Wednesday, 24 September 2008

News Stories (24/09/08)

Aid workers kidnapped in Ethiopia (BBC News) - [text online]

Burmese democracy veteran freed (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma frees political prisoner after 19 years (The3 Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Zimbabwe starves as Robert Mugabe stalls on new government (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Burma's longest-serving political prisoner freed (The Independent) - [text online]

Sudan: Opportunity in the Midst of Crisis (Enough Project) - [text online]

Somalia: Gunmen abduct two foreign aid workers (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Pakistan: UNHCR seeks $17million to help displaced people (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Afghanistan: Despite international aid, situation of children deteriorating (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

More than 5,000 refugees resettled from Nepal (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR welcomes UAE decision on stateless people (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR urges reinforced EU commitment to protection of Iraqi refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Myanmar: Freedom for U Win Tin but 2,100 political prisoners remain behind bars (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Burma activist freed from jail after 19 years vows to fight on (The Guardian) - [text online]

Kenya on path to full recovery after post-election violence, UN debate hears (UN News) - [text online]

‘Precarious calm’ returns to scene of recent Congolese clashes, reports UN (UN News) - [text online]

Africa advancing on democracy and human rights, General Assembly told (UN News) - [text online]

African-UN peacekeepers in Darfur train Sudanese forces on protection (UN News) - [text online]

Kosovo issue could undermine international system, Serbian leader tells UN (UN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Maureen: "When I reported my rape to the police, they arrested me"
(IRIN News) - [text online]

Sierra Leonean refugees in Liberia move to new homes after UN-funded repairs (UN News) - [text online]

GLOBAL: What happens to aid money?
(IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Tortured, raped and forgotten
(IRIN News) - [text online]

UNICEF welcomes British recognition of migrant children’s rights (UN News) - [text online]

BURUNDI: Denise Nzohabonayo: "We are here because we have no land to go to"
(IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Abubakar, "This tree has been my home for years"
(IRIN News) - [text online]

UN calls on European Union to uphold pledges to protect Iraqi refugees (UN News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 30 Aug - 12 Sep 2008
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Posted in: Publications.

Tuesday, 23 September 2008

State, Nation, Citizen: Rethinking Repatriation. RSC Working Paper Number 48 written by Katy Long, (August 2008). Online at: [Full Text] http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/RSCworkingpaper48.pdf(Source: Refugee Studies Centre, Oxfordhttp://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/).


New ICAR Briefing entitled: Employment issues for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. Available online at:
http://www.icar.org.uk/employment_briefing
(Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest - http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/).

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a: 'Report on an announced inspection of Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, 4-8 February 2008'.
Download the report at:
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/irc-inspections.html/544687/Yarls_Wood_2008.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 445kb)
(Source – Institute of Race Relations: http://www.irr.org.uk/)

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a: 'Report on the unannounced full inspection of the short-term holding facility at: Edinburgh Airport, 20 February 2008'.
Download the report at:
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/STHF-reports/edinburgh-airport-sthf?view=Binary (pdf file, 177kb)
(Source – Institute of Race Relations: http://www.irr.org.uk/)

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a: 'Report on a full announced inspection of Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre, 10-14 March 2008'.
Download the report at:
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/irc-inspections.html/544670/tinsley-house-IRC-2008?view=Binary (pdf file, 1.5mkb)
(Source – Institute of Race Relations: http://www.irr.org.uk/)

The Home Office has published: 'Asylum Statistics: 1st Quarter 2008 - United Kingdom'.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/asylumq108.pdf (pdf file, 248kb)
(Source – Institute of Race Relations: http://www.irr.org.uk/)

The Research, Development and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office has published: 'Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 2007'.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb1108.pdf (pdf file, 2.3mb)
(Source – Institute of Race Relations: http://www.irr.org.uk/)

The Home Office has published a: 'Control of immigration: quarterly statistical summary, United Kingdom, April 2008 - June 2008'.
Download the statistical summary at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/coiq208.pdf (pdf file, 608kb)
(Source – Institute of Race Relations: http://www.irr.org.uk/)

