods: A comprehensive environmental survey of all settlements in Hungary (n = 3145) was carried out employing Roma field workers in order to locate and characterize segregated parts (colonies) of human habitats. Based on the collected data on environmental conditions and aggregate population numbers of the colonies, ranking of colonies and maps on their characteristics were prepared for all counties of Hungary. Results: Seven hundred fifty-eight colonies were identified with approximately 134 000 inhabitants. Ninety-four percent of all colonies are populated dominantly by Roma. Most frequent environmental problems in the colonies were found to be lack of sewage and gas mains, garbage deposits, waterlogged soil and lack of water mains. Conclusion: Census data cannot be used for policy design aiming at those Roma who are in greatest need of help; that is, living in segregated settlements (colonies). Colonies constitute disadvantaged living conditions of varying severity which can be quantified by a composite score based on indicators of access to services and presence of environmental dangers. The proportion of colony-dwelling Roma is approximately one-fifth to one-quarter of the estimated number of Roma people in Hungary.

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• Governing Migrant Workers at a Distance: Managing the Temporary Status of Guestworkers in Taiwan – Tseng – 2011 – International Migration – Wiley Online Library

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• Development Policy Review – Volume 30, Issue 1 – January 2012 – Wiley Online Library

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• Disasters – Volume 36, Issue 1 – January 2012 – Wiley Online Library

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• International Migration Review – Volume 45, Issue 4 – Winter 2011 – Wiley Online Library

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• Crisis, economic uncertainty and union members’ attitudes towards immigration in Europe

  The literature identifies three key factors that shape attitudes towards immigration: socio-economic uncertainty, ideology and the institutional framework. The aim of this article is to take a closer look at the differences in trade union members’ attitudes to immigration and the factors that determine them. We test three hypotheses by addressing three questions. First, what are the differences between the attitudes of trade union members and non-members with regard to immigration? Second, how are attitudes affected by material socio-economic variables? Third, how do different institutional frameworks and contexts affect trade union members’ attitudes? We conclude that attitudes can be explained by the interaction between economic and ideological variables. This has important implications for trade union strategies geared towards the integration of migrant workers.

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• Pedagogical strategies for teaching literacy to ESL immigrant students: A meta-analysis – Adesope – 2011 – British Journal of Educational Psychology – Wiley Online Library

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• Taylor & Francis Online :: Social Networks of Refugees in the United Kingdom: Tradition, Tactics and New Community Spaces – Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies – Volume 32, Issue 5

  This study is based on three years of participative, ethnographic fieldwork with asylum-seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom. Through participant observation and analysis of ego-centred networks, I attempted to build trusting research relationships with individual refugees coming to terms with life in exile. Refugees themselves have played an integral part in the innovative research design which has evolved in response to their contributions. The research demonstrates that, contrary to some stereotypes, refugees endeavour to be proactive social actors. This counters the predominant assumption of refugee dependency. Furthermore, the research adds to existing work on the social networks of refugees by providing an intimate picture of a small group of refugees. It describes their tactics in meeting practical and emotional needs, describes how these networks spread across continents and from home country to countries of exile, and proposes a new typology based on the strength of network ties:

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• The Experiences of Staff Working With Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United Kingdom: A Grounded Theory Exploration | information for practice

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• The Recast Process of the EU Asylum System: A Balancing Act Between Efficiency and Fairness

  The article examines and assesses the various instruments developed at the European level for granting protection to asylum-seekers. It starts by providing an historical overview of asylum and immigration law and policy in the European Union, from its origins to the changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty and recast proposals of existing legislative instruments. In so doing, the article critically examines whether the European Union provides an adequate framework for protecting those seeking international protection both from the perspective of effectiveness and fairness and shows that despite some changes ensuring a stronger level of protection of asylum-seekers the recast process still does not ensure an equal standard of protection across European Union Member States.

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• A fractured mosaic: Encounters with the everyday amongst refugee and asylum seeker women – Conlon – 2010 – Population, Space and Place – Wiley Online Library

  In his critique of everyday life, Henri Lefebvre called for an understanding of the everyday as a complex, fragmentary and dynamic constellation. Apprehending everyday life in this way complements the calls – from scholars of migration geography in particular – to ground meta-narratives of globalisation and mobility within the physical locales, material objects and social and spatial practices where the daily lives of migrants actually unfold. This paper takes up these issues by drawing on qualitative interview research conducted over an 11-month period with asylum seeker and refugee women living in contemporary Irish society. Drawing on some of Lefebvre’s ideas the paper examines how the presence and absence of material objects and textures of the everyday train and emplace participants in local contexts while simultaneously linking them in concrete and abstract ways to global transnationality. In this process, the ‘fractured mosaic’ that marks migrants’ social, material and cultural everyday lives becomes crystal clear while illustrating the value of Lefebvre’s perspectives for apprehending the intricate sociality and materiality of transnational migration. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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• Cambridge Journals Online – Abstract – II. WHOSE RULE OF LAW? AN ANALYSIS OF THE UK’S DECISION NOT TO OPT-IN TO THE EU ASYLUM PROCEDURES AND RECEPTION CONDITIONS DIRECTIVES

  The United Kingdom (‘UK’) has indicated its intention not to opt-in to two proposals from the European Commission aimed at further developing the Common European Asylum System through the replacement of existing instruments on asylum procedures and reception conditions. The purpose of the European Union (‘EU’) amendment process is to establish rules that more closely align the legal framework for asylum in the Member States so that asylum seekers receive the same higher standard of treatment in any Member State in which they choose to make their application, and to address criticism that the Directives are incompatible with human rights obligations. The UK asserts that its asylum procedures satisfy the standards imposed by its obligations under international and European law, and does not view further harmonization of asylum matters at EU level as necessary or appropriate. Its decision not to opt-in raises issues regarding sovereignty, subsidiarity, the rule of law and European integration. This article will explore these issues, as well as provide an overview of select provisions from the proposals in light of UK asylum policy.

