Further Events and Opportunities for April-May 2013

Details of these new events and opportunities 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/

CFP: Forced Migration Review issue on “Detention and Deportation” [info]
– Submit articles by 15 April 2013.

Humanitarian Research and Innovation Grant Programme, OCHA [info]
– Submit applications by 15 April 2013.

Job opening: Senior Researcher in Migration Management, Copenhagen [info]
– Based at the Danish Institute for International Studies; apply by 15 April 2013.

CFP: Forced Migration: Global Perspectives and Practices, London, 12 June 2013 [info]
– Abstract submission deadline is 15 April 2013.

FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for NGO Programs Benefiting Tibetan Refugees in South Asia [info]
– Proposal submission deadline is 15 April 2013.

InterAction Forum 2013, Arlington, VA, 29 April-1 May 2013 [info]
– Register by 15 April 2013.

Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Returnees in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Quest for Durable Solutions, CMRS Seminar, Cairo, 15 April 2013 [info]

Head of Humanitarian Policy, British Red Cross (maternity cover) [info]
– Application deadline is 25 April 2013.

Consultancy on “Prevention of Statelessness in Sudan,” UNHCR Khartoum [info]
– Apply by 18 April 2013.

Learning from the City: Humanitarian Action in Urban Areas, London, 19 April 2013 [info]
– This panel discussion will also be livestreamed.

Information Sessions: Migration and Refugee Studies Graduate Program, Cairo, 21 April 2013 [info]

Forced Migration Course, Berlin, 28 April-4 May 2013 [info] [info via ReliefWeb]
– Note: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, but ReliefWeb also listed 21 April 2013 as the deadline for registration!

RSC Public Seminar Series, Oxford, Trinity Term 2013 [info]
– First seminar will be held 24 April 2013.

Treating Like Cases Alike in Refugee Law Adjudication: The Troubling Lack of Consistency in Refugee Status Adjudication within and across State Parties to International Refugee Rights Instruments, London, 25 April 2013 [info]
– “[Six] experts from the UK, USA, Netherlands, Canada and UNHCR Europe will be discussing the variance in adjudication in similar cases around the world.”

A Future Without Immigration Detention?, London, 26-27 April 2013 [info]
– Registration is open for this event.

Social Networks, Social Capital and Refugee Integration, London, 26 April 2013 [info]
– Please reserve a place if you wish to attend.

CFP: Journal of Internal Displacement issue on “Forced Migration and Displacement in Somalia and Somali Inhabited Territories” [info]
– Submission deadline is 30 April 2013.

CFP: Denaturalizing Climate Change: Migration, Mobilities and Spaces, Bremen, Germany, 31 October-1 November 2013 [info]
– Abstract submission deadline is 30 April 2013.
Follow Up to the High Commissioner’s December 2012 Dialogue on Faith and Protection   ̶  Call for Examples: Good Practices of FBOs/LFCs towards Protection Outcomes [info]
– Deadline for submitting examples is 30 April 2013.

International Summer School in Forced Migration, Oxford, 1-19 July 2013 [info]
– Closing date for applications is 1 May 2013.

Migration Studies Society 1st Annual Conference, Oxford, 4 May 2013 [info]
– Register by 1 May 2013.

UNHCR Award for Statelessness Research [info]
– Nominations due by 1 May 2013.

Works in Progress: Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft in the Trans-Regional Arena of Asylum, Cambridge, UK, 2 May 2013 [info]
– Please email to register your attendance.

Center for Forced Migration Studies’ Summer Institute: “The Refugee Status Determination Process,” Evanston, IL, 2-9 June 2013 [info]
– Registration open; discounted rate prior to 2 May 2013.

The Deportation of Unaccompanied Minors: Family-tracing and Government Accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) Project, Oxford, 3 May 2013 [info]
– Register ASAP, since only a limited number of places are available. This event will also be livestreamed.

Race, Alterity and Affect: Rethinking Climate Change-induced Migration and Displacement, Durham, UK, 18-19 June 2013 [info]
– Register by 3 May 2013.

CFP: Gender, the Refugee and Displacement (1900-1950), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 5 July 2013 [info]
– Submit an abstract by 8 May 2013.

Tracks Across Sand: The Dispossession of the ‡Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari, Oxford, 8 May 2013 [info]
– Annual Elizabeth Colson lecture; please register to attend.

FY 2014 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Proposals for the Regional Resettlement Support Center (RSC) in Africa [info]
– Proposal submission deadline is 13 May 2013.

Encounters in Canada: Contrasting Indigenous and Immigrant Perspectives, Toronto, 15-17 May 2013 [info]

 

Events and Opportunities for April-May 2013

Details of these events and opportunities 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/

Events

Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Returnees in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Quest for Durable Solutions, CMRS Seminar, Cairo, 15 April 2013 [info]

Learning from the City: Humanitarian Action in Urban Areas, London, 19 April 2013 [info]
– This panel discussion will also be livestreamed.

