Focus: Asia/Oceania

Upcoming event:

Short Course on Refugees and Statelessness, Bangkok & Mae Sot, 11-15 December 2012 [info]
- Application deadline is 26 October 2012.

Publications:

Ad Hoc and Inadequate: Thailand’s Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2012) [text]
- See also related IRIN article.

"Asylum-seekers: Let's Have a Mature Discussion," The Dominion Post, 13 Sept. 2012 [text]
- Comment on asylum-seeker debate in New Zealand.

The Bhutanese Refugee Resettlement Journey (NZ Dept. of Labour, 2011) [text]

"The Implications of the Failed 'Malaysia Solution': The Australian High Court and Refugee Responsibility Sharing at International Law," Melbourne Journal of International Law, vol. 13, no. 1 (June 2012) [access]
- Scroll down to relevant title.

New Land, New Life: Long-term Settlement of Refugees in New Zealand (NZ Dept. of Labour, 2011) [text]

"Perceived Needs, Self-reported Health and Disability among Displaced Persons during an Armed Conflict in Nepal," Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, vol. 47, no. 4 (April 2012) [open access text]

The Search: Protection Space in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia and The Philippines (JRS Asia Pacific, June 2012) [text]
- See also related article in Diakonia (April 2012), pp. 12-15.

Sri Lanka Refugees in India Reluctant to Return (IRIN, Sept. 2012) [text]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Focus: MENA

Upcoming events & opportunities:

Call for papers: International Migration in the Middle East and North Africa after the Arab Uprising: A Long Term Perspective Cairo, Egypt, 22-23 April 2013 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 31 Oct. 2012.

Migration Policy Responses after the Arab Spring, Copenhagen, 27 September 2012 [info]
- Register for this free event by 26 Sept. 2012.

Publications:

Asian Labour Migrants and Humanitarian Crises: Lessons from Libya, Issue in Brief, no. 3 (IOM & MPI, July 2012) [text]

Fleeing the Violence in Syria: Syrian Refugees in Lebanon (MSF, Sept. 2012) [text]

Forced Migration of Syrians to Jordan: An Exploratory Study, MPC Research Report 2012/06 (Migration Policy Centre, 2012) [text]

Mid-Year Review of the Regional Response Plan for Iraqi Refugees 2012 (OCHA, Sept. 2012) [text]

Pity Versus Rights’ Recognition: Rejection of the Victim Label by Palestinian Refugees, Working Paper 2011/54 (Birzeit University, 2011) [text via SSRN]

Rebels and Refugees: Syrians in Southern Turkey, Policy Brief, no. 10 (PRIO, Sept. 2012) [text]

Refugees of the Arab Spring: The Syrian Refugees in Lebanon April 2011-April 2012, Cairo Studies on Migration and Refugees, no. 2 (Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, Aug. 2012) [text]


Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

Events & Opportunities: Oct. 2012

Tough Choices: Ethical Challenges in Humanitarian Action, Berlin, 12-13 October 2012 [info]
- The registration deadline is 1 October 2012.

Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, Sixty-third session, Geneva, 1-5 October 2012 [info]

2012 Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking, Lincoln, Nebraska, 11-13 October 2012 [info]
- Registration is open.

Migration Consequences of Complex Crises, RSC Special Lecture, 15 October 2012 [info]
- Please register for this event.

Unprotected Unaccompanied Children in Europe: Which Reasons Lead to Their Lack of Protection? Poitiers, 22-24 October 2012 [info]
- Registration is open.

2012 East Asia Symposium: Forced Migration and Human Trafficking, 27-29 October 2012 [info]
- Registration is open; includes a workshop on Protecting the Rights of Refugees, Asylum-seekers, and Victims of Human Trafficking, followed by a meeting on Legislation and the Developing Asylum Policy in East Asia.

CFP: Development-induced Displacement Conference, Oxford, 22-23 March 2013 [info]
- The deadline for submitting abstracts is 31 October 2012.

CFP: Migration and Forced Labor [info]
- Position papers are sought for an edited volume on human trafficking entitled, Human Trafficking: Reconsidering the Problem. The deadline is 31 October 2012.

