Dear List Members,
Below please find new online publications, periodical
issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
**Online Publications**
"Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Britain: The health of
survivors of torture and organised violence," by
Angela Burnett and Michael Peel, British Medical
Journal (10 March 2001) -
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7286/606 (thanks
to Sarah B. for this reference!)
Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: Torture and
Ill-treatment of Women (Amnesty International, March
2001) -
http://www.web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/c681f1a1ad8b1634802569fc003e68a2/39cb2f2a6c51b8d8802569ed0062a274?OpenDocument
Global Shifts in Population: The Coming Pressures of
Immigration (RAND, 2000) -
http://www.rand.org/publications/RB/RB5044/
Health and Nutrition: Emerging and Reemerging Issues
in Developing Countries, ed. by Rafael Flores and
Stuart Gillespie (International Food Policy Research
Institute, Feb. 2001) -
http://www.ifpri.cgiar.org/2020/focus/focus05.htm
Hot Spots (Fewer, Feb. 2001) -
http://www.fewer.org/research/studhot.pdf
- Notes potential conflict areas in Horn of Africa,
Great Lakes/Central Africa, West Africa, Southern
Africa, Central America, Caucasus, Central Asia and
Southeast Asia.
International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and
Quantitative Analysis, by Michael W. Doyle and
Nicholas Sambanis, American Political Science Review
94
(Dec. 2000) -
http://www.worldbank.org/research/conflict/papers/peacebuilding/index.htm
Peace and Conflict 2001: A Global Survey of Armed
Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and
Democracy, by Ted Robert Gurr, Monty G.
Marshall, and Deepa Khosla (Center for International
Development and Conflict Management) -
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/peace.htm
"When Is a Refugee Not a Refugee?" The Economist (2
March 2001) -
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=518172
**Periodicals**
JENDA: A Journal of Culture and African Women's
Studies -
http://www.jendajournal.com/jenda/vol1.1/toc1.1.htm
(new full-text, online journal)
Talk Back, vol. 3, no. 1, 28 Feb. 2001 (ICVA) -
http://www.icva.ch/cgi-bin/browse.pl?doc=doc00000267
(full-text)
**Events/Opportunities**
Early Warning, Causes of Migration and the
Configuration of Migration Routes, EUROFOR Conference
No. 34, Basilicata, Italy, 24-27 May 2001 -
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~migratio/eurofor/e01.htm
- Organized by the European Research Forum on
International Migration and Ethnic Relations; a brief
description of the aims of the conference is available
at the a/m URL.
The Fourth International Asia Pacific Migration
Research Network Conference: Migrations, Economic
Changes and Multiculturalism in Asia-Pacific
Countries,
Manila, Philippines, March 2001 -
http://www.urban-social.org/_html/_eventos/_2001/eve_mar1.htm
Global Refugees: the sociology of exile, displacement,
and ‘belonging’, Staffordshire University, 17-19 April
2002
- Call for papers; contributions invited "from
sociologists and colleagues in related
disciplines...in order to explore some of the themes
and issues arising from practices and processes of
displacement across the globe." For more info.,
contact Ann Kempster at [log in to unmask]
Kosovo and the Changing Face of Humanitarian Action,
Uppsala, Sweden, 8 May 2001 - http://www.kus.uu.se
(click on "Uppsala Humanitarian Forum")
- Will examine lessons learned from Kosovo.
Multicultural Citizenship and Integration of Ethnic
Minorities, Aalborg University, 29-30 August 2001 -
http://www.sprog.auc.dk/amid/openingconf.html
- Sponsored by the Academy for Migration Studies in
Denmark; see the above URL for the program and call
for papers.
**Web Sites**
Finding Foreign Law Online When Going Global -
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/global.html
- Recently updated; good resource for locating the
full-texts of national and international laws.
Give Water - http://www.givewater.org/
- Click-through site; Thames Water in the UK will
donate to WaterAid's efforts to provide clean drinking
water in developing countries in Africa and Asia.
Photoshare: A Database of Photographs available for
Non-Profit Educational Use -
http://www.jhuccp.org/mmc/photoshare/about.stm
- Searchable database of images; upon request, copies
of photos will be sent as e-mail attachments.
Protection Project - http://www.protectionproject.org/
- "The purpose of the Project is to gather and
disseminate information regarding the national and
international legislation protecting women and
children from commercial sexual exploitation." The
site offers access to national and international laws
on trafficking in women and children, summaries of the
trafficking situations in different countries ("human
rights report"), maps, testimonies, resources, and
more. Registration is required, but access is free.
Virtual Developing Country -
http://bized.ac.uk/virtual/dc/
- This case study on Zambia serves as an introduction
to issues of interest in the field of development
economics; provides background information, virtual
field trips (including one which focuses on aid), and
resources; designed as a learning and teaching tool.
Elisa Mason
Information Officer, Forced Migration Portal Project
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
http://www.forcedmigration.org/portal/home/homepage.htm
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