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

“The First Country of Asylum Principle in Tanzania: A National and East African Perspective,” Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 37 (May 2013) [full-text]

Kenya’s Forgotten IDPs (Institute for War & Peace Reporting, April 2013) [text]

Letters from Eritrea: Refugee Women Tell Their Stories (Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, April 2013) [text]

Livelihoods, Gender and Displacement in Côte d’Ivoire (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, April 2013) [text]
- Note: French text, English overview.

Non-military Strategies for Civilian Protection in the DRC (Norwegian Refugee Council, April 2013) [text]

Policy Shifts in the South African Asylum System: Evidence and Implications (Lawyers for Human Rights, 2013) [text]
- See also related IRIN news story.

Would the Last Eritrean to Flee the Country Please Turn Out the Lights (The Asylumist, May 2013) [text]
- Note: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Eritrea is visiting Ethiopia and Djibouti from 30 April to 9 May 2013 to “collect information directly from Eritrean refugees on the human rights situation in their country.”

Emergency Response to the Mali Situation: Special Appeal (UNHCR, April 2013) [text]

*Joint Assessment Mission Report: Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi (WFP et al., Dec. 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

Opportunities and Risk: Enacting Socio-cultural Transformation in Refugee Camps in Uganda, Oxford, 24 April 2013 [access]
- Podcast of seminar.

“Organization of African Unity and African Union Engagement with Refugee Protection: 1963–2011,” African Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 21, no. 1 (Feb. 2013) [full-text via Trudeau Foundation]

“Refugee Rights in Kenya: Between Theory and Practice,” Stichproben: Vienna Journal of African Studies, no. 23 (2012) [open access text]

UNHCR Position on Returns to the Central African Republic (UNHCR, April 2013) [text]
- See also related news story.

 

New Regional Publications on Africa and Syria

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 Africa

Armed Violence and Stabilisation in Western Equatoria: Recovering from the Lord’s Resistance Army (Danish Refugee Council & Danish Demining Group, April 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Évaluation approfondie sur la sécurité alimentaire en situation d’urgence dans les camps de réfugiés maliens et villages hôtes au Burkina Faso (World Food Programme, March 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

I Am a Refugee, and I Have Rights (Refugees International Blog, April 2013) [text]

“Refugees, Ransoms and Revolt ,” Middle East Report, vol. 43 (Spring 2013) [text]

Stranded in the Desert (MSF, April 2013) [text]
- See also related IRIN news story.

Upper Nile Refugee Crisis: Avoiding Past Mistakes in the Year to Come (Oxfam, April 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

New Publications on Syria

Appeal by Heads of Leading UN Humanitarian Agencies for the People of Syria (OCHA et al., April 2013) [text via ICMC]

A City that’s not a City – Inside a Syrian Refugee Camp (Poverty Matters Blog, April 2013) [text]

Is Turkey’s Approach to Syrian Refugees Sustainable? (IRIN, April 2013) [text]

Palestinian Refugees from Syria in Lebanon (PRRN Blog,k April 2013) [access]

Promised Aid Funding for Syria Reaches Half-way Point (IRIN, April 2013) [text]

Security Council Informed that Humanitarian Needs in Syria are Growing Rapidly (UN, April 2013) [access]
- See also remarks from OCHA, SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict, and UNHCR.

Syrians Don’t Belong in Camps (The Atlantic, April 2013) [text via Brookings-LSE Project]

[Map credit: "Syria: Numbers and Locations of Syrian Refugees," U.S. Dept. of State, April 2013]

New Regional Publications on Africa and Asia/Oceania

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/

Publications on Africa

Hasty Repatriation: Kenya’s Attempt to Send Somali Refugees Home (Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, Feb. 2013) [text]

“I can’t be a citizen if I am still a refugee”: Former Burundian Refugees Struggle to Assert their New Tanzanian Citizenship, Citizenship and Displacement in the Great Lakes Region Working Paper, no. 8 (International Refugee Rights Initiative, March 2013) [text]

Leaving Libya: A Review of UNHCR’s Emergency Operation in Tunisia and Egypt, 2011-2012, PDES/2013/04 (UNHCR, April 2013) [text]

Rapport de Diagnostic: Camp de Réfugiés de Bélom (Solidarités International, Mars 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Return to Somalia: A New Era?, Oslo, 21 March 2013 [info]
- A summary of the discussions is available here; also includes link to video of the event.

The UNHCR and Angolan Liberation: 1974-1975, Global Migration Research Paper, no. 4 (Programme for the Study of Global Migration, 2013) [text]

Publications on Asia/Oceania

Global Asylum Trends 2012: How Does Australia Compare? (FlagPost, April 2013) [text]

“Growth and Development of Children Aged 1–5 Years in Low-intensity Armed Conflict Areas in Southern Thailand: A Community-based Survey,” Conflict and Health 7:8 (April 2013) [open access text]

Myanmar Update: COI Compilation (ACCORD, Nov. 2012) [text]

Refugee Facts Media Manual (Centre for Policy Development, April 2013) [access]
- New resource “which provides key information and statistics for journalists, editors and advocates on asylum seeker issues” in Australia.

