FMR 34 with Feature on Urban Displacement

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/
  

Forced Migration Review

A special supplement edition of the Forced Migration Review journal has just been published and is entitled: Islam, human rights and displacement.

Now online at: http://www.fmreview.org/human-rights.htm

Full details form the press release are available as follows and hard copies will me made available in the Refugee Archive in due course:

FMR's 12-page supplement on Islam, human rights and displacement will soon be available in Arabic and English.

We hope it will enhance debate and understanding of the concepts and
instruments of international human rights in the Islamic world. More
information is online at http://www.fmreview.org/human-rights.htm

How to request copies:

All readers who usually receive the Arabic edition (NHQ) of FMR will receive a copy of the supplement in Arabic with their copy of NHQ 31 in January. You therefore do not need to request it UNLESS you would like to receive multiple copies for training purposes and/or onward distribution.

The English version of the supplement will NOT be mailed out to regular readers of FMR. You need to email us to request copies. We are keen to distribute copies to organisations which would find it useful for training and awareness-raising purposes. We would also be happy to send it to libraries and resource centres.

If you would like copies of the supplement, please email us at
fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk, indicating:
- which language
- how many
- your full postal address
- and, preferably, how you propose using it.

REMINDER
If you have not already done so, we would be extremely grateful if you would complete our reader survey at http://www.fmreview.org/2008survey.htm This will help us make sure FMR is meeting your needs and give us ideas of how we might improve it. Thank you!

Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson & Musab Hayatli
Forced Migration Review

fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk www.fmreview.org
+44 1865 280700 Skype: fmreview

Posted in: Refugee Studies and Periodicals.

Conferences, Events and Calls for Papers

Call for papers for the workshop on 'Environmental Change and Migration:
Evidence and Developing Norms for Response'. This conference is being organised by the Refugee Studies Centre and the International Migration Institute and will be held on 8 and 9 January 2009 in Oxford.

Further details can be found on the Refugee Studies website at: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/conf_conferences.html

A conference on Refugee Warehousing, Pittsburgh, organised by FORGE and which will take place at Pittsburgh, (USA), between 10-12 October. Full details available online at: www.refugeeconference.org.

Forced Migration Review issue 33 - to be published in May 2009 - will
include a feature on 'Protracted displacement situations'. The deadline for submission of articles will be: 18 January 2009
See www.fmreview.org/protracted.htm
<http://www.fmreview.org/protracted.htm> for full details.

One day course – 12 November: ‘Working with interpreters’
An invaluable course for anyone who uses interpreters on a regular basis. The course offers guidance on good practice when working with interpreters to ensure you are acting within the law and in the best interests of your client.

To book please email training@refugeecouncil.org.uk
Fees: £99 reduced rate (NGO or voluntary organisation), £160 standard rate (statutory/educational body/business)
Course venue: Refugee Council, 240 – 250 Ferndale Road, London SW9 8BB

Posted in: Conferences & Events.

Newsletters. Journals and Table of Contents (ToC).

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has published issue no.12 of its Echoes Newsletter.
Download the newsletter at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/echoes_newsletter_twelve.pdf (pdf file, 652kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations E-mail Digest - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Title - Forced Migration Review No. 30 - Burma's displaced people
Source - Forced Migration Review, University of Oxford
Date - Apr 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7DYHZ9?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Refugee Survey Quarterly: Volume 27, Number 1, 2008 - UNHCR and the Global Cold War. The Table of Contents for this volume is now available via the Oxford Journals website at: http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl

Posted in: Periodicals.

FMR Burma issue now online

The latest issue of Forced Migration Review (FMR 30) with its feature
section on ‘Burma’s displaced people’ is now online at
www.fmreview.org/burma.htm

With the ‘Saffron revolution’ of September 2007, Burma was catapulted
into the centre of international attention. It was briefly headline news
as people monitored the regime’s response and watched for hints of
progress towards democracy and the restoration of rights. With little
action on either front (and no visible resurgence of violence or
protest), interest has since waned. This issue of FMR aims to help bring
the crisis of forced displacement of Burmese people back into the
international spotlight.

The feature section on Burma includes 29 articles exploring the extent
of the displacement crisis, factors affecting displaced people and the
search for solutions. The issue also includes 19 articles on other
aspects of forced migration.

We would like to thank Inge Brees, guest editor for the Burma feature
section, and those agencies that have provided funding specifically for
this issue: DanChurchAid, DFAIT Canada, International Rescue Committee,
UK Department for International Development and ZOA Refugee Care.

This issue will be published in Burmese as well as our usual four
languages: English, Arabic, French and Spanish.

This issue will be distributed to our usual mailing list shortly. If you
usually receive FMR, you do not need to contact us unless you require
multiple copies.

If you do not usually receive FMR but would like to receive a hard copy
for your organisation, or multiple copies for distribution to partners
and policy- and decision-makers, please contact fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk You
will need to send us your full postal address and indicate how many
copies in which language you require.

Please feel free to reproduce and circulate any articles, crediting
Forced Migration Review and citing the URL www.fmreview.org/burma.htm.

The feature themes of the next two issues of FMR in 2008 are climate
change/environmental displacement (www.fmreview.org/climatechange.htm)
and statelessness (www.fmreview.org/statelessness.htm). If you would
like to write for either, please look at the calls for articles online
and contact us as soon as possible at fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk. Many thanks.

