Wednesday 31 October 2007

Refugee Survey Quarterly / Global Networks

Refugee Survey Quarterly: Researching Refugees: Lessons, Challenges and ways Forward: Vol. 26, No. 3, (2007) - [table of contents]. Articles include:

Foreword
Jeff Crisp
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:5.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/26/3/5

Articles
Editorial Introduction: Researching refugees: lessons from the past, current challenges and future directions
Oliver Bakewell
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:6-14.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/26/3/6
The study of refugees before "Refugee Studies"
Claudena Skran and Carla N. Daughtry
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:15-35.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/15
Refugee Studies and the international refugee regime: a reflection on a desirable separation
Giulia Scalettaris
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:36-50.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/36
Into the jungle of bureaucracy: negotiating access to camps at the Thai-Burma border
Pia Vogler
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:51-60.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/51
The challenges of conducting research among rural-based refugees in Uganda
Deborah Mulumba
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:61-71.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/61
Researching refugees: preoccupations with power and questions of giving
Ellen Lammers
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:72-81.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/72
‘I know what you're doing’, reflexivity and methods in Refugee Studies
Anna Schmidt
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:82-99.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/82
Les réfugiés comme objet d'étude pour l'anthropologie : enjeux et perspectives
Marion Fresia
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:100-118.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/100
Refugee research agendas: the influence of donors and North-South partnerships
Megan Bradley
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:119-135.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/119
Refugees and history: why we must address the past
Philip Marfleet
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:136-148.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/136
Keeping up with refugee research
Elisa Mason
Refugee Survey Quarterly 2007 26:149-161.
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/149


Special Issue of Global Networks: Spatialities of transnational networks - [table of contents]. Articles include:

1) Learning to be Palestinian in Athens: constructing national identities in diaspora Elizabeth Mavroudi
2) Post-maritime transnationalization: Malay seafarers in Liverpool Tim Bunnell
3)The spatial politics of the past unbound: transnational networks and the making of political identities David Featherstone
4)'Roundabout routes and sanctuary schools': the role of situated educational practices and habitus in the creation of transnational professionals Johanna Waters
5) Commentary: negotiating the spatialities of transnational networks James D. Sidaway

News Stories (31/10/07)

Monks return to streets of Burma (BBC News) - [text online]

Ministers accused of underestimating number of foreign workers by 400,000 (The Independent) - [text online]

French charity workers face jail for 'abducting children' (The Independent) - [text online]

Ministers ignored calls to improve migration figures (The Guardian) - [text online]

The left can no longer afford to bury the migration debate (The Guardian) - [text online]

The numbers game (The Guardian] - [text online]

UNHCR gets eastern Chad's chiefs and officials talking (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Thousands flee Mogadishu as fresh fighting erupts (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Tuesday 30 October 2007

News Stories (30/10/07)

Smith 'sorry' for migrants error (BBC News) - [text online]

Darfur camp eviction 'fabricated' - [text online]

Labour plans migrants points system (The Guardian) - [text online]

A grown-up debate about immigration (The Guardian) - [text online]

Central Asia's legal eagles pledge more cooperation for refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Students face up to refugee realities in Montenegro (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Uganda: Across the airwaves comes reassurance to go home - [text online]

Monday 29 October 2007

List of New Resources

This list of new resources has been from the Welcome to you Library email newsletter. Details of how to subscribe to this free regular email update are available here: http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/

Refugees' Experiences of Integration
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy/position/2007/integration.htm
Report from two year qualitative research project by Refugee Council and University of Birmingham and funded by the Big Lottery Fund, looking at the social aspects of refugees’ integration, particularly in relation to how these were experienced in two different localities, Haringey and Dudley, and across different groups of refugees and asylum seekers. See weblink above for more information and links to full report and executive summary.

Sexual Health, Asylum Seekers and Refugees. A Handbook for people working with refugees and asylum seekers in England
http://www.fpa.org.uk/community/refugees/index.cfm?contentid=40
(Source: www.refed.org.uk)

Report published by Family Planning Association as a result of research by several organisations is now available via their website (see link above) for more background and for the handbook. On the same webpage there are also details of a community research report , Sexual Health in Exile on the sexual health concerns, issues and needs of refugees and asylum seekers in South and West Yorkshire.

Britains' Immigrants: An economic profile
http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=563
Report by Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Laurence Cooley and Tracy Kornblatt from ippr. More information and available to download from weblink above.

