These two reports listed below have just been posted on the Forced Migration Discussion List. Archives and further details on how subscribe can be found here: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html
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From Refugee to Citizen - New Research from the Institute for Public Policy Research
http://www.mst-online.org.uk/researchandconsultancyunit.html
The research was commissioned as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Refugee Support (formerly the Refugee Housing Association), a charity founded in the autumn of 1957 to provide housing for Hungarian refugees who had settled in the UK. It comprised 30 life history interviews with refugees who had arrived in the UK between 1956 and 2006. The research examined how refugees understood their own integration and journey to citizenship, notions of home and what it means to be British.
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Please find attached Listening to Youth: The Experiences of Young People in Northern Uganda (http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/ug_machel_short.pdf).
[List mod.'s note: Please visit the URL for the text of the report.] The summary report is based on findings from a May 2007 assessment to northern Uganda in which the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children interviewed young people about the impact of war on their lives and prospects for the future, and their recommendations to local, national and international actors. Findings from this study, supported by UNICEF, also contributed to the 10-year Strategic Review of the "Machel Study" on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children.
The report outlines immediate action that is required by the international community, in partnership with the Government of Uganda, local organizations and affected communities, to ensure that young people in the north are empowered to contribute to peace and prosperity in their country. Listening to Youth gives voice to young people's perspectives and recommendations as northern Uganda strives to restore security and rights for all of its citizens-providing critical lessons to the international community in their support to all regions affected by violent conflict.
In addition to the attached summary report, a "Report to Contributors" was developed in response to requests from young people interviewed who wanted to know how the information they shared would be used and what impact it would have. The "Report to Contributors" is available in English and Luo at
http://www.womenscommission.org/resources/index.cfm?limit=sector&limitID=1. We'd greatly appreciate if you would share with your networks and welcome any feedback on the reports.
Additional information about the Women's Commission's work on conflict-affected youth can be found at
http://womenscommission.org/projects/children/index.php.
Sincerely,
Jenny Perlman Robinson & Juliet Young
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Monday, 12 November 2007
Publications, Conferences & Other Newa
Publications:
Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog: List of new online publications available at: http://fm-pubs.blogspot.com/
Publications listed include:
Asylum Rights Watch: Summary of responses June – September 2007 (Asylum Aid, Oct. 2007) [text]
Researching the Legal Aspects of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom (GlobaLex, Nov. 2007) [text]
Other Publications of Note:
Refugee Heritage Project - Report on the London Museums Hub Project to record refugee heritage 2004-2006: available online via the MLA web site at: http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/renaissance/index.cfm?NavigationID=364
Conference News:
Details of the following conferences have been found on the Welcome To Your Library Email list:
Other News
Migration Bibliography: Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Consortium have created a new section on their website providing links to reports and research relating to new migrants in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Further details can be found on the web site at: http://www.refugeeaccess.info/default.asp?step=2&id=54
Asylum Aid: have recently launched their new and updated web site and this can be found at: http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/index.php
Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog: List of new online publications available at: http://fm-pubs.blogspot.com/
Publications listed include:
Asylum Rights Watch: Summary of responses June – September 2007 (Asylum Aid, Oct. 2007) [text]
Researching the Legal Aspects of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom (GlobaLex, Nov. 2007) [text]
Other Publications of Note:
Refugee Heritage Project - Report on the London Museums Hub Project to record refugee heritage 2004-2006: available online via the MLA web site at: http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/renaissance/index.cfm?NavigationID=364
Conference News:
Details of the following conferences have been found on the Welcome To Your Library Email list:
Community engagement workshop. Tue 20 Nov, Coventry
Community engagement through reading: a proactive role for public libraries. Fri 30 Nov, London
http://www.lga.gov.uk/Event.asp?lsection=46&id=SXB7C6-A7846A72
Older Refugees: from isolation to integration
Wed 09 Jan 2008, City Hall, London
This conference will focus on the issues, challenges and service needs of older refugees and asylum-seekers, concluding the Older Refugees Programme - a 2-year initiative, funded by Lloyds TSB, between Age Concern England, the Refugee Council, Age Concern London and the Greater London Association of Older Women (AGLOW). To register your interest in attending this conference, please email refugees@ace.org.uk or call 020 8765 7523.
http://www.lga.gov.uk/Event.asp?lsection=46&id=SXB7C6-A7846A72
Older Refugees: from isolation to integration
Wed 09 Jan 2008, City Hall, London
This conference will focus on the issues, challenges and service needs of older refugees and asylum-seekers, concluding the Older Refugees Programme - a 2-year initiative, funded by Lloyds TSB, between Age Concern England, the Refugee Council, Age Concern London and the Greater London Association of Older Women (AGLOW). To register your interest in attending this conference, please email refugees@ace.org.uk or call 020 8765 7523.
Museums and Refugees - Keeping Cultures conference
13-14 Mar 2008, Museum in Docklands, London
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Events/RefugeeMuseums.htm
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Events/RefugeeMuseums.htm
This international conference will explore how museums and heritage agencies respond to complex historical, ethical, legal, social and political issues. Museums, academic research centres, non-government organisations and government departments/agencies increasingly see the need to explore the cultural contributions and impact of refugee and asylum seeker groups on urban and regional centres.
These issues significantly affect museums’ policy and approaches: participation, curatorial decisions, collecting strategies, partnerships, approaches to programming, as well as shared decision making in collaborative exhibitions and public events. See weblink above for the questions that the conference will seek to address and further details.
