New Web Resources

Audit Commission website on migrant workers
http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/migrantworkers/

This website expands on the Audit Commission’s report Crossing Borders published in 2007, which looked at the varying impact that the increase in migration for work has had in different parts of England. The website includes additional and expanded case study material, with a particular focus on data issues and on engaging with migrant workers themselves. One of the case studies (no 11) looks at changes to Cumbria’s library service. (Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest – http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/).

UNHCR Statistics Update:

We are pleased to inform you that updated statistics on monthly asylum
applications submitted in selected industrialised countries are now
available. The data, which include country totals as well as selected
countries of origin, cover the period from January to June 2008 and refer to
44 countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania. The data have been
posted on the UNHCR Statistics website (www.unhcr.org/statistics) under
ASYLUM TRENDS.

Iraqis in Egypt Website:

Since the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003, almost 2.5 million Iraqis
have fled their homes to seek asylum in neighbouring countries.
Now Iraqis in Egypt brings you the first ever in-depth online resource
into one of these refugee populations. Close to 150,000 refugees from Iraq are now trapped in Egypt. They have little hope of integration and no home to return to.

Iraqis in Egypt:

We are an association of journalists, filmmakers, artists and researchers working together with the Iraqi community of Egypt to bring world attention to this unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

Visit iraqisinegypt.org now for the latest media releases, films, podcasts and more.
http://www.iraqisinegypt.org/. Contact us on: info@iraqisinegypt.org

IDMC: Interactive Senegal photo gallery

A photo gallery showing villages affected by internal displacement in Senegal's Casamance region is now available to view. Estimates of the number of people internally displaced in the region range between 10,000 and 70,000. Although armed attacks against civilians along the southern border with Guinea-Bissau were reported in the first few months of 2008, people have continued to return to their homes where possible.

The pictures, taken by photographer Martin Evans, show some of the challenges and successes of the villages' reconstruction. View the gallery
(Source: IDMC - http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

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