New IDMC Report on Indonesia

IDMC

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) have just published a new report on Indonesia in relation to intertnal displacement.  The report is entitled, “Indonesia: Durable Solutions remain elusive for many IDPs wile thousands are newly displaced my military operations in Papua.”

Further information on this publication can be found in the abstract, which states:

During 2011, thousands of people were displaced by renewed inter-communal violence in Maluku province and by counter-insurgency operations targeting Free Papua Movement (OPM) rebels in Papua province. Between April and December, an unknown number of Papuans were displaced in the central highlands region of Puncak Jaya. The largest reported displacement took place in mid-December in Paniai regency, where more than 10,000 people were forced from their homes in more than a hundred different villages. In September, as many as 500 homes in Maluku’s capital of Ambon were set on fire and nearly 5,000 people were displaced, some of them losing their homes for the fourth time in 12 years.

[Download Report]
(Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre).

New Reports from Human Rights Watch

The following reports have been published in December (2011) by Human Rights Watch:

Tunisia’s Repressive Laws

Tunisia’s Repressive Laws: The Reform Agenda

Abstract:

This report identifies freedom of speech and independent courts as two of ten priorities for legal reform. The others are freedom of movement, association and assembly, freedom to form political parties, the right of citizens to run for public office and choose candidates, the protection of rights while fighting terrorism, internet freedom, and immunity for the president of the republic – all areas where harsh laws inherited from the presidency of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali remain in effect.

[Download Report]

“By All Means necessary!”  Individual and Command Responsibility for Crimes against Humanity in Syria.

Abstract:

This report is based on more than 60 interviews with defectors from the Syrian military and intelligence agencies. The defectors provided detailed information about their units’ participation in attacks, abuses against Syrian citizens, and the orders they received from commanders and officials at various levels, who are named in the report.

[Download Report]

No Way to Live

No Way to Live: Alabama’s Immigrant Law

Abstract:

This 52-page report documents the effect of the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer Citizen and Protection Act, commonly known as HB 56, on unauthorized immigrants and their families, as well as the larger Alabama communities in which they live. It is based in part on first-hand accounts by 57 Alabama residents, including citizens and permanent residents, who reported abuse or discrimination under the law.

[Download Report]

“Turning Pebbles”

“Turning Pebbles”: Evading Accountability for Post-Election Violence in Kenya

Abstract:

This report examines the police and judicial response to the violence following the 2007 elections, which pitted ruling party supporters and the police against opposition-linked armed groups and civilians. Human Rights Watch found that of the 1,133 or more killings committed during the violence, only two have resulted in murder convictions. Victims of rape, assault, arson, and other crimes similarly await justice. Police officers, who killed at least 405 people during the violence, injured over 500 more, and raped dozens of women and girls, enjoy absolute impunity.

[Download Report]

“How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?”

“How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?”: Child Marriage in Yemen

Abstract:

This 54-page report documents the lifelong damage to girls who are forced to marry young. Yemeni girls and women told Human Rights Watch about being forced into child marriages by their families, and then having no control over whether and when to bear children and other important aspects of their lives. They said that marrying early had cut short their education, and some said they had been subjected to marital rape and domestic abuse. There is no legal minimum age for girls to marry in Yemen. Many girls are forced into marriage, and some are as young as 8.

[Download Report]

Adding Insult to Injury

Adding Insult to Injury: Continued Impunity for Wartime Abuses in Nepal

Abstract:

This 59-page report calls for the government to stand by its public commitments and international treaty obligations to conduct credible investigations and prosecute those responsible for abuses. The report follows three previous joint reports by Human Rights Watch and Advocacy Forum on impunity in Nepal and provides a detailed look at six emblematic cases of killings, disappearances, and torture. A separate appendix provides an update on the lack of progress in 62 wartime cases pending before the courts.

[Download Report]

UEL Library Opening Hours over the Christmas Period

The following opening hours apply to UEL libraries across all sites over the festive and new year period:

• 19 – 22 December: open 24 hours
• 23 December: open until 3pm
• 24 – 26 December: CLOSED
• 27 – 30 December: 10am – 5pm
• 31 December – 2 January: CLOSED
• 3 January – 5 January: open 24 hours
• 6 January: open until 9pm
• 7 – 8 January: CLOSED
• 9 January: open 24 hours

More details of staffed and self-service opening hours can be found on the library website at www.uel.ac.uk/library

CMRB Events: Imaging Migrants Seminar Series

Imaging Migrants Seminar Series

All Welcome!

