New Publications and Reports

Failed Responsibility: Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. A new International Crisis Group report available online at: http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5563&l=1

Taliban Propaganda: Winning the War of Words? A new International Crisis Group report available online at: http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5589&l=1

Community Cohesion and Migration: Tenth report of Session 2007-08.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmcomloc/369/369i.pdf

The House of Commons Communities & Local Government Committee has just published the 10th report of the Session 2007/8. The report looks at the effects of migration on cohesion; pressures on local services; responding to migration locally (eg local leadership and integration) and nationally (eg number of bodies involved, need for the Government to improve its provision); Government funding; and concludes with some 32 recommendations.

(Source: Welcome to your Library Digest – www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk)

Empowering agencies to engage communities

http://changesuk.net/empowering_agencies_report.pdf
This research (published March 2008), explores how public agencies can assess and improve their openness and ability to respond to community influence. It was produced by changes an independent consultancy based in the West Midlands specialising in community engagement, community development and active citizenship. More information at www.changesuk.net/
(Source: Welcome to your Library Digest – www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk)

Integration and Diversity in the UK
http://www.ippr.org/research/teams/project.asp?id=1409&pid=1409
Useful summary of work to date and in progress by the Institute for Public Policy Research on migration, equalities and citizenship. Research project in progress is called Moving up together: promoting equality and integration for the UK's diverse communities, and will address the pressing question of why some migrant and minority communities are lagging behind in socio-economic terms. More information at weblink above.
(Source: Welcome to your Library Digest – www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk)

Think research …

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/social_exclusion_task_force/think_research.aspx

The Social Exclusion Task Force, together with Barnardo's, Research in Practice and NFER, has developed a user-friendly tool to assist commissioners and service providers to select and monitor evidence-based services for vulnerable people. There is a wealth of data on ‘what-works’ – both from the research community, local authorities and service providers.

This immensely practical document – and other info – can be downloaded from the above weblink.

(Source: Welcome to your Library Digest – www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk)

Title - Enhancing Access to Human Rights
Source - International Council on Human Rights Policy
Date - Jul 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/KKAA-7GH68R?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/)

Title - Checklist for Integrating Human Rights in Natural Disaster
Management in the Pacific
Source - UN Development Programme
Date - Nov 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/SHIG-7GLE4T?OpenDocument

(Source: ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/)

Title - Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Assistance: Final Research
Report
Source - Transparency International
Date - Jul 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/VDUX-7GMSX8?OpenDocument

(Source: ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/)

Title - Environmentally Displaced People: Understanding the Linkages
Between Environmental Change, Livelihoods and Forced Migration
Source - Refugee Studies Centre
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7GMHJF?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/)

Title - A Handbook on Planning Projects to Prevent Child Trafficking
Source - Terre des hommes
Date - Jan 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-7GMGY7?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/)

Barbour, Brian and Brian Gorlick, Embracing the 'responsibility to protect': a repertoire of measures including asylum for potential victims, New Issues in Refugee Research paper no. 159 (UNHCR, July 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Black, Richard et al., Demographics and Climate Change: Future Trends and Their Policy Implications for Migration, DRC Working Paper no. T-27 (Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Fielden, Alexandra, Ignored Displaced Persons: the plight of IDPs in urban areas, New Issues in Refugee Research paper no. 161 (UNHCR, July 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Fletcher, Emily, Changing Support for Asylum Seekers: An Analysis of Legislation and Parliamentary Debates, Working Paper no. 49 (Sussex Centre for Migration Research, May 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Maxwell, Daniel et al., Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Assistance (Feinstein International Center, Humanitarian Policy Group & Transparency International, July 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Munteanu, Alison, Partners for protection: a review of the organizational capacity of NGOs in Romania, New Issues in Refugee Research paper no. 160 (UNHCR, July 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Tiltnes, Åge A., Characteristics of Displaced Palestinian Refugees from the Nahr El-Bared Refugee Camp, Fafo-paper 2008:02 (Fafo, May 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Vigneswaran, Darshan, A Foot in the Door: Access to Asylum in South Africa (Forced Migration Studies Programme, June 2008) [text]
- See the related research
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Posted in: Publications.

New Publications and Reports

Outsourcing Abuse: The use and misuse of state-sanctioned force during the detention and removal of asylum seekers. A new produced published by Birnberg Peirce and Partners, the Medical Justice Network and NCADC reporting on nearly 300 alleged assaults against asylum deportees. Further information and a PDF version of the report can be found on the Medival Justice Network web site at: http://www.medicaljustice.org.uk/content/view/411/88/
("Failed asylum-seekers are abused by private security companies, says report"
By Robert Verkaik and Chris Green, Monday, 14 July 2008 , the Independent.)

