Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Reports:

Calculating “Death Rates” in the Context of Migration Journeys: Focus on the Central Mediterranean (IOM, April 2020) [text]

Clear, fair and fast? Border procedures in the Pact on Asylum & Migration (Hertie School, Nov. 2020) [text]

EMN Inform: Comparative overview of national protection statuses in the EU and Norway (European Migration Network, 2020) [text]

- See also related specifications for the study.

Fear and lying in the EU: Fighting disinformation on migration with alternative narratives (European Policy Centre et al., Nov. 2020) [text]

The Political Impact of Refugee Migration: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy, CefES Working Paper, no. 456 (Center for European Studies, Dec. 2020) [text]

The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany (Centre for Economic Policy Research, Dec. 2020) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (10 Dec. 2020)

Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Call for contributions: Identities Journal Blog [info]

- Expert commentaries sought on the "dynamics between displaced migration and COVID-19." No deadline indicated.

Webinar: COVID-19 and Forced Displacement in the Global South, 20 October 2020 [info]

Blog posts:

Collection of PRIO Research on Racism, Inequality and Discrimination (PRIO Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

COVID-19 Shines Spotlight on Need for Strengthened Mental Health Response for Asylum Seekers (Identities Journal Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

- See also related UNHCR press release and news story.

Explainer: Equitable Access to a COVID-19 Vaccine for the World’s Displaced Populations (RI Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

The Future of Migration in the Global South: Racializing Diseases has to stop (openDemocracy, Oct. 2020) [text]

Looking Back to The Postcolonial Age of Migration (Refugee Watch Online, Oct. 2020) [text]

Migration Survey Sampling: A Pragmatic ‘How-to’ Guide (ODI Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

New Insights on the “Deaths at the Border” Debate (Border Criminologies Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

- First post in a themed week on 'Deaths at Borders'. Additional posts can be accessed via the "see also" menu on the right.

*What is Externalization and Why is it a Threat to Refugees? (Chatham House Comment, Oct. 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Coming of Age of Migration Studies: Debating the Evolution and Impact of a Research Field," Comparative Migration Studies [open access]

- Follow link for original article and 8 commentaries. 

"Enhancing State-to-State Dialogue on Internal Displacement: Current Global Fora and Future Prospects?," Refugee Survey Quarterly (Forthcoming) [preprint]

- See also related briefing paper.

"Lives in Waiting," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 23 Sept. 2020 [free full-text]

"Participatory Research: Still a One-Sided Research Agenda?," Migration Letters, vol. 17, no. 2 (2020) [free full-text]

"A Selective Bibliography of Forced Migration: Resources for A New Generation of Discourse," EuropeNow Journal, no. 36 (Oct. 2020) [full-text]

"Spatial–temporal Trends in Forced Migrant Mortality, 2014–2018," BMJ Global Health, vol. 5, no. 10 (Oct. 2020) [open access]

- See also related news release.

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1 (29 Sept. 2020)

- Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 2 (29 Sept. 2020)

Thematic Focus: Health

AMA Journal of Ethics, vol. 21, no. 1 (2019) [open access]
- Special issue on "Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants." Includes the "AMA Policies and Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Health Care for Patients Who Are Immigrants, Refugees, or Asylees."

"Global Patterns of Mortality in International Migrants: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis," The Lancet, vol. 392, 10164 (15 Dec. 2018) [open access]
- See also related Thomson Reuters Foundation News article.

"Health Impacts of Parental Migration on Left-behind Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis," The Lancet, vol. 392, 10164 (15 Dec. 2018) [open access]

Health of Older Refugees and Migrants: Technical Guidance (WHO Regional Office for Europe, Nov. 2018) [text]
- See also related policy brief.

Health of Refugee and Migrant Children: Technical Guidance (WHO Regional Office for Europe, Dec. 2018) [text]
- See also related policy brief.

Health Promotion for Improved Refugee and Migrant Health: Technical Guidance (WHO Regional Office for Europe, Dec. 2018) [text]
- See also related policy brief.

Improving the Health Care of Pregnant Refugee and Migrant Women and Newborn Children: Technical Guidance (WHO Regional Office for Europe, Dec. 2018) [text]
- See also related policy brief.