Apologies for any cross-posting of this message.

With best wishes

Marion Couldrey and Maurice Herson
Editors, Forced Migration Review

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Forced Migration Review

News from the Forced Migration Review journal is that the latest issue of the journal, Number 30, will be published later this month on the subject of Burma. The journal will include a number of articles relating to Burma and will examine "the causes and patterns of displacement; the experiences, needs and coping strategies of Burmese refugees and IDPs; the challenges in providing protection and assistance; and the search for durable solutions."

This also acts as a good opportunity to remind everyone that whilst the Refugee Archives here at UEL hold a current hard copy subscription to Forced Migration review, the journal is also freely available as a full-text online journal via the Forced Migration Review web site at: http://www.fmreview.org/

The journal is now also fully searchable via the Forced Migration Online website at: http://fmo.qeh.ox.ac.uk/fmo/index.asp

Posted in: Periodicals and Web Sites & Tools.

FMR 29

Issue 29 of Forced Migration Review (http://www.fmreview.org) – to be published
in October 2007 – will include a feature section on

The implications of humanitarian reform

There is currently much debate within the international community about the
proposed reforms to the humanitarian architecture (see
http://www.humanitarianreform.org) and the proposed introduction of the ‘One
UN’ approach. To what extent will these reforms help ensure more effective
international responses to forced migration? The FMR editors would welcome
practice-oriented submissions, reflecting a diverse range of opinions, which
address questions such as the following:

- Is the objective of improving humanitarian response enhanced or endangered by
the ‘One UN’ proposal?
- What are the implications for principles of impartiality and neutrality?
- What does partnership between UN and non-UN humanitarian agencies mean in
practice for refugees and IDPs?
- What are the potential implications of the 'One UN' pilots on humanitarian
space?
- To what extent will the proposed reforms help plug the gap in terms of
protection of and assistance to IDPs?
- Is the pooling of humanitarian funds under the Central Emergency Response
Fund (CERF) proving effective?
- Do newly prominent, non-traditional donors - those outside OECD/DAC - have a
sufficient voice in humanitarian decision-making processes?
- What lessons are being learned from the Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD)
initiative pilots?
- Given that GHD's Principle 6 stresses allocation of funding on the basis of
need, how can humanitarian organisations and donors work together to ensure
this Principle is realised and better humanitarian outcomes are achieved?
- What is the likely impact of the Global Humanitarian Platform (GHP) and
proposed Principles of Partnership (PoP)?
- Given that some UN agencies have shown greater willingness and/or capacity
than others to cooperate with NGOs, can there be consistency in approaches to
partnership?
- How can humanitarian organisations ensure that their responses are motivated
by the humanitarian imperative and that humanitarian principles guide their
work?
- How far can humanitarian organisations cooperate and coordinate with
political and/or military actors without their motivations being called into
question?
- How can organisations ensure they are viewed as independent and impartial,
particularly in situations like Iraq and Afghanistan?
- How can we avoid the ‘command and control’ approach to coordination,
especially when there is a large number of local, national and international
humanitarian actors?
- To what extent have the views of civil society and refugees/IDPs themselves
been taken into account in developing proposals for humanitarian reform? Do the
proposals reflect their needs and wishes?
- What role should the private sector play in contributing to humanitarian
responses?
- What is the impact of recent reforms on the selection and training of UN
humanitarian personnel?

Deadline for final submission of articles: 1st September 2007.

Information for FMR authors is at: http://www.fmreview.org/writing.htm. Please
write to us at fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk as soon as possible if you are interested in
contributing or have suggestions of colleagues who may be able to.

New Issue of Forced Migration Review

The latest issue of Forced Migration Review (FMR28)

Enhancing Southern capacity: rhetoric and reality

is now online at http://www.fmreview.org/capacitybuilding.htm

Virtually every humanitarian agency talks about their commitment to building –
or enhancing – Southern capacity. To our surprise, however, our call for papers
for this issue did not produce the flood of articles we expected. Perhaps this
tells us something about lack of fit between rhetoric and reality? Do
international agencies still define ‘capacity building’ in a way which implies
that Southern recipients have no capacity to start with? Is the capacity-
building industry a North-driven, patronising and uni-directional transfer of
knowledge? Is there genuine commitment to helping nationally-based
organisations respond to future crises? The first 15 articles in this issue
address these and other questions.

FMR 28 – which will be published in English, Arabic, Spanish and French – also
includes 23 articles on a wide range of other subjects.

FMR would appreciate your help to maximise impact.

This issue will be distributed to our usual mailing list shortly, accompanied
by our special issue on Iraq (‘Iraq’s displacement crisis: the search for
solutions’, online at http://www.fmreview.org/iraq.htm). If you usually receive
FMR, you do not need to request either of these issues (unless you require
multiple copies).

If you do not usually receive FMR but would like to receive a hard copy for
your organisation, or multiple copies for distribution to partners and policy-
and decision-makers, please contact the Editors at fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk We will
need your full postal address and indication of how many copies in which
language you require.

Please feel free to reproduce any articles in either issue, crediting ‘Forced
Migration Review’ and citing the URL of the particular issue.