Last Minute January Events/More February Events

Comparative Approaches to the Use of International Human Rights Law in Asylum Cases in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, London, 31 January 2012 [info]
- The next lecture in the Refugee Law Initiative's seminar series.

Forced Migration, Statelessness and Issues of Citizenship in South Asia, New Delhi, 22-23 March 2012 [info]
- Application deadline is 31 January 2012.

Using Evidence to Support Traumatised Women Seeking Asylum, London, 7 February 2012 [info]
- Scroll to p. 17; free training by the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law; register by 31 January 2012.

Reminder! CARFMS12: Restructuring Refuge and Settlement - Responding to the Global Dynamics of Displacement, Toronto, 16-18 May 2012 [info]
- The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to 31 January 2012.

Ockenden International Lecture, Oxford, 7 February 2012 [info]
- Lecture marking the "establishment of the Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellowship in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration."

Junior International Law Scholars Association, Athens, Georgia, U.S., 10 February 2012 [info] [info]
- Panel 3 will focus on "New Perspectives on Human Rights, Refugee, and International Humanitarian Law."

Transnational Migration and Global Development, 2012 PhD Conference, Bergen, 20-22 June 2012 [info]
- Includes a thematic area on "Segregated zones of living: refugee camps, asylum centers, ghettos." Abstracts must be submitted by 15 February 2012.

Related post:

- February Events & Opportunities

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Focus on Asylum Issues in the U.S. and UK

Credibility Determinations are not Credible (The Asylumist, Jan. 2012) [Part one] [Part two] [Part three]

Discretionary Powers of the Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals and Issues Surrounding Particular Social Groups (Birdsong's Law Blog, Jan. 2012) [text]

Guidance for Adjudicating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Refugee and Asylum Claims (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Dec. 2011) [text]

"I feel like as a woman I'm not welcome": A Gender Analysis of UK Asylum Law, Policy and Practice (Asylum Aid, Jan. 2012) [text]

The Interpretation of the Convention Ground of 'Membership of a Particular Social Group' in the Context of Gender-related Claims for Asylum: A Critical Analysis of the Tribunal’s Approach in the UK, Working Paper, no. 3 (Refugee Law Initiative, Jan. 2012) [text]

"Rough Justice: Inside the British Asylum System," Refuge, vol. 27, no. 2 (2010) [full-text]

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New Issues of Conflict & Education, JID, Intl. Migration, Refuge

Conflict and Education, vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2011) [full-text]

- Inaugural issue. The journal's purpose is "to promote research and inform policy so that access to, and quality of education delivery in war-affected societies may be improved." Includes "Conflict, Education and Displacement."

International Migration, vol. 50, no. 1 (Feb. 2012) [contents]

- Includes features on "Turkish Migration" and "Diaspora."

Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 2, no. 1 (Jan. 2012) [open access]
- Contents include "Development induced displacement in the African context: what says the African Union convention?," "The fourth republic, the orgy of violence and the plight of internally displaced persons in Nigeria, 1999-2009," "Return and resettlement of the displaced Pandits in Kashmir, India," "The war against terror and the issue of internally displaced people in Pakistan in the post 9/11 period," and "Politics of the ungoverned: accountability structures for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon." Also includes one book review. Visitors must register to gain access to the complete texts of articles.

Refuge: Canada's Periodical on Refugees, vol. 27, no. 2 (2010) [full-text]

- Special issue on "Higher Education." Also includes articles on the British asylum system and on EXCOM Conclusions, as well as three book reviews.

Tagged Periodicals.

