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Events and Websites

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Events

The Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford invites you to:

'No Peace of Mind: Stories of displacement in the Democratic Republic of
Congo'

Join us for a photo exhibition showcasing stunning images from
photojournalists and field practitioners highlighting the effects of the
lengthy conflict in the DRC on individuals and communities.

Please see: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/DRCPhotoExhibition.pdf for more
information.

Where: University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4BJ
When: 1-14 December 2010 (9 am to 5 pm)

For more information, please contact Héloïse Ruaudel: rscpolicy@qeh.ox.ac.uk

(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html)

Websites

Economics of Migration - http://www.ippr.org/research/teams/project.asp?id=1452

IPPR have just pulled together all their work on migration - very useful starting-off point.

(Source: Network Bulletin - http://www.seapn.org.uk/)

MigrationOxford website launched

The University of Oxford is a world-leader in the study of international migration, whether forced or voluntary. We are happy to announce the launch of a new website which showcases this work: MigrationOxford
(www.migration.ox.ac.uk).

MigrationOxford has been developed by three collaborating centres in the Social Sciences Division: Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), the Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS) and the International Migration Institute (IMI).

MigrationOxford provides:

* A downloadable calendar of migration-related events across the University
* A list of all academics within the University who have an interest in
international migration
* An introduction to the University's portfolio of research into the
causes and effects of migration
* Information about migration-related teaching programmes within the
University
* Links to the latest publications for policy, practitioner and academic
audiences

Please send all replies to: migration@socsci.ox.ac.uk

(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html)

New Publications and Journal Volumes

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New reports and publications detailed from the Institute of Race Relations:

The IRR has published its: 'Annual Report 2010'.
Download the report at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/IRR_Annual_Report_2010.pdf (pdf file, 832kb)

The Campaign Against Criminalising Communities has published a number of briefing papers on communities affected by anti-terror laws. Download the briefing paper 1 on: 'The Tamils of Sri Lanka - oppressed at home and persecuted in the UK'.
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/CAMPACC_Tamils.pdf (pdf file, 220kb)

Download briefing paper 2 on: 'Baluchistan under state terror: The UK: ban on the Baluchistan Liberation Army' at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/CAMPACC_baluch.pdf (pdf file, 380kb)

Download briefing paper 3 on: 'Euskal Herria: The struggle for independence in the Basque Country and the impact of 'terrorist' bans'.
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/CAMPACC_basque.pdf (pdf file, 348kb)

Download briefing paper 4 on: 'The UK ban on the PKK: Persecuting the Kurds'.
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/CAMPACC_kurds.pdf (pdf file, 348kb)

Migreurop has published a report on: 'European borders: Controls, detention and deportations, 2009/2010 Report'.
Download the report at:
http://www.migreurop.org/IMG/pdf/rapport-migreurop-2010-en_-_2-121110.pdf (pdf file, 7.9mb)

Research Development Statistics at the Home Office has published information on: 'Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers, by age and place of initial detention, (excluding Harwich), October 2010'.
Download the information at:
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html

Research Development Statistics at the Home Office has published:' Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom - Third Quarter 2010'.
Download the information at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/immiq310.pdf (pdf file, 1.1mb)

The UK Border Agency has published guidance following the Pankina judgment: 'Points-based system' - Maintenance (funds): Policy document'.
Download the guidance at:
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/news/pbs-pol-guid-maintenance.pdf (pdf, file, 189kb)

The Migration Advisory Committee has published a report on: 'Limits on Migration: Limits on Tier 1 and Tier 2 for 2011/12 and supporting policies'.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/aboutus/workingwithus/mac/mac-limits-t1-t2/report.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 3mb)

Research Development Statistics at the Home Office has published a statistical bulletin: 'Public perceptions of policing, engagement with the police and victimisation: Findings from the 2009/10 British Crime Survey: Supplementary Volume 1 to Crime in England and Wales 2009/10'.
Download the statistical bulletin at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/hosb1910.pdf (pdf file, 672kb)

Announced inspection of Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre carried out
between 21 and 25 June 2010 and

Unannounced short follow-up inspection of Oakington Immigration Reception
Centre carried out between 2 and 5 August 2010.

Available at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/inspectorates/hmi-prisons/immigration-removal-centre-inspections.htm

The 2010 IOM World Migration Report
(Source: IOM - http://www.iom.int/)

The 2010 World Migration Report has been launched yesterday in Geneva.
The full report can be downloaded for free from
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=
37&products_id=653&language=en

The report, "The Future of Migration: Building Capacities for Change", argues that in a world where demographics, economic needs and the effects of environmental change are driving the inexorable rise in numbers of international migrants, governments and non-state actors have little choice but to invest adequate financial and human resources to ensure States, societies and migrants reap the full potential of future migration.

On November 29th, IOM will release its fifth World Migration report, entitled "The Future of Migration: Building Capacities for Change." The World Migration Report 2010, draws upon the findings of 19 background papers which are released separately today. The background papers, prepared by distinguished migration experts focus on a range of different policy themes and geographical regions, providing a global perspective on the future of migration, and the capacities which are likely to be needed to manage migration successfully in the coming years.

Future Trends in Migration: Global Outlook

"The Future of Migration Policies in Africa" by Aderanti Adepoju

"The Future of Migration Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region" by Graeme Hugo

"The Future of Migration Policies in the Americas" by Agustín Escobar Latapí

"The Future of European Migration: Policy Options for the European Union and its Member States" by Rainer Münz and Elizabeth Collett

"Building Capacity to Manage Labour Mobility in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries" by Mohamed Dito

"Building State Capacities for Managing Contract Worker Mobility: The Asia – GCC Context" by Nasra Shah

"The Future of Migration Policies in the Caribbean" by Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Migration Governance

"Migration Governance: Alternative Futures" by Alexander Betts

"Irregular Migration and Mixed Flows" by Ryszard Cholewinski

"The Global Economic Crisis and Governance of Human Mobility: Can We Turn the Current Crisis Into a Global Opportunity for the Future?" by Bimal Gosh

"The Future of Migration Governance and Regional Consultative Processes" by Randall Hansen and Jobst Koehler

"The Future of Labour Migration Costs" by Philip Martin

Migration and its Linkages with Employment, Health, Integration and Development

"The Future of Diaspora Policy" by Dovelyn Agunias

"The Future of Integration Policy" by Thomas Huddleston

"Family Migration Issues in North-East Asia" by Hye-Kyung Lee

"Future Capacity Needs in Managing the Health Aspects of Migration" by Greg Irving and Davide Mosca

"The Future of Health Worker Migration" by Binod Khadria

"Welfare Provision for Migrants: Current Trends and Future Challenges" by Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

Climate Change and Environmental Degradation: Migration as an Adaptation Strategy

"Climate Change and International Migration" by Susan Martin

New Updated reports from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC):

(Source: IDMC - http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Nigeria: Simmering tensions cause new displacement in the “middle belt”
Read the Overview (html / pdf)

Central African Republic: Security remains fragile ahead of UN troop withdrawal and presidential election
Read the Overview (html / pdf)

Government of Chad must protect internally displaced women from violence
Read the (full) press release
Download (full and summary versions of) the report
More on internal displacement in Chad

Kalimantan/Indonesia: New ethnic-related displacement while earlier IDPs struggle to make return sustainable
Read the Overview (html / pdf)

The following information was detailed in the ICAR Weekly Update for the 3 December 2010:
(Source ICAR Weekly Update - http://www.icar.org.uk/?lid=13007)

Repatriation and belonging on the borders of Uganda and South Sudan

IRRI's Senior Researcher Lucy Hovil has written UNHCR's latest working paper on the process of repatriation of Southern Sudanese refugees in Uganda. While the official repatriation process continues, the paper demonstrates that refugees are creating their own durable solutions through a combination of economic and social integration and ongoing movement in and out of Sudan. The paper explores both the process of official repatriation and the practical survival strategies and how to create better resonance between the two.

Read the full paper at http://www.unhcr.org/4cf5018b1.pdf

Please send all replies to: admin@refugee-rights.org

International Refugee Rights Initiative - www.refugee-rights.org

(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html)

UK Data Sources on International Migration and the Migrant Population by Alessio Cangiano. COMPAS Resource Paper.

Estimates of population numbers for 2004 to 2009 by country of birth and nationality from the Annual Population Survey (APS), published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)

2010 High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges: Background Paper: Protection Gaps and Responses (Rev.1)

Report of the Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency: An Inspection of the Civil Penalties Compliance Team - Illegal Working

European borders: Controls, detention and deportations, 2009/2010 By Migreurop

World Migration Report 2010. The Future of Migration: Building Capacities for Change, IOM, 26 November 2010

Home Office Research Development Statistics published:

Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom - Third Quarter 2010 . Also available: Main excel tables Q3 2010 and Supplementary excel tables Q3 2010.
Monthly Asylum Statistics - September 2010
Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers, by age and place of initial detention, (excluding Harwich), October 2010
Home Office Statistical Findings 1/10 - Racist Incidents, England and Wales, 2009/10

Tables published via Parliamentary questions on:

UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2009 published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Migration Advisory Committee report: Limits on Migration: limits for Tier 1 and Tier 2 for 2011/12 and supporting policies See also BBC coverage

Target-setting for improving the socio-economic situation of migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe (Monitoring the situation of migrants and ethnic minorities - Part 2) is a new report from the European Network Against Racism (ENAR).

Asylum Appellate Project: final report of 3 year project exploring the refusal of publicly funded legal representation to asylum seekers at appeal. See also article on the report in PAFRAS newsletter

The coming of the stranger: asylum seekers, trust and hospitality in a British city by Goodall, Christine in New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 195 (UNHCR).

Publications Taken from the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog (Source: http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/):

Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Environmental Migration: A Policy Perspective (IOM, Dec. 2010) [text via ReliefWeb]

Ending Internal Displacement: The Long-term IDPs in Sri Lanka, Working Paper, no. 66 (RSC, Nov. 2010) [text]

Flowing into the State: Returning Refugee Youth and Citizenship in Angola, Working Paper, no. 68 (RSC, Dec. 2010) [text]

Iraq Special Focus Reports: Female Headed Households (IOM, Nov. 2010) [text]
- See also related IRIN story.

