New Issue of FMR

The latest issue of Forced Migration Review (FMR) has been published. The theme of FMR53 is "Local Communities: First and Last Providers of Protection." Here is the description:

"It is often people’s immediate community that provides the first, last and perhaps best tactical response for many people affected by or under threat of displacement. In the 23 feature theme articles in this issue of FMR, authors from around the world – including authors who are themselves displaced – explore the capacity of communities to organise themselves before, during and after displacement in ways that help protect the community. FMR 53 also includes eight ‘general’ articles on other aspects of forced migration."

Readers can access FMR articles individually, in HTML, PDF and MP3 formats, via the expanded contents feature, or as a complete issue. Back issues of FMR are available here.

FMR is an open access publication. It is available online and in print in English, Arabic, French and Spanish. Audio versions of articles are also available in English.

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New Issue of JRS

The latest issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) has been published. Contents of vol. 28, no. 2, June 2015 include:

• Stuck in Transit: Secondary Migration of Asylum Seekers in Europe, National Differences, and the Dublin Regulation [abstract] [ResearchGate] [related paper] [related presentation]
• The Tactics of Time and Status: Young People’s Experiences of Building Futures while Subject to Immigration Control in Britain [abstract]
• Forced Up or Down? The Impact of Forced Migration on Social Status [abstract]
• Local Faith Communities and the Promotion of Resilience in Contexts of Humanitarian Crisis [abstract] [related working paper]
• The Invisible Displaced: A Unified Conceptualization of Population Displacement in Brazil [abstract] [full-text via ResearchGate]
• Studying Refugee Settlement through Longitudinal Research: Methodological and Ethical Insights from the Good Starts Study [abstract] [record in IR]
• Constructing Gender: Refugee Women Working in the United States [abstract]
• Home Is Where the Heart Is? Forced Migration and Voluntary Return in Turkey’s Kurdish Regions [abstract] [record in IR]

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Detention

"Australian Immigration Detention after Plaintiff S4: New Limits, Little Change," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 4, no. 2 (Dec. 2014) [full-text]

Detention of African Asylum Seekers: Welcome to Round Three (MigRefLaw Blog, Dec. 2014) [text]

I am Human: Refugee Women’s Experiences of Detention in the UK (Women for Refugee Women, Jan. 2015) [text]

Immigration Detention in Europe: What are the Facts? A New European Migration Network Study (EU Law Analysis Blog, Dec. 2014) [text]

"The Morton Memo and Asylum Seekers: An Overview of the U.S. Mandatory Detention Policy," New England Law Review, vol. 48, no. 4 (2014) [full-text]

State of Civil Rights at Immigration Detention Facilities, Washington, DC, 30 Jan. 2015 [info]
- A webcast of this U.S. Commission on Civil Rights briefing is available.  See also AILA's statement. Public comment on this issue will be accepted until 2 March 2015.

"Understanding Immigration Detention," Introductory chapter in Immigration Detention: The Migration of a Policy and its Human Impact (Routledge, forthcoming May 2015) [eprint via SSRN]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (3 Dec. 2014)

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Regional Focus: Syria, incl. Resettlement

Resettlement:

The UNHCR Pledging Conference on Resettlement and Other Forms of Admission for Syrian Refugees was held yesterday in Geneva. One of the aims was "to increase the number of places available to Syrian refugees in resettlement countries in areas such as Europe, and North and South America."  The result: "After today's pledges and indications of future commitments, UNHCR expects the total number of places for Syrian refugees available in the coming months to reach 100,000."  A coalition of NGOs had called for governments "to commit to offering sanctuary to at least 5 per cent of the most vulnerable refugees from Syria currently in neighboring countries - 180,000 people - by the end of 2015."

For more information, see:

In Search of Solidarity: Resettlement and Other Forms of Admission for Syrian Refugees (UNHCR, Dec. 2014) [text]

Left Out in the Cold: Syrian Refugees Abandoned by the International Community (Amnesty International, Dec. 2014) [text]
- See also related facts & figures.

Resettlement of Refugees from Syria (Oxfam et al., Dec. 2014) [access]

Other publications:

Amid the Debate Over a Buffer Zone, Challenging Questions on How It Would Work (Syria Deeply, Dec. 2014) [text via Brookings]

Jordan: Vulnerable Refugees Forcibly Returned to Syria (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2014) [text]

Mental Health/Psychosocial and Child Protection for Syrian Adolescent Refugees in Jordan (Unicef & International Medical Corps, June 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

Syrian Refugee Women in Lebanon: Gendering Violence through Johan Galtung (e-International Relations, Nov. 2014) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Syria (20 Nov. 2014)

Tagged Publications. 