Health-related Articles

"Epidemiology of Respiratory Viral Infections in Two Long-term Refugee Camps in Kenya, 2007-2010," BMC Infectious Diseases 12:7 (Jan. 2012) [open access text]

"The Hopes of West African Refugees during Resettlement in Northern Sweden: A 6-year Prospective Qualitative Study of Pathways and Agency Thoughts," Conflict and Health 6:1 (Jan. 2012 [open access text]

"An Ill Wind? Climate Change, Migration and Health," Environmental Health Perspectives, Online Ahead of Print (Jan. 2012) [open access text]

"Long-Term Impact of War on Healthcare Costs: An Eight-Country Study," PLoS ONE 7(1): e29603 (Jan. 2012) [open access text]

"A New Clinic Model for Refugee Health Care: Adaptation of Cultural Safety," Rural and Remote Health, vol. 12, art. no. 1826 (Jan. 2012) [open access text]

"Policies and Practices in the Health-related Reception of Quota Refugees in Denmark," Danish Medical Journal, vol. 59, no. 1 (Jan. 2012) [full-text]

"Refugees and Mental Health Care in Africa: What Can Be Done?," African Journal of Traumatic Stress, vol. 2, no. 1 (2011) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 10.

"Somali Refugees, Mental Health and Employability in the South West: Exploring the Barriers to Inclusion," CESR Review (Jan. 2012) [full-text]

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Writing Opportunities

UNHCR's Policy Development and Evaluation Service (PDES) is now accepting contributions to its working paper series, "New Issues in Refugee Research." Here is the style guide.

In addition, the following journals have issued calls for papers:

Journal of Internal Displacement [info]
- The July 2012 issue will focus on "Forced Migration and Displacement during the Arab Spring." The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2012.

Migration Studies [info]

- This new journal, to be launched in Spring 2013, is seeking contributions; no deadline has been specified.

Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration [info]

- Submissions for the Spring 2012 issue will be accepted until 6 February 2012.

Refuge: Canada's Periodical on Refugees [info]

- Articles are requested for a special issue on the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention: "Is the 1951 Convention Outdated?"; deadline is 30 March 2012.

Finally, Forced Migration Review (FMR) is soliciting feedback regarding proposed themes for its forthcoming issues. More information can be found in this FMList posting.

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Focus on Children, Education

(updated)

Publications:

Comparative Study on Practices in the Field of Return of Minors (ECRE & Save the Children, Dec. 2011) [text via Refworld]
- See also related checklist. For more information about this project, visit ECRE's web page.

Higher Education for Refugees. Special issue of Refuge: Canada's Periodical on Refugees, vol. 27, no. 2 (2010) [full-text]

Landing in Dover: The Immigration Process Undergone by Unaccompanied Children Arriving in Kent (Children's Commissioner of England, Jan. 2012) [text]

Seeking Support: A Guide to the Rights and Entitlements of Separated Children, 4th ed. (Coram Children's Legal Centre, Jan. 2012) [text]
- See also related web site.

"Supporting Refugee Students in Schools: What Constitutes Inclusive Education?," International Journal of Inclusive Education, vol. 16, no. 1 (2012) [preprint]

Voice of Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers on Guardianship: A Study on Guardians of Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers in Cyprus (Hope for Children, 2011) [text via Terre des Hommes]

We Have Arrived: A Dialogue with Young Refugees in Germany (UNHCR, Dec. 2011) [text]

Winding Pathways: Supporting Refugee Students in High School - A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of One EAL Teacher in Manitoba, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies (University of Manitoba, Dec. 2011) [text]

Forthcoming publication:

"I just want to study": Access to Higher Education for Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Refugee Support Network, Jan. 2012) [info]

Web site:

Irregular Voices: Snapshots of the everyday lives of migrant children in Britain [access]
- "This is the blog of the 'Migrant Children in the UK' project at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford."

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

Focus on MENA

Publications:

The Arab Spring and the Death Toll in the Mediterranean: The True Face of Fortress Europe (StateWatch, Jan. 2012) [text]

The EU's Self-interested Response to Unrest in North Africa: The Meaning of Treaties and Readmission Agreements between Italy and North African States (StateWatch, Jan. 2012) [text]

Real Time Evaluation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Response to the MENA Civil Unrest (IFRC, Aug. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Year of Rebellion: The State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (Amnesty International, Jan. 2012) [text]

Upcoming events & opportunities:

The Arab Spring and Beyond: Human Mobility, Forced Migration and Institutional Responses, Oxford, 20 March 2012 [info]

CFP: Journal of Internal Displacement [info]

- Special focus on "Forced Migration and Displacement during the Arab Spring." The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2012.