Related posts:
- Protection-related Events: Sept. & Oct. 2012
- Employment Opportunities: Sept. & Oct. 2012

Tagged Events & Opportunities.   

Focus: Americas, esp. AGDM

UNHCR's Bureau for the Americas has issued a "Best Practice Compilation" which highlights some of the work taking place and accomplishments achieved in the region in the area of Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming (AGDM).

Recent examples of gender equality projects undertaken in the field include the following:

• Animation Tool "My Body, My Territory' & Complementary SGBV Resources (Colombia) [text]
• Community Day Care Centres Managed by Refugee Women (Costa Rica) [text]
• Instructive Material on Refugee Issues Created by Youths (Costa Rica) [text]
• Legal Aid Provided by Law Students (Colombia) [text]
• Mobile Registration and Documentation Unit (Colombia) [text]
• Protection Network of Women’s Organizations and Safe Houses for SGBV Survivors (Ecuador) [text]

Other publications focusing on this region:

Asylum and Population Control: Assessing UNHCR’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme in Guatemalan Refugee Settlements, Working Paper, no. 83 (RSC, Sept. 2012) [text]

Colombia Transformational Change Must Include Urban IDPs (Refugees International, Sept. 2012) [text]

"Journeys to Home and Liminal Spaces among Former Refugees: Exploring Identity and Belonging among Vietnamese-Canadians," Social Space, no. 3 (2012) [open access text]

Legal Aid for Refugee Claimants in Canada (Refugee Forum, posted Sept. 2012) [text]

Refugee Resettlement in America: The Iraqi Refugee Experience in Upstate, New York, Cairo Studies on Migration and Refugees, no. 1 (Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, July 2012) [text]

Refugee Resettlement: Greater Consultation with Community Stakeholders Could Strengthen Program (U.S. GAO, July 2012) [text]

Tagged Publications.  

Focus: Europe, esp. the UK

Challenges of Forced Migration in Serbia: The State of Human Rights of Asylum Seekers and Returnees based on the Readmission Agreement (Grupa 484, July 2012) [text]

Enhanced Competences for the European Court of Justice: “Re-shuffling” the Dynamics of EU Migration Policy-making?, Migration Studies Unit Working Paper, no. 2012/1 (LSE, 2012) [text]
- "On the basis of pre-Lisbon Treaty case law on the right to asylum and the right to family life, this paper sets out to explore what the consequences of extended ECJ jurisdiction will be. ..."

The Impact of Welfare Systems on Immigration: An Analysis of Welfare Magnets as a Pull-factor for Asylum Seekers and Labour Migrants, Migration Studies Unit Working Paper, no. 2012/2 (LSE, 2012) [text]

Serbia as a Country of Asylum: Observations on the Situation of Asylum-seekers and Beneficiaries of International Protection in Serbia (UNHCR, Aug. 2012) [text]

A Study and Comparison of National Legislation in Slovenia and International Standards Related to Statelessness (UNHCR Central Europe, Jan. 2012) [text]

"Transnationalism of Burundian Refugees in The Netherlands: The Importance of Migration Motives," International Journal of Population Research, vol. 2012, Article ID 962327 (2012) [open access text]

UK:

Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals (Electronic Immigration Network, 2012) [text]

Campaigning Toolkit: An Aid to Understanding the Asylum and Immigration Systems, and Campaigning for the Right to Stay (NCADC, 2012) [access]

"Unmasking Deviance: The Visual Construction of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in English National Newspapers," Critical Criminology, vol. 20, no. 3 (2012) [full-text]

'We are not in politics to ignore peoples’ worries: we are in politics to deal with them.' Why Mainstream Parties Change Policy on Migration: A UK Case Study – The Conservative Party, Immigration and Asylum, 1960-2010, Paper prepared for the EPOP annual conference, University of Oxford, 7-9 September 2012 [text]

Tagged Publications. 

