New Issue of RSQ

The latest issue of the Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) is available.  Contents for vol. 32, no. 3, Sept. 2013 include:

• The Dynamics of Bosnian Refugee Migrations in the 1990s, Current Migration Trends and Future Prospects [abstract]
• Refugee Resettlement in Australia: What We Know and Need to Know [abstract] [ResearchGate]
• The Logistics of Climate-Induced Resettlement: Lessons from the Carteret Islands, Papua New Guinea [abstract]
• Readmission Agreements and Refugee Rights: From a Critique to a Proposal [abstract]
• Hidden Men: Bearing Witness to Mandatory Detention in Australia [abstract]

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

 A Gentle Reminder to UNHCR: Deciding Refugee Cases Is Not Just about Efficiency (RSD Watch, Aug. 2013) [text]

"Pulling the Trigger: An Analysis of Circuit Court Review of the 'Persecutor Bar'," Columbia Law Review, vol. 113, no. 5 (June 2013) [full-text]

Reforming the Immigration Courts of the United States (Birdsong's Law Blog, Aug. 2013) [text]

Why Edward Snowden Never Had a Right to Asylum (OUP Blog, July 2013) [text]

LGBT-related:

"Developing a Jurisprudence of Transgender Particular Social Group," Chapter in Fleeing Homophobia: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum (Routledge, May 2013) [preprint via SSRN]

"Identity and the Sexual Minority Refugee: A Discussion of Conceptions and Preconceptions in the United Kingdom and Ireland," Human Rights Brief, vol. 20, no. 3 (Spring 2013) [full-text]

"LGBT Identity in Immigration," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 45 (Forthcoming, 2013) [full-text via SSRN]

Tagged Publications.

Opportunities/New Issues of EASO News, HR Brief, Humanit. Exch., Networker

Opportunities:

Journal on Education in Emergencie​s [info]
- Editor-in-chief and Editorial Board members are needed for new journal that is soon to be launched.  Application deadlines are 1 and 16 September 2013, respectively.

CFP: International Journal of Migration and Border Studies [info]
- Articles sought for inaugural issue of new journal.  Deadline is 1 November 2013.

New issues:

EASO Newsletter (July/August 2013) [full-text via EASO Monitor]
 - News from the European Asylum Support Office.

Human Rights Brief, vol. 20, no. 3 (Spring 2013) [full-text]
- Mix of articles including "Defining Myanmar's 'Rohingya Problem'" and "Identity and the Sexual Minority Refugee: A Discussion of Conceptions and Preconceptions in the United Kingdom and Ireland."

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 58 (July 2013) [full-text]
- Theme is "Humanitarian Negotiations."  Issue will be officially launched at event on 5 Sept. 2013.

The Networker, no. 105 (July-Sept. 2013) [full-text]
- Mix of articles including "Violence towards Aid Workers Increasing."

Related post:
- Opportunities/New Issues of EJML, Intervention, JID, JIRS, WAN


Tagged Periodicals and Events & Opportunities. 

Events & Opportunities: September 2013

CFP: "UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability: An Examination of Parallel Regimes," Panel at World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Istanbul, 24-27 October 2013 [info]
- Submission deadline for papers in 1 September 2013.

 *PDES Internships, UNHCR, Geneva [info]
- Apply by 11 September 2013.

Report from 2013 Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement (ATCR): What Can We Learn?, Webinar, 4 September 2013 [info]
- Registration required.

CCR Fall Consultation, Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada, 28-30 November 2013 [info]
 - Online registration opens in mid-September 2013.

Migration and Asylum, HREA E-learning Course, 18 September-29 October 2013 [info]
- Registration required.

Related post:
- Events & Opportunities: Aug. & Sept. 2013

*updated

Tagged Events & Opportunities.  

Regional Focus: Australia

2013 Federal Election: Party Positions on Refugee Policy (Refugee Council of Australia, Aug. 2013) [text]

Asylum Seeker Health and Wellbeing: Scoping Study (St Vincent’s Health Australia & Brotherhood of St Laurence, Sept. 2012) [text]

Australia’s Detention of 46 Refugees 'Cruel and Degrading,' UN Rights Experts Find (OHCHR, Aug. 2013) [text]
- Follow link to access the UN Human Rights Committee's decisions.

