Event: From Spitalfields to Green Lanes: mapping the refugee experience in London

From Spitalfields to Green Lanes: mapping the refugee experience in London

London through the eyes of its communities (a talk and viewing of original documents)

London is widely known for its cultural diversity. Where, why and when did the different refugee and migrant communities settle here? Using written and audio-visual material from LMA collections, this talk will present stories from some of London’s diverse communities, focusing on their experiences of coming to London and making ‘the monster city’ their home.

Date 20/06/2013
Time From 17:30 to 19:00
Venue London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road
London
EC1R 0HB
London
Organiser 020 7332 3851

http://newtolondon.eventbrite.co.uk/

marta.lomza@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Category Conference/seminar/lecture
Price Free

‘The Space Between’ CARA Exhibition for Refugee Week

‘The Space Between’ Exhibition for Refugee Week

CARA_the_Space_BetweenCARA is delighted to invite you to our photographic art exhibition ‘The Space Between’, taking place at The Rag Factory from the 17th-22nd June, as part of Refugee Week.  The exhibition has been commissioned by Birkbeck College and will feature images that explore the experiences of women refugee academics.

We will be holding lunch-time talks by women refugees during weekdays who will speak about their experiences leaving everything behind and starting again in an entirely new culture.  We will celebrate the contributions of refugees to British culture and challenge caricatures of refugees as people who just ‘take’.

For more information visit www.academic-refugees.org/the-space-between
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/403910276388189

Please disseminate to friends and colleagues.

See also:

CARA presents ‘The Space Between’, a week long photographic exhibition to mark Refugee Week which provides women refugee academics who hail from Iraq to Palestine, Burma to Burundi, the opportunity to share the story of their journey to the UK.

Commissioned by Birkbeck College, the exhibition will feature photographic art of Kay Goodridge supported by recorded excerpts of the women speaking about their experiences and explore the theme of displacement. The exhibition will highlight the power of education and the courage of the women in their flight from persecution.

Located in the historic heart of many refugee communities, Brick Lane in East London, the exhibition will be held in the beautiful non-profit arts centre, The Rag Factory. The area has seen refugees since the arrival of the French Huguenots in the 17th century to the Jewish immigrants of the 1800s right up until the most recent arrival of the Bangladeshi community, so it is well placed for such an event.

The richly layered artworks will tell the story of the strength it takes to uproot oneself from a life and the harsh realities of starting again in an entirely new culture, made harder still by the double burden of being female and a refugee. The message of the exhibition will be sobering yet redemptive and take steps towards promoting tolerance and understanding some of the reasons why people seek asylum.

“The Space Between represents an absence of belonging and of existing in between two different cultures.”

Lunchtime talks

The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of lunch-time talks by five different female refugees detailing their particular experiences as refugees in the UK. This is a fantastic opportunity to see the real lives often obscured by tabloid stereotypes of refugees as ‘undeserving’. Refugees have much to contribute to our country and the exhibition and accompanying talks hope to promote their influence in UK intellectual life.

17th June 2013, 1pm

How I Became an Asylum Seeker: Staging the Refugee Academic Experience – Lydia Besong

A talk by Cameroonian Playwright and former English Lecturer who was forced to flee to Britain’s shores following her peaceful politicalprotests in her home country. Discussing the many barriers facedby academics and how her ordeal has influenced her creatively.

18th June 2013, 1pm

Female and Foreign: Experiences of Being a Refugee Woman – Marjorie Nshemere Ojule

Marjorie is a Ugandan Refugee who fled persecution in her homecountry. The talk will discuss the issues that women refugees face because of their gender and how her experiences as a female asylum seeker spurred her on to help others.

19th June 2013, 1pm

The Story of Asylum: An LGBT Campaigner – Prossy Kakooza

Prossy is a Ugandan activist and LGBT campaigner who claimed asylum in the UK after being persecuted for her sexuality. The talk will focus on her work to educate people on LGBT rights and the plight of LGBT refugees.

20th June 2013, 1pm

Refugee and the Community: Leaders in Diaspora Communities21 June, 1pm – Cynthia Masiyiwa.

Cynthia is an award winning young community leader who fled her native Zimbabwe at 15 years old. A known voice in her community, she works hard to negotiate asylum policy. Discussing education,youth community work and her experience as an asylum seeker.

21st June 2013, 1pm

Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad Reading and book signing20 June, 1pm – May Wit Wit

May is an Iraqi lecturer who fled Baghdad at the height of violence following the war with the help of a BBC correspondent and CARA. May will have a short reading from her bestselling novel,‘Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad.’

The exhibition ends Saturday 22nd June 2013.

Address:

The Rag Factory
16-18 Heneage Street
London
E1 5LJ
London

 

New Resource: UNHCR: 2012 Global Trends report

UNHCR are  pleased to announce that the following report has been published today and is available for download on the UNHCR statistics website www.unhcr.org/statistics.

2012 Global Trends – Displacement: the new 21st century challenge

The 48-page report reflects many of the major humanitarian developments between January and December 2012. It analyses the statistical trends and changes in the global populations of concern to UNHCR, i.e. refugees, asylum-seekers, returnees, stateless persons and certain groups of internally displaced persons (IDPs).

Some of the key findings of the report:

- By end 2012, 45.2 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations. Some 15.4 million people were refugees: 10.5 million under UNHCR’s mandate and 4.9 million Palestinian refugees registered by UNRWA. The global figure included 28.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) and nearly one million (937,000) asylum-seekers. The 2012 level was the highest since 1994, when an estimated 47 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide.

- During the year, conflict and persecution forced an average of 23,000 persons per day to leave their homes and seek protection elsewhere, either within the borders of their countries or in other countries.

- An estimated 7.6 million people were newly displaced due to conflict or persecution, including 1.1 million new refugees – the highest number of new arrivals in one year since 1999. Another 6.5 million people were newly displaced within the borders of their countries – the second highest figure of the past ten years.

- Pakistan was host to the largest number of refugees worldwide (1.6 million), followed by the Islamic Republic of Iran (868,200), Germany (589,700), and Kenya (565,000).

- More than half (55%) of all refugees worldwide came from five countries: Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Sudan.

- Some 21,300 asylum applications were lodged by unaccompanied or separated children in 72 countries in 2012, mostly by Afghan and Somali children. It was the highest number on record since UNHCR started collecting such data in 2006.

 

ToC Alert: Refugee Survey Quarterly

Oxford Journals have just published the latest Table of Contents alert for their Refugee Survey Quarterly journal.  Further details of the articles included in  Vol. 32, No. 2, (June 2013) are included as follows:

Introduction

Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration
Dawn Chatty and Philip Marfleet
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2013 32: 1-13
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Articles

Explorations in a Foreign Land: States, Refugees, and the Problem of History
Philip Marfleet
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2013 32: 14-34
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Refugees, Exiles, and Other Forced Migrants in the Late Ottoman Empire
Dawn Chatty
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2013 32: 35-52
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Citizenship, Autochthony, and the Question of Forced Migration
Nira Yuval-Davis
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2013 32: 53-65
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

From Bare Lives to Political Agents: Palestinian Refugees as Avant-Garde
Ruba Salih
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2013 32: 66-91
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

“Like Something Sacred”: Palestinian Refugees’ Narratives on the Right of Return
Sophie Richter-Devroe
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2013 32: 92-115
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Is Deportation a Form of Forced Migration?
Matthew J. Gibney
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2013 32: 116-129
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Refugees, the State and the Concept of Home
Helen Taylor
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2013 32: 130-152
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Events: Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, Conference, University of Oxford

Events:

Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, Conference, University of Oxford

Online registration is presently open for our international migration conference: “Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond”, to be held at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, 24-26 September 2013. Visit:
http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/research-projects/themis/conference2013

We are offering discounted fee rates for delegates who are full time students, or those who are based in non-OECD countries.

This conference is being organized by the partners of the research project Theorizing the Evolution of European Migratory Systems (THEMIS), which is funded by NORFACE through their Research Programme on Migration. This conference takes an inter-disciplinary approach to migration dynamics and draws on comparative studies of international and internal migration processes. The three main themes are:

* emergence and development of migration systems

* feedback processes in migration

* migrants as social actors

Thomas Faist, Douglas Massey and Ewa Morawska have accepted to be our external key note speakers.

The registration fee includes attendance at:

* the opening and concluding remarks,

* all 3 plenary keynote presentations, over three days

* a free choice of four parallel sessions running over two full days

Also delegates will be provided with a full pack of conference materials, a welcome drinks reception; regular tea/coffee refreshments during each conference day (24-26 September 2013), buffet lunch on full days (25 and 26 September) and (unless opting out) a 3-course conference dinner with drinks reception (25 September) at Lady Margaret Hall.

Our conference webpages will continue to be updates with latest information about the conference and for delegates.

THEMIS takes a fresh look at how patterns of migration to Europe develop, investigating what makes people decide to migrate, why some of those initial moves to Europe result in the formation of significant migration systems, and why in other cases some migration processes tail off or stagnate. Based on new field research, it aims to bridge the theories on the initiation and continuation of migration, and to integrate the concept of agency in a systems theory approach. This involves a comparative study of the evolution of migrant groups following different migration trajectories from several regions of 3 origin countries (Brazil, Morocco and Ukraine ) to selected cities in 4 destination countries (UK, Norway, the Netherlands and Portugal).

Please do kindly forward this announcement to others who might also be interested.

For further information please contact us at themis@qeh.ox.ac.uk

 

Calls for Papers: Diaspora in India’s Foreign Policy and National Security: A Comparative Perspective, 6–7 November 2013, New Delhi

Calls for papers:

Diaspora in India’s Foreign Policy and National Security: A Comparative Perspective, 6–7 November 2013, New Delhi

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Call for papers: Diaspora in India’s Foreign Policy and National Security: A Comparative Perspective, 6–7 November 2013, New Delhi

The Organisation for Diaspora Initiatives (ODI), New Delhi, in cooperation with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the India International Centre (IIC) are inviting paper proposals for the international academic conference on ‘Diaspora in India’s Foreign Policy and National Security: A Comparative Perspective’, to be held on 6–7 November 2013 in New Delhi.

Proposals (up to 250 words) should be submitted by 5 August 2013. Selected conference papers will be published in a special issue of the academic journal Diaspora Studies.

Corresponding to the need to examine emigration phenomena and diaspora-home state relations from the viewpoint of international relations (IR) theory, this conference will explore under what conditions diasporic populations can be integrated into a foreign policy framework, when they are perceived to be liabilities and how the Indian policy system attempted to harness the positive aspects, while minimizing the liability aspects.

The following issues will be explored during the conference:

  •  Bane or boon? India’s and other Countries’ Diaspora as a Strategic Asset for Foreign Policy
  • Influence of diasporic actors on bilateral relations with countries of their settlement;
  • Diasporic lobbying, ethnic interest groups and foreign policy;
  • Diasporic actions and India’s soft power.

Linkages of Foreign Policy and Diaspora Policy in India and other countries

   o Alignment and misalignment of policy objectives;

   o Institutional and ideational changes in state institutions and the Foreign Service.

Exploring the links between Diaspora Populations and National Security

   o Linkages between diaspora & terrorism;

   o Security concerns in diaspora policies.

This conference is part of a series on ‘Diasporas, States and the Role of Policies—Locating Migration and Diaspora Studies in International Relations’ that brings together international scholarship and practitioners to further our understanding of migrants and diaspora communities in international relations. The conferences encourage dialogue between a wide range of academic traditions in the area of diaspora studies, migration research, foreign policy, public diplomacy, political transnationalism, ethnic interest groups, global and regional migration governance, post-colonial theory, and democracy theory.

Paper abstracts should be submitted to office@diasporastudies.in and odiseminar@gmail.com by 5 August 2013. For more detailed information, please see the Call for Papers available at www.odi.in/announcement 

Resource: Latest Volume of TORTURE 2013-1 can now be accessed

We are pleased to inform you that all contents from the latest issue of TORTURE journal can now be accessed free of charge at
http://www.irct.org/torture-journal

TORTURE Vol. 23, 1, 2013

Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture

ISSN (Online): 1997-3322

Contents:

The mental health and psychosocial problems of survivors of torture and genocide in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq: A brief qualitative study
Paul Bolton, Lynn Michalopoulos, Ahmed Mohammed Amin Ahmed, Laura K. Murray, Judith Bass

Long-term trajectories of PTSD or resilience in former East German political prisoners
Andreas Maercker, Ira Gäbler, Jennifer O’Neil, Matthias Schützwohl, Mario Müller

Access denied: Institutional barriers to justice for victims of torture in Egypt
Hebatullah Mahmoud Khalil

Book Review: Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease
Henrik Marcussen

Book Review: Trauma, Torture, and Dissociation
James L. Griffith

Letter to the Editor: What does it provide to patients that others do not?
Aida Alayarian

 

Calls for Papers: International Human Rights Law in Refugee Status Determination

Calls for Papers: International Human Rights Law in Refugee Status Determination

 We write to share news of the forthcoming conference on ‘International Human Rights Law in Refugee Status Determination: Comparative Practice and Theory’ that will take place at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, on 13 and 14 November 2013.

This 1½ day conference brings together leading experts to reflect comparatively on the practical and theoretical impact of international human rights law upon refugee status determination. Three panels will explore comparative practice from around the world and one will be addressed to broader cross-cutting thematic issues. Some further details can be found in the outline below.

For the final thematic panel, we are keen to receive additional contributions, particularly on the following broad topics and their implications for our understanding of the scope of refugee definitions: sexual and gender identity; combatants and military service; permissible limitations to rights (such as the freedom to manifest one’s religion); and internal protection/flight alternative.

If you wish to propose a paper to be presented on this panel, please submit a short abstract of up to 300 words to bruce.burson@justice.govt.nz<mailto:bruce.burson@justice.govt.nz> and david.cantor@sas.ac.uk<mailto:david.cantor@sas.ac.uk> by Friday **5 July 2013**.