Negotiating Childhood: Age Assessment in the UK Asylum System, Working Paper, no. 67 (RSC, Nov. 2010) [text]

Perspectives of the EU Asylum System (European People's Party, Dec. 2010) [text]
- See related ECRE comment.

"Refugees in Kenya," CE DAT Scene, no. 15 (Nov. 2010) [text]

The Struggle for Belonging: Forming and Reforming Identities among 1.5-generation Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Working Paper, no. 70 (RSC, Dec. 2010) [text]

Tony Blair's Asylum Policies: The Narratives and Conceptualisations at the Heart of New Labour's Restrictionism, Working Paper, no. 69 (RSC, Dec. 2010) [text]

Access to Protection Denied: Refoulement of Refugees and Minors on the Eastern Borders of the EU – The Case of Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine (Border Monitoring Project Ukraine, Nov. 2010) [text]

Displaced Iraqis: Integrated International Strategy Needed to Reintegrate Iraq’s Internally Displaced and Returning Refugees (GAO, Dec. 2010) [text]

Isolated in Detention: Limited Access to Legal Counsel in Immigration Detention Facilities Jeopardizes a Fair Day in Court (National Immigrant Justice Center, Sept. 2010) [text]
- In UK context, see also "New restrictions on legal support for asylum detainees."

Hoping for Peace, Afraid of War: The Dilemmas of Repatriation and Belonging on the Borders of Uganda and South Sudan, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 196 (UNHCR, Nov. 2010) [text]

2010 High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, Background Paper: Protection Gaps and Challenges (UNHCR, Nov. 2010) [text]

Fit for the Future? Strengthening the Leadership Pillar of Humanitarian Reform (NGOs and Humanitarian Reform Project, Nov. 2010) [text]

News Stories

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Guardian Online (07/12/2010): Government confirms plans to curb international student numbers

Telegraph Online (07/12/2010): Foreign students forced to go home after studies under tough new immigration rules

Guardian Online (07/12/2010): Cross-party MPs voice 'profound concern' to Theresa May over plans to bar foreign students

Independent Online (07/12/2010): MP's assistant is fighting deportation

Human Rights Watch (06/12/2010): Greece: End Inhumane Detention Conditions for Migrants

Telegraph Online (06/12/2010): Foreign student crackdown

Telegraph Online (04/12/2010): Government to review future of immigration advisers

Human Rights Watch (04/12/2010): Burma: Eyewitness Accounts of Abuses in Eastern Fighting

Amnesty International (03/12/2010): IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTER CONDEMNED FOR DEMANDING EXECUTION OF AL-QAI’DA SUSPECTS

Guardian Online (01/12/2010): Nick Clegg to announce timetable for ending child detentions

UKBA (30/11/2010): Child asylum cases

ICRC (30/11/2010): Iraq: civilians still suffering undue hardship

Refugee Council (29/11/2010): Young Refugee Council client describes detention ordeal in Dispatches documentary

Refugee Council (29/11/2010): Children in detention: don't miss Dispatches tonight and our live web chat this Thursday

ENAR (29/11/10): Swiss deportation referendum: What would the EU look like if it were adopting similar measures for Swiss citizens residing in the EU?

Amnesty International (28/12/2010): SWISS DEPORTATION REFERENDUM SUCCESS PUTS HUMAN RIGHTS AT RISK

Guardian Online (28/11/2010): To see how fascism can be throttled, look at Barking

Guardian Online (28/11/2010): The Conservatives' immigration cap is a control that seems to suit nobody

Guardian Online (28/11/2010): Croydon asylum centre will be as bad as Yarl's Wood, says charity

Refugee Council (25/11/2010): Refugee Council response to Home Office child detention and asylum stats published today

Independent Online (23/11/10): Migrant workers to be cut by a fifth

CMRB/Runnymede Trust Conference - 'Secularism, Racism and the Politics of Belonging' - 27 January 2011

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Dear colleagues,

Following the highly successful conference 'Migration, Racism and Religion' in February, CMRB and Runnymede Trust are organising a follow up event which aims to explore some of the important themes that emerged from the last event.

The conference will address how questions of race, religion and religious affiliation operate in state policies and civil society in Britain and beyond. It examines how matters of faith are constructed in relation to old and new forms of racism and to other contemporary political projects of belonging. It considers the implications for citizenship and social solidarity in the context of “the Big Society”.

These issues will be examined in relation to specific questions which have occupied the British public in recent years: constructions of “faith communities” in relation to ethnic identities; the place of religion in equality legislation and legal pluralism; debates about dress codes; and the effect of particular forms of religious education, including separate faith schools. This conference will take these issues forward and promises to be highly charged.

Continuing with the inclusive and open format of previous events, this conference brings together academics and researchers, community activists, race equality groups, and leading figures from secular, Christian, Muslim and Jewish organisations.

As before, the event will be free of charge to attend and lunch and refreshments will be provided.

We would ask you to circulate these details to those you feel may be interested in participating in the discussion.

Further details are available at http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/news.htm and will be updated regularly.

Kind regards,

Steve Thorpe

CMRB Administrator
s.thorpe@uel.ac.uk

www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb

Migrants' Rights Network Newsletter

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Migrants' Rights Network (MRN) provide a very useful and informative e-mail newsletter which is available on a weekly basis. It is entitled Migrants Rights News and in the words of MRN:

`Migrants Rights News is an information service which aims to inform our members and other groups working on migration issues related to regional and national policy developments, campaign news, recent research and upcoming events.

It includes a weekly bulletin and additional updates from our blog. The email goes out every Monday. Have a look at a previous issue to see what you're going to get in your mailbox.'

All you need to do is click this link www.migrantsrights.org.uk/about/newsletter and fill in the form.

CMRB Seminars in November

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"Blaming the victims - Sarkozy and the plight of the Roma".

Speaker: Dr Jim Wolfreys, Kings College London.

Wednesday 17 November:2-5pm (Room TBC)

“Muslim Women and Marriage in Trans-jurisdictional Contexts”

Wednesday 24 November: 2-5pm in room EB.G.10

Speaker: Dr Prakash Shah, Queen Mary, University of London

How do immigration officials and judges manage when judging the validity of acts of marriage solemnisation, which take place on transjurisdictional terms? How do we explain their responses? These are some questions raised by this paper, which presents evidence gleaned from the writer’s

own work as an ‘expert’ witness in immigration cases. Two case studies have been selected on the basis that the chief issue in contestation is the validity of a trans-jurisdictional marriage among South Asian Muslims, and therefore raise the issue of whether the marriages are valid according

to Muslim law. The paper also raises some questions for future research, given that we know little as yet about how recognition of minority transjurisdictional marriages takes place across European legal systems and, in particular, the role of experts who get involved in the legal processes in which such marriages are contested.

UEL Docklands Campus is adjecent to Cyprus Station, Docklands Light Railway

Centre for Research for Migration, Refugees and Belonging - www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb

Refugee Academics- Britain as a place of sanctuary November 8th, 5.30pm

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Refugee Academics- Britain as a place of sanctuary November 8^th, 5.30pm

University of East London, Docklands Campus.

Room:East Building 1.04

November 8th, 530-730pm

The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics would like to invite you:

Refugee academics - Britain as a place of sanctuary

Jeremy Seabrook, guest lecturer, renowned author

Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) and the Refugee Studies Programme

University of East London,

November 8th

5.30-7.30pm

Jeremy will be looking at the history of refugee academics in the UK, whilst assessing the role of UK universities in welcoming refugee academics,including questions of academic freedom.

The talk will outline the history of CARA from 1933 to the present and its continuing relevance, as the numbers of academic refugees in the UK increase.

The trials, tribulations and politics of welcoming refugee academics will be highlighted with reference to the many testimonies in CARA's 75thanniversary publication 'The Refugee and the Fortress.'

The talk will be an opportunity to gain further understanding of refugee academics disposition in the UK from the 1930's to today, with the unique perspective of a charitable organizations that started in the UK in 1933.

To RSVP Please email info.cara@lsbu.ac.uk

UEL: Cite Them Right - Online Version

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Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2010) Cite them right: the
essential referencing guide. 8th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Study Skills)

How to access Cite them right off and on campus

· Open the University of East London website at http://www.uel.ac.uk

· Click on UEL DIRECT

· Students

· Type in your network username and password e.g.

· Staff

·
Type your network username and password e.g.

Once you have successfully logged into UEL Direct

· Click on UEL PLUS

·
From UEL PLUS, you have two options to read the book

Option 1 - Under Course List

·
Click on Academic Integrity – Resources for students

· Click on Useful links

· Click on Cite them right.

· The publication will load

Option 2 - Under Campus Bookmarks

· Click on Cite them right

The book will load

New CMRB Events Released

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The Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at UEL have just announced the following events for the 2010 Autumn semester:

Research Seminars:

Thursday 14 October: 2-5pm in room BS.3.04

“What’s happening in political asylum in 2010”?

Speaker: CMRB Visiting Fellow, Prof Carole Bohmer

Competing discourses of protection and control are predominant in present day asylum rhetoric. Satisfying these conflicting goals is impossible; states therefore must find a way to appear to meet both of these goals. How do they do it? This paper will attempt to answer that question and illustrate the sometimes absurd effects of this process, using the cases of the US and the UK which have been the focus of my research.

Wednesday 17 November: 2-5pm in room EB.G.10

"Blaming the victims - Sarkozy and the plight of the Roma".

Speaker: Dr Jim Wolfreys, Kings College London.

