New ETDs/Student Papers - Pt. 1

Approaching Psychosocial Adaptation to a Post-Crisis Environment through Case Studies of Javanese Disaster Survivors and Refugees in Sweden, Thesis (Uppsala University, May 2015) [text]

Asylum Policies in Europe: The Transposition of the Return Directive 2008/115/EC in Germany, Italy and Sweden, Bachelor thesis (University of Twente, July 2015) [text]

Communitarianism vs Cosmopolitanism? Refugee and Asylum Policy of the Conservative "Blue-blue" Government, Thesis (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, July 2015) [text]

Explaining EU's External Approach toward Boat Refugees: A Discrepancy between Norms and State Interests?, Thesis ((Roskilde University, June 2015) [text]

The Grey Areas of Refugee Protection: The Legal and Political Dimensions of a Restrictive Temporary Status for War Refugees, Bachelor thesis (Malmö University, Spring 2015) [text]

Housing and Migration: Immigrant Housing Policy as the Beginning and the End of a Successful Establishment for Asylum-seekers and Refugees, Thesis (Stockholm University, June 2015) [text]

Migration and Health: Exploring the Role of Migrant Status through Register-based Studies, Dissertation (Univ. of Copenhagen, 2015) [text via Danish Med. J.]

Place Identity and Feeling at Home: A Qualitative Study about Place Identity amongst Refugees in Umeå, Sweden, Thesis (Umeå University, June 2015) [text]

Struggling Nation: Baltic Refugees in the Swedish Party Press, 1906, Thesis (Stockholm University, Spring 2015) [text]

Voices of Asylum: Exploring the Narratives of Refugees as Agents of Development, Thesis (Roskilde University, June 2015) [text]

Tagged Publications.

New ETDs - Pt. 2(b)

More ETDs from Swedish academic institutions.

Refuge beyond Safety: A Study on Syrian Refugees in Jordan Preparing for Irregular Onwards Travel to Europe, Thesis (Malmö University, Spring 2015) [text]

Refugees Don’t Drink Wine, but Gay Men Should: Exploring the Intersections of Refugeehood, Sexuality and Nationality among Gay Syrian Refugees in Lebanon, Thesis (Lund University, Spring 2015) [text]

Securitization of Transit Forced Migrants: An Analysis of the Changing Representations of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Indonesian Major Print Media, Thesis (Lund University, 2015) [text]

Seeking Asylum in the United States: Mandatory Detention and International Law, Thesis (Uppsala University, Spring 2015) [text]

Unaccompanied Children - The Effects of Asylum Process: A Study on the Effects of the Waiting Process of Asylum Seeking in Sweden for Unaccompanied Children, Thesis (Uppsala University, Spring 2015) [text]

When the Pain Has Gone Beyond: Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping among Congolese Refugees, Thesis (Stockholm University, 2015) [text]

Tagged Publications.

Regional Focus: Oceania

Events:

Refugee Week Australia, 14-20 June 2015 [access]
- This year's theme is "It takes courage to be a refugee." Follow the link for information about events and resources.

Publications:

Castan Centre Human Rights Report 2015 (Monash University, 2015) [text]
- Includes several articles relating to asylum-seekers and refugee law.

"Australia’s Treatment of Asylum Seekers: Reflections from a Visit to Sri Lanka," Rights in Exile Newsletter, no. 59 (May 2015) [full-text]

Excluding Undeserving Claimants: New Zealand’s Interpretation of Art 1F(C) Refugee Convention, Legal Research Paper Series, Student/Alumni Paper, no. 13  (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013; posted May 2015) [text via SSRN]

In Focus: Resettlement of Refugees from Nauru to Cambodia (Kaldor Centre, May 2015) [access]

"Narratives of Return among Refugee-background South Sudanese in New Zealand," Australasian Review of African Studies, vol. 35, no. 1 (June 2014) [full-text]

"'To Watch, To Never Look Away': The Public's Responsibility for Australia's Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers," Alternative Law Journal, vol. 39, no. 3 (2014) [full-text via SSRN]

"'Unwanted invaders': The Representation of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK and Australian Print Media," eSharp, no. 23 (Spring 2015) [full-text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Oceania (30 April 2015)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Regional Focus: Europe

Event:

Panel discussion: Internal Displacement in Ukraine: Assessing the National Response, Washington, DC, 15 May 2015 [info]

Publications:

"Banal Crimes Against Humanity: The Case of Asylum Seekers in Greece," Melbourne Journal of International Law, vol. 16, no. 1 (2015) [full-text via AUSTLII]

Can the UK Opt-out of Mandatory EU Refugee Quotas? (EU Law Analysis Blog, May 2015) [text]

"Humanitarian Confinement: An Ethnography of Reception Centres for Asylum Seekers at Europe's Southern Border," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, vol. 1, no. 4 (2015) [full-text via Academia.edu]
- Note: This article focuses on Italy.

"Migration, Resilience, and Security: Responses to New Inflows of Asylum Seekers and Migrants," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Forthcoming) [eprint via Academia.edu]
- Note: This articles focuses on France.

[New Country Reports] (AIDA, April 2015)
- New and/or updated reports available for France and Italy.

Political Bias in Court? Lay Judges and Asylum Appeals, Working Paper, no. 2015/2 (Uppsala University, May 2015) [text]
- Note: This paper focuses on Sweden.

Right to Asylum in the Republic of Serbia 2014 (Belgrade Center for Human Rights, April 2015) [text]

"'Unwanted invaders': The Representation of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK and Australian Print Media," eSharp, no. 23 (Spring 2015) [full-text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe (6 May 2015)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

New ETDs - Pt. 4 (F)

Failed Refugee Claimants: Negotiating Rights, Security and Citizenship, Thesis (Ryerson University, 2013) [text]

The Forgotten Voices of Female Refugees: An Analysis of Gender Roles in the Refugee Society, Thesis (Northeastern University, Dec. 2013) [text]

The Fragmentation of the Concept of the Refugee into Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Analysis of Recent Changes to Policy 2008 to 2013, Thesis (Ryerson University, 2013) [text]

Framing Environmental Refugees: Effects of Responsibility Attribution, Disaster Proximity and Policy Attitudes, Thesis (University of Kansas, Dec. 2013) [text]

From Refugees to Model Minorities: Cuban-Americans and the Media in Miami, 1960-1970, Dissertation (University of North Carolina, 2013) [text]

Note: To locate other ETDs referenced on this blog, browse the subject label "theses."

Tagged Publications. 

Highlighting New Books

I recently inserted a new feature into the right-hand sidebar of this blog: New Books. The titles are sourced from Amazon.com. The listing is compiled from RSS feeds that I have generated using this tool. Basically, I enter various keywords, create the feeds, and copy and paste them into Google Reader (the application I use to read my RSS feeds). When relevant titles that have recently been published show up as matches to my keywords, I mark them to "share" (a feature in Google Reader) and in turn they display in the "new books" box on my blog.

While the listing is certainly not an exhaustive inventory of all new book titles for a given month, I hope it is a useful mechanism for alerting researchers to some of the work that has been done in their field of interest.

Posted in Web Sites/Tools.