"Human Rights Trauma and the Mental Health of West Papuan Refugees Resettled in Australia," Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 199, no. 4 (Aug. 2013) [free full-text]

Improving Responses to Refugees with Backgrounds of Multiple Trauma: Pointers for Practitioners in Domestic and Family Violence, Sexual Assault and Settlement Services, Practice Monograph, no. 1 (Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, 2013) [text via BroCAP]

"No Place Like Home: Resilience among Adolescent Refugees Resettled in Australia," Chapter in Handbook on Resilience in Children of War (Springer, April 2013) [preprint via BroCAP]

"Prejudice and Empathy in Political Discourse: A Look into Language Used by Politicians in the Asylum Seeker Debate," Macquarie Matrix, vol. 3.1 (Aug. 2013) [access]

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Children

"Bouncing Forward of Young Refugees: A Perspective on Resilience Research Directions," European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 4 (May 2013) [open access text]

"A Child Rights Framework for Assessing the Status of Refugee Children," Chapter in Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law (Edward Elgar, 2013) [preprint via SSRN]

Migration, Displacement and Children Left Behind (ICMHD's Official Blog, Aug. 2013) [text]

A Million Refugee Children Mark Shameful Milestone in Syria Crisis (Unicef & UNHCR, Aug. 2013) [text]

Transitioning to Adulthood: Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Young People Leaving Care. A Qualitative Study in Hamburg (Göteborgs Universitet, Aug. 2013) [text]

Where is 'Home'? Interpreting Youth Discourse and the Politics of Displaced Youth, inSocialWork Podcast Series (SUNY Buffalo, Aug. 2012) [access]

[Image credit: ©UNHCR/O.Laban-Mattei, "A Million Children are Now Refugees from Syria Crisis," UNHCR News Story, 23 Aug. 2013]

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance, esp. Innovation

How Technology is Transforming Emergency Preparedness (IRIN, Aug. 2013) [text]

International Crises and Disasters: U.S. Humanitarian Assistance Response Mechanisms (U.S. Congressional Research Service, Aug. 2013) [text via Refworld]

Joint Assessment Missions: A Practical Guide to Planning and Implementation (WFP & UNHCR, June 2013) [text]
- See also supporting documents on the JAM page.

Panel Discussion: Promoting Humanitarian Innovation, Humanitarian Affairs Segment of the Economic and Social Council, Geneva, 15-17 July 2013 [access via ReliefWeb]
- Follow link for video.

Questioning the Crowd: Data Verification Challenges for Humanitarians (IRIN, Aug. 2013) [text]

Risk-taking, Innovation Key to Future Humanitarian Work (IRIN, Aug. 2013) [text]

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): Multilateral Aid Review (MAR) - Update 2013 (DFID, 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Tagged Publications.

Regional Focus: Europe

EU Solidarity and Frontex: Fundamental Rights Challenges (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Aug. 2013) [text]

From the Unmixing to the Remixing of Peoples: UNHCR and Minority Returns in Bosnia, New Issues in Refugee Research, Paper no. 261 (UNHCR, Aug. 2013) [text]

Italy Conducted De Facto Push-Back of Migrants by Ordering Cargo Ship to Rescue and Transport Migrants to Libya (Migrants at Sea, Aug. 2013) [text]

"Potential Contradictions between Democratic and Human Rights Processes in the Area of Migration and Asylum," European Scientific Journal, Spec. Ed. (July 2013) [open access text]

UNHCR Comments on Hungary's Draft Migration Strategy (UNHCR, Aug. 2013) (2014-2020) [text]

Tagged Publications.