Refugee Agencies' map
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/howwehelp/partners/partnership/iap.htm
The Refugee Council has produced a downloadable a map of the locations of the 'one stop services' provided by refugee agencies (includes phone numbers, addresses and opening times).

Gatehouse Books

(Source: Mark White, Gatehouse Books)

http://www.gatehousebooks.co.uk/

Publishes adult beginner reader books and resources for use in Adult Literacy and ESOL. Our growing portfolio not only includes books but also audio-cassettes, interactive CD-ROMs and educational resources suitable for adult and post-14 basic skills learners.

New Journal Online Table of Contents [ToC]

African Development Review Volume 19 Number 2, (September 2007) - [Table of Contents]

The Journal of American Ethnic History Volume 26 Issue 4, (Summer 2007). Special Issue: "Women's Voices/Ethnic Lives through Oral History" - [Table of Contents]

*International Journal of Refugee Law Volume 19 Number 3, (October 2007) - [Table of Contents] *UEL has a print and online subscription to this journal.

News Stories (29/10/07)

Growth of our population is unsustainable, says Cameron (The Times Online) - [text online]

Free English lessons 'would help refugees to integrate' (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Somalis demand that Ethiopians leave (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Darfur delegates to agree agenda (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Charity 'smuggled Darfur war orphans to France for £4,000' (The Independent Online) - [text online]

UK and US play Iraq 'blame game' (BBC News Online) - [text online]

Chad 'kidnapping' angers Sarkozy (BBC News Online) - [text online]

Payout for engineer held in Belfast 'because he was black' (Guardian Online) - [text online]

Tories would cut migration, vows Cameron (Guardian Online) - [text online]

Brick Lane's many narratives (Guardian Online) - [text online]

Flagship border force 'puts security at risk' (Guardian Online) - [text online]

The trouble with Brick Lane (Guardian Online) - [text online]

Goldmine dreams end in death for six displaced Afro-Colombians (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Q&A: Introducing refugees from Bhutan to the world (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Luwani Refugee Camp in Malawi closes as UNHCR moves last resident (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Friday 26 October 2007

New Publications, Newsletters & Updates

New ICAR Newsletter Available at : http://www.icar.org.uk/newsletter/
Includes information on new ICAR Briefings, Media Trust Survey and RAL / Asylum Updates

MPI Data Hub: Updates to the Country and Comparative Data for both the United Kingdom and Australia is now available via the Migration policy Institute website at: http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataHub/comparative.cfm

The following tables were updated for the United Kingdom:

  • Foreign born as a percentage of the total population, 1951 to 2005 (selected years)
  • Foreign population as a percentage of the total population, 1990 to 2005
  • Estimates of the net number of migrants, by five year intervals, 1950 to 2005
  • Inflow of foreign population by country of nationality, 1991 to 2006
  • Top ten sending countries, by country of nationality, 1991 to 2006
  • Acquisition of citizenship by country of former nationality, 1980 to 2006
  • Acquisition of citizenship (total), 1980 to 2006
Two new Online Publications Update on the FMO Current Awareness Blog and can be found on the Publications section of the Blog at: http://fm-pubs.blogspot.com/

Some of the publications listed include:

Human Trafficking: Update (House of Lords & House of Commons, Oct. 2007) [text]

The myth of invasion: Irregular migration from West Africa to the Maghreb and the European Union (International Migration Institute, Oct. 2007) [text]

Sexual health, asylum seekers and refugees: A handbook for people working with refugees and asylum seekers in England (FPA, 2007) [text]

Human Rights Report, 1 April to 30 June 2007 (UN Assistance Mission for Iraq , Oct. 2007) [text]

Refugees' Experiences of Integration (Refugee Council and Univ. of Birmingham, Oct. 2007) [access]

Online Journal Tavle of Contents [Toc]

Br J Soc Work Table of Contents for October 2007; Vol. 37, No. 7 - [Table of Contents]

Contemporary Political Theory : Table of Contents alert Volume 6 Issue 4, (November 2007) - [Table of Contents]

Journal of Sociolinguistics : Table of Contents Volume 11 Number 5, (November 2007) - [Table of Contents]

Beyond camps and forced labour: current intl. research on survivors of Nazi persecution

From the FMO E-mail List:

Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution.

Third international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at the Imperial War Museum, London, 7-9 January 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference is planned as a follow-up to the two successful conferences, which took place at the Imperial War Museum in London in 2003 and 2006. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated, and also open up new fields of academic enquiry.

