International Migration Journal and Publications on Statelessness; Climate/Environmental Change; Resettlement; Displacement

International Migration

Latest issue of the journal International Migration, Volume 50, Issue 3 (June 2012), Pages 1–97.  Special edition on: Migration and Development Buzz? Rethinking the Migration Development Nexus and Policies.
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No Way Out, No Way In

No Way Out, No Way In: Irregular migrant children and families in the UK.
A new report published by the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: Irregular Voices blog).

Kuwait: Security Forces Forcibly Disperse Stateless Residents (Human Rights Watch, May 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Statelessness in the Canadian Context

Statelessness in the Canadian Context: An Updated Discussion Paper (UNHCR, March 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

World Map: Parties to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (UNHCR, as of 1 May 2012) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Climate Change and Fragile States: Rethinking Adaptation, SOURCE, no. 16 (UNU-EHS & Munich Re, 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Climate Change and Fragile States: Rethinking Adaptation, SOURCE, no. 16 (UNU-EHS & Munich Re, 2012) [text]

Learning Lessons: Intense Climate-related Natural Disasters in Asia and the Pacific (Asian Development Bank, April 2012) [text via PreventionWeb]

Resettlement of Ecological Migrants in Georgia: Recent Developments and Trends in Policy, Implementation, and Perceptions, Working Paper, no. 53 (ECMI, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Rethinking Durable Solutions to Displacement in the Context of Climate Change (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, May 2012) [text via ReliefWeb].
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Migrant Boat Tragedy – Interactive (The Guardian, March 2012) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, April 2012) [access].
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Rights Displaced: The Effects of Long-term Encampment on the Human Rights of Refugees, Working Paper, no. 4 (Refugee Law Initiative, May 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Rwandan Refugees Face no Choice but Repatriation (Open Democracy, May 2012) [text]

Event: Displaced Childhoods: Oral History and Traumatic Experiences

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting ***

From the Oral History Society Website:

Displaced Childhoods: Oral History and Traumatic Experiences

Oral History Society Annual Conference: Friday and Saturday 13-14 July 2012

Southampton Solent University in association with Modern Languages, University of Southampton

Conference venue: Southampton Solent University Conference Centre, Sir James Matthews Building, 157-187 Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 7NN

Download provisional programme | Download conference registration form

Displaced Childhoods: Oral History and Traumatic Experiences

Please click the poster above to download and print an A4 copy for your institution

This multidisciplinary conference will showcase how oral history is increasingly being used to explore the impact of traumatic events such as war, evacuation, conflict and growing up in care has on children and their adult selves. We have an exciting line up of speakers from both the UK and overseas, presenting papers on a range of topics around displaced childhoods, as well as on methodological and ethical issues. The conference will be of interest to all those working in the field of oral history.

Key themes of the conference include:

• Internal migration and the global movement of children from Spain, India, the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
• The ‘Forgotten Children’ forcibly migrated to Australia
• Childhood experience of civil disasters
• The effects of growing up in care and long-term hospitalisation
• The development of therapeutic environments for children and young people with emotional, social and behavioural disorders.

Keynote Speakers

Dr Joanna Sassoon , project manager of the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project at the National Library of Australia; and

Professor Lynn Abrams, author of The Orphan Country: Children of Scotland’s Broken Homes and Oral History Theory

We are pleased to be holding the conference at Southampton Solent University as this year the city commemorates the 75th anniversary of the little known story of Los Niños, the children evacuated to the UK during the Spanish Civil War. An oral history project on Los Niños will be discussed at the conference.

Southampton is well connected by air, coach, rail, road, and sea. And the university is only 10 minutes walk from Southampton rail station.

A conference registration form can be accessed by clicking this link.

New Publications on Asylum; Climate Change; Detention; Displacement; and Others

Publications on Asylum Issues

 The Causes, Character and Conduct of Armed Conflict, and the Effects on Civilian Populations, 1990-2010, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series, no. 26 (UNHCR, April 2012) [text]

- Understanding the “complex reality of armed conflict in the global system…has considerable implications in understanding the dynamics of forced displacement, and in any determination of who should receive international protection.”