Please contact Dr Marta Rabikowska: m.rabikowska@uel.ac.uk

Centre for Research on  Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB)

University of East London, Docklands Campus,
Room EB1.37 (Matrix East Research Lab),

Wednesdays 3-5 (exp: 13th February Monday 5pm-7pm)
25th January 2012
Documentary: Calais: The Last Border and discussion
Marc Issacs (Film-maker)

13th Februaury 2012 (Monday 5pm-7pm)
The Cleaners’ Voice
Luis C.Sotelo (Film-maker)
Anna Lopes  (University of East London)

29th February 2012
Gevald and the role of truth in documentary
Yohai Hakak (University of Portsmouth)

28th April 2012
Evidence of the transformative moment of decision to migrate, explored through image as archive and memory as testimony
March Helene Kazan (Goldsmiths College)

25th April 2012

A Visual Journey through the Balkans: from Socialism to the UK
Nela Milic (Journalist and Film-maker)

2nd May 2012
Imagined diasporas: domestic violence migrants within the UK
Janet Bowstead  (London Metropolitan University)

For more information, please see the attached document. Feel free to circulate. All inquiries please contact Dr Marta Rabikowska: m.rabikowska@uel.ac.uk

For more details on these seminars, click here.

Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at UEL – http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/seminars.htm

RSC Policy Briefing 8 (December 2011): Stabilising the Congo

Stabilising the Congo

The latest Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) policy brief has just been published.  Details from the accompanying RSC press release are detailed as follows:

RSC Policy Briefing 8 (December 2011)
Stabilising the Congo
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/policy-briefings/RSCPB8-StabilisingCongo
.pdf

Written by Emily Paddon (University of Oxford) and Guillaume Lacaille
(independent expert), this policy briefing considers the ‘stabilisation
approach’ adopted by both the international community and national government
to address the continued insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC).

Considering stabilisation also offers a way of conceptualising and engaging
with the root causes of displacement. Political implications of the
stabilisation agenda are brought into sharper relief by focusing on a single
question: stabilisation by whom and for whom? Rather than continuing to
support the State unconditionally, the briefing calls on international actors
to strengthen and exercise their combined leverage in critical priority areas
that together form a comprehensive ‘road map’ to long-term peace and
stability following the elections.

The briefing is the outcome of a series of RSC inter-related activities on
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that took place in 2010 and 2011,
including a special issue of Forced Migration Review
(http://www.fmreview.org/DRCongo/) and an experts’ workshop on ‘the dynamics
of conflict and forced migration in the DRC’
(http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/experts-workshop-DRC) as well as
dissemination and consultations in the DRC.

For feedback, comments, and to request hard copies of the briefing, contact
the series editor, Héloïse Ruaudel: heloise.ruaudel@qeh.ox.ac.uk.

All RSC policy briefings are available online:
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/policy-briefings.

Conference: `London: City of Paradox’

Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees & Belonging (CMRB)

London – City of Paradox:   An international conference at the University of East London, 3-5 April 2012

Further details : http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/documents/LondonCityofParadoxNotice.pdf

Organised by CMRB, in co-operation with Runnymede Trust, Iniva, London East Research Institute, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Centre for Cultural Studies Research, Matrix East Research Lab, and the Centre for Performance Studies.

The Olympic Games have focused attention on London. “Official” approaches towards the Games stress the city’s inclusiveness – a history and contemporary reality in which London brings together the peoples and cultures of the world.
This is an important part of London’s stories past and present – but only a part. Recent riots have summoned other histories – of tension and conflict, of exclusion as well as inclusion – highlighting current issues of security, surveillance and the criminalisation of young Londoners. How do we evaluate these different accounts? How to understand the city in all its complexity?
This conference examines London as a site of inclusion and exclusion – a city which has both encouraged and discouraged migration and settlement, and which has stimulated both cultural heterogeneity and homogeneity. It will provide opportunities to consider how powerful institutions have shaped discourses of nation and empire, of internationalism and globalism. It will examine multiple contradictions associated with the past and the present – London, City of Paradox.