New Book Titles

Please check out my Pinterest page for new books due out in October 2014. I've also added information about a few additional titles to the Sept. 2014 and New Legal Texts book boards.

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New Issue of JRS

The most recent issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) has been published.  Contents of vol. 27, no. 3, Sept. 2014 include:

• The Pursuit of State Status and the Shift toward International Norms: South Korea’s Evolution as a Host Country for Refugees [abstract]
• Gender, Securitization and Transit: Refugee Women and the Journey to the EU [free full-text] [full-text via Oppenheimer Chair]
• Neither Temporary, Nor Permanent: The Precarious Employment Experiences of Refugee Claimants in Canada [abstract] [full-text via Academia.edu]
• Riotous Refugees or Systemic Injustice? A Sociological Examination of Riots in Australian Immigration Detention Centres [abstract] [full-text via Oppenheimer Chair]
• ‘I am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia [free full-text] [related thesis]
• Local Currencies: A Potential Solution for Liquidity Problems in Refugee Camp Economies [abstract] [full-text via Cadmus Group] [eprint via Researchgate]
• Where ‘Difference is the Norm’: Exploring Refugee Student Ethnic Identity Development, Acculturation, and Agency at Shaw Academy [abstract]
• Beyond the Law: Power, Discretion, and Bureaucracy in the Management of Asylum Space in Thailand [abstract]

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Regional Focus: Syria

Dialogue and Local Response Mechanisms to Conflict between Host Communities and Syrian Refugees in Lebanon (Search for Common Ground, May 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

Insufficient Solidarity: The EU’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Polish Institute of International Affairs, June 2014) [text via ISN]

Towards a Resilience-based Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Critical Review of Vulnerability Criteria and Frameworks (ODI & UNDP, May 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

Syria Crisis: Camps and Informal Settlements in Northern Syria - Humanitarian Baseline Review (REACH, June 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

Syrian Refugees in Europe: What Europe Can Do to Ensure Protection and Solidarity (UNHCR, July 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related news story.

Woman Alone: The Fight for Survival by Syrian Refugee Women (UNHCR, July 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Syria (2 July 2014)

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Regional Focus: Australia

Publications:

Between Bad and Worse (Sydney Review of Books, March 2014) [text]
- Review of A Country Too Far: Writings on Asylum Seekers (Penguin, Oct. 2013).

Can’t Flee, Can’t Stay: Australia's Interception and Return of Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Law Centre, March 2014) [text]

Getting Settled: Women Refugees in Australia (Dept. of Social Services, 2013) [text]
- Updated edition.

'No One Can Be Left without Hope': Breathing Life into Global Action for Asylum Seekers (Institute for Race Relations, March 2014) [text]

"Offshore Hospitality: Law, Asylum and Colonisation," Law Text Culture, vol. 17, no. 1 (2014) [full-text]

Operation Sovereign Borders: The First Six Months (ABC News, March 2014) [text]
- Special interactive feature.

Sri Lanka and Australia after the War: A Forum on Post-war Justice and the Indefinite Detention of Refugees, Sydney, 5 March 2014 [event summary]

The Undesirables: Inside Nauru (Hardie Grant Books, March 2014) [info]
- See also related Sydney Morning Herald news article.

Web sites:

Destination Detention [access]
- Provides info on forthcoming book about asylum-seekers at the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre.

Jesuit Refugee Service Australia [access]
- Re-designed web site with new look and feel.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Australia (12 March 2014)

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Thematic Focus: Gender Issues

News:

Today is International Women's Day!  The official UN theme is "Equality for women is progress for all." Follow developments via ReliefWeb's Gender topic page and UNHCR's IWD page.

Publications: 

An 'I Do' I Choose: How the Fight for Marriage Access Supports a Per Se Finding of Persecution for Asylum Cases Based on Forced Marriage (ExpressO, 2014) [text]

*Forced to Flee: Women's Health and Displacement (MSF, March 2014) [text]

Girl, Disrupted (IDMC, March 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Health Promotion and Education among Refugee Women: A Literature Review," Journal of Social Change, vol. 6, no. 1 (2014) [full-text]

Life Can Change: Securing Housing, Land and Property Rights for Displaced Women (NRC, March 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also this project's web page.

