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FMR 49 - A role for strategic litigation |
Strategic litigation to protect individuals at risk can usefully support higher-level protection initiatives. |
Matthew Scott |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Floods and migration in the Czech Republic |
Residents’ strategies are generally aimed at either protection from or adaptation to flooding. Large-scale migration from the floodplains of rivers has not been seriously considered, even in high-risk zones. |
Robert Stojanov, Ilan Kelman, Barbora Duží |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - 'One Safe Future’ in the Philippines |
The Philippine government’s ‘One Safe Future’ programme relocated disaster-affected poor families in areas where structures enabling opportunities are lacking. |
Lloyd Ranque, Melissa Quetulio-Navarra |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Cross-border migration with dignity in Kiribati |
The ‘migration with dignity’ policy is part of Kiribati’s long-term nation-wide relocation strategy. |
Karen E McNamara |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Land, disasters and mobility in the South Pacific |
The adaptive characteristics of customary land systems deserve greater recognition in disaster or climate change policy frameworks. |
Daniel Fitzpatrick |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Not drowning but fighting: Pacific Islands activists |
Focusing on climate-induced migration, rather than mitigation, can be at odds with grassroots demands and can make the future uninhabitability of some Pacific Islands appear as a foregone conclusion. |
Hannah Fair |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Samoa: local knowledge, climate change and population movements |
The voices of scientists, academics, politicians and development practitioners dominate the climate change debate, yet local knowledge, values and beliefs are essential elements of navigating the way forward for affected communities. |
Ximena Flores-Palacios |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Facilitating voluntary adaptive migration in the Pacific |
Voluntary adaptive migration across int'l borders will be a critical component of an overall adaptation strategy for at-risk individuals and households in the Pacific in order to increase their resilience to natural hazards and prevent future displicement |
Bruce Burson, Richard Bedford |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Integrating resilience in South Asia |
Communities can strengthen their resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction measures. |
Mi Zhou, Dorien Braam |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - “Everyone likes it here” |
Sea-level rise threatens communities of the Lakshadweep islands. But what happens when belongingness, religious beliefs and the identity of being an islander make them stay? |
Himani Upadhyay, Ilan Kelman, Divya Mohan |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Building adaptive capacity in Assam |
A starting point for adapting to longer-term climate change could be adaptation to short-term climate variability and extreme events. Making more informed choices about the use of remittances can enhance the adaptive capacity of receiving households. |
Soumyadeep Banerjee, Suman Bisht, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Mixed motivations and complex causality in the Mekong |
Many climate change-affected communities have already been using migration as a means to adapt to and withstand the challenges to their livelihoods and security. Strengthening of existing protections for all migrants is clearly advantageous. |
Jessica Marsh |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - One good reason to speak of ‘climate refugees’ |
The concept of ‘environmental refugees’, or ‘climate refugees’, has been progressively abandoned, as having no legal basis. I want to argue that there are good reasons to use the term. |
Francois Gemenne |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Governance questions for the international community |
The Nansen Initiative has highlighted significant questions about how the international community should collectively think about displacement and mobility issues relating to natural disasters and climate change, and how to improve the governance thereof. |
Alexander Betts |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Building respectful solutions |
Tribes in coastal Alaska and Louisiana in the United States are among the communities at immediate risk of displacement due to climate change impacts. |
Colleen Swan, Chief Albert P Naquin, Stanley Tom |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 General - The Cartagena process: 30 years of innovation and solidarity |
The 30th anniversary of the 1984 Cartagena Declaration offers the opportunity to consider the achievements of the Cartagena process and the specific characteristics that make it so remarkable. |
Carlos Maldonado Castillo |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 General - Trafficking for human organs |
Trafficking of people for their organs is an emerging transnational crime that has failed to receive sufficient international attention. |
Vladimir Makei |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 General - Sweet tea and cigarettes: a taste of refugee life in Jordan |
Among refugees in Jordan, utter boredom – the result of restrictions on mobility, prohibitions on employment, and feelings of marginalisation – is an unmistakable source of anguish. |
Rana B Khoury |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 General - Refugee-state distrust on the Thai-Burma border |
Distrust between refugees and their state of origin must be given due consideration in institutional approaches to repatriation of refugees, on the Thai-Burma border and in other refugee contexts worldwide. |
Karen Hargrave |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 General - Animals and forced migration |
