I would recommend that someone provide the UN University with an
irresistible proposal to do research on the new UNHCR urban refugee
policy. See attached. I am sure that not only myself but many other
refugee scholars and NGOs would assist the process, both the preparation
and the implementation. Such independent academic research is
desperately needed.
It should be a desk study that would spawn many empirical studies on the
implementation of the new policy. If you need a copy of the new policy
promulgated in December 2009, I am sure Jeff Crisp ([log in to unmask])
will supply. If you need copies of the 1997 Comprehensive Policy which
was so egregious, I can supply - plus at least one of the multitude of
drafts of an urban policy that UNHCR consultants wrote over the twelve
years in an attempt to reform the 1997 document. I will direct anyone
who writes me to two other Australians who have kept a record of the
'evolution' of the UNHCR urban policy.
Refugees in the global south are still mainly relegated to camps -
except where the governments refuses to allow then (e.g. Egypt), and the
rights of those living as self-settled in urban and rural areas in the
global South are woefully violated; detention and refoulement of even
recognized refugees is on the increase. That the legal infrastructure
for protecting refugee rights under international law is underdeveloped
is an understatement. Asylum itself is threatened.
Dr. Barbara E. Harrell-Bond
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UNU-IAS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme:
http://www.ias.unu.edu/sub_page.aspx?catID=6&ddlID=150
Application Form (PDF file):
http://www.ias.unu.edu/resource_centre/UNU-IAS_PostdocFellow2010_Application%20Form_distributed.pdf
JSPS-UNU Fellowship Programme:
http://www.ias.unu.edu/sub_page.aspx?catID=6&ddlID=143
Application Form (PDF file):
http://www.ias.unu.edu/resource_centre/JSPS-UNU_PostdocFellow2010_Application%20Form_distributed.pdf
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