Brynen, Rex, "The Past as Prelude? Negotiating the Palestinian Refugee Issue," Briefing Paper, The Regional Dimension of the Palestinian Refugee Issue (Chatham House, June 2008) [text]

(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Burnett, Jon, "Racism, Destitution and Asylum," PAFRAS Briefing Paper, no. 6 (PAFRAS, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Dowd, Rebecca, "Trapped in Transit: The Plight and Human Rights of Stranded Migrants," New Issues in Refugee Research Paper, no. 156 (UNHCR, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Fielden, Alexandra, "Local Integration: An Under-reported Solution to Protracted Refugee Situations," New Issues in Refugee Research Paper, no. 158 (UNHCR, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Gal, Orit, "Israeli Perspectives on the Palestinian Refugee Issue," Briefing Paper, The Regional Dimension of the Palestinian Refugee Issue (Chatham House, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Schöch, Rüdiger, "Afghan Refugees in Pakistan during the 1980s: Cold War Politics and Registration Practice," New Issues in Refugee Research Paper, no. 157 (UNHCR, June 2008) [text]

(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

The Independent Asylum Commission launched its final report at the Refugee Rights and Realities conference in Swansea University, which was supported by Welsh Refugee Council. [Read a press release about this]. The report is entitled “Deserving Dignity: The Independent Asylum Commission’s Third Report of Conclusions and Recommendations.” The report is available online via the IAC website at: http://www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk/]
(Source: Welsh Refugee Council - http://www.welshrefugeecouncil.org.uk/).

Failed Responsibiliites: Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon,* the latest International Crisis Group report, recommends the Iraqi government, neighbours, the U.S., EU and wealthy Arab states act resolutely to address a humanitarian tragedy and political crisis. Up to five million Iraqis - nearly one in five - are believed to have fled, about half as internally displaced persons (IDPs) and half to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere. Now available on the International Crisis Group web site at: http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5563&l=1

Critical Review Instead of Complacency: Amnesty International's
Ten-Point Human Rights Programme for the French Presidency of the
European Union (Amnesty International, June 2008) -
http://www.amnesty.fr/var/amnesty/storage/fckeditor/File/memo_prdce_frcse_eng
.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Emai List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: Annotations, 2nd ed.
(ASIL and Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, 2008) -
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2008/spring_guiding_principles.aspx
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Emai List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

No Choice: Somali and Ethiopian Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants
Crossing the Gulf of Aden (MSF, June 2008) -
http://www.msf.org/source/countries/middleeast/yemen/2008/MSF_report_no_choic
e.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Emai List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

"No One Should have to be Stateless in Today's Europe," Viewpoint of the
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights (June 2008) -
http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/Viewpoints/080609_en.asp
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Emai List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

Return with Dignity, Return to What? Review of the Voluntary Return
Programme to Afghanistan (CMI, June 2008) -
http://www.cmi.no/publications/publication/?3055=return-with-dignity-return-t
o-what
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Emai List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

UNHCR Note on DNA Testing to Establish Family Relationships in the
Refugee Context (UNHCR, June 2008) -
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48620c2d2.html
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Emai List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

Internally Displaced People in Iraq, Updates (Iraqi Red Crescent) -
http://www.iraqredcrescent.org/reports.html
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Emai List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

Iraq - Rhetoric and Reality: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis (Amnesty
International, June 2008) -
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE14/011/2008/en
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Emai List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

Posted in: Publications.

New Publications

A warm welcome? Public services and managing migration in London. This is a new report by Michael Bell Associates for the London Asylum Seekers Consortium; it “was commissioned as a scoping exercise to explore the management of public services and migrants in London. This report seeks to identify key issues and provides initial pointers on the ways forward.”
(Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest - www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk).

Title - Mapping European Aid to Africa: Summary of Findings of the EUWI-AWG
Aid Mapping Exercise
Source - IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Date - Apr 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASIN-7FVKWM?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Disabilities among Refugees and Conflict-Affected Populations
Source - Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASIN-7FVLCY?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Africa's Human Rights Architecture
Source - Centre for Conflict Resolution
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7FVGUF?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Forgotten Humanitarian Crises: Conference on the Role of the Media,
Decision-makers and Humanitarian Agencies
Source - Danish Refugee Council
Date - Oct 2002
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/LGEL-5F6LTA?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Journalism, Media and the Challenge of Human Rights
Source - International Council on Human Rights Policy
Date - Jan 2002
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/LGEL-5ECH5Y?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Making Sense of Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and
Displacement: A Work in Progress
Source - Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7AHDLV?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of
Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981-2002
Source - Gender and Disaster Network
Date - Jan 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/SHIG-7ELHDA?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - International Dialogue on Migration No 10 - Expert Seminar:
Migration and the Environment
Source - International Organization for Migration
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7FNH38?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