Please note that presenters will be asked to submit a draft paper of 5 000-8 000 words by 1 November 2013 to enable paper-sharing in advance among the participants. Local accommodation will be offered to selected presenters, as well as a contribution towards economy travel expenses of up to £50 (UK), £150 (Europe), £500 (World). After the event, revised papers will be submitted to Martinus Nijhoff for publication in an edited collection.

The conference is organised by the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London, jointly with the Centre for Refugee Studies (York, Canada), Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (Harvard, USA), International Refugee and Migration Law Project (UNSW, Australia), International Refugee Law Research Programme (Melbourne, Australia) and other institutions, and includes papers by prominent academics and practitioners.

Registration for the conference will be opened shortly. If you are interested in participating other than as a presenter, please email the convenors so that we can keep you informed.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Bruce Burson

New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal

David James Cantor

Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London

CONFERENCE OUTLINE:

International Human Rights Law in Refugee Status Determination: Comparative Practice and Theory

International Conference

London, 13-14 November 2013

International human rights law (IHRL) has assumed an increasingly important role in refugee status determination (RSD) over the past twenty years. At the same time, the legal consequences of this interaction remain a source of considerable contention. Whilst much of the debate has taken place in abstract and general terms, the conference seeks to shift the focus to a detailed comparative analysis of how this relationship is configured by different jurisdictions in practice.

The simple fact that RSD takes place within a wide range of different jurisdictional contexts requires a new point of departure. Indeed, these express a vast variance based, inter alia, on the refugee and IHRL instruments ratified by the country, the ways in which these have been incorporated into domestic law, the interpretation of these instruments through the lens of local legal cultures, and the differing nature of RSD procedures internationally. The conference will provide an important new perspective on the divergent ways that such factors have moulded the relationship between IHRL and refugee law at the level of national RSD practice.

As well as generating important new practical understandings of RSD, the resulting analysis will feed back into wider theoretical debates about the influence of IHRL in RSD. For instance, the obviously uneven cross-jurisdictional terrain raises serious questions about the capacity of IHRL to cohesively shape RSD at the international level. Questions about transnational processes of borrowing between different jurisdictions also arise. Whether IHRL should be used to interpret refugee law and, if so, in which of its components, is also an important issue.

Broad questions to be addressed from both theoretical and comparative perspectives include:

1. Does IHRL influence RSD in practice at the national level? If so, what are the key factors that determine the degree and nature of such influence?

2. Are there particular areas of refugee law interpretation where the influence of IHRL is especially pronounced in national practice?

3. Has the IHRL influence on RSD – and refugee law – been broadly positive or negative?

4. Does IHRL facilitate the convergence of RSD processes at the international level?

The conference provides the opportunity both for a stock-taking of transnational developments over the past twenty years and for the identification of future challenges. Given the scope of the material, it will be of interest to lawyers, judges, practitioners and scholars in the areas of refugee, human rights and EU law, as well as humanitarian workers and academics, government authorities, policy researchers and students.

Publication: Joint Committee on Human Rights to publish Report on the Human Rights of unaccompanied migrant children and young people in the UK

05 June 2013

The Joint Committee on Human Rights will publish its First Report of the 2013-14 Session, Human Rights of unaccompanied migrant children and young people in the UK, at 00:01 hrs on Wednesday 12 June as House of Lords Paper 9 and House of Commons Paper 196.

The Report will be available under embargo from 11:00 am on Monday 10 June. If you wish to receive and embargoed version of the Report at this time, please e-mail jchr@parliament.uk

The Report will be available on the Committee’s website on the day of publication.

The Report will also be available from The Stationery Office (tel: 0870 600 5522), Parliamentary Hotline Lo-call 0845 7 023474, Email: book.orders@tso.co.uk, Internet:
http://www.tso.co.uk/bookshop
, TSO shops, The Parliamentary Bookshop, 12 Bridge Street, London SW1A 2JX (tel: 020 7219 3890) and through good booksellers.

Full article via: Joint Committee on Human Rights to publish Report on the Human Rights of unaccompanied migrant children and young people in the UK

See also: The Guardian – Children seeking asylum should ‘be better cared for’ by the state

 

New Regional Publications on the United Kingdom and Europe

New Regional Publications on the United Kingdom

Homecoming: Return and reintegration of irregular migrants from Nigeria

http://www.ippr.org/publication/55/10661/homecoming-return-and-reintegration-of-irregular-migrants-from-nigeria

Asylum Information Database: National report – United Kingdom

http://www.ecre.org/component/content/article/63-projects/323-asylum-information-database.html
(Source: Migrants Rights Network Weekly Immigration News, 3 June 2013)

All Party Parliamentary Group on MigrationREPORT OF THE INQUIRY INTO NEW FAMILY MIGRATION RULES June 2013

http://www.appgmigration.org.uk/sites/default/files/APPG_family_migration_inquiry_report-Jun-2013.pdf

Fractured childhoods: the separation of families by immigration detention

http://www.biduk.org/849/bid-research-reports/fractured-childhoods-the-separation-of-families-by-immigration-detention-full-report.html
(Source: NCB Policy & Parliamentary Information Digest, 26 Apr 2013)

One step forward, two steps back: evaluating the institutions of British immigration policymaking

http://www.ippr.org/images/media/files/publication/2013/04/one-step-forward_immigration-institutions_Apr2013_10679.pdf
(Source: IPPR Newsletter, 26 Apr 2013)

Detention in the asylum system

http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/assets/0002/7333/130326Detention_in_the_Asylum_System.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Refugee+Council&utm_campaign=2446321_Copy+of+Newsletter+March+2013&utm_content=briefingdetention&dm_i=I6P,1GFLD,31JHQG,4XYIY,1
(Source: Refugee Council Newsletter, 3 May 2013)
New briefing from the Refugee Council, which looks at when, where and for how long people are detained (and also includes info about the detention of children).

Student visitors

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/205318/horr71.pdf

Mothers-in-law important for integration of migrants, says report

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/28/migrant-integration-mothers-in-law

Independent Chief Inspector of Border and Immigration: Inspection Plan for 2013-14

http://icinspector.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Inspection-Plan-2013-14-FINAL.pdf

One step forward, two steps back: Evaluating the institutions of British immigration policymaking

http://www.ippr.org/images/media/files/publication/2013/04/one-step-forward_immigration-institutions_Apr2013_10679.pdf

Identifying and Supporting Victims of Human Trafficking: Guidance for Health Staff

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/187041/A5_Human_Trafficking_Guidance_leaflet.pdf

A Question of Credibility: Why so many initial asylum decisions are overturned on appeal in the UK
Jan Shaw, Refugee Affairs Programme Director at Amnesty International UK, said:

We need an asylum system that gets the decision right first time. Getting the decision wrong in the first instance causes a great deal of anxiety for asylum seekers and prolongs the period in which they are left in limbo. It is also wasting tax-payers’ money by refusing people on patently spurious grounds, leading to costly and unnecessary appeals.

In disbanding the UK Border Agency, Theresa May has acknowledged defects in the process as it stands, and she must now ensure that this is a watershed moment where a break with flawed practices is made once and for all.


http://www.amnesty.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_23149.pdf

Giving back to communities of residence and of origin

http://www.philanthropy-impact.org/sites/all/files/downloads/giving_back_to_comms_of_res.pdf

Human Trafficking: practical guidance

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181550/Human_Trafficking_practical_guidance.pdf

The Integration Consensus 1993–2013: How Britain changed
since Stephen Lawrence

New Regional Publications on Europe

The spring issue of Homeless in Europe, a magazine published by FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organisations working with the homeless, is now available online.

Study on educational support for newly arrived migrant children

http://ec.europa.eu/education/more-information/doc/migrants/report_en.pdf

Homeless in Europe

http://feantsa.org/spip.php?action=acceder_document&arg=1582&cle=4a42054ede9c05e2bdff253ec8295a46ea27d5ed&file=pdf%2Fhomeless_in_europe_spring_2013.pdf

Access to healthcare in Europe in times of crisis and rising xenophobia

Re-blog: World Report 2013: Challenges for Rights After Arab Spring

(London) – The euphoria of the Arab Spring has given way to the sobering challenge of creating rights-respecting democracies, Human Rights Watch said today in issuing its World Report 2013. The willingness of new governments to respect rights will determine whether those uprisings give birth to genuine democracy or simply spawn authoritarianism in new forms.

In the 665-page report, its23rd annual review of human rights practices around the globe, Human Rights Watch summarizes major issues in more than 90 countries. With regard to events in the Middle East and North Africa known as the Arab Spring, Human Rights Watch said the creation of a rights-respecting state can be painstaking work that requires building effective institutions of governance, establishing independent courts, creating professional police, and resisting the temptation of majorities to disregard human rights and the rule of law. But the difficulty of building democracy does not justify seeking a return to the old order, Human Rights Watch said.

“The uncertainties of freedom are no reason to revert to the enforced predictability of authoritarian rule,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “The path ahead may be treacherous, but the alternative is to consign entire countries to a grim future of oppression.”
The tension between majority rule and respect for rights poses perhaps the greatest challenge for the new governments, Human Rights Watch said. Leaders in the Middle East are naturally eager to exercise their new electoral clout, but they have a duty to govern without sacrificing fundamental freedoms or the rights of minorities, women, and other groups at risk.

Full article available here:  World Report 2013: Challenges for Rights After Arab Spring

 

New Regional Publications on Syria; Iraq; and Africa

New Regional Publications on Syria

Childhood Under Fire: the impact of two years of conflict in Syria.
By Save the Children.

From the very beginning of the crisis in Syria, children have been its forgotten victims – facing death, trauma and suffering, and deprived of basic humanitarian aid. Save the Children estimates that nearly 2 million children are in need of assistance in Syria…

This report shows how the conflict is affecting all aspects of children’s lives. Families are struggling to find a safe place to stay, as nearly 3 million buildings have been damaged or destroyed. The lines of fighting move almost daily, so families often do not know if the place they’ve settled in today will be safe tomorrow. Most displaced families share overcrowded apartments and houses, but an estimated 80,000 internally displaced people are sleeping out in caves, parks or barns.

[Download Full Report]
(Source: Docubase]

New Regional Publications on Iraq

Iraq: A Decade of Abuses
by Amnesty International.

Ten years after the US-led invasion that toppled the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, Iraq remains mired in human rights abuses. Thousands of Iraqis are detained without trial or serving prison sentences imposed after unfair trials, torture remains rife and continues to be committed with impunity, and the new Iraq is one of the world’s leading executioners. The government hanged 129 prisoners in 2012, while hundreds more languished on death row. Yet, when he launched the campaign of “shock and awe” in March 2003, that swept away Saddam Hussein’s regime within just four weeks, then US President George W Bush justified the military intervention partly on human rights grounds, pointing to the many grave crimes committed under the Iraqi leader. The decade since, however, as this report shows, has brought only limited change although tens of thousands of Iraqis’ lives have been lost, mostly during the political and sectarian violence that succeeded the armed conflict and continues to this day. As the record shows, in the years when they held sway, the US-dominated coalition of occupying forces created their own legacies of human rights abuse, for which there is yet to be full accountability, and failed to implement new standards that fundamentally challenged the mould of repression set under Saddam Hussein. Today, assuredly, many Iraqis enjoy greater rights and freedom than existed under the ousted dictator but the margin of improvement is far less than it should be, and the country remains wracked by political, religious and other divisions and serious abuses of human rights.

[Download Full Report]
(Source: Docubase)

 

New Regional Publications on Africa

“I can’t be a citizen if I am still a refugee.”: Former Burundian Refugees Struggle to Assert their newTanzanian Citizenship
By the International Refugee Rights Initiative.
[Download Full Report]

Architects of Atrocity: The Sudanese Government’s War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and Torture in South Kordofan and Blue Nile States.
By the Enough Project.
[Download Full Report]

 

 

New Regional Publications on Europe available via the EU Bookshop

The concept of internationalisation and the inevitability of mobility of highly skilled employees.
By the European Commission.
[Download Full Report]

Study on practices of integration of third-country nationals at local and regional level in the European Union
By the European Commission.
[Download Full Report]

Local and regional authorities and the EU’s external borders
By the European Commission.
[Download Full Report]

European report on development 2013: Post-2015, global action for an inclusive and sustainable future : full report
By the European Commission.
[Download Full Report]

The duty to inform applicants about asylum procedures: The asylum-seeker perspective : thematic report
By the European Commission.
[Download Full Report]

Practical measures to reduce irregular migration
By the European Commission.
[Download Full Report]

Separated, asylum-seeking children in European Union Member States: Comparative report
By the European Commission.
[Download Full Report]

Visa policy as migration channel
By the European Commission.
[Download Full Report]

 

New Regional Publications on Europe

Fundamental Rights at Europe’s Southern Sea Borders.
A new report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.

This FRA report examines the conditions at Europe’s southern sea borders with respect to the most fundamental rights of a person, the right to life and the right not to be sent back to torture, persecution or inhuman treatment. It looks at sea border surveillance and disembarkation procedures, as well as training and Frontex-coordinated operations. It examines practices across the EU Member States researched – Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain

[Download Full Report]

Handbook of European Law relating to Asylum, Borders and Immigration.
A new report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.

The Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration is jointly produced by the European Court of Human Rights and the FRA. It examines the relevant law in the field of asylum, borders and immigration stemming from both European systems: the European Union and the Council of Europe. It provides an accessible guide to the various European standards relevant to asylum, borders and immigration.

[Download Full Report]

Hidden Talents, Wasted Talents? The real cost of neglecting the positive contribution of migrants and ethnic minorities (2013)
By the European Network Against Racism, (ENAR).

Recycling Hatred: Racism(s) in Europe Today (2013)
By the European Network Against Racism, (ENAR).

Report of the 3rd Equal work meeting: Reasonable accommodation of cultural diversity in the workplace (2012)
By the European Network Against Racism, (ENAR).

Far-right parties and discourse in Europe: A challenge for our times (2012)
By the European Network Against Racism, (ENAR).

Toolkit: Working on migrant integration at local level (2011)
By the European Network Against Racism, (ENAR).

Debunking myths and revealing truths about the Roma (2011)
By the European Network Against Racism, (ENAR).