(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

The Inefficiencies of American Refugee Law as Highlighted by the Current Plight of Mexican Immigrants, Submission to National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 14-18 November 2012 [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Focus on Europe: ECHR Rule 39 Interim Measures

ECRE/ELENA Research on Rule 39 Interim Measures (ECRE, April 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Toolkit on How to Request Interim Measures under Rule 39 of the Rules of the European Court of Human Rights for Persons in Need of International Protection (UNHCR, Feb. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Hungary as a Country of Asylum (UNHCR, April 2012) [text]
- See also related press release.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Focus on Climate Change

Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict in Northwest Africa: Rising Dangers and Policy Options across the Arc of Tension (Center for American Progress, April 2012) [text]
- See also video of related event.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration, CESifo Working Paper, no. 3747 (CESifo, Feb. 2012) [text via SSRN]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Life as a Climate Refugee (Huffington Post, April 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Country of Origin Information

Reviews of Country Information Reports (Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, 2012) [access]
- Countries covered include China, Nigeria and Uganda.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Thematic Review on the Coverage of Women in Country of Origin Information (COI) Reports (Centre for Migration Policy Research, Sept. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Focus on Afghanistan/Pakistan

 Displaced Afghans:

An international conference on Afghan displacement wrapped up today in Geneva. The “International Conference on the Solutions Strategy for Afghan Refugees to Support Voluntary Repatriation, Sustainable Reintegration and Assistance to Host Countries” was held 2-3 May 2012 to discuss a strategy developed by Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and UNHCR to address the protracted Afghan refugee situation.  The text of the “Solutions Strategy” is available here; a Joint Communique issued today notes that conference participants “welcomed and supported” it.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

IDPs in Pakistan:

Daily Updates on Khyber IDP Influx (UNHCR, 2012) [access via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Initial Observation Report: Focusing on Off-camp Internally Displaced People from Bara Tehsil in Khyber Agency, FATA, Pakistan (Save the Children, April 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Inter-Agency Rapid Assessment: Report on Khyber off-camp IDPs in Peshawar, Nowshera and Kohat-KP (IOM, WFP & IVAP, April 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Tough Times for IDPs Living Outside Camps (IRIN, May 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Development Displacement/Forced Evictions

 Forced Evictions: Global Crisis, Global Solutions (UN-Habitat, 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Publications on Detention

 Bill C-31: Tories’ Human Smuggling Reforms Could Land More Asylum Seekers in Canada’s Jails (Huffington Post, April 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Concerns over the Detention and Deportation of Asylum-seekers in Hungary (UNHCR, April 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

The Harmful Effects of Detention and Family Separation on Asylum Seekers’ Mental Health in the Context of Bill C-31, Brief submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration concerning Bill C-31, the Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act (April 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Immigration-related Detention (Congressional Research Service, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Immigration Detention Network: Final Report (Parliament of Australia, March 2012) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Lack of Immigration Court Review of Detention Violates U.S. Commitments under International Law (Human Rights First, April 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Not Crossing Red Lines: A Negotiator’s Checklist on Minimum Detention Safeguards (ECRE et al., May 2012) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Walls of Shame – Accounts from the Inside: The Detention Centres of Evros (Pro Asyl et al., April 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Memories of Displacement

 Several books and journal articles have recently been or are due to be published that focus in some way on “memory”; here’s a partial listing:

Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012) [info]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1970 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012) [info]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

“Negotiating the Humanitarian Past: History, Memory, and Unstable Cityscapes in Kampala, Uganda,” Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Access, 3 Feb. 2012 [abstract]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) [info]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

“Palestinian Autobiographical Memory Regarding the 1948 Palestinian Exodus,” Political Psychology, vol. 32, no. 2 (April 2011) [abstract]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

The oral history approach is one of the main methodologies used for capturing memories of displacement experiences. This training toolkit explains how to undertake an oral history project. As an example, here’s a collection of “refugees’ stories of loss, exile and rebuilding.”

 Other methodologies are described in the “Education” section of the Mapping Memories: Experiences of Refugee Youth web site, in the companion book entitled Mapping Memories: Participatory Media, Place-based Stories & Refugee Youth, and in “Mapping Memories of Displacement: Oral History, Memoryscapes, and Mobile Methodologies,” a chapter in Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History (Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2011).
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Armed Conflict and Transitions

The concept of “transitions” is also addressed in this recent policy paper from the International Peace Institute: “Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States: Lessons from the First Generation of Transition Compacts.” Moreover, the Refugee Studies Centre has issued a new policy briefing that examines legacies of past conflicts entitled, “Displacement, Transitional Justice and Reconciliation: Assumptions, Challenges and Lessons.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Recent resources that focus on armed conflict include:

Alert 2012! Report on Conflicts, Human Rights and Peacebuilding (Escola de cultura de pau, 2012) [info]
- Check back for the PDF.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

The Causes, Character and Conduct of Armed Conflict, and the Effects on Civilian Populations, 1990-2010, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series, no. 26 (UNHCR, April 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Conflict Barometer 2011 (Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research, 2012) [access]
- Place an order for the print version or follow the instructions for downloading the digital version.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