The aim is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. These will include - but are not limited to - Jews, Gypsies and Slavonic people, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, the disabled, the so-called 'racially impure', and forced labourers. For the purpose of the conference, a 'survivor' is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis' racial, political, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second World War.

The organisers welcome proposals, which focus on topics and themes of the 'life after', ranging from the experience of liberation to the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory and consciousness, and questions of theory and methodology. We are also interested in comparative papers that discuss the experience of victims of forced population transfers during the war and in the immediate post-war years, including the historiographical development from polemical and memoirist approaches to empirical, analytical, and critical studies.

Specific conference themes anticipated are:

* DPs in post-war Europe
* Reception and resettlement
* Survivors in Eastern Europe
* Exiles, émigrés and refugees in the reconstruction process
* Rescuers and liberators
* Child survivors
* Women survivors and gender issues
* Trials and justice
* Testimony and memory
* Film and photography
* Psychological approaches: trauma, amnesia, intergenerational transmission
* Educational issues
* Remembrance and memorials
* Museums and archives

The Advisory Board consists of: Dan Bar-On (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Wolfgang Benz (Technical University Berlin), Gerhard Botz (University of Vienna), Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg), Evelyn Friedlander (Hidden Legacy Foundation, London), Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, New York), Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (University of Münster), Yosefa Loshitzky (University of East London), Hanna Ulatowska (University of Texas at Dallas), Inge Weber-Newth (London Metropolitan University).

Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together with biographical background of about 50 words by 28 February 2008 to: Johannes-Dieter Steinert, email: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk <

All proposals are subject to a review process.

Fees: No more than GBP135 for speakers. The fee includes admission to all panels and evening events, lunches, coffees and teas. Further information and registration details will be made available in 2008.

It is intended to publish the conference proceedings. The proceedings of the first conference have been published by Secolo Verlag, Osnabrück (ISBN 3-929979-73-x). The proceedings of the second conference are in press by Secolo Verlag as well. For further information please contact http://www.secolo-verlag.de/ or u.kuhlmann@agentur-sec.de.

The conference is being organised by
Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum, London
David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London
Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College London
Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton

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News Stories (26/10/07)

Zimbabwe refugees are returned home despite asylum policy (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Race-remark scientist quits lab post (The Independent Online) - [text online]

China rejects call for action against Burma as Suu Kyi meets junta (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Soldiers back on Rangoon streets (BBC Online News) - [text online]

Libya seals peace deal for Chad (BBC Online News) - [text online]

Witchcraft allegations plague southern Chad's camps (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Displaced women tell tales of rape and fear in Somalia (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Thursday 25 October 2007

News Stories (25/10/07)

Gordon Brown’s vow to send foreign inmates home is questioned (The Times Online) - [text online]

Darfur peace talks 'doomed' after rebel leaders pull out (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Dutch smash 'voodoo' child trade (BBC News Online) - [text online]

Congolese refugees return to Equateur in growing numbers (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Wednesday 24 October 2007

News Stories (24/10/07)

A portrait of Britain in 2031 (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Optimism as Burma adopts more open approach to UN (The Independent Online) - [text online]

UN tells Belgrade to stop intimidating ethnic Serbs over Kosovo elections (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Burmese people 'waiting in the dark' (BBC News Online) - [text online]

Jails adapted for foreign inmates (BBC News Online) - [text online]

Suu Kyi rallies planned worldwide (BBC News Online) - [text online]

Darfur 'a quarrel over a camel' (BBC News Online) - [text online]

ON THIS DAY NEWS FROM THE BBC ARCHIVES: 1945 - United Nations Organisation is born (BBC News Online) - [text online]

Higher fertility, immigration and longer lives fuelling Britain's population rise (Guardian Online) - [text online]

UK population 'to rise by 10m by 2031' (Guardian Online) - [text online]

Gulf of Aden crossing claims up to 66 lives (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Thousands flee into Uganda to escape North Kivu fighting (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Tuesday 23 October 2007

News Stories (23/10/07)

'Racist' party secures record Swiss vote (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Congo warlord appears before ICC (BBC News Online) - [text online]

Asylum for Eritrean gospel singer (BBC News Online) - [text online]

EU 'blue card' to tempt skilled (BBC News Online) - [text online]