Integration beyond Migration: Kicking off the debate (2011)
By the European Network Against Racism, (ENAR).

Report of ENAR’s 2nd Ad Hoc Expert Group on promoting equality in employment (2011)
By the European Network Against Racism, (ENAR).

Racist Violence in Europe (2011)
By the European Network Against Racism, (ENAR).

 

New Regional Publications on the United Kingdom

Report on an announced inspection of Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre:  28 January – 8 February 2013
by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

Colnbrook was generally well managed and making progress, said Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, publishing the report of an announced inspection of the immigration removal centre (IRC) near Heathrow.

Colnbrook is one of the more secure and ‘prison-like’ facilities in the IRC estate. It holds just over 400 mainly adult male detainees, as well as a small number of women. Provision for women was due to expand. Serco had decided not to re-tender to run the centre at the imminent conclusion of its current contract. Colnbrook had been on a consistent path of improvement and was safer than inspectors had found it in the past.

[Download Full Report]
(Source:  Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre – noticeable progress).

The effectiveness and impact of immigration detention casework: A joint thematic review by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.
December 2012
A joint report by the HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: Immigration detention casework – poor casework must be addressed).

Report on an announced inspection of HMP Canterbury: 16–20 July 2012
by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: HMP Canterbury – needs to focus on resettlement).

Detainees under escort: Inspection of escort and removals to Sri Lanka: 6-7 December 2012
by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: HM Inspectorate of Prisons).

Report on unannounced joint inspections of Coquelles and Calais non-residential  short-term holding facilities: 6 – 7 November 2012
by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and the Contrôleur Général des Lieux de Privation de Liberté,
[Download Full Report]
(Source: HM Inspectorate of Prisons).

 

Bengali reflections on the Seventies: "We rarely looked at people crossing the road: we didn't want to be hit by skinheads."

Reblogged from Trial by Jeory:

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After the success of last week's post, here's the second in the series of interviews with those involved in the struggle by Bengalis for identity in the Seventies and Eighties. Again the interview was done by the fabulous Swadhinata Trust.

Those who know me will know I know this woman quite well. Nuff said. Except to say that she's a most remarkable lady whose energy and determination shames us all (she's at the front of almost every protest in Altab Ali Park, as at this one a few week ago: she's on the right).

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Calls for papers: Illegality, Youth and Belonging: International Symposium

Call for Papers: Illegality, Youth and Belonging: International Symposium
Harvard University, October 25-26 2013

Illegality, youth and belonging is the second of two international symposia on legal status, rights and belonging that jointly investigate the migration and citizenship nexus in contemporary diverse societies.

We invite proposals for papers which investigate aspects related to the dual and conflicting experiences of illegality and belonging, particularly as they concern the lives of children, youth, and young adults who have grown up or spent their formative years in host countries. We welcome in particular proposals that focus on one or more of the following areas:

**Everyday experiences of ‘illegality’ among children and young people
**Intergenerational impacts of undocumented status
**The effects of widened access to rights and entitlements (e.g. DACA, financial aid, in-state tuition)
**The uneven geography of contemporary immigration policy and practice
**The political mobilizations of youth

Gender perspectives and methodological issues of research sensitivity and ethics are significant cross-cutting themes throughout these topics.

The symposia are jointly convened by Roberto G. Gonzales (Harvard University) and Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) with the contribution of Elaine Chase, Vanessa Hughes and Jenny Allsopp (University of Oxford), Helen B. Marrow (Tufts University) and Siwen Zhang (Harvard University). The symposia are sponsored by Harvard University, the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and the Oxford Institute of Social Policy at the University of Oxford.

For further information about Illegality, Youth and Belonging: 
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/conferences/cfp-illegality-youth-belonging.pdf

 

ToC: Eur Sociol Rev Table of Contents for June 2013; Vol. 29, No. 3

The latest Table of Contents alert for the European Sociological Review has just been published by Oxford Journals.  A selection of articles from Vol. 29, No. 3, (June 2013) are included below:

Immigration and Perceived Ethnic Threat: Cultural Capital and Economic Explanations
Katerina Manevska and Peter Achterberg
Eur Sociol Rev 2013 29: 437-449
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cultural Capital Does Not Travel Well: Immigrants, Natives and Achievement in Israeli Schools
Liliya Leopold and Yossi Shavit
Eur Sociol Rev 2013 29: 450-463
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Occupational Attainment Among Children of Immigrants in Norway: Bottlenecks into Employment––Equal Access to Advantaged Positions?Are Skeie Hermansen
Eur Sociol Rev 2013 29: 517-534
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]

Does the Type of Rights Matter? Comparison of Attitudes Toward the Allocation of Political Versus Social Rights to Labour Migrants in Israel
Anastasia Gorodzeisky
Eur Sociol Rev 2013 29: 630-641
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ToC: Journal of Refugee Studies Table of Contents for June 2013; Vol. 26, No. 2

Oxford Journals has now published the latest Table of Contents alert for the Journal of Refugee Studies.  Further details on the articles included in Vol. 26, No. 2, (June 2013) are detailed below:

Articles

‘We Are Not Here to Claim Better Services Than Any Other’: Social Exclusion among Men from Refugee Backgrounds in Urban and Regional Australia
Ignacio Correa-Velez, Ramon Spaaij, and Susan Upham
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 163-186
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The Housing Resettlement Experience of Refugee Immigrants to Australia
James Forrest, Kerstin Hermes, Ron Johnston, and Michael Poulsen
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 187-206
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Unpacking the Micro–Macro Nexus: Narratives of Suffering and Hope among Refugees from Burma Recently Settled in Australia
Mark Brough, Robert Schweitzer, Jane Shakespeare-Finch, Lyn Vromans, and Julie King
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 207-225
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‘It was the Most Beautiful Country I have Ever Seen’: The Role of Somali Narratives in Adapting to a New Country
Robyn Ramsden and Damien Ridge
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 226-246
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Safeguarding a Child Perspective in Asylum Reception: Dilemmas of Children’s Case Workers in Sweden
Lisa Ottosson, Marita Eastmond, and Isabell Schierenbeck
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 247-264
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Repatriation and Integration of Liberian Refugees from Ghana: the Importance of Personal Networks in the Country of Origin
Naohiko Omata
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 265-282
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Remaining Internally Displaced: Missing Links to Security in Northern Uganda
Susan Reynolds Whyte, Sulayman Mpisi Babiiha, Rebecca Mukyala, and Lotte Meinert
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 283-301
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Review Article

Making States, Making Refugees: A Review of Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East
Philip Marfleet
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 302-309
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Book Reviews

Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event. By Trinh T. Minh-ha.
Delila Omerbašić
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 310-311
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Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law. By Jane McAdam.
Calum T. M. Nicholson
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 311-313
[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Migration and Mental Health. Edited by Dinesh Bhugra and Susham Gupta.
Emily H. Becher
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 313-314
[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Transitional Justice and Displacement. Edited by Roger Duthie.
Kirsten McConnachie
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 314-316
[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora. By Daniel Kanstroom.
Susanna Snyder
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 316-318
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Access to Asylum: International Refugee Law and the Globalization of Migration Control. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen.
Violeta Moreno-Lax
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 318-319
[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders. By Peter Redfield.
Tom Scott-Smith
Journal of Refugee Studies 2013 26: 319-321
[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

 

Resource: FMR 43 now online – States of fragility

Forced Migration Review issue 43 ‘States of fragility’ is now online at www.fmreview.org/fragilestates

071e7-fmr43coverMany states fail in their responsibilities to their citizens but those states which are fragile, failed or weak are particularly liable to render their citizens vulnerable. This latest issue of FMR includes 24 articles on fragile states and displacement, going behind the definitions, typologies and indicators to explore some of the concepts and realities, looking at a variety of cases and discussing some of the humanitarian and development responses.

In addition this issue contains eight further ‘general articles’ on other aspects of displacement.

The full list of contents, with web links, is given at the end of this email.

FMR 43 will be available online and in print in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

An expanded contents listing for this issue – FMR43 Listing – is available at www.fmreview.org/fragilestates/FMR43listing.pdf

If you do NOT usually receive a print copy and would like to receive a copy of FMR 43 or FMR43 Listing for your organisation, or multiple copies for distribution to partners and policy/decision makers or for use at conferences or workshops, please contact the Editors.

New! FMR is now A5 size: lighter to carry, easier to read on mobile devices and cheaper to post. We do hope you will like the new sized FMR and find it easy to read and use.

We would like to thank Alex Betts for his assistance as special advisor on this issue. We are also very grateful to the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the UNDP Evaluation Office for their funding support for this issue, and to all our current institutional donors, including those who generously provide unearmarked funding for FMR. Thanks also to those individual readers who have donated to support FMR.

See www.fmreview.org/forthcoming for details of forthcoming issues.

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Second CfP “Challenging stereotypes of crisis and internal migration in the European Union” – 10th Annual IMISCOE Conference: Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013

Call for papers

Workshop “Challenging stereotypes of crisis and internal migration in the European Union”

10th Annual IMISCOE Conference: Crisis and Migration – Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences

Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013

Over the last decades, the European migratory landscape has radically changed: from receiving – and rejecting – numerous third-country nationals who looked for new opportunities in EU countries, to intense internal migration embodied by EU citizens themselves. The 2008 financial downturn and its aftermath may have partly influenced the transformation of the map of intra-EU mobilities. As Southern European countries continue to struggle to overcome Euro crises and increasing unemployment rates, internal European migration has become an option for many Southern European citizens (both European born and third-country born who have acquired citizenship).

This context proves the need to question widespread stereotypes about crisis and internal migration and implies a twofold process. Firstly, to define crisis beyond the economic, considering also its political, cultural and psychological consequences. Secondly, to reflect on multiple migratory scenarios within the EU, defined by different directions – North-South, East-West – and motivations  – pre-post crisis –  which  have led EU citizens to start experiencing ‘traditional’ immigration problems (e.g. initial settlement, language barriers and job discrimination).

This workshop aims to outline the emerging picture of primary and secondary intra-EU migrations through the prism of the 2008 financial downturn and its political, technological and socio-economic consequences. We invite submissions of abstracts that deal with these issues from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives and multiple methods research, particularly encouraging empirical based papers. Some of the questions we would like to explore are:

-  How can we conceptualise different profiles of intra-European migrants in terms of skill level, place of birth, temporality, etc.?

-  How do intersectional variables of class, ethnicity, gender, nationality and educational level affect the experiences of mobility within Europe?

-  How do EU Member States shape different public discourses to represent intra-European migration?

-  What role does connectivity based on technologies of communication and information play in the experiences of new migrants?

Workshop Convenors: Dr Adela Ros and Cecilia Gordano (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Dr Rosa Mas Giralt (University of Leeds).

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to mgordano@uoc.edu by 7th June, 2013. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by 25th June.

The full Call for Papers for this workshop can be found at the conference website:
http://tinyurl.com/Crisis-and-EU-Migration

For more information on the conference, please visit
http://www.imiscoeconferences.org/

IMISCOE is an international network of research focused on migration.

 

Re-blog: Charity, Racism and War | Voluntary Action History Society

Since the Woolwich murder, there have been worrying scenes and disturbances as the English Defence League has sought to become associated with Help the Heroes. Such political difficulties and controversies are nothing new to the voluntary sector. Offering some historical perspective, Peter Grant takes a look back to the activities of the Anti-German League during the First World War.

The horrific death of Drummer Lee Rigby has triggered a particularly unfortunate backlash from certain elements in British Society.  Predictably the English Defence League have attempted to exploit the situation but their attempt to ally themselves to the Help for Heroes charity has been firmly rejected.

The circumstances have reminded me of the responses 100 years ago to German ‘atrocities’ during the First World War. The execution of Edith Cavell and, especially, the sinking of the Lusitania, 98 years ago this week, led to some violent anti-German demonstrations, notably in Liverpool, Manchester and the East End of London. German-owned or even German-sounding shops were attacked and looted. Though lasting several days and leading to further government restrictions on ‘aliens’ including increased internment the Lusitania riots were perhaps untypical. Nevertheless a number of more right-wing elements attempted to further exploit this anti-German feeling. Two ‘Anti-German Leagues’ were established in order to combat what one of them described as ‘Teutonic leprosy.’

The more ‘respectable’ version was the British Anti-German League based in Birmingham. A number of their supporters including Admiral Charles Beresford, Dr Ellis Powell (editor of the Financial News), Joseph Havelock Wilson (sometime Liberal MP and founder of the National Amalgamated Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union) and the future Conservative Home Secretary, William Joynson-Hicks later began the British Empire Union, which was one of the bodies that later metamorphosed into the British Union of Fascists so it would be interesting to see how its supporters later reconciled support for Hitler with their earlier anti-Germanic pronouncements.

Full article via Charity, Racism and War | Voluntary Action History Society.

Re-blog: Feature: New Research on Save the Children | Voluntary Action History Society

After winning the Economic History Society Bursary to attend our summer conference, Emily Baughan writes for our June feature on The Save the Children Fund, the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child and a Charter for Stateless Children, 1919-1940.

I am very grateful to the Voluntary Action History Society and the Economic History Society for a bursary which enables me to present my research at their upcoming conference in Huddersfield. My PhD. project, which draws on archives in Britain, Geneva, the U.S., Canada, and South Africa, examines the principles and practices of the international ‘child saving’ movement in the interwar period. It charts the growth of the movement from its inception as an act of protest against the ‘unfair peace’ of the Versailles Treaty, through famine and refugee relief in 1920s Europe, to early development projects in Africa in the 1930s, and finally to controversial relief efforts for Spanish and German children in the turbulent period prior to the Second World War. I focus in particular on the largest ‘child saving’ organizations of the era, the British Save the Children Fund and its Geneva-based partner, the Union Internationale de Secours aux Enfants.

