22 May 2009

2009 ISA Conference

The annual International Studies Association (ISA) conference is a major event, involving a huge number of participants contributing papers on a wide range of international topics, including, of course, forced migration. The 2009 meeting was held 14-18 February 2009 in New York City.

There are several ways to access conference papers. First, go to the 2009 paper archive and either browse (which isn't terribly useful since there are thousands of papers!) or search within the full-text, title, author, subject or abstract of papers. Alternatively, search within the conference program for either panels or papers of interest (you can use the PDF search function to locate keywords within the document). Then retrieve the abstract or text of the paper from the archive.

Here are a few titles that I came across that relate to previous thematic postings on this blog:

Causes of Displacement

Forced Migration Magnitude & Violence in International Crises: Framework, Index and Findings, 1945-2005, by Hemda Ben-Yehuda and Rami Goldstein [info] [full-text]

No Place is Home: Internal Displacement from 1991-2006, Joshua Martineau [info] [full-text]

Climate/Environmental Refugees

Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refugees, by Frank Biermann and Ingrid Boas [info] [full-text]

Disparities in Asylum Decisions

The Political Economy of Decision Making Bias: An Analysis of Asylum Merit Hearings in U.S. Immigration Court, by Christopher Fariss and Andy Rottman [info] [full-text]

Protracted Refugee Situations

Burundian Refugees in Tanzania: Regional Relations, Liberalization and the Politics of a Solution for a Protracted Refugee Situation, by James Milner [info]

Protracted Refugee Situations, Fragile States and the Challenge of Finding Solutions, by Gil Loescher [info]

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