“Predicting Armed Conflict, 2010-2050,” International Studies Quarterly, Forthcoming, 2013 [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Real-time Analysis of African Political Violence, Conflict Trends, no.1 (Armed Conflict Location & Event Dataset, April 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]
- “Focus countries include Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, South Sudan, Sudan, and Somalia.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Publication: RSC Policy Briefing 9 (April 2012)

RSC Policy Briefing 9 (April 2012):

Displacement, transitional justice and reconciliation: Assumptions,
challenges and lessons:

www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/policy-briefings/rscpb9-displacement-transitional-justice-reconciliation-250412-en.pdf

Written by Dr Megan Bradley (Fellow in the Foreign Policy Programme at the
Brookings Institution in Washington DC), this policy briefing explores the
links between reconciliation, forced migration and transitional justice,
bringing into focus the ways in which displaced persons figure in
transitional justice processes, and the potential implications of this
involvement for reconciliation. The briefing addresses the interlinked
conceptual and practical challenges associated with trying to advance
reconciliation in post-conflict societies affected by large-scale
displacement, and highlights some of the ways in which policymakers and
practitioners have sought to support reconciliation between displaced
populations and other actors. It analyses some of the assumptions that have
characterised these efforts, and suggests ways in which the challenges
surrounding the interface of displacement, transitional justice and
reconciliation may be more effectively navigated.

This policy briefing builds on discussions at the Conference on Displacement
and Reconciliation convened at Saint Paul University in Ottawa from 9-10 June
2011.

Feedback and comments can be directed to the author of the briefing, Dr Megan
Bradley at mbradley@brookings.edu. To request hard copies of the current or
previous briefings (for a full list click here:
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/rsc-policy-briefings-list-0412.pdf) or for any otherqueries contact the series editor, Héloïse Ruaudel at heloise.ruaudel@qeh.ox.ac.uk

New Publications on Children in Detention; Asylum Support; MRN; Faith; Trafficking; Immigration Rules; Syria; and Displacement

Captured Childhood

Captured Childhoods: Introducing a new model to ensure the rights and liberty of refugee, asylum seeker and irregular migrant children affected by immigration detention.
A new report by the Immigration Detention Coalition.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: IRIN – MIGRATION: Too many migrant children locked up).

Networks of Asylum Support in the UK and USA: A Handbook of Ideas, Strategies and Best Practice for Asylum Support Groups in a Challenging Social and Economic Climate’.  A new report by the Asylum Network.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network)

Migrants’ Rights Network Progress Report 2006-2011.
[Access]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network)

Faith on the Move: The Religious Affiliation of International Migrants
The Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: The Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life)

An evidence assessment of the routes of human trafficking into the UK
By Kevin Marsh, Rashmi Sarmah, Phil Davies, Emma Froud, Jacque Mallender, Elizabeth Scalia, Tony Munton (Matrix Knowledge Group); and
Andrew Zurawan, Laura Powlton, and Carolyne Tah (Analysis, Research and Knowledge Management, UK Border Agency)
[Download Full Report]
(Source:  Home Office)

Statement of Changes to Immigration Rules:  HC1888.
UK Home Office.
[Download Full Report]
(Source:  Home Office)

`I wanted to die’: Syria’s torture Survivors Speak Out
Amnesty International
[Download Full Report]
(Source: Amnesty International – Syria: New report finds systemic and widespread torture and ill-treatment in detention).

Sanctuary in the City

Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability in Amman.
HPG Working Papers, March 2012.
By Sara Pavanello and Simone Haysom for the Humanitarian Policy Group.
[Download Full Report]
(Source:  Humanitarian Policy Group).

What does the future hold for IDPs living in camps in Centre Masisi? Return, local integration, and settlement elsewhere in the country.

For over five years, thousands of displaced people have been living in camps in North Kivu. This report analyses the camps of Bihito, Kalinga, Kilimani, and Lushebere, located in Masisi, a territory especially affected by displacement. In order to gain a better understanding of durable solutions that are suitable for the IDPs living in the camps, this report investigates the causes behind their displacement, as well as their living conditions and their prospects for the future. Finally, it offers concrete suggestions to the actors involved, such as authorities in DRC, as well as international and Congolese organisations that provide assistance and protection to IDPs in the camps and support durable solutions to their displacement.

