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Dear List Members, Below please find new references to online publications, periodical issues,events and opportunities, and web sites. **Online Publications** "Access Denied: Children in INS custody have no right to a lawyer; those who get one risk retaliation," National Law Journal (April 2001) - http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View &c=Article&cid=ZZZ4J0YK8LC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0 Asylum Applications Lodged in 18 Industrialized Countries, Jan. and Feb. 2001 (UNHCR) - http://www.unhcr.ch/statist/0102asy.pdf (in PDF format) Current Issues in the Application of Exclusion Clauses, by Geoff Gilbert (2001) - http://www.unhcr.ch/issues/asylum/globalconsult/gilbert.pdf (in PDF format) - Background paper for Global Consultations on International Protection. An Economic and Social Security Council at the United Nations, by Frances Stewart and Sam Daws (Queen Elizabeth House, March 2001) - http://www2.qeh.ox.ac.uk/research/wpaction.html?jor_id=225 (in PDF format) Ethnic Classification in Eastern Europe, by Ahmed, Patricia, Cynthia Feliciano, and Rebecca Jean Emigh (Center for Comparative Social Analysis, Spring 2001) - http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/groups/ccsa/ahmed.PDF (in PDF format) FAO Corporate Document Repository - http://www.fao.org/documents/default.asp?lang=en - Available in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic; provides access to FAO's collection of full-text digital documents. Human Rights Watch Publications - http://www.hrw.org/reports98/publctns.htm - The most recent titles available include one published in April 2001 on NAFTA and five in March (Uganda, Chechnya, South Africa, Chile and U.S.) **Periodicals** Accord: An International Review of Peace Initiatives, no. 10 - (Conciliation Resources, March 2001) - http://www.c-r.org/accord10/index.htm - In full-text; focus is "Politics of Compromise: The Tajikistan Peace Process," edited by Kamoludin Abdullaev and Catherine Barnes; Russian-language edition to be available June 2001. Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 24, no. 2 (March 2001) -http://cherubino.catchword.com/vl=8053931/cl=19/ini=saramail/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/routledg/01419870/v24n2/contp1.htm (table of contents, abstracts) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 27, no. 2 (April 2001) - http://cherubino.catchword.com/vl=8307107/cl=21/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/carfax/1369183x/v27n2/contp1-1.htm (table of contents, abstracts) **Events & Opportunities** Computers for Palestine (Al-Awda Refugee Support Committee). - Campaign to supply computers to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. E-mail [log in to unmask] for more info. Human Rights Law Fellowship, Irish Centre for Human Rights - http://www.nuigalway.ie/human_rights/ICHR-indexfiles/Bank_Ireland_Fellowship.html - Applications invited from academics in developing countries; the deadline for submitting applications has been extended to May 14, 2001. Migration in the Arab Middle East: Policies, Networks and Communities in the Context of Globalisation - New research program of the Centre d'études et de recherches sur le Moyen-Orient contemporain (CERMOC); the Centre is currently seeking participants who can contribute to various aspects of the program. Various meetings and a conference will be held, and a final publication produced. For more info., contact Dr Geraldine Chatelard, associate researcher, CERMOC, Amman (Email: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]). Refugee Reception and Integration: Best Practices. Special Issue of Refuge - Call for Papers - Details not yet available on the Centre for Refugee Studies web site; topics of interest include "resettlement as a tool of international protection; reception and integration of refugees with special needs, such as women-at-risk, survivors of violence and torture, minors and the elderly; identity and adaptation in the integration process; comparative studies of reception and integration practices; the role of refugees in their own integration; the role of NGO's in the reception and integration process; capacity building with refugee involvement; economics and integration; and the role of the media in educating receiving communities." Contact the editor, Marzia Ali, at [log in to unmask] for more info. Rethinking Humanitarianism Conference, 24-26 September 2001, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Australia - http://www.uq.edu.au/politics/conferences/nhc/index.htm - Hosted by The Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace & Conflict Resolution and The School of Political Science & International Studies Rural Development and Food Security: Towards a New Agenda - http://www.odi.org.uk/spr2001.html - Lunchtime discussion series at the Overseas Development Institute, London, May-July 2001. Third Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence 20-24 March, 2002. Call for Papers - http://www.iue.it/RSC/MED/meeting2002/Welcome.html - Includes two workshops of particular interest: New Generations and the Future of International Migration South of the Mediterranean and The Palestinians: From Refugees to Citizens. Their Current and Future Status. **Web Sites** Bibliotheque Cujas - http://cujas.univ-paris1.fr/ - Law library of the University of Paris; provides access to: their searchable library catalogue and periodicals list, several research guides on French legislation, and a fairly extensive list of links to French and international online legal resources. Digital Imaging Project of South Africa - http://disa.nu.ac.za - "The aim of the DISA project, which is expected to last three years, is to make accessible to scholars and researchers world-wide, South African material of high socio-political interest which would otherwise be difficult to locate and use." Although not many digitized journals are currently available, click on the "journals" link to get an idea of what to expect in the future. Humanitarianism and War Project - http://hwproject.tufts.edu/ - The Project moved recently to the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University; their newly re-designed and updated web site provides easier access to the Project's many publications, and a greater number of publications are available in full-text. Minority Related National Legislation - http://www.riga.lv/minelres/NationalLegislation/natleg.htm - New section of MINELRES site; provides the full-texts of a variety of national laws (constitutions, penal codes, aliens acts, etc.) for countries in Central/Eastern Europe, in both the local language and English. Elisa Mason Information Officer, Forced Migration Online Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. 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