Regional Focus: Israel, Syria

Israel:

"Israel Turns its Back on African Refugees," Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2013 [text]

Israel’s Troubling Asylum Seeker Treatment (CNN's Global Public Square, July 2013) [text]

"Would Israel’s Refugee Policies Stand up in… Nairobi?," 972 Magazine, 11 Aug. 2013 [text]

Syria:

"City of the Lost: In the World’s Second-largest Refugee Camp, Syrians Find That It’s not Easy to Flee the War," The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2013 [extract]

"A Day to Honor Syria’s Humanitarian Workers," The Daily Star, 19 Aug. 2013 [text via ODI]

Lebanon: Palestinians Fleeing Syria Denied Entry (HRW, Aug. 2013) [text]

Some 30,000 Syrians Flee to Iraq's Kurdistan Region, More Expected (UNHCR, Aug. 2013) [text]

Syria's Refugee Crisis: Beyond the Camps (RI Blog, Aug. 2013) [text]

The Syrian Catastrophe: Socioeconomic Monitoring Report - First Quarterly Report (January-March 2013) (UNRWA, June 2013) [text via Refworld]

Tagged Publications.

New Issue of IJRL

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (IJRL) is now available.  Contents for vol. 25, no. 2, June 2013 include:

• Editorial: Interesting Times: 2002–13 [free full-text]
• The Next Frontier: Expanding Protection in Europe for Victims of Armed Conflict and Indiscriminate Violence [free full-text]
• Protecting Recognized Geneva Convention Refugees outside their States of Asylum [abstract]
• Reflections on Refoulement and Collective Expulsion in the Hirsi Case [abstract]
• Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Country of Origin Information in French and British Refugee Status Determination Procedures [abstract] [workshop paper]

A number of presentations from the "Roundtable Discussion with the IARLJ, the ECtHR and the CJEU on Leading Asylum Cases" are also reproduced, as well as a document on the human rights responsibilities of Frontex.

Tagged Periodicals and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: U.S.- related Legal Items

Asylum and the Border: Setting the Record Straight (Human Rights First, Aug. 2013) [text]

Eighth Circuit and Asylum Seekers Fleeing Gang Persecution (ImmigrationProf Blog, Aug. 2013) [text]

Gender "Plus" as a Particular Social Group (IntLawGrrls, Aug. 2013) [text]

"Matter of D-K-: A Great Leap Forward in Refugee Jurisprudence?," Interpreter Releases, vol. 89, no. 19 (May 2012) [text via SSRN]

"The New Nexus," University of Colorado Law Review, vol. 85 (forthcoming 2013) [text via SSRN]
- Analysis of the "'on account of' or 'nexus' requirement" in U.S. asylum law.

Tagged Publications.

Regional Focus: Asia/Oceania

"Are Australia’s Refugee Acceptance Rates High Compared with Other Nations?," The Guardian, 20 Aug.  2013 [text]

Could Australia Follow a US Lead on Maritime Interdiction of Migrants? (EJIL Talk, Aug. 2013) [text]

"Humanitarianism in the Reception of Refugees: Implications, Contradictions, and Limitations," Asia Journal of Global Studies, vol 5, no 2 (2012-13) [open access text]

Living in the Shadows: Displaced Lumads Locked in a Cycle of Poverty (IDMC, Aug. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Passenger 17A: The Snowden, Asylum and the Surveillance-Privacy Debate (SSRN, Aug. 2013) [text]

Refugees and Migrants in South Asia: Nature and Implications, Perspectives in Indian Development, New Series 10 (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications.  

World Humanitarian Day

Today is World Humanitarian Day.  2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad that claimed 22 lives, including Sérgio Vieiro de Mello and Arthur Helton, and injured many others. August 19th remembers those humanitarian aid workers who have died and honors the people that dedicate their lives to helping others.

To raise both public awareness about and funds to support humanitarian assistance activities around the world, the UN has launched a month-long campaign inviting contributions to the global humanitarian fund via a "marketplace for words."  Share or sponsor one of the words that complete the sentence "#theworldneedsmore... " (scroll down to view the words).  Follow the Twitter feed for some examples.

