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"Blaming the victims - Sarkozy and the plight of the Roma".
Speaker: Dr Jim Wolfreys, Kings College London.
Wednesday 17 November:2-5pm (Room TBC)
“Muslim Women and Marriage in Trans-jurisdictional Contexts”
Wednesday 24 November: 2-5pm in room EB.G.10
Speaker: Dr Prakash Shah, Queen Mary, University of London
How do immigration officials and judges manage when judging the validity of acts of marriage solemnisation, which take place on transjurisdictional terms? How do we explain their responses? These are some questions raised by this paper, which presents evidence gleaned from the writer’s
own work as an ‘expert’ witness in immigration cases. Two case studies have been selected on the basis that the chief issue in contestation is the validity of a trans-jurisdictional marriage among South Asian Muslims, and therefore raise the issue of whether the marriages are valid according
to Muslim law. The paper also raises some questions for future research, given that we know little as yet about how recognition of minority transjurisdictional marriages takes place across European legal systems and, in particular, the role of experts who get involved in the legal processes in which such marriages are contested.
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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.
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)
We recently received a significant donation of back issues of the journal entitled "Women’s Asylum News." The donation consisted Issues 49 (Feb 2005) through to Issue 74 (April 2008). This donation was very kindly given to us by the Refugee Women’s Resource Project @ Asylum Aid and supplements the back issues of this journal that we already held so we now hold an almost complete run from 2002 (Issue 20) onwards.
Further details about the Refugee Women's resource Project and online copies of the journal can be found via their web site at:
For your information, we attach the concluding observations adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at its fortieth session held from 14 January to 1 February 2008 in Geneva, in respect of reports submitted by 8 States parties. The documents are provided in advance unedited version and in the original language of adoption. The final versions, in all six official languages of the United Nations, will be available on the Treaty Body Database of the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (http://www.ohchr.org).
Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Committee adopted concluding observations in respect of the following States parties:
The Refugee Women's Resource Project has just published online the latest edition of their Women's Asylum News periodical (September/October 2007). This edition is available full test on their website at:
The Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK (ICAR) has just released a new briefing paper entitled Women Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK. This briefing paper is available to download from the ICAR website and further details can be found at:
ICAR state that "This briefing addresses four key issues relating to refugee women: the introduction of gender guidelines, female genital mutilation (FGM), the trafficking of women and women in detention. The briefing aims to complement ICAR’s Navigation Guide on Women Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the UK, which provides a broader overview of this subject."