Nowhere to Go: Displaced and Returnee Women Seeking Housing, Land and Property Rights in South Sudan (NRC, March 2014?) [text]

Too Much Pain - Female Genital Mutilation & Asylum in the European Union: A Statistical Update (UNHCR, March 2014) [text]

"'You Keep Yourself Strong': A Discourse Analysis of African Women Asylum Seekers' Talk about Emotions," Journal of International Women's Studies, vol. 15, no. 1 (2014) [open access]

*updated

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Gender Issues (17 Feb. 2014)


Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

New Issue of RSQ

The latest issue of the Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) is now available.  Articles in vol. 32, no. 4, Dec. 2013 include:

• From Zero Tolerance to Harm Reduction: “The Asylum Problem Problem” [abstract] [earlier version]
• Assessing Refugee Camp Characteristics and the Occurrence of Sexual Violence: A Preliminary Analysis of the Dadaab Complex [abstract]
• The UNHCR and Zimbabwean Refugees in Mozambique, 1975–1980 [abstract]
• Coping Strategies of Sudanese Refugee Women in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya [abstract]
• EU Labour Immigration Policy: Discourses and Mobility [abstract]
• Consistency in Refugee Decision-Making: A Judicial Perspective [abstract]

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: Americas

Acceso a Tierra/Vivienda para Mujeres en Necesidad de Protección Internacional (PNPI) y Refugiadas en Ecuador: Marco Normativo Nacional e Internacional que Regula el Derecho a la Vivienda y el Acceso a Tierra de las Mujeres Refugiadas en el Ecuador (NRC, Feb. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related press release; an English version of this report will soon become available.

"A Evolução dos Instrumentos de Proteção do Direito Internacional dos Refugiados na América Latina: da Convenção de 51 ao Plano de Ação do México = The Evolution of the International Refugee Law in Latin America: From the 1951 Convention to the Mexico Plan of Action," Universitas Relações Internacionais, Brasília, vol. 10, no. 1 (Jan./June 2012) [text via SSRN]
- Note: The article is in Portuguese, not Spanish as indicated in the abstract.

An Immigrant's Journey (The Atlantic's In Focus, Aug. 2013) [access]
- Photo montage of Central Americans and their journey to the U.S.

Protection and Vulnerability in Urban Contexts: The Case of Refugees in Rio de Janeiro, Discussion Paper, no. 6 (HASOW, Sept. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Strengthening North American Perimeter Security: An Analysis of United States and Canadian Immigration and Refugee Laws and the Collaboration Required to Harmonize Those Laws," Canada-United States Law Journal, vol. 37, no. 2 (2012) [access]
- Scroll to p. 493.

"Towards a Thirty Year Low in Refugees Accepted in Canada?," CCR Chronicle, vol. 8, no. 5 (Sept. 2013) [full-text]

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Regional Focus: Africa

Central African Republic: Abandoned to its Fate? (Médecins Sans Frontières, July 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Children in Need: Humanitarian Crisis in the Central African Republic (Think Africa Press, Sept. 2013) [text]

Humanitarian Information Service - Dadaab: Bridging the Information Gap (Internews Network, Aug. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Moved and the Shaken: How Forced Relocation Affects the Lives of Urban Refugee Women and Girls (Heshima Kenya, 2013) [text]

NCHS Seminar on Mali: Humanitarian Challenges and Fragile Security, What Role for the UN? (Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies, Aug. 2013) [text]

Rape and Sexual Violence in Somalia: An Ongoing Epidemic (Amnesty International, Aug. 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications. 

Regional Focus: Australia & New Zealand

Opportunity:

Refugees & Australia, 1972-2012 [info]
- Special exhibit that runs until 12 May 2014 at the Migration Museum in Adelaide, Australia.

Publications:

A Better Way: Regional Cooperation, Policy Brief (Refugee Council of Australia, June 2013) [text]

Bob Carr and the Ghost of Philip Ruddock (Inside Story, July 2013) [text]

FactCheck: Are Asylum Seekers Really Economic Migrants? (The Conversation, July 2013) [text]

Just Hook around Tasmania and Pop across the Tasman (Inside Story, June 2013) [text]

No Country is an Island (Inside Story, June 2013) [text]

"Pragmatic Answers to the Asylum Seeker Question," Eureka Street Extra (June 2013) [text]

Pushed to the Margins: Building Pathways towards Greater Social Inclusion for Refugee Women in Australia (Australian Centre for Leadership for Women, June 2013) [text via BroCAP]