A New Normal in Humanitarian Aid: Treating Middle-class Diseases (IRIN, Dec. 2018) [text]

Public Health Guidance on Screening and Vaccination for Infectious Diseases in Newly Arrived Migrants within the EU/EEA (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Nov. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Refugee Health Partnership: A Longitudinal Experiential Medical Student Curriculum in Refugee/Asylee Health," Academic Medicine, Ahead-of-Print, 18 Dec. 2018 [free full-text]

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Health - Pt. 1 (4 Dec. 2018)
- Thematic Focus: Health - Pt. 2 (4 Dec. 2018)

Tagged Publications.

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Reports & Journal Articles:

"City of Exiles," California Sunday Magazine, 30 May 2018 [text]
- Long read on legal aid provided to deportees from and asylum-seekers to the U.S. who arrive in Tijuana, Mexico.

Deportation by Any Means Necessary: How Immigration Officials are Labeling Immigrant Youth as Gang Members (Immigration Legal Resource Center, May 2018) [text]
- See also additional gang allegation resources and a related Immigration Impact blog post.

"Family Separation and 'Zero-Tolerance' Policies Rolled Out to Stem Unwanted Migrants, but May Face Challenges," Migration Information Source, 24 May 2018 [text]

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 32, no. 1 (Fall 2017) [free full-text]
- The contents of the current issue are freely available; access to past issues requires payment.

"Instilling Fear and Regulating Behavior: Immigration Law as Social Control," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 31, no. 3 (Spring 2017) [full-text via SSRN]

"Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria," New England Journal of Medicine, 29 May 2018 [free full-text]

"The US Immigration System: Principles, Interests, and Policy Proposals to Guide Long-Term Reform," Journal on Migration and Human Security (Jan. 2018) [open access]
- Special collection of JMHS articles that "seeks to look beyond recent and current US immigration debates to outline a flexible, secure, and evidence-based immigration system that would serve the nation’s interests, reflect its democratic ideals, and benefit from the contributions of immigrants from throughout the world."

Related post:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (6 June 2018)

Tagged Publications. 

Thematic Focus: General

2017 Annual Consultations with NGOs, Geneva, 14-16 June 2017 [info]
- This year's theme is "From Global Responsibility to Local Action: Implementing the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF)." Registration deadline is 12 May 2017. Note that *online* registration will close once 500 delegates have signed up. Follow link for background documents.

The Human Rights Violators’ Playbook: How to Respond to an Amnesty International Report (Amnesty International, Feb. 2017) [text]

Mapped: A World at War (IRIN, updated April 2017) [access]

Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 29,369; Deaths: 663 (IOM, April 2017) [text]

Open Briefing to United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (UNHCR, April 2017) [text]
- More information about the committee meeting is available here.

Painting a Clearer Picture with ‘Flawed’ and ‘Messy’ Data (IDMC Blog, March 2017) [text]

Remarks to the UN General Assembly Plenary Meeting, "Global Awareness of the Tragedies of Irregular Migrants in the Mediterranean Basin, with Specific Emphasis on Syrian Asylum Seekers" (UNHCR, April 2017) [text]

Too Many Migrants, or Too Many Concepts? (RLI Blog, April 2017) [text]

U.N. Refugee Agency Must Change Course or Risk Obsolescence (Refugees Deeply, April 2017) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: General (31 March 2017)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Health

"Caring for Refugee Youth in the School Setting," NASN School Nurse, OnlineFirst, 7 Dec. 2016 [free full-text]

"Community-based Interventions with Refugee Families Using a Family Systems Approach," The Family Journal, OnlineFirst, 23 Nov. 2016 [free full-text]

"Displaced Populations Due to Humanitarian Emergencies and Its Impact on Global Eradication and Elimination of Vaccine-preventable Diseases," Conflict and Health, 10:27 (Nov. 2016) [open access]

"Does Spending on Refugees Make a Difference? A Cross-sectional Study of the Association between Refugee Program Spending and Health Outcomes in 70 Sites in 17 Countries," Conflict and Health, 10:28 (Dec. 2016) [open access]

"The Factor Structure of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Traumatized Refugees," European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 7: 33253 (Dec. 2016) [open access]

"Growth Trajectories of Refugee and Non-refugee Children in the United States," Pediatrics, Early Release, Nov. 2016 [full-text via ResearchGate]

"Impact of Refugees on Local Health Systems: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis in Cameroon," PLoS ONE 11(12): e0168820 (Dec. 2016) [open access]

"Mental Health Outcomes for Youth Living in Refugee Camps: A Review," Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, OnlineFirst, 11 Oct. 2016 [free full-text]

"Pharmacological Treatment of Refugees with Trauma-related Disorders: What Do We Know Today?," Transcultural Psychiatry, OnlineFirst, 12 Dec. 2016 [free full-text]