Wednesday 24 November: 2-5pm in room EB.G.10

“Muslim Women and Marriage in Trans-jurisdictional Contexts” Speaker: Dr Prakash Shah, Queen Mary, University of London How do immigration officials and judges manage when judging the validity of acts of marriage solemnisation, which take place on trans-jurisdictional terms? How do we explain their responses? These are some questions raised by this paper, which presents evidence gleaned from the writer’s own work as an ‘expert’ witness in immigration cases. Two case studies have been selected on the basis that the chief issue in contestation is the validity of a trans-jurisdictional marriage among South Asian Muslims, and therefore raise the issue of whether the marriages are valid according to Muslim law. The paper also raises some questions for future research, given that we know little as yet about how recognition of minority trans-jurisdictional marriages takes place across European legal systems and, in particular, the role of experts who get involved in the legal processes in which such marriages are contested.

Wednesday 1 December: 2-5pm in room EB.G.10

"Migrants and the security agenda: the global picture".

Speaker: Dr Khalid Koser, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Imaging Migrants Seminar Series

Imaging Migrants seminar series is collaboration between the Centre for

Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB), and Matrix East

Research Lab (MERL).

Monday 15 November: 4.00-5.30pm, Matrix East Research Lab, EB.1.37

"Journeys of Identity and Place"

Speaker: Jill Daniels

I will explore the representation of identity and place in exile and loss in my documentary films Next Year in Lerin (2000) and Lost in Gainesville (2005). The subjects in Next Year in Lerin are Macedonians, who as children were taken without their mothers from northern Greece by the Greek Communist Party during the Greek civil war (1943-1948) and are not

allowed by the Greek State to return to Greece. In Lost in Gainesville subjects from the Mexican diaspora located in a small town in Georgia in the south of the US face racist hostility, leading to the geographical division of place. I will also reflect on the way film may be used in the debate around minoritarian discourse through the way Next Year in Lerin has been taken up by the Macedonian diaspora and Greek nationalists as a tool for political

debate on YouTube.

Monday 29 November 4.00-5.30 pm, Matrix East Research Lab, EB.1.37

Speaker: Agnieszka Piotrowska

Agnieszka Piotrowska is a BBC trained, award winning and highly acclaimed documentary maker, nominated three times for an EMMY as well as for BAFTA for her film about domestic violence (2000). She has been the winner of the Fred Wiseman Master Class Award in Dublin (2005 for her film The Bigamist) as well as receiving distinctions and prizes at other

festivals. Her film last summer The Best Job in the World (BBC1 2009) was the highest rating programme for the whole week across all channels. Her CUTTING EDGE for Channel 4 about domestic violence (2000) has been called a definitive piece on the subject and was nominated for BAFTA. Her recent work includes a highly acclaimed documentary about a co-dependent relationship between anorexic female twins: Trapped by Mytwin (A Cutting

Edge for Channel 4) and a film about women who fall in love with objects and not people: Married to the Eiffel Tower (2008) which has become a cult documentary all over the world. She will show us clips of her films and talk about migrating both internal and external.

Monday 6th December 4.00-530pm, Martix East Research Lab, EB.1.37

"Digitizing Palestinian refugee narratives"

Speaker: Dr John Nassari

This session will explore the role of multi-media interactive technologies in the representation of Palestinian life and history in refugee camps in Lebanon. The session will examine work I produced in 2007-2008 that presents refugee camps in 360-degree QuickTime panoramas. The viewer navigates from alleyways to alleyways to homes where three generations of Palestinian refugees tell their life histories. The session will explore

methodological challenges of representing refugee lives.

Monday 13 December: 4.00-5.30pm, Matrix East Research Lab, EB.1.37

"The Powerless Image."

Speaker: Dr Anat Pick

The post-Soviet films of Artur Aristakisyan include some of the most striking images of poverty and up-rootedness of recent cinema. These images, however, function neither as documentary evidence of nor even as a bearing witness to post-Soviet realities. Pitted against the revolutionary modernism of Vertov and Eisenstein, I read Aristakisyan's cinema as an articulation of a paradox at the heart of leftist emancipatory politics: the desire for justice as sovereignty without power.

Spring and Summer Events 2011

Full dates and details to follow. However, in the new-year there will be a

conference on ‘Secularism, Racism and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’, jointly organized with the Runnymede Trust. In addition, CMRB will be in collaboration with the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University, organizing a seminar series dealing with key conceptual issues in forced migration.

Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging - www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb

Archive Opening Hours for Semester A, 2010

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The opening hours for the Refugee Archives for Semester A in 2010 will be as follows:

Mondays: 10am - 6pm

Tuesdays: 10am - 6pm

Wednesdays: 10am - 6pm

Thursdays: 1pm - 4.30pm
(Mornings by Appointment Only)

Fridays: 10am - 1pm

Saturdays: Closed

Sundays: Closed

If you have any enquiries, then please contact us at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk or 020 8223 7676.

News Stories

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UK News

Reuters Africa (09/07/2010): British photographer wins UN refugee agency prize

The Guardian (09/07/2010): Sex, state and church: conflicting attitudes in Iran, Cameroon and the UK

The Independent (09/07/2010): The frantic last days in power of Labour's immigration minister

The Independent (08/07/2010): Six years in jail, no charge: the war on terror's forgotten victim speaks

The Independent (08/07/2010): Why the Supreme Court ruled against the deportation of gay asylum-seekers

Refugees International (07/07/2010): Internally Displaced: Not an Afterthought

The Guardian (07/07/2010): Gay refugees must get asylum, rule judges

The Guardian (07/07/2010): Labour must stay committed to civil liberties

The Guardian (07/07/2010): Gay asylum seekers win protection from deportation

Refugee Council (07/07/2010): Refugee Council response to gay asylum seeker ruling in Supreme Court

The Guardian (07/07/2010): Supreme court recognises gay asylum rights

The Guardian (07/07/2010): Full judgment: HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] UKSC 31

The Guardian (07/07/2010): Two gay men win right to UK asylum

ICRC (07/07/2010): United Kingdom: Red Cross launches photo exhibition and book on Balkan war missing

The Independent (07/07/2010): Gay asylum seekers win appeal to stay

Human Rights Watch (07/07/2010): UK torture inquiry must be independent and thorough

Human Rights Watch (07/07/2010): A humane nation is a safer nation

The Daily Telegraph (07/07/2010): Gay asylum seekers win right to stay in Britain

The Guardian (06/07/2010): Ireland footballer faces deportation after asylum seeker bid fails

The Guardian (06/07/2010): Asylum seekers in Ireland protest against relocation plan

The Daily Telegraph (04/07/2010): Immigration loophole 'exploited' by companies

The Daily Telegraph (03/07/2010): Labour accused of pre-election cover up on immigration

The Indpendent (02/07/2010): Pride and prejudice: The Victorian roots of a very British ambivalence to immigration

The Indepednet (01/07/2010): How Goldsmith changed advice on legality of war

The Independent (01/07/2010): May 'committed to sharply cutting immigrant numbers'

IRR News (01/07/2010): Fighting ghosts: an interview with Husein Al-Samamara

The Daily Telegraph (30/06/2010): Fewer Britons retiring to a 'place in the sun', IPPR says

The Daily Telegraph (29/06/2010): Immigration cap plan reluctantly backed by employers

The Daily Telegraph (29/06/2010): Foreign workers may need private health care to work in UK

UKBA (28/06/2010): Coalition commits to impose migration limit

The Guardian (28/06/2010): More immigration advice providers could close

The Guardian (28/06/2010): Recession puts government on course to reduce immigration

The Guardian (28/06/2010): Immigration cap and curb on overseas students threaten to divide cabinet

The Guardian (28/06/2010): This immigration cap makes no sense

The Guardian (28/06/2010): Non-EU immigration to the UK: the statistics

IRR News (25/06/2010): Racial violence: the buried issue

World News

The Independent (09/07/2010): UN recalls Sri Lanka envoy over protests

The Daily Telegraph (09/07/2010): English language schools win reprieve against visa rule changes

Human Rights Watch (09/07/2010): Italy: Offer to Shelter Eritreans Detained, Abused by Libya

The Independent (08/07/2010): Afghanistan: Now it's America's war

Human Rights Watch (08/07/2010): US: Fix Dysfunctional Immigration System

The Independent (06/07/2010): Horrors of Bosnian War relived in British court

The Independent (06/07/2010): The battle over two rivals to decide the fate of Tibet

Human Rights Watch (04/07/2010): Australia: End Suspension of Asylum Claims

Human Rights Watch (04/07/2010): UK: Terrorism Search Power Violates Rights

The Independent (02/07/2010): Editor's murder 'approved by Rwandan President'

Human Rights Watch (02/07/2010): Libya: Do Not Deport Eritreans

Human Rights Watch (02/07/2010): UN: New Agency Strengthens Women’s Voice

Minority Rights Group (01/07/2010): Rise of far right in Europe fuels spread of intolerance towards religious minorities, new report

Minority rights Group (01/07/2010): Religious minorities targeted by rise in nationalist and extremist groups in South Asia – new report

Human Tights Watch (01/07/2010): Tunisia: Stop Arbitrary Punishment of Ex-Political Prisoners

UKBA (30/06/2010): Immigration limit consultation launched by Migration Advisory Committee

Amnesty Intertnational (29/06/2010): Spanish politicians urged to reject bans on full-face veils

Human Rights Watch (29/06/2010): France/Germany/United Kingdom: Wrong Message on Torture

ICRC (28/06/2010): Iraq: helping detainees and their families

Updated News Stories

2010-06-25T16:19:00.001+01:00

Updated List of News Links

2010-06-14T13:48:00.001+01:00

UK News

The Guardian (14 June 2010): Immigration will define Labour's leadership contest

The Guardian (14 June 2010): Being with your foreign spouse is a right, not a privilege

The Guardian (14 June 2010): Refugees: Go home office

The Guardian (14 June 2010): Asylum seekers' survey reveals most find UK 'welcoming'

The Daily Telegraph (13 June 2010): How King's Lynn views its new arrivals

The Daily Telegraph (13 June 2010): The towns in England where Poles are still arriving

The Guardian (13 June 2010): Actually, Mr Balls, the impact of Poles has been positive

The Guardian (13 June 2010): Immigrants' contribution to entrepreneurialism revealed

IRR News (10 June 2010): Darfuri asylum seeker failed by the system

The Guardian (10 June 2010): Expecting immigrants to speak English is hypocritical

The Guardian (10 June 2010): Provision for Afghan child asylum seekers

The Independent (09 June 2010): Immigrants to face English language test

The Independent (09 June 2010): Anger as asylum seekers forcibly returned to Iraq

The Daily Telegraph (09 June 2010): The Queen's English

The Daily Telegraph (09 June 2010): Stowaway survives flight from Austria to London on Sheikh's jet

The Guardian (09 June 2010): David Cameron defends deportation of failed Iraqi asylum seekers

The Guardian (09 June 2010): The V&A through the eyes of refugees

Refugee Council (08 June 2010): Refugee Council response to the planned return of unaccompanied children seeking asylum to Afghanistan

Refugee Council (08 June 2010): Refugee Council response to planned return of Iraqi asylum seekers

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Deporting unaccompanied child migrants is immoral

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Don't delay deportation flight, government warns judges

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Gay asylum seekers need sanctuary, not secrecy

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Where do child asylum seekers to the UK come from?