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• Cambridge Journals Online – Abstract – Representing and Reconstructing Identities in the Postwar World: Refugees, UNRRA, and Fred Zinnemann’s Film, The Search (1948)

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• Iraqi refugees and the humanitarian costs of the Iraq war: What role for social work? – Harding – 2011 – International Journal of Social Welfare – Wiley Online Library

  The US-led invasion and war in Iraq has created one of the most significant refugee crises in recent decades. International nongovernmental organizations have partnered with local organizations in Jordan and Syria to provide humanitarian aid to some two million displaced Iraqis. Field research indicates that, as with other humanitarian crises, few trained social workers have contributed to policy and practice with displaced Iraqis. The case of Iraq provides an opportunity to consider how the social work profession can shape comprehensive global refugee policies and programs. This role is appropriate, given mandates for the profession to promote social justice and human rights. Using the case of Iraqi displacement, we illustrate the complexities of humanitarian services provision and the need for trained social workers to participate in humanitarian relief and development programs. We argue that a variety of social work institutions and actors should become more robust advocates for shaping just refugee policy and practice.

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• ingentaconnect The Arab Spring and the Extraordinary Influx of People who Arrive…

  The `Arab spring’ which spread in early 2011 and the consequent exceptional influx of people that arrived on the Italian coasts from North Africa put the national reception and asylum systems under particular pressure, also raising the debate on the status to be attributed to these people. Faced with a situation out of the ordinary, Italy immediately addressed a request for help to the European Union, which has revealed the difference of views and mistrust existing between Member States in relation to these issues. This episode also calls into question the scope and effectiveness of the EU migration management framework, particularly in case of strong and unexpected pressure, and its implementation in a true spirit of solidarity.

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• ingentaconnect Roma Expulsions and Discrimination: The Elephant in Brussels

  This article will critically examine the treatment of migrant Roma in Western Europe, particularly Italy and France, in the light of the obligations under the EU Citizenship Directive 2004/38. The role of the political institutions will be considered, especially the European Commission, who have yet to take a decisive position on the Roma expulsions and on the wider issue of Roma discrimination in Europe. It is argued that the focus on non-discrimination cannot address the entrenched inequality which characterises the Roma’s situation in Europe. Furthermore, that the comparative disadvantage experienced by Europe’s Roma communities constitutes a major human rights crisis which has so far been sidelined by Brussels. A European strategy is urgently required, which demands leadership from the Commission and the full participation of Roma representatives.

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• Criminalizing Irregular Immigration and the Returns Directive: An Analysis of the El Dridi Case  »  Brill Online

  Abstract After its judgment in the Kadzoev case, the Court of Justice has been called again to interpret the Returns Directive and its scope of application in the El Dridi case: this new ruling put an end to the situation of judicial chaos and to the very intense debate which followed non-transposition of the directive in Italian legislation. The judgment in the El Dridi case clarifies the difference between criminal detention and pre-return detention, as well as the objectives of the Returns Directive and its scope of application. This ruling will have far-reaching consequences not only on the Italian criminal and expulsions system, but also on the national legislation of a number of Member States.

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• Cambridge Journals Online – Abstract – The Normative Erosion of International Refugee Protection through UN Security Council Practice

  Since the early 1990s, the UN Security Council has used its enforcement measures under Chapter VII of the UN Charter to address different aspects of international refugee protection from the root causes of forced displacement to the search for durable solutions to the refugee problem. At the same time, however, the Security Council has been criticized for impelling trends towards state security concerns that have emerged in the refugee-protection regime over the past two decades. By establishing safe areas in Iraq, Bosnia, and Rwanda, or linking refugee status to terrorism, the Security Council has been accused of violating established refugee-protection standards. This paper seeks to use the prism of international refugee protection to draw a more nuanced picture of the normative effects of SC actions on the development of international law generally. Shifting the analytical focus from the much-discussed responsibility of the Security Council for wrongful acts, it is submitted that the practice of the Security Council has had a considerable influence on the development and even making of norms in the field of international refugee protection, thereby eroding established refugee-protection standards. This normative erosion through the inherently political actions of the Security Council will be assessed with regard to the principal measures by which the Security Council has addressed international refugee protection, namely peace operations and economic sanctions.

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• Surveillance of immigrants from Turkey in Germany: From the disciplinary society to the society of control

  The surveillance of immigrants from Turkey in Germany functions on two seemingly contradictory levels: on the one hand, it de facto recognizes their inclusion in German society; on the other hand, it serves as an instrument to exclude them as ‘(un)suitable’ foreign subjects within that society. Since 1961, this surveillance has slowly but surely changed its character. The aim of this article is to examine these changes through the lens of the different characteristics of so-called disciplinary and control societies. The article reconsiders the theoretical definitions of discipline and control in light of the German context to develop these as more precise historical categories. The fundamental point is that contact between German society and the social fact of migration and an immigrant population decisively inflected German disciplinary and control societies from the very beginning. This study argues that there has been a gradual shift on the part of the German state from a more limited focus to broader considerations of the issue of migration. This shift reveals more inclusionary measures; yet, dialectically, at the very same time it defines and captures an expanding space of exclusion.

