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 4th November
2100-2200: BBC2: (2/6) Andrew Marr’s the making of Modern Britain. 9549
2315-0040: C4: (5/7) Generation Kill. 777297
Friday 6th November
1935-2000: C4: (7/10) Unreported World – Sudan. 311548
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 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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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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.
BioDr. 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. |
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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 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: 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 25th and Sunday the 26th 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 2nd 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.
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