Here's a sampling of new resources and news stories on this year's WHD:

- Aid Worker Security Report 2013 Preview: Figures at a Glance (Humanitarian Outcomes, Aug. 2013) [text]
- Just Who are Humanitarian Workers? (OUP Blog, Aug. 2013) [text]
- Remembering Sergio Vieiro de Mello (Huffington Post, Aug. 2013) [text]
- Safety and Security Topic Page (ReliefWeb Blog, Aug. 2013) [access]
- Ten Years Ago Today in Baghdad (openDemocracy, Aug. 2013) [text]
- UNHCR Pays Tribute to Staff Killed in the Line of Duty, Marking World Humanitarian Day 2013 (UNHCR, Aug. 2013) [text]
- World Humanitarian Day: Counting the Costs (ODI, Aug. 2013) [text]
- World Humanitarian Day: The Courage of Humanitarian Workers (UpFront Blog, Aug. 2013) [text]
- World Humanitarian Day: What It Means to be an Aid Worker in DRC (IRIN, Aug. 2013) [text]
- World Humanitarian Day 2013 Spotlight (Thomson Reuters Foundation, Aug. 2013) [access]

Tagged Events & Opportunities, Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

Thematic Focus: Resettlement

Publications:

Caution: Resettlement is not a Substitute for Humanitarian Aid (Refugees International Blog, Aug. 2013) [text]

European Resettlement Network Newsletter, no. 2 (July 2013) [full-text]

FactCheck: Were 70% of People Sent to Nauru under the Pacific Solution Resettled in Australia? (The Conversation, Aug. 2013) [text]

Great Expectations: A Review of the Strategic Use of Resettlement, PDES/2013/13 (UNHCR, Aug. 2013) [text]
- See also related RSDWatch blog post.

Key Indicators for Refugee Placement: FY2014 (U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, Aug. 2013) [text]

Know Reset Publications
- Most of the profiles of resettlement countries were written in 2013 - the most recent one is for Hungary; the latest country of first asylum report focuses on Tunisia.

Refugee Resettlement through the Lens of Occupational Therapy, Thesis (University of Puget Sound, May 2012) [text]

Resettlement of Syrians an Important Step in Supporting Syria’s Neighbors (Human Rights First, Aug. 2013) [text]

Resettlement Statistics Explode Myth of 'Regular Pathways' for Refugees (Refugee Council of Australia, Aug. 2013) [text]

Opportunity:

Interventions to Improve the Economic Self-sufficiency and Well-being of Resettled Refugees [info]
- Please send references to "evaluations that have been conducted on interventions to improve the economic self-sufficiency or well-being of resettled refugees" to assist with systematic review.

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Detention

"Immigration Detention: Information Gaps and Institutional Barriers to Reform," University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 80, no. 1 (Winter 2013) [full-text]

"Indefinite Security Detention and Refugee Children and Families in Australia: International Human Rights Law Dimensions," Australian International Law Journal, vol. 20 (2013) [eprint via SSRN]

Russia: Mass Detention of Migrants (HRW, Aug. 2013) [text]

Trapped Behind Bars (Pueblos Unidos, transl. July 2013) [access via JRS]

UNHCR Forms Partnership to Address Asylum Detention Issues (UNHCR, June 2013) [text]
- Includes link to text of agreement with IDC.

Women's Immigration Detention in Greece: Gender, Control, and Capacity, Legal Research Paper Series, no. 81/2013 (Univ. of Oxford, July 2013) [text via SSRN]
- A version of this paper will be published in Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights (Springer, forthcoming 2014).

Tagged Publications.  

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

"Armed Conflict and Forced Migration: A Systematic Approach to International Humanitarian Law, Refugee Law, and International Human Rights Law," Chapter 28 in The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2014) [eprint via SSRN]

Edward Snowden and the Politics of Asylum (Nation of Immigrators, Aug. 2013) [text]

Laws of Unintended Consequence? Nationality, Allegiance and the Removal of Refugees during Wartime (SSRN, June 2013) [text]

"A Network Society Communicative Model for Optimizing the Refugee Status Determination (RSD) Procedures," Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, vol. 56, no. 1 (2013) [full-text]

Revisiting Closed File Limbo: UNHCR Needs to Separate Re-considerations from New Claims (RSD Watch, Aug. 2013) [text]

"What Do We Mean by Protection?," International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, vol 20, no. 1 (2013) [full-text via Academia.edu]

Tagged Publications.  