ON THIS DAY NEWS FROM THE BBC ARCHIVES: 1956: Hungarians rise up against Soviet rule (BBC News Online) - [text online]

School and shelter for Pakistan's flood victims (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Boat people risk all to reach Greece (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Monday 22 October 2007

London is the Place for Me

News from the Welcome to Your Library Email Newsletter:

London is the Place for Me
To 24 Nov 2007
http://www.rivingtonplace.org/
London is the Place for Me looks at migration through photography and moving image. Organised by Iniva (Inst of International Visual Arts) and Autograph ABP to mark the launch of Rivington Place, it explores the presence of the many different diasporic communities living in Britain today. On 1 Nov there is a screening of short films by UK based artists who reflect on returning to their birth place while others explore the trials and tribulations of arrival by Britain's diverse migrant communities. Featuring work by Helena Appio, Inge Blackman, Nada Prjl and Alia Syed, followed by discussion.

news Stories (22/10/07)

Asylum-seekers 'are left to starve' in Britain (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Anger at call for police to search more black people (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Case reveals tragedy of immigrant sex slaves (The Independent Online) - [text online]

'Racist' campaign pays off in Swiss poll (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Rules of law (The Guardian Online) - [text online]

Britain's tough treatment of migrants (The Guardian Online) - [text online]

Extra £500 on offer to failed asylum seekers (The Guardian Online) - [text online]

Poll boost for Swiss right-wing (BBC News Online) - [text online]

Friday 19 October 2007

Disasters ToC

A new tables of contents for the Disasters journal has been released by Blackwell Synergy and is available online at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/disa/0/0?

Details of the articles included are as follows:

Disasters


Orginal Articles

The impact of disasters on small business disaster planning: a case study

David T. Flynn

Designing new institutions for implementing integrated disaster risk management: key elements and future directions

Chennat Gopalakrishnan and Norio Okada

Urbanisation and flood vulnerability in the peri-urban interface of Mexico City

Fernando Aragón-Durand

Immediate and long-term assistance following the bombing of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania

Saade Abdallah, Rebekah Heinzen and Gilbert Burnham

Learning from others: the scope and challenges for participatory disaster risk assessment

Mark Pelling

Information technologies and the sharing of disaster knowledge: the critical role of professional culture

Fausto Marincioni

Effects of the tsunami on fisheries and coastal livelihood: a case study of tsunami-ravaged southern Sri Lanka

Dr D.A.M. De Silva and Professor Masahiro Yamao

Impediments to recovery in New Orleans' Upper and Lower Ninth Ward: one year after Hurricane Katrina

Rebekah Green, Lisa K. Bates, and Andrew Smyth

Earthquake survivors' quality of life and academic achievement six years after the earthquakes in Marmara, Turkey

Esra Ceyhan and A. Aykut Ceyhan

Managing volunteers: FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue programme and interactions with unaffiliated responders in disaster response

Lauren E. Barsky, Joseph E. Trainor, Manuel R. Torres and Benigno. E. Aguirre

Comparison of the expectations of residents and rescue providers of community emergency medical response after mudslide disasters

Carlos Lam, Mau-Roung Lin, Shin-Han Tsai, Cheuk-Sing Choy, Wen-Ta Chiu

Still falling short: protection and partnerships in the Lebanon emergency response

David Shearer and Francine Pickup

Strategic planning for post-disaster temporary housing

Cassidy Johnson

News (19/10/07)

Selected news stories:

Robert Fisk: Secret armies pose sinister new threat to Lebanon (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Swiss anti-foreigner party set to make election gains (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Voices from the past heard online as world's digital archive nears fruition (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Investing in local integration in Turkmenistan (UNHCR Online) - [text online]

Almost 100 Roma return to Kosovo city (UNHCR Online) - [text online]

Fire destroys UNHCR tents worth US$1 million in Syria depot (UNHCR Online) - [text online]

Congo warlord flown to The Hague (BBC Online News) - [text online]

Thursday 18 October 2007

News Stories (18/10/07)

Selected Online News Stories (18/10/07):

Aid halted after UN food chief kidnapped (Times Online) - [text online]

UN stops Somalia food aid after gunmen seize official (Independent Online) - [text online]

Museum drops race row scientist (BBC Online) - [text online]

Leading Burmese dissidents freed (BBC Online) - [text online]

MPs warning about 'worker vacuum' (BBC Online) - [text online]

In a muddle on migration (Guardian Online) - [text online]