Holistic approach

The conference embraces a multi-disciplinary perspective, drawing on insights from Urban Studies, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Development Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Migration Studies and Refugee Studies. It will also address key issues in cultural production, especially in relation to public representation of cultural diversity. Participants come from academic networks and Third Sector organisations undertaking community initiatives, especially in the arts.

The organisers have identified a number of themes:

• contending histories: London as an object of historical study; London in the national narrative; “peoples’ ” histories; London, gender and history; history and community today; “official” history and the Olympic project

• London and the world: colonialism, neo-colonialism and the metropolitan city; commerce, slavery and empire; London and the neo-liberal networks; global city: London and the cities of the South

• race, racism and the city: “hidden” and “invisible” populations; inclusion and exclusion; geographies of community; immigration, work and settlement; refuge and asylum; citizenship, multiculturalism, “cohesion” and integration today

• East London: the East End in narratives of London and nation; East London and the maritime networks; the East End as refuge; East End, gender and sexuality; resistance and radicalism; regeneration and the “new” East End

• imaging and performing London: visual cultures yesterday and today – film, photography, multimedia, performance

• city and spectacle: London and the Olympic cities – global spectacle and local reality. Documenting the Olympics then and now (UEL holds the Library and Archive of the British Olympic Association, including materials on the 1948 London Olympics).

Conference format

The conference will take place from 3 to 5 April 2012 at the Docklands Campus of the University of East London. It will include plenary sessions, discussion groups and parallel panels and workshops.

All participants will have opportunities to listen to experts and activists, and to participate in collective thinking and analysis. In this way the conference will include best practices of academic and non-academic workshops. There will also be opportunities to perform, to meet local NGOs, go for walks in East London and to observe exhibitions by local artists, scholars and activists.
Among many who have already agreed to take part in the conference are (in alphabetical order):

Claire Alexander, Floya Anthias, Rob Berkeley, Penny Bernstock, Avtar Brah, Craig Calhoun, Mary Chamberlain, Matt Cook, David Feldman, Ben Gidley, David Gilbert, Paul Gilroy, Vassil Girginov, Michael Keith, Roshini Kempadoo, Yosefa Loshitzky, Philip Marfleet, Doreen Massey, Mica Nava, Ann Phoenix, Gavin Poynter, Mike Raco, Michael Rustin, Nicola Samson, Saskia Sassen, Corinne Squire, Helen Taylor, Judith Walkowitz, Vron Ware, Georgie Wemyss, Jane Wills, Jerry White and Nira Yuval-Davis.

Regular conference fee £60; concessions (unwaged, students, seniors) £30.
Refreshments included.

(You are encouraged to register for the whole conference,
facilitating active engagement in discussion groups.)

Daily rate available at the conference £25; concessions £12.
Register at: http://uel-iis-b.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/booking/

All enquiries please contact Masi Fathi: m.fathi@uel.ac.uk

UEL Docklands Campus is adjacent to Cyprus Station, Docklands Light Railway: http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands.htm

CMRB, University of East London, Docklands Campus, London, E16 2RD
http://ww.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/

Updated List of New Reports and Publications

The Living Conditions of Refugees in Italy (Pro Asyl, July 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Authority and Inclusion: Reconsidering Integration in a Fragmented Age, Working Paper Series, no. 1 (Refugee Law Initiative, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Dawn in the City: Guidance for Achieving Self-Reliance for Urban Refugees (Women’s Refugee Commission, Oct. 2011) [text]- See also the accompanying guidelines detailed in “Framework for Urban Refugee Self-Reliance: A How-to Guide.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Fundamental Rights of Migrants in an Irregular Situation in the European Union (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

After the Arab Spring (IntLawGrrls, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

No Place Called Home: A Report on Urban Refugees Living in in Dar es Salaam (Asylum Access, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

The Effects of Internal Displacement on Host Communities: A Case Study of Suba and Ciudad Bolívar Localities in Bogotá, Colombia (Brookings-LSE Project on International Displacement, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

From Crisis to Community Development: Needs and Assets of Oakland’s Refugees from Burma (Burma Refugee Family Network, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

A Commentary on the August 2011 Sudan Operational Guidance Note (Still Human, Still Here & ARC, Nov. 2011) [text via Refworld]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Italy: ‘Zero Tolerance for Roma’: Forced Evictions and Discrimination against Roma in Milan (Amnesty International, Nov. 2011) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Protecting the Rights of Roma (Council of Europe, 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