The 1924 Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child is the best-remembered aspect of the interwar work of the Save the Children Fund (SCF) and the Union Internationale. Proclaiming the right of children to education, welfare and ‘moral and spiritual’ development irrespective of their race, nationality and creed, it has been typically been viewed as an early manifestation of the universalist sentiment that later underpinned the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. My paper at the VAHS conference will offer a reinterpretation of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by reading it alongside a proposed charter for child refugees also promoted by the SCF. In doing so, my paper will place international and national voluntary action within the same analytical frame, revealing how fund members’ prior work in British domestic and imperial philanthropy shaped their international humanitarianism.

The SCF had been working with Russian refugees in Eastern Europe since 1920, but had a difficult time raising funds for them: “they all look too cheerful” complained one relief worker. In 1921, they received a novel offer from the Czech foreign minister, who asked the Fund to remove two thousand Russian refugee children from their parents in Constantinople, and send them to Czechoslovakia where they would be housed, fed and educated at the expense of the state. This proposal was undergirded both by fears about the ‘weakness’ of the Czech population, and the strength of the Communist threat from the east. It was believed that these children would grow up to be strong Czech citizens, helping the young nation ward off the external Bolshevik threat.

Full article via Feature: New Research on Save the Children | Voluntary Action History Society.

Bengali reflections on the Seventies: "We thought the racism was a natural phenomenon."

Reblogged from Trial by Jeory:

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As a slight departure from the usual fare on this blog, I thought it would interesting and useful, particularly in the current climate both in the UK and Bangladesh, to publish a series of pieces profiling some of the Bengalis who arrived and struggled here in the Seventies.

You'll see how remarkably resilient they were in the face of economic poverty and overt, violent racism.

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Updated Events and Opportunities

Details of these new events and opportunities were originally circulated by Elisa Mason on the incredibly useful: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.  Further details can be found on the website at:  
http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

CFP: Irregular Migration and Southern Europe, Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013 [info]
- Abstract deadline is 31 May 2013.

Protection Interrupted: Dublin Regulation’s Impact on Asylum Seekers’ Protection, Brussels, 4 June 2013 [info]
- Registration is still open!

National Forum on Children and Young People from Refugee Backgrounds, Sydney,15-16 July 2013 [info via BroCAP]
- Registration now open.

CFP: “Disability, Asylum and Migration” [info]
- Articles sought for special issue of Disability and the Global South: An International Journal.  Submission deadline is 1 September 2013.

 

New Thematic Publications on Children/Disabled Persons and ICTs/Innovation

Details of these new publications were originally circulated by Elisa Mason on the incredibly useful: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.  Further details can be found on the website at:  
http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

New Thematic Publications on Children/Disabled Persons

The theme for the 2013 edition of the State of the World’s Children is “Children with Disabilities.”  Chapter 5  focuses on “Humanitarian Response,” which discusses strategies for implementing disability-inclusive approaches to humanitarian action.

Other publications on either children or disabled persons:

“Bouncing Forward of Young Refugees: A Perspective on Resilience Research Directions,” European Journal of Psycho-Traumatology 4: 20124 (May 2013) [open access text]

“Disability and Forced Migration,” Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 37 (May 2013) [full-text]

Disabled, Displaced, Determined: 2013 Voices of Courage Awards Luncheon, New York, 2 May 2013 [info]
- Follow the link to learn more about this year’s honorees.

Happy Birthday? Disputing the Age of Children in the Immigration System (Coram Children’s Legal Centre, May 2013) [text]

“The Marginalisation of Refugee Children,” Runnymede Bulletin, no. 373 (Spring 2013) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 6.

“Overcoming Barriers to Education for Refugees with Disabilities,” Migration Australia Journal, vol. 3 (forthcoming, 2013) [eprint via SSRN]

Young and Astray: An Assessment of Factors Driving the Movement of Unaccompanied Children and Adolescents from Eritrea into Ethiopia, Sudan and Beyond (Women’s Refugee Commission, May 2013) [access]

New Thematic Publications on ICTs/Innovation

Humanitarianism in the Network Age: Including World Humanitarian Data and Trends 2012 (OCHA, March 2013) [text]
- See also related iRevolution blog post.

Innovative ICT Helps Aid Workers in Afghanistan (IRIN, May 2013) [text]

Media Outlets Multiply, but Aid Communication still Missing Mark (IRIN, May 2013) [text]

Moving Forward with Technology: Another Tool in the Toolbox? (WFP et al., 2013) [text]

Potential, Pitfalls of “Big Data” for Humanitarians (IRIN, May 2013) [text]

Serious Games at the UNHCR with ARLearn, a Toolkit for Mobile and Virtual Reality Applications (Open Universiteit, April 2013) [text]

South Sudan: Innovation in Delivering Aid to Refugees (OCHA, May 2013) [text]

UNHCR Innovation Monthly Newsletter, no. 3 (April 2013) [text]

 

 

New Regional Publications on Africa; Europe; and Palestinians

Details of these new publications were originally circulated by Elisa Mason on the incredibly useful: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.  Further details can be found on the website at:  
http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

New Regional Publications on Africa

Municipal Authorities and IDPs Outside of Camps: The Case of Kenya’s ‘Integrated Displaced Persons’ (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, May 2013) [text]

Nutrition Survey Final Report: Unity State Refugee Camps, South Sudan (UNHCR et al., Feb. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

South Africa: Police Repeatedly Turn on Asylum-seekers Amid Xenophobia Spike (Amnesty International, May 2013) [text]

Tuareg Migration: A Critical Component of Crisis in the Sahel (Migration Information Source, May 2013) [text]

‘You are All Terrorists:’ Kenyan Police Abuse of Refugees in Nairobi (Human Rights Watch, May 2013) [text]

New Regional Publications on Europe

Assisted Return of Rejected Asylum Seekers – How Can We Create Sustainability?, Policy Brief (DIIS, May 2013) [text]

“Asylum Seekers from Serbia and the Problems of Returnees: Why Serbia is among the World’s Leading Countries in Number of Asylum Seekers,” Two Homelands, no. 37 (2013) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 53.

The Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System: A Brave New World – or Lipstick on a Pig? (European Area of Freedom Security & Justice Blog, April 2013) [text]

UNHCR’s Contribution to the European Commission’s Consultation on Female Genital Mutilation in the EU (UNHCR, May 2013) [text]

New Regional Publications on Palestinians

Al Jabal: A Study on the Transfer of Bedouin Palestine Refugees (BIMKOM & UNRWA, May 2013) [text]
- See also related UNRWA press release; a relatedlecture takes place today in Jerusalem entitled “Bedouin Palestine Refugees in the West Bank: An Anthropological Perspective.”

Forgotten in the Diaspora: The Palestinian Refugees in Egypt, 1948-2011, Thesis (American University in Cairo, Spring 2013) [text]

Note on UNHCR’s Interpretation of Article 1D of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and Article 12(1)(a) of the EU Qualification Directive in the Context of Palestinian Refugees Seeking International Protection (UNHCR, May 2013) [text]

An Ongoing Displacement: The Forced Exile of the Palestinians (Jadaliyya, May 2013) [access]
- Infographic.

Reconciling Return and Rights: Palestinian Refugees and the Emergence of a “Political Society” (Jadaliyya, March 2013) [text]

 

Event: Rethinking Diaspora: Register now!

Rethinking Diaspora: Register now!

29 May 2013

The conference Rethinking Diaspora is open for registration.

There are still some places left at this event, which is jointly organised by COMPAS and theOxford Diasporas Programme. Register here.

The Oxford Diasporas Programme draws together a number of projects looking at the social, economic, political and cultural impact of diasporas through a range of disciplinary perspectives and research methods.

The programme identifies three fundamental dynamics relating to the formation, maintenance, and impacts of diasporas:

• Connecting: the way that diasporas create networks encompassing those back home, others in diaspora and, more widely, their imagined communities based on co-ethnicity or other identities.?

• Contesting: the contradictory processes of inclusion of diasporas within and exclusion from territorially-bound communities, and the emergence of potentially conflicting identities.?

• Converging: the way in which diasporic communities de-emphasize their origins and blend with indigenous or other migrant communities to create new social formations, cultures and practices.

This conference aims to integrate humanities and social science perspectives in order to investigate the impacts of these three dynamics of diaspora.

Link:-  www.compas.ox.ac.uk//news/latest/article/date///rethinking-diaspora-register-now/

 

Hong Kong Should Uphold the Right to Work for Urban Refugees

Reblogged from Refugee Work Rights:

Last month, the Hong Kong Refugee Advice Center (HKRAC) published an OpEd entitled "Don’t Starve Refugees of the Fruit of Honest Labour," highlighting the need for employment among Hong Kong's refugee population.

The Asia Pacific region is home to one third of the world’s refugee population. Although many of the Asian states within the region are signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its accessory Protocol, a number of these countries remain resistant to its implementation.

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Calls for papers: Irregular migration and southern Europe, 10th Annual IMISCOE Conference, Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

10th Annual IMISCOE Conference: Crisis and Migration- Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013

Call for Papers:

Irregular migration and southern Europe

Workshop: Irregular migration and southern Europe Workshop convenors: Daniela DeBono, Russell King and Ioanna Tsoni

The aim of this workshop is to explore irregular migration in southern European countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, Greece, Cyprus and others. There will be an attempt to identify issues, patterns and processes common to countries in this region, as well as differences. Researchers working in this field are aware of the dearth of spaces available for such discussions. This is reflected in the lack of edited collections or special issues focusing specifically on this phenomenon in this region. If there is enough material, the papers presented in this workshop could be presented to a publisher.

Southern European countries, in particular current EU Member States, share similar migration histories, being traditionally countries of emigration but now having to deal with large numbers of immigrants. Being geopolitically located on the southern EU borders, these countries are likely to continue receiving large irregular migrant flows in spite of the current economic crisis and high unemployment. In addition, the Dublin System has created a situation whereby these countries remain ‘responsible’ for asylum seekers, including those which ‘move on’ to northern European countries. Many of these countries, with a dark track record of violations of human rights of irregular migrants, are now dealing with increasing challenges to maintain fair asylum determination systems while irregular migrants are facing increasing hostility from host communities.

Although the rationale for this workshop is built on similarities within the region, the general tendency to project ‘southern European countries’ as a homogenous area will be consciously avoided and contributions of a comparative nature highlighting differences will be welcome.

Researchers are invited to submit abstracts which broadly serve to feed into the discussion of irregular migration in southern European countries such as (but not only!) the experiences of irregular migrants in southern European countries, reactions of the host communities to irregular migrants, the development of immigration policies, state reactions to the Dublin System and Frontex, the conditions and use of migrant detention centres, access to asylum and protection benefits, participation of irregular migrants in the labour market and so on. The organisers encourage contributions from different areas of study such as migration studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, history, law, politics, human rights, economics and so on.

Abstracts should be sent to Daniela DeBono at daniela.debono@mah.se by Friday 31st May 2013. Questions or clarifications prior to abstract submission should be directed to the same email address.

The Call for Papers can be found online at the conference website:


http://www.imiscoeconferences.org/
 , or at the direct link: 
http://tinyurl.com/ctgt83u

Context and host

The workshop will take place at the 10th IMISCOE Annual Conference, 26 – 27 August 2013 in Malmö, Sweden, which brings together researchers from the IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe) Research Network and other academic and research institutions in Europe.

Important dates

. 31 May 2013: Deadline for submission of abstracts . 12 June 2013: Notification of acceptance decisions . 1 August 2013: Deadline for submission of full papers . 1 August 2013: Deadline for IMISCOE Conference Registration

Registration

All conference presenters must register for the conference. For more information on how to register please visit the conference website:www.imiscoeconferences.org

Travel expenses and fees

No support will be available towards the cost of accommodation and/or travel and the conference fee.

** With apologies for cross-posting**

 

Events: Invitation to a public lecture by Prof. Didier Fassin on ‘The multiple truths of asylum’

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

PUBLIC LECTURE: THE MULTIPLE TRUTHS OF ASYLUM

Presentation by Prof. Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.

Wednesday 5 June 2013, 6:00 – 7:30 pm

(Refreshments will be served)

The Atrium, Southwest Engineering Building, East Campus University of the Witwatersrand

One of the oldest social institutions, asylum has been formally recognized by the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees. Yet, during the past decades, with the increasing number of claimants and the growing reluctance of states to offer them protection, asylum has become a major global issue, although unevenly distributed across the planet.

Based on ten years of research, mostly in Europe, this lecture examines the refugee question through an inquiry into the concept of truth. Firstly, it will be shown that the truth of asylum, far from being definitively inscribed in an international text, is permanently reinterpreted and transformed, including new dimensions while lessening others. Secondly, it will be analyzed how the truths of the asylum-seekers, instead of being unveiled through their narrative, are matters of appreciation by state agents, which largely exceed the veracity of the stories or the sincerity of the applicants. The refugee question thus reveals crucial political and moral issues of our time.

Bio

Professor Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton and a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.  An anthropologist, sociologist and physician, he is the author of the seminal monograph When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa. He has also developed a critique of humanitarianism, in particular  around migration, asylum, and international assistance in Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present. His most recent study, Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing, addresses law enforcement in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Professor Didier Fassin is as an AW Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar hosted at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), Wits University, for 3 weeks.

This lecture is sponsored by the AW Mellon Foundation

RSVP:
lenore.longwe@wits.ac.za | 011 717 4033

 

Meera, medium and message – MRG’s BBC Radio 4 Appeal

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MRG’s Fundraiser, Lali Foster, reflects on our collaboration with UK actress Meera Syal and BBC Radio 4 to raise awareness and funds for MRG’s work to end slavery in Mauritania.

Now that the last cheques have floated in and our thank you notes are travelling all over the country, I can well and truly say that MRG’s BBC Radio 4 Appeal is over.