"Prevalence, Severity, and Determinant Factors of Anemia among Pregnant Women in South Sudanese Refugees, Pugnido, Western Ethiopia," Anemia, vol. 2016, Article ID 9817358 (Nov. 2016) [open access]

Toolkit for Assessing Health System Capacity to Manage Large Influxes of Refugees, Asylum-seekers and Migrants (WHO, Dec. 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Health Issues in Europe (14 Dec. 2016)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: General

News: Former High Commissioner for Refugees Slated to be Next UN Secretary-General:

- António Guterres: Good for the U.N., Good for the World, but Gender Issues Remain (Order from Chaos Blog, Oct. 2016) [text]
- Four Priorities for the New UN Secretary-General (ODI, Oct. 2016) [text]
- Right Job, Right Time for António Guterres (Inside Story, Oct. 2016) [text]
- What the Appointment of António Guterres as UN Secretary-general Means for the Refugee Crisis (The Conversation, Oct. 2016) [text]

Event:

Seminar: Migrants in Countries in Crisis: Emerging Findings from Research on Six Crisis Situations, Cairo, 24 October 2016 [info]

Publications:

Becoming Urban Humanitarians: Engaging Local Government to Protect Displaced People (Urban Institute, Aug. 2016) [text]
- See also related project overview.

"Borders and Walls: Do Barriers Deter Unauthorized Migration?," Migration Information Source, 5 Oct. 2016 [text]

Leaving No One Behind: Internal Displacement and the New Urban Agenda (IDMC, Oct. 2016) [text]

Mass Refugee Influxes, Refoulement and the Prohibition against Torture (REDRESS, Sept. 2016) [text via Refworld]

Overview of Research Literature about Refugees' Engagement, Coping and Resilience, CCS Policy Paper, no. 4 (Zentrum für Konfliktforschung, 2016) [text]

Poverty & Death: Disaster Mortality 1996-2015 (CRED & UNISDR, 2016) [text via PreventionWeb]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: General (6 Oct. 2016)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

Regional Focus: Europe

Afghans on the Move: Seeking Protection and Refuge in Europe - "In this journey I died several times, in Afghanistan you only die once", Global Migration Research Paper, no. 17 (Global Migration Centre, May 2016) [text]

Annual Activity Report 2015 by Nils Muižnieks, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (Council of Europe, March 2016) [text via Refworld]

Bear Any Burden: How EU Governments Can Manage the Refugee Crisis (ECFR, April 2016) [text]

Closing the Crossing: The End of Refugee Autonomy (Travaux: The Berkeley Journal of International Law Blog, April 2016) [text]

EU Migration Crisis Actions with a Focus on the EU-Turkey Agreement, Policy Brief, no. 4 (Migration Policy Centre, April 2016) [text]

EU Proposes New Approach to Better Support Displaced People through Its External Action (European Commission, April 2016) [text]

Holding the Borders, Holding the Centre: The EU and the Refugee Crisis (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, April 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

Is the EU-Turkey Refugee and Migration Deal a Treaty? (EU Law Analysis Blog, April 2016) [text]

Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals in 2016: 183,017; Deaths 1,244 (IOM, April 2016) [text]

Paying the Price: The Cost of Europe’s Refugee Crisis (ECFR, April 2016) [text]

Razor-Wired: Reflections on Migration Movements through Slovenia in 2015 (Peace Institute, March 2016) [text via ReseachGate]

Reforming Europe’s Common Asylum System: Will Member States Back It? (ICMPD, April 2016) [text]

Regulation 604/2013 (Dublin Regulation) and Asylum Procedures in Europe (EPRS, April 2016) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe (22 April 2016)

Tagged Publications.  

Regional Focus: Syria

Event:

Five Years on, What Next for Syria?, London, 15 March 2016 [info]
- Will also be livestreamed.

Publications:

Can We Use Aid for Syria in a Better Way? (RI Blog, Feb. 2016) [text]

Cash Transfer Programming for Syrian: Refugees Lessons Learned on Vulnerability, Targeting, and Protection from the Danish Refugee Council’s E-Voucher Intervention in Southern Turkey (Tufts Univ. et al., Jan. 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Legal Problems of Refugees (Future Development Blog, Feb. 2016) [text]

Primary Health Care Mainstreaming of Syrian Refugees in Egypt (UNHCR, 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protecting and Supporting the Displaced in Syria: UNHCR Syria End of Year Report 2015 (UNHCR, Feb. 2016) [text]

Refuge from Syria: Policy Recommendations (RSC, Jan. 2016) [text]
- These are the "outcome of a workshop held at the Refugee Studies Centre on 9 December 2015."