Treating Like Cases Alike in Refugee Law Adjudication: The Troubling Lack of Consistency in Refugee Status Adjudication within and across State Parties to International Refugee Rights Instruments, London, 25 April 2013 [info]
– “[Six] experts from the UK, USA, Netherlands, Canada and UNHCR Europe will be discussing the variance in adjudication in similar cases around the world.”

InterAction Forum 2013, Arlington, VA, 29 April-1 May 2013 [info]
– Register by 15 April 2013.

The Deportation of Unaccompanied Minors: Family-tracing and Government Accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) Project, Oxford, 3 May 2013 [info]
– Register ASAP, since only a limited number of places are available.  This event will also be livestreamed.

The Human Rights, Migration and Globalization Summer School 2013, Galway, Ireland,  8-12 July 2013 [info]
– Registration deadline is 31 May 2013.

Opportunities

CFP: Race, Alterity and Affect: Rethinking Climate Change-induced Migration and Displacement, Durham, UK, 18-19 June 2013 [info]
– Abstract submission deadline is 15 April 2013.

CFP: Interdisciplinary Workshop on “The Marketization of Migration Management,” Istanbul, 20-21 June 2013 [info]
– Abstract deadline is 15 April 2013.

CFP: Denaturalizing Climate Change: Migration, Mobilities and Spaces, Bremen, Germany, 31 October-1 November 2013 [info]
– Abstract submission deadline is 30 April 2013.

Consultancy with Global Detention Project [info]
– Consultant sought to “complete a report on immigration detention practices and policies in Arab Gulf States.”  Apply by 5 April 2013 (now extended to 1 May 2013).

CFP: Gender, the Refugee and Displacement (1900-1950), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 5 July 2013 [info]
– Submit an abstract by 8 May 2013.

Summer School: European Union Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum, Brussels, 1-12 July 2013 [info]
– Apply by 7 June 2013.

Asylum and ICT Project [info]
– Call for researchers “to carry out an international study into the use of information and communication technologies by refugee support organisations and the refugees with whom they work in a number of countries across the world.”

CFP: Disaster Information Management [info]
– Submit abstracts for chapters in a book on Disaster Information Management to be included in the Humanitarian Solutions in the 21st Century series published by Springer: “The book will in part explore the history of humanitarian information management since the 1980s, including successes like ReliefWeb and IRIN, and projects that didn’t fare as well.”

U.S. Department of State funding opportunities:

FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for NGO Programs Benefiting Malian Refugees in Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Niger [info]
– Proposal submission deadline: 26 April 2013.

FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for NGO Programs Benefiting Urban Refugees in Egypt [info]
– Proposal submission deadline is 1 May 2013.

FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for NGO Programs Benefiting Refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Uganda [info]
– Proposal submission deadline: 7 May 2013.

FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for NGO Programs Benefiting Refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya [info]
– Proposal submission deadline: 7 May 2013.

FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for NGO Programs Benefiting Tibetan Refugees in South Asia [info]
– Proposal submission deadline is 15 April 2013.

FY 2014 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Proposals for the Regional Resettlement Support Center (RSC) in South Asia [info]
– Proposal submission deadline is 13 May 2013.

FY 2014 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Proposals for the Regional Resettlement Support Center (RSC) in Turkey and the Middle East [info]
– Submission deadline for proposals is 13 May 2013.

 

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Online Human Rights Library Opened in Belgrade | OneWorldsee platform for southeast Europe

Online Human Rights Library Opened in Belgrade

The Online Human Rights Library with close to 7,000 books on the subject of human rights was presented and officially opened on March 15, 2013, at the House of Human Rights and Democracy in Belgrade. On the URL http://www.hrlibrary.rs, the visitors can browse the available books on theory and practice of human rights.

The online library is a part of the first regional Human Rights Library and is opened for activists, students and researchers in the area of human rights. Maja Stojanović, Programming Director at Građanske inicijative (Civic Initiatives NGO) and Chairwoman of the Board of the House of Human Rights and Democracy officially opened the library and expressed her hopes that it will allow the students and researchers, but also members of the general public work more seriously on the subject of human rights.

The library offers, adequate literature, a place for visitors to read, learn and research, which will facilitate the process of researching of human rights and public advocacy. The library aims to contribute to the building of a culture of respect for human rights and raised awareness about the improtance of development of theory and practice of human rights in Serbia.

All interested citizens, students and researches can open a user account on the website http://www.hrlibrary.rs or log in through their Facebook profile, which will allow them to browse and reserve books to check out or read on the premises.

