Focus on Portugal & Spain

Portugal and Spain are serving as venues for overlapping events in September. Here are the details along with links to a few refugee-related resources. (Note: Both countries have recently established resettlement programmes.)

Events:

"European Migration and Asylum Policies: Coherence or Contradiction? - An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of the EU Summits of Tampere (1999), The Hague (2004) and Stockholm (2009)," Madrid, 8-10 September 2010 [info]
- This meeting will cover the right to asylum and irregular migration, among other topics.

50 Years of African Independencies: Challenges to Modernity, Lisbon, 9-11 September 2010 [info]
- Includes a panel on "The Suffering of Migrants and Refugees of/in Africa and their Caregivers: New Models, New Practices, New Actors."

Refugee Councils:

• CEAR: Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado [access]
• Portuguese Refugee Council [access]

Refugee Profiles:

• Informe 2010: La situación de las personas refugiadas en España (CEAR, 2010) [text]
• Portugal (UNHCR, 2010 update) [text]
• Spain (UNHCR, 2010 update) [text]

[Map Source: WikiTravel]

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