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• The Effects of Parental Undocumented Status on the Developmental Contexts of Young Children in Immigrant Families – Yoshikawa – 2011 – Child Development Perspectives – Wiley Online Library

  Abstract— There were roughly 4 million children of undocumented parents in the United States in 2008. This article describes the effects that parental undocumented status can have on developmental contexts experienced in early childhood, before formal school entry. It focuses on early childhood as a crucial but still overlooked period for the study of children in immigrant families, a developmental stage when foundational cognitive and social skills are developing and in which social and economic disadvantage has particularly potent effects. Moreover, 91% of children under 6 with at least 1 undocumented parent are themselves U.S. citizens, which highlights the role of parental documentation status in affecting contexts of development that children may have access to but cannot select themselves. This article focuses on 3 sets of developmental contexts that may be sensitive to documentation status of parents: immediate postmigration contexts, in areas of legal, local enforcement policy, and neighborhood characteristics; everyday social settings, including program use, housing quality, and work conditions; and family processes.

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• ingentaconnect The Transformation of the Afghan Refugee: 19792009

  Most unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people arrive in the UK in their mid teen years. Preparation and planning for transition to adulthood should therefore be at the forefront of the minds of care-givers and social workers. This paper reviews current research evidence on the response of social work services to this group of young people in England, with a particular focus on what is known about the circumstances in which young people may be best prepared for adult life, how they fare in comparison to other young people in public care, and on the challenges presented for pathway planning that arise at the intersection between social work and the asylum determination process. The evidence for England is situated, wherever possible, against evidence drawn from international literature in this field and the need for a broader research agenda (incorporating more longitudinal work on care and leaving care pathways) is highlighted in order to strengthen the evidence base to support policy and practice in this field.

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  • In the last 30 years, the social and linguistic articulation of the Afghan in Pakistan and Iran has gone from muhajir [refugee], to migrant, and even to terrorist. This article provides an overview of that transformation to demonstrate that it depends more on external factors rather than any fundamental change in the conditions structuring Afghan migration. Examining the migration regime operating between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran further confirms the problems of a refugee/migrant dualism.

• ingentaconnect ‘I’d Heard it was Such a Grand Place’: Mid-19<sup xmlns=”http://p…

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• Preparation and transition planning for unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee young people: a review of evidence in England, Wade, J.

  Most unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people arrive in the UK in their mid teen years. Preparation and planning for transition to adulthood should therefore be at the forefront of the minds of care-givers and social workers. This paper reviews current research evidence on the response of social work services to this group of young people in England, with a particular focus on what is known about the circumstances in which young people may be best prepared for adult life, how they fare in comparison to other young people in public care, and on the challenges presented for pathway planning that arise at the intersection between social work and the asylum determination process. The evidence for England is situated, wherever possible, against evidence drawn from international literature in this field and the need for a broader research agenda (incorporating more longitudinal work on care and leaving care pathways) is highlighted in order to strengthen the evidence base to support policy and practice in this field.

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• European View, Volume 10, Number 2 – SpringerLink

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• Ethics, Vulnerability, and Speakers of Other Languages

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• Global Roundtable on Alternatives to Detention of Asylum-Seekers, Refugees, Migrants and Stateless Persons

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New Pubs. on the Middle East, Human Rights in the UK and Citizenship

Amnesty International has published a report entitled “Year of Rebellion – The State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa” focusing on the events of 2011 in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, and Iraq.

2011 was a year without precedent for the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa region. It was a year in which millions of people of all ages and backgrounds flooded on to the streets to demand change. Dubbed the “Arab Spring”, in fact the protests brought together in common cause people from many different communities. This report describes the events of this tumultuous year, one which saw much suffering and sadness but also spread hope within the region and beyond, to countries where other people face repression and everyday abuse of their human rights.

[Download Full Report]
[See Also - Amnesty International Press Release]
(Source:  Migrants at Sea blog – Amnesty International Report: Year of Rebellion – The State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa).

New Statewatch Report written by Yasha Maccanico and entitled “The EU’s self-interested response to unrest in north Africa: the meaning of treaties and readmission agreements between Italy and north African states.”
[Download Full Report]
(Source:  Migrants at Sea blog – Statewatch Analysis: The EU’s self-interested response to unrest in north Africa: the meaning of treaties and readmission agreements between Italy and north African states).

A new report by the Equality and Diversity Forum entitled: “Human rights in the UK: the challenge of winning hearts and minds.”
[Download Full Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – EDF Learning Exchange report: Human Rights campaigning – what can we learn from each other?)

The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, based at the Open University, has launched a new quarterly newsletter.

From the Migrants’ Rights Network press release:

CCIG is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence. It has the aim of innovating research and debate on themes of citizenship, identity formation and practices of governance in contemporary society. The highlights included in this issue (multiculturalism, critical approaches to official and public discourses, social sciences’ involvement in public practices) express not only the interdisciplinary nature of CCIG but also its contributions to socially and politically conscious research that draws out new possibilities for social justice and positive social change.

 

RSQ Advance Access Articles and Pub. on Displacement in Pakistan and Legal Aid

Refugee Survey Quarterly

Struggle for Recognition: Bosnian Refugees’ Employment Experiences in Sweden.
By Maja Povrzanović Frykman.
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access Article.
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(Source: Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access on Oxford Journals).

The Faltering us Refugee Protection System: Legal and Policy Responses to Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Others in Need of Protection.
By Donald Kerwin.
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access Article.
[Access]
(Source: Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access on Oxford Journals).

Subsidiary Protection and the Function of Article 15(c) of the Qualification Directive.
By Paul Tiedemann.
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access Article.
[Access]
(Source: Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access on Oxford Journals).

Examining the relationship between immigration and unemployment using National Insurance Number registration data.
A new discussion paper published by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.  The abstract for this paper argues that:

 Immigration has been central in recent UK policy debates and has attracted significant concern over its possible adverse effect on labour market outcomes. This paper contributes to the evidence on this issue by presenting initial results on the impact of migration inflows on the claimant count rate using previously unused data on National Insurance Number registrations of foreign nationals. Our results, which appear robust to different specifications, different levels of geographic aggregation, and to a number of tests, seem to confirm the lack of any impact of migration on unemployment in aggregate. We find no association between migrant inflows and claimant unemployment. In addition, we test for whether the impact of migration on claimant unemployment varies according to the state of the economic cycle. We find no evidence of a more adverse during periods of low growth or the recent recession.