Thematic Focus: Climate Change/Disasters

Bringing Together Disaster and Climate Change Networks: Historic Meeting in the Pacific (UpFront Blog, July 2013) [text]

Caribbean Regional Disaster Response and Management Mechanisms: Prospects and Challenges (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, July 2013) [text]

Dying Islands: Solomons Battles with Rising Seas (SBS, Aug. 2013) [access]
- Follow link for video.

"Responses to Climate Migration," Harvard Environmental Law Review, vol. 37, no. 1 (2013) [full-text]

Q&A: World Needs a Plan for Expected Waves of Climate Refugees (IPS, July 2013) [text]

Roles of Pacific Regional Organizations in Disaster Risk Management: Questions and Answers (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, July 2013) [text]

Sahel: Recurrent Climate Shocks Propel Migration; Resilience Efforts Face Challenges (Refugees International, Aug. 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications.  

Thematic Focus: Development-induced Displacement

Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement: Social Problem and Human Rights Issue, Research Paper, no. 9 (University of Geneva, May 2013) [text]

"If You Love Your Life, Move Out!" Forced Eviction in Badia East, Lagos State, Nigeria (Amnesty International, Aug. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Increasing Phenomenon of Forcible Displacement," People on the Move, no. 118 (Jan.-May 2013) [full-text]

Large-scale Mining in Colombia: Human Rights Violations Past, Present and Future (US Office on Colombia, May 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Tanzanian Farmers Displaced by Mining Live Like Refugees (IRIN, June 2013) [text]

"What is a House without Food?" Mozambique’s Coal Mining Boom and Resettlements (Human Rights Watch, May 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Tagged Publications. 

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking

Disappearing Girls: New Findings from Yemen (RMMS, July 2013) [text]

Ransom, Collaborators, Corruption: Sinai Trafficking and Transnational Networks - A Case Study of the Eritrean Migration System from Eritrea to Israel (Feinstein International Center, Aug. 2013) [access]
- Follow link for photos taken during the research visit.

Temporary Resident Permits: Limits to Protection for Trafficked Persons (Canadian Council for Refugees, June 2013) [text]

Trafficking in Persons: International Dimensions and Foreign Policy Issues for Congress (U.S. Congressional Research Service, July 2013) [text via Refworld]

Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean (U.S. Congressional Research Service, Aug. 2013) [text via Refworld]

Tagged Publications. 

Regional Focus: Americas

"European Influence on Asylum Procedures in Latin America: Accelerated Procedures in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela," Chapter in The Global Reach of European Refugee Law (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013) [preprint via SSRN]

Protection of Asylum-Seekers under the Inter-American Human Rights System [text via SSRN]
- This paper is part of the "Pushing the Boundaries: New Dynamics of Forced Migration and Transnational Responses in Latin America" project.

A Simple Solution to War Refugees? The Latin American Expanded Definition and its Relationship to IHL, Paper presented at "Refuge from Inhumanity" conference, Oxford, 11-12 Feb. 2013 [text]

Stealth Emulation: The United States and European Protection Norms, Legal Studies Paper, no. 352 (Brooklyn Law School, Aug. 2013) [text]
- A version of this paper will be published in the forthcoming volume, The Global Reach of European Refugee Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Still Living on the Edge: Colombian Refugees in Panama and Ecuador (Jesuit Refugee Service, Aug. 2013) [text]

Threats to Convention Refugee and Permanent Resident Status, Webinar, 4 July 2013 [access]
- Focus is on Canada.

Tagged Publications. 

ICIRD Conference Papers

The 3rd International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD 2013) will be held in Bangkok on 22-23 August 2013. The theme is "Beyond Borders: Building a Regional Commons in Southeast Asia." Several panels focus on forced migration issues, including:

• Panel (CODE: 5): University of Vienna "Migration, Citizenship and Rights" [access]
• Panel (CODE: 12): Graduate Volunteer Center – Thammasat University (GVC-TU) "Rethinking Refugees: Protection, Survival and Prospects for Displaced Persons from Burma" [access]
• Panel (CODE: 31) "Human Trafficking and Statelessness: Status, Cost and Coping Strategy" [access]
• Panel (CODE: 33) "Refugees and Migrants" [access]

Note that the full-texts of presenter papers are available through the dropbox link immediately following the list of titles.  If a link is not available, check here for the relevant folder (organized by panel code number).