The Home Office has published a statistical bulletin: 'Control of immigration: statistics, United Kingdom 2007'.
Download the statistical bulletin at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb1008.pdf (pdf file, 1.2mb)
(Source – Institute of Race Relations: http://www.irr.org.uk/)

The UK Border Agency of the Home Office has published: 'A strong new force at the border, August 2008'.
Download the report at:
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/managingourborders/astrongnewforceattheborder/strongnewforce.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 448kb)
(Source – Institute of Race Relations: http://www.irr.org.uk/)

The Government Equalities Department has published: 'Social Enterprise: Making it work for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Women'.
Download the report at:
http://www.equalities.gov.uk/publications/407665_SOCIAL%20ENTERPRISE%20WEB.pdf (pdf file, 1.1mb)
(Source – Institute of Race Relations: http://www.irr.org.uk/)

Great Lakes Pact and the Rights of Displaced People: A Guide for Civil Society (IDMC and IRRI, Sept. 2008) [English text] [French text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Iraq's Refugee and IDP Crisis: Human Toll and Implications (Middle East Institute, August 2008) [text via Human Security Gateway]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Access to Protection at Airports in Europe (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Evaluation of UNHCR’s returnee reintegration programme in Angola (UNHCR, August 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change: Mapping Emerging Trends and Risk Hotspots (CARE, August 2008) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Barriers to Asylum: The Marabastad Refugee Reception Office (Forced Migration Studies Programme, August 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Conflict, Arms, and Militarization: The Dynamics of Darfur’s IDP Camps, HSBA Working Paper no. 15 (Small Arms Survey, Sept. 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Internal Displacement to Urban Areas - the Tufts-IDMC Profiling Study, Khartoum, Sudan (Feinstein International Center & IDMC, August 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Opportunity and conflict: the impact of a refugee influx on decentralisation in Mali, New Issues in Refugee Research Paper no. 163 (UNHCR, Sept. 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Towards a ‘soft law’ framework for the protection of vulnerable migrants, New Issues in Refugee Research Working Paper, no. 162 (UNHCR, August 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Thematic Compilation of Executive Committee Conclusions, 3rd ed. (UNHCR, August 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Posted in: Publications.

Sunday, 21 September 2008

Publications Listed on Reliefweb

A selection of the publications recently made available via the ReliefWeb portal, (www.reliefweb.int):

Title - The 'Humanitarian Frontline', Development and Relief, and Religion
- What Context, Which Threats and Which Opportunities?
Source - University of Ghent
Date - Jul 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7J3JMN?OpenDocument

Title - The 'Humanitarian Frontline', Development and Relief, and Religion
- What Context, Which Threats and Which Opportunities?
Source - University of Ghent
Date - Jul 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7J3JMN?OpenDocument

Title - The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping (2): Reforming DPKO
Source - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Date - Nov 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7HRDVG?OpenDocument

Title - The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping (1): Hybrid Missions
Source - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Date - Nov 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7HRDXL?OpenDocument

Title - Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change: Mapping Emerging
Trends and Risk Hotspots
Source - CARE
Date - Aug 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7HRGCF?OpenDocument

Title - Gender Justice and Reconciliation
Source - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Date - Nov 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7HRGFJ?OpenDocument

Title - Climate Change and Human Vulnerability: Mapping Emerging Trends and
Risk Hotspots for Humanitarian Actors
Source - CARE
Date - Mar 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7HUJ4T?OpenDocument

Title - State, Nation, Citizen: Rethinking Repatriation
Source - Refugee Studies Centre
Date - Aug 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7HVJ97?OpenDocument

Title - Annual Report 2007
Source - Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Date - Aug 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/KKAA-7HW9MF?OpenDocument

Title - Local Integration: An Under-Reported Solution to Protracted Refugee
Situations
Source - UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7H3J6Z?OpenDocument

Posted in: Publications.

New Online Publications

The following publications are now available online from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust website:

Title: Not moving on: Still destitute in Leeds.
Date: 2008.
Produced by: The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
Download the summary at: http://www.jrct.org.uk/core/documents/download.asp?id=329 (pdf file, 83kb) Download the full report at: http://www.jrct.org.uk/core/documents/download.asp?id=330(pdf file, 1.18mb)


Title: Immigration and social cohesion in the UK: The rhythms and realities of everyday life.