[Download Paper]
[National Institute of Economic and Social Research – Press Release]
(Source: The Guardian – Migrants do not affect jobless levels, say researchers).

Unintended Consequences: the cost of the Government’s Legal Aid Reforms: A Report for The Law Society of England & Wales.
By Dr. Graham Cookson.  This is a report on research commissioned by The Law Society of England & Wales (henceforth, The Law Society) in June 2011.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: The Refugee Council – Legal aid cuts will incur £139m of knock on costs, report finds).

Pakistan: Displacement caused by conflict and natural disasters, achievements and challenges.
A new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).[Download Full Report or visit the Pakistan country page]
(Source – Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre).

News: Reports on Immigration and the UK Labour Market

Further to my post from yester (RSQ Advance Access Articles and Pub. on Displacement in Pakistan and Legal Aid) which reference the new report form National Institute of Economic and Social Research regarding the links between immigration and unemployment in the UK labour market. , there has been significant discussion in the UK media on this issue.  Especially as a new report by the Migration Advisory Committee of the UKBA seemed to provide contradictory evidence provided by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research report.

Press coverage has included:

• The Metro (London):  One ‘British’ job is lost for every four immigrants
• The Guardian – Migrants do not affect jobless levels, say researchers
• The Guardian – Report on non-EU immigration and unemployment will dominate debate
• The Guardian – Non-EU immigration linked to unemployment, says report
• The Telegraph – Immigation does keep Britons out of jobs, government committee admits 
• The Independent – Immigration does not cause unemployment 

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report on the Analysis of the Impacts of Migration (10 January 2012)

In May 2011 the Government asked the MAC to ‘research the labour market, social and public service impacts of non-EEA migration; and to advise on the use of such evidence in cost-benefit analysis of migration policy decisions.’
[Download Report]
(Source: Migration Advisory Committee).

Examining the relationship between immigration and unemployment using National Insurance Number registration data.

A new discussion paper published by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.  The abstract for this paper argues that:

 Immigration has been central in recent UK policy debates and has attracted significant concern over its possible adverse effect on labour market outcomes. This paper contributes to the evidence on this issue by presenting initial results on the impact of migration inflows on the claimant count rate using previously unused data on National Insurance Number registrations of foreign nationals. Our results, which appear robust to different specifications, different levels of geographic aggregation, and to a number of tests, seem to confirm the lack of any impact of migration on unemployment in aggregate. We find no association between migrant inflows and claimant unemployment. In addition, we test for whether the impact of migration on claimant unemployment varies according to the state of the economic cycle. We find no evidence of a more adverse during periods of low growth or the recent recession.

[Download Paper]
[National Institute of Economic and Social Research – Press Release]
(Source: The Guardian – Migrants do not affect jobless levels, say researchers).

Off Air Recording Requests: WB 16/01/2012

The following off-air recording requests have been made for the Refugee Council Archive for the week beginning Monday, 16 January 2011:

Wednesday 18 January

 2000-2100: ITV4: (3/13) Border Security USA.  Whole Series Requested.

Thursday 19 January

 1930-2000: ITV1: Did Gaddafi Kill My Daughter?: Tonight.  VideoPlus: 203

2100-2200: BBC2: (1/4) Putin, Russia and the West.  VideoPlus: 9074.  Whole Series Requested.

2200-2335: Channel 4: Gypsy Blood: True Stories.  VideoPlus: 109105

New Pubs. on Race and Religion, Statistics, Child Poverty, NGOs. Humanitarian Assistance

Race, religion and equalities: a report on the 2009–10 citizenship survey
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/pdf/2056245.pdf

“Using 2009-10 Citizenship Survey data, this report provides an in-depth examination of Race, Religion and Equalities. It charts key measures such as religious affiliation and practice, views on religious and racial prejudice, harassment due to race or religion, levels of discrimination by public services, and levels of workplace discrimination.”

(Source: The Network e-bulletin).

The Immigration Statistics User Guide published by the UK Home Office.  This user guide has been produce dby the Home Office to assist with interpreting the regularly produce Home Office quarterly asylum figures.
[Download User Guide]
See Also – Home Office Migrations and asylum – research and statistics publications.
(Source: The Network e-bulletin).

International Migration Review

Data Sets on International Migration.
Article written by Sabine Henning and Bela Hovy.
International Migration Review, Volume 45, Issue 4,  pages 980–985, Winter 2011.

International migration figures prominently on the agenda of the United Nations. Solid migration data are crucial for supporting this global debate. This article describes the international migration data sets produced by the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations. The Population Division’s Migration Section produces migrant stock estimates for the world’s countries by sex and, more recently, by age. The Section also produces a database containing annual data on inflows, outflows, and net flows of international migrants by country of origin for major destination countries. The Section maintains the Global Migration Database, containing the world’s most complete set of empirical statistics on the international migrant stock by country of birth, citizenship, sex, and age for more than 200 countries and territories for recent decades. The data and associated publications are available from the Migration Section’s Web site at http://www.unmigration.org.

[Access]
(Source: International Migration Review).

Child Poverty Map of the UK.
Produced by End Child Poverty (UK).
[Download Report]
(Source: Docubase).