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Tackling global poverty requires an ethical immigration policy

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Deporting children: where does our duty lie?

The Daily Telegraph (07 June 2010): Immigration: a late conversion

The Daily Telegraph (07 June 2010): Separate worlds collide in the Kensington sunshine

The Guardian (07 June 2010): Tabloid treatment of asylum seekers under fire

IRR News (03 June 2010): Threatened closure spells disaster for refugees

The Indepedent (03 June 2010): Darfuri teenager killed himself after being told – wrongly – of deportation

The Guardian (03 June 2010): Failed Iraq asylum seekers screened for forced deportation

The Guardian (03 June 2010): End this 'inhumane and expensive' asylum system

The Daily Telegraph (02 June 2010): Britain is full up - Cameron must act to stem the tide of immigration

World News

The Independent (14 June 2010): Kyrgyz gangs accused of 'genocide' as death toll rises

Human Rights Watch (13 June 2010): Kyrgyzstan: Decisive Action Needed to Rein in Violence

ICRC (13 June 2010): Kyrgyzstan: authorities and emergency services overwhelmed by brutal violence in the south

Amnesty International (12 June 2010): Kyrgyz government must protect its population

Amnesty International (12 June 2010): Colombia: human rights abusers must not be protected from justice

The Independent (11 June 2010): Africa Rising: A big day for football. A giant leap for a continent

The Independent (11 June 2010): Officers guilty of 1995 massacre in Srebrenica

The Independent (10 June 2010): Viktor Ivanov: The real price of Afghanistan

The Independent (10 June 2010): Mexico condemns US for shooting boy over border

Indigenous Portal (10 June 2010): Nepal: NEW AGREEMENT ENABLES UN TO CONTINUE HUMAN RIGHTS WORK

Amnesty International (10 June 2010): Serbia must end forced evictions of Roma

Amnesty International (10 June 2010): Millions suffer in 'human rights free zone' in Northwest Pakistan

Human Rights Watch (10 June 2010): Burma’s authoritarian upgrade: 1990-2010

ICRC (09 June 2010): ICRC assists record numbers of IDPs in 2009

Amnesty International (09 June 2010): States must not ignore human rights in efforts to end poverty

Amnesty International (08 June 2010): Proposals threaten International Criminal Court’s independence

Amnesty International (08 June 2010): European states must stop the imminent forcible return of Iraqis

Refugees International (08 June 2010): Somali Refugees in Nairobi: Creating Pathways for Dignity and Independence

Human Rights Watch (07 June 2010): Saudi Arabia/Kuwait: Investigate Human Traffickers

Human Rights Watch (04 June 2010): EU: Defer Hasty Returns of Migrant Children

Human Rights Watch (01 June 2010): Pakistan: Massacre of Minority Ahmadis

Archive News Stories

2010-05-24T15:24:00.001+01:00

UK News

Guardian Online (23/05/2010): Speedy end to child detention is needed

Guardian Online (22/05/2010): As a gay asylum seeker, I was lucky

Guardian Online (21/05/2010): Labour's new motto: immigration, immigration, immigration

BBC News (21/05/2010): Iraqi asylum seeker sues UK government in High Court

Refugee Council (21/05/2010): Refugee Council response to coalition agreement published today

Guardian Online (21/05/2010): No room for secret evidence in British justice system

Guardian Online (21/05/2010): Law must protect gay asylum seekers

Human Rights Watch (21/05/2010): UK: Torture Inquiry Decision Important First Step

The Daily Telegraph (20/05/2010): Yarl's Wood immigration centre is not fit for children and families

Guardian Online (20/05/2010): Border agency breaking rules over detention of children in Yarl's Wood

Guardian Online (20/05/2010): Andy Burnham joins Labour leadership race with immigration pledge

The Daily Telegraph (20/05/2010): Can we really not send terrorist suspects home?

The Daily Telegraph (20/10/2010): Increasing use of Human Rights Act to escape deportation

The Times Online (20/05/2010): Iranian actress Kiana Firouz fears film of her life ends in death

IRR News (20/05/2010): How good is the good news on child detention?

Refugee and Migrant Justice (20/05/2010): RMJ opinion piece in Guardian.co.uk: “It’s time for the UK Border Agency, which is so rigorous in applying the law to others, to apply the law to itself.”

UKBA (19/05/2010): Detention of children in Dungavel ends

The Times Online (19/05/2010): ‘Al-Qaeda operative’ can stay in UK despite posing threat, judge rules

BBC News (19/05/2010): Asylum seekers 'guilty until proven innocent'

Guardian Online (19/05/2010): SIAC: striking the balance between national security and human rights

UKBA (18/05/2010): Weston-bound illegal migrants are stopped in France

Refugee Council (18/05/2010): Urgent asylum issues for the new government

The Daily Telegraph (18/05/2010): Al-Qaeda bomb plot pair cannot be deported, court rules

Human Rights Watch (18/05/2010): New coalition government must address human rights

The Daily Telegraph (18/05/2010): Pakistani students arrested in terror raids win deportation battle

Guardian Online (18/05/2010): Immigration minister: our policy was right, we just didn't tell people

Guardian Online (18/05/2010): The revival of sanctuary

Guardian Online (18/05/2010): Should terror suspects be allowed to stay in the UK?

Guardian Online (18/05/2010): Terror arrests timeline

Guardian Online (18/05/2010): Pakistani students arrested in anti-terror raids can stay in UK

Guardian Online (18/05/2010): Jon Cruddas is right (and so is Boris)

BBC News (17/05/2010): Children 'to remain' at Dungavel detention centre

UKBA (15/05/2010): Update on child detention

Guardian Online (15/05/2010): Asylum children will be kept out of 'distressing' detention centres

Human Rights Watch (14/05/2010): UK: Make Rights a Priority at Home and Abroad

Refugee Council PoliBlog (14/05/2010): New government, new approach to asylum policy?

The Times Online (13/05/2010): Detention of asylum-seeker children to be scrapped

World News

Human Rights Watch (20/05/2010): Sri Lanka: New Evidence of Wartime Abuses

Refugees International (20/05/2010): Refugees International Testifies in Support of the Refugee Protection Act of 2010

ICRC (19/05/2010): Annual report 2009: drawn-out conflicts require sustained and flexible humanitarian response

Human Rights Watch (19/05/2010): US: Renewing America’s Commitment to the Refugee Convention

Human Rights Watch (18/05/2010): Madrid needs to stand up for the forgotten children of Tenerife

Refugees International (18/05/2010): The Wall of Women: Hearing Stories of Statelessness in Kuwait

Refugee Council PoliBlog (14/05/2010): New government, new approach to asylum policy?

Human Rights Watch (13/05/2010): UN Human Rights Council: Competitive Vote Would Improve Membership

Refugees International (13/05/2010): The PEP Launches New and Improved Web Resource for Peacekeeping Advocates

Human Rights Watch (10/05/2010): ICC: Bolster Global Justice at Kampala Conference

Human Rights Watch (04/05/2010): Uzbekistan: Stop Persecuting Andijan Refugees’ Families

Human Rights Watch (03/05/2010): Uzbekistan's Imprisoned Human Rights Defenders

Refugee Archive Summer Opening Hours 2010

2010-05-18T16:48:00.001+01:00

Please read the whole email, including the important paragraph at the end.

Please find below the revised opening hours for the Refugee Archive at UEL and the Docklands Library over the summer months. We have tried to keep the Archive open every day. However, we would recommend that you either make an appointment or contact us in advance of your trip just to confirm that the Archive will be open and staffed on the day you wish to come.

Our contact details are: 020 8223 7676 (reading room) or 020 8223 7817 (Paul Dudman) or 020 8223 6462 (Caroline Lam) in the office. Our email address is library-archives@uel.ac.uk

Alternatively, if coming to the Docklands Campus is a problem, you might want to make use of the SCONUL Card service which can give you access to other University libraries in London. Further details can be found on the Library website by following the link below:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/lls/services/sconulfaq.htm

Archive Summer Opening Hours

The summer opening hours for the Refugee Archive will come into effect from Saturday 22 May, 2010.

Therefore, the revised opening hours from Monday 24 May, 2010 will be as follows:

Mondays: 1pm - 4.30pm

Tuesdays: 1pm - 4.30pm

Wednesdays: 10am - 1pm

Thursdays: 1pm - 4.30pm

Fridays: 10am - 1pm

Sat / Sun: Closed

These are also available on our website at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/using-rca.htm#top

Library Summer Opening Hours

The summer opening hours for the Docklands Library start from Saturday 5 June.