Solutions Needed for Afghanistan’s Displaced as International Attention Wanes (IDMC Blog, April 2013) [text]

UNHCR/WFP Joint Assessment Mission Report: Assistance to the Refugees from Bhutan in Nepal (18 June-08 July 2012) (WFP & UNHCR, March 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

 

 

New Regional Publications on the Middle East and 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 Publications on the Middle East

Findings from the Inter- Agency Child Protection and Gender-Based Violence Assessment in the Za’atari Refugee Camp (Child Protection and Gender-based Violence in Emergencies Sub-Working Group, 2013) [text]

Israel: Detained Asylum Seekers Pressured to Leave (Human Rights Watch, March 2013) [text]

“Protected or Excluded? A Case Study of the Interpretation and Implementation of Article 1D with Regard to Palestinian Asylum Seekers,” Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 35 (March 2013) [full-text]

“State of Exception and Resistance: Two Indivisible Key Aspects to Understand the Political Socialization of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon,”  National Identity: Time, Place, People (University of Latvia, 2012) [text]
- Collection of “publications from 1st international conference for students at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia,” Riga, 15-17 March 2012; scroll to p. 26 for a/m paper.

Syria’s Mess Causes Soul Searching in Humanitarian Aid World (Global Observatory, March 2013) [text]

Syria’s Unseen Crisis: Displaced Women Face Rape, Insecurity, Poverty (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, March 2013) [text]

UNHCR Stands Up for Refugees in Israel (RSDWatch, March 2013) [text]

New Publications on Africa

Citizen Perceptions of Migration in South Africa (Afrobarometer, Feb. 2013) [text]

DR Congo: Poor Coordination Obstructs Emergency Response to Gender-Based Violence (Refugees International, March 2013) [text]

Emergency Response for the Situation in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: Supplementary Budget Appeal (UNHCR, March 2013) [text]

“Humanitarian Conditions in Darfur: The Most Recent Reports Reveal a Relentless Deterioration,” Sudan Tribune, 10 Feb. 2013 [text via SudanReeves.org]

Joint Assessment Mission: Ivorian Refugees Operation in Liberia, February 2013 (WFP & UNHCR, Feb. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Overview of UNHCR’s Operational Strategies in Africa, 56th EXCOM Standing Committee Meeting, 19 Feb. 2013 [text]
- See also related speech by UNHCR’s Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa.

 

 

New Regional Publications on Australia/New Zealand; Africa; and Asia Pacific, esp. Afghanistan, North Korea

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 Australia/New Zealand

How Many Children are in Immigration Detention?, Policy Brief (Refugee Council of Australia, March 2013) [text]

Humanitarian Family Reunion: Challenges and Opportunities in a New Policy Context (RCOA & Settlement Council of Australia, March 2013) [text]
- Background paper for teleconference scheduled for 3 April 2013.

“Refugee Women in New Zealand: Findings and Recommendations,” Women’s Health Update, vol. 16, no. 4 (Dec. 2012; posted March 2013) [full-text]

Refugees in Indefinite Detention, Policy Brief (Refugee Council of Australia, March 2013) [text]

Seeing Migrants, Selecting Refugees: A Historical Study of Chinese Settlement in Canada and New Zealand, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 252 (UNHCR, Jan. 2013) [text]

New Publications on Africa

Cash or Coupons? Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Working Paper, no. 320 (Center for Global Development, March 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

DR Congo: Outdated Approach, Misplaced Priorities (Refugees International, March 2013) [text]

Hostages of the Gatekeepers: Abuses against Internally Displaced in Mogadishu, Somalia (Human Rights Watch, March 2013) [text]

The Kampala Convention on Internal Displacement in Africa: A Human Rights Milestone, Washington, DC, 26 March 2013 [access]
- Follow link for a podcast of this event.

My Journey to Dadaab (Refugees International Blog, March 2013) [text]

Scattered Dreams, Broken Promises: An Assessment of the Links between Girls’ Empowerment and Gender-based Violence in the Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Uganda (Women’s Refugee Commission, March 2013 [text via ReliefWeb]

New Publications on Asia Pacific, esp. Afghanistan, North Korea

Afghanistan: Comprehensive Response Urgently Required as Displacement Crisis Worsens (IDMC, March 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Displacement in Afghanistan: Post-2014 Origins, Current Situation and Potential Flows (NATO Civil-Military Fusion Centre, March 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Hyeonseo Lee: My Escape from North Korea (TED Talks, Feb. 2013) [access]

New Report: Chronic Emergency in Urban Afghanistan (Danish Refugee Council, March 2013) [info]
- Contact DRC for copy of report.