Harm to animals resulting from forced migration of people is intricately interwoven with and contingent upon the simultaneous suffering of humans. |
Piers Beirne, Caitlin Kelty-Huber |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49, FGM - Editors’ Introduction |
An introductory note from the Editors of a special mini-feature on 'FGM and Asylum in Europe' in FMR 49. |
Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49, FGM - Female genital mutilation: a case for asylum in Europe |
With some 71% of female EU asylum applicants from FGM-practising countries estimated to be survivors of this harmful traditional practice, it is time to accept that this subject demands greater scrutiny and a more dedicated response. |
Fadela Novak-Irons |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49, FGM - FGM: challenges for asylum applicants and officials |
Asylum authorities in the European Union need to establish better procedures to help address the specific vulnerabilities and protection needs of women and girls who have undergone or are at risk of female genital mutilation. |
Christine Flamand |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49, FGM - The medicalisation of female genital mutilation |
The ‘medicalisation’ of female genital mutilation should be denounced on two counts.Firstly, it is usually anatomically more damaging and, secondly, it goes against the ethical basis of the medical profession. |
Pierre Foldes, Frédérique Martz |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49, FGM - The Istanbul Convention: new treaty, new tool |
The new Istanbul Convention provides a powerful tool for more effectively guaranteeing the protection of asylum seekers at risk of gender-based persecution and at risk of FGM in particular. |
Elise Petitpas, Johanna Nelles |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49, FGM - Changing attitudes in Finland towards FGM |
Former refugee women are now working as professional educators among immigrant and refugee communities in Finland to tackle ignorance of the impact and extent of female genital mutilation/cutting. |
Saido Mohamed, Solomie Teshome |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - From the Editors |
An introductory note on FMR 48, 'Faith and Responses to Displacement', from the Editors. |
Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Religious leaders unite to disarm hearts and minds |
In the Central African Republic, where religion has been used as a tool to divide and manipulate the population, religious leaders have come together to promote tolerance and forgiveness as a basis for rebuilding peaceful cohabitation. |
Monsignor Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Imam Omar Kobine Layama, Pastor Nicolas Guerekoyame Gbangou |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Local faith actors and protection in complex and insecure environments |
Faith leaders, faith-based organisations and local faith communities play a major role in the protection of people affected by conflict, disaster and displacement. Humanitarians, however, have only recently begun to fully appreciate their protection work. |
James Thomson |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The value of accompaniment |
Friendship and compassionate companionship with the most vulnerable provide a powerful type of humanitarian service giving priority to personal accompaniment. |
Joe Hampson, Thomas M Crea, Rocío Calvo, Francisco Álvarez |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - How local faith communities can aid asylum seekers |
Local faith communities are able to offer assistance to asylum seekers in ways that faith-based organisations, constrained by eligibility criteria, are not. |
Kelly Barneche, ‘Joe’ |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The role of religion in the formation of cross-community relationships |
Spiritual life is a priority in many conflict-affected communities. It is rarely prioritised by aid agencies, yet may be central to the formation and maintaining of strong and effective cross-community relationships. |
Sadia Kidwai, Lucy V Moore, Atallah FitzGibbon |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The contribution of FBOs working with the displaced |
Faith-based organisations take from their religious traditions both strong motivations & access to a long history of thinking concerning social and political issues. This can make them ideally placed to fill the gaps in the implementation of human rights |
David Holdcroft |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Faith and the secular: tensions in realising humanitarian principles |
There is good reason to engage faith-based organisations and local faith communities in humanitarian response but doing so raises challenging issues for the interpretation of humanitarian principles in what some see as a post-secular age. |
Alastair Ager |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Faith motivation and effectiveness: a Catholic experience |
CAFOD’s ability to partner with other FBOs and communities brings significant advantages for its work with displaced people. However, modern-day humanitarianism does not always sit comfortably alongside some of the practices of the major religions. |
Robert Cruickshank, Cat Cowley |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The dignity of the human person |
Catholic Social Teaching’s emphasis on the dignity of the human person is a lens that Catholic institutions use to evaluate how we as a global society enhance or threaten the dignity of the human person, especially the most vulnerable of people. |
Nathalie Lummert |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Journeys of a secular organisation in south Lebanon |
A secular NGO’s experiences in south Lebanon demonstrate that it is possible for non-faith-based organisations to develop productive relationships with faith-based actors without compromising their secular identities. |