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Statelessness

Accession update:

Nicaragua is the latest State party to both statelessness conventions, bringing the totals to 78 for the 1954 Convention and 53 for the 1961 Convention.  For an overview on the progress made re. accessions to the statelessness conventions, read this ENS blog post.  An upcoming UN Treaty Event will present another opportunity to encourage States to accede.

Resources:

2014 Global Forum: A 'Meeting Place' for People Concerned about Statelessness (Statelessness Programme Blog, Aug. 2013) [text]

How Indian Law Produces Statelessness (McGill Blogs, July 2013) [text]

Litigating for the Stateless: A Bumpy, but Steady Road Upwards (ENS Blog, July 2013) [text]

Long Way Back to Citizenship (Statelessness Programme Blog, July 2013) [text]
- Second blog post "on the history of 'Dutch statelessness' after the Spanish civil war."

Observations du Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés sur le projet de loi no 6561 portant approbation de la Convention européenne sur la nationalité, faite à Strasbourg le 6 novembre 1997, et modification de la loi du 23 octobre 2008 sur la nationalité luxembourgeoise (UNHCR, Aug. 2013) [text]

Prevention of Statelessness at Birth: Adequate Nationality Law but Inconsistent Implementation (ENS Blog, July 2013) [text]

Statelessness (MIPJ, July 2013) [access]
- Follow link for podcast.

Without Protection: Refugees and Statelessness - A Commentary and Challenge, Legal Studies Paper No. 351 (Brooklyn Law School, Aug. 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Regional Focus: Europe

Are Mediterranean States Dreaming of a 'European Papua New Guinea' Where They Can Lock up Their Boat-people? (Boats for People, Aug. 2013) [text via Migreurop]

Atlas des Migrants en Europe (Migreurop, July 2013) [access]

EU Neighbourhood Migration Report 2013 (Migration Policy Centre, 2013) [access]
- "[C]overs migration in 18 EU neighbouring countries, including: Algeria; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Egypt; Georgia; Jordan; Lebanon; Libya; Mauritania; Moldova; Morocco; Palestine; Russia; Syria; Tunisia; Turkey and Ukraine. Each country report provides the most recent update on the demographic, legal, and socio-political aspects of both inward and outward migration stocks and flows."

In the Footsteps of John Marshall: European Courts and the Expansion of Protection of Forced Migrants, Legal Studies Paper No. 350 (Brooklyn Law School, Aug. 2013) [text]

Portrayals of Immigrants, Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in National British Newspapers, 2010 to 2012 (Migration Observatory, Aug. 2013) [text]

Study on the Feasibility and Legal and Practical Implications of Establishing a Mechanism for the Joint Processing of Asylum Applications on the Territory of the EU (European Commission, Feb. 2013) [text via Refworld]

Switzerland: Asylum Seekers? Stay Out of the Pool (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications. 

Thematic Focus: Health

Guidelines for the Management of Conditions Specifically Related to Stress (WHO, Aug. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]
- An intervention guide module, developed in conjunction with UNHCR, is also available via this link.

"Investigation of Hepatitis E Outbreak among Refugees — Upper Nile, South Sudan, 2012-2013," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, vol. 62, no. 29 (July 2013) [full-text]

"Separation from Family and its Impact on the Mental Health of Sudanese Refugees in Australia: A Qualitative Study," Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 37, no. 4 (Aug. 2013) [free full-text]

UNHCR's Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Staff (UNHCR, July 2013) [text]

Update on HIV/AIDS and Refugees, 57th Meeting of the Standing Committee, UN Doc. No. EC/64/SC/CRP.18/Rev. 1 (EXCOM, June 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications. 

Events & Opportunities: Aug. & Sept. 2013

August:

Migration Statistics User Forum Conference, London, 17 September 2013 [info]
- Registration is now open.

ECRE Annual General Conference, Prague, 9-11 October 2013 [info]
- Registration is now open to ECRE members.

