New Publications on Displaced Peoples; East Africa Crisis; Asylum in Italy; Polish Communites in the UK

Developing a Profiling Methodology for Displaced People in Urban Areas Case Study: Aden, Yemen
K. Jacobsen and R. Furst Nichols for the Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University.
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(Source: ALNAP)

Disasters Emergency Committee’s (DEC) – East Africa Crisis Appeal Synthesis Report
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(Source: ALNAP)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions.
UNHCR General Assembly.
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(Source:  UNHCR)

Il Diritto alla Protezione- Study on the state of the asylum system in Italy and proposals for its development

ASGI has issued a comprehensive study on the state of asylum in Italy focusing primarily on the 2008-2010 period.   The 400+ page report is in Italian, but its last Chapter, ”Final Considerations and Proposals for the Future of the Right of Asylum in Italy”, is written in English.

[Download Full Report]
(Source: Migrants at Sea).

Mare Deserto

Mare Deserto

Mare Deserto.
An RSI documentary about the failure to rescue and subsequent deaths of 60 migrants in the Mediterranean in March 2011.
(Click here or here for a link to the documentary – In Italian).
(Source: Migrants at Sea).

Informator Polski 2011 /2012 (12th Edition)
www.zpwb.org.uk
(Source: email from Simon Wallace)

“This free printed A5 directory gives details of businesses and not- for-profit organisations that are of interest to Polish communities living in Great Britain. Included are national listings of libraries, churches, social and veterans groups, care homes, media organisations, cultural agencies and Polish schools. Also included in this edition is a short history about the Poles in London and other parts of the country. The directory is written in Polish, but gives section headings and contains an index in English.”

Copies can be obtained free from: Barbara Zagrodniczek, Office Manager, Federation of the Poles in Great Britain, ZPWB (Zjednoczenie Polskie W Wielkiej Brytanii), 240 King Street, London W6 0RF , Tel: 020 8741 1606, Email : office@zpwb.org.uk.
(Source: The Network Ebulletin).

How to live in Great Britain (5th edition).
Also available from ZPWB is this “free A5 guide, written in Polish and containing information about accommodation, transport, law, finance, health care, benefits, education, free advice and important contacts, homelessness, Polish and British media, a simple dictionary/ phrase section and lots more.”
(Source: The Network Ebulletin).

“Lies, damned lies and racism”
http://www.irr.org.uk/2012/february/ha000011.html
(Source: IRR Weekly Digest, 10 Feb)
Important article which analyses the debate over immigration statistics (which has intensified since January), looks at the political spin involved and the role that media commentators and think-tanks have played.
(Source: The Network Ebulletin).

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