Jason Squire, Kristen Hope |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Reflections from the field |
Working with religious leaders is an essential element of serving local communities, as is an understanding of the religious life of local communities and how belief influences their decision making. |
Simon Russell |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The asylum seeker: a faith perspective |
An organisation based on faith will listen and try to understand when unjust laws, traditions, cultures or ideologies cause refugees to flee. |
Flor Maria Rigoni |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Christian civil disobedience and indefinite, mandatory immigration detention in Australia |
A new movement of Christian activists in Australia is using radical direct action to challenge their country’s policy of mandatory detention of asylum seeker children. |
Marcus Campbell |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Guided by humanitarian principles |
Caritas Luxembourg’s work with refugees, IDPs and migrants in Colombia, Lebanon and Luxembourg offers some examples of the ways in which a faith-based organisation may be advantaged or disadvantaged by its faith basis. |
Andreas Vogt, Sophie Colsell |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - A Luxembourg government perspective on faith in partnership |
While flexible in partnering with agencies best placed to assist affected populations, Luxembourg requires its partners to adhere to humanitarian principles. |
Max Lamesch |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Not in our remit |
When secular organisations are responding to the needs of displaced people, the religious practices and needs of the communities may not be high on the list of things to be thought about. |
Maurice Herson |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Faith, relief and development: the UMCOR-Muslim Aid model seven years on |
Seven years ago, a strategic partnership between the United Methodist Committee on Relief and Muslim Aid in Sri Lanka was formalised into a worldwide partnership agreement. Why did the partnership not achieve its goals? |
Amjad Saleem, Guy Hovey |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Church Asylum |
Church asylum, or sanctuary, is a practice to support, counsel and give shelter to refugees who are threatened with deportation to inhumane living conditions, torture or even death. This practice can be located at the interface of benevolence and politics |
Birgit Neufert |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Offering sanctuary to failed refugee claimants in Canada |
Despite the anti-refugee sentiment demonstrated by Canada’s recent legislative changes and the government’s hardening attitude towards those in sanctuary, the spirit of resistance and community engagement is alive and well in Canada. |
Kristin Marshall |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Interfaith humanitarian cooperation: a Lutheran perspective |
The Lutheran World Federation’s experience is that closer cooperation between faith-based organisations of different faiths is both possible and beneficial. |
Elizabeth Gano |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The clash and clout of faith: refugee aid in Ghana and Kenya |
A case-study from Ghana assesses the importance of a faith-based response to displacement in West Africa, while an example from Kenya highlights problems that can arise in collaborations between secular and faith-based organisations. |
Elizabeth Wirtz, Jonas Ecke |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - An inter-religious humanitarian response in the Central African Republic |
Inter-religious action has played a key role in ensuring that social cohesion and inter-religious mediation remain on the int'l agenda in relation to response in the Central African Republic, where people’s faith is an integral part of their identity |
Catherine Mahony |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Respecting faiths, avoiding harm: psychosocial assistance in Jordan and the United States |
Both faith-based and secular organisations need to recognise the ways in which religion can provide healing and support but can also cause harm for refugees and asylum seekers. |
Maryam Zoma |
04 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Faith-based humanitarianism in northern Myanmar |
The response of faith-based organisations to displacement in northern Myanmar has been remarkable but sustaining an open and collaborative relationship with the international community remains an ongoing challenge. |
Edward Benson, Carine Jaquet |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The costs of giving and receiving: dilemmas in Bangkok |
Local faith-based organisations play a central role in meeting the basic needs of the increasing urban refugee population in Bangkok. This raises challenges for all involved. |
Sabine Larribeau, Sharonne Broadhead |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Faith and the politics of resettlement |
For some asylum seekers in Turkey, conversion may be an opportunistic strategy to improve resettlement prospects. |
Shoshana Fine |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Principles and proselytising: good practice in Ethiopia |
Faith-based organisations need to ensure that in providing essential humanitarian assistance they do not exploit the vulnerability of people by proselytising, whether overtly or covertly. |
Zenebe Desta |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Jewish roots of humanitarian assistance |
The act of assistance is an act of respect for the humanity of others and is not the preserve of any one faith. |
Ricardo Augman, Enrique Burbinski |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Chins in Mizoram state, India: a faith-based response |
The faith community in Mizoram state in India has played an instrumental role in providing social services, changing perceptions of refugees, and providing access and assistance, reaching the most vulnerable where there's no international presence. |