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

Human Rights Watch World Report 2012

Human Rights Watch has released its annual World Report for 2012, which "summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011." The introduction focuses on the Arab Spring and is accompanied by various multimedia resources available online.

Visitors can download the full report, browse by country, and read thematic essays. Previous editions are available here.

Tagged Publications.

ETDs in Cultural Anthropology, Education, Intl. Migration & Ethnic Relations, Law, Political Science, Social Sciences,

Caught in the Borderlands: Discursive, Bodily, and Collective Frontiers of Violence and Suffering of Eritrean Refugees in Israel, Thesis submitted to the Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (Utrecht University, Dec. 2011) [text]

"Environmental Refugees," Undergraduate thesis submitted to the Social Sciences Department (California Polytechnic State University, Winter 2011) [text]

Migration and Asylum in the Accession Process of Turkey to the EU: A Case of 'Securitisation' According to the Copenhagen and the Paris Schools of Critical Security Studies?, Thesis submitted to the Political Science Department (Lund University, 2011) [text]

"The Political Construction of Climate Change Induced Migrants: A Study of the Connection between Immigration/Asylum and Climate Change in the EU," Undergraduate thesis submitted to the Department of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (Malmö University, Spring 2010) [text]

"Refugeeship" - A Project of Justification: Claiming Asylum in England and Sweden, Dissertation submitted to the Department of Education (Stockholm University, 2011) [text]

Turkey: Between Eden and Hades/Revisiting Nation State Practice through the Field of Asylum in Turkey and its Path to EU Accession, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Law (Lund University, Spring 2011) [text]

Turkey's Asylum Policy in the Light of EU Accession: The Impact of its Geographical Limitation to the Geneva Convention, Thesis submitted to the Department of Political Science (Lund University, 2011) [text]

Women in the Asylum-seeking Process: The Gender Aspects of the Czech Republic's Asylum Policy, Undergraduate thesis submitted to the Department of Political Science (Masaryk University, Nov. 2011) [text]

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Focus on Development-induced Displacement

(updated)

A Critique of the Global Literature on the Conservation Refugee Problem, Thesis submitted to the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011) [text]

"Development Induced Displacement in the African Context: What Says the African Union Convention?," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 2, no. 1 (2012) [access]
- Full-text available upon registration.

"A New Path Forward: Researching and Reflecting on Forced Displacement and Resettlement - Report on the International Resettlement Conference: Economics, Social Justice, and Ethics in Development-Caused Involuntary Migration, The Hague, 4–8 October 2010," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Access, 5 Jan. 2012 [abstract]

- Note: Here is the programme for the conference.

"Report on Development-induced Displacement in India," Chapter 8 in Ending the Displacement Cycle: Finding Durable Solutions through Return and Resettlement (Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, June 2011) [text]
- Scroll to p. 97.

"The Role of External Actors in Development-induced Displacement in Myanmar," Chapter 7 in Ending the Displacement Cycle: Finding Durable Solutions through Return and Resettlement (Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, June 2011) [text]
- Scroll to p. 83.

"Waiting Here for Death": Forced Displacement and "Villagization" in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2012) [text]

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Events after the fact

2011 Refugee Conference Youth Forum: Celebrating the Voices of Young People from Refugee Backgrounds (Centre for Refugee Research, Sept. 2011) [conf. report]

Atelier de Réflexion sur les Solutions Durables pour des Personnes Déplacées Internes, Bujumbura, Dec. 2011 [workshop report]

Between Protracted and Crisis Displacement: Policy Responses to Somali Displacement, Nairobi, Nov. 2011 [conf. report]

Conference Report on the Involvement of the Private Security Sector in Humanitarian Assistance Operations in Africa, Addis Ababa, Sept. 2011 [text]

EASO Consultative Forum, Valletta, Dec. 2011 [access]

- Archived webcasts of the discussions; see also relevant posts on the EASO Monitor blog.