Humanitarian Disasters, Human Rights Violations, and Social Media Journalism, Kolkata, India, 11-14 December 2013 [info]
- Application deadline is 16 August 2013.

World Humanitarian Day, 19 August 2013 [info] [info]

Entry-Level Humanitarian Professional Programme (EHP), UNHCR [info]
- Application period ends 31 August 2013.  See also related press release.

September:

CFP: Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation: Transnational Law Enforcement and Migration Control, Copenhagen, 9-10 December 2013 [info]
- Abstract deadline is 1 September 2013.

CFP: "Human Security: Humanitarian Perspectives and Responses," Third World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Istanbul, 24-27 October 2013 [info]
- Deadline for paper proposals is 1 September 2013.

Award for an Outstanding Master Thesis in Global Migration [info]
- Apply by 9 September 2013.

Partnering with Faith Organisations in Development, Health and Humanitarian Work, Rome, 22-24 October 2013 [info]
- Register for this course by 15 September 2013.

CFP: Cinema and Migration Panel, 45th Annual Convention Northeast Modern Language Association, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 3-6 April 2014 [info]
- Submit an abstract by 30 September 2013.

Master of Arts in Migration and Displacement, Wits University [info]
- Apply by 30 September 2013.

CFP: Migration by Boat: Theories, Politics, and Memories [info]
- Submit an abstract by 30 September 2013.

Raoul Wallenberg Prize [info]
- Deadline for nominations is 30 September 2013.

For additional events & opportunities, see:
- Thematic Focus: Protection-related Items
- Opportunities/New Issues of EJML, Intervention, JID, JIRS, WAN

Tagged Events & Opportunities.  

Thematic Focus: Children, Education

Best Interests of the Child and the Dublin System (C-648/11) (European Law Blog, Aug. 2013) [text]
- EU Court of Justice ruling on MA & Others v UK (C-648/11).

Disasters and Diversity: A Study of Humanitarian Financing for Older People and Children under Five (HelpAge International, April 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Education in Conflict Emergencies in Light of the Post-2015 MDGs and EFA Agendas, Working paper no. 3 (NORRAG, Jan. 2013) [access]

The Institutional and Social Integration of Child Asylum-Seekers in the Schools and Society of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection, Paper no. 1588 (SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad, April 2013) [text]

One in Ten in School: An Overview of Access to Education for Syrian Refugee Children and Youth in the Urban Areas of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR‐I) (NRC & Unicef, July 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

"A 'Special Track' for Former Child Soldiers: Enacting a 'Child Soldier Visa' as an Alternative to Asylum Protection," Berkeley Journal of International Law, vol. 31 (2013) [text via SSRN]

Tagged Publications. 

Regional Focus: Middle East

Opportunity:

Asfari Foundation Announces Three-year Agreement with the Refugee Studies Centre [info]
- Aim is "to attract practitioners working on refugee-related issues from Palestine, Lebanon and Syria to attend the International Summer School on Forced Migration."

Publications:

Camp New Iraq (Formerly Camp Ashraf) Residents and the Processing of their Cases for Solutions, Update no. 6 (UNHCR, July 2013 [text]

Disability Inclusion in the Syrian Refugee Response in Lebanon (Women's Refugee Commission, July 2013) [access]

Forced Displacement in Palestine and Israel (American Friends Service Committee, July 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

More than 46,000 People Cross Gulf of Aden in First Six Months of the Year (UNHCR, Aug. 2013) [text]

Refugees in the MENA Region: What Geopolitical Consequences? (Eurasia Review, Aug. 2013) [text]

Syria: The Challenges of Managing the Influx of Syrian Refugees into Lebanon (Jadaliyya, July 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Regional Focus: Africa

Flooding across the Border: A Review of UNHCR's Response to the Sudanese Refugee Emergency in South Sudan, PDES/2013/08 (UNHCR, July 2013) [text]

No Consensus on Implementation of Cessation Clause for Rwandan Refugees (IRIN, July 2013) [text]

Playing with People’s Lives: The Plight of Rwandan Refugees in the Great Lakes Region (Justice Matters in Africa, July 2013) [text]

Promoting Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence against Men: A Comparative Legal Analysis of International and Domestic Laws Relating to IDP and Refugee Men in Uganda, Working Paper, no. 24 (Refugee Law Project & International Human Rights Law Clinic, July 2013) [access via RRN]

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Understanding the Shifting Politics of Refugee Policy in Tanzania, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 255 (UNHCR, July 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications. 