From Responsibility to Response: Assessing National Approaches to Internal Displacement (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Hundreds of Refugees Held Hostage in Sinai Torture Camps Need Rescuing (Physicians for Human Rights et al., Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Prevent. Combat. Protect: Human Trafficking. Joint UN Commentary on the EU Directive – A Human Rights-Based Approach (OHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNODC, UN Women and ILO, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

The Risks of Rescue at Sea (IRIN, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Sanctuary in the City? Urban Displacement and Vulnerability in Damascus: A Desk Study, HPG Working Paper (ODI, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Impact of Arab Revolts on Migration, CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes 2011/68 (Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration, 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Poverty Reduction in a Refugee-hosting Economy: A Natural Experiment, IFPRI Discussion Paper 01132 (International Food Policy Research Institute, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Engaging with Refugee Protection? The Organization of African Unity and African Union since 1963, New Issues of Refugee Research, no. 226 (UNHCR, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Population Displacement and Export Credit: The Safeguards for Human Rights and Livelihoods Need Professional Support and Reinforcement (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Refugee Resettlement to Australia: What are the Facts? (Parliamentary Library of Australia, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Chronology: European Migration and Asylum Policies (Migreurop, updated Sept. 2011) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

State of Exception: An Agambenian Perspective on the Detention of North Koreans in South Korea, Working Paper, no. 2 (Refugee Law Initiative, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Distress at Sea: How Best to Respond? Expert Meeting in Djibouti, 8 to 10 November 2011 – Summary Conclusions (UNHCR, Dec. 2011) [text].
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

‘Best Interests of the Child’ as a Uniting Principle for Citizenship (Oecumene Blog, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Consultative Meeting: “Challenges faced by young refugees and asylum seekers in accessing their social rights and their integration, while in transition to adulthood,” Strasbourg, 17‐18 November 2011 [info] [mapping study]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Core Standards for Guardians of Separated Children in Europe: Goals for Guardians and Authorities (Defence for Children et al., 2011) [text via Refworld]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas: Review of Urban Humanitarian Challenges in Port-au-Prince, Manila, Nairobi, Eldoret (UN HABITAT, 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

The Employment Rights of Refugees in Africa under the 1969 African Refugee Convention (Refugees and the Right to Work, Dec. 2011) [text]
- Note: The author of this post, Marina Sharpe, recently wrote a New Issues in Refugee Research working paper entitled “Engaging with Refugee Protection? The Organization of African Unity and African Union since 1963.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

From Deprivation to Liberty: Alternatives to Detention in Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom (JRS Europe, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Mapping Statelessness in the Netherlands (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Between Two Societies: Review of the Information, Return and Reintegration of Iraqi Nationals to Iraq (IRRINI) Programme (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

[ToC Alert] Journal of Refugee Studies Table of Contents for December 2011; Vol. 24, No. 4

Journal of Refugee Studies

The latest edition of the Journal of Refugee Studies – Volume 24 Number 4, (December 2011) – is no available on the Oxford Journals website. The table of contents is available from the link below:

• Table of Contents – http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol24/issue4/index.dtl

Articles from this volume include:

• Classical Diasporas of the Third Kind: The Hidden History of Christian Dispersion.  [Abstract].
• Human Agency and the Meaning of Informed Consent: Reflections on Research with Refugees. [Abstract].
• ‘People Look at Us, the Way We Dress, and They Think We’re Gangsters’: Bonds, Bridges, Gangs and Refugees: A Qualitative Study of Inter-Cultural Social Capital in Glasgow. [Abstract].
• Ambiguous Expectations and Reduced Confidence: Experience of Somali Refugees Encountering Swedish Health Care. [Abstract].