A Partnership at Risk? The UN-NGO Relationship in Light of UN Integration (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Reference Guide: Normative Developments on the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance in the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council since the Adoption of General Assembly Resolution 46/182 (2nd Edition) (OCHA, Nov. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

New Journal Articles on Refugee Issues (weekly)

• Demographic Data on International Migration Levels, Trends and Characteristics – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

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• Success on European Labor Markets: A Cross-national Comparison of Attainment between Immigrant and Majority Populations1 – Pichler – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  “Typical labor market outcomes vary considerably between majority and migrant populations. Drawing on scholarship from across the social sciences, we assess competing micro- and macro-level explanations of differential occupational attainment among immigrant groups across 28 countries. The analyses of occupational attainment are run separately for first- and second-generation migrants as well as children of mixed marriage and take into account their wider social and cultural background. Results from four rounds of the European Social Survey show that people with a migration background do not necessarily achieve a lower labor market success than the majority. However, human capital, social mobility, and cultural background explain these outcomes to different degrees, suggesting tailored pathways to labor market success for each group of migrants. We also find that occupational attainment varies considerably across countries, although this is hardly attributable to immigration policies. These and other findings are discussed in the light of previous studies on immigrant incorporation.”

  tags: newjournalarticles

• The Settlement Country and Ethnic Identification of Children of Turkish Immigrants in Germany, France, and the Netherlands: What Role Do National Integration Policies Play? – Ersanilli – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  “Germany, France, and the Netherlands have pursued different types of integration policies. Using data from a mixed method study, this paper investigates whether and how these differences have affected the settlement country and ethnic identification of the children of Turkish immigrants. The results indicate that integration policies do not affect ethnic identification, but an inclusive policy has a positive impact on settlement country identification. Multicultural policies do not seem to have any effect. Despite processes of exclusion and self-exclusion in all three countries, our respondents have developed a strong connection to their settlement country and in particular to their place of residence.”

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• Generation and Earnings Patterns Among Chinese, Filipino, and Korean Americans in New York – Oh – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  “By treating the 1.5 generation as a distinctive analytic category, this paper compares the effects of generational status on earnings among men of Chinese, Filipinos, and Korean descents in the New York metropolitan area. Our analyses of the 5 percent Public Use Microdata Sample data of the 2000 U.S. census show that all other background characteristics held equal, 1.5-generation Chinese and Filipino American workers make significantly higher earnings than second-generation workers. However, Korean American workers do not exhibit this 1.5-generation advantage. These findings support a segmented assimilation theory, the view that immigrant assimilation paths are not uniform across ethnic groups or generation status. Other findings suggest that bilingual ability would increase earnings only for the Chinese group.”

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• The Impact of Migrant Remittances on School Attendance and Education Attainment: Evidence from Jordan – Mansour – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  This paper evaluates the impact of migrant remittances on human capital accumulation among youth. An augmented human capital model with two outcomes, education attendance and education attainment, is estimated using a large nationally representative household survey from Jordan. Empirical results show that migrant remittance receipt has a positive effect on education attendance. This finding is obtained while controlling for other socio-economic determinants of schooling behavior and is robust to censorship and endogeneity bias. The results also indicate that the magnitude of the remittance impact on both education outcomes is larger for men compared with that of women.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Intercountry Adoption Flows from Africa to the U.S.: A Fifth Wave of Intercountry Adoptions? – Davis – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  “This article addresses whether there is the beginning of a fifth wave of intercountry adoptions (ICAs) from Africa to the United States (U.S.). ICAs function as a “quiet migration” of children [Weil (1984)International Migration Review 18(2):276–293; Lovelock (2000)International Migration Review 34 (3):907–949; Selman (2002)Population Research and Policy Review 21:205–225]. U.S. Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) data from 1971 to 2009 indicate that there were 421,085 ICAs to the U.S. Tarmann (2003:2, http://www.prb.org/Articles/2003/InternationalAdoptionRateinUSDoubledinthe1990s.aspx?p=1) reported that in 2000, U.S. parents completed one ICA for every 200 births. In the past, top sending countries have followed flows from Europe, South America, and Asia. INS data are used to analyze the increase in the intercountry adoptees from Africa from 1996 to 2009. Similar Hague Convention data are used for the comparison of the number of ICAs from Africa to other top recipient nations. Demographic and economic data are used to support the suggestion that ICAs, similar to other migratory flows, are from developing to developed countries.”

  tags: newjournalarticles

• The Politics of Home: Dual Citizenship and the African Diaspora1 – Whitaker – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  In recent decades, more countries have started to recognize dual citizenship. Although overlooked in the literature, Africa is part of this trend with more than half of its governments now permitting their nationals to naturalize elsewhere while retaining home country rights. Why have some African countries embraced dual citizenship for emigrants, while others have not? We examine demographic, political, and economic data broadly across the continent and identify few clear patterns. We then explore the cases of Senegal, Ghana, and Kenya, finding that dual citizenship policies are driven as much by politics as they are by economic or security concerns.

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• U.S. Data Sources on the Foreign Born and Immigration – Grieco – 2011 – International Migration Review – Wiley Online Library

  Migration data can be divided into two broad types: “stock” or census and survey data and “flow” or administrative data. Both stock and flow data are valuable resources for analyzing the migration process. In the statistical system of the United States, the U.S. Census Bureau is the primary source for census and survey data on the foreign born. The Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. State Department provide several different administrative sources for studying immigration. The goal of this study is to review the best sources of government data available for analyzing (1) the size, distribution, and characteristics of the foreign-born population and their households and (2) the level of immigration into the United States, and the distribution and characteristics of immigrants by status.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Educational concerns of Arabic speaking migrants from Sudan and Iraq to Melbourne: Expectations on migrant parents in Australia « « BroCAPBroCAP

  Families immigrating to Australia face many challenges integrating into the educational system, including language barriers and interrupted schooling. We have qualitatively evaluated the educational concerns of Arabic migrants from Sudan and Iraq to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, a city that receives a high percentage of Australia’s immigrants. Using an interactive paradigm incorporating focus group discussions for thematic analysis, we concluded that the parents’ frame of reference for education was a more didactic style of learning. Parents viewed education as an essential part of the way forward for their children in Australia. However, it was stressful for them to try to cope with a new host nation’s expectation of their involvement in their children’s education while at the same time dealing with a language barrier. Professionals should look to empower parents with structural information about the key elements of the educational curriculum with minimal reliance on written technical language and match their expectations of parental involvement to the situation of the parents.