[Download Summary and recommendations)
(Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre)

News Pubs. On Housing, Accomodation, Disasters, Trafficking, Burma, Displacement, Egypt

After the Deluge: Gender and Early Recovery Housing in Sindh, Pakistan, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 228 (UNHCR, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

“Between Control and Assistance: The Problem of European Accommodation Centres for Asylum Seekers,” International Migration, forthcoming (posted Jan. 2012) [text via SSRN]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Literature Review for Shelter after Disaster (Shelter Centre et al., 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Guidelines on Exemption Procedures in respect of Cessation Declarations (UNHCR, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Human Trafficking in Mexico and Neighbouring Countries: A Review of Protection Approaches, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 229 (UNHCR, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

More ‘Trafficking,’ Less ‘Trafficked’: Trafficking for Exploitation Outside the Sex Sector in Europe (GAATW, 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Refugees International (RI) has just released a new report called “Burma: An Opportunity to Expand Humanitarian Space.”
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Ending the Displacement Cycle: Finding Durable Solutions through Return and Resettlement (Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, June 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

The Cost of Living: An Analysis of the Time and Money Spent by Refugees Accessing Services in Nairobi, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 230 (UNHCR, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

RSQ Advance Access Articles and Pub. on Displacement in Pakistan and Legal Aid

Refugee Survey Quarterly

Struggle for Recognition: Bosnian Refugees’ Employment Experiences in Sweden.
By Maja Povrzanović Frykman.
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access Article.
[Access]
(Source: Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access on Oxford Journals).

The Faltering us Refugee Protection System: Legal and Policy Responses to Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Others in Need of Protection.
By Donald Kerwin.
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access Article.
[Access]
(Source: Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access on Oxford Journals).

Subsidiary Protection and the Function of Article 15(c) of the Qualification Directive.
By Paul Tiedemann.
Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access Article.
[Access]
(Source: Refugee Survey Quarterly Advance Access on Oxford Journals).

Examining the relationship between immigration and unemployment using National Insurance Number registration data.
A new discussion paper published by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.  The abstract for this paper argues that:

 Immigration has been central in recent UK policy debates and has attracted significant concern over its possible adverse effect on labour market outcomes. This paper contributes to the evidence on this issue by presenting initial results on the impact of migration inflows on the claimant count rate using previously unused data on National Insurance Number registrations of foreign nationals. Our results, which appear robust to different specifications, different levels of geographic aggregation, and to a number of tests, seem to confirm the lack of any impact of migration on unemployment in aggregate. We find no association between migrant inflows and claimant unemployment. In addition, we test for whether the impact of migration on claimant unemployment varies according to the state of the economic cycle. We find no evidence of a more adverse during periods of low growth or the recent recession.

[Download Paper]
[National Institute of Economic and Social Research – Press Release]
(Source: The Guardian – Migrants do not affect jobless levels, say researchers).

Unintended Consequences: the cost of the Government’s Legal Aid Reforms: A Report for The Law Society of England & Wales.
By Dr. Graham Cookson.  This is a report on research commissioned by The Law Society of England & Wales (henceforth, The Law Society) in June 2011.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: The Refugee Council – Legal aid cuts will incur £139m of knock on costs, report finds).

Pakistan: Displacement caused by conflict and natural disasters, achievements and challenges.
A new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).[Download Full Report or visit the Pakistan country page]
(Source – Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre).

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).

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 Publications on Forced Displacement, Refugee Protection, Syria, & others

Forced Displacement in Europe and Central Asia (World Bank, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Mobilizing for Refugee Protection: Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of UNHCR and the 1951 Refugee Convention, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 226 (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Thailand: Buddhist minority declines in the `deep south’ due to protratced armed conflict.  A new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).
[Download Report]
(Source: IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Syria: State policies and military actions continue to threaten further displacement.  A new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, (IDMC).
[Download Report]
(Source: IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Promoting Livelihoods and Self-reliance: Operational Guidance on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas (UNHCR, 2011) [text]
- Other operational guidance notes are listed in this post.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Recovery or Trapped in Poverty? The Economic Consequences of Forced Displacement in Northern Uganda, Paper presented at 4th Migration and Development Conference, Boston, 10-11 June 2011 [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Q&A: Swiss Trumpet Blower for the Rights of the Internally Displaced (UNHCR, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Applying Conflict Sensitivity in Emergency Response: Current Practice and Ways Forward, Network Paper, no. 70 (Humanitarian Practice Network, Oct. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

A Commentary on the September 2011 Eritrea Operational Guidance Note (ARC & Still Human, Still Here, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Diaspora and Peacebuilding in Post-conflict Settings: Insights from Somaliland, Global Migration Research Paper, no. 2 (Programme for the Study of Global Migration, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Donors Still Far from Transparent (IRIN, Nov. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Mental Health Care for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Immigration Detention Centres (Mental Health Council of Australia, Nov. 2011) [text via BroCAP]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Publications on the Arab Spring, Egypt, Balkans, Internal Dispalcement in Serbia

Turkey and the Arab Spring: Implications for Turkish Foreign Policy from a Transatlantic Perspective. A new report by Istituto Affari Internazionali.
[Download Report]
(Source: DocuTicker – Turkey and the Arab Spring: Implications for Turkish Foreign Policy from a Transatlantic Perspective).

