04 January 2011

Current Awareness Bibliography

The latest issue of the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter (no. 11, Jan. 2011) introduces a new resource I developed for the Southern Refugee Legal Aid Network (SRLAN): the Current Awareness Bibliography.
This new resource, to which pages are added daily, is available via the sidebar on the right side of the website and was set up to supplement SRLAN’s Library and resource pages by providing access to online information that relates to the work of refugee legal aid providers. Because the bibliography highlights new resources, it serves as a current awareness or alerting service, rather than as a compendium or comprehensive inventory of background information on a particular subject. The structure of the bibliography essentially mirrors that of the SRLAN website. It is divided into two overall parts: 1) Law and Policy, which is further sub‐divided into a general law section and specific legal issues including detention, resettlement and social/economic rights; 2) Refugee Status Determination, which is broken down into the following sections: general, evidence/country of origin information, legal assistance, and special issues.
To ensure that readers can be kept up-to-date, I have provided RSS feeds for each section and sub-section of the bibliography. Or users can simply subscribe to a feed for all new additions.

A couple of caveats: The references I include in the bibliography are all culled from this blog. However, the focus is on legal materials that address refugee and asylum issues, and I include links not only to full-text items but also to bibliographic citations. Therefore, those of you who are only interested in this subset of the forced migration subject area might find the bibliography particularly useful. Everyone else, keep reading this blog!

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