Housing project brings hope to refugees in Caucasus (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Wednesday 17 October 2007

Publications

Evidence from our regional consultation on the impacts of migration (BBC) - Full text online available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/17_10_07_migration.pdf

The joint Treasury, Home Office and Work and Pensions study on The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Immigration. The report is available full text online at: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2007/10/16/Economic.pdf

News Stories (17/10/07)

Motivated immigrants fill skills gap and solve labour shortages (The Times Online) - [text online]


Home Office: migrants work harder, earn more and pay more tax than Britons (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Legal Opinion: Has
Britain been complicit in a US torture programme? (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Ethiopia's 'own Darfur' as villagers flee government-backed violence (The Independent Online) - [text online]

Migrants are a boon to UK economy, says study (Guardian Online) - [text online]

Migrants - the verdict: hardworking and skilled but with social problems in tow (Guardian Online) - [text online]

Minority and faith groups can help cohesion (Guardian Online) - [text online]

UK better off with immigration, report shows (Guardian Online) - [text online]

Migration 'causes pressure in UK' (BBC News Online) - [text online]

Bashir holds S Sudan crisis talks (BBC News Online) - [text online]

UNHCR resources redeployed to Mauritania (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR helps Roma group find a new home in Montenegro - [text online]

Tuesday 16 October 2007

UNHCR News Stories

UNHCR helps Palestinians mark Eid in Baghdad (UNHCR Online) - [online text]

UNHCR helps women raise their voice in Somalia's Puntland (UNHCR Online) - [online text]

Monday 15 October 2007

New Stories (15/10/07).

Britain ranks highly in survey on immigration (The Independent) - [text online]

Britain could do more to help immigrants, says study (Guardian Online) - [text online]

South Sudanese present demands (BBC News) - [text online]

Sweden top for welcoming migrants (BBC News) - [text online]

UN concern over Sri Lanka rights (BBC News) - [text online]






Friday 12 October 2007

News Stories (12 Oct 2007)

Junta told that UN 'deplores' Burmese violence (The Indeoendent) - [online text]

Robert Fisk: A reign of terror which history has chosen to neglect (The Independent) - [online text]

Turkey recalls ambassador after US vote on Armenian 'genocide' (The Independent) - [online text]

East Europeans reach the parts others can't (Guardian Online) - [online text]

Sudan's southern rebels walk out (BBC Online) - [online text]

UN Security Council rebukes Burma (BBC Online) - [online text]

Foreign mission raises hopes for better security in eastern Chad (UNHCR News) - [online text]

Queen Noor joins UNHCR training for outreach volunteers in Jordan (UNHCR News) - [online text]

UNHCR condemns Sudan’s recent deportation of Ethiopian refugees (UNHCR News) - [online text]

Refuge and Rejection Issue #4 Release

The fourth edition of the online Journal Refuge and Rejection has now been made available on the Arizona State University web site at: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/proj/refugee/

In this issue:
Dr. Dirk Hoerder, "Refugee Generating States, Global Inequalities, Feminization, and Individual Strategies: An Assessment at the Beginning of the 21st Century," with comments by Marlou Schrover and Tycho Walaardt

Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov, "The Resettlement of Soviet-Russian Displaced Persons and the Policies of 'Fidelity'"

An interview with artist and photographer, Sama Alshaibi

Dr. Brian Gratton, "You Don't Have to Live like a Refugee"

Thursday 11 October 2007

News Stories (11 Oct. 2007)

Details of selected news stories from the UK press:

Only now, the full horror of Burmese junta's repression of monks emerges (The Independent) - [online text]

PM's offer to look 'sympathetically' at asylum cases gives hope to Lay Naing (The Independent) - [online text]

US judge rules Guantanamo inmate cannot be deported (The Independent) - [online text]

Bush and Congress dispute Armenian 'genocide' status (The Independent) - [online text]

Afghanistan refugees fight to stay in camps (The Independent) - [online text]

France's first immigration museum opens (The Guardian) - [online text]

UK population breaks through 60m barrier (The Guardian) - [online text]

Turkey condemns US Armenia vote (BBC News Online) - [online text]

Wars in Africa wipe out aid gains (BBC News Online) - [online text]

Handicrafts expertise helps resettled refugee make good in Brazil (UNHCR News) - [online text]

From the Blogs:

Asylum - an Inside Story from Iraq (ICAR Blog) - [online text]

Monitoring Conferences (FMO Blog) - [online text]


Wednesday 10 October 2007

New FMO LIst of Publications and Journals

The following list of publications was distributed through the FMO Jiscmail email list and I recommend this as a very useful tool especially for students to keep up-to-date with current information and development within the forced migration field. Further information can be found at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html

Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events and opportunities, and web sites/tools.

