Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1

Event:

Expanding Resettlement across Europe: From Policy to Practice, Brussels, 21-22 October 2019 [info]
- Follow link for a programme and concept note.

Blog posts & media:

"'Feel like I’m living on death row': Refugees Forced to Choose between Visa Limbo or Family Separation," The Guardian, 28 Sept. 2019 [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Ground-breaking Programme Reunites Families, Reignites Hope (UNHCR, Sept. 2019) [text]
- Focuses on Mexico.

"Labor Demands Government Release 'Secret Report' on Refugee Resettlement," The Guardian, 29 Sept. 2019 [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Life-saving Programme Offers Safe Path to Italy for Refugees (UNHCR, Sept. 2019) [text]
- See also related comment from Kaldor Centre.

"Under Pressure, New Zealand Ends a Refugee Policy Branded Racist," New York Times, 4 Oct. 2019 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Activation Versus Forced Inactivity: Government, Civil Society and the Promotion of Self-Sufficiency of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Immigrants," Chapter in Caught in Between Borders:
Citizens, Migrants and Humans - Liber Amicorum in honour of Prof. Dr. Elspeth Guild (Wolf Legal Publishers, Forthcoming 2019) [SSRN]

Another Story from the "Refugee Crisis": Resettlement in Small Towns and Rural Areas in France (Institut Français des Relations Internationales, July 2019) [text]

The European Benchmark for Refugee Integration: A Comparative Analysis of the National Integration Evaluation Mechanism in 14 EU Countries (Migration Policy Group et al., June 2019) [text]

Integration of Resettled Syrian Refugees in Oxford: Preliminary Study in 2018, RSC Working Paper, no. 129 (Refugee Studies Centre, Sept. 2019) [text]

"'A proud history of protecting refugees': Ambivalent Responses to Refugee Integration in Government Policy Documents," Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, vol. 11, no. 1 (2019) [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 35, no. 2 (2019) [open access]
- Special issue on "Refugee Sponsorship: Lessons Learned, Ways Forward."

Slamming the Golden Door: Canada-U.S. Migration Policy and Refugee Resettlement, SPP Communiqué (Univ. of Calgary, Sept. 2019) [text]

Research project:

GLIMER: Governance and the Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees [access]
- "The aim of GLIMER is to generate research that will help European cities and regions facilitate the long term inclusion of displaced people in a way that remakes local spaces." Follow link for outputs from various work packages that focus on governance and local integration; asylum accommodation; and language training/education. Case studies focus on "new arrivals in the areas in and around Cosenza, Nicosia, Glasgow and Malmo respectively."

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Solutions (17 Sept. 2019)

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