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: Migrants Rights News

Volume: 11.
Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/enews/2008/october.htm
Source: Institute for Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/ (Web)

Additional Info: Full Text.

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Title: International Review of the Red Cross

Volume: Volume 90 Number 870.
Date: October June 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_review_2008_870?OpenDocument
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info: Full Text.

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Title: Journal of Humanitarian Assistance

Volume: Latest Article Release – 25 October 2008.
Date: 25 October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://jha.ac/2008/10/25/humanitarian-action-on-the-battlefields-of-the-global-war-on-terror/
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info: Open Access Full Text.

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Title: Women's Asylum News

Volume: Number 78.
Date: October / November 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/publications.php?category=5&search=Search
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info: Full Text. Also available via the Refworld website at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4906d6872.html

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Title: Journal of Peace Research

Volume: Volume 45 Number 6.
Date: November 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/vol45/issue6/
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)

Additional Info: Table of Contents.

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Title: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture

Volume: Volume 18 Number 2.
Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.irct.org/Default.aspx?ID=3699
Source: IRCT - http://www.irct.org/ (Web)

Additional Info: Full Text.

Posted in: Periodicals.

A couple more events...

Conferences, Events and Calls for Papers

International migrants in rural areas: communities, impacts and issues
http://www.ippr.org/events/?id=3235
7 October 2008, St Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, 10am-4pm
The event, organised by think tank ippr, aims to:

- present new research on the impact of migration on public services in rural areas

- examine ways in which public services might become more responsive to migrants

- present new research on the risk to rural economies caused by changing migration flows, and look at how these risks can be managed.

More information at weblink above.

(Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest – http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/)

Information services for migrants and refugees
http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/international/activities/training/default.htm

Tue 14 Oct 2008, British Library pm (registration from 1.30pm)

The International and Library Information Group (ILIG) of CILIP is running two half-day seminars on this day, one of which is on information services for migrants and refugees. It includes presentations by Helen Carpenter (Paul Hamlyn Foundation and former WTYL Project Co-ordinator), Diana Edmonds (Assistant Director Culture, Libraries and Learning, London Borough of Haringey) and Amanuel Gebrekidan (British Broadcasting Corporation, Future Media and Technology, Information and Archives) and will be chaired by Stephanie Kenna from the British Library. For more information and how to book see weblink above

(Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest – http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/)

Posted in: Conferences & Events.

Second Class citizens: Are Progressives Failing Migrants?

The Migrants’ Rights Network will be present at the Compass ‘Born Free and Equal’ conference which will take place in London on Saturday 14^th June.

We are organising a fringe seminar with the Barrow Cadbury Trust, which will take place at 1:30 pm, entitled:

Second Class citizens: Are Progressives Failing Migrants?

Speakers are:

Jack Dromey, Assistant General Secretary, UNITE

Sukhvinder Stubbs, CEO, Barrow Cadbury Trust,

Zrinka Bralo, Migrant and Refugee Community Forum;

Don Flynn, MRN Sukhvinder Stubbs, Barrow Cadbury Trust

Please note that to attend this seminar you will need to register for the main ‘Born Free and Equal’ conference. To register, and for further information about the conference, visit the Compass website at http://www.compassonline.org.uk/conference/.

Best regards,

Don Flynn

Director

Migrants' Rights Network

Club Union House

253-254 Upper Street

London N1 1RY

Tel: (44) (0)20 7288 1267

Fax: (44) (0)20 7354 5620

Email: d.flynn@migrantsrights.org.uk

Website: http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk

Posted in: News.