Authors: By Mary Hickman, Helen Crowley and Nick Mai Date: 2008.

Date: 2008.
Produced by: The Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Link: https://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/2230-deprivation-cohesion-immigration.pdf (pdf file 592kb)


Title: Immigration and inclusion in South Wales.

Date: 2008.
Produced by: The Jospeh Rowntree Foundation.

Download the report at: http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/2290-wales-migration-cohesion.pdf (pdf file 328kb)
(Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest – http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/).


Title: Understanding diversity – South Africans in multi-ethnic Britain

Date: 2008.

Produced by: The Runnymede Trust.
Download at: http://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/publications/pdfs/UnderstandingDiversity-2008.pdf


Title: Soldiers, migrants and citizens – the Nepalese in Britain

Date: 2008.

Produced by: The Runnymede Trust.

Download at:
http://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/publications/pdfs/TheNepaleseInBritain-2008.pdf
.(Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest – http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/)


Title: Scotland’s slaves: an Amnesty International briefing on trafficking in Scotland

Produced By: Amnesty International

Date: 2008.
Download from: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_18605.pdf


Title: Your place or mine? The local economics of migration

Author: Max Nathan.

Produced by: Institute for Public Policy Research.

Date: 2008.

Available to download from: http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/
(Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest – http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/)


Title: 'Report on an announced inspection of Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, 4-8 February 2008'.

Published by: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

Date: 2008.
Download the report at:
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/irc-inspections.html/544687/Yarls_Wood_2008.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 445kb)

(Source: Institute of Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/).


Title: 'Report on the unannounced full inspection of the short-term holding facility at: Edinburgh Airport, 20 February 2008'.

Published by: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

Date: 2008.
Download the report at:
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/STHF-reports/edinburgh-airport-sthf?view=Binary (pdf file, 177kb)
(Source: Institute of Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/).


Title: 'Report on a full announced inspection of Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre, 10-14 March 2008'.

Published by: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

Date: 2008.
Download the report at:
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/irc-inspections.html/544670/tinsley-house-IRC-2008?view=Binary (pdf file, 1.5mkb)
(Source: Institute of Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/).


Title: 'Asylum Statistics: 1st Quarter 2008 - United Kingdom'.

Published by: Home Office.

Date: 2008.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/asylumq108.pdf (pdf file, 248kb)
(Source: Institute of Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/).


Title: 'Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 2007'.

Published by: Home Office, Research Development and Statistics Directorate.

Date: 2008.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb1108.pdf (pdf file, 2.3mb)
(Source: Institute of Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/).


Title: 'Control of immigration: quarterly statistical summary, United Kingdom, April 2008 - June 2008'.

Published by: Home Office.

Date: 2008.
Download the statistical summary at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/coiq208.pdf (pdf file, 608kb)
(Source: Institute of Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/).


Title: 'Control of immigration: statistics, United Kingdom 2007'.

Series: Home Office Statistical Bulletin.

Published by: Home Office.

Date: 2008.
Download the statistical bulletin at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb1008.pdf (pdf file, 1.2mb)
(Source: Institute of Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/).


Title: 'A strong new force at the border, August 2008'.

Published by: Home Office, UK Border Agency.

Date: 2008.
Download the report at:
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/managingourborders/astrongnewforceattheborder/strongnewforce.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 448kb)
(Source: Institute of Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/).


Title: 'Social Enterprise: Making it work for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Women'.

Published by: Government Equalities Department.

Date: 2008.
Download the report at:
http://www.equalities.gov.uk/publications/407665_SOCIAL%20ENTERPRISE%20WEB.pdf (pdf file, 1.1mb)

(Source: Institute of Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/).


New guide aims to benefit millions displaced in Africa’s Great Lakes region.

Published by: IDMC

Date: September 2008.

Download: Full text of the press release ; View the report).


Posted in: Publications.

Friday, 15 August 2008

Summer Break

This will be the last post in this Blog for a few weeks as I will be away on annual leave for a short break. On my return I will be updating the range of blogs and online services offered by the Refugee Archives service here at UEL ahead of a re-launch towards the middle of September, to coincide with the start of the new academic term.

