New Publications Online (Part 3)

GHA Report 2011

Global Humanitarian Assistance have published the 2011 edition of their GHA Annual Report.  The report focuses on international expenditures in relation to humanitarian aid and the it argues that :

“The latter part of the last decade has been underscored by deepening vulnerability in many developing countries associated with the global financial and food crises. Meanwhile, conflict and climate change-related hazards have remained a major threat to the lives and livelihoods of many.”
GHA Report 2011

The report synopis can be found [here] and the report itself can be downloaded in PDF format – [here].
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Ensuring Access to Health Care: Operational Guidance on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas (UNHCR, 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UNHCR’s Response to the Somali Displacement Crisis into Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya (UNHCR, July 2011) [text]
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Humanitarian Action under Scrutiny: Criminalizing Humanitarian Engagement (HPCR, Feb. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]
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Migrants in an Irregular Situation Employed in Domestic Work: Fundamental Rights Challenges for the European Union and its Member States (European Agency for Fundamental Rights, July 2011) [text via Refworld]
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Diaspora Peacebuilding Capacity: Women in Exile on the Thai/Burmese Border (Peacebuild/Paix Durable, March 2011) [text via Human Security Gateway]
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Internal Displacement in Afghanistan (Refugee Cooperation, June 2011) [text]
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Iraqi Refugees and IDPs: From Humanitarian Intervention to Durable Solutions (Refugee Cooperation, June 2011) [text]
(Source : Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

A Lost Cause: Australia-Malaysia’s Asylum Deal (Malaysian Insider, June 2011) [text]
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Refugee Swap Deal: Will it Reduce Irregular Migration?, RSIS Commentaries, no. 99/2011 (RSIS, July 2011) [text]
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Refugee Archive News Update

First of all, an update on Archive opening hours for December 2010.  The opening times will be as follows:

Mondays:  1400 – 1700

Tuesdays:  1000 – 1300

Wednesdays:  1000 – 1800

Thursdays: Closed

Fridays:  1000 – 1300

The weekly newsletter will also now be suspended until the New Year 2011, but we will try and keep the Refugee Studies blog updated with relevant information, for example, recent posts include:

• New Publications and Journal Volumes
• News Stories
• Websites and Events

UEL Refugee Research Centre Seminar

Resiliance and social capital in asylum seeking families in Sweden

Professor Ulla Björnberg,

Department of Sociology, University of Gotehnburg, Sweden

October 8 2008, 6.00 – 7.30pm, Room EB.G08, East Building, UEL Docklands Campus

Abstract Research has suggested that social networks are important resources for children as well as for adults to resist health problems. For asylum seeking children social networking might be hard to accomplish due to constraints linked to social and legal contexts in the host country. Constraints can also be linked to the family situation and the circumstances they have to cope with in every day life. The situation of parents, in particular mothers, are important for the coping of children. In the paper I draw on results from an ongoing study on the experiences of asylum seeking children and their families in Sweden. The over arching research objective is to identify factors that are important for well being of children seeking asylum and to study how they cope with their experiences as asylum seekers. The tension between excluding experiences and expectations regarding how the situation of the child and it’s family should improve or deteriorate after the flight is for a child a constitutive reference for how coping strategies are developed. In the analysis I draw on theoretical concepts of resilience, empowerment and social capital. The main focus is on families who have waited for decisions regarding permanent residence for several months and sometimes more than a year. The empirical data are based on qualitative interviews with children from 9 years and with one parent for each child. Bio Dr. Ulla Björnberg is full professor of Sociology at the university of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is currently directing a research program on the health and wellbeing of asylum-seeking children and their families in Sweden. She has been engaged in several international projects on family policy and family life in Europe. She lectures on a variety of topics involving gender relations and gender structures, the welfare state and family policy. Dr. Björnberg has a long record of research on families, gender equality, lone mothers,  reconciliation of employment and family life. Recently she has finalised a research programme on Family ties between generations. Public and private transfers between generations in different family forms. Ulla.Bjornberg@sociology.gu.se

ALL WELCOME!

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