Dear List Members,
Below please find references to online publications, new issues of
journals/newsletters, upcoming events, and new web sites.
**Online Publications**
The Asylum Crisis: A Human Rights Challenge for the EU (Sept. 2001) -
http://www.amnesty-eu.org/1/Asylum_Crisis_Sept01.doc
- From Amnesty International's EU office; French version available at
http://www.amnesty-eu.org/1/Asylum_Crisis_%20FRENCH_version_Sept2001.doc.
Displaced Communities and the Reconstruction of Livelihoods in Eritrea, by
G. Kibreab (2001) - http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/dps/dp2001-23.pdf
- From the World Institute for Development Economics Research; in PDF
format.
From Humanitarian Assistance to Poverty Reduction in Angola, by M.A. de
Sousa et al. (2001) -
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/dps/dp2001-22.pdf
- From the World Institute for Development Economics Research; in PDF
format.
Good Practice Guide on the Integration of Refugees in Central and Eastern
Europe (Sept. 2001) - http://www.ecre.org/factfile/resources.shtml
- From ECRE; available in English and Russian, in DOC or PDF formats.
Helping Refugee Children in Schools -
http://www.ecre.org/factfile/resources.shtml
- From ECRE; available in English and Russian, in DOC or PDF formats.
**Journals/Newsletters**
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 27, no. 4 (Oct. 2001) -
http://isacco.catchword.com/vl=6609682/cl=13/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/carfax/1369
183x/v27n4/contp1-1.htm (table of contents)
- Focus of this issue is Transnationalism and Identity.
RAM Bulletin, no. 13 (Oct. 2001) - http://www.ramproject.org.uk/contents.php
(full-text)
- From the Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Mass media (RAM) Project;
available in PDF, TXT or RTF.
**Events/Opportunities**
The Medical and Psychosocial Care of Victims of Violence in a Multicultural
Society, Rome, 4-8 February 2002 - http://www.arsap.net/refugees/
- Sponsored by the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. Harvard Medical School
and Istituto di Studi Superiori Assunzione, in collaboration with the Scuola
Superiore di scienze Biomediche Fernando Rielo. The "aim of this seminar is
to improve medical and psychosocial knowledge and the care of the health
problems of the victims of war or psychic traumas either in their own
countries or as refugees in other countries." (Thanks to Sarah Bernhardt for
this reference.)
Ministerial Meeting of States Parties to the 1951 Convention, Geneva, 12 -13
December 2001.
- Part of UNHCR's Global Consultations; see a Background Note on this
meeting at
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=PROTECTION&page=P
ROTECT&id=3bbd848e8.
Symposium on Best Practices in Humanitarian Information Exchange, Geneva,
5 - 8 February 2002 -
- This meeting was first announced in my Sept. 6, 2001 update; it's now been
rescheduled for February.
**Web Sites**
Refugee Media Agency - http://www.ukrma.org/
- Set up by exiled refugee journalists.
UN Wire - http://www.unwire.org/
- A "daily news summary covering the United Nations, global affairs and key
international issues."
Elisa Mason
Information Manager, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
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