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Events: Family ties: remittances and support in Puntland and Somaliland, RSC Seminar, today, 5pm, Oxford

Family ties: remittances and support in Puntland and Somaliland Dr Laura Hammond (School of Oriental and African Studies)

Time: 5pm, 29 May 2013

Location: Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development – QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

This presentation will share the findings of a research project recently completed with the FAO Food Security and Nutrition Assessment Unit in Somalia, in which more than 700 households in urban and rural areas were interviewed to find out about how they use remittance support and how resources are shared between better-off and poorer households. This provided new information on the extent to which rural households are involved in the remittance economy and the vulnerabilities inherent in the system.


http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/family-ties-remittances-and-support-in-puntland-and-somaliland

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Constitutionalism, ethnicity and minority rights in Africa: a legal appraisal from the Great Lakes region Dr Jeremie Gilbert (University of East London)
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/constitutionalism-ethnicity-and-minority-rights-in-africa-a-legal-appraisal-from-the-great-lakes-region

Evidence about torture in the UK asylum system Dr Toby Kelly (University of Edinburgh)
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/evidence-about-torture-in-the-uk-asylum-system

Tracks Across Sand: the dispossession of the ‡Khomani San of the southern Kalahari (Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2013) Professor Hugh Brody (University of the Fraser Valley)


http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/elizabeth-colson-lecture-2013

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**Apologies for any cross posting**

 

Events: Bedouin Palestine Refugees in the West Bank: An Anthropological Perspective, UNRWA/NRC Public Lecture, St George Landmark Hotel, Jerusalem

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

Bedouin Palestine Refugees in the West Bank: An Anthropological Perspective UNRWA/NRC Public Lecture St George Landmark Hotel, Jerusalem Free admission – no reservation required

Professor Dawn Chatty is the guest lecturer for a joint event hosted by UNRWA and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) at the St George Landmark Hotel, Jerusalem, taking place today at 17:30. The lecture, titled ‘Bedouin Palestine refugees in the West Bank: an anthropological perspective’, will examine the challenges faced by the Bedouin residents of Area C.

The majority of the Bedouin in the West Bank today are Palestine refugees, originating from tribal territories in what is now the Negev Desert. The traditionally mobile pastoralist population today faces a range of challenges rendering them at high risk of displacement, some into urban environments being planned for them by the Israeli authorities.

The livestock-dependent Bedouin facing transfer into centralised semi-urban settings today are perhaps the last sector of the Palestine refugee population to experience overnight transformation from a traditional rural society to one based on an urban wage-labour setting.

The lecture coincides with the launch of a United Nations-backed joint UNRWA-Bimkom report released yesterday, which analyses the transfer against their will of 150 Palestine refugee Bedouin families to Al Jabal village, starting in 1997, to expand the Israeli Ma’ale Adummim settlement outside of Jerusalem. In a UN Radio interview, Professor Chatty, who participated in the launch, called the study ‘extraordinarily important’ and ‘timely’ given the health risks, as well as the social and economic degradation facing the Bedouin families.

‘I hope that after today’s launch [.], the report will be read very carefully,’ Professor Chatty said, underscoring her belief that the transfer of the Bedouin families was completely ‘unacceptable.’ ‘Any other attempt to create another settlement similar to that, even if not on a garbage dump, would be a very serious mistake.’

UN News:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45018&Cr=palestin&Cr1=#.UaXYc0Bwp8G

UN Report:
http://www.unrwa.org/etemplate.php?id=1763

 

Event: Muslims, Multiculturalism and Trust: New Directions

Muslims, Multiculturalism and Trust: New Directions

Date: 1-2 June 2013

Venue: SOAS, Russell Square, Khalili Lecture Theatre

Recent high-profile interventions by politicians in the West declaring the ‘failure’ of multiculturalism have had, as their very thinly disguised context, mistrust in those Muslim communities that have been growing in Western Europe and the United States since the end of the colonial era. The sense that multiculturalism has been a flawed experiment, that ‘unintegrated’ Muslims are evidence of this, has become a truism of much journalism and media coverage too.

Further Details:

This conference brings together leading experts from across the social science/humanities divide to examine the intersections and tensions between different approaches to questions of multiculturalism and trust, and to explore the possibility of developing mutually informative interdisciplinary approaches to shed new light on this topic. The aim of the conference is to analyse current critiques of multiculturalism, measure them against other, perhaps more progressive interpretations, and consider the potential offered by lived experience and creative visions of intercultural exchange to offer new ways of envisaging multicultural experience.

Invited participants include: Rehana Ahmed, Claire Chambers, Sohail Daulatzai, Rumy Hasan, Salah Hassan, Tony Laden, Alana Lentin, Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Anshuman Mondal, Peter Morey, Stephen Morton, Jorgen Nielsen, Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Amina Yaqin.

 

Event: UCL Migration Research Unit Conference 12th June 2013

UCL Migration Research Unit Conference
12th June 2013

We would like to notify your organisation of our upcoming student conference at University College London, ‘Forced Migration: Global Perspectives and Practices’, on the 12th June 2013. Critically analysing the concept of ‘forced’ migration, this conference aims to provide a space for researchers, campaigners and sector workers to share perspectives and practices on ‘forced’ migration movements in our globalised world. Please find a provisional copy of our programme for the day attached to this blog posting as follows:

Download Programme  (in PDF format)

We would like to take this opportunity to invite your organisation to attend the conference on the 12th June 2013. Unfortunately, due to budgetary constraints, we are asking all participants to contribute £8 towards the running of the conference. This will cover all conference materials, lunch and refreshments throughout the day. If you are interested in attending, please email us back on this email address, and we will provide you with further instructions for registration. The deadline for registration is the 31st May 2013.

Please feel free to forward this information to anyone you think would be interested in attending the conference, and we would very much appreciate it if you were able to share our conference poster with your supporters and social media followers. Please find this poster attached to this email.

If you have any further enquiries, do not hesitate to contact the conference team on this email address.

We hope to see you soon,

Best wishes,

Lorna Gledhill

On behalf of the MRU Student Conference Team

Siril, Sam, Anna, Larissa, Elizabeth

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New Call for Papers, Events and Opportunities

Details of these new opportunites were originally circulated by Elisa Mason on the incredibly useful: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.  Further details can be found on the website at: 
http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

Call for Panels: Third World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Istanbul, 24-27 October 2013 [info]
- The theme of the conference is “Human Security: Humanitarian Perspectives and Responses.”  Deadline for panel proposals is 1 June 2013.

FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Global Programs to Develop and Assess the Humanitarian Community’s Capacity to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence (GBV) within Refugee and Conflict-affected Populations [info]
- Proposal submission deadline is 5 June 2013.

Migration & Asylum Policies in Europe, Oxford, 6-7 June 2013 [info]
- Organized by the European Studies Centre.

British Journal of Social Work [info]
- Special issue on “‘A World on the Move’: Migration, Mobilities and Social Work.”  Abstract deadline is 7 June 2013.

CFP: Critical Migration Studies Stream, Critical Legal Conference, Belfast, 5-7 September 2013 [info]
- Abstract deadline is 15 June 2013.

Job Vacancy: Assistant to the International Summer School and Conferences Manager, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford [info]
- Application deadline is 19 June 2013.

Eleventh Orientation Course on Forced Migration Studies, Kolkata, India, 8-14 December 2013 [info]
- Apply by 24 June 2013.

20 Years after the German Asylum Law Reform: Demise or Transformation of Refugee Protection?, Berlin, 28 June 2013 [info]
- No registration deadline indicated.

Intervention [info]
- Special issue on psychosocial work and peacebuilding. Submission deadline is 1 July 2013.

Gender, the Refugee and Displacement (1900-1950), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 5 July 2013 [info]
- Registration is now open; a programme will be available at the end of the month.

Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth [info]
- New open access journal published by the School of Advanced Study, University of London.  Submission deadline is 31 July 2013.

Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration [info]
- Scroll to p. 101 for CFP.  Submission deadline is 14 August 2013.

Disability and the Global South: An International Journal [info]
- Special issue on “Disability, Asylum and Migration.” Submission deadline is 1 September 2013.

 

New Issues of FEX, FMR, GILJ, Humanit. Exch., OxMo, St. Ant. Intl. Rev.

Details of these new releases were originally circulated by Elisa Mason on the incredibly useful: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.  Further details can be found on the website at: 
http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

Field Exchange, no. 44 (Dec. 2012) [full-text]
- Mix of articles.

Forced Migration Review, no. 43 (May 2013) [info]
- Theme issue on “States of Fragility.”  Full-text is coming soon.

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 26, no. 2 (Winter 2012) [contents]
- Mix of articles including two on “women as a social group” and “refugee relief and resettlement during armed conflict.”

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 57 (May 2013) [full-text]
- Theme is “South Sudan at a Crossroads.”

Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 3, no. 1 (May 2013) [full-text]
- Mix of articles that reflect on the concepts of “international solidarity” and “international cooperation” in refugee protection.

St. Antony’s International Review, vol. 9, no. 1 (May 2013) [contents]
- Special issue on “The Gendered Refugee Experience.”  See also launch event info.here.

 

Event: Symposium: Juana in a Million: Making Latin Americans Visible in London

 Juana in a Million symposium:

Symposium: Juana in a Million: Making Latin Americans Visible in London
Southwark Playhouse
Friday 7th June 2013
10-30 to 16-30

Juana in a Million is one-woman performance exploring true stories of Latin American migrants to the UK. Mexican author-performer Vicky Araico Casas (together with the Director and co-author, Nir Paldi) funded by the Arts Council and National Lottery. Vicky wrote the play after being inspired by her own experiences and by Cathy McIlwaine’s research on the Latin American Community in London.

The Symposium aims to facilitate a larger and more diverse audience for the play far beyond the Latin American community itself and to explore the lessons learnt and the ways in which the arts and performance can interrelate with academic social science research. It will entail a performance of the play,and a panel discussion of reactions to the play (led by Mette Berg, Davide Pero, Sarah Bradshaw, and Kavita Datta). This will be followed by a range of informal presentations by researchers and campaigners who have worked with Latin Americans in London. These include Carolina Gottardo, Rosina Marquez Reiter, Patria Román-Velasquez, Katie Wright, Jasmine Gideon, Juan Camilo Cock and Maria das Graças Brightwell.

The performance of the play, lunch and refreshments will be provided as part of the ticket price of £7.
Please register at the following:

http://juanainamillionsymposium.eventbrite.co.uk

Organisers: Cathy McIlwaine and Vicky Araico Casas

 

New Regional Publications on Europe; The Americas; and Syrians

Details of these new publications were originally circulated by Elisa Mason on the incredibly useful: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.  Further details can be found on the website at: 
http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

New Regional Publications on Europe

“African Irregular Migrants in Malta: Exploring Perceptions and Renegotiating the Socio-Cultural Siege of Malta,” Pursuit: The Journal of Undergraduate Research at the University of Tennessee, vol. 4, no. 1 (Dec. 2012) [full-text]
Asylum: Fixing a Broken System (Euronews, May 2013) [access]
- Follow link above for news report and this link for related debate on asylum.

Asylum Seekers and Refugees were Already Marginalised in Cyprus; Now, with the Crisis, their Situation is Deteriorating (ECRE, May 2013) [text]

Evaluation of the Early Legal Advice Project (UK Home Office, May 2013) [text]

Papers presented at 13th European Union Studies Association Biennial Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 9-11 May 2013 [info]
- Here are two titles of interest; check paper archive for more: “Normative Regimes in the Regulation of Asylum and Immigration: International Conventions – Attitudes – EU Integration” and “Linking Berlin and Brussels: Nongovernmental Organizations Engage the European Union on Asylum.”

Regional Study: Management of the External Borders of the EU and its Impact on the Human Rights of Migrants, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/23/46 (UN General Assembly, April 2013) [access]
- Report is available in .DOC format; background info. on the study is available here.

The Statistical and Econometric Analysis of Asylum Application Trends and Their Relationship to GDP in the EEA (arXiv.org, May 2013) [text]

Study on the Situation of Third-country Nationals Pending Return/Removal in the EU Member States and the Schengen Associated Countries (European Commission, March 2013) [text]

New Regional Publications on The Americas

2012 Refugee Claim Data and IRB Member Recognition Rates (Canadian Council for Refugees, May 2013) [text]

Colombia: Between the Humanitarian Crisis and Hope of Peace (Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, May 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Lessons from the Earthquake in Haiti: A Survey on the IDPs and on the Resettled Households (Migration Policy Centre, May 2013) [text]
- English summary of a French-language research report by the ACP Observatory on Migration.

The Price of Fear (IRIN, May 2013) [text]
- Discusses fear of crime and gang violence.

Refugiados en México: Perfiles Sociodemográficos e Integración Social (UNHCR, 2012; launched May 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

New Regional Publications on Syrians

“Forced Displacements from Syria or How to Institutionalize Regimes of Suffering,” ESIL Reflections, vol. 2, no. 6 (May 2013) [text]

The Past, Present and Future of Transnational Conflict in Jordan: A Study of Syrian Refugees in the Hashemite Kingdom, Masters Capstone Paper Project (Illinois State University, May 2013) [text]

Mission Report: An NGO Perspective on the Response to the Syria Crisis (ICVA & InterAction, May 2013) [text]

Multimedia Memo: Syria (UNHCR) [access]

People on the Move: ‘For many displaced Syrians, going back home is out of the question’ (Amnesty International, May 2013) [text]

Syria Refugees: Your Stories (Guardian Witness) [access]

 

 

New Regional Publications on Africa

Details of these new publications were originally circulated by Elisa Mason on the incredibly useful: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.  Further details can be found on the website at: 
http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

New Regional Publications on Africa

Destination Unknown: Eritrean Refugee Torture and Trafficking (NATO Civil-Military Fusion Centre, May 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Kampala Convention: Entry into Force (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, May 2013) [access]

Libyans in North Africa Scared to Return Home (IRIN, May 2013) [text]

“Life in Transition: Ongoing Social and Economic Impacts of Internal Displacement on Young People in Liberia,” Georgetown Public Policy Review, vol. 18, no. 2 (Spring 2013) [full-text]

Returns to South and Central Somalia: A Violation of International Law (Amnesty International, May 2013) [text via Refworld]

Tales of the Unexpected (Inside Story, May 2013) [text]

Voices from Exile: Daily Realities and Future Prospects of Congolese and Burundian Refugees in the Great Lakes Region (Danish Refugee Council, May 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Disappearance of Sudan? Life in Khartoum for Citizens without Rights, Citizenship and Displacement in the Great Lakes Region, Working Paper, no. 9 (International Refugee Rights Initiative, May 2013) [textvia ReliefWeb]

Humanitarianism and the “National Order of Things”: Examining the Routinized Refugee Response in Eastern Cameroon, Honors Projects Paper, no. 17 (Macalester College, 2013) [text]

Maban Refugee Camps, South Sudan: Nutrition Survey Final Report (UNHCR et al., 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

République du Tchad: Mission conjointe d’évaluation de la situation des réfugiés soudanais, retournés tchadiens et la population locale dans la zone de Tissi au Sud-est du Tchad (WFP & FAO, May 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Rejected from Refuge: Displaced Malians Face Eviction from Apartments They can no Longer Afford (IDMC Blog, May 2013) [text]

 

New Thematic Publications on Statelessness; Health; and Gender Issues

Details of these new publications were originally circulated by Elisa Mason on the incredibly useful: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.  Further details can be found on the website at: 
http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

New Publications on Statelessness

The European Network on Statelessness and the Statelessness Programme at Tilburg University are calling for the adoption of an “International Day on Statelessness,” similar to Human Rights Day or World Refugee Day.  Share your support/thoughts over at the ENS blog!