Jenny Yang |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Engaging IDPs in Sri Lanka: a Buddhist approach |
A Buddhist Sri Lankan NGO provides an example of how endogenous faith-based civil society organisations can help mobilise IDPs in owning and defining strategies for their own protection. - See more at: http://www.fmreview.org/faith/contents#sthash.Ktl8olu |
Emily Barry-Murphy, Max Stephenson |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - An ecumenical organisation for asylum seekers in Switzerland |
An ecumenical organisation provides socio-pastoral assistance for asylum seekers while they go through the first crucial steps of the asylum proceedings. |
Susy Mugnes, Felicina Proserpio, Luisa Deponti |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - African refugees and the particular role of churches in the UK |
Many churches have the necessary physical and social assets to assist refugees in the community both individually and by bringing them together. |
Samuel Bekalo |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Post-disaster recovery and support in Japan |
As a locally based faith-based organisation, there were several aspects that enabled Soka Gakkai to contribute effectively to the relief effort following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, responding to both physical and psychological needs. |
Kimiaki Kawai |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48: ‘Welcoming the stranger’ and UNHCR’s cooperation with faith-based organisations |
Since its creation in 1950, UNHCR has engaged with faith-based organisations, faith communities and faith leaders in carrying out its work. Recently, UNHCR has been more actively exploring the role of faith in humanitarian responses. |
José Riera, Marie-Claude Poirier |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - What’s faith got to do with it? |
Use of the faith-based label demands greater clarification lest it lose coherence and result in adverse policy implications, excluding religiously motivated actors from providing much-needed assistance to displaced communities, particularly inside Syria. |
Tahir Zaman |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Refugees’ integration in Uganda will require renewed lobbying |
A legal decision about whether refugees in Uganda can become citizens continues to be delayed. |
Georgia Cole |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - The 1969 OAU Convention and the continuing challenge for the African Union |
Forty years after the OAU Convention on Refugees came into force, the dismal state in which refugees in Africa find themselves these days raises the question as to whether the Convention has lived up to expectations. |
J O Moses Okello |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - From violence to more violence in Central America |
Many Central American migrants flee their home country as a result of violence and threats from the criminal gangs. A large number of them also encounter the same type of violence that they are fleeing when on the migratory routes through Mexico. |
Israel Medina |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Work and refugee integration in Sweden |
One of the main challenges facing refugees trying to integrate in their host country is finding a suitable job. Sweden recognises this issue and is investing in making inclusion in the labour market the driver of refugee integration. |
Miguel Peromingo |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Frozen displacement: Kashmiri Pandits in India |
In the 1990s nearly 250,000 people were displaced by violence in India. More than 20 years later the question for them is whether the responses to their displacement so far can form the basis for long-term solutions for their protracted displacement. |
Mahima Thussu |
03 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 48 - Reflections from the encampment decision in the High Court of Kenya |
Civil society groups are embracing a recent victory in the High Court of Kenya as a reminder of the important role that strategic litigation can play in the enforcement and promotion of refugee rights. |
Anna Wirth |
03 Jun 2015 |
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Inequality, immigration and refugee protection |
Seminar given on 26 November 2014 by Dr Katy Long (Stanford University and University of Edinburgh), part of the RSC Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series. |
Katy Long |
08 Dec 2014 |
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What is the role of NGOs in the assisted voluntary returns of asylum seekers and irregular migrants? |
Derek McGhee and Claire Bennett, University of Southampton, give a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Breifing series |
Derek McGhee, Claire Bennett |
14 Jul 2014 |
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571 |
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Arbitrary detention of asylum seekers: a comparison of some recent practice from Italy and the UK |
Public Seminar Series Trinity term 2014. Dr Daniel Wilsher (City University London) & Francesca Cancellaro (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna). Recorded on 28 May 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford |
Daniel Wilsher, Francesca Cancellaro |
02 Jun 2014 |
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Excision, Exclusion and Exile: Australia's Refugee Policy and Responsibility Shifting in the Asia-Pacific |
Dr Michelle Foster, Melbourne Law School |
Michelle Foster |
16 May 2014 |
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573 |
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The right to seek and obtain asylum under the African human rights system |
Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Dr Chaloka Beyani (London School of Economics and the United Nations). Recorded on 26 