Religious Minority Experiences of Displacement: Initial Lessons Learnt from Syrian Christian and Syrian Druze Refugees in Jordan, Policy Brief (UCL Migration Research Unit, Jan. 2016) [text]

Shared Resilience for Syrian Refugees & Host Communities in Jordan (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2015) [text via ALNAP]

Syria 2015: Documenting War-wounded and War-dead in MSF-supported Medical Facilities in Syria (MSF, Feb. 2016) [text]

*The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Need for U.S. Leadership (Human Rights First, Feb. 2016) [text]

The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: State Fragility and Social Resilience, Middle East Centre Paper Series, no. 15 (LSE, Feb. 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects, esp. re. Syrians (25 Feb. 2016)
- Thematic Focus: Education, esp. re. Syrian Refugees (11 Feb. 2016)
- Regional Focus: Syria (5 Feb. 2016)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

CFP: International Journal of Middle East Studies [info]
- Articles sought for special issue on "Forced Displacement and Refugees." Submission deadline is 22 April 2016.

Publications:

2015 Situation Report on International Migration: Migration, Displacement and Development in a Changing Arab Region (IOM & ESCWA, 2015) [text]

Banished and Dispossessed: Forced Displacement and Deliberate Destruction in Northern Iraq (Amnesty International, Jan. 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

EU-Morocco Cooperation on Readmission, Borders and Protection: A Model to Follow?, Liberty and Security in Europe, no. 87 (CEPS, Jan. 2016) [text]

The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea with a Special Focus on the Yemen Situation: IOM and UNHCR Proposals for Strategic Action (UNHCR & IOM, Oct. 2015) [text]

In the Same Boat: Morocco’s Experience with Migrant Regularization (Harvard University, Jan. 2016) [text]
- Listen also to a related podcast, and read related blog series: Part 1, Part 2.

Occupied Palestinian Territory: Humanitarian Needs Overview 2016 (OCHA, Nov. 2015) [text]

Reclaiming Hope, Dignity and Respect: Syrian and Iraqi Torture Survivors in Jordan (Center for Victims of Torture, Jan. 2016) [text]

Report on the Protection of Civilians in the Armed Conflict in Iraq: 1 May-31 October 2015 (OHCHR & UNAMI, Jan. 2016) [text]

Tales from Western Sahara: Photographs under the Starry Night Sky (Western Sahara Report Blog, Jan. 2016) [text]

UNHCR Warns against Perilous Horn of Africa Sea Crossings (UNHCR, Jan. 2016) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Middle East (14 Jan. 2016)


Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Regional Focus: Iraqis & Syrians

Iraqis:

Displaced in Iraq: Little Aid and Few Options (Refugees International, Nov. 2015) [text]

Fief Montagnard, Régence Humanitaire: L’Endiguement des Déplacés Internes Kurdes dans le « Havre de Sécurité » du Nord de l’Irak, 1991-1992, Global Migration Research Paper, no. 10 (Global Migration Centre, 2015) [text]

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 65 (Nov. 2015) [full-text]
- Special feature on "The Crisis in Iraq."

Iraq: Multi-cluster Needs Assessment of Internally Displaced Persons Outside Camps (REACH, Oct. 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]

Iraq: The REACH Initiative Data Overview for the HNO Process (REACH, Sept. 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Note: HNO = Humanitarian Needs Overview.

Syrians:

Addressing Vulnerability? Cash Transfer Programming and Protection Outcomes for Out-of-Camp Syrian Refugees - An Analysis of the Danish Refugee Council’s E-card Programming in Southern Turkey (Feinstein International Center, Oct. 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]

Counting under Fire: The Untold Story of Syria's Casualty Data (IRIN, Oct. 2015) [text]

Do Syrian Refugees Pose a Terrorism Threat? (Brookings' Markaz Blog, Oct. 2015) [text]

From Blame Game to Cooperation: EU-Turkey Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Polish Institute of International Affairs, Oct. 2015) [text via ISN]

Pushed to the Edge: Syrian Refugees Face Increased Restrictions in Lebanon (Amnesty International, Nov. 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: MENA (15 Oct. 2015)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Health