Regional Focus: Asia & Oceania

"Belonging to the Nation-state: Civic and Ethno Belonging among Recent Refugees to Australia," Paper prepared for Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging, Oxford, 1-3 Sept. 2013 [access]

Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea and the Government of Australia, relating to the Transfer to, and Assessment and Settlement in, Papua New Guinea of Certain Persons, and Related Issues, 4 August 2013 [text via Refworld]

Memorandum of Understanding between the Republic of Nauru and the Commonwealth of Australia, relating to the Transfer to and Assessment of Persons in Nauru, and Related Issues, 3 August 2013 [text via Refworld]

"Representation of Forced Migrants: A Case Study of the East Bengali Migrants to West Bengal," Conserveries mémorielles, no. 13 (2013) [full-text]

A Review of Assistance Programmes for Refugees in Japan, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 259 (UNHCR, July 2013) [text]

UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan (UNHCR, August 2013) [text]

Waves of Life: The Role of Radio in Bhutanese Refugee Camps in Nepal, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 258 (UNHCR, July 2013) [text]

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Regional Focus: Americas

CCR Welcomes Ezokola Decision Clarifying Refugee Exclusion (Canadian Council for Refugees, July 2013) [text]

Migrant Smuggling: Canada's Response to a Global Criminal Enterprise (SSRN, July 2013) [text]

"Recognizing the Feminization of Displacement: A Proposal for a Gender-focused Approach to Local Integration in Ecuador," Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, vol. 22, no. 2 (March 2013) [full-text]

Searching for Control: Redefining Asylum-Seeking in the Security Era (Univ. of Ottawa, Aug. 2012) [text]

Sovereignty and Irregular Migration: The Dynamics of Irregular Movement through Colombia and Ecuador, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 256 (UNHCR, July 2013) [text]

The United States and R2P: From Words to Action (U.S. Institute of Peace, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum & Brookings Institution, July 2013) [text]

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Thematic Focus: General

"Armed Conflicts, 1946–2012," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 50, no. 4 (July 2013) [free full-text]

Difficult Decisions: A Review of UNHCR's Engagement with Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes, PDES/2013/11 (UNHCR, July 2013) [text]

Displacement Can Last a Lifetime for Many Refugees (Here & Now, July 2013) [access]
- Follow link for interview transcript and audio.

Peoples under Threat 2013: Civilian Protection and Military Intervention (Minority Rights Group, July 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Truth-Telling and Displacement: Patterns and Prospects (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, June 2013) [text]

What Happened to History’s Refugees? (The Guardian's DataBlog, July 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications. 

New Book Titles

FYI, I've just uploaded information about several new book titles due to be published in August to my Pinterest page.  A few new references have also been added to the July 2013 and Legal Texts boards.

Tagged Publications. 

New Issues of Disasters, IJMHSC, JIMI, J. Migr. & Hum. Sec., Ref. Watch Online, RSC News, Stability

Disasters, Early View, 22 July 2013 [contents]
- This set of early view articles focuses on humanitarian assistance.

International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 9, no. 2 (2013) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including "'Solving Tension': Coping among Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal" and "Neither Here nor There? Place and Placemaking in the Lives of Separated Children."

Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 14, no. 3 (Aug. 2013) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including "Perceptions of the Impact of Refugees on Host Communities: The Case of Liberian Refugees in Ghana."

Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 1, no. 1 (2013) [full-text]
- New online journal from the Center for Migration Studies.

 Refugee Watch Online (July 2013) [access]
- News and views on displaced people in South Asia.

 RSC Newsletter (Summer 2013) [full-text]
- Lead article is "Controversial EU Deportation Programme Subjected to Academic Scrutiny."

Stability: International Journal of Security & Development (June 2013) [open access]
- Special collection launched on "Region in Crisis: Stabilizing Mali and the Sahel."

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