North Korea Faces Heightened Human Rights Scrutiny (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, March 2013) [text]

Regional Roundtable on Irregular Movements by Sea in the Asia-Pacific Region, Jakarta, 18-20 March 2013 [info]
- Part of the Bali Process; see also background information sheet and UNHCR news story.

Urban Refugees in Asia Pacific: Resiliency and Coping Strategies (APRRN, March 2013) [text]

New Regional Publications on Africa; Europe; and Asia

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 Africa

Addis Ababa Pt I: Visiting the African Union (African Asylum Blog, March 2013) [text]
- Discusses visiting the African Union archives to look for the travaux préparatoires relating to the 1969 African Refugee Convention.

Côte d’Ivoire – Attaque du camp de Nahibly: “une occasion de rendre justice” (FIDH, March 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also English-language press release.

Protecting Civilians in Central African Republic is Critical (Global Protection Cluster, April 2013) [text]
- See also related IRIN report.

Western Sahara: The World’s Forgotten Refugees (The Guardian, April 2013) [access]
- Follow link for video.

New Publications on Europe

Examining the European Geography of Refugee Protection: Exclusions, Limitations and Exceptions from the 1967 Protocol to the Present, Nijmegen Migration Law Working Papers Series 2012/03 (Centre for Migration Law, 2012) [text]

Foster Care and Supported Lodgings for Separated Asylum Seeking Young People in Ireland: The Views of Young People, Carers and Stakeholders (Barnardos & Health Service Executive, April 2013) [text]
- See also related briefing paper and blog post.

From Persecution to Management of Populations: Governmentality and the Common European Asylum System, Nijmegen Migration Law Working Papers Series 2012/04 (Centre for Migration Law, 2012) [text]

Migration Is Not a Crime: Report on the Monitoring of Guarded Centres for Foreigners (Association for Legal Intervention & Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, March 2013) [text]
- Review of detention centres in Poland.

[UNHCR Response to ESI letter to LIBE Suggesting Amending EU Legislation on Asylum Procedures and Visas] (UNHCR, April 2013) [text]

New Publications on Asia

“Burden of Communicable Disease among the Native and Repatriating Afghans,” PLoS Pathogens 8(10): e1002926 (Oct. 2012) [open access text]

Impacts of Bhutanese Refugees in Eastern Nepal, Paper presented at History Association of Nepal National Seminar, Biratnagar, Feb. 2013 [text]

Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Ashgate, Jan. 2013) [info]
- A portion of Chapter 1 is available as well as an eprint of Chapter 13.

“Tibetan Refugees as Objects of Development: Indian Development Philosophy and Refugee Resistance in the Establishment of Lukzung Samdrupling, the First Tibetan Refugee Settlement in India,” Himalaya, The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, vol. 30, no. 1 (2011) [delayed open access text]

UNHCR Calls for Concrete Steps to Protect Refugees through Bali Process (UNHCR, April 2013) [text]

 

 

New Regional Publications on Oceania and 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 Oceania

Asylum Seekers and Refugees: What Are the Facts? (Parliamentary Library of Australia, updated Feb. 2013) [text]

Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program 2013-14: Community Views on Current Challenges and Future Directions (Refugee Council of Australia, Feb. 2013) [text]

Boat Arrivals in Australia since 1976 (Parliamentary Library of Australia, updated Jan. 2013) [text]

“‘Boat People’ in Australia: Press, Policy and Public Opinion,” GEOView: Online Undergraduate Review of Geography and Environmental Studies (2013) [open access text]

Furore over Australian Detention of Immigrant Children (IRIN, March 2013) [text]

RCOA’s Analysis of Progress in Implementing the Recommendations of the Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers (Refugee Council of Australia, Feb. 2013) [text]

“Towards Sanctuary: Securing Refugees and Forced Migrants in Multicultural Australia,” Chapter 1 in Cultures in Refuge: Seeking Sanctuary in Modern Australia (Ashgate, Oct. 2012) [free sample text]
- More info. about the book is available here.

New Regional Publications on Africa

“African Union,” International Organizations Bulletin (Winter 2012) [text]
- Scroll to p. 2; reports on the entry into force of the Kampala Convention.

Helpdesk Research Report: Humanitarian Response to the Post-election Violence in Kenya in 2007/8 (Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, Dec. 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

“International Intervention in Mali and its Impact on Refugees,” Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 35 (March 2013) [text]

“No Way Back? Adaptation and Urbanization of IDP Livelihoods in the Darfur Region of Sudan,” Development and Change, vol. 44, no. 1 (Jan. 2013) [free full-text]

Report on Property Issues and Displacement in Libya for UNHCR (Terra Nullius, Feb. 2013) [text]

Two Years after the Crisis: Returnees from Libya Revisited, Policy Brief (IOM, March 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

 

New Regional Publications on Africa, esp. Kenya; Middle East, esp. Syria; and Europe