Panel on Migrants in Crisis Situations: Human Security Concerns, New York, Dec. 2011 [access]

- Follow link for presentations and background materials.

Risk, Adaptation and Innovation in Humanitarian Action, New York, Dec. 2011 [access]

- Visit link for presentations and final report. See also related comment on Global Observatory.

"Seeking Asylum in Europe," Panel at PES Progressive Convention, Brussels, Nov. 2011 [info] [panel report]

"Urbanisation, Displacement & Humanitarian Action," Paper presented at World Conference of Humanitarian Studies, Boston, June 2011 [text]

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Focus on the Caucasus

Armenia: Living on the Edge (Institute for War & Peace Reporting, Dec. 2011) [access]

- "Images of refugees settled in border areas of Armenia."

Azerbaijan: A Long Displacement (Institute for War & Peace Reporting, Nov. 2011) [access]
- "Video: Hardship, but hope too, among Azerbaijanis driven from their homes by 1990s war."

Azerbaijan - Building Assets and Promoting Self Reliance: The Livelihoods of Internally Displaced Persons (World Bank, Oct. 2011) [text]

"Can You Be an IDP for Twenty Years?" A Comparative Field Study on the Protection Needs and Attitudes Towards Displacement Among IDPs and Host Communities in Azerbaijan (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Dec. 2011) [text]

Forced Displacement in the Nagorny Karabakh Conflict: Return and its Alternatives (Conciliation Resources, Aug. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

"From Solidarity to Solutions: The Government Response to Internal Displacement in Georgia," Case Study in From Responsibility to Response: Assessing National Approaches to Internal Displacement (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Nov. 2011) [text]
- Scroll to p. 179.

Individual Rights, Societal Choices: Confronting Legacies of Displacement in the Nagorny Karabakh Conflict (Conciliation Resources, Nov. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

Tagged Publications.

February Events & Opportunities

(updated)

CFP: The Future of Multiculturalism: Structures, Integration Policies and Practices, Surrey, UK, 26-27 June 2012 [info]
- The deadline for submitting an abstract is 1 February 2012.

Part-time Research Assistantship on Methodology and the Production of Knowledge in Forced Migration Contexts, Centre for Refugee Studies [info]
- Apply by 3 February 2012.

Regional Conference of Australasian Chapter, IARLJ, Melbourne, 3 February 2012 [info]
- "The conference is intended to address current issues of practice, procedure and law impacting upon the work of members and to provide both a training opportunity and an opportunity to exchange views on issues of current importance."

Job Vacancy: ECRE Secretary-General [info]

- Apply by 5 February 2012.

CFP: Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration [info]

- Closing date for submissions is 6 February 2012.

"Whose Country is it Anyway? Opportunities and Challenges for Visible Migrants and Refugees in Rural and Regional Australia," Melbourne, 9 February 2012 [info]

- Free public forum that precedes academic conference indicated in this earlier post.

Third Annual University of California Conference on International Migration: Politics and Governance, San Diego, California, 10 February 2012 [info]

- Includes a panel on "Refugees and Security."

From DR Congo to Tel-Aviv: A Story of Congolese Refugees, Activism and Microfinance, Oxford, 24 February 2012 [info]
- Presented by the Oxford Central Africa Forum (OCAF) and the Refugee Studies Centre.

CFP: "Power, Representation, and Identity: Narratives by, about, and around Refugees and Forcibly Displaced Persons," 2012 Centre for Refugee Studies Graduate Student Conference, Toronto, 20-21 April 2012 [info]
- Submit an abstract by 28 February 2012.

Call for Nominations: Nansen Refugee Award [info]

- The deadline for submissions is 29 February 2012.

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