 

New Pubs. on Somalia, Europe, Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, (et al)

A Commentary on the October 2011 Somalia Operational Guidance Note (Still
Human, Still Here & ARC, Dec. 2011)
http://stillhumanstillhere.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/still-human-still-here
-commentary-on-the-somalia-ogn.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

Safe and Secure: How Do Refugees Experience Europe’s Borders? Modern
Challenges to Protection and the 1951 Refugee Convention (JRS Europe, Dec.
2011)
http://www.jrseurope.org/publications/JRSEuropeRefugeesAtEUBorder08122011-1.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

States of Denial: A Review of UNHCR’s Response to the Protracted Situation of
Stateless Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, PDES/2011/13 (UNHCR, Dec. 2011)
http://www.unhcr.org/4ee754c19.html
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

From Crisis to Community Development: Needs and Assets of Oakland’s Refugees
from Burma (Burma Refugee Family Network, November 2011)
http://cci.sfsu.edu/files/Crisis_to_Community_Development.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

“Key features and outcomes of recent EU humanitarian aid directed at refugee
crises in Libya and the Horn of Africa,” Interview with Kristalina Georgieva,
EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis
Response (EurAsylum, November 2011)
http://www.eurasylum.org/Portal/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=2&tabid=19
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

Mapping Statelessness in the United Kingdom (UNHCR UK & Asylum Aid, November 2011)
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4ecb6a192.html
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

The Migration-Displacement Nexus: Patterns, Processes, and Policies, Edited
by Khalid Koser and Susan Martin (Berghahn Books, September 2011)
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/extras/docs/flyer/KoserMigration_9780857451910.html
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

Protecting the rights of Roma (Council of Europe, November 2011)
http://www.coe.int/AboutCoe/media/interface/publications/roms_en.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

Refugees, Migrants, and Development: An analysis of current trends in
global-level dialogues on migration, forced migration, and development, by
Saskia Koppenberg (Ibidem-Verlag, November 2011)
http://www.migration4development.org/sites/m4d.emakina-eu.net/files/koppenberg_isbn_978-3-8382-0262-4_0.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

“This is Our Land”: Ethnic Violence and Internal Displacement in North-east
India (NRC & IDMC, November 2011)
http://www.internal-displacement.org/idmc/website/resources.nsf/%28httpPublic
ations%29/14A33897CD419AE0C12579530039FAA9?OpenDocument
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List).

New Pubs. on Trafficking, Migration Stats., Migration Reform, Displacement, UKBA

What's the Cost of a Rumour?

What’s the Cost of a Rumour? A guide to sorting out the myths and the facts about sporting events and trafficking.
A new report published by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, (GAATW).
From the GAATW website,

In this guide, we review the literature from past sporting events, and find that they do not cause increases in trafficking for prostitution. The guide takes a closer look at why this unsubstantiated idea still captures the imagination of politicians and some media, and offers stakeholders a more constructive approach to address trafficking beyond short-term events. We hope this guide will help stakeholders quickly correct misinformation about trafficking, develop evidence-based anti-trafficking responses, and learn what worked and what didn’t in past host cities.

[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network).

Migration Statistics Quarterly Report November 2011 – Statistical Bulletin
[Download Statistical Bulletin]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network).

Migration Reform:  Caps Don’t Fit.
A new report by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
[Download Report]
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Press Release – Impact of immigration is far wider than many realise).
(Souce: Migrants’ Rights Network).

Beyond ‘Supply and Demand’ Catchphrases

Beyond ‘Supply and Demand’ Catchphrases: Assessing the Uses and Limitations of Demand-Based Approaches in Anti-Trafficking
Produced by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, (GAATW).
[Download Report]
(Source:  Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women).

Pastoralist displacement in northern Kenya: Findings of a Scoping Study.
By the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).
A new scoping study from the IDMC which details:

 

A range of factors has led to the displacement of thousands of pastoralists in northern Kenya. Notwithstanding the humanitarian consequences, the situation remains under-reported and under-studied, and internally displaced people (IDPs) in northern Kenya have received little assistance.  Against this backdrop, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and IDMC conducted a scoping study on pastoralist displacement in northern Kenya to draw attention to the plight of IDPs and the consequences of their displacement. They presented these findings in Nairobi on 15 November to representatives of the Kenyan government, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Internal Displacement, and the diplomatic, academic and civil society communities.

View Meeting Summary with Key Findings of the Study
(Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre)

Mexico: Displacement due to criminal and communal violence
By the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).
Read the Overview (html / pdf)
Full Internal Displacement Profile
(Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre)

Three new reports published by the Independent Chief Inspector of UKBA, Mr John Vine.  The three reports are as follows:

• Annual report for 2010-11 ,
• A global review of entry clearance December 2010 – June 2011 , and
• An inspection report of the UKBA New York visa section January – March 2011.