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 Africa, esp. Kenya

Behind the Scenes: Lessons Learnt from Developing a National Policy Framework on Internal Displacement in Kenya (Refugee Consortium of Kenya & Danish Refugee Council, Feb. 2013) [text]

Congo’s Elderly Act as Caregivers – But Who Will Care for Them? (Refugees International Blog, Feb. 2013) [text]

The Fine Line between Deportation and Refoulement: The Case of Zimbabweans in South Africa (Uppsala University, Autumn 2012) [text]

Invisible Suffering: The DRC’s Unofficial IDP Camps (Think Africa Press, Feb. 2012) [text]

Kenya: Government Directive Leads to Severe Abuses and Forced Returns (Refugees International, Feb. 2013) [text]

Kenya’s Somalis Face Urban Ejection (Think Africa Press, Feb. 2013) [text]

Kenyans Head to the Polls – and a New Displacement Crisis? (UpFront Blog, Feb. 2012) [text]

“Organization of African Unity and African Union Engagement with Refugee Protection: 1963–2011,” African Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 21, no. 1 (Feb. 2013) [extract]

Protection of the Right to Seek and Obtain Asylum under the African Human Rights System (Martinus Nijhoff, Feb. 2013) [info]

New Publications on Middle East, esp. Syria

Analysis of Host Community-Refugee Tensions in Mafraq, Jordan (Mercy Corps, Oct. 2012) [text via InterAction]

Camp New Iraq (Formerly Camp Ashraf) Residents and the Processing of their Cases for Solutions, Update no. 5 (UNHCR, Feb. 2013) [text]

Can Israel Aid Syrian Refugees? (Huffington Post, Feb. 2013) [text]

Israel Deports Refugees to Sudan Despite Threat to their Lives (Daily Beast, Feb. 2013) [text]
- See also related AP story.

Journal of Palestinian Refugee Studies, vol. 2. no. 2 (Autumn 2012) [full-text]
- Mix of articles, with several on Palestinian refugees in Syria.  Individual articles can be accessed here.

*The Syrian Crisis and its Repercussions: Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees, MPC Research Report 2013/03 (Migration Policy Centre, 2013) [text]

UNHCR Leader Warns of Moment of Truth for Syria, Risk of Unmanageable Crisis (UNHCR, Feb. 2013) [text]
- Note: A link to the text of the HC’s remarks to the UN Security Council was originally included, but now seems to have been removed.

UNHCR Warns of Humanitarian Cost of Syrian Conflict, especially on the Displaced (UNHCR, Feb. 2013) [text]
- Includes link to text of AHC’s speech to the UN Human Rights Council.

New Publication on North America

“Aid Groups Warn of Human Cost of Sequester,” Foreign Policy, 21 Feb. 2013 [extract via Refugees International]

New Refugee Determination System in Canada (Oppenheimer Chair, Feb. 2013) [text]

Open Letter from 40 Organizations Supporting U.S. Humanitarian Assistance Accounts (InterAction, Feb. 2013) [text]
- See also related press release.

Senate Immigration Hearing Should Include Fixes for Flawed Asylum System (Human Rights First, Feb. 2013) [text]

New Publications on Europe

“1952 – 2012: Le Juge Français de l’Asile, de la Commission de Recours des Réfugiés à la Cour Nationale du Droit d’Asile,” Colloque à l’Occasion des 60 ans de la CNDA, Paris, 29 Octobre 2012
- Conference materials include a speech by the Vice President of the Conseil d’État; a speech by the President of the Conseil National des Barreaux; and a keynote address by UNHCR’s Director of International Protection at a roundtable on social group.

Europe: The Dublin Regulation 10 Years on, Inhospitality Means Denial of Protection (Jesuit Refugee Service, Feb. 2013) [text]

Facing 2020: Developing a New European Agenda for Immigration and Asylum Policy (Migration Policy Institute Europe, Feb. 2013) [text]

“Ideas of ‘Home’ and ‘Return Home’ in Voluntary Return Messaging – A Contemplation on the Impact of Passage of Time and Sense of Failure on Asylum-seekers’ Engagements with Voluntary Return in Ireland,” Migration Policy Practice, vol. III, no. 1 (Feb./March 2013) [text]
- Scroll to p. 15.

Submission to Council of Europe Committee of Ministers: M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece, Application No 30696/09 (Amnesty International, Feb. 2013) [text]

When Maternity Doesn’t Matter: Dispersing Pregnant Women Seeking Asylum (Refugee Council, Feb. 2013) [text]

 

 

New Regional Publications on the Americas; Africa and Asia/Oceania

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 the Americas

Desplazamiento Forzado y Necesidades de Protección, Generados por Nuevas Formas de Violencia y Criminalidad en Centroamérica (CIDEHUM & ACNUR, May 2012) [text]

Evaluating the Implementation of the Persecutor Bar to Asylum: The Case for a Defense of Duress in U.S. Asylum Exclusions (ExpressO, 2013) [text]

Haiti Three Years On: Overpromised and Underdelivered (UpFront Blog, Jan. 2013) [text]
- References new book entitled The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster (Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013).

