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

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

See Also: http://www.academic-refugees.org/lectures.asp

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

Journal of Refugee Studies - Table of Contents

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

Details form Oxford Journals:
Journal of Refugee Studies special issue: Methodologies of Forced 
Migration Research

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

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

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Journal of Refugee Studies Table of Contents Alert

A new issue of Journal of Refugee Studies is available online:

September 2007; Vol. 20, No. 3

The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol20/issue3/index.dtl

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Report

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Can We Talk and Is Anybody Listening? Reflections on IASFM 10, ‘Talking Across Borders: New Dialogues in Forced Migration’

Loren B. Landau

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:335-348.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/335

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Debate

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Forced Migration Studies: Could We Agree Just to ‘Date’?

James C. Hathaway

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:349-369.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/349

Response to Hathaway

Roberta Cohen

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:370-376.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/370

To Date or To Marry: That is the Question

Howard Adelman and Susan McGrath

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:376-380.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/376

Response to Hathaway

Josh DeWind

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:381-385.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/381

Rejoinder

James C. Hathaway

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:385-390.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/385

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Articles

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Supporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Glasgow: The Role of Multi-agency Networks

Karen Wren

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:391-413.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/391

Meaning or Measurement? Researching the Social Contexts of Health and Settlement among Newly-arrived Refugee Youth in Melbourne, Australia

Sandra M. Gifford, Christine Bakopanos, Ida Kaplan, and Ignacio Correa-Velez

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:414-440.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/414

Living in Religious Time and Space: Iraqi Refugees in Dearborn, Michigan

Marwa Shoeb, Harvey M. Weinstein, and Jodi Halpern

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:441-460.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/441

Refugee Camp Economies

Eric Werker

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:461-480.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/461

Sharing the Burden: The Role of Government and NGOs in Protecting and Providing for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Japan

Meryll Dean and Miki Nagashima

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:481-508.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/481

Convention Plus as a Norm-Setting Exercise

Alexander Betts and Jean-François Durieux

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:509-535.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/509

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Book Reviews

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Catching Fire: Containing Complex Displacement in a Volatile World. Edited by Nicholas Van Hear and Chris McDowell. • The Uprooted: Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration. By Susan F. Martin, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Kari M. Jorgensen, Andrew Schoenholtz and Lydia Mann-Bondat.

Anna Schmidt

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:536-539.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/536

Trafficking and the Global Sex Industry. Edited by Karen Beeks and Delila Amir.

Susan Kneebone

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:539-542.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/539

Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Contemporary World. By David J. Whittaker. • Refugees in a Global Era. By Philip Marfleet.

Natalie Ondiak

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:542-546.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/542

Proof, Evidentiary Assessment and Credibility in Asylum Procedures. Edited by Gregor Noll.

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:546-548.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/546

Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement. By Wendy Everett and Peter Wagstaff.

David Turton

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:548-549.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/3/548

Journal of Refugee Studies [ToC]

The table of contents [ToC] for the latest issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies, namely Volume 20, Number 2, (June 2007) is now available via the publishers website at : http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/

Details of the articles themselves are as follows:

More Labels, Fewer Refugees: Remaking the Refugee Label in an Era of Globalization

Roger Zetter

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:172-192.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/172

‘Generations’ in Forced Migration: Towards Greater Clarity

Peter Loizos

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:193-209.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/193

The Microphysics of Participation in Refugee Research

Giorgia Doná

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:210-229.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/210

Methodological Challenges for National and Multi-sited Comparative Survey Research

Alice Bloch

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:230-247.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/230

Stories as Lived Experience: Narratives in Forced Migration Research

Marita Eastmond

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:248-264.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/248

Researching Refugee Youth in the Middle East: Reflections on the Importance of Comparative Research

Dawn Chatty

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:265-280.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/265

In Search of ‘Invisible’ Actors: Barriers to Access in Refugee Research

Barbara Harrell-Bond and Eftihia Voutira

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:281-298.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/281

Beyond ‘Do No Harm’: The Challenge of Constructing Ethical Relationships in Refugee Research

Catriona Mackenzie, Christopher McDowell, and Eileen Pittaway

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:299-319.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/299

Linkages Methodology: No Man is an Island

Elizabeth Colson

Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20:320-333.
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/320