(Source: Migrant’s Rights Network).

Special Issue of Child Abuse Review Journal

Child Abuse Review

The journal, Child Abuse Review, has recently published a new thematic volume entitled on `Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children.’  The full details are as follows:

• Child Abuse Review, Volume 20 Issue 5,  (September/October 2011).  Special Issue: Themed issue on Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children.  Pages 307–390.

The articles are currently free-to-access until the 31st December 2011 on the Child Abuse Review website at : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/car.v20.5/issuetoc

Articles include:

• Working to Ensure Safety, Belonging and Success for Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children (pages 311–323)
• Separated and Trafficked Children: The Challenges for Child Protection Professionals (pages 324–340)
• Issues in Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children and Young People: Research and Practice (pages 341–360)
• ‘Often They Fall Through the Cracks’: Separated Children in Ireland and the Role of Guardians (pages 361–373)
• Good Practice in Social Care for Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children (pages 374–390)

World Migration Report 2011

IOM World Migration Report 2011

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has recently published the World Migration 2011: Communication Effectively about Migration.

The offiical IOM press release describes the new report as follows:

Description: The recent global economic crisis has highlighted the resilience of migration and further confirmed that human mobility forms an integral part of our globalized world. Migration is one of the ways in which the exchange of talent, services, skills and a diversity of experience is achieved. Yet migration remains politically sensitive and governments face the difficult task of dispelling the misunderstandings surrounding it. Indeed, misinformation and misperception can trigger a vicious cycle which influences government policy, and in turn, perpetuates negative attitudes in mass media and the community at large. Policies and political discourse can therefore play a major role in shaping the image of migrants in home and host societies. Communicating effectively about migrants and migration policy to the wider public remains one of the biggest challenges governments in countries of origin and destination face.

Part A of the World Migration Report 2011 addresses this year’s chosen theme: Communicating Effectively about Migration. It also analyses major migration trends in 2010/2011 offering an overview of developments in policy, legislation, international cooperation and dialogue on migration at the global and regional level.  In celebration of IOM’s 60th Anniversary, Part B reviews the evolution of IOM’s approach to migration management and the diversification of its programmatic activities since the end of the Cold War. It also presents a statistical overview of IOM’s programmes and projects over the last decade.

IOM World Migration Report 2011 – [Download Full Report]

IOM News Release – Let’s Raise Migrants’ Voices for an Open and Constructive Debate on Migration, Says IOM’s 2011 World Migration Report

Publications: Horn of Africa, Roma Pupils, Migrants in London, Trafficked Children, A8 Migrants, Ireland

Copyright: Jaspreet Kindra / IRIN

HPN Network Paper Number 71 – System failure? Revisiting the problems of timely response to crises in the Horn of Africa.
By Simon Levine, with Alexandra Crosskey and Mohammed Abdinoor.
[Download Report]
(Source: Humanitarian Practice Network).

From segregation to inclusion – Roma Pupils in the United Kingdom, A Pilot Research Project.  A new report from the Roma Education Fund.
[Download Report]
(Source: refed – refugee education mailing list

Advice and support provision for migrants in London: a view from the field
“A new MRN briefing provides a picture of shifts in the provision of advice and support for migrants in London. Provision has been affected by cuts to funding but the effects have been unequally spread. Some areas of London are relatively well provided while others show big gaps. Legal aid proposals which have been postponed for six months could have a big effect in the future.”)
[Download Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network).

Working with Trafficked Children and Young People: Complexities in Practice .  By Jenny J. Pearce.
British Journal of Social Work Advance Access published on March 30, 2011
Br J Soc Work 2011 41: 1424-1441; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcr029 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
(Source: British Journal of Social Work)

Public perception of A8 migrants: the discourse of the media and its impacts
[Download report]
(Source: MEMO [Minority Ethnic Matters Overview], 286, 21 November 2011)
Interesting piece of work (part of a MSc) which looks at media coverage – much of it positive, except for the Sun.
(Source: The Network)

“Making Ireland home”
Link: http://www.mrci.ie/-Young-immigrants-launch-film-about-their-experiences-in-Ireland–detail-news/
(Source: MEMO [Minority Ethnic Matters Overview], 286, 21 November 2011)
New film, produced by eleven young people from Migrant Rights Centre Ireland’s mPower Youth Project, “reveals experiences of isolation, racism, barriers in education and in accessing residency and citizenship whilst exploring identity and sharing hopes for the future.”
(Source: The Network)

RSQ Table of Contents

Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 30 Issue 4 December 2011: Protracted Displacement: The Challenges of Protection

The latest table of contents for the December 2011 issue of the journal Refugee Survey Quarterly has now been published on the Oxford Journals website.  This is for the latest thematic issue which is entitled, “Protracted Displacement: The Challenges of Protection”: (namely Volume 30, Number 4, December 2011).