“How the Charter Has Failed Non-Citizens in Canada – Reviewing Thirty Years of Supreme Court of Canada Jurisprudence,” McGill Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2013) [preprint via SSRN]

“The Mexican Drug War and the Consequent Population Exodus: Transnational Movement at the U.S.-Mexican Border,” Societies, vol. 3, no. 1 (2013) [open access text]

Seeing Migrants, Selecting Refugees: A Historical Study of Chinese Settlement in Canada and New Zealand, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 252 (UNHCR, Jan. 2013) [text]

A Shared State: Iraqi Refugees and American Veterans in the Aftermath of War, Honors Thesis (University of California at Berkeley, Jan. 2013) [text]

New Publications on Africa

Analysis: Refugees Aim for Self-reliance, Not Hand-outs (IRIN, Feb. 2013) [text]

Crossing African Borders: Migration and Mobility (Center of African Studies, 2012) [text]
- Conference report for the 5th African Borderlands Research Network Conference, Lisbon, 21-25 September 2011; see also programme and CFP.  Report includes “Identity Strategies, Cultural Practices and Citizenship Recovery: Mauritanian Refugees in the Senegal Valley,” ” Forced Migration of Chadians in the Faro Division in Northern Cameroon (1980-2010),” “Beyond the ‘Genius Of Suffering’: The Paradox of an Alienated Border Regime – Refugee Integration in Cross-Border Dagana (Senegal-Mauritania),” and “Territory and Border Crossing for Livelihoods among (Voluntary and Forced) Migrants from DRC to Swaziland: The Re-Imagining of a Borderless Spatial System.”

*Hear My Voice: Somalis on Living in a Humanitarian Crisis (MSF, Feb. 2013) [textvia ReliefWeb]

An Indictment of the New Somali Government: Displaced Woman and Journalist Jailed for Raising Rape Charges (UpFront Blog, Feb. 2013) [text]

Return Intention Survey on Displaced Population – Mali (IOM, Feb. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

New Publications on Asia/Oceania

“Burma in Diaspora: A Preliminary Research Note on the Politics of Burmese Diasporic Communities in Asia,”Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, vol. 31, no. 2 (2012) [open access text]

Destination Anywhere? Factors Affecting Asylum Seekers’ Choice of Destination Country, Research Paper, no. 1 (Australian Parliamentary Library, Feb. 2013) [text]

Philippines Passes Historic Bill to Protect Internally Displaced  (UNHCR, Feb. 2013) [text]

The Rohingya: A Population Facing Violence, Displacement, Segregation, and Statelessness, RSC Public Seminar Series, 6 Feb. 2013 [access]
- Podcast of the seminar.

Sri Lanka: Transitioning from a Humanitarian Crisis to a Human Rights Crisis (InterAction, Jan. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Case study for InterAction’s “Transition from Relief to Development” project.

UNHCR Mission to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, 15-17 January 2013 (UNHCR Australia, Feb. 2013) [text]

 

New Regional Publications on Africa; Europe; and the Middle East, esp. Syria

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 Africa

“Afraid and Exhausted: Striking Portraits of Mali’s Refugees,” Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2013 [access]
- Highlights portraits from UNHCR’s Instagram feed.

Displacement, Disharmony and Disillusion: Understanding Host-Refugee Tensions in Maban County, South Sudan (Danish Demining Group, Jan. 2013) [text]

Statement by the African Commission on the Present Human Rights Situation in Mali (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Jan. 2013) [text]
- The texts of the resolutions referenced in this statement are here: 209, 210, and 217

UNHCR Position on the Directive by the Kenyan Government on the Relocation of Refugees from the Urban Centres to the Refugee Camps (UNHCR, Jan. 2013) [text]
- See also related IRIN news story and RI blog post.

UNHCR’s Rwanda Cessation: Flawed, but Perhaps Not Entirely Wrong (RSDWatch, Jan. 2013) [text]

Urban Refugee Education in Uganda: A Solution from the Non-formal Education Sector, Paper presented at panel on “Not Business as Usual: Education in Emergency and Conflict Settings – The Lived Experiences of the Oft Forgotten,” at the Global Education Leadership Opportunities Conference, Boston, 24-25 January 2013 [text]

New Publications on Europe

“Asylum Legal Framework and Policy of the Slovak Republic,” Jurisprudence, vol. 19, no. 4 (2012) [open access text]

“Cultural Identity as a Specific Dimension of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics: Refugees in Temerin,” Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, vol. 6, no. 2 (Autumn/Winter 2012) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 55.

Enhancing Intra-EU Solidarity Tools to Improve Quality and Fundamental Rights Protection in the Common European Asylum System (ECRE, Feb. 2013) [text]

Feeling Like an Outsider: A Case Study of Refugee Identity in the Czech Republic, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 251 (UNHCR, Jan. 2013) [text]

New Publication on the Middle East, esp. Syria.