Publications:

“Becoming Stateless: Historical Experience and Its Reflection on the Concept of State among the Lahu in Yunnan and Mainland Southeast Asian Massif,” Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 2, no. 1 (2013) [full-text]

“Born Lost: Stateless Children in International Surrogacy Arrangements,” Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 21, no. 2 (2013) [full-text]

“‘A Forgotten Human Rights Crisis’: Statelessness and Issue (Non)Emergence,”Human Rights Review, vol. 14, no. 2 (June 2013) [abstract]
- See also related ENS Blog postFMR article and thesis.

A Government Approach to Moving Statelessness Forward on the International Agenda (ENS Blog, May 2013) [text]

Litigation, Legal Aid & Law Clinics (ENS Blog, May 2013) [text]

[Nationality Laws in LiberiaNepal and Thailand] (Statelessness Programme, May 2013)
- Students in the ‘Nationality, Statelessness and Human Rights’ course at Tilburg University provide their analyses.

The Price of Statelessness: Palestinian Refugees from Syria (Middle East Monitor, May 2013) [text]

U.S. Immigration Reform May Finally Help Stateless People (Refugees International Blog, May 2013) [text]

New Publications on Health

“Improving Early Detection of Refugee-Related Stress Symptoms: Evaluation of an Inter-Professional and Inter-Cultural Skills Training Course in Sweden,” Societies3(2) (May 2013) [open access text]

“Meaningful Change or Business as Usual? Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings,” Forced Migration Review 25th Anniversary Collection (April 2013) [open access text]

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Disaster Situations in the Caribbean (PAHO, Dec. 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

“Piloting Community-based Medical Care for Survivors of Sexual Assault in Conflict-affected Karen State of Eastern Burma,” Conflict and Health 7:12 (May 2013) [open access text]

“Quality of Ultrasound Biometry Obtained by Local Health Workers in a Refugee Camp on the Thai–Burmese Border,” Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, vol. 40, no. 2 (Aug. 2012) [open access text]

War Surgery: Working with Limited Resources in Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence, vol. 2 (ICRC, 2013) [text]

New Publications on Gender Issues

Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People(ILGA Europe, May 2013) [text via Refworld]
- See also other related materials from ILGA Europe including score sheets per country.

Female Refugees Fleeing Conflict (IntLawGrrls, May 2013) [text]

Invisible in the City: Protection Gaps Experienced by Sexual Minority Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Urban Ecuador, Ghana, Israel, and Kenya (HIAS, Feb. 2013) [text]
- See also related U.S. State Dept. speech.

“Nexus with a Convention Ground: The Particular Social Group and Sexual Minority Refugees in Ireland and the United Kingdom,” Irish Law Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (2012) [full-text]

The Plight of LGBTI Asylum Seekers, Refugees (IRIN, May 2013) [text]

“Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and the Protection of Forced Migrants,”Forced Migration Review, no. 42 (April 2013) [open access text]
-”Around the world, people face abuse, arbitrary arrest, extortion, violence, severe discrimination and lack of official protection because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. This latest issue of FMR includes 26 articles on the abuse of rights of forced migrants who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex. Authors discuss both the challenges faced and examples of good practice in securing protection for LGBTI forced migrants.”

UK Asylum Process Painful for Lesbians Fleeing Death Threats (Thomson Reuters Foundation, May 2013) [text]

“Women as a Particular Social Group: A Comparative Assessment of Gender Asylum Claims in the United States and United Kingdom,” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 26, no. 2 (Winter 2012) [full-text via SSRN]

 

ToC: International Migration – Special Issue: Incorporating Faith: Religion and Immigrant Incorporation in the West

International MigrationThe latest Table of Contents Alert for the journal International Migration has just been published.  This is a Special Issue on: Incorporating Faith: Religion and Immigrant Incorporation in the West and is Volume 51, Issue 3 (June 2013).  Further details of the articles include din this volume are available below:

International Migration - Special Issue on: Incorporating Faith: Religion and Immigrant Incorporation in the West and is Volume 51, Issue 3 (June 2013) : Pages 1–217

Guest Editor Phillip Connor

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  1. Introduction (pages 1–7)Phillip Connor

    Article first published online: 23 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/imig.12094

  2. God Bless Our Children? The Role of Generation, Discrimination and Religious Context for Migrants in Europe (pages 23–37)Koen Van der Bracht, Bart Van de Putte and Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe

    Article first published online: 15 APR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/imig.12075

  3. Piety in a Secular Society: Migration, Religiosity, and Islam in Britain (pages 57–66)Valerie A. Lewis and Ridhi Kashyap

    Article first published online: 23 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/imig.12095

  4. Religious Dimensions of Contexts of Reception: Comparing Two New England Cities(pages 84–98)Wendy Cadge, Peggy Levitt, Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky and Casey Clevenger

    Article first published online: 15 APR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/imig.12074

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    ORIGINAL ARTICLES

    1. Voluntary Association Involvement and Immigrant Network Diversity (pages 133–150)S.R. Lauer and M. C. Yan

      Article first published online: 16 FEB 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00602.x

    2. Transnational Ties During a Time Of Crisis: Israeli Emigration, 2000 To 2004 (pages 194–216)Steven Gold and Rona Hart

      Article first published online: 12 OCT 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2009.00574.x

Re-blog: Some Afghan interpreters to be allowed to settle in Britain | World news | The Guardian

About half the Afghan interpreters risking their lives for British troops are to be given settlement rights in the UK under a reworked package prepared by the coalition government.

The package represents a climbdown from earlier suggestions that most interpreters would have to risk reprisals as collaborators by the Taliban after coalition forces leave a still unstable country at the end of 2014.

Under the proposals any interpreters who have put themselves in physical danger working outside British military bases will be offered a resettlement package if they have been working for the UK forces for more than 12 months at the point of their redundancy.

The package will apply to any Afghan interpreter employed by British forces between December 2012 and December 2014, the final point of British departure. It is estimated that about half the interpreters – roughly 600 – will qualify for resettlement in the UK.

Qualifying interpreters will be offered a five-year visa for themselves and their families with additional practical help for relocation, accommodation and seeking work in the UK.

If a qualifying interpreter does not want to take up the option of living in the UK they will be given an alternative five-year training and education package with the Afghan security forces on existing security force salaries. They will also be offered pro-rata rates.

That army package will also be available to interpreters who do not qualify for resettlement in the UK.

It is estimated that roughly 600 interpreters will not qualify for resettlement either because they do not have 12 months’ continuous service or have not been deemed to face sufficient physical danger in their daily work. Interpreters not qualifying for resettlement will also be given the right to the equivalent of an 18-month average army salary paid on a monthly basis, rather than as a lump sum.

A No 10 source said: “The prime minister has been very clear that we should not turn our backs on those who have trod the same path as our soldiers in Helmand, consistently putting their lives at risk to help our troops achieve their mission.

“We should recognise the service given by those who have regularly put themselves in real danger while working for us.

“These proposals give them a choice: the opportunity to go on working in Afghanistan, learning new skills and to go on rebuilding their country or to come and make a new start in Britain.”

Downing Street said the packages would not take away interpreters’ existing rights to be resettled within Afghanistan if they were under clear threat.

Full article via Some Afghan interpreters to be allowed to settle in Britain | World news | The Guardian.

See Also:

The Guardian - Afghan interpreters’ resettlement scheme ‘does not go far enough’

The Guardian - Afghan interpreters ‘risk being failed by bureaucracy’

New UK Migration Statistics Released and the Migration Statistics Quarterly Report (MSQR)

Migration is down. Source: Gov.uk – New figures show net migration is decreasing

The UK Home Office has just published the latest immigration statistics for the period January to March 2013.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today, Thursday 23rd May 2013, published the Migration Statistics Quarterly Report (MSQR). The report can be accessed from the following link:


http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/migration-statistics-quarterly-report/may-2013/index.html

The MSQR series brings together statistics on migration that are published quarterly by the Home Office, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), ONS, and the National Records of Scotland (NRS).

ONS have also published the Short-term International Migration Annual Report. It can be accessed from the following link:


http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/short-term-migration/short-term-migration-estimates-for-england-and-wales/mid-2011-estimates/stim.html

ONS have also released a short story on “Seasonal Patterns of Long-term International Migration”, which can be accessed from the following link:


http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/migration-statistics-quarterly-report/may-2013/seasonal-patterns-of-ltim.html

We would welcome any comments on any of our products. Please contact migstatsunit@ons.gov.uk with any comments.

How we are reducing net migration Source – Gov.uk – New figures show net migration is decreasing

Further Information:

Gov.uk - New figures show net migration is decreasing

Daily Telegraph - Net migration to the UK falls by a third

The Guardian - UK net migration shrinks further, official figures show

The Guardian - Net migration to the UK: down 89,000 in a year

The Guardian - The UK’s immigration crackdown will lead to a loss of international talent

The Guardian - Stop playing a crude numbers game with immigration. We must be open

BBC - Net migration to UK down by a third, figures show

 

ToC: The Asian and Pacific Migration Journal Volume 22 Issue 1, (2013)

The Asian and Pacific Migration Journal  (APMJ) is an academic quarterly started in 1992. APMJ is the first journal dedicated to migration issues in the Asia-Pacific region. APMJ is indexed in ISI and other key social science indexes.

APMJ VOLUME 22, 2013-Issue 1

Introduction: The New Chinese Migration to Southeast Asia

Diana Wong

Vol. 22 (1), p. 1-6, 2013.

Link to Abstract.

Recent Chinese Migration to Vietnam

Nguyen Van Chinh

Vol. 22 (1), p. 7-30, 2013.

Link to Abstract.

Chinese Migration to Singapore: Discourses and Discontents in a Globalizing Nation-State

Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Weiqiang Lin

Vol. 22 (1), p. 31-54, 2013.

Link to Abstract.

The Globalization of Tertiary Education and Intra-Asian Student Mobility: Mainland Chinese Student Mobility to Malaysia

Diana Wong and Ooi Pei Wen

Vol. 22 (1), p. 55-76, 2013.

Link to Abstract.

Environmental-related Resettlement in China: A Case Study of the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province

Yan Tan, Alec Zuo and Graeme Hugo

Vol. 22 (1), p. 77-108, 2013.

Link to Abstract.

Living in a Consumer Society: Adaptation Experiences of North Korean Youth Defectors in South Korea

Sang-Hee Sohn

Vol. 22 (1), p. 109-132, 2013.

Link to Abstract.

The Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Bangladesh-Myanmar Relations

Syeda Naushin Parnini, Mohammad Redzuan Othman and Amer Saifude Ghazali

Vol. 22 (1), p. 133-146, 2013.

Link to Abstract.

 

Event: Birkbeck Race Forum & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Annual Lecture 2013

Birkbeck Race Forum & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Annual Lecture 2013

Starts:  May 30, 2013 at 06:00 PM
Finishes:  09:00 PM
Location:  Room B20, Malet Street main building, Birkbeck

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Birkbeck Race Forum & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Annual Lecture 2013

Department of Psychosocial Studies

‘A Second Skin’ | Embodied intersectionality, transnationalism and narratives of identity and belonging among Muslim women in Britain

Heidi Safia Mirza, Emeritus Professor of Equalities Studies in Education, Institute of Education

Thursday 30 May 2013 at 6.0,  Room B20, Birkbeck, Malet St. Followed by drinks reception

This talk examines the narratives of professional transnational Muslim women of Turkish, Pakistani and Indian heritage living and working in Britain. Developing a postcolonial black feminist framework of embodied intersectionality, the paper explores the ways in which the regulatory discursive power to ‘name’ the ‘Muslim woman’ in the ‘West’ as either dangerous or oppressed is lived out on and within the body. Embodied practices such as choosing to wear the hijab, which one woman described as a ‘second skin’, allows an insight into the ways in which the women draw on their subjecthood and inner sense of self to negotiate the affective ‘postcolonial disjunctures’ of racism and islamophobia which framed their everyday lives. Embodied intersectionality as a feminist critical theory of race and racism shows how gendered and raced representation is powerfully written on and experienced within the body, and how Muslim women’s agency challenges and transforms hegemonic discourses of race, gender and religion in transnational diasporic spaces.

Heidi Safia Mirza is Emeritus Professor of Equalities Studies in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. She is known internationally for her pioneering research on race, gender and identity in education. She uses postcolonial and black feminist theoretical frameworks to explore social justice, human rights and equality issues for Muslim, black and minority ethnic women. Her current work explores debates on multicultural education, ethnicity and citizenship, and cultural and religious difference, including islamophobia and gendered violence. She is author of several books including, ‘Young, Female and Black’, ‘Black British Feminism’ and ‘Race, Gender and Educational Desire: Why black women succeed and fail’. Her most recent book is ‘Respecting Difference: Race, faith and culture for teacher educators’.

Heidi was conferred with an award for achievements in academia as part of the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the independence of Trinidad and Tobago in 2012.