Other News
Migration Bibliography: Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Consortium have created a new section on their website providing links to reports and research relating to new migrants in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Further details can be found on the web site at: http://www.refugeeaccess.info/default.asp?step=2&id=54
Asylum Aid: have recently launched their new and updated web site and this can be found at: http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/index.php
News Stories (12/11/07)
5,000 illegal workers in security (BBC News) - [text online]
Talks fail to end Sudan stand-off (BBC News) - [text online]
Somalis flee Mogadishu fighting (BBC News) - [text online]
Terror detention 'longest' in UK (BBC News) - [text online]
UN rights envoy enters Burma (The Independent) - [text online]
Imagine: a shortage of Polish plumbers (The Guardian) - [text online]
Thousands of illegal migrants in security jobs (The Guardian) - [text online]
Facing deportation - over 87p an hour (The Guardian) - [text online]
Last family leaves camp for displaced in Kosovo (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Conditions deteriorate for 2,000 Palestinians stuck at Iraq-Syria border - [text online]
Iraq: Landmine Impact Survey 2004 - 2006 (Reliefweb) - [text online]
United States humanitarian assistance for displaced Iraqis (Reliefweb) - [text online]
Situation remains unstable for Palestinian refugees at the Iraq-Syria
border (Reliefweb) - [text online]
DRC: UNHCR has stepped up its efforts to combat cholera in North Kivu camps (Reliefweb) - [text online]
UN TRIES TO RESETTLE PALESTINIANS TRAPPED IN REFUGEE CAMPS ON IRAQI-SYRIAN BORDER (UN News) - [text online]
Friday, 9 November 2007
News Stories (09/11/07)
Sudan defends expulsion of UN man (BBC News) - [text online]
Massage adverts to be withdrawn - sex trafficking (BBC News) - [text online]
Refugee child rights action urged (BBC News) - [text online]
Sri Lanka in false UK visa report (BBC News ) - [text online]
Slave's son who inspired the Chartists gets credit at last (The Independent) - [text online]
Cost of biometric passport 'over £100' (The Independent) - [text online]
ReliefWeb/
ReliefWeb/
Poland's growth will draw migrants home, says bank (The Guardian) - [text online]
Last family leaves camp for displaced in Kosovo (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UNHCR fits Malawi's refugees into one camp (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UNHCR picks up Freedom Award for its global work (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Top UNHCR official in Sudan to review operations (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Thursday, 8 November 2007
UNHCR Online Game & Other News Items
1) Refugee game offers fear, flight and safety – one click at a time. The UNHCR has just launched an English language version of their Against All Odds online game. The game is designed to be of educational value and is primarily aimed at schoolchildren. Further background information can be found in this UNHCR News Story released today and the game itself is available online at: http://www.playagainstallodds.com/
2) The UNHCR has also recently launched two online publications via the UNHCR website (www.unhcr.org) which may be of relevance to researchers and students. The first is entitled "Asylum in the European Union. A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive (November 2007) and this is available to download from: [by clicking here]; the second publication is entitled "UNHCR Position on the Situation of Asylum in Ukraine in the Context of Return of Asylum-Seekers October 2007" and again, this is available to download: [by clicking here].
3) Australia. Austcare (The Australian Humanitarian Aid NGO) has recently launched its latest annual report for the year 2006-07. This can be viewed on the Austcare website at: http://www.austcare.org.au/aboutus/annual-reports.aspx along with a brief online video highlighting the range of Austcare's programs over the last year.
4) Refugees International have just released a number of policy recommendations and fact sheets relating to the exodus of refugees from Zimbabwe. Download a .pdf of these policy recommendations and fact sheets.
2) The UNHCR has also recently launched two online publications via the UNHCR website (www.unhcr.org) which may be of relevance to researchers and students. The first is entitled "Asylum in the European Union. A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive (November 2007) and this is available to download from: [by clicking here]; the second publication is entitled "UNHCR Position on the Situation of Asylum in Ukraine in the Context of Return of Asylum-Seekers October 2007" and again, this is available to download: [by clicking here].
3) Australia. Austcare (The Australian Humanitarian Aid NGO) has recently launched its latest annual report for the year 2006-07. This can be viewed on the Austcare website at: http://www.austcare.org.au/aboutus/annual-reports.aspx along with a brief online video highlighting the range of Austcare's programs over the last year.
4) Refugees International have just released a number of policy recommendations and fact sheets relating to the exodus of refugees from Zimbabwe. Download a .pdf of these policy recommendations and fact sheets.
News Stories (08/11/07)
'Hundreds held' in Bhutto raids (BBC News) - [text online]
Emergency in Georgia after unrest (BBC News) - [text online]
UN official expelled from Darfur (BBC News) - [text online]
Chadians charged over kidnapping (BBC News) - [text online]
Gambari 'to meet Burma's Suu Kyi' (BBC News) - [text online]
MPs savage plan to double terror detention time limit (The Independent) - [text online]
Local Tories campaign for MP who backed Powell (The Independent) - [text online]
Heroine of the struggle against apartheid celebrates 90th birthday (The Independent) - [text online]
Trial opens of Serb 'who gave ethnic cleansing to world' (The Independent) - [text online]
UN refugee agency releases computer game in English (UN News) - [text online]
UN expert warns that racism is increasingly manifest as violence (UN News) - [text online]
Italy and Romania urge EU help with migrants (EU Observer) - [text online]
£28m cost of asylum centre that never was (The Guardian) - [text online]
Refugee game offers fear, flight and safety – one click at a time (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Refugees in South African city tell UNHCR they need help (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Researching Refugees Blog
A new Researching Refugees blog has been created by Elisa Mason. This blog was "created to track web technologies that can help refugee researchers keep up to date with new information in their field." It also supports Elisa's recent article in the latest edition of Refugee Survey Quarterly, (Volume 26 Number 3, 2007), entitled "Keeping up with refugee research."
The Researching Refugees Blog can be found at: http://researching-refugees.blogspot.com/
The Researching Refugees Blog can be found at: http://researching-refugees.blogspot.com/
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