“Book Review: Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel,” Journal of International Women’s Studies, vol. 13, no. 3 (2012) [open access text]

“Drowning in the Flood: Foreign Governments and Agencies are Failing Syria’s Refugees,” The Economist, 2 Feb. 2013 [text]

Emergency Response to Housing, Land and Property Issues in Syria (Global Protection Cluster, Jan. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Humanitarian Financing to the Syria Crisis in 2013 (Global Humanitarian Assistance, Jan. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

“Palestinian Refugees Struggle to Survive,” Nature Middle East, 20 Jan. 2013 [text]

Trapped Between Africa and Saudi Arabia (Lens, Jan. 2013) [access]
- Photos of African refugees in Yemen.

 

 

 

New Publication on gender based violence and inequality in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Details of the following publication have just been published on the ALNAP website:

When Women are Silenced: A documentation of the methodology and findings of action research carried out by journalists and citizen journalists on gender based violence and inequality in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Produced by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency and published in January 2013.

ADRA Denmark and local ADRA partners in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo focus on the empowerment of women and community solutions primarily through the means of media and communication, especially radios which are widely used in the region. The project is using multiple communication channels to ensure that the lessons learned will be rooted and benefit practitioners at local, national and international levels. One of the efforts to ensure shared and in-depth learning is action oriented research, which has been taking place in the second half of 2012. This report shares the action research methods developed, lessons learned, suggested advocacy themes inspired by the action research as well as summaries of the overall findings from all research teams in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Action research methodology development, text and photos: Lotte Ladegaard/Development Close-up: http://www.lotteladegaard.dk.
(Source: ALNAP)

[Download Full Report]
(Source: ALNAP – Development ceases when women are silenced).

 

New Publications on Minority Rights; Refugee Health Care; Anti Slavery Leaflets; and Africa

Challenges at the intersection of gender and ethnic identity in Kenya

Challenges at the intersection of gender and ethnic identity in Kenya
By Laura A. Young for the Minority Rights Group.

Minority and indigenous women in Kenya are discriminated against on multiple levels; they are targeted because of their identification with a minority or indigenous group, and as women – both by cultural practices within their own community and because of gender discrimination more
widely.

This report examines the challenges and the new opportunities that have emerged with the passing of the new Constitution in 2010. The goal of the report is to reflect the voices and experiences of women from diverse minority and indigenous communities in Kenya.

[Download Full Report]
(Source: Minority Rights Group International)

Know your rights:  a community guide to the UN Declaration on Minorities
By the Minority Rights Group.

The year 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities . It was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 1992 and is the primary UN document dedicated to the rights of minorities.

Minorities throughout the world have benefited from the adoption of the Declaration as the international community recognized and codified their rights, and national governments took action to protect these rights. But there is still a long way to go in order to fully implement this historic Declaration.

[Download Full Report]
(Source: Minority Rights Group International)

Reading List: Refugee Health Care.
Updated Version.
Produced by The King’s Fund.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: Network e-Bulletin)

Anti-Slavery leaflets.
Produced by Anti-Slavery International.

“The Anti-Slavery campaign in London has created a postcard sized leaflet to hand out to migrant workers, available in a range of languages. The postcard will make workers aware of their legal rights and spell out indicators of forced labour including having identity documents confiscated, being placed under constant control, being misled over working conditions, being forced to work against their will or working below the minimum wage or without pay.”

The leaflets are available to download as pdfs in: English; Bulgarian; Czech; Chinese; Vietnamese; Slovak; Portuguese; Polish; Romanian; and Spanish.

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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/) :

The Adoption and Ratification of the African Union’s Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa: An Analysis of the Discourse of States and the International Humanitarian Aid Community (University of the Witwatersrand, Feb. 2011) [text]

Kenya: Don’t Force 55,000 Refugees into Camps (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2013) [text]

Kenya: Somali Refugees under Threat (Refugees International Blog, Jan. 2013) [text]

Mali’s Conflict Refugees: Responding to a Growing Crisis, Briefing Paper, no. 167 (Oxfam, Jan. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Prepare for Displacement Crisis in Mali (Refugees International Blog, Jan. 2013) [text]

New Publications on Africa; the Middle East and North America

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/

Publications on Africa

Africa’s Illiberal State-builders, Working Paper, no. 89 (Refugee Studies Centre, Jan. 2013) [text]

Baseline Report: The Right to Information for Internally Displaced Persons in Kenya (Article 19, Dec. 2012) [text]

Kenya: Discrimination against Rift Valley Displaced (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2013) [text]

Mali: Outside the Spotlight, Displaced People in Urgent Need of Assistance (Refugees International Blog, Dec. 2012) [text]
- Includes video report.