The event is free and open to all. To register, please email Yasmeen aty.narayan@bbk.ac.uk

Full Link - www.bbk.ac.uk/psychosocial/about-us/events/birkbeck-race-forum-ma-culture-diaspora-ethnicity-annual-lecture-2013

 

REVIEW: Shuo Liu in LSE Review of Books

Reblogged from Refugees, Capitalism and the British State:

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In this period of economic crisis, public sector cuts, and escalating class struggles, Marxist theory offers social workers and service users important tools to help understand the structures of oppression they face and to devise effective means of resistance. This book uses Marxism’s lost insights, reinterpreting them for the current context by focusing on one particular section of the international working class: refugees and asylum seekers in Britain. 

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A Spanish Truth Commission?

Reblogged from SAA's Human Rights Archives Roundtable:

Written by Joel Blanco-Rivera, Assistant Professor of Archives at Simmons College

One of the most important events in human rights in the past decades was the arrest of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in October 1998. Using the principle of universal jurisdiction, Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón of Spain’s National Court issued the arrest warrant. While Pinochet never stood trial, this action opened the doors for other investigations in Spain, including the genocide case against Guatemalan former president General Efraín Ríos Montt.

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New Journal Articles on Refugee Issues (weekly)

  • “This article is about the city as home for people living in diaspora. We develop two key areas of debate. First, in contrast to research that explores diasporic homes in relation to domestic homemaking and/or the nation as home or ‘homeland’, we consider the city as home in diaspora. Second, building on research on transnational urbanism, translocality and the importance of the ‘city scale’ in migration studies, we argue that the city is a distinctive location of diasporic dwelling, belonging and attachment. Drawing on interviews with Anglo–Indian and Chinese Calcuttans who live in London and Toronto, we develop the idea of ‘diaspora cities’ to explore the importance of the city as home rather than the nation as ‘homeland’ for many people living in diaspora. This leads to an understanding of the importance of migration and diaspora within cities of departure as well as resettlement, and contributes a distinctively diasporic focus to broader work on comparative urbanism.”

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  • “In this article, I explore the interactions between transnational activities (in the form of return visits) and integration, for Afghan refugees living in the USA. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in California and Kabul, I look at why return visits take place and the difficult experiences Afghan-Americans had of being a stranger in what might they might otherwise consider their ‘home’. I argue that return visits can serve as a transnational strategy to help integration in California through, for example, the investment of ‘reverse’ remittances. In doing so, I highlight the importance of multi-directional transnational flows, particularly those from Afghanistan to the USA.”

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  • “Our understanding of the impact of gender on refugee determination has evolved greatly over the last 60 years. Though many people initially believed that women could not be persecuted qua women, it is now frequently recognized that certain forms of gender-related persecution are sufficient to warrant asylum. Yet despite this conceptual progress, many states are still reluctant to consider certain forms of gender-related persecution to be sufficient to warrant asylum or refugee status. One reason for this continued bias is the lack of a framework with which to understand gender-related persecution. I argue that we ought to understand gender-related persecution as resulting from the intersection of individual or state persecution and structural injustice. Structural injustice can be understood as the kind of everyday injustice, harm, and violence that women experience that makes possible the more extraordinary kinds of violence that women are likely to claim as the basis of asylum. Understanding gender-related persecution within the context of structural injustice will, I argue, help us to see it as a legitimate form of persecution and thus allow more just outcomes for women refugees.”

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  • “Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation—what immigrants do with their time—based on the notion that assimilating activities entail fixed costs. The theory predicts that immigrants will be less likely than natives to undertake such activities, but conditional on undertaking them, immigrants will spend more time on them than natives. We identify several activities—purchasing, education and market work—as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the theoretical predictions. Additional tests suggest that the costs of assimilating derive from the costs of learning English and from some immigrants’ unfamiliarity with a high-income market economy. A replication using the 1992 Australian Time Use Survey yields remarkably similar results. “

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  • “Using 1995–2011 Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor supply of second generation women (US-born women with at least one foreign-born parent) are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation’s levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from the mother’s source country generally larger than that of women from the father’s source country and the effect of the education of men from the father’s source country larger than that of women from the mother’s source country. We present some evidence that suggests our findings for fertility and labor supply are due to at least in part to intergenerational transmission of gender roles. Transmission rates for immigrant fertility and labor supply between generations are higher than for education, but there is considerable intergenerational assimilation toward native levels for all three of these outcomes. “

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  • “Within the economics literature, the “psychic costs” of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been investigated in empirical papers. In this paper, we look at the psychic costs of migration using alcohol problems as an indicator. Rather than comparing immigrants and natives, we look at the native-born in a single country and compare those who have lived away for a period of their lives and those who have not. We use data from the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) which is a large, nationally representative sample of older Irish adults. We find that men who lived away are more likely to have suffered from alcohol problems than men who stayed. For women, we again see a higher incidence of alcohol problems for short-term migrants. However, long-term female migrants are less likely to have suffered from alcohol problems. “

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  • “We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households collected in Mozambique in summe 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South Africa killed dozens and displaced thousands of immigrants from neighbouring countries. We estimate migration intentions of Mozambicans before and after the attacks, controlling for the characteristics of households and previous migration behaviour. Using a placebo period, we show that other things equal, the migration intention of household heads decreases from 37 to 33 percent. The sensitivity of migration intentions to violence is larger for household heads with many children younger than 15 years, decreasing the migration intention by 11 percentage points. Most importantly, the sensitivity of migration intentions is highest for those household heads with many young children whose families have no access to social networks. For these household heads, the intention falls by 15 percentage points. Social networks provide insurance against the consequences young children suffer in case the household head would be harmed by xenophobic violence and consequently could not provide for the family. “

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  • “This article sets out to challenge a core assumption of much of the recent literature on the role of the European Union in conflict resolution, namely that the Union’s approach aims at the transformation of conflicts over and above their management. It does so through an analysis of the EU’s engagement with the process of constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Making use of discourse analysis of EU policy documents and speeches by key actors, supplemented by interviews with policy-makers in Brussels and in Bosnia, I argue that the EU’s approach is based on the acceptance and attempted accommodation of distinct and antagonistic ethnic identities rather than any attempt at their transformation. While EU officials are highly critical of nationalist politicians in Bosnia and praise the efforts of civil society organisations that attempt to overcome ethnic divisions, they nonetheless view Bosnia through an ‘ethnic conflict’ paradigm that sees resistance to constitutional reform by nationalist elites as an inevitable symptom of deeper divisions in Bosnian society. Based on this reading, I conclude that EU conflict resolution policy is much more conservative than those stressing the Union’s transformative power in conflict situations envisage.”

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  • “This essay argues that Underground America, a collection of fi rst-person narratives of undocumented immigrants, advances the premise that the immigrants it represents are already part of the US “nation,” and that their claim to human rights ought therefore to be recognized on the grounds of national belonging.”

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  • “This study explores hostile media bias and third-person perceptions of the influence of media coverage of immigrants using data (N = 529) from North Carolina, where the Latino population grew almost 400% in two decades. As hypothesized, anti-immigrant sentiment was significantly related to perceptions of “hostile” (pro-immigrant) news coverage. However, anti-immigrant sentiment was not directly related to belief in coverage effects on others. Analysis revealed two “paths” for relationships among anti-immigrant sentiment, exposure and attention to media coverage, perceived media bias, and presumed media influence or third-person perceptions.”

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  • “This article builds on the insights of the contact hypothesis and political socialization literatures to go beyond recent findings that racial and ethnic diversity have overwhelmingly negative effects on social capital, particularly generalized trust. Using the Canadian General Social Survey (2003), our results show that despite a negative relationship among adults, younger Canadians with racial and ethnic diversity in their social networks show higher levels of generalized trust. The results seem to confirm that youth socialization experiences with rising diversity and the normalization of diversity in a multicultural environment contribute to beneficial (instead of detrimental) effects of diverse social networks.”

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  • “This paper discusses the right of migrant live-in, 24-hour-care, domestic workers to a family life, particularly in relation to recent efforts to strengthen their rights. My argument is that national and EU policies that tolerate the irregular work situation of migrant domestic workers are a functional response to the specific intersection of family and paid work in this field. The familialisation of work implies the defamilialisation of the worker and the deprivation of the right to a family life. In order to understand the experience of defamilialisation, I discuss the specific tensions entailed in familialised, paid, domestic and care work and how these motivate migrant domestic workers to develop specific coping strategies. Beyond these strategies, I argue that broader social structures sustain the defamilialisation of the workers. Finally, I ask how the right to a family life appears in recent debates about the realisation of rights for migrant domestic workers, especially at the level of the recent negotiations for an ILO Convention on ‘Decent Work for Domestic Workers’.”

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  • “Abstract. With this paper we draw conclusions from the contributions to this theme issue that all explored the links between environmental change, migration, and governance. We have three objectives. The first is to identify key themes emerging from each of the papers and to consider their significance. The second is to specify overarching implications of the work gathered in this theme issue. The third is to identify areas where future research would be beneficial in further enhancing understanding of the links between environmental change, migration, and governance in the context of adaptation. “

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  • “This study analyses gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second‐generation migrants in Germany. Thereby it takes into account the influence of assortative mating and the parental integration. First, intergenerational earnings elasticities are estimated at the mean and along the earnings distribution. The results do not reveal large differences in the mobility — neither between natives and migrants nor between men and women. Second, intergenerational changes in the relative earnings position are analysed. These results confirm that migrants are mostly as (im)mobile as the native population. “

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  • “Migration studies in South Africa have partially taken the spatial turn, giving some attention to questions of territoriality and spatial relationships. Recent literature has drawn on de Certeau’s distinction between the strategies of the powerful and the tactics of the subordinate, revealing for example how migrants occupy hidden spaces to evade control and social hostility. Within the broad aegis of de Certeau’s work, we engage the historical and contemporary spaces of the Chinese diaspora in Johannesburg. We describe a highly differentiated grouping of migrants that has deployed, and continues to deploy, varying tactics over time and across space. There are, for example, processes of clustering and processes of dispersal. There is also the use of visibility and cultural marking as a spatial tactic, as well as of invisibility and hidden spaces. We also reveal that the spatial practices of the Chinese migrants do not only relate to the strategies of the powerful but are also a response to the competition and threats posed by other subordinate individuals and groupings in society, including other Chinese migrants.”

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  • “Does the local organisational presence of anti-immigrant parties affect their chances for electoral success? In order to answer this question, the article explores the potential of a supply-oriented explanation to anti-immigrant party success by examining the electoral advancements the Sweden Democrats (SD) made in the 2006 and 2010 elections. Our results indicate that traditional demand-side explanations to anti-immigrant party success can be successfully complemented by an ‘internal supply-side argument’ to make the electoral fates of these parties more intelligible. Whether the SD had a local organisational presence had a substantial effect on its results in the national election and on the probability of gaining representation in local councils. Thus, the party’s fate in the national as well as local elections was largely determined by whether or not it had a local organisational presence in Swedish municipalities.”

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  • “In this article, I am interested in the different types of boundaries emerging in a city characterized by a highly diverse population. The analysis of the personal social networks of 250 inhabitants of a small Swiss City—different types of migrants as well as non-migrants—supplemented by data from qualitative interviews brings to light the important categories for the creation of boundaries and the place of ethnicity among them. The inhabitant’s network structures display specific network boundaries that are translated into symbolic and also social boundaries: four different clusters emerge among the population, pointing to their stratified social positioning in this city. Hereby an interplay of nationality, education, local establishment, mobility type, “race,” and religion are the most important structuring factors. It becomes clear that the common ideas of assimilation cannot grasp the complexity of the “categorical game” at place in this city when it comes to migrant’s incorporation.”

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  • “Italy, especially in its richer regions and cities, is experiencing a profound contradiction in its relationship with the immigrant component of its population: it is becoming even more multi-ethnic in terms of the number of residents (5.3 million), participation in the labor market (more than 3 million), transitions to selfemployment (213,000 business owners), and immigrant students in schools (about 670,000). In their cultural representations, Italians tend to deny this reality. They do not want multi-ethnic cities. Faced with the widespread use of a workforce of regular and irregular immigrants, in families and enterprises of the urban economy, the prevailing opinion rejects the idea of giving a place to immigration in the nation’s social organization, and this position is strengthened by political forces and media that reflect and exacerbate the reaction. Immigrants seem to be accepted, perhaps, on an individual plane, where they have a name and a definite place in society—helpful, modest, possibly invisible. They are frightening when they become visible communities, when they settle in urban settings, when they look for places and opportunities for socialization. Italian society, as a result of tensions between markets, politics, and culture on the issue of immigration, is facing a dilemma: how to reconcile interests and feelings, head and heart, individuals and communities: how to rebuild sufficient social cohesion in a society that is increasingly differentiated and heterogeneous.”