Broken Promises: Egypt’s Military Rulers Erode Human Rights.  A new report published by Amnesty International.
[Access Report]
(Source: Amnesty International – New Amnesty International report on abuses under Military Council in Egypt).

Access to Free Legal Aid for Displaced Persons in the Western Balkans Countries: Overview of the Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro (Group 484, Nov. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Access to Rights and Integration of Returnees on the Basis of the Readmission Agreements: Analysis of the Main Problems and Obstacles (Praxis, Aug. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Assessment of the Needs of Internally Displaced Persons in Serbia (UNHCR et al., Feb. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Legally Invisible Persons in Serbia: Still without a Solution (Praxis, June 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Only Genuine Justice Can Ensure Durable Peace in the Balkans (Human Rights Comment, Nov. 2011) [text]

Serbia as a Safe Third County: A Wrong Presumption (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Sept. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

On The Run : Photography by Espen Rasmussen

A recent news posting on the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) website gives an intersting insight into the work of photographer Espen Rasmussen.  The news story is entitled `On The Run : Photography has a Voice‘ (*1)  and details the work of Espen Rasmussen in recording the stories of refugees and internally  displaced over a six year period over a six year period , from the refugee camps in Congo to those suffering displacement in Georgia.

Due to the heat Somali refugees sleep outside at the Mayfa'ah reception centre in Yemen. Between 100 and 400 refugees arrive at UNHCR centre every day

A selection of Rasmussen’s photographs are included in the article by the BBC’s picture editor, Phil Coomes, who states that :

These simple pictures, say so much: the powerless individual caught up in events beyond control or comprehension and those who are trying to work through a system of bureaucracy. Yet it also includes moments of hope and humanity as throughout the book the individuals come through.

Somali refugees who had just arrived on the coast of Yemen are crammed into a UNHCR truck before being taken to the Ahwar reception centre two hours away. In 2008 over 40,000 Somali refugees arrived in Yemen, bringing the total number close to 250,000

These images by Espen Rasmussen have also been included in a recently published book entitled Transit, which also includes an exhibition at The Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo.  The book is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing and further details can be found on their website at : http://www.dewilewispublishing.com/

Copies of Transit can also be purchased directly on Amazon via the following link : Transit Link on Amazon.

Ana Melinda’s 11 children are just some of the 30,000 IDPs who live on the outskirts of the jungle town of Quibdo on the western side of Colombia. Rasmussen was there in 2007. Melinda said: 'One morning several men knocked on our door. They wanted to take my 14-year-old son as a fighter. He wanted to go with them but I did not want him or any of my children to end up with the guerrillas or paramilitary. Our only choice was to flee'

Forced Migration Review

A special supplement edition of the Forced Migration Review journal has just been published and is entitled:  Islam, human rights and displacement.

Now online at: http://www.fmreview.org/human-rights.htm

Full details form the press release are available as follows and hard copies will me made available in the Refugee Archive in due course:

FMR’s 12-page supplement on Islam, human rights and displacement will soon be available in Arabic and English.

We hope it will enhance debate and understanding of the concepts and
instruments of international human rights in the Islamic world. More
information is online at http://www.fmreview.org/human-rights.htm

How to request copies:

All readers who usually receive the Arabic edition (NHQ) of FMR will receive a copy of the supplement in Arabic with their copy of NHQ 31 in January. You therefore do not need to request it UNLESS you would like to receive multiple copies for training purposes and/or onward distribution.

The English version of the supplement will NOT be mailed out to regular readers of FMR. You need to email us to request copies. We are keen to distribute copies to organisations which would find it useful for training and awareness-raising purposes. We would also be happy to send it to libraries and resource centres.

If you would like copies of the supplement, please email us at
fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk, indicating:
- which language
- how many
- your full postal address
- and, preferably, how you propose using it.

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Forced Migration Review

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Posted in: Refugee Studies and Periodicals.

New Issue of Forced Migration Review

A new special issue of the journal Forced Migration Review has just been released.  This is a special issue dedicated to “Climate Change and Displacement.”  Over 30 articles are included in this volume which discusses how climate change has impacted upon displacement and explores communty adaptation and coping stratgies as well as looking at future strategies.

Full details can be found online at :  http://www.fmreview.org/climatechange.htm

Posted in: Periodicals.