**Please note that long URLs may break into two lines in some mail readers. Cut
and paste each line of the URL, if this happens.**


**Online Articles/Publications**

Access to health care and human rights of asylum seekers in Malta: Experiences, results and recommendations (Médecins du Monde, 2007) -
http://www.jrsmalta.org/MdM2007_Report.pdf

Asylum Disparities Persist, Regardless of Court Location and Nationality (TRAC,
Sept. 2007) - http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/183/

Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries: Second Quarter 2007
(UNHCR, Sept. 2007) - http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/46f0e0dd2.pdf

The building blocks of sustainable peace: The views of internally displaced
people in Northern Uganda, Oxfam Briefing Paper 106 (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/conflict_disasters/downloads/bp106_nuganda.pdf

Charting the Roads to Peace: Facts, Figures and Trends in Conflict Resolution
(Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EMAE-76ZRRE?OpenDocument (via
ReliefWeb)

Civilians in the way of conflict: Displaced people in Sri Lanka (IDMC, Sept.
2007) - http://tinyurl.com/yo9fmq

Dealing with the Past in Post-Conflict Societies: Ten Years after the Peace
Accords - in Guatemala and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Swiss Peace Annual Conference,
Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-77CDU9?OpenDocument
(via ReliefWeb)

Determining the Best Interests of Unaccompanied and Separated Children: Lessons
from Guinea (International Rescue Committee, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-77CSAW?OpenDocument (via
ReliefWeb)

"Drug Donations in Emergencies, the Sri Lankan post-tsunami experience," by R.
Hechmann, Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (26 Sept. 2007) -
http://jha.ac/2007/09/26/drug-donations-in-emergencies-the-sri-lankan-post-tsunami-experience/

Dynamics of Conflict and Displacement in Papua, Indonesia: A collection of
papers developed in conjunction with a one-day workshop held on the 26th
October 2006 at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, RSC Working Paper no. 42 (RSC,
Sept. 2007) - http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/RSCworkingpaper42.pdf

Fighting HIV/AIDS together with refugees and internally displaced populations:
Summary of 2006 UNHCR Missions (UNHCR, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/47010d3b2.pdf

Getting the Policies Right: The Prioritization and Sequencing of Policies in
Post-Conflict Countries, by A. R. Timilsina (RAND Dissertation, 2007) -
http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD222/

Impact Assessment of the Gokwe Integrated Recovery Action Project Zimbabwe
(Feinstein International Center, August 2007) -
http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/JohnZimbabwe_10_2_07.pdf

International Law Commission: Report on the work of its fifty-ninth session (7
May to 5 June and 9 July to 10 August 2007), A/62/10; see esp. Chapter
6, “Expulsion of Aliens” (UN, 2007) -
http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/reports/2007/2007report.htm

Iraq: Human rights abuses against Palestinian refugees (Amnesty International,
Oct. 2007) - http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140302007

Meeting the Health Needs of Iraqis Displaced in Neighbouring Countries: Joint
Appeal by UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and WHO (18 Sept. 2007) -
http://www.who.int/hac/crises/irq/appeal/iraq_neighbours_appeal_18sep07.pdf

Millions in Flight: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis (Amnesty International, 24 Sept.
2007) - http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140412007

Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2008: Report to Congress (U.S.
State Dept., Sept. 2007) -
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/91978.pdf

Rapporteur’s Report: UNHCR’s Annual Consultations with NGOs (28 Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/ngo-consultations/report_rapporteur_2007.pdf

Real-time Evaluations of UNHCR's Involvement in Operations for Internally
Displaced Persons and the Cluster Approach: Analysis of Findings,
EC/58/SC/CRP.23 (EXCOM Standing Committee, August 2007) -
http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/JohnZimbabwe_10_2_07.pdf

"Redesigning the ReliefWeb," by S. Naidoo, in Information Management Journal
(Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/TBRL-77ENDF?OpenDocument

Report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security, S/2007/567 (12
Sept. 2007) -
http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/02102007020619PMUNRP92.htm
(via UN Pulse)

Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and
Armed Conflict, A/62/228 (Aug. 2007) - http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/25092007120542PMMVALVP.htm
(via UN Pulse)

Reports and Documents for the 58th Executive Committee Plenary Session, 1 - 5
October 2007 - http://www.unhcr.org/excom/46fb6c122.html

Rights Here, Rights Now: Recommendations for Protecting Trafficked Children
(ECPAT UK & UNICEF UK, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.ecpat.org.uk/downloads/RightsHere_RightsNow.pdf

Singled Out: Russia’s Detention and Expulsion of Georgians (Human Rights Watch,
Oct. 2007) - http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/09/30/russia16977.htm

"Where to Now? Decreasing Options for Displaced Iraqis," by A. Harper,
Migration Information Source (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=644

Zambia: Analysis of the Gaps in Protection of Refugees (UNHCR, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/46f26f974.pdf

**Journals/Newsletters**

Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 16, no. 4 (2007) -
http://tinyurl.com/2agl97 (contents)

Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 30, no. 5 (2007) -
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g781042901~db=all (contents)

European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 9, no. 3 (2007) -
http://tinyurl.com/28vj7u (contents)

Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 20 (Spring 2007) -
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/current/ (full-text)

Hommes et Migrations, no. 1266 (mars/avril 2007) -
http://www.hommes-et-migrations.fr/ (contents, selected full-text)
- Focus is on "Nouvelles figures de l’immigration en France et en Méditerranée."

International Migration, vol. 45, no. 4 (Oct. 2007) -
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/imig/45/4 (contents)

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 33, no. 8 (2007) -
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g782809369~db=all (contents)

Migration Letters, vol. 4, no. 2 (Oct. 2007) -
http://www.migrationletters.com/content.html (full-text)
- Special issue on "Migration and Human Security in the Balkans."

The Researcher, vol. 2, no. 3 (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.ecoi.net/news/28.welcome-to-the-seventh-issue-of-the-researcher.htm
(full-text)

Torture Journal, vol. 17, no. 2 (2007) -
http://www.irct.org/Default.aspx?ID=3553 (full-text)
- Shared reports from the IRCT Symposium on Torture, the theme for which
was "Providing Reparation and Treatment, Preventing Impunity."

**Events & Opportunities**

International Day for Disaster Reduction, 10 October 2007 -
http://www.unisdr.org/eng/public_aware/world_camp/2006-2007/iddr/2007-iddr.htm
- This year’s theme is “Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School.”

Launch of Human Development Report 2007/2008, 27 November 2007 -
http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2007.cfm

**Web Sites/Tools**

Country of Return Information Project -
http://www.vluchtelingenwerk.be/projecten/cri.php
- See “Country Sheets.”

Ibrahim Index of African Governance -
http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/the-index.asp
- Assessment of governance quality in Sub-Saharan Africa.


Elisa Mason
Information Specialist
http://fm-cab.blogspot.com

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Journal of Refugee Studies - Table of Contents

A new table of contents (TOC) for the latest edition of the Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 20 Number 3, (September 2007), is now available online via the Oxford Journals website at: The UEL Docklands Library has a current subscription to this journal and both hard copy and electronic access (via the Library catalogue) will be made available in due course.

Details form Oxford Journals:

Journal of Refugee Studies special issue: Methodologies of Forced
Migration Research

To mark the journal’s 20th anniversary and the 25th anniversary
of the founding of the Refugee Studies Centre, this issue brings
together contributions from noted scholars about the approaches
we adopt, the research frames and tools we use, and the role we
have as researchers. Its aim is to provide an overview of debates
in the field, to revisit key terms, to conceptualize the
particularities of refugee research as an interdisciplinary field
of study, and to identify emerging trends.

For more information on this special issue, please visit:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/2963/1

**************************Announcement***************************

Journal of Refugee Studies Table of Contents Alert

A new issue of Journal of Refugee Studies is available online:
September 2007; Vol. 20, No. 3
The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol20/issue3/index.dtl

Report
Can We Talk and Is Anybody Listening? Reflections on IASFM 10, ‘Talking Across Borders: New Dialogues in Forced Migration’
Loren B. Landau
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:335-348.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/335

Debate
Forced Migration Studies: Could We Agree Just to ‘Date’?
James C. Hathaway
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:349-369.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/349
Response to Hathaway
Roberta Cohen
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:370-376.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/370
To Date or To Marry: That is the Question
Howard Adelman and Susan McGrath
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:376-380.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/376
Response to Hathaway
Josh DeWind
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:381-385.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/381
Rejoinder
James C. Hathaway
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:385-390.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/385