The New Bonded Labour?: The impact of proposed changes to the UK immigration system on migrant domestic workers. A new report by Oxfam and Kalayaan.
Every year around 17,000 visas are granted to domestic workers from non-EU countries to accompany their employers to the UK. Prior to 1998, there was no formal route for migrant domestic workers (MDWs) to enter the UK. They were given leave to enter either as a visitor, a family member, or given a stamp ‘to work with…’ This meant that they were not formally recognised as workers, leaving them extremely vulnerable to exploitation by their employers and others.
Available online from the Oxfam website at: http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?K=e2008041813281103
(Source: IRR quoting a BBC News Stories at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7484043.stm).

The Countertraffickers - Rescuing the victims of the global sex trade.
by William Finnegan. A new report by The New Yorker which is now available via their web site at: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/05/080505fa_fact_finnegan?currentPage=all

Trafficking in Persons Report 2008. The new annual report from the Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, in the United States. An online edition of this publication is now available online at: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2008/

Title - Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities and the Responsibilityto Protect: Challenges for the UN and the International Community in the21st Century.
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-7G5GHR?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - World Disasters Report 2008: Focus on HIV and AIDS
Source - IFRC
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7FYHWK?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Annual Disaster Statistical Review - The Numbers and Trends 2007
Source - Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7FVG77?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS) has published a briefing paper by Jon Burnett: 'Racism, destitution and asylum - Briefing Paper Number 6, June 2008'. Download the briefing paper at:
http://www.pafras.org.uk/documents/PAFRAS_Briefing_Paper_6_-_Racism,_destitution_and_asylum.pdf (pdf file, 72kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations News - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South. A new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the report is now available online for consultation via the IOM website at: http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/1674?entryId=17698

Humanitarian Action Report 2008 (UNICEF, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees (Institute for the Study of Labor, April 2008) [text via Human Security Gateway)
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide (International Council on Human Rights Policy, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Disabilities among Refugees and Conflict-Affected Populations (Women's Commission, June 2008) [access to report, resource kit, fact sheet and other related info.)
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Mauritania: Nobody wants anything to do with us, arrests and collective expulsions of migrants denied entry into Europe (Amnesty International, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

The Netherlands: The Detention of Irregular Migrants and Asylum-Seekers (Amnesty International, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

UNHCR Note on DNA Testing to Establish Family Relationships in the Refugee Context (UNHCR, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Posted in: Publications.

UHNCR 42nd Standing Committee

Documents from the recent UNHCR 42nd Standing Committee meetings have now been made available via the UNHCR Refworld website (www.refworld.org). Further details can be found by following the links below:

Note on International Protection
EC/59/SC/CRP.10, 11 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486902122.html
[in French: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486901ba2.html ]

Progress Report on Resettlement
EC/59/SC/CRP.11, 2 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4864e3872.html
[in French: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4864e4e72.html ]

Statement by Vincent Cochetel, Deputy Director, Division of
International Protection Services (DIPS). Progress Report on
Resettlement (UNHCR Standing Committee, 42nd Session)
25 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4864cf342.html

Note on the Agenda for Protection
EC/59/SC/CRP.12, 2 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4868f5f42.html
[in French: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4868f5af2.html ]

Agenda for Protection - Progress Overview (2002-2007)
2 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4868fdc82.html
[in French: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4868fd912.html ]

Statement by Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner - Protection,
"Agenda for Protection"
24 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4868cf7f2.html

Protracted Refugee Situations: Revisiting the Problem
EC/59/SC/CRP.13, 2 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486903142.html
[in French: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486902d72.html ]

Statement by Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner - Protection,
"Protracted Situations"
25 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4868d02c2.html

Report on Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming
EC/59/SC/CRP.14, 2 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4868f3e02.html
[in French: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4868f3a52.html ]

HIV and AIDS Policies and Interventions
EC/59/SC/CRP.15, 2 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4868ffcf2.html
[in French: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4868ff962.html ]

Progress on Mainstreaming IDP Issues in UNHCR and Global Work Plan for
IDP Operations
EC/59/SC/CRP.16, 2 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486900fd2.html
[in French: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486900a02.html ]

Staff Safety and Security Issues, Including Refugee Security
EC/59/SC/CRP.17, 2 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486905582.html
[in French: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486904d42.html ]

Posted in: Publications.