Receiving LGBTI Refugees in South Africa: Towards a Culture of Non-Discrimination and Human Rights, Working Paper, no. 5 (Refugee Rights Unit, 2012) [text]

The Right to Stay: Fighting Slum Evictions in Kenya (IRIN, Jan. 2013) [text]

Women Refugees and Sexual Violence in Kakuma Camp, Kenya: Invisible Rights, Justice, Protracted Protection and Human Insecurity (Erasmus University, Dec. 2012) [text]

Publications on the Middle East

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has just released a new report entitled Syria: A Regional Crisis.  Discussion of the report’s findings is currently taking place at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) [click on Livestream link]. See also the press release.

Also today, the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement is hosting a discussion on “What’s Next for Syria: Humanitarian and Political Perspectives,” in Washington, DC. If you miss it, check back for a summary/audio of the event.

Other publications:

Displacement Monitoring and Needs Assessments: Final Report 2012 (IOM Iraq, Dec. 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

Palestinian Refugees in the Arab World: Realities and Prospects, Doha, 24-25 March 2012 [access]
- Follow the link for an overview of the meeting and links to seminar papers.

Trapped between the Fences (Oxford Human Rights Hub, Sept. 2012) [text]

Publications on North America

Blueprints for the Next Administration (Human Rights First, Dec. 2012) [access]
- Three sets of recommendations on LGBTI refugees, repairing the asylum and refugee resettlement systems, and immigration detention.

CARL in the Courts: Ezokola v. Canada, a Primer (Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, Jan. 2013) [access]
- Intervention on case involving exclusion.

“Domestic Violence as a Basis for Asylum: An Analysis of 206 Case Outcomes in the United States from 1994 to 2012,” Hastings Women’s Law Journal, vol. 24, no. 1 (2013) [full-text via SSRN]

“Indirect Refoulement: Challenging Canada’s Participation in the Canada-United States Safe Third Country Agreement,” Wisconsin International Law Journal, vol. 30, no. 1 (2012) [full-text]

Year in Review: Changes in 2012 for Refugees and Other Newcomers to Canada (Canadian Council for Refugees, Jan. 2013) [text]

 

New Publications on Africa; the Middle East; Australia; and Statelessness

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/

Publications on Africa

Global Insider: Kampala Convention Sets a Global Example for IDP Protection (World Politics Review, Dec. 2012) [text]

Kenya’s Decision to Confine Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Camps is Unlawful (Amnesty International, Dec. 2012) [text]

Refugee Resettlement: The View from Kenya – Findings from Field Research in Nairobi and Kakuma Refugee Camp, Research Report 2012/01 (KNOW RESET, 2012) [text]

Rescuing Migrants in Libya: The Political Economy of State Responses to Migration Crises – The Case of Ghana, Working Paper, no. 16 (DIIS, Dec. 2012) [text]

“Tanzania’s Mtabila Camp Finally Closed,” Pambazuka News, no. 610 (Dec. 2012) [text]

Toward a Regional Solution for Rwanda’s Returning Refugees, Backgrounder no. 45 (Africa Initiative, Nov. 2012) [text]

Transnational Exile Complex: How to Think about African Diaspora Politics, Working Paper, no. 88 (RSC, Dec. 2012) [text]

Publications on the Middle East

Camp New Iraq (formerly Camp Ashraf) Residents and the Determination of their International Protection Needs, Update no. 4 (UNHCR, Dec. 2012) [text]

Jordan: Syrian Child Refugees Who Work – Culture or Coping Mechanism? (IRIN, Dec. 2012) [text]

The State of Human Rights in Israel and the OPT 2012 (Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Dec. 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Includes a chapter on refugees and asylum-seekers.

Syria Regional Response Plan: January to June 2013 (UN, Dec. 2012) [text]
- See also related UNHCR press release.

Tortured in Sinai, Jailed in Israel: Detention of Slavery and Torture Survivors under the Anti-Infiltration Law, June-September 2012 (Hotline for Migrant Workers, Oct. 2012) [text]

Why They Left: Stories of Iranian Activists in Exile (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2012) [text]

Publications on Australia

Australia and Asylum Seekers: Media Perspectives (London Progressive Journal, Dec. 2012) [text]

Boat People Economics 101: Exposing the Flawed Logic of Asylum Seeker Policy (The Conversation, Dec. 2012) [text]

Cognitive Dissonance and Sunk Cost: The Psychology of Seeking Asylum (The Conversation, Nov. 2012) [text]

Defiance and Compliance: Australia and the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Thesis submitted to the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011; posted July 2012) [text]

Immigration Detention on Christmas Island:  Observations from Visit to Immigration Detention Facilities on Christmas Island (Australian Human Rights Commission, Dec. 2012) [text]

Policy Déjà Vu Will Have a Devastating Effect on Asylum Seeker Mental Health (The Conversation, Dec. 2012) [text]

UNHCR Mission to the Republic of Nauru 3-5 December 2012 (UNHCR, Dec. 2012) [text]
- See also related press release.