  SOURCE: W.J. Sainsbury, A.M.N. Renzaho, Educational concerns of Arabic speaking migrants from Sudan and Iraq to Melbourne: Expectations on migrant parents in Australia, International Journal of Educational Research (2011), doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2011.10.001

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• Kinship construction variability among Nigerian international migrants: The context of contemporary Diaspora

  Understanding the selves, situations and actions of Africans can never be comprehended outside kinship. Local and foreign worldviews are first pigeonholed into culture and defined within kinship realities in Nigeria and Africa. There have been studies on kinship in Africa. However, the findings from such studies portrayed the immutability of African kinship. Thus, as an important contribution to the on-going engagement of kinship in the twenty-first century as an interface between the contemporary Diaspora, this article engaged kinship within international migration. This is a major behavioural and socio-economic force in Nigeria. Methodological triangulation was adopted as part of the research design and primary data were collected through in-depth interviews (IDIs), and life histories of international migrants were documented and focus group discussions (FGDs) were held with kin of returnees. The article found and concluded that while returnees continued to appreciate local kinship infrastructures, the infrastructures were liable to reconstruction primarily determined by dominant support situations in the traditional African kinship networks.

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• Impact of psychological disorders after female genital mutilation among Kurdish girls in Northern Iraq

  ABSTRACT – Background and Objectives: This study investigated the mental health status of young girls after genital mutilation in Northern Iraq. Although experts assume that circumcised girls are more prone to psychiatric illnesses than non-circumcised girls, little research has been conducted to confirm this claim. For the purpose of this study, it was assumed that female genital

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Contemporary Political Theory – Abstract of article: Resolving debates over the status of ethnic identities during transitional justice

  Although democratization is desirable, the reframing of ethnic identity, witnessed for example in the peace campaigns of South Africa and Rwanda, raises two questions: First, there is an empirical question: can ethnic identities actually be modified? Second, there is a normative question: should ‘problematic’ elements of ethnic identities be modified? This article is divided into three sections. In the first section, I demonstrate that each of these questions provokes, and indeed merits, debate. In the second section, I argue that in each case these debates are the result of an incoherent response to the complications of identity politics. Thus to address these debates, I first develop a theory of how to manage the machinations of social and ethnic group identities: the recognition–redistribution–participation theory, inspired by the work of Nancy Fraser, which comprises a two-dimensional conception of justice and accompanying norm of equality of participation opportunity. I then in my final section proceed to show that the debates that develop from efforts to desecuritize ethnic relations can be resolved by applying this theory.

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• E.U. Accountability to International Law : The Case of Asylum

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• IOS Press Books Online, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series – E: Human and Societal Dynamics Volume 78, 2011

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Subsidiary Protection and the Function of Article 15(c) of the Qualification Directive

  The United States’ system of refugee protection, long a source of national pride and a symbol of United States’ openness to the world’s dispossessed, remains generous in many respects. This system – which encompasses refugees, asylum-seekers, and populations in need of short-term protection – has ambitious goals and diverse responsibilities. It seeks to enable those fleeing persecution to reach protection, while preventing terrorist and criminal infiltration; to identify and admit vulnerable refugees, and to promote their successful integration; to screen out fraudulent political asylum claims, but to ensure that bona fide asylum-seekers can apply for and, if eligible, secure asylum; and to weigh endless requests for temporary protection from groups and individuals. Over the past 20 years, particularly since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, security and enforcement concerns have driven United States’ refugee developments and protection policies have not kept pace. The present article details the increased difficulties bona fide refugees and asylum-seekers face in trying to reach and to gain protection in the United States. It also describes the paucity of legal tools available to admit and to provide temporary status in the United States on humanitarian grounds. It argues that the United States’ system of refugee protection needs policy attention and revitalisation.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• The Faltering us Refugee Protection System: Legal and Policy Responses to Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Others in Need of Protection

  The United States’ system of refugee protection, long a source of national pride and a symbol of United States’ openness to the world’s dispossessed, remains generous in many respects. This system – which encompasses refugees, asylum-seekers, and populations in need of short-term protection – has ambitious goals and diverse responsibilities. It seeks to enable those fleeing persecution to reach protection, while preventing terrorist and criminal infiltration; to identify and admit vulnerable refugees, and to promote their successful integration; to screen out fraudulent political asylum claims, but to ensure that bona fide asylum-seekers can apply for and, if eligible, secure asylum; and to weigh endless requests for temporary protection from groups and individuals. Over the past 20 years, particularly since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, security and enforcement concerns have driven United States’ refugee developments and protection policies have not kept pace. The present article details the increased difficulties bona fide refugees and asylum-seekers face in trying to reach and to gain protection in the United States. It also describes the paucity of legal tools available to admit and to provide temporary status in the United States on humanitarian grounds. It argues that the United States’ system of refugee protection needs policy attention and revitalisation.