So the building closes at 9pm on Friday 4 June, then it's:

Monday-Friday: 9am-9pm (Security only from 5pm)

Saturday: 10am-5pm (Security only)

Sunday: closed

Potential for Possible Disruption

It is possible that there may be further disruption to these opening hours over the course of the summer. As soon as we have further information we will of course let you know, but at the moment disruption to the archive may be caused by:

i) Building works in the Library. Work on the library air conditioning system is due to start on Tuesday 8 June. The work itself is supposed to take place between 9pm and 6am. However, there is a small possibility that the library may close at some point.

ii) Scanning of the British Olympic Association (BOA) archive. We are due to have a company on site in the Archive to scan materials from Monday 14 June for a period of between 2-4 weeks. Disruption of the archive service during this period is inevitable and we strongly recommend that you make an appointment for to access the Archive as we cannot guarantee that the archive will be available fro general access during this period.

iii) Staff leave. There will be staff on leave over the summer months and we hope this will not cause too much disruption to the service.

Update on Recent News Stories

2010-05-13T16:29:00.000+01:00

Refugee Archive Newsletter & Acquisitions

2010-04-12T13:18:00.000+01:00

The Refugee Archives have just published two new publications on the Refugee Council Archive website.

First up, the latest Refugee Archives newsletter (March 2010) is now available online viw the RCA wesbite. This newsletter provides current news in relation to the work of the Archive, including the recent work undertaken to refurbish the reading room.

Full Link: www.uel.ac.uk/rca or Download Here (PDF - 4.75 MB).

Secondly, The Refugee Archives have also published their latest quarterly accessions list for the First Quarter (January - March) of 2010. This document gives an update of new materials which have been catalogued and made available within the Archive.

Full Link: www.uel.ac.uk/rca or Download Here (PDF - 0.3MB).

If you have any questions or feedback, please let us know. Either leave a message here on contact us on: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

Updated News Stories (12 April 2010)

2010-04-12T11:30:00.000+01:00

Update on Stories in the News

2010-04-01T14:56:00.001+01:00

UK News

The Guardian (01/04/2010): Immigration: Speaking softly

The Times (01/04/2010): Gordon Brown: 'immigrants must honour British values'

The Guardian (31/03/2010): Gordon Brown warns against 'scaremongering' over immigration

The Guardian (31/03/2010): Leaders must speak up on immigration

The Guardian (31/03/2010): Appeal against immigration scaremongering may fall on barren ground

The Guardian (31/03/2010): Immigration is not out of control, says Gordon Brown

UKBA (31/03/2010): Prime Minister sets out new immigration measures

The Daily Telegraph (31/03/2010): General Election 2010: Gordon Brown promises 'controlled' immigration

The Daily Telegraph (31/03/2010): Immigration should be restricted, say MPs

The Daily Telegraph (31/03/2010): General Election 2010: Gordon Brown warns against immigration 'scaremongering'

The Daily Telegraph (31/03/2010): We need a credible policy on immigration

BBC News (31/03/2010): Brown admits 'misusing' immigration statistics

The Independent (30/03/2010): Anti-extremist scheme 'spies on Muslims'

The Independent (30/03/2010): Minister sorry for Lumley Gurkha slur

The Independent (30/03/2010): Banned, play that challenged the BNP

IRR News (30/03/2010): Select committee vindicates IRR report on Preventing Violent Extremism

IRR News (30/03/2010): Only an inquiry will bring trust in Prevent

The Guardian (30/03/2010): Pre-election build-up – as it happened

The Guardian (30/03/2010): Gordon Brown to pledge new curb on immigration

The Guardian (29/03/2010): Immigration is a real problem

The Daily Telegraph (29/03/2010): Defence minister apologises to Joanna Lumley over Gurkha row

The Guardian (28/03/2010): Tory plan to cap immigration 'could prevent clubs signing top footballers'

The Daily Telegraph (27/03/2010): Gordon Brown accused of fiddling immigration figures

The Guardian (27/03/2010): Passover and the principle of refuge

The Guardian (27/03/2010): Gurkha champion Joanna Lumley hits back at minister

BBC News (26/03/2010): Row over Gordon Brown immigration figures podcast

World News

Human Rights Watch (31/03/2010): Egypt: Guards Kill 3 Migrants on Border with Israel

BBC News (31/03/2010): Ecuador holds big drive to register Colombian refugees

IRR News (31/03/2010): International right-wingers gather for EU-wide minaret ban

The Times (31/03/2010): Britain turns off Haiti aid and delivers a snub to New York donor conference

The Independent (31/03/2010): Serbia apologise for Srebrenica massacre

The Times (31/03/2010): Serbia condemns 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys

Human Rights Watch (31/03/2010): China: Beijing Relocations Put Migrants at Risk

Refugee Council Poliblog (30/03/2010): Talking about asylum as election looms

BBC News (30/03/2010): Australia seeks three escaped Chinese asylum seekers

Weekly News Round-up by the Refugee Archive

2010-03-26T11:35:00.001Z

Selected Publications from Different Sources

2010-03-17T15:30:00.000Z

A selection of recently produced publications.

Publications Produced by UNHCR:

UNHCR Action to Address Statelessness: A Strategy Note
March 2010
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b9e0c3d2.html

Country of Origin Research and Information (CORI), Country Report:
Ethiopia
January 2010
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b9e03f92.html

UNHCR Country Briefing Folder on Central African Republic
March 2010
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b8f93642.html

Publications Made Available Through ReliefWeb:

Title - Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons
(A/HRC/13/21/Add.4)
Source - UN Human Rights Council
Date - Feb 2010
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/VVOS-83CN95?OpenDocument

Title - Home alone? A review of the relationship between repatriation,
mobility and durable solutions for refugees
Source - UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Date - Mar 2010
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EGUA-83ERRC?OpenDocument

Title - Refugees, internally displaced persons and the 'responsibility to
protect'
Source - UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Date - Mar 2010
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EGUA-83ERYW?OpenDocument

Title - Uncharted Territory: Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action
Source - ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
Date - Nov 2009
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-7Y4SB2?OpenDocument

Title - Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Humanitarian Assistance
Source - ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network
Date - Dec 2009
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/VVOS-826N8U?OpenDocument

Title - Aid Effectiveness through the Recipient Lens
Source - Overseas Development Institute
Date - Nov 2009
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-835GSM?OpenDocument

Publications Listed by the Institute of Race Relations:

Action on Rights for Children has published a report on: 'Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum: Privacy, Consent and Data Protection'.
Download the report at:
http://www.archrights.org.uk/docs/ARCH%20UASCreport%20100215FINAL.pdf (pdf file, 288kb)

Asylum Aid has published the tenth anniversary edition of: 'Women's Asylum News'.
Download the issue at:
http://t.ymlp84.com/ybagamueanauqwbaoauwb/click.php (pdf file, 196kb)

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a: 'Report on an announced inspection of Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre'.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/inspectorates/hmi-prisons/docs/Campsfield_House_2009_rps.pdf (pdf file, 424kb)

The Home Office has published: 'Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom - Fourth Quarter 2009',
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/immiq409.pdf (pdf file, 472kb)

Human Rights Watch has published a report: 'Fast-Tracked Unfairness: Detention and Denial of Women Asylum Seekers in the UK'.
Download the report at:
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/uk0210webwcover.pdf (pdf file, 712kb)

Other Publications:

The APCI Legacy: A Critical Assessment
Click here for full report.
In July 2008 the Advisory Panel on Country Information (APCI) was disbanded and its functions subsumed under the Office of the Chief Inspector of the UKBA. In March 2009 the Chief Inspector established the Independent Advisory Group on Country Information (IAGCI) to assist him with monitoring the UKBA Country of Origin Information Service (COIS) reports.

Weekly News Round Up

2010-03-16T12:43:00.002Z

United Kingdom

UKBA (15/03/10): Brentford company faces fine of £90,000

IRR News (15/03/10): Fighting anti-Muslim racism: an interview with A. Sivanandan

The Independent (15/03/10): Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Our asylum policy is a national disgrace

The Observer (14/03/10): UK 'ignoring' systemic evidence of torture among asylum seekers

The Observer (14/03/10): We punish those we should protect

The Observer (14/03/10): Asylum deportation flights need rights monitors, EU says

The Daily Telegraph (13/03/10): Backlash at the mosque

The Guardian (13/03/10): 'I'm not a slave, I just can't speak English' – life in the meat industry

The Guardian (13/03/10): Violence and abuse rife in food factories

The Guardian (13/03/10): Sky-high Glasgow dreams that turned into a nightmare

BBC News (13/03/10): Hundreds attend tower block 'suicide' rally

The Daily Telegraph (13/03/10): Ian McEwan: Criticising Islam is not racist

The Daily Telegraph (12/03/10): Asylum seekers complaints of assaults by Home Office security staff 'not properly investigated'

BBC News (12/03/10): Handcuff restraint of asylum seekers criticised

The Guardian (12/03/10): The bigger picture on asylum

The Guardian (12/03/10): Officials failed to investigate asylum detainee abuse claims – report

The Independent (12/03/10): Forced Deportations Report: Asylum-seekers abused by security guards, says report

UKBA (12/03/10): Three illegal workers arrested at a car wash in Maidstone

UKBA (12/03/10): Government ramps up passenger screening

The Guardian (12/03/10): Red Road deaths: a tragedy of asylum, mental health and Russian intrigue

UKBA (11/03/10): E-Borders system helps identify drug smuggler at Gatwick Airport

Refugee and Migrant Justice (11/03/10): Process for removing asylum seekers lacks accountability and ‘will get worse’

The Daily Telegraph (11/03/10): 'Gaping hole' in rules on foreign doctors, GMC says

The Daily Telegraph (11/03/10): House of Lords employed illegal immigrant as catering worker

The Guardian (10/03/10): Our asylum system's fatal failures

The Independent (10/03/10): Lumley named in row over Gurkha charity

The Independent (10/03/10): Call for inquiry into Glasgow tower suicidesThe Independent

UKBA (09/03/10): Refugees' route to citizenship

Refugee and Migrant Justice (09/03/10): Detainees at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre held unlawfully

Refugee Council (09/03/10): Government publishes consultation on charging foreign nationals for healthcare – some refused asylum seekers will now be exempt

BBC News (09/03/10): Vigil held for tower block deaths

BBC News (08/03/10): 'I fear every knock on my door'

UKBA (08/03/10): Minister attends immigration debate in Wakefield

World

ICRC (15/03/10): Bangladesh: aid for victims of violence

BBC News (13/03/10): Mogadishu residents told to leave Somali capital

Amnesty International (11/03/10): Italian authorities urged to stop forced evictions of Roma See Also: Amnesty' snew briefing paper - Italy: The wrong answer: Italy's 'Nomad Plan' violates the housing rights of Roma in Rome (EUR 30/001/2010 - 11 March 2010).