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  • “This article critiques the predominant opinion that aid undermines the sovereignty of African states. This claim implies not only that a recipient state’s policy autonomy is curtailed by development assistance, but also more fundamentally that the politico-legal independence of the state itself is being challenged. While the former is often the case, the latter is not. Drawing a conceptual and analytical distinction between sovereignty as a right to rule and national control over policy and outcomes, the article develops a more accurate identification of the areas in which aid, as a particular form of external influence, does and does not have an impact on recipient states. It argues that sovereignty as a right to rule constitutes the very basis of the aid relationship, and endows African states with the agency with which to contest the terms of aid deals. The article thus provides a new reading of the politics of aid and, by reasserting the centrality of sovereignty as an organizing institution in contemporary aid relations, supports rather than questions the relevance of the discipline of International Relations to African studies. “

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  • “Why has the plight of “war refugees” been problematized? The Handbook of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees describes them as “special cases”. Neither International Refugee Law nor International Humanitarian Law finds a happy home for them. Article 15(c) of the European Union Qualification Directive 2004/83/EC, denotes them in a way that one commentator has described as “nonsensical”. “War refugees” languish precisely when their numbers increase in Afghanistan, Iraq to Syria. Yet, the international community provides at best muted protection for them. There is consequently complete and utter confusion over key questions, such as how “armed conflict” is defined’? Whether, “indiscriminate violence” is proven by its intensity, the frequency of its attacks, or its cumulative effects? Or, what should be the basis for “individual threat” to civilian life? This Essay argues that if there is any hope of achieving the “minimum standards” of “international protection” which the Qualification Directive envisages, it lies in focusing on communities that are “imperilled by endemic violence”. “

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  • “This article is based on the hypothesis that the relationship between politics and borders is being reshaped as a consequence of the movement of people between States. This process of redefining the concept of “border”, present in both the new approaches to managing migration and the public perception of immigration, is closely linked with the image of “border” projected by politics. For this reason, the ability to manage borders can create or modify a particular image of migration. Against this backdrop, this article seeks to explore the link between the concept of the “border” and policies aimed at managing human mobility from the perspective of political theory. Assuming that there is still no Political Theory of Borders in the strict sense, in this article I will argue that in order to establish its foundations, border must be considered as a concept and as an approach (section 3), as well as a political category (sections 4 and 5). Finally, I will review some arguments regarding human mobility and border control (section 6). “

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  • “Lebanon has very few legal provisions addressing refugees’ and asylum-seekers’ concerns, thus the majority of them (with the exception of Palestinians) rely on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for social assistance – 96 per cent of the registered refugees being Iraqis. This article aims to provide information that relates to the socio-economic status of registered refugees, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the social and economic services provided to support them. We present results of a representative household survey conducted in February 2012 covering 700 refugee households living in Lebanon registered at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, mainly in and around Beirut. More than a quarter (27 per cent) live below the poverty line, and less than half are economically active. Furthermore only about 7 per cent hold a higher education degree. Almost a fifth of registered refugees suffer from a chronic illness. In the short term it is unlikely that refugees will return to their home country and settlement in Lebanon is legally impossible. Hence, third country resettlement and a prolonged refugee status are likely, implying that refugees will rely on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees services and protection for some time, to come. The effectiveness of their programmes, briefly reviewed in this paper, are hence of crucial importance. “

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  • “In the summer of 2009, focus groups and interviews were conducted with Liberian refugees living in the Buduburam Refugee Camp, Ghana. The purpose of this study was to learn about the national identity of individuals in protracted refugee situations, and how this influences attitudes towards durable solutions. Using a grounded theory approach, I develop a framework of Liberian national identity and evaluate how these conceptions of identity generate support or opposition to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees-supported local integration programme. Three main themes regarding identity are identified by the participants: ethnic or cultural identity, civic identity, and liberal identity. The results indicate that national identity is an important indicator about a refugee’s desire to remain in Ghana, and those with strong ethnic and liberal national identities, as opposed to civic national identities, are the least likely candidates for local integration. “

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  • “Burundi has made comprehensive efforts to find durable solutions for those who were forced to flee their homes in the 1990s and 2000s as a result of civil war. In the aftermath of the conflict, which erupted in 1993 and lasted for 12 years, the Government initially focused on the reintegration of more than 500,000 returning refugees. It then developed a socio-economic reintegration strategy and set up a working group to implement durable solutions for the 100,000 internally displaced people who, as of 2005, were still living in settlements the Government established for them during the war. This article covers the latest developments in the strategy, including the elaboration of an action plan on durable solutions based on a comprehensive profiling exercise of the internally displaced population. Drawing on extensive interviews with Burundian Government officials, representatives of United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations, displaced people themselves, and members of their host communities, it presents the main findings of the profiling exercise and analyses the options pursued thus far. It then makes recommendations to further reintegration, with a focus on land issues and tenure security, which are crucial to achieving durable solutions in Burundi. “

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  • “This article explores the outcome of longitudinal research conducted in Italy between December 2005 and March 2007 with nine women from four Romanian Roma communities. Specifically, the study investigated the links between the economic strategies of Roma women settled in Rome and the dynamics of gender identity within the Italian anti-Roma context. The qualitative fieldwork for this research was conducted during the political campaign for the election of a new prime minister in April 2008. At the time, immigration and anti-Roma feelings were being strategically employed by both left- and right-wing coalitions in order to gain political consensus. To do so, openly racist and xenophobic anti-immigration laws were enacted and aimed to “sanitise” Italian society from the “dangerous” foreign presence. Roma communities, coming from Eastern Europe, were identified as one of the main targets of the political campaign, transforming Italy into what Agamben calls a temporary “state of exception”. The aim of this article is to highlight particular forms of agency enacted by some Roma women in this hostile environment. Through processes of mediation and negotiation between moral values demanded by their “belonging” community and new economic tools and opportunities offered by the host society, these women have excavated exploitable economic niches in order to achieve a better lifestyle, despite the racism and segregation experienced in everyday life. “

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  • “This collaborative article examines how two academic institutions and one nongovernmental organization cooperated to map recent trial activity for past human rights violations, applying social science techniques to assist survivors’ and relatives’ groups as well as litigators in making informed strategic choices in their interactions with the formal justice system. The article discusses how methodologically rigorous data collection and data requests to public bodies can be used to advance a proaccountability agenda. The authors show how a range of civil society and state actors have changed justice system outcomes in Argentina, Chile and Peru and highlight some lessons learned about engaged, policy-relevant research. “

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  • “In the 20 or so years since transitional justice first emerged as a field of practice, its objectives and the contexts in which it is applied have expanded greatly. However, its dual role of acknowledging the commission of past violence and human rights violations and seeking to prevent their recurrence remains central. Recent scholarship has begun to explore the impact of transitional justice in practice and also to critique its purported narrow focus on civil and political rights. Recommendations have emerged that transitional justice should address a broader range of violations, such as violations of economic, social and cultural rights, on the basis that this would more appropriately acknowledge the full ambit of past violence and also provide a stronger basis for preventing a return to the violence of the past. Through the case study of torture, this article suggests that before expanding, stock should be taken of transitional justice’s current contribution to prevention. It suggests that while transitional justice has generally prioritized certain types of torture, it has not taken a preventative approach by failing to identify and analyse the full extent of the practice and the way in which it supports institutional structures. The article assesses the extent to which transitional justice can overcome these deficiencies and proposes a possible framework for doing so. “

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  • “The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian residential schools allows us to rethink the scope and bounds of transitional justice. Once we expand our notions of injustice and transition, the Canadian case is not so far apart from paradigmatic cases, which too often overlook structural violence. The article argues for settler decolonization as a path of reconciliation and in so doing directly engages structural violence and instantiates theoretical arguments to more securely anchor the field of transitional justice to positive peace. The article analyzes the decolonizing potential of the TRC in its ability to invoke ‘social accountability’ through its approach to truth and in its grassroots potential. Although the TRC has some capacity to advance decolonization, its progress is hampered by the conservative political environment, its weak public profile and to some degree its own emphasis on survivor healing, which provides a ready focal for settlers to individualize Indian residential schools violence as something of the past. Yet, Indigenous healing is intrinsically connected to structural transformation and reconciliation depends upon remedying colonial violence in the present. “

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  • “This article considers the case of Timor-Leste, occupied by Indonesia from 1975 to 1999, to elucidate the conditions that bedevil transitional justice processes in the aftermath of massive and long-running political violence, when a perpetrator state enjoys impunity because its wartime strategies facilitated denial of its responsibility, political violence was organized through the militarization of local society and individuals operated between the state and the resistance. The continuing social memory and knowledge of such conflict coupled with its judicial invisibility have significant consequences for rebuilding everyday lives. International agencies and processes have not only failed to attend to these dynamics in Timor-Leste but also replicated and perpetuated them, making the restoration of trust on which social reconstruction depends even more difficult. “

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  • “This is an interrogation into what an international(ized) court can hold. Expressivism teaches us that by trying those responsible for mass losses, criminal courts send moral messages on the value of the rule of law that strengthen community attachments. In this performance of ritualized grief and condemnation, the court must hold the victim: the dead victim who remains in images inside and outside the court; the surviving victims whose desire to bear witness stands in tension with the constraints of the legal process in victim participation; and the communities whose victimization is the court’s focus as they are engaged through outreach programs. In this article, I question whether expressivism is a viable rationale for international criminal law by examining victim appearance at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. I argue that expressivism relies on simplified representations of victimhood that do not adequately address victims. “

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  • “Memorials remain a relatively under-investigated dimension of transitional justice. Seeking to address this gap, this empirical article focuses on the Croatian town of Vukovar to examine whether war memorials can aid postconflict reconciliation, defined as the restoration and repair of relationships and the rebuilding of trust. It argues that Vukovar’s numerous war memorials are obstructing reconciliation between the town’s Croats and Serbs in two main ways. First, they are encouraging selective memory through the erasure of Serb victims. Second, they are contributing to a problem of too much memory, which is preventing society from moving forward. “

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  • “How do memorials shape who we think we are? And how are our identities involved when we debate, create and interact with memorials? This article engages in a conversation with scholarship on intersectional identities and memorial practices in Berlin. Intersectionality scholarship, with its roots in US critical race feminism, has much to offer for thinking about the complexity of identities, yet it does not consider the role of memory, time and temporality. The scholarship on memory and memorials, in turn, does not sufficiently consider the complexity of identities of those who are memorialized and of those who visit memorials. The article asks how two different memorials for Nazi victims in Berlin allow for or facilitate the memory of complex identities, illustrates that memorial practices can be crucial in contemporary identity politics and social movements and calls for a more self-reflexive approach to the role of identities and complexity in memorial scholarship and practice. “

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  • “There has been considerable and protracted debate on whether a formal truth recovery process should be established in Northern Ireland. Some of the strongest opposition to the creation of such a body has been from unionist political elites and the security forces. Based on qualitative fieldwork, this article argues that the dynamics of denial and silence have been instrumental in shaping their concerns. It explores how questions of memory, identity and denial have created a ‘myth of blamelessness’ in unionist discourse that is at odds with the reasons for a truth process being established. It also examines how three interlocking manifestations of silence – ‘silence as passivity,’ ‘silence as loyalty’ and ‘silence as pragmatism’ – have furthered unionists’ opposition to dealing with the past. This article argues that making peace with the past requires an active deconstruction of these practices. “

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  • “The field of transitional justice theory has, since its rapid expansion in the 1980s and 1990s, become inundated with interventions. The two books under review supply reliable compasses for navigating the vast, murky waters of this literature. What is more, they deliver powerful accountings of their own. Marked by elegant phrasing, supple insight and rigorous research, Bronwyn Leebaw’s Judging State-Sponsored Violence is a timely and welcome contribution. The book is a triumph – beautifully rendered and rich with provocations that will likely quake the foundations of thinking on transitional justice. Yasco Horsman’s Theaters of Justice, expansive in its range and scope and populated with articulate and careful readings, is likewise vivifying for the field.

    The two authors hail from similar schools of thought. For both, reconciliation in the aftermath of historical violence ought not to resolve or foreclose the past. Surviving trauma does not mean mastering the past but rather, as Horsman puts it, confronting a force ‘in the face of which we are thrown out of joint’ (p. 140). On this reading, transitional justice measures are not neutral devices through which commonly accepted legal standards can be applied. Rather, they actively shape and reshape what constitutes justice and injustice in an ongoing way. They engage in a process of reimagining the very basis of political community.1

    Leebaw and Horsman both rely on close examinations of legal trials conducted in the aftermath of atrocity and are interested in illuminating what gets hidden by these institutional frameworks. Political and moral judgment stand at the center of both discussions of what engagement with responsibility, mediation and justice means for societies working through past abuses. At stake for the authors is nothing less than a radical revisioning of what reconciliation means. For Leebaw and Horsman, inhabiting an aftermath that refuses to … “

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  • “The rapid growth of transitional justice, in both scholarship and practice, has generated an increasing interest in explanatory and evaluative studies of transitional justice dilemmas confronted by transition elites.1 In particular, postcommunist encounters with transition witnessed the emergence of various practices of lustration, criminal trials and truth commissions. Thus, it is not surprising that the region’s diverse historical and political experiences provide rich ground for the study of transition. The books reviewed here build upon a long tradition of scholarly engagement with postcommunist transitional justice to provide political science perspectives on dilemmas of transition that taken together provide important contributions to transitional justice scholarship through context-rich and lucid multicountry case studies.2

    To be sure, both Brian Grodsky’s and Roman David’s texts are ambitious in scope. Grodsky’s Costs of Justice provides cross-national case studies that attempt to address two underlying weaknesses in transitional justice scholarship identified by the author: a tendency to focus on single-country case studies and a narrow focus on transitional justice dilemmas that does not take into account the broad range of policy challenges facing transitional elites, from establishing new institutions of governance to economic restructuring. David’s Lustration and Transitional Justice, like Grodsky’s text, presents multicountry case studies. Unlike Grodsky, however, David seeks to explain the emergence and effects of lustration in particular and offers policy-relevant advice as to how to deal with the legacy of inherited personnel.3

    Explanatory studies of transitional justice are at the core of political science inquiry into the field.4 They were initially embedded within a wide body of literature that sought to understand the political transitions in Latin America, East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe during the latter half of the 20th century. While attempts to understand, or evaluate, the social and political effects of transitional justice … “

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  • “Turkey has experienced several different internal migration periods since its foundation in 1923. However, the internal displacement of the 1990s brought to the forefront the divergent discussions on whether this wave of internal displacement can be approached from a traditional developmentalist approach or whether critical issues pertaining to the Kurdish Question also need to be addressed, requiring a broader understanding of what peace means to IDPs and different actors. This article studies these two approaches which are taken by the Turkish state, local non-governmental organizations and international organizations. It discusses Turkey’s internal displacement issue and Kurdish Question and analyses these actors’ different perspectives on the policies related to the areas affected by the conflict, and to addressing internal displacement. It argues that internal displacement is an important issue to be addressed in peace processes. Without acknowledging different perspectives presented by different actors neither peace nor development is possible.
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    internal displacement
    Kurdish Question in Turkey
    Non-Governmental Organizations
    International Organizations
    peace process

    “IDPs are the proverbial ‘canaries in the coal mine’—their conditions and prospects are key barometers of whether peace will take root and development will take off, or whether conflicts will re-emerge and another spiral of violence will ensue (O’Neill 2009: 152).”

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