  tags: newjournalarticles

• Struggle for Recognition: Bosnian Refugees’ Employment Experiences in Sweden

  This article presents the personal experiences of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina related to their employment in Sweden. It is based on 35 interviews conducted in 2009 with asylum claimants and resettled refugees who came to Sweden in the early 1990s, aiming at their own perceptions and subjective assessments of their employment paths. The variety of experiences within each of these two groups suggests that individual employment paths can neither be fully explained by the admission category, nor in terms of the type of education, age, or gender. Although they admit the importance of these factors, the interviewees perceive chance as a decisive issue with regard to their initial access to the labour market, and its strong impact on their further success. They see official channels of professional recognition as far less functional than informal paths leading into the labour market that depend on personal encounters and connections. Against the background of laws and policies, personally experienced employment integration is revealed as a chance-ridden individual process.

  tags: newjournalarticles

  • This article presents the personal experiences of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina related to their employment in Sweden.  It is based on 35 interviews conducted in 2009 with asylum claimants and resettled refugees who came to Sweden in the early  1990s, aiming at their own perceptions and subjective assessments of their employment paths. The variety of experiences within  each of these two groups suggests that individual employment paths can neither be fully explained by the admission category,  nor in terms of the type of education, age, or gender. Although they admit the importance of these factors, the interviewees  perceive chance as a decisive issue with regard to their initial access to the labour market, and its strong impact on their  further success. They see official channels of professional recognition as far less functional than informal paths leading  into the labour market that depend on personal encounters and connections. Against the background of laws and policies, personally  experienced employment integration is revealed as a chance-ridden individual process.

• Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Online First™ – SpringerLink

  The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of macro-level factors on immigrant and non-immigrant women’s mental health status in a Canadian context. This study was part of a larger study examining women’s quality of life in south eastern Ontario. Using survey research methods, data were collected through face-to-face interviews with 91 women of whom 66 identified their country of origin as “other” than Canada. Descriptive, bivariate and regression analysis of this data revealed that immigrant and non-immigrant women’s macro-level predictors of mental health status vary. Overall, for immigrant women’s perceptions of neighbourhood social cohesion was a stronger predictor influencing mental health status, while for non-immigrant women social support was more influential. Research with larger, representative samples should explore the findings to ascertain generalizability.

  tags: newjournalarticles

  • The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of macro-level factors on immigrant and non-immigrant women’s mental  health status in a Canadian context. This study was part of a larger study examining women’s quality of life in south eastern  Ontario. Using survey research methods, data were collected through face-to-face interviews with 91 women of whom 66 identified  their country of origin as “other” than Canada. Descriptive, bivariate and regression analysis of this data revealed that  immigrant and non-immigrant women’s macro-level predictors of mental health status vary. Overall, for immigrant women’s perceptions  of neighbourhood social cohesion was a stronger predictor influencing mental health status, while for non-immigrant women  social support was more influential. Research with larger, representative samples should explore the findings to ascertain  generalizability.

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News Pubs. On Housing, Accomodation, Disasters, Trafficking, Burma, Displacement, Egypt

After the Deluge: Gender and Early Recovery Housing in Sindh, Pakistan, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 228 (UNHCR, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

“Between Control and Assistance: The Problem of European Accommodation Centres for Asylum Seekers,” International Migration, forthcoming (posted Jan. 2012) [text via SSRN]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Literature Review for Shelter after Disaster (Shelter Centre et al., 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Guidelines on Exemption Procedures in respect of Cessation Declarations (UNHCR, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Human Trafficking in Mexico and Neighbouring Countries: A Review of Protection Approaches, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 229 (UNHCR, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

More ‘Trafficking,’ Less ‘Trafficked’: Trafficking for Exploitation Outside the Sex Sector in Europe (GAATW, 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Refugees International (RI) has just released a new report called “Burma: An Opportunity to Expand Humanitarian Space.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Ending the Displacement Cycle: Finding Durable Solutions through Return and Resettlement (Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, June 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

The Cost of Living: An Analysis of the Time and Money Spent by Refugees Accessing Services in Nairobi, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 230 (UNHCR, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

New Pubs. On Climate, Environment and Migration, and Newly Published Journals

 Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Addressing Complex Crisis Scenarios in the 21st Century (Center for American Progress, Jan. 2012) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Migration and Global Environmental Change: Review of Drivers of Migration. Special issue of Global Environmental Change, vol. 21, supp. 1 (Dec. 2011) [free full-text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

The State of Environmental Migration 2010, IDDRI Study, no. 7 (Sciences Po & IOM, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

AWR Bulletin, vol. 49, no. 4 (2011) [contents]- Focus is on integration. Includes “Integration of Chechen refugees in Poland.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Disasters, vol. 36, no. 1 (Jan. 2012) [free full-text]
- Mix of articles including “Preventing corruption in humanitarian assistance: perceptions, gaps and challenges.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, vol. 5, no. 2 (Nov. 2011) [contents]
- Special issue on Iraqi displacement.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Journal of Applied Research on Children, vol. 2, no. 1 (2011) [open access]

- Focus is on human trafficking.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Refugee Watch, no. 38 (Dec. 2011) [contents]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Updated List of New Publications

Burma: An Opportunity to Expand Humanitarian Space (Refugees International,
Jan. 2012)
http://refugeesinternational.org/policy/field-report/burma-opportunity-expand
-humanitarian-space
(Source: Forced Migration List).

The Cost of Living: An Analysis of the Time and Money Spent by Refugees
Accessing Services in Nairobi, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 230
(UNHCR, Jan. 2012)
http://www.unhcr.org/4f070ace9.html
(Source: Forced Migration List).

Investing in Solutions: A Practical Guide for the Use of Microfinance in
UNHCR operations
http://www.unhcr.org/4eeb17019.html
(Source: Forced Migration List).