ICRC (10/03/10): Sudan: violence threatens civilians in the south

BBC News (09/03/10): Bangladesh 'ignoring plight' of starving Burma refugees
Refugees International (03/03/10): The Global Implications of Climate Migration

A Selection of News Stories (08 February 2010).

2010-03-08T12:46:00.001Z

Iraq Elections

The Independent (08/03/10): New wave of fear sweeps Baghdad as Iraqis vote

The Independent (08/03/10): Robert Fisk: Once again, a nation walks through fire to give the West its 'democracy'

The Times (08/03/10): Millions of Iraqis defy bomb and rocket attacks to vote

The Daily Telegraph (07/03/10): Iraq Election: World leaders praise bravery of Iraqi voters after election

BBC News (06/03/10): Deadly Iraq car bomb near Shia shrine in Najaf

The Independent (05/03/10): Leading article: Iraq steps into a fragile and uncertain future

Human Rights Watch (01/03/10): Iraq: Candidates Should Promote Human Rights

United Kingdom

UKBA (11/03/10): Man jailed for trying to sell his own sister

Amnesty International (08/03/10): Cambodia's government must protect victims of sexual violence as reports of rape increase A full PDF file of this report is also available to download - [ASA 23/001/2010 - PDF].

BBC News (08/03/10): Police inquire into identity of Glasgow flat deaths

The Observer (07/03/10): A happy ending for the Gurkhas? Think again

The Observer (07/03/10): Migrant children face ordeal after lone journey to Britain

The Daily Telegraph (07/03/10): Three die after falling from Glasgow block of flats

The Daily Telegraph (06/03/10): The strange case of the vanishing hunger strike

UKBA (05/03/10): Expensive week for Bedfordshire businesses

UKBA (05/03/10): Restaurant staff from Waterlooville arrested for illegal working

The Guardian (05/03/10): Snoop Dogg wins battle with Border Agency to re-enter UK

The Guardian (04/03/10): Unskilled Britain

The Guardian (04/03/10): Asda and Unite to tackle migrant discrimination

The Daily Telegraph (03/03/10): Muslim woman barred from flight after refusing body scan

The Daily Telegraph (02/03/10): Fatwa issued against suicide bombing

The Guardian (02/03/10): The return of the Irish brain drain

UKBA (02/03/10): Officers smash bogus marriage ring in Bolton

Human Rights Watch (02/03/10): Women, Asylum and the UK Border Agency

The Guardian (01/03/10): The real distress at Yarl's Wood

BBC News (01/03/10): Oxford bid for 'Sanctuary City' status

BBC News (01/03/10): Advice pack for migrants and refugees in Wales

UKBA (01/03/10): Protecting the UK border by boosting overseas cooperation

UKBA (01/03/10): Hartlepool Chinese takeaways face fines of £40,000 over illegal workers

World

The Independent (08/03/10): Film awakens France's shame in the Holocaust

The Independent (08/03/10): Paul Collier: The crisis in Haiti shows we need a new approach to NGOs

Survival International (04/03/10): Guatemala adopts indigenous rights into Constitution

The Daily Telegraph (04/03/10): US labels Turkish killing 'genocide'

Survival International (03/03/10): UN report condemns Botswana’s treatment of Bushmen

UKBA (03/03/10): Illegal workers face being deported

UKBA (03/03/10): Tier 4 changes from 3 March 2010 - information for education providers

The Guardian (02/03/10): We work, we strike

BBC News (02/03/10): Probe into border staff 'racial prejudice' claims

BBC News (02/03/10): Chad gives UN peacekeeping force extra two months

UKBA (02/03/10): Illegal workers jailed for using fake passports

BBC News (01/03/10): Big rise in Afghan child migrants

A Selection of Recent Publications

2010-03-02T13:22:00.001Z

New Publications

The Children’s Commissioner has recently published a new report entitled “The Children’s Commissioner for England's follow up report to: The arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control.” A full report and an executive summary are available to download in PDF format as follows:

Full Report - The Children’s Commissioner for England's follow up report to: The arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control

Executive Summary - The Children’s Commissioner for England's follow up report to: The arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control (Executive summary)

New Home Office statistics have just been released and details are available on the Home Office RDS What’s New website:

Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom - Fourth Quarter 2009
Also available: Supplementary excel tables
(25.02.10)

A report from the Institute for the Study of European Transformations (London Metropolitan University) by Dr. Nick Mai and entitled “Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry Policy-Relevant Findings.” The full report is available to download in full at:

Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry Policy-Relevant Findings2.pdf

New UK Border Agency report by John Vine, the Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency entitled “Asylum: Getting the Balance Right? A Thematic Inspection: July – November 2009.”

Full details and downloads are available as follows: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/workingwithus/indbodies/chiefinspector/

New Human Rights Watch Report:

Fast-Tracked Unfairness :Detention and Denial of Women Asylum Seekers in the UK

February 23, 2010

The 69-page report documents how women asylum seekers with complex claims are being routed into a system designed for much simpler claims. The women are held in detention largely for the UK’s administrative convenience, have very little time to prepare a legal case, and have only a few days to appeal if refused. But the claims often involve such sensitive and difficult issues as sexual violence, female genital mutilation, trafficking, and domestic abuse.

A Tough Road Home: Uprooted Irqis in Jordan, Syria and Iraq. Produced by the International Rescue Committee. (February 2010). Full details: http://www.theirc.org/special-reports/iraqi-refugees

ICAR have recently published a new report entitled `Citizenship for Refugees in the UK: Key Issues and Research. Published in February 2010 and available to download from the link below:

Citizenship for Refugees: http://www.icar.org.uk/download.php?id=603

A New Report produced by the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement and entitled: Resolving Iraqi Displacement: Humanitarian and Development Perspectives. Available to download in PDF format as follows:

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2010/0216_iraqi_displacement/0216_iraqi_displacement.pdf

News Stories - Updated 01 March 2010

2010-03-01T11:44:00.001Z

Refugee Archive Closure on Tuesday 2 March

2010-02-26T12:28:00.002Z

Important Notice:

The Refugee Council Archive will be closed all day on Tuesday 2^nd March due to refurbishment work being undertaken in the Archive reading room. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Many thanks in advance for your co-operation,

Paul Dudman
Archivist.

Stories in the News

2010-02-25T12:18:00.000Z

Apologies in advance for the long list, I hope some of the following are useful:

Child Migrants to Australia Apology

BBC News (24/02/10): Gordon Brown apologises to child migrants sent abroad

The Guardian (20/02/10): Children shipped to Australia to get formal apology

Children and Detention

The Guardian (23/02/10): (Audio): Yarl's Wood: 'They called us black monkey'

The Guardian (23/02/10): Fears for health of Yarl's Wood women in third week of hunger strike

The Guardian (22/02/10): Why I am on hunger strike at Yarl's Wood

The Guardian (23/02/10): Yarl's Wood: a disgrace

The Guardian (18/02/10): Don't deny this detention damage

The Guardian (18/02/10): Letters - Yarl's Wood: there is no need to detain families with children

The Daily Telegraph (17/02/10): Children should not be held in immigration centres, says watchdog

The Guardian (17/02/10): Yarl's Wood children face 'extreme distress', report reveals

BBC News (17/02/10): 'Never nice for children' - life in a detention centre

Bangladesh

The Times of India (25/02/10): Ethnic violence continues in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill tracts

The Indian News (25/02/10): Ethnic violence continues in Chittagong Hill Tracts

More at : Ethnic violence continues in Chittagong Hill Tracts (Lead) http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/ethnic-violence-continues-in-chittagong-hill-tracts-lead_100325884.html#ixzz0gY6rGP4J

Earth Times (24/02/10): Bangladesh imposes fresh curfew after south-east riots - Summary

Voice of America (23/02/10): Bangladesh Deploys Troops to Stop Ethnic Clashes

Chittagong Hill Tracts News Reporter (23/02/10): News Updates (23 February 2010)

BBC News (18/02/10): Bangladesh accused of 'crackdown' on Rohingya refugees

General Stories

BBC News (25/02/10): In pictures: Fleeing DR Congo

The Daily Telegraph (24/02/10): 'We can't take any more people'

BBC News (24/02/10): Foreign inmates await deportation from Dorchester jail

The Daily Telegraph (24/02/10): Somalian woman with no right to live in the UK must be given a council house, according to EU judges

BBC News (24/02/10): Afghanistan country profile

The Guardian (24/02/10): Home Office to opt out of asylum claims EU directive

Human Rights Watch (23/02/10): Iraq: Protect Christians from Violence

BBC News (23/02/10): Will peace return to Darfur?

BBC News (23/02/10): Who are Sudan's Darfur rebels?

Refugees International (23/02/10): South Sudan: Pointing Fingers, Placing Blame

Human Rights Watch (23/02/10): Iran: End Persecution of Baha’is

The Daily Telegraph (23/02/10): MI5 and MI6 not to be investigated over torture claims

Human Rights Watch (23/02/10): Thailand: Migrant Workers Face Killings, Extortion, Labor Rights Abuses

See Also: the Human Rights Watch page report entitled From the Tiger to the Crocodile - the report is available to download in PDF format - click here to downlaod.