New Issue of JRS

A new issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies (vol. 25, no. 3, Sept. 2012) is now available.  Articles focus on the theme of "The Refugee in the Postwar World, 1945–1960" (see info. on a related conference of the same name) and include the following:

• The Uneven Development of the International Refugee Regime in Postwar Asia: Evidence from China, Hong Kong and Indonesia [abstract]
• Too Much Nationality: Kashmiri Refugees, the South Asian Refugee Regime, and a Refugee State, 1947–1974 [abstract]
• Entangled or ‘Extruded’ Histories? Displacement, National Refugees, and Repatriation after the Second World War [abstract]
• The Challenge of Categories: UNRWA and the Definition of a ‘Palestine Refugee’ [abstract]
• Borders Transformed: Sovereign Concerns, Population Movements and the Making of Territorial Frontiers in Hong Kong, 1949–1967 [abstract]
• ‘Help the People to Help Themselves’: UNRRA Relief Workers and European Displaced Persons [abstract]
• The Ambivalent Exception: American Occupation Policy in Postwar Germany and the Formation of Jewish Refugee Spaces [abstract]
• Migration, Sacrifice and the Crisis of Muslim Nationalism [abstract] [author homepage]

Tagged Periodicals.   

Employment Opportunities: Sept. & Oct. 2012

As I've noted in the past, this blog is not the best place to go to for vacancy announcements, as there are other resources that are much better than I am at collecting such information.  That said, here are a few opportunities that might be of interest to readers:

Executive Director, ICVA [info]
- Apply for this full-time position based in Geneva by 21 September 2012.

Senior Research Officer (World Migration Report), IOM [info]
- Apply for this full-time position based in Geneva by 21 September 2012.

Communications Assistant, RSC [info]
- Apply for this part-time position based in Oxford by 26 September 2012.

Editor-in-Chief, Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees [info]
- If you are a York University scholar, send your expression of interest for this position by 1 October 2012.

Managing Solicitor, Asylum Aid [info]
- Applications for this full-time position based in London are due by 8 October 2012.

Tagged Events & Opportunities.  

Focus: Maritime Protection

As these reports attest, boat tragedies continue to occur around the world:

• 140+ Feared Dead After Migrant Boat Sinks Off Indonesia (Migrants at Sea, Aug. 2012) [text]
• Almost 64,000 Risk the High Seas to Yemen in First Seven Months (UNHCR, Aug. 2012) [text]
• Italy: Lampedusa Shipwreck a Grim Reminder of EU’s Failure to Protect Migrants at Risk (Amnesty International, Sept. 2012) [text]
• More People are Risking Lives in the Caribbean to Reach Safety (UNHCR, July 2012) [text]

Recent publications that discuss how best to provide protection at sea include:

General:

"Expert Meeting on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Distress at Sea: How Best to Respond?," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 24, no. 2 (May 2012) [text via Oppenheimer Chair]

"Introductory Note to the Djibouti Summary Conclusions on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Distress at Sea," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 24, no. 2 (May 2012) [text via Oppenheimer Chair]

"Plight of the Boat People: How to Determine State Obligations to Asylum Seekers," Notre Dame Law Review, vol. 87, no. 3 (2012) [full-text]

Asia/Pacific:

Asia-Pacific Region Takes Joint Actions to Tackle Mixed Migration (UNHCR, Sept. 2012) [text]

The Devil’s in the Detail (Inside Story, Sept. 2012) [text]
- Looks at offshore processing in Nauru and Papua New Guinea re-established by recently passed legislation in Australia.

[Letter from UN High Commissioner, Antonio Guterres, to Australia's Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen, sharing UNHCR's views on Nauru as a regional processing country] (UNHCR Australia, Sept. 2012) [text]

The 'Pacific Solution' Revisited: A Statistical Guide to the Asylum Seeker Caseloads on Nauru and Manus Island (Parliamentary Library of Australia, Sept. 2012) [text]

Europe:

Hidden Emergency: Migrant Deaths in the Mediterranean (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2012) [text]

"Refugee and Migrant Protection at Sea: Lessons from the Mediterranean," Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 29 (Sept. 2012) [text]

Related posts:

• Asylum Policy in Australia (Aug. 2012)
• More Developments in Australia (Aug. 2012)
• Australia: Preventing Deaths at Sea (July 2012)
• Documenting Migrant Deaths at Sea (March 2012)
• Hirsi v. Italy (Feb. 2012)

See also posts labelled "rescue at sea."

[Image credit: Dying on Europe’s doorstep: EU should focus on saving migrants’ lives (Amnesty International, July 2012]

Tagged Publications.  

Guidelines for the Protection of People Fleeing Violence and Conflict

In his introductory statement to the 54th meeting of EXCOM's Standing Committee, the director of UNHCR's Division of International Protection referenced the evolving and complex nature of armed conflict and violence.  In the interest of determining how best to protect those who flee from such situations, he noted that

...UNHCR will develop guidelines on how international and regional refugee instruments apply to people fleeing violence and conflict across international borders. They will also identify in detail those who may not necessarily be covered by existing instruments and explore possible alternative frameworks or approaches in such instances. This research thus fits within broader discussions on protection gaps and temporary protection that we looked at as part of the commemorations cycle (p. 11).

Three papers that have been published so far in this context include:

• The Causes, Character and Conduct of Armed Conflict, and the Effects on Civilian Populations, 1990-2010 (UNHCR, April 2012) [text]
• The 1951 Refugee Convention and the Protection of People Fleeing Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence (UNHCR, Sept. 2012) [text]
• Women and Girls Fleeing Conflict: Gender and the Interpretation and Application of the 1951 Refugee Convention (UNHCR, Sept. 2012) [text]

These titles have been issued as part of the Legal and Protection Policy Research Series.

Tagged Publications. 

Protection-related Events: Sept. & Oct. 2012

European Union Asylum Law and Policy, London, 4 February-25 March 2013 [info]
- Eight-week evening short course; registration is now open and places are limited.

The International Protection of Refugees and Other Displaced Persons, London, 6 February-27 March 2013 [info]
- Eight-week evening short course; registration is now open and places are limited.

International Refugee Law and Contemporary Challenges, Online, 22 October-2 December 2012 [info]
- Enrollment deadline is 15 September 2012.

International Humanitarian Assistance and International Law, 24-25 January 2013 [info]
- See the call for papers; abstracts must be submitted by 1 October 2012.

The Relations between Refugee Law and Human Rights Law: A Systemic Perspective, International Refugee Law Seminar Series, London, 12 October 2012 [info]
- Admission is free, but please book your place here.

International Refugee Law Course, Sanremo, 19-23 November 2012 [info]
- The deadline for applications is one month prior to the start of the course, or 18 October 2012.

Trauma and Credibility, Refugee Protection and Psychology Seminar Series, London, 23 October 2012 [info]
- Admission is free, but please book your place here.

Tagged Events & Opportunities. 

New Innovation Unit at UNHCR

Thanks to the PDES Facebook page, I recently learned that UNHCR has a new Innovation Unit.  Of course, if I had just read this Standing Committee document, I would have found out about it sooner! It was also hinted at in this news story about the UNHCR/NGO Consultations.

Their remit, according to the unit's (not yet officially launched) web site, is as follows:

UNHCR Innovation is a vocal advocate and curator of creative thinking, positive experimentation, and unconventional partnerships. Our work uses a three-pronged approach. WE AMPLIFY: showcasing innovations already happening in the field, we highlight good practices and lessons learned. WE CONNECT: in order to solve field-identified challenges, we link likeminded innovators within UNHCR and connect them to time, resources, and support. WE EXPLORE: to complement the abundant knowledge within UNHCR, we find specialists in the private sector, academia, and other organizations to share their own expertise. By strengthening the network of like-minded innovators across the agency and externally, UNHCR Innovation strives to create lasting space and time for critical thinking within UNHCR’s organizational culture and its work around the world.

For links to examples of innovative approaches, visit the unit's Facebook page. Additional thoughts about how to achieve innovation in the refugee sphere are provided in Alexander Betts' blog.

Other initiatives to promote innovation in the humanitarian field include the AidEx Aid Innovation Challenge and the Humanitarian Innovation Fund.

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.  

Refugee Claims Based on Climate Change

Jane McAdam very nicely replied to my question posed in yesterday's post.  She wrote to say that her book, Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012), references other refugee cases that have involved climate change claims. In her chapter on "The Relevance of International Refugee Law," she notes that previous claimants have mainly come from Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Tonga and have attempted to seek protection in Australia and New Zealand (p. 47). She goes on to list the various decisions that have been issued by the NZ Refugee Status Appeals Authority (now the Immigration and Protection Tribunal) and the Australian Refugee Review Tribunal in a footnote on the same page.  None have been positive.

A list of climate change-related cases is also provided in an earlier paper by Jane, entitled "Climate Change Displacement and International Law: Complementary Protection Standards."

I decided to check Refworld to see what relevant case law it includes.  It currently only provides access to two decisions, one from the RRT involving a claimant from Kiribati and one from the RSAA involving claimants from Tuvalu - but perhaps the Refworld team can be persuaded to include the other ones highlighted in Jane's book!

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.  

Events after the fact

UNHCR's Annual Consultations with NGOs meeting was held in Geneva from 3-5 July 2012.  To learn more about what was discussed, here is the final conference report.

Other conference reports include:

Archiving Human Rights for Advocacy, Justice and Memory, Online Dialogue, 16 March 2012 [access]

Assisted Voluntary Returns: Working Together for Greater Effectiveness, Steyning, UK, 4-6 July 2012 [text]

Rapporteur's Report, IASFM13, Kampala, 3-6 June 2011 [text]
- Posted July 2012; see other conference overviews in this earlier blog post.

"Refugee & Migrant Rights," Annual Human Rights Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 19-20 April 2012 [text]

Risk, Adaptation and Innovation in Humanitarian Action, New York, 12-13 Dec. 2011 [text]

States, Sovereignties and Refugees: A View from the Margins?, Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2012, Oxford, 6 June 2012 [access]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

Focus: Climate Change

The Refugee Caselaw blog has just circulated this reference to a Huffington Post news story: "Man Wanting 'Climate Change Refugee' Status Denied New Zealand Immigration" - the first such case, I wonder?

Publications:

Climate Change and the Syrian Uprising (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Aug. 2012) [text]
- HT to the UKCCMC.

Climate Change, Water Stress, Conflict and Migration: Papers Presented at a Conference held on 21 September 2011 in The Hague, the Netherlands (International Hydrological Programme, July 2012) [text]

Climate Migrants Risk More Harm in New Surroundings (UNISDR, Aug. 2012) [text]

Global Environmental Change and Environmental-Induced Migration, Paper presented at ISA 53rd Annual Convention, San Diego, 1-4 April 2012 [text]

"Rethinking the 'Debate on Environmental Refugees': From 'Maximilists and Minimalists' to 'Proponents and Critics'," Journal of Political Ecology, vol 19 (2012) [open access text]

The Security Risks of Climate Change Displacement in Bangladesh, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 12/58 (Aug. 2012) [text via SSRN]

Tagged Publications.

Focus: Statelessness

Upcoming event:

Reminder: RSC Short Course: Statelessness and International Law, Oxford, 27-28 October 2012 [info]

Publications:

The Benefits of Birth Registration to Children, Youth and Governments (Statelessness Programme Blog, Aug. 2012) [text]
- Note: Includes link to information on a related research consultancy, for which applications should be submitted by 10 Sept. 2012.


Dozens of Organizations Urge Member States to Accede to Statelessness Conventions (Refugees International, Sept. 2012) [text via Oppenheimer Chair]

Giving a Face to the Invisible (ENS Blog, Aug. 2012) [text]
- Introduces a documentary entitled "Here I Am" that focuses on stateless Roma in Serbia.

