New Journal and Newsletter Volumes

Please find below a list of new and journal and newsletter releases relating to refugee studies and related topics. These have been accumulated from a range of online sources and links to the relevant full-text document are given where appropriate. Alternatively, a link will be given to the associated Table of Contents, (ToC). This list will be made available on a regular basis via our Refugee Studies blog (http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com), as new resources become available.

If you find any other new resources, then do please let us know at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

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Title: Refugee Survey Quarterly.

Volume: Vol. 27 No.3
Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl
Source: Oxford Journals - http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ (Web)

Additional Info: Special issue on Asylum and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Title: Asylum Support Partnership (ASP) Newsletter

Volume: 78.
Date: September 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/howwehelp/partners/partnership/newsletter.htm
Source: Refugee Council - http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/ (Web)

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Title: Conflict and Health

Volume: 2
Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://conflictandhealth.com/ (full-text)
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog: http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

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Title: Conflict Trends

Volume: 3
Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.accord.org.za/downloads/ct/ct_2008_3.pdf (full-text).
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog: http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

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Title: European Journal of Migration and Law

Volume: Vol. 10 No. 3
Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/emil/2008/00000010/00000003 (contents)
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog: http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

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Title: Humanitarian Exchange

Volume: No. 40.
Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.odihpn.org/report.asp?id=2956 (full-text)
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog: http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

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Title: Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volume: Vol. 12 No. 5
Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117980142/home
Source: (Web)

Posted in: Periodicals.

New Periodicals

Ten years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. A Special Issue of Forced Migration Review is now available via the Forced Migration review web site at: www.fmreview.org/GuidingPrinciples10.htm

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

The Refugee Women's Resource Project (RWRP) at Asylum Aid has published issue no.76 of 'Women's Asylum News'.
Download the issue at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/RWRP_Issue_76.pdf (pdf file, 1mb)

(Source: Institute for Race Relations News - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 17, no. 1 (2008) [contents]
- Includes an article on displacement from the Three Gorges dam in China.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Conflict Trends, no. 1 (2008) [full-text]
- Tenth anniversary issue.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 17, no. 3 (2008) [contents]
- Special issue on "Social perspectives on disasters in SE Asia."
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Field Exchange, no. 33 (June 2008) [full-text]
- Focus is on nutrition problems.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 21 (Spring 2008) [full-text]
- Mix of articles on human rights.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 20, no. 1 (March 2008) [contents]
- Articles examine the EU refugee qualification directive, Canadian refugee status determination (RSD), Canadian jurisprudence, and the relationship between the ICC and RSD.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (June 2008) [full-text]
- New article added entitled "Have Islamic aid agencies a privileged relationship in majority Muslim areas? The case of post-tsunami reconstruction in Aceh."
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 9, no. 2 (June 2008) [contents]
- Theme of this issue is "Attracting new arrivals to smaller cities and rural communities: findings from Australia, Canada and New Zealand."

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

Torture Journal, vol. 18, no. 1 (2008) [full-text]
- Includes several articles on the impact of trauma and exposure to conflict on various populations, including displaced Turkish Cypriots.

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

Posted in: Periodicals.

Newsletters and Periodicals

Journal of Refugee Studies: Volume 21, Number 1, March 2008. The Table of Contents is available on the Oxford Journals website at: [Table of Contents (PDF)] or at: http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl. UEL has both hard copy and online subscriptions to this journal.

International Journal of Refugee Law: Volume 19 Number 4, (December 2007, [listed as December 2008]). Contents is available on the Oxford Journals website at: [Table of Contents (PDF)]; or at: http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol19/issue4/. UEL has both hard copy and online subscriptions to this journal.

RCO NEWS
The January/February issue of RCO News includes an article by Refugee Council’s Chief Executive Donna Covey, an interview about the needs of the Iraqi community in the north east of England, updates on cases, changes to the Section 4 accommodation process, results of the Refugee Council New Asylum Model survey, funding information and an article on the relaunch of Refugee Council’s ‘vouchers’ campaign.
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/howwehelp/support/communities/community/newsletters.htm
(Source: Refugee Council – http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk).