"The Effectiveness of Interventions for Non-Communicable Diseases in Humanitarian Crises: A Systematic Review," PLoS ONE, 10(9): e0138303 (Sept. 2015) [open access]

An Evidence Review of Research on Health Interventions in Humanitarian Crises (Harvard Univ. et al., Oct. 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Emergencies," Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, vol. 21, no. 7 (2015) [full-text]

"Monitoring Mortality in Forced Migrants—Can Bayesian Methods Help Us to Do Better with the (Little) Data We Have?," PLoS Medicine, 12(10): e1001887 (Oct. 2015) [open access]

Outside and In: Legal Entitlements to Health Care and Education for Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (COMPAS, July 2015) [text via Academia.edu]

"Return Migration among Elderly, Chronically Ill Bosnian Refugees: Does Health Matter?," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12(10), 12643-12661 (Oct. 2015) [open access]

"A Study of Predictive Factors Affecting Health: Promoting Behaviors of North Korean Adolescent Refugees," Journal of Preventive Medicine & Public Health, vol. 48, no. 5 (Sept. 2015) [full-text via PubMed]

U.S. Home to Far More Refugee Torture Survivors than Previously Believed (Center for Victims of Torture, Sept. 2015) [access]
- Follow link for press release and study.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Health (14 Oct. 2015)

Tagged Publications.

News: Launch of EU Border Deaths Database

The Human Costs of Border Control (HCBC) is a research project based at VU University in Amsterdam. One of its aims is to investigate the relationship between migrant mortality and European border policies. The first stage of this effort involved collecting data from official sources (such as death certificates) from Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Malta and Greece.  (Other projects that track migrant deaths have primarily relied on media reports for their data sources.) These data were then input into the Deaths at the Borders Database for the Southern EU which was made available for public use today.  A more simplified visualization version was also developed.

Visit the project site for more information, and read the preliminary findings and policy conclusions for analysis of the data.  Highlights of the research are reported in this Reuters article.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Mediterranean Refugee Crisis (28 April 2015)

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

Thematic Focus: Natural Disasters

The Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) will be held in Sendai, Japan, on 14-18 March 2015.  The agenda includes a working session on "Preparing for Disaster-Induced Relocation."  In addition, a side event on "Displacement and the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: What are the Inter-linkages between DRR and Human Mobility?" will be held 14 March.


Here are some of the publications that have been released in the lead-up to the meeting:

Disaster-related Displacement Risk: Measuring the Risk and Addressing its Drivers (IDMC, March 2015) [text]
- See also related news stories from Thomson Reuters and IRIN.

Human Cost of Natural Disasters: A Global Perspective (CRED, 2015) [text]

*Reducing Climate Change's Disastrous Effects (RI Blog, March 2015) [text]

WCDRR Briefings for Delegations (ODI, Feb. 2015)
- Disaster Damage to Critical Infrastructure and Basic Services
- Disaster Mortality
- Economic Losses from Disasters
- Number of People Affected by Disasters

*UPDATED

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Statistical Data

Publications:

Behind the Numbers (IOM, Dec. 2013) [text]
- Highlights the difficulty of calculating migrant deaths.

Counting Internal Displacement in Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation, Jan. 2014) [text]
- Points to challenge of compiling accurate statistics on IDPs in Africa.

From the Archives: Troublesome Refugee Statistics & and the Case of Sudanese in Egypt (RSDWatch, Jan. 2014) [text]
- Inspired by Jeff Crisp's recent reference to his 1999 working paper on ""Who Has Counted the Refugees? UNHCR and the Politics of Numbers," Michael Kagan revisits one of his older notes on how many Sudanese live in Egypt.

People Affected by Conflict 2013: Humanitarian Needs in Numbers (CRED, Dec. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Represents "the first systematic attempt to produce objective and comparable figures for all people affected by conflict (PAC)."

"Tools for the Validation and Utilization of EU Statistics on Human Trafficking (TRAFSTAT)," INTERVICT Newsletter (Fall 2013) [text]
- This project aims to improve the recording of EU statistics and strengthen their comparability.


Resource:

UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset, v.4-2013, 1946–2012 [access]
- "A conflict-year dataset with information on armed conflict where at least one party is the government of a state in the time period 1946-2012. The most recent is version 4-2013."

Note: For other related statistical references on this blog, browse posts with the subject label "statistical data."

Tagged Publications.