All books are indexed and easily searchable and the website intends to open a forum for commenting on the publications in the library.

The creation of the Library of Human Rights was supported by USAID, through the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC). (Source: Građanske inicijative/ISC)

via Online Human Rights Library Opened in Belgrade | OneWorldsee platform for southeast Europe.

Re-Blog: New Periodical Titles/New Issues of Cultures & Conflits, EASO News, FRLAN, Intl. Migr., NEAIS

Details of these new periodicals 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 titles:

 CARL Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1 (April 2013) [full-text]

– From the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.

Journal on Migration and Human Security [info]

– A “new online, peer-reviewed, public policy publication” from the Center for Migration Studies (CMS), which already publishes the International Migration Review (IMR).

New issues:

Cultures & Conflits, no. 88 (Hiver 2012) [contents]
– Theme is “Migrations Climatiques.”

EASO Newsletter (March 2013) [full-text via EASO Monitor]
– News and information from the European Asylum Support Office.

Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 36 (April 2013) [full-text]
– “A monthly forum for news and discussion on refugee legal aid.”

International Migration, vol. 51, no. 2 (April 2013) [contents]
– Includes feature section on the anthropological aspects of migration policy.

Newsletter on European Asylum Issues, no. 2013/1 (Jan. 2013) [full-text]
– Quarterly update on treaties, legislation and jurisprudence, “designed for judges who need to keep up to date with European developments in the area of asylum.”

Re-Blog: Country of Origin Information

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/

Upcoming opportunity:

Country of Origin Information Training [info]
– Blended learning course that includes an e-training phase (15 April-10 May 2013) and a face-to-face meeting in Dublin on 14 May 2013.  Register by 12 April 2013.

Publications:

Anthropologists as Providers of Country of Origin Information (COI) in the British Asylum Courts, Paper presented at “Anthropology in and of the Law,” London, 8-10 June 2012 [info]
– Scroll down to locate text.

“EASO Country of Origin Information Network Approach,” European Asylum Support Office Newsletter (March 2013) [full-text]
– Scroll to p. 2.

“Country of Origin Information: Old Problems, Modern Solutions,” Forced Migration Review, no. 38 (Oct. 2011) [open access text]

“Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Country of Origin Information in French and British Refugee Status Determination Procedures,” International Journal of Refugee Law (Forthcoming, 2013) [info]
– See also earlier version presented at refugee determination workshop.

Expert Workshop on Country of Origin Information (COI) in the Context of Refugee Status Determination Process, Bucharest, 10-11 September 2012 [summary]

Organizations that provide COI reports/research support:

Asylos: Research for Asylum [access]

Asylum Research Consultancy [access]
– See, e.g., Still Human Still Here-commissioned commentaries on UKBA reports.

Country of Origin Research and Information (CORI) [access]
– See, e.g., reports commissioned by UNHCR.

“Country of Origin Research Support Project,” Refugee Solidarity Network [access]

BSPS Event: Emigration – Don’t leave me this way?

BSPS circulation. Please help BSPS to publicise this forthcoming day meeting to non-members. A PDF flyer is attached for convenience.

This day meeting is free and open to all (members and non-members), but pre-registration is requested by emailing the BSPS Secretariat at pic@lse.ac.uk. Places are limited and early registration is recommended. Full directions will be sent to those registered in advance of the meeting.

A PDF flyer is also available – [BSPS-Emigration-Day-Meeting_16 May2013_ Programme].

Emigration – Don’t leave me this way?

A BSPS day meeting: Thursday 16 May 2013

Graham Wallas Room, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Chair –Professor Tony Champion, Vice-President, British Society for Population Studies,

10:30 – 11:00 – Registration

11:00 – 11: 40 – Trends in emigration: what do the official data show?

Joanna Wroe, Office for National Statistics

11:40 – 12:20 – Brits into Frenchmen? British emigration to France since the late 1980s

Dr Susan Collard, Senior Lecturer in French Politics and Contemporary European Studies, University of Sussex and Helen Drake, Professor of French and European Studies, Loughborough University.

12:20 – 13:00 – Understanding British emigrants: the view from ethnography

Dr Michaela Benson, Lecturer in Sociology, University of York and Karen O’Reilly Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University.

13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch (not provided)

14:00 – 14:40 – Returning from Spain?

Dr Kelly Hall, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Northampton

14:40 – 15:20 – A model-based approach for estimating international emigration for Local Authorities

Brian Foley, Office for National Statistics

15:20 – 15:50 – Break (tea & coffee provided for all)

15:50 – 16:30 – The policy implications of emigration from the UK: target and uncertainty

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Senior Researcher, Migration Observatory, University of Oxford.

16:30 – 17:00 – Panel Discussion & Close

 

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