Publications on Climate, Environment Displacement and Protection

Changing Climate, Changing Disasters: Pathways to Integration (Christian Aid et al., Jan. 2012) [textvia ReliefWeb] - See also related policy brief.

(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

“Climate Change and Conflict,” Special Issue of Journal of Peace Research, vol. 49, no. 1 (Jan. 2012) [contents](Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).
Climate Conversations: Questioning the Conflict Link (AlertNet, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Climate Refugees, Refugees or Under Own Protection?: A Comparative Study between Climate Refugees and Refugees Embraced by the United Nations Refugee Convention, Undergraduate thesis submitted to the Faculty of Social and Life Sciences (Karlstad University, 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Coping with Climate Change (IRIN, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

“Critical Approaches to Environmental Displacement,” RSC Seminar Series 2012  Podcast [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

“Language Analysis in the United Kingdom’s Refugee Status Determination System: Seeing through Policy Claims about ‘Expert Knowledge’,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Forthcoming Article, 3 Jan. 2012 [free full-text]

- See also related comment.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

“Moving the Virtual Border to the Cellular Level: Mandatory DNA Testing and the U.S. Refugee Family Reunification Program,” California Law Review, vol. 99, no. 6 (Dec. 2011) [full-text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

“Observations on EXCOM’s 60th Session (2009): Does UNHCR Need (More) EXCOM Conclusions?,” Refuge, vol. 27, no. 2 (2010) [full-text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

Refugee Protection and International Migration: Achievements, Challenges and Lessons Learned from UNHCR’s 10-Point Plan Project (UNHCR, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

They’re Not ‘Economic Migrants: Why Refugees and Asylum-seekers Have the Right to Work (Refugees and the Right to Work, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

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).

Refugee Council Publish Short Film

Ram Gidoomal passport. Copyright - Refugee Council.

The Refugee Council has just published a new short film charting its own history in responding to refugee protection issues since 1951.  The film, “Protecting refugees: 60 years and beyond”, has been released to mark Human Rights Day which was on Saturday 10 December, and it also represents the culmination of the Refugee Council’s 60th anniversery celebrations in 2011.

The Refugee Council state that the film, “Protecting refugees: 60 years and beyond”, “features the testimonies and thoughts of refugees who fled conflicts around the world and rebuilt their lives in the UK, in each decade since 1951 – the year the charity came together to offer support and advice to refugees. With British actress Zoe Wanamaker narrating, the film features:

• Bob Vertes, who arrived from Hungary in 1956
• Ram Gidoomal, who arrived from Kenya in 1967
• Pablo Aguirre, who arrived from Chile in 1976
• Nyeya Yen, who arrived from Ghana in 1984
• Nora Lupki, who arrived from Kosovo 1991
• Rose Bazzie, who arrived from Liberia in 2004″

Rose with pic. Copyright - Refugee Council.

To watch the film, visit the Refugee Council’s Youtube Channel. The film was directed by filmmaker Martin Scanlan and produced by Inside Job Productions.

Further information can be found on the Refugee Council’s press release – Refugee Council launches film celebrating protection of refugees since 1951.

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/)

UNHCR ExCom documents on protection

We would like to draw your attention to the following documents, which were released and posted on
UNHCR’s Refworld website in relation to the 59th (2008) session of UNHCR’s Executive Committee (ExCom):

Statement by Ms. Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner -
Protection, at the fifty-ninth session of the Executive Committee of the
High Commissioner’s Programme: “Protection makes a difference. It can
mean the difference”
8 October 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48ecd5f62.html

Note on International Protection
A/AC.96/1053, 30 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486902122.html

Preliminary Summary Report on Feedback by States on Their
Implementation of the Agenda for Protection
1 October 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48ecd0702.html

More information on ExCom is available on the general UNHCR website at:
http://www.unhcr.org/excom. Other documentation of the 59th (2008)
session, besides the above-mentioned ones, is available at
http://www.unhcr.org/excom/486c900d2.html. The documents are also
available in French at http://www.unhcr.fr/excom.

In addition, we would like to highlight the following report, which was
presented at ExCom:

Refugee Realities: Meeting the needs of refugees and other people of
concern globally
October 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48ef42352.html

This is the pilot report for the annual Global Needs Assessment (GNA )
that UNHCR is launching in 2009, of its operations worldwide aimed at
comprehensively mapping the real state of the world’s refugees and
people of concern under its mandate. The pilot GNA used a methodology
drawn from UNHCR’s Strengthening Protection Capacity Project
(http://www.unhcr.org/spcp). More information is available on UNHCR’s
website at http://www.unhcr.org/gna.

We hope to have informed you. Previous alerts are available at
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/alerts.html.
Web: http://www.refworld.org

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