A Poisoned Chalice? Local Civil Society and the International Criminal
Court’s Engagement in Uganda, Discussion Paper, no. 1 (International Refugee
Rights Initiative, Oct. 2011)
http://www.refugee-rights.org/Assets/PDFs/2012/PoisonChaliceFINAL.pdf
- New series that focuses on international justice in Africa.  For more
information, read the series introduction at
http://www.refugee-rights.org/Assets/PDFs/2012/JustJusticeFINAL.pdf.
(Source: Forced Migration List).

Preventing Gender-based Violence, Building Livelihoods: Guidance and Tools
for Improved Programming (Women’s Refugee Commission, Dec. 2011)
http://http://womensrefugeecommission.org/
- See also companion e-learning tool at http://64.34.127.51/elearning.
(Source: Forced Migration List).

Promoting Livelihoods and Self-reliance: Operational Guidance on Refugee
Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas (UNHCR, 2011)
http://www.unhcr.org/4eeb19f49.html
(Source: Forced Migration List).

Refugee Education: A Global Review (UNHCR, Nov. 2011)
http://www.unhcr.org/4ebd3dd39.html
(Source: Forced Migration List).

Using the Great Lakes Conference to Combat Sexual Violence: A Primer
(International Refugee Rights Initiative, Dec. 2011)
http://www.refugee-rights.org/Assets/PDFs/2011/SGBV%20primer%20-FINAL.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration List).

Winning Hearts and Minds? Examining the Relationship between Aid and Security
in Afghanistan (Feinstein International Center, Jan. 2012)
https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=48862164
(Source: Forced Migration List).

Refugee Studies Centre 30th Anniversary Conference – Call for Papers

 

Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford 30th Anniversary Conference: ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’

Call for Papers

The Refugee Studies Centre’s 30th Anniversary Conference will take place on 6-7 December 2012, focusing on the theme ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’. This conference aims to examine and theorise the policy-making processes relating to refugees and forced migration at the global level. Critical reflection upon the processes through which global public policy on refugees, internally displaced persons, statelessness, human trafficking, and other areas of forced migration is made is intended to offer new and valuable insights for scholars, policy makers and practitioners.

This conference therefore provides a forum for a critical discussion on ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’ by bringing together academics, policy makers, practitioners, advocates and displaced people to engage in a debate on how we might begin to make sense of and conceptualise the global refugee policy process. It seeks to explore the nature, content and implications of ‘global refugee policy’ with questions such as: What is ‘global refugee policy’? How can we theorise global refugee policy? What factors explain variation both in the motivations for policies, and in outcomes? To what extent do the diverse interests and priorities of key stakeholders shape global refugee policy, and to what effect?

The conference invites contributions that explore any aspect of the policy-making process: emergence, negotiation, development, implementation, and outcomes, examining global policy at the multilateral, regional, bilateral, or transnational levels. It invites reflections from politics, law, history, anthropology, and sociology, and seeks to involve contributors with case specific studies in addition to those with a broad focus on regional, bilateral, international and global policy-making processes. Papers might fall within one or more of the following categories:

Reflections

In order to lay the foundations for a critical academic understanding of global refugee policy processes, the conference invites reflection pieces on the experience of working on or within regional, bilateral, international and global refugee policy. Such reflections may explore the intersection between and across these different levels of policy making and implementation.

Case Studies

Papers might revisit important ‘moments’ or processes in which attempts to develop global refugee or forced migration policies have emerged, such as in relation to the Global Consultations, CIREFCA, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, Australia’s “Pacific Solution”, the EU Asylum Qualification Directive, or the role of international actors in influencing national refugee legislation, for example.

Theories of Process

Papers might focus on conceptualising, theorising and critiquing aspects of the policy process in particular areas of refugee or forced migration policy. They may seek to explain variation in outcomes or they may aim to conceptualise how power, interests and ideas shape policy and its relationship to practice, or to examine how particular actors play particular roles in different stages of the policy process.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted to:

Heidi El-Megrisi:  rsc-conference@qeh.ox.ac.uk  by 1 July 2012 at the latest.

Event: Palestine Refugees and International Law

Palestine Refugees and International Law

Date: 09:00am, Saturday, March 10, 2012 – 05:30pm, Sunday, March 11, 2012

Palestine Refugees and International Law

Presenter/Convenor: Refugee Studies Centre

Location: QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Series: Conferences and workshops

The workshop examines, within a human rights framework, the policies and practices of Middle Eastern states as they impinge upon Palestinian refugees. Through a mix of lectures, working group exercises and interactive sessions, participants engage actively and critically with the contemporary debates in international law and analyse the specific context of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza).

The workshop commences with the background of the Palestinian refugee crisis, with special attention to the socio- political historical context and legal status of Palestinian refugees in the region. This is followed by a careful examination of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights including its philosophical underpinnings and ensuing human rights instruments in international law. The key themes, which have taken centre stage in the debate on the Palestinian refugee crisis, are statelessness, right of return, repatriation, self-determination, restitution compensation and protection. These themes are critically examined along with current discussions about the respective roles of UNRWA, UNHCR and the UNCCP in the Palestinian refugee case.

Instructors

Professor Dawn Chatty is University Professor in Anthropology and Forced Migration and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She is a social anthropologist and has conducted extensive research among Palestinian and other forced migrants in the Middle East. Some of her recent works include Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East (ed. with Gillian Lewando-Hundt), Berghahn Press, 2005, and
Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Dr Susan M. Akram is Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Law, teaching immigration law, comparative refugee law, and international human rights law. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC (JD), and the Institut International des Droits de l‘Homme, Strasbourg (Diploma in international human rights). She is a past Fulbright Senior Scholar in Palestine, teaching at Al-Quds University/Palestine School of Law in East Jerusalem

Application

Fee: £300

Maximum twenty-five places on the workshop.

For further information contact:
Heidi El-Megrisi
Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB, United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)1865 281728
Email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk