Publications: Asylum Legal Aid, Climate Change & Migr., Climate Displ./Bangladesh, Roma/Serbia

Climate Change, Environment, and Migration (Climate-L.org, June 2010) [text]

Climate Refugees in Bangladesh – Answering the Basics: The Where, How, Who and How Many (Displacement Solutions, May 2010) [text]

Justice at Risk: quality and value for money in asylum legal aid - Interim Report (ICAR & RMJ, June 2010) [text]

No going back: Lesbian and gay people and the asylum system (Stonewall, 2010) [text]

Serbia: Stop the forced evictions of Roma settlements (Amnesty International, June 2010) [text]

Tagged Publications.

New Issue of JRS

Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 23, no. 2 (June 2010) has just been published. Contents include the following:

• Matrimonial Strategies and Identity Relations between Palestinian Refugees and Lebanese after the Lebanese Civil War
• Governance, Governmentalities, and the State of Exception in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Lebanon
• Mental and Physical Health Consequences of Repatriation for Vietnamese Returnees: A Natural Experiment Approach [see also earlier working paper]
• Beyond the Discourse of Trauma: Shifting the Focus on Sudanese Refugees
• Let Them Land: Christmas Islander Responses to Tampa
• Refugees as People: The Portrayal of Refugees in American Human Interest Stories
• Cyprus: Peace, Return and Property

Also included is the final conference report for IASFM12, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, 28 June-2 July 2009.

Tagged Periodicals.

Refuge: Focus on Refugee Status Determination (RSD)

Another issue of Refuge is now available online in full-text. The theme of vol. 25, no. 2 (2008) is "Building a Better Refugee Status Determination System." A number of the articles were first presented at the 2008 conference, "Best Practices for Refugee Status Determination." The editorial provides an overview of the current status of RSD and an introduction to the articles.

Contents include:

• Building the Infrastructure for the Observance of Refugee Rights in the Global South
• Refugee Status Determination in Brazil: A Tripartite Enterprise
• A Foot in the Door: Access to Asylum in South Africa
• An Evaluation of South Africa's Application of the OAU Refugee Definition
• Responsibility Sharing or Shifting? "Safe" Third Countries and International Law
• Canada's Refugee Status Determination System and the International Norm of Independence
• Thamotharem and Guideline 7 of the IRB: Rethinking the Scope of the Fettering of Discretion Doctrine
• The Guideline on Procedures with Respect to Vulnerable Persons Appearing Before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada: A Critical Overview
• Abandoning Refugees? An Analysis of the Legal Framework Governing Non-compliant Claimants in Canada
• The Many Faces of "Prima Facie"
• Explaining Inequality in the Implementation of Asylum Law
• The Use of COI in the Refugee Status Determination Process in the UK: Looking Back, Reaching Forward
• Life after Refusal to Enter: Reflections of an Immigration Judge
  

Browse other related resources posted on this blog by clicking on the "refugee status determination procedures" label.


Tagged Periodicals.

Combating and preventing trafficking in human beings

The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) will be hosting a programme tomorrow on "Combating and preventing trafficking in human beings: the way forward." You can tune in for a live broadcast at 14:55 Brussels time.

The aim of this event is "to explore ways forward, together with the relevant institutional and civil society stakeholders, at EU and international level, in order to give the rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs the widest awareness of the phenomenon in view of negotiating the proposed Directive." (i.e., the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, and protecting victims, repealing Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA).

UNHCR recently issued its own Comments on the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, and protecting victims (COM(2010)95, 29 March 2010).

Tagged Publications and Events.

Publications: Detention/EU, Detention/South Africa, Internal Displ./Colombia, SIPRI Yrbk., Xenophobia/South Africa

Becoming Vulnerable in Detention: Civil Society Report on the Detention of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the European Union (The DEVAS Project) (JRS Europe, June 2010) [text]
- See also executive summary.

"Internal Displacement, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the Principles Normative Status, and the Need for their Effective Domestic Implementation in Colombia," Anuario Colombiana de Derecho Internacional, vol. 2 (2009) [text]

Lost in the Vortex: Irregularities in the Detention and Deportation of Non-Nationals in South Africa (FMSP, June 2010) [text]

SIPRI Yearbook 2010: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (SIPRI, June 2010) [info]

'Xenophobia': Violence against Foreign Nationals and other ‘Outsiders’ in Contemporary South Africa, Migration Issue Brief, no. 3 (FMSP, June 2010) [text]

Tagged Publications.

A few new blogs...

The Women's Refugee Commission has been active on the social media front, but did not have a blog until recently - May 17th to be exact! Their aim is to "talk more in depth about our various programs and the findings we uncover through our work and research." One post was provided by a guest blogger, Deo Niyizonkiza, a refugee from Burundi whose story was recently told in Tracy Kidder's Strength in What Remains.

The HJT Training Immigration Blog started up in March, in order "to keep readers up to date with the latest legal developments in [UK] immigration and asylum law." Their side bar includes listings of immigration cases and news from the UK Border Agency.

You don't often see blogs set up for conferences in the forced migration community. However, one has been launched in advance of "Double Jeopardy: An international conference on the issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex asylum seekers and refugees," scheduled for 6-7 July 2010. In the interim, you can follow headlines in the sidebar for postings to the LGBT Asylum News and Persian Gay and Lesbian Liberators (PGLL) blogs.

Tagged Web Sites/Tools.

New Issues of Dis. Prep. Mitig. Americas, Hommes & Migr., IMR, JIRS, JRS News, Rev. Humanit.

Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas, no. 113 (May 2010) [full-text]
- Lead article on lessons learned in Haiti.

Hommes et Migrations, no. 1284 (mars-avril 2010) [contents]
- Theme is " Migrations et environnement." Includes "Des 'réfugiés écologiques' à la protection des 'déplacés environnementaux'."

International Migration Review, vol. 44, no. 2 (Summer 2010) [contents]
- Mix of articles. Includes "The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands."

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (2010) [contents]
- Mix of articles. Includes "Red Flags: A Model for the Early Warning of Refugee Outflows" and "The Rohingya Refugee: A Security Dilemma for Bangladesh."

The Refuge, vol. 8, no. 2 (May 2010) [full-text]
- Lead article is "Looking to Europe."

Revue Humanitaire, no. 24 (2010) [full-text]
- Theme is "Faut-il « désoccidentaliser » l’humanitaire?".

Tagged Periodicals.

Publications: Afghans/Malaysia, Africans/Indonesia, Forced Migration/Algeria, Resettlement, Unacc. Minors/Europe, UNHCR Global Rpt.

"African refugees in Indonesia: An uncertain future," Pambazuka News, no. 484 (June 2010) [text]
- HT to APRRN.

Algeria Resource Summary (Forced Migration Online, June 2010) [access]

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Afghan Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Malaysia (Health Equity Initiatives, June 2010) [text]
- See also executive summary; HT to APRRN.

Policies on Reception, Return and Integration arrangements for, and numbers of, Unaccompanied Minors – an EU comparative study (European Migration Network, May 2010) [text]

UNHCR Global Report 2009 (UNHCR, June 2010) [access]
- Includes country, regional and thematic chapters, such as "Addressing Statelessness," "Providing International Protection," and "Working with the Internally Displaced."

UNHCR Position Paper on the Strategic Use of Resettlement, Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement, Geneva, 6-8 July 2010 (UNHCR, June 2010) [text]

Tagged Publications.

From Casablanca to Calais: Exile on Celluloid

More film news that relates to the lead-up to Refugee Week UK: A panel discussion, to be held at the British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank, is scheduled for June 10th. Participants will "examine the extent to which film can provide a window into the reality of refugees' lives."

In addition, this news article reports that the web site Brightwide will host a number of films that focus on the refugee experience, both in conjunction with this event and in celebration of Refugee Week.

Once you've had a chance to view some of the films in these various festivals, come back to this blog and nominate your favorites!

Related posts:

- More on films
- International Sahara Film Festival/Even More Film Resources

Tagged Events & Opportunities and Web Sites/Tools.

Publications: Human Trafficking, IDPs/Afghanistan, Migrants' Human Rts., Right to Educ., Unacc. Minors/UK

Beyond the Blanket: Towards More Effective Protection for IDPs in Southern Afghanistan (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, May 2010) [text]

Levelling the playing field: A UNICEF UK report into provision of services to unaccompanied or separated migrant children in three local authority areas in England (UNICEF UK, May 2010) [text]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/14/30 (UN General Assembly, April 2010) [text via Refworld]

Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/14/32 (UN General Assembly, May 2010) [text via Refworld]

The Right to Education of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum-seekers, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/14/25 (UN General Assembly, April 2010) [text via Refworld]

Tagged Publications.

Cluster Approach Evaluation

The second phase of an evaluation of the Cluster Approach towards humanitarian assistance has now been completed. (The first phase of the evaluation was undertaken in 2007 by ODI.) The synthesis report presents conclusions and lessons learned. Findings from field visits and country-specific recommendations are provided in six reports for Chad, DRC, Haiti, Myanmar, OPT and Uganda.

More information about the project is available from the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). This video also provides an overview of the evaluation process.

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

Past Events: Climate Change/E. Africa, Deportation Conf., IASFM12, IDPs/Pakistan & Afghan., Refugee Legislation/US, Supervising CSR51, Urban Refugees

Even if you missed these events, you can still read meeting reports or view/listen to some of the proceedings via webcast/podcast.

12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) Conference, 28 June– 2 July 2009 [info]
- Excerpts of the conference report are provided in the Winter 2010 IASFM Newsletter (see p. 7).

Deportation and the Development of Citizenship, 11-12 December 2009 [info]
- Selection of papers now available.

Findings of the East Africa humanitarian climate risk management workshop, 23-24 February 2010 [report]

From Camps to Cities: The Urbanisation of Refugees, 1 March 2010 [info]
- Powerpoint slides of presentation available.

Internally Displaced Persons in Pakistan and Afghanistan: A Report from the Field, 5 May 2010 [info]
- Audio and transcript available.

Renewing America's Commitment to the Refugee Convention: The Refugee Protection Act of 2010, 19 May 2010 [info]
- Webcast available. See also statement from Human Rights First and testimony from Refugees International.

York 2010 International Conference on Forced Displacement, Protection Standards, Supervision of the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol and Other International Instruments, 17-20 May 2010 [info]
- Text of keynote address. Also available are background materials, a video presentation, and photos.

Tagged Publications and Events.