Thematic Focus: Solutions

Event & opportunity: 

Annual Tripartite Consultations on Refugee Resettlement, Geneva, 13-15 June 2016 [info]

CFP: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology [info]
- Contributions sought for issue on "Refugee Integration." Submit abstracts by 1 August 2016.

Publications:

"Bosnian 'Returnee Voices' Communicating Experiences of Successful Reintegration: The Social Capital and Sustainable Return Nexus in Bosnia and Herzegovina," Südosteuropa, vol. 64, no. 1 (April 2016) [free full-text]

*"Bring Me Your Huddled Masses," The Economist, 28 May 2016 [text]
- "It worked for the Indochinese. Why not the Syrians?"

Commission Adopts Third Report on Relocation and Resettlement: EU Member States Must Act to Sustain Current Management of Flows (European Commission, May 2016) [access]
- Follow link for report, factsheet and annexes.

Policy Options (May 2016) [full-text]
- Includes special feature on "Refugee Integration." Follow link for list of articles.

Private Refugee Resettlement in U.S. History: America’s Private Sector Has Shown It Can Support Refugees (Niskanen Center, April 2016) [text]

Time for Europe to Get Migrant Integration Right (Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, May 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

Voluntary Repatriation to Afghanistan - 2015: Key Findings of UNHCR Return Monitoring, 01 January-31 December 2015 (UNHCR, April 2016) [text]

Resources:

Migrant Integration in the UK: Politics, Policy and Practice, London, 27 Jan. 2016 [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

Resettlement Statistical Database Portal (UNHCR) [access]
- "This database enables you to investigate different aspects of UNHCR’s resettlement activities [between 2003 and 2005]: by region and country of asylum, origin or by country of resettlement."

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Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Solutions (16 May 2016)

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