Further details are as follows:

Introduction

Roger Zetter

Unlocking the Protracted Displacement of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: An Overview
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 1-13; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr015 [Full Text] [PDF]

Articles

Anna Lindley

Between a Protracted and a Crisis Situation: Policy Responses to Somali Refugees in Kenya
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access published on November 13, 2011
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 14-49; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Dawn Chatty and Nisrine Mansour

Unlocking Protracted Displacement: An Iraqi Case Study
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access published on November 3, 2011
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 50-83; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Megan Bradley

Unlocking Protracted Displacement: Central America’s “Success Story” Reconsidered
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access published on November 3, 2011
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 84-121; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr011 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Documents

Documents
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2011 30: 122-133; doi:10.1093/rsq/hdr014 [Full Text] [PDF]

The below Table of Contents is available online at:
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol30/issue4/index.dtl

(Source: Oxford Journals).

New Reports on the UN, Somalia, Yarl’s Wood, Transatlantic Trends, Alabama, ICMC

UN integration and humanitarian space

UN Integration and Humanitarian Space: An Independent Study
Commissioned by the UN Integration Steering Group.
By Victoria Metcalfe, Alison Giffen and Samir Elhawary.
A new story carried out jointly by the Humanitarian Policy Group and the Stimson Center, was commissioned by the UN Integration Steering Group to look in detail at the impacts of UN integration on humanitarian action.
[Download Report]
(Source – Humanitarian Policy Group)

Somalia: New displacement and worsening humanitarian and protection crisis for IDPs
Produced by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
[Download Report]
(Source – Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre).

Report on an announced inspection of Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (4 – 8 July 2011)
by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.
[Download report]
(Source: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons)
(Guardian Article: Yarl’s Wood detains too many pregnant women, prisons inspector says).

Transatlantic Trends

Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2011 report.
[Download Report]
(Source: Transatlantic Trends website]
(Guardian Article: What do Europeans think about immigration?)
(Migrants at Sea: Transatlantic Trends: Immigration Survey 2011 / US and European Public Opinion).

EJML Article, B Nascimbene and A Di Pascale: “The ‘Arab Spring’ and the Extraordinary Influx of People who Arrived in Italy from North Africa”

“The latest edition of the European Journal of Migration and Law, Volume 13, Number 4, contains an article by Bruno Nascimbene, Professor of European Union Law, Faculty of Law, University of Milan, and Alessia Di Pascale, Research Fellow, European Union Law, Faculty of Law, University of Milan, entitled “The ‘Arab Spring’ and the Extraordinary Influx of People who Arrived in Italy from North Africa”.”

(Source: Migrants At Sea blog).

No Way To Live: Alabama’s Immigrant Law.  A new report published by the Human Rights Watch.
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(Source: Human Rights Watch)

“MAYDAY! Strengthening responses of assistance and protection to boat people and other migrants arriving in Southern Europe.”
A new report by the International Catholic Migration Commission.

“Scope of this report – Gathering the results of nearly a half thousand surveys of first responders and other actors as well as the migrants themselves, this report examines what happens—or does not happen— to identify migrants in need of protection and assistance upon their arrival in Europe. In particular, it sheds light on the mechanisms developed, and gaps both in practice and in policy in responses to boat people and other migrants arriving in mixed migratory movements in four countries at Europe’s Southern door: Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain.
(Source: Migrants At Sea blog – ICMC Europe Report: “MAYDAY! Strengthening responses of assistance and protection to boat people and other migrants arriving in Southern Europe”)

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(Source: Migrants At Sea blog – ICMC Europe Report: “MAYDAY! Strengthening responses of assistance and protection to boat people and other migrants arriving in Southern Europe”)