An Invisible Nation: The Gulf’s Stateless Communities (Jadaliyya, Aug. 2012) [text]

No Country for Fifteen Million: The Plight of the World’s Stateless (The Internationalist, Aug. 2012) [text]

The Spectre of Statelessness: Assessing Nationality Laws in Sudan and South Sudan (Justice Africa, Aug. 2012) [text]

Statelessness: Any Attention at the National Level? (Statelessness Programme Blog, Aug. 2012) [text]

"Statelessness and Issue (Non-)emergence," Forced Migration Review, no. 40 (Aug. 2012) [full-text]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Focus: Armed Conflict

This new paper, "The 1951 Refugee Convention and the Protection of People Fleeing Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence," is the latest to be issued as part of UNHCR's Legal and Protection Policy Research Series.  It "was commissioned by UNHCR in the context of a project on developing guidelines for the protection of people fleeing violence and conflict across borders."

Other related items include:

"Armed Conflicts, 1946-2011," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 49, no. 4 (July 2012) [abstract]

Assessing State Fragility: A Country Indicators for Foreign Policy Report (Carleton University, June 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

Children and Armed Conflict [access]
- Re-designed and updated web site.

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011 (Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, 2011) [text]

The Global Regime for Armed Conflict (Council on Foreign Relations, July 2012) [text]

On Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding Mechanisms, ESIL Reflections, vol. 1, no. 2 (July 2012) [text]

Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, UN Doc. No. A/67/256 (UN General Assembly, Aug. 2012) [text]

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.   

Focus: Human Smuggling/Trafficking

"Dancing on the Borders of Article 4: Human Trafficking and the European Court of Human Rights in the Rantsev Case," Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 30, no. 2 (June 2012) [full-text via Oppenheimer Chair]

Human Trafficking Awareness Magazine (July 2012) [full-text]
- Reports on trends in and awareness of human trafficking as measured by the monthly volume of trafficking-related articles; more info. available here.

Migrant Smuggling in Asia: An Annotated Bibliography (UNODC, Aug. 2012) [text]

Migrant Smuggling in Asia: A Thematic Review of Literature (UNODC, Aug. 2012) [text]

The Next Decade: Promoting Common Priorities and Greater Coherence in the Fight against Human Trafficking (Inter-agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons, July 2012) [text]

Smuggling of Migrants by Sea (UNODC, 2011) [text]

"Ten Years of Fighting Trafficking: Critiquing the Trafficking in Persons Report through the Case of South Korea," Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, vol. 13, no. 2 (2012) [full-text]

Tagged Publications.

Focus: Children, Education

Upcoming opportunity:

Online Discussion: Empowering Communities with Technology Tools to Protect Children, 17-23 October 2012 [info]
- Follow the link for information on how to participate.

Publications:

Academic Refugees: 'My hope is to contribute to this county – if I’m given the opportunity' (The Guardian Higher Education Network Blog, Sept. 2012) [text]

Best Practices in the English as a Second Language Classroom for Adult Refugees, Thesis submitted to the Department of Education (State Univ. of New York at Fredonia, May 2011; posted Aug. 2012) [text]

How Can ICTs Support and Protect Children who Migrate? (Wait...What? Blog, Aug. 2012) [text]

The Importance of Contact: Children's Attitudes to Refugees (Employability Forum, Aug. 2012) [text]
- Summarizes findings from the Refugees into Schools project; these will also be discussed at upcoming event in London on 13 September 2012.

International Coordination and Response to the Quality of Teaching in Refugee Camp Settings, Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection, no. 1311 (School for International Training, Spring 2012) [text]



Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

Admin: Request for Feedback

For me, September signifies the start of a new academic term - and, potentially, new readers of this blog!  So it's a month that seems appropriate for considering changes that might be made to make this blog a more effective resource.  On that note...

1.  Relevance vs. currency:

This year, I have experimented with grouping references together on either a (roughly) thematic or regional basis.  (In the past, I essentially waited to accumulate five or so references and then I posted them under a "New Publications" heading.)

The advantage of proceeding in this fashion is that readers can more easily determine whether or not a post is relevant to them - and if it is, more of the references listed might be of interest.  The disadvantage is that it takes longer to compile such "mini-bibliographies," so when some references are finally posted, they are not quite as current as they could be.

My question to you is, do you have a preference?  Or an idea for a completely different approach?

2.  Do you have any other suggestions for the blog?  For example, "I would like more of x/less of y" or "Can you track x type of resource?"

3.  Finally, I've managed to stockpile a number of pending posts, which I'm now dutifully trying to get out there, so please forgive the deluge of information!

Legal Items

"From Closet to Court Room: Asylum as a Judicial Step Towards Full Equality between Sexual Orientations," Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest, vol. 15, no. 2 (Fall 2011) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 403.

The ‘Ground with the Least Clarity’: A Comparative Study of Jurisprudential Developments relating to ‘Membership of a Particular Social Group, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series (UNHCR, Aug. 2012) [text]
- Note: Originally published in April, but this version has now replaced the earlier one. See series list here.

Housing, Land and Property Rights and International Criminal Justice: Holding HLP Rights Violators Accountable (Displacement Solutions, Sept. 2012) [text]

"[Review of The Limits of Transnational Law: Refugee Law, Policy Harmonization, and Judicial Dialogue in the European Union, ed. by G. Goodwin-Gill and H. Lambert (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010)]," Berkeley Journal of International Law, vol. 29,  no. 2 (2011) [full-text]

Transitional justice:

A few more resources to add to this earlier post:

Addressing Injustice and Managing Expectations: Displacement and Transitional Justice Discourses in Northern Uganda (TerraNullius, Aug. 2012) [text]

Forced Migration and Transitional Justice: Advancing the Research Agenda, Critical Reflection (Swisspeace & Center for Peacebuilding, July 2012) [text]

Protection in the Past Tense: New Book on Displacement and Transitional Justice Explores the Role of Restitution (TerraNullius, Aug. 2012) [text]

Tagged Publications

ETDs in Anthropology, Counseling, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, History, Public Health, Sociology

Bosnian Refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky: Refugee Resettlement and Community Based Research, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Department of Sociology (Western Kentucky University, Aug. 2012) [text]

Chronic Conditions of US-bound Cuban Refugees: October 2008-September 2011, Thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty (Georgia State University, July 2012) [text]

The Everyday Violence of Forced Displacement: Community, Memory and Identity Politics among Kurdish Internal Forced Migrants in Turkey, Dissertation submitted to the Social Sciences Faculty (Universiteit Utrecht, 2011) [text]

'Only the People Outside Know What It's Like' - A Discourse Analysis on Migrant Illegality and How Rejected Asylum Seekers Assign Meaning to Their Experiences in the Netherlands, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities (Universiteit Utrecht, July 2012) [text]

Shadow Colony: Refugees and the Pursuit of the Liberian-American Dream, Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences (American University, Aug. 2011) [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]

Unwanted Refugees: Chinese Migration and the Making of a Global Humanitarian Agenda, 1949-1989, Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies (Univ. of British Columbia, Aug. 2012) [text]

Tagged Publications.

Focus: Livelihoods, Right to Work

As part of an awareness-raising campaign regarding making work safe for displaced women, the Women's Refugee Commission and the AidSpeak blog are inviting posts that consider "Gender-based Violence and Livelihoods: How Do We Do Better?" through 15 October 2012.  Here is the first contribution.  See also this earlier blog post summarizing a webinar that discussed these issues.

Publications:

'Getting Asylum Seekers into Employment?' – Ein Allheilmittel für die Europäische Einwanderungspolitik? = 'Getting Asylum Seekers into Employment?' – A Panacea for European Immigration Policy? (MPRA, Aug. 2012) [text]
- English abstract, German text.

"I Want to Work!" (Refugees International Blog, Aug. 2012) [text]

Livelihoods, Basic Services and Social Protection in... (ODI, July & Aug. 2012) [access]
- See series of papers issued by the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium project. Countries covered include Afghanistan, DRC, Nepal, Pakistan, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Uganda.