The Daily Telgraph (23/02/10): Opponents of immigration could be racist, warned advisers a decade ago

BBC News (23/02/10): Sudan signs ceasefire deal with Darfur rebel group

IRR News (23/02/10): Germany: freedom to speak on racism under threat

Child and Young People Daily Bulletin (23/02/10): Child asylum seekers granted 72-hour notice of removal

Amnesty International (23/02/10): Indigenous Peoples struggle to survive in Colombia. Full report available in PDF format by clicking on the following link: AMR 23/001/2010(PDF)

The Daily Telegraph (22/02/10): Binyam Mohamed and a question of balance

BBC News (22/02/10): Israel's immigrant children fight deportation

BBC News (21/02/10): Key Darfur rebels sign ceasefire deal

The Daily Telegraph (20/02/10): Thousands of illegal immigrants win right to stay in Britain under 'squatters' rights'

The Daily Telegraph (20/02/10): Torture: inquiry needed into 'security services involvement', says human rights watchdog

The Daily Telegraph (19/02/10): The Blackburn Resistance: three men 'intoxicated by evil of terrorism', court hears

The Guardian (19/02/10): Ethnic Kurd wins high court release ruling after failed deportation

BBC News (19/02/10): Stormont to host immigration debate

Refugees International (19/02/10): DR Congo: Precarious conditions for refugees returning home

Amnesty International (17/02/10): Democratic Republic of Congo must end persecution of human rights defenders/ The full page report by Amnesty International is also available in PDF format by clicking on the following link: AFR 62/001/2010(PDF)

Human Rights Watch (17/02/10): UN: Keep Peacekeepers in Chad

Amnesty International (17/02/10): Iran ’shows contempt’ for human rights by rejecting UN recommendations

BBC News (17/02/10): US aid rules in Somalia are impossible, says UN envoy

The Guardian (17/02/10): How to be British

The Daily Telegraph (17/02/10): Councils dismiss claims migrants are returning home

The Guardian (17/02/10): Letters - Migration Watch

Human Rights Watch (16/02/10): UN: Council Review Highlights Iran's Poor Record

Human Rights Watch (16/02/10): Morocco: Sahrawi Activists' Passports Returned

Human Rights Watch (16/02/10): Egypt: Pledge Serious Human Rights Reform

The Guardian (16/02/10): The enduring legacy of Pauline Hanson

BBC News (16/02/10): 'Asylum has become a dirty word'

Amnesty International (16/02/10): Myanmar urged to end repression of ethnic minorities before elections.
The full 58 page Amnesty International report is also available to download in either HTML or PDF versions. Click on the relevant link as follows: ASA 16/001/2010(HTML) or ASA 16/001/2010(PDF).
Image: Amnesty International - `
Many activists faced repression during 2007's Buddhist monk-led 'Saffron Revolution'

The Guardian (15/02/10): Australian anti-migrant campaigner Pauline Hanson to emigrate

The Daily Telegraph (13/02/10): Number who say they are 'white British' in decline

Giving voice to the voiceless - Public Lecture Series 4 March 2010

2010-02-20T21:23:00.000Z

Portrayal and participation of asylum-seekers & refugees in the UK media

The Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging & the Exiled Journalists' Network introducing Mike Jempson Director, The MediaWise Trust

Date: Thursday 4 March 2010
Time: 17:00
Venue: Room TBC, University of East London, Docklands Campus
Transport: Cyprus DLR

In the mid-1990s, there was an upsurge in hostile and inaccurate coverage of refugee and asylum issues, and of those who supported them. The term asylum-seeker rapidly changed from being a sympathetic description to a form of abuse which combined fear and loathing of immigrants and more than a hint of racism.

Sensational stories and statistics, and xenophobic commentaries, variously represented those seeking asylum as economic migrants or criminals determined to abuse the goodwill of a post-colonial power. Such stories increased tabloid circulation and jolted politicians into knee-jerk negative reactions. By the time of the al Qaeda attack on the USA in 2001, asylum had become a major political issue. Now people identifiable as ‘strangers in our midst’ were regarded as menacing and dangerous, however long they had been in the UK.

Concerned that sensible political dialogue and human rights were being harmed by the way the media were handling issue, in 1999 the journalism ethics charity MediaWise set up the Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Media (RAM) Project. It was a strategic initiative to challenge inaccuracies and prejudice and improve media coverage. It would also give birth to the Exiled Journalists’ Network (EJN).

This presentation will explain the work and achievements of the RAM Project revisit some of the more sensational inaccuracies that have appeared in the UK media, and explain how exiled journalists helped to develop the RAM Project, and took it forward to become the EJN.

MIKE JEMPSON has been Director of The MediaWise Trust since 1996. He co-founded the journalism ethics charity (then known as PressWise) with ‘survivors of media abuse’ in 1993. He is a journalist, author and trainer, with over 35 years experience in print, broadcasting and public relations. Mike co-authored The RAM Report (MediaWise, June 2005, ISBN 0 9547620 4 5)

Mike was appointed Visiting Professor in Media Ethics at Lincoln University in 2006, and is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of the West of England. He has devised and delivered training for journalists and NGOs in more than 40 countries, working with UN agencies and the International Federation of Journalists.

CMRB Seminars, Book Launch and Associated Events

2010-02-20T20:49:00.000Z

Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship - Life Stories From Britain and Germany

Umut Erel (The Open University) and Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University) discuss Umut Erel's book

Tuesday 11 May

Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship develops essential insights concerning the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of skilled and educated migrant women from Turkey in Germany and Britain. It interweaves and develops theories of citizenship, identity and culture with the lived experiences of an immigrant group that has so far received insufficient attention. By focussing on the British and German contexts, it introduces a much needed European and comparative perspective, whilst exploring the ways in which diverging concepts and policies of citizenship allow for a differentiated examination of ethnicity, gender, multiculturalism and citizenship in Europe.

The Invisible Empire - White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging

Georgie Wemyss (Goldsmiths College) and Vron Ware (The Open University) discuss Georgie Wemyss's book

Tuesday 18 May

How have dominant and white liberal discourses maintained their hegemony in a post-colonial world? Georgie Wemyss offers a significant and original contribution to critical race theory through this anthropological acount of the cultural hegemony of the West. She demonstrates how concepts of tolerance have been substantially reproduced through time in order to accommodate the challenges of history.

Book Launch

Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary
European Cinema by Yosefa Loshitzky

28 May, 6-8pm, Senate House, University of London, Room G22/26

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ginette Vincendeau, King’s College

Film director Jasmin Dizdar and Yosefa Loshitzky in conversation

Associated events

Launch of the Exiled Journalists' Network

4 March, 5-6.30pm, UEL

Giving Voice to the Voiceless - Portrayal and participation of asylum-seekers & refugees in theUK media

Speaker: Mike Jempson, Director, The MediaWise Trust and Senior Lecturer in Jounalism, University of the West of England

Followed by a reception and launch of the Exiled Journalists' Network

http://www.exiledjournalists.net/

Imaging Migrants: CMRB & Matrix Seminar Series at UEL

2010-02-20T20:47:00.000Z

Imaging Migrants

a seminar series jointly organised by CMRB and Matrix

All seminars take place on Thursdays at 6-8pm in Room EB 1.37, Matrix, University of East London, Docklands Campus

On ‘the right to have rights’ over refugees’ and migrants’ images - Eyal Sivan
Thursday 25 February
Refugees, migrants and other survivors – like many other socially displaced persons – are among the favourite classical, as well as contemporary, figures of documentary moving image practice. Thus, despite the ongoing practice involving documenting, filming, producing and distributing refugees’ images, issues of ‘representation rights’ and ‘images appropriation’ are rarely raised among practitioners and media activists. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s classical article ‘We Refugees’ (1943), in which she develops the idea of ‘the right to have rights’, and on Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Arendt’s article, this seminar will reflect on the ethical and methodological questions raised by the ongoing practice involving the filming of migrants and refugees. Articulated around a series of recent documentary experiences, this seminar will address the question of the functionality – within western societies – of refugees’, migrants’ and asylum seekers’ images as a fundamental, contemporary documentary media practice.

State of Play: critique, diaspora and digital archives - Roshini Kempadoo
Thursday 25 March
The seminar will present a selection of my photographs and recent digital artworks including State of Play(2010) within the context of artworks from digital online databases, including those developed by Autograph ABP, Diaspora Artists and Iniva. It becomes a way to explore artists’ work that have been differentiated and defined within the confines of ‘identity’ terminologies and politics. Cultural definitions of artists and their work, ranging from: black Britishness; BAMEs; multiculturalism; transnational blackness; culturally diverse forms; and art of the diaspora, have variously been used – particularly since the ‘critical decade’ of the 1980s (Hall & Bailey, 1992). My interest lies in the practice of self-definition, criticality and positionality that have been instrumental to this process of defining difference and belonging. The presentation will also explore the way in which such artworks are currently being digitally archived by institutions, their curators, and funders. The archive as a ‘force field’ (Stoler, 2009) in this sense is crafted and layered. In re-contextualising and digitising the artworks as the online ‘archive’ (in the way that Derrida describes the archive as the site of ‘house arrest’), how may the criticality of the work be adequately evoked and continue to be perceived as creative intervention, interstitial, or counter-narrative?

Two Theses on the Afghan Woman: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf Filming Agheleh Farahmand - Haim Bresheeth
Thursday 8 April
This talk is based on an article by the same title, that I have completed for Third Text, to be published in March 2010.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have created a huge number of refugees, or as the UN now wishes them to called, internally displaced persons. Those two terrifying upheavals have not yet been attended to by many filmmakers – the Iraqi one is yet to be represented on film, and the Afghani one has indeed been so represented, but not by an Afghani filmmaker.
The appearance, in 2003, of two films made by two sisters of the famous Makhmalbaf cinematic clan, have marked another first for this unusual group. At Five in the Afternoon, a feminist feature film shot in Afghanistan a short time after the Allies invasion, by the elder sister Samira, has been closely followed byJoy of Madness, a feature length documentary by her 13 year old sister, Hanna. That Hanna’s film was a ‘making of’ film of her sister¹s movie production, does not begin to describe it. At the heart of both films stands the figure of the main lead of the feature, who is the central character of both. The struggle between the temperamental director and her intended star, ending in the agreement to participate, is presenting us with a complex picture of power relations and negotiation, between the darling of festival circles, Samira, and her penniless, but astute and independent young teacher from Afghanistan. Joy of Madness carries a genuine and disturbing message of the colonial power relations between the three women, and the acid test of their different feminist agendas.