Please feel free to add any comments to this post with recommendations for anything you would like to see added to our online resources.

Best Wishes for now and enjoy the summer!

Paul Dudman
Archivist

Thursday, 14 August 2008

New Publications and Reports

Destitution inquiry (Joesph Rowntree Charitable Trust) - [text online]. Documents from the JRCT:

(Source – Refugee Council: Destitution still happening in Leeds - [text online]).

Title - The Strategic Context: Peacekeeping in Crisis, 2006-08
Source - Center on International Cooperation
Date - Aug 2006
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ONIN-7GTQ8Y?OpenDocument
(Source: ReleifWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - World Hunger Series 2007 - Hunger and Health
Source - World Food Programme
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7GU596?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Protection Work: from Concept to Practice - Strengthening CSOs
Engagement on Protection in Conflict and Humanitarian Emergencies
Source - ActionAid
Date - Jul 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/SHIG-7GUDMX?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Targeting the Unarmed: Strategic Rebel Violence in Civil War
Source - Uppsala University
Date - May 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/SHIG-7H2H89?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Guiding Principles for Human Rights Field Officers Working in
Conflict and Post-conflict Environments
Source - University of Nottingham
Date - Jul 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7H2QBE?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Good Intentions: A Review of the New Asylum Model and its Impact on Trafficked Women Claiming Asylum (POPPY Project and Refugee Women's Resource Project, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Iraq Displacement and Return - 2008 Mid-Year Review (IOM, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings: Checklist for Field Use (IASC, June 2008) [access via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Outsourcing abuse: The use and misuse of state-sanctioned force during the detention and removal of asylum seekers (Birnberg Peirce & Partners, Medical Justice and NCADC, July 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Refugee Law Project: Special Bulletin on Urban IDPs (July 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Regional Conference on Refugee Protection and International Migration in the
Gulf of Aden, May 19-20, 2008 in Sana'a, Yemen (UNHCR, docs. posted July 2008) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

UNHCR Statement on the "Ceased Circumstances" Clause of the EC Qualification Directive. August 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48a2f0782.html
(Source: UNHCR Refworld - http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain).

Selected Documents Relating to National Security and Counter-Terrorism Relevant to International Refugee Protection. July 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/489b089a2.html
(Source: UNHCR Refworld - http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain).

Title - The Looming Crisis: Displacement and Security in Iraq
Source - Brookings-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement
Date - Aug 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ONIN-7HARNF?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - The 2007 Humanitarian Accountability Report
Source - Humanitarian Accountability Partnership
Date - Aug 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ONIN-7HBPJT?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its
Working Group - 2008 substantive session (10 March - 4 April and 3 July
2008) (A/62/19)
Source - UN General Assembly
Date - Jul 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EGUA-7HEPRX?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - ReliefWeb Glossary of Humanitarian Terms
Source - ReliefWeb
Date - Aug 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7HGBXR?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

The Thomas Coram Research Unit, at the Institute of Education has published a report by Elaine Chase, and Abigail Knight, and June Statham on: 'Promoting the emotional wellbeing and mental health of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK'.
Download the research brief at:
http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/62/1/Asylum_research_summary.pdf (pdf file, 56kb)
(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Hope 08 is nation-wide, with groups all over the country organising different events and activities around the theme of transforming communities.
Hope08Birmingham has published an article by Lizzy Sharman on the difficulties facing asylum seekers: '
Birmingham: a city in Need of Hope?'.
Download the article at:
http://www.hope08birmingham.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/birmingham-a-city-in-need-of-hope.pdf (pdf file, 784kb)
(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Glasgow Anti Racist Alliance (GARA) has published a report on statistics and data relating to BME people in
Scotland: 'State of the Nation - Race and Racism in Scotland 2008'.
Download the full report at:
http://gara.org.uk/index.php?option=com_attachments&task=download&id=23 (pdf file, 5.4mb)
Or download individual chapters at:
http://gara.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=253&Itemid=108
(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Posted in: Publications.

Thursday, 24 July 2008

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]
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