Refugees to Face Further Barriers to Working and Volunteering (Poliblog, Aug. 2012) [text]

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]

Updates from the Field: Refugee Livelihoods in Ecuador (Refugees and the Right to Work, July 2012) [text]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Focus: Middle East

Comprehensive Assessment on Syrian Refugees Residing in the Community in Northern Jordan (Un Ponte Per, Aug. 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

Iraq: Still No Clear Policy to Tackle Displacement (IRIN, Sept. 2012) [text]

Legislation Targeting Asylum Seekers in Israel in 2012 (Hotline for Migrant Workers, Aug. 2012) [text]

Palestinian Refugees from Syria Feel Abandoned (IRIN, Aug. 2012) [text]

Palestinian Sumud: Steadfastness, Ritual, and Time among Palestinian Refugees, Birzeit University Working Paper 2011/51 (SSRN, 2011) [text]

Syria: Politics Trumps Humanitarianism (IRIN, Aug. 2012) [text]

Syria Neighbors: Keep Borders Open for Refugees (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2012) [text]

Syria’s Dismemberment: Fulfilling the French Mandate’s Vision? (openDemocracy, Sept. 2012) [text]

"The Withdrawal of Citizenship from Jordanians of Palestinian Origin," Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 29 (Sept. 2012) [full-text]

Tagged Publications. 

Focus: Australia

Upcoming events:

[Public Event on Report of Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers], Melbourne, 5 September 2012 [info]
- Paris Aristotle, a member of the Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers, will discuss the Panel's report and its implications.

Wanted: New Paradigms? Forced Migration, Mobilities and Humanitarianism in Australia and Beyond, Melbourne, 12-13 November 2012 [info]
- The programme for this event is now available.  Register before 26 September 2012 for a discounted rate.


Publications:

Australia to Increase Refugee Intake to 20,000 Annually (BBC, Aug. 2012) [text]

Community Arrangements for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Stateless Persons (Australian Human Rights Commission, July 2012) [text]

The Devil's in the Detail (Inside Story, Sept. 2012) [text]

Eureka Street, vol. 22, no. 12 (June 2012) [full-text]
- Includes "Australia's 20 year search for the right asylum policy," "Knowing the needs of refugees," and "Economic hard times even tougher for refugees," among others.

"Unpacking the Micro-Macro Nexus: Narratives of Suffering and Hope among Refugees from Burma Recently Settled in Australia," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Access, 27 August 2012 [abstract]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Focus: Europe

ECRE Comments on the Commission Proposals on the Future of EU Funding in the Area of Migration & Asylum (ECRE, Aug. 2012) [text]

Hidden Emergency: Migrant Deaths in the Mediterranean (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2012) [text]

Integration of Refugees into the European Educational and Labour Market: Requirements for a Target Group-Oriented Approach (EduAsyl, 2012) [access]
- Scroll down for more information about this research project and access to city reports.

Interventions at the Court of Justice of the EU (UNHCR, Aug. 2012) [access]

Interventions at the European Court of Human Rights (UNHCR, Aug. 2012) [access]

Judicial Checklist of Country of Origin Information and Due Process in the Light of EU (Fundamental) Law, RLI Working Paper, no. 6 (Refugee Law Initiative, July 2012) [text]

"'Tolerated Stay': What Protection Does It Give?," Forced Migration Review, no. 40 (Aug. 2012) [full-text]

Tagged Publications.

Focus: Americas

"Argentina: Resettling Refugees within the Context of an Open Migration Policy," Forced Migration Review, no. 40 (Aug. 2012) [full-text]

Direitos e Deveres dos Solicitantes de Refúgio e Refugiados no Brasil = Rights and Duties of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Brazil (ACNUR, 2012?) [text]
- In Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

Fleeing North: An Examination of U.S. Refugee and Asylum Policy towards Nicaragua, Honors thesis submitted to the Department of Political Science (College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University, 2012) [text]

Humanitarian Needs Assessment with a Special Focus on Older People Affected by the Internal Armed Conflict and Natural Disasters in Colombia (HelpAge, April 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Los Desplazados en Bogotá y Soacha: Características y Protección," Revista de Paz y Conflictos, no. 4 (junio 2011-mayo 2012) [full-text]
- Scroll down to p. 102.

"Trends in Refugee Status Determination (RSD) in Latin America: An Overview of Progress and Challenges in the Region," Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 29 (Sept. 2012) [full-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.