Focus on Technology

Forced Migration Review (FMR) recently issued a CFP for its September 2011 theme issue on "Technology and Communications." Here are some other publications that have addressed/reported on aspects of this topic:

Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics, Peaceworks, no. 65 (USIP, Aug. 2010) [text]

Digital Technology as a Tool for the Integration of Refugees (Fondazione Mondo Digitale, Nov. 2010) [text via ePractice.EU]
- In Italian.

"Egyptians Find Their Power in Access to Information," American Libraries, 16 Feb. 2011 [text]

"Human Rights Defenders and New Technologies: The Challenging Impact of Information and Communications Technology on Human Rights Protection," Paper presented at New Technologies: Your Life? Your Health? Your Privacy? Our Human Rights, Nottingham, March 2010 [text]

The Influence of New Communication Technologies on the Acculturation of Bhutanese Refugees in an American Community, MA Thesis (Cleveland State University, Aug. 2010) [text]

New Skype Technology Keeps UNHCR Staff in Touch (UNHCR, Dec. 2010) [text]

"Refugees and Communication Technology," Report of a Workshop, Sydney, Nov. 2009 (Univ. of Technology Sydney, Jan. 2011) [text]

Refugees United Offers Mobile Hope for Loved-one Search (BBC News, Oct. 2010) [text]

Taking Refuge in Technology: Communication Practices in Refugee Camps and Immigration Detention, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 202 (UNHCR, Feb. 2011) [text]

"Telecommunications across Borders: Refugees' Technology Use during Displacement," Telecommunications Journal of Australia, vol. 60, no. 4 (2010) [open access]

[Photo credit/UNHCR: Community Technology Access, UNHCR]

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