Journeys of Identity and Place - Jill Daniels
Thursday 22 April
In this seminar I will explore the representation of identity and place in exile and loss, in my documentary filmNext Year in Lerin (2000).I will discuss, as Henk Slager points out in his article Art and Method (2009), how ‘the artist compels us to see the world in a different way… images do not replace reality, but reveal novel visibilities’. The film reflects on social structures, ethnicity and the concept of rootedness. Place is offered as a metaphorical space bounded by the subjects’ voices and the manipulation of sound and image.
The subjects are Macedonians, who as children were taken without their mothers from northern Greece by the Greek Communist Party during the Greek civil war (1943-1948). They are not allowed by the Greek State to return to Greece.I will analyse my access as outsider, addressing my subject position of both observing and participating in documentary making, in gaining an intimate space in order to interact with the subjects (David MacDougall, Transcultural Cinema; 1998).
I will extend the discussion through a comparison of this film with my later film Lost in Gainesville (2005), where subjects from the Mexican diaspora are located in a small town in Georgia in the south of the US.Racist hostility emanates from the original population of the town leading to the geographical division of place.
I reflect on the way film may be used in the debate around minoritarian discourse. Next Year in Lerin has been used by the Macedonian diaspora and Greek nationalists as a tool for their political debates. I give particular attention to my Q&A on YouTube posted by the film festival after a screening of the film in the US in 2009, and the subsequent comments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWw4o9QkAA.

Simone Weil's The Need for Roots and the Soul of Migration - Dr Anat Pick
Thursday 6 May
This seminar draws on Simone Weil's book The Need for Roots (1943), written during the final year of Weil's life, working in London for the Free French. The Need for Roots offered a blueprint for the reconstruction of France after Liberation. It reflects the culmination of Weil's theologico-political thinking. The central themes of rootedness (as a ‘need of the soul’) and uprootedness (as a modern malaise) are especially important for thinking about ideas of national identity, diaspora and exile. They are particularly resonant in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and in light of Weil's ‘anti-Judaism’. The discussion will address Weil's contemporary relevance as a major post-secular thinker with reference to Ori Kleiner’s documentary filmRecognized (2006).

Conference: Migration, the Media and the Message, 29-30 March 2010

2010-02-20T20:44:00.000Z

Migration, the Media and the Message

Migrants using media to turn around the immigration debate

University of East London, 29-30 March 2010

A European conference jointly organised by the 'Migrants and the Media Project' (MMP) and CMRB for groups involved in media and cultural activities, which promote a positive engagement with the issue of migration.

Contributors to plenary sessions will include: Don Flynn (Migrants' Rights Network), Nazek Ramadan, Aine O'Brien (FOMACS, Ireland) and Mica Nava (UEL).

Workshops include: FOMACS' digital video-making and radio journalism (Ireland), CEPAIM's 'La Ruta Prometida ' exhibition (Spain), Mendek's poster campaign (Hungary), Migrant Resource Centre's 'New Londoners' journalism project (UK), Playback Theatre (UK), CRWI on women and the media (Greece).

For information, please contact: Cristina Andreatta at Migrants' Rights Networkc.andreatta@migrantsrights.org.uk

FMR 34 with Feature on Urban Displacement

2010-02-16T18:57:00.000Z

The latest English edition of the journal Forced Migration Review, issue number 34, with a major feature on Urban displacement, is now available online at http://www.fmreview.org/urban-displacement/

Full details are available on the Forced Migration Review website and the following description is taken from this site.
"Globally, urbanisation – the movement of people into cities and towns – continues to increase, and growing numbers of displaced people, whether refugees or IDPs, now reside in urban areas rather than camps. Relatively little is known about their precise numbers, demographics, basic needs or protection problems.

In their introductory articles in this issue of FMR, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and UN-HABITAT Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka emphasise the complexity of the challenges faced by those displaced into urban areas and by those seeking to protect and assist them, and argue for the need for a radical rethinking of approaches by the international community. This issue of Forced Migration Review includes 26 articles by a wide range of authors – practitioners, policymakers and researchers – on the subject of urban displacement, plus 13 articles on other aspects of forced migration, including a ‘spotlight’ on Haiti after the earthquake."

See download options opposite: download the full pdf, or go to ‘contents list’ to view or download individual articles. We encourage you to circulate or reproduce any articles in their entirety but please cite http://www.fmreview.org/urban-displacement/

Refugee Studies Current Awareness Blog

Humanitarian Snapshot (May 2011) | ReliefWeb

What is BlogThis! ? - Blogger Help

Events and Websites

New Publications and Journal Volumes

Publications Taken from the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog (Source: http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/):

Hoping for Peace, Afraid of War: The Dilemmas of Repatriation and Belonging on the Borders of Uganda and South Sudan, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 196 (UNHCR, Nov. 2010) [text]

2010 High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, Background Paper: Protection Gaps and Challenges (UNHCR, Nov. 2010) [text]Fit for the Future? Strengthening the Leadership Pillar of Humanitarian Reform (NGOs and Humanitarian Reform Project, Nov. 2010) [text]

News Stories

Guardian Online (07/12/2010): Government confirms plans to curb international student numbers

Telegraph Online (07/12/2010): Foreign students forced to go home after studies under tough new immigration rules

Guardian Online (07/12/2010): Cross-party MPs voice 'profound concern' to Theresa May over plans to bar foreign students

Independent Online (07/12/2010): MP's assistant is fighting deportationHuman Rights Watch (06/12/2010): Greece: End Inhumane Detention Conditions for Migrants

Telegraph Online (06/12/2010): Foreign student crackdown

Telegraph Online (04/12/2010): Government to review future of immigration advisers

Human Rights Watch (04/12/2010): Burma: Eyewitness Accounts of Abuses in Eastern FightingAmnesty International (03/12/2010): IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTER CONDEMNED FOR DEMANDING EXECUTION OF AL-QAI’DA SUSPECTS

Guardian Online (01/12/2010): Nick Clegg to announce timetable for ending child detentions

Guardian Online (28/11/2010): To see how fascism can be throttled, look at Barking

Guardian Online (28/11/2010): The Conservatives' immigration cap is a control that seems to suit nobody

Guardian Online (28/11/2010): Croydon asylum centre will be as bad as Yarl's Wood, says charity

Refugee Council (25/11/2010): Refugee Council response to Home Office child detention and asylum stats published today

Independent Online (23/11/10): Migrant workers to be cut by a fifth

CMRB/Runnymede Trust Conference - 'Secularism, Racism and the Politics of Belonging' - 27 January 2011

Migrants' Rights Network Newsletter

CMRB Seminars in November

Refugee Academics- Britain as a place of sanctuary November 8th, 5.30pm

UEL: Cite Them Right - Online Version

New CMRB Events Released

Archive Opening Hours for Semester A, 2010

News Stories

Updated News Stories

Updated List of News Links

Archive News Stories

Refugee Archive Summer Opening Hours 2010

Update on Recent News Stories

Refugee Archive Newsletter & Acquisitions

Updated News Stories (12 April 2010)

Update on Stories in the News

Weekly News Round-up by the Refugee Archive

Selected Publications from Different Sources

Weekly News Round Up

A Selection of News Stories (08 February 2010).

A Selection of Recent Publications

Fast-Tracked Unfairness :Detention and Denial of Women Asylum Seekers in the UK

News Stories - Updated 01 March 2010

Refugee Archive Closure on Tuesday 2 March

Stories in the News

Giving voice to the voiceless - Public Lecture Series 4 March 2010

CMRB Seminars, Book Launch and Associated Events

Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship - Life Stories From Britain and Germany

Umut Erel (The Open University) and Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University) discuss Umut Erel's book

Tuesday 11 May

The Invisible Empire - White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging

Georgie Wemyss (Goldsmiths College) and Vron Ware (The Open University) discuss Georgie Wemyss's book

Tuesday 18 May

Book Launch

Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in ContemporaryEuropean Cinema by Yosefa Loshitzky

28 May, 6-8pm, Senate House, University of London, Room G22/26

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ginette Vincendeau, King’s CollegeFilm director Jasmin Dizdar and Yosefa Loshitzky in conversation

Associated events

Launch of the Exiled Journalists' Network

4 March, 5-6.30pm, UEL

Speaker: Mike Jempson, Director, The MediaWise Trust and Senior Lecturer in Jounalism, University of the West of England

Followed by a reception and launch of the Exiled Journalists' Network

Imaging Migrants: CMRB & Matrix Seminar Series at UEL

Imaging Migrants

a seminar series jointly organised by CMRB and Matrix

On ‘the right to have rights’ over refugees’ and migrants’ images - Eyal Sivan

State of Play: critique, diaspora and digital archives - Roshini Kempadoo

Two Theses on the Afghan Woman: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf Filming Agheleh Farahmand - Haim Bresheeth

Journeys of Identity and Place - Jill Daniels

Simone Weil's The Need for Roots and the Soul of Migration - Dr Anat Pick

Conference: Migration, the Media and the Message, 29-30 March 2010

Migration, the Media and the Message

Migrants using media to turn around the immigration debate

University of East London, 29-30 March 2010

FMR 34 with Feature on Urban Displacement

2010 High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, Background Paper: Protection Gaps and Challenges (UNHCR, Nov. 2010) [text]

Fit for the Future? Strengthening the Leadership Pillar of Humanitarian Reform (NGOs and Humanitarian Reform Project, Nov. 2010) [text]

Independent Online (07/12/2010): MP's assistant is fighting deportation

Human Rights Watch (06/12/2010): Greece: End Inhumane Detention Conditions for Migrants

Human Rights Watch (04/12/2010): Burma: Eyewitness Accounts of Abuses in Eastern Fighting

Amnesty International (03/12/2010): IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTER CONDEMNED FOR DEMANDING EXECUTION OF AL-QAI’DA SUSPECTS

Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary
European Cinema by Yosefa Loshitzky

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ginette Vincendeau, King’s College

Film director Jasmin Dizdar and Yosefa Loshitzky in conversation