"Why Bob Carr is Kidding Himself about Refugees," Eureka Street, vol. 23, no. 13 (July 2013) [text]

World Refugee Day: New Zealand at Risk of Abusing Human Rights in the Name of Border Control (Amnesty International, June 2013) [text]

World Refugee Day 2013: Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre (NZ Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, June 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Policy & Programming Items

Informal Consultative Meeting on Global Strategic Priorities for 2014-2015 (UNHCR, Feb. 2013) [text]

Local Faith Communities and the Promotion of Resilience in Humanitarian Situations: A Scoping Survey, Working Paper, no. 90 (RSC & Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, Feb. 2013) [text]

Management Response to the Recommendations of the Synthesis Summary Report of the Joint UNHCR/WFP Impact Evaluations on the Contribution of Food Assistance to Durable Solutions in Protracted Refugee Situations (WFP & UNHCR, Jan. 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]
- The evaluations that this response refers to were referenced in this earlier post.

Refugee Livelihoods in Urban Areas: Identifying Program Opportunities (Feinstein International Center, Feb. 2013) [text]
- See also case studies on Ecuador, Egypt, and Israel.

Refugee Resettlement: 2012 and Beyond, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 253 (UNHCR, Feb. 2013) [text]

UNHCR's Dialogues with Refugee Women: Progress Report on Implementation of Recommendations (UNHCR, 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications. 

Thematic Focus: Health

"Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants from a Human Rights Perspective: A Comparative Study of Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands," Health and Human Rights, vol. 14, no. 2 (2012) [open access text]

"Cervical Cancer Screening among Vulnerable Women ," Canadian Family Physician, vol. 58, no. 9 (Sept. 2012) [full-text]

Cultural Traditions and the Reproductive Health of Somali Women (Univ. of San Francisco, Jan. 2013) [text]

Health Care for Undocumented Migrants: European Approaches (Commonwealth Fund, Dec. 2012) [text]

"High Levels of Mortality, Malnutrition, and Measles, among Recently-displaced Somali Refugees in Dagahaley Camp, Dadaab Refugee Camp Complex, Kenya, 2011," Conflict and Health 7:1 (Jan. 2013) [open access text]

"How do General Practitioners Experience Providing Care to Refugees with Mental Health Problems? A Qualitative Study from Denmark," BMC Family Practice 14:17 (Jan. 2013) [open access text]

International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care [access]
- All content is freely accessible this week until 10 Feb. 2013.

"Translating Health Care: Stories from Refugees, Providers, and Friends," Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization, vol. 3, no. 1 (2012) [open access text]

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Thematic Focus: Health

"Description and Predictive Factors of Individual Outcomes in a Refugee Camp Based Mental Health Intervention (Beirut, Lebanon)," PLoS ONE, vol. 8. no. 1 (Jan. 2013): e54107 [open access text]

"Forced Migration and Mental Health: Prolonged Internal Displacement, Return Migration and Resilience," International Health, Advance Access, 21 Dec. 2012 [free full-text]

"A Grounded Theory Investigation into the Experiences of African Women Refugees: Effects on Resilience and Identity and Implications for Service Provision," Journal of International Women's Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 (2012) [open access text]

"High Rates of Pneumonia in Children under Two Years of Age in a South East Asian Refugee Population," PLoS ONE, vol. 8. no. 1 (Jan. 2013): e54026 [open access text]

"The Refugee Medical Exam: What You Need to Do," Journal of Family Practice, vol. 61, no. 12 (Dec. 2012) [free full-text]

"A Study of Refugee Maternal Mortality in 10 Countries, 2008–2010," International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, vol. 38, no. 4 (Dec. 2012) [free full-text]

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Regional Focus: Africa

Publications:

Africa's Illiberal State-builders, Working Paper, no. 89 (Refugee Studies Centre, Jan. 2013) [text]

Baseline Report: The Right to Information for Internally Displaced Persons in Kenya (Article 19, Dec. 2012) [text]

Kenya: Discrimination against Rift Valley Displaced (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2013) [text]

Mali: Outside the Spotlight, Displaced People in Urgent Need of Assistance (Refugees International Blog, Dec. 2012) [text]
- Includes video report.