Articles
Supporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Glasgow: The Role of Multi-agency Networks
Karen Wren
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:391-413.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/391
Meaning or Measurement? Researching the Social Contexts of Health and Settlement among Newly-arrived Refugee Youth in Melbourne, Australia
Sandra M. Gifford, Christine Bakopanos, Ida Kaplan, and Ignacio Correa-Velez
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:414-440.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/414
Living in Religious Time and Space: Iraqi Refugees in Dearborn, Michigan
Marwa Shoeb, Harvey M. Weinstein, and Jodi Halpern
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:441-460.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/441
Refugee Camp Economies
Eric Werker
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:461-480.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/461
Sharing the Burden: The Role of Government and NGOs in Protecting and Providing for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Japan
Meryll Dean and Miki Nagashima
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:481-508.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/481
Convention Plus as a Norm-Setting Exercise
Alexander Betts and Jean-François Durieux
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:509-535.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/509

Book Reviews
Catching Fire: Containing Complex Displacement in a Volatile World. Edited by Nicholas Van Hear and Chris McDowell. • The Uprooted: Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration. By Susan F. Martin, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Kari M. Jorgensen, Andrew Schoenholtz and Lydia Mann-Bondat.
Anna Schmidt
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:536-539.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/536
Trafficking and the Global Sex Industry. Edited by Karen Beeks and Delila Amir.
Susan Kneebone
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:539-542.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/539
Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Contemporary World. By David J. Whittaker. • Refugees in a Global Era. By Philip Marfleet.
Natalie Ondiak
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:542-546.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/542
Proof, Evidentiary Assessment and Credibility in Asylum Procedures. Edited by Gregor Noll.
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:546-548.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/546
Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement. By Wendy Everett and Peter Wagstaff.
David Turton
Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:548-549.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/548

News Stories (10 Oct. 2007)

Selection of Online News Stories from the UK Press:

Interpreters can choose cash for resettlement or new life in UK (The Times) - [Text Online]


Swiss election descends into bitter racism row (The Times) - [Text Online]

Sudanese troops behind fatal attack on peacekeepers, says Darfur rebel chief (The Independent) - [Text Online]

Overseas Aid: Aid package stays true to £9bn promise made at G8 (The Independent) - [Text Online]

MPs question new passport costs (BBC News Online) - [Text Online]

Doors closing on Iraqi displaced (BBC News Online) - [Text Online]

Clashes between allies in Darfur (BBC News Online) - [Text Online]

Polar bear sock snack helps raise US$20,000 for UNHCR (UNHCR News) - [Text Online]

Determined Zimbabweans flow into South Africa (UNHCR News) - [Text Online]

Families settle in Afghan's Baghlan province after years on the road (UNHCR News) - [Text Online]

UNHCR deeply concerned after fire in Iraq's Al Tanf desert camp (UNHCR News) - [Text Online]


News from around the Blogs:

From the field: Zimbabweans in South Africa (Refugees International) - [Text Online]

Tuesday 9 October 2007

Reminder - Useful Blogs

Just a quick reminder that it is always worth keeper an eye on the various blogs listed below as they provide a good source of current and updated refugee and forced migration issues:

Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – [link]

Refugee Council Poliblog – [link]

Forced Migration Online Blog – [link]

ICAR Blog – [link]

World:bridge : The Refugees International Blog – [link]

UN Pulse – [link]

UNHCR: 2007 Executive Committee Meeting

The 58th Session of the UNHCR Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme took place in Geneva between Monday 1 and Friday 5 October 2007. Items for discussion included the review and approve the agency's programmes and budgets and to advise on protection related matters.

Documents and Resources from the 58th Session can be downloaded from the UNHCR Website at: http://www.unhcr.org/excom/46fb6c122.html

Tuesday 2 October 2007

New Online Publications

New List of Online Publications posted in the FMO Current Awareness Blog at: http://fm-pubs.blogspot.com/

Special edition of Sexualities Journal:- Volume 10, Number (October 2007). Table of Contents included at: http://sexualities.sagepub.com/content/vol10/issue4/?etoc

... and includes the following article: Questioning Solidarity: Outreach with Migrants Who Sell Sex Laura Maria Agustin Sexualities 2007;10 519-534 at: <http://sexualities.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/4/519?etoc>