“What Does the Literature Say about Resilience in Refugee People? Implications for Practice,” Journal of Social Inclusion, vol. 3, no. 2 (2012) [open access text]

Publications on Statelessness

“Atlantis, Narnia and Statelessness: How Political and Environmental Factors Can Cause Statelessness,” Social & Political Review, vol. XXII (2012) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 73.

A Call to Include the Stateless on International Human Rights Day (ENS Blog, Dec. 2012) [text]

Children and Their Search for a Home: What It Means to be Stateless in the 21st Century (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, July 2012) [text]

Citizens of Nowhere: Solutions for the Stateless in the U.S. (UNHCR & Open Society Justice Initiative, Dec. 2012) [text]
- See also related Refugees International blog post.

Naturalization of Stateless Persons: Solution of Statelessness?, Thesis submitted to the Department of European and International Public Law (Tilburg University, 2012) [text]

S. Sudan Takes Vital Step to Prevent Statelessness (RI Blog, Nov. 2012) [text]

“Statelessness and the Politics of Misrecognition,” Res Publica, vol. 18, no. 1 (2012) [eprint]

Statelessness in Southern Africa, Briefing Paper for UNHCR Regional Conference on Statelessness in Southern Africa, Mbombela (Nelspruit), South Africa, 1-3 November 2011 [text]

 

New Publications on Europe; Africa; and Ideas/Innovations

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/

Publications on Europe

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Dilemma Facing Refused Asylum Seekers (Refugee Council, Dec. 2012) [text]

Do the European Integration Fund and European Refugee Fund Contribute Effectively to the Integration of Third-Country Nationals?, Special Report, no. 22 (European Court of Auditors, Dec. 2012) [text]

Frontex: More of the Same?, Paper presented at conference on “The Governance of Asylum and Migration in the European Union,” Salford, UK, 26-27 January 2012 [text]

Human Rights Violations in the Field of Migration: A Collective Responsibility (European Policy Centre, Dec. 2012) [text]

Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, and Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Leveson Report (Compas Blog, Dec. 2012) [text]

“Migrant Deaths and the Kater Radez I Wreck: From Recovery of the Relict to Marine Taphonomic Findings and Identification of the Victims,” International Journal of Legal Medicine, Online First, 12 Dec. 2012 [free full-text]
- Note: Free access is only available through December 2012.

“My Life as a Refugee” Photography Exhibit (JRS Europe) [access]
- Taken by refugees themselves, these photos “show the daily life of refugees in five European countries: Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania and the United Kingdom.”  See image above.

Statewatch Analysis: The Common European Asylum System: State-of-play Update (Statewatch, Dec. 2012) [text]

Publications on Africa

Gaps in Geneva, Gaps on the Ground: Case Studies of Somalis Displaced to Kenya and Egypt during the 2011 Drought, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 248 (UNHCR, Dec. 2012) [text]

“Human Rights, Dignity and Well Being: The Plight of Zimbabwean Refugees and Displaced People in Southern Africa,” Developing Country Studies, vol. 2, no. 10 (2012) [open access text]

Mali: Outside the Spotlight, Displaced People in Urgent Need of Assistance (Refugees International, Dec. 2012) [text]
- Includes video report.

Our Lives: A Survivors’ Guide to Hard Time (IRIN, Dec. 2012) [access]
- “A new IRIN series following 20 people in 10 countries as they try to get by in these testing times. The men and women featured – from teachers to truck drivers – describe how they cope with the rising cost of living, and explain their hopes for the future. This series will be regularly updated.”  One of the women featured is “Jane Njeri – Displaced person, Kenya.”

A Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Rapid Assessment: Doro Refugee Camp, Upper Nile State, South Sudan (Danish Refugee Council, July 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

“Strengthened Protection for Internally Displaced Persons in Africa: The Kampala Convention Comes Into Force,” ASIL Insights, vol. 16, no. 36 (Dec. 2012) [text]

Publications on Ideas/Innovations

Are Migrants Spurring Innovation?, MPC Research Report 2012/11 (Migration Policy Centre, 2012) [text]
- See also related Debate Migration blog post.

The Best Small Ideas of 2012 (Foreign Policy Magazine, Dec. 2012) [text via USCRI FB]

“Out of Africa: A Scheme Where Helping Refugees Helps Everybody,” The Independent, 17 Nov. 2012 [text]

Refugee Livelihoods, Innovation and the Private Sector, Oxford, 26 Nov. 2012 [access]
- Conference organized by the Humanitarian Innovation Project.

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World (Edward Elgar, Aug. 2012) [info]
- Includes chapter on “Starting a Movement for Refugee Rights in the Global South: Asylum Access and Beyond.”  See also related blog post.

“A Vacant Lot Offers Refugees a Taste of Home,” New York Times, 27 Nov. 2012 [text]