Receiving LGBTI Refugees in South Africa: Towards a Culture of Non-Discrimination and Human Rights, Working Paper, no. 5 (Refugee Rights Unit, 2012) [text]

The Right to Stay: Fighting Slum Evictions in Kenya (IRIN, Jan. 2013) [text]

Women Refugees and Sexual Violence in Kakuma Camp, Kenya: Invisible Rights, Justice, Protracted Protection and Human Insecurity (Erasmus University, Dec. 2012) [text]

Web site:

Stop Rwandan Cessation [access]
- Campaign to stop the cessation clause from being invoked for Rwandan refugees on 30 June 2013.

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

Focus: Education

Beyond School Books (Unicef) [access via Refugee Education Initiative]
- "[S]eries of radio programmes on education in countries affected by conflict and natural disasters."  Provided via podcast.

"Connecting with New Information Landscapes: Information Literacy Practices of Refugees," Journal of Documentation, vol. 69, no. 1 (2013) [postprint via ResearchGate]
- See also earlier related article, "Settling in: The Relationship between Information and Social Inclusion."

Integrating Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children in the Educational Systems of EU Member States (Center for the Study of Democracy, 2012) [text via EMN Belgium]

Prioritizing Education in the Face of Natural Disasters (UpFront Blog, Oct. 2012) [text]

Seeds of Hope (UNHCR, Nov. 2012) [access]
- "20 Years of DAFI: A UNHCR exhibition highlights the impact of higher education for refugee communities."

Wisdom is like a Baobab Tree: No Individual Can Embrace it - Working and Learning Together towards Empowerment of Female Refugees (Maastricht School of Management, Sept. 2012) [text]

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

ETDs in Anthropology, Counseling, Development Studies, Education, Geography, Political Science, Social Work

The Establishment of the European Asylum Support Office and its Impact on EU Asylum Policy, Thesis submitted to the Centre for European Studies (University of Twente, Oct. 2012) [text]

Exploring the Experiences of African Refugees and Asylum Seeking Women in a Northern Town in the UK, Thesis submitted to the Programme in Social Work (University of Chester, April 2012) [text]

Exploring the Health and Health Care Experiences of Refugee and Refugee Claimant Women in Hamilton, Ontario: A Qualitative Study, Thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies (McMaster University, Sept. 2012) [text]

The Language Learning of Refugee Students in Canadian Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, Dissertation submitted to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (University of Western Ontario, 2012) [text]

Role of Media in Struggles for Recognition: Case of Internally Displaced Persons in Azerbaijan, Thesis submitted to the Department of Media and Communication (Lund University, 2012) [text]

"So we thought not to lose our background completely": Agency and Belonging among South Sudanese Acholi in New Zealand, Thesis submitted to the School of Social and Cultural Studies (Victoria University of Wellington, Oct. 2012) [text]

The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations: The Refugee Student and Mainstream Schooling, Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Education (La Trobe University, June 2012) [text]

A Study of Social Injustice and Forgiveness in the Case of North Korean Refugees, Dissertation submitted to the Center for Counseling and Family Studies (Liberty University, Aug. 2012) [text]

Tagged Publications. 

Focus: Africa, esp. Cessation

Back to the Land: The Long-term Challenges of Refugee Return and Reintegration in Burundi, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 242 (UNHCR, Aug. 2012) [text]

Refugee Children’s Participation in Protection: A Case Study from Uganda, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 241 (UNHCR, Aug. 2012) [text]

"Refugee Status Determination and the Rights of Recognized Refugees under Uganda’s Refugees Act 2006," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Access, 20 Aug. 2012 [abstract]

Trading Places, Shaping Spaces: Examining Somali Refugee Women's Lives and Livelihoods in Johannesburg, Paper presented at 12th EASA Biennial Conference, Nanterre, France, 13-14 July 2012 [text]

"Umenga Ntituri Abarundi": Rethinking Reintegration in Burundi (REMA Ministries, May 2012) [text]

Urban Displacement and Peacebuilding: An Analysis of South African Social Cohesion Interventions, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 243 (UNHCR, Aug. 2012) [text]

Cessation:

"The Cessation Clause and Rwandans in Uganda: Is the Countdown Beginning?," Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 29 (Sept. 2012) [full-text]

Burundians Lose Refugee Status, May Face Deportation (IRIN, Aug. 2012) [text]

"Liberian Refugees and the June 2012 Refugee Cessation: The Gap between Applying for and Being Granted Exemption," Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 29 (Sept. 2012) [full-text]

"Uganda’s Invocation of Cessation Regarding its Rwandan Refugee Caseload: Lessons for International Protection," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 24, no. 2 (May 2012) [abstract]

Tagged Publications.