News: International Migrants Day

December 18th is International Migrants Day. If you are a person living outside your country of birth, share your story at #IAmAMigrant.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is calling 2013 the "year of desperation," focusing on the many migrants who have perished in search of a new life.  Visit IOM's theme page for more information, including statistics on and locations of migrant deaths, an animated infographic, news stories, and a link to the "What Migrants Bring" campaign.

See also this joint statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, François Crépeau; the Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, Abdelhamid El Jamri; and the Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Felipe González.

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

Thematic Focus: Health

Better off as a Refugee? Civil Status as a Determinant of Public Health Outcome (Developing Countries, 1998-2013), Presentation at the European Public Health Conference, Brussels, 13-16 November 2013 [free full-text via European Journal of Public Health]

Health Changes of Refugees from Afghanistan, Iran and Somalia: Role of Residence Status and Experienced Living Difficulties in the Resettlement Process, Presentation at the European Public Health Conference, Brussels, 13-16 November 2013 [free full-text via European Journal of Public Health]

"Brief Mental Health Interventions in Conflict and Emergency Settings: An Overview of Four Medecins Sans Frontieres-France Programs," Conflict and Health 7:23 (Nov. 2013) [open access text]

"Counselling in Humanitarian Settings: A Retrospective Analysis of 18 Individual-focused Non-specialised Counselling Programmes," Conflict and Health 7:19 (Sept. 2013) [open access text]

"A Narrative Synthesis of the Impact of Primary Health Care Delivery Models for Refugees in Resettlement Countries on Access, Quality and Coordination," International Journal for Equity in Health 12:88 (Nov. 2013) [open access text]

UNHCR’s Essential Medicines and Medical Supplies: Policy and Guidance 2013 (UNHCR, Nov. 2013) [text]
- Updates the 2011 version.  "The Essential Medicines and Medical Supplies Policy and Guidance will remain valid until 2020 . The essential medicines and medical supplies lists will be updated biennially, with the next update in 2015."

Tagged Publications. 

Disasters in 2010

A few new resources that report on disasters and the toll they took on populations in 2010:

• 2010 Disasters in Numbers (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2011) [text]
• Disasters in Numbers 2010 (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Jan. 2011) [text]
• Natural Catastrophes and Man-made Disasters in 2010: A Year of Devastating and Costly Events (Swiss Reinsurance Company, 2011) [text via PreventionWeb]
• "Natural Disasters in 2010," CRED Crunch, no. 23 (Feb. 2011) [text]

Tagged Publications.

Focus on Europe

Asylum Situation in Greece Including for Dublin II Transferees (UNHCR, Jan. 2011) [text]

Coping with a Fundamental Rights Emergency: The Situation of Persons Crossing the Greek Land Border in an Irregular Manner (FRA, 2011) [text]

EU: Controls, Detention and Expulsions at Europe’s Borders (Statewatch, 2010) [text]

"Fortress Europe": One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (NCADC, March 2011) [text]

Interactive Map: Deaths at Europe's Borders (Migrants at Sea, March 2011) [text]

- Introduces resource that shows the number of migrants that have died trying to reach Europe's borders since 1988.

The Refuge, vol. 8, no. 5 (Feb. 2011) [full-text]

- From Jesuit Refugee Service-Europe; includes reports on an event held to "advocate against the indiscriminate closure of the EU borders to those in need of protection," a new JRS Portugal book on detention, and the M.S.S. vs. Belgium and Greece case, among other items.

Zambrano Case (Free Movement Blog, March 2011) [text]

- Reports on a European Court of Justice judgment that "seems to have held that the parents of a child born in a Member State must be granted the right to work and the right of residence in that Member State in order to protect the right of the child to live in Europe."

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

Publications: Eligibility/Somalis, HAP Rpt., Health Stats., HDR Rpt./OPT, Migrant Trafficking/Canada, WFP/Somalia

2009 Humanitarian Accountability Report (HAP, May 2010) [text]

"Commentary: Ensuring health statistics in conflict are evidence-based," Conflict and Health 4:10 (2010) [open access text]

"The Battle against Migrant Trafficking in Canada: Is the Target Organized Crime or Irregular Immigration?," Our Diverse Cities, no. 7 (Spring 2010) [text via SSRN]

Human Development Report 2009/2010: Occupied Palestinian Territory - Investing in Human Security for a Future State (UNDP, May 2010) [text via ReliefWeb]

Humanitarian Diplomacy & Failed States: Case Study of the WFP Operations in Somalia (Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, May 2010) [text]

UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Somalia (UNHCR, May 2010) [text]


Tagged Publications.