RCO WOMEN’S NEWS
The latest issue of RCO Women’s News includes an article on International Women’s Day, funding opportunities and new publications for gender based projects, plus an upcoming training course on working with female survivors of violence and abuse.
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/howwehelp/support/communities/community/newsletters.htm
(Source: Refugee Council – http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk).

Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 17, no. 1 (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles including one on learning the lessons of disasters from the past 105 years.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Disasters, vol. 32, no. 1 (March 2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles including one on IDP women in Colombia.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 9, no. 4 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1 (Feb. 2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles including one on human trafficking.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 34, no. 3 (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles including one on asylum-seekers and refugees in the UK.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Human Security Research, no. 38 (Feb. 2008) [text]
- Reviews recent studies on human security-related topics.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Monday Developments, vol. 25, no. 12 (Dec. 2007) [info.]
- Focus is "Tackling Accountability"; online version coming soon.

Programme on Conflict and Peacebuilding Monthly Newsletter, no. 23 (Jan. 2008) [text]
- Includes feature article on Kenya.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Refugee Rights News, vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 2008) [text]
- Includes feature article on Kenya.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

UN Chronicle, vol. XLIV, no. 3 (2007) [text]
- Focus is on racism and racial discrimination; includes an article on asylum.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Posted in: Periodicals.

Indonesian Papua: A Local Perspective on the Conflict - New Crisis Group briefing

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP - NEW BRIEFING

Indonesian Papua: A Local Perspective on the Conflict

Jakarta/Brussels, 19 July 2007: Local priorities in Papua are often quite different from those generally associated with the province.

Indonesian Papua: A Local Perspective on the Conflict*, the latest Crisis Group briefing to examine micro-politics in Indonesia’s troubled regions, puts the remote Boven Digoel district under a microscope. It highlights two issues of broader relevance to Papua as a whole: first, the dangers of ethnic politics often triggered by pemekaran (the division of provinces and districts into ever more administrative units) and, secondly, the social tensions that large-scale natural resource investment can generate.

“Most outside observers see only one dimension of conflict in Papua”, says Francesca Lawe-Davies, an analyst with Crisis Group’s South East Asia Project, “but it is far more complex than simply the Indonesian government vs. the independence movement. Equally important are tensions between different tribal groups, and between indigenous Papuans and non-Papuan settlers, as well as competition over political power and access to spoils”.

The clamour for pemekaran is not unique to Papua but it is especially problematic there, since it often leads to an increase in troop numbers and an influx of non-Papuan migrants – two core grievances of the indigenous community. It has also tended to intensify competition among tribal elites over access to political power and natural resource revenues. Pemekaran may, in some cases, help speed up development and access to basic services but it is critical that the government undertake rigorous assessments to ensure local ethnic and tribal tensions are not exacerbated.

Boven Digoel’s experience also illustrates the potential pitfalls of large-scale natural resource development. Outside investment in logging and plantations offers revenue and jobs to the region, but it can lead to social conflict. Indigenous Papuans resent the influx of non-Papuan workers, who often land the better-paid jobs. Logging and plantations damage or destroy local livelihoods, and there are often disputes over compensation. More fundamentally, the lack of clear legal standing for customary land rights under Indonesian law means that local communities have little ability to resist the expropriation of their land for logging or plantations.

“It is not the headline issues of independence and human rights which resonate most strongly in Boven Digoel but bread-and-butter concerns about land, livelihoods and ethnic identity”, says John Virgoe, Crisis Group’s new South East Asia Project Director. “There is a real risk that the rapid growth in logging and in oil palm plantations in many parts of Papua will contribute to social conflict. Establishing a clear legal framework for customary land rights and an arrangement for managing the flow of non-Papuan settlers would do a lot to mitigate this risk”.

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Kimberly Abbott (Washington) 1 202 785 1601
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*Read the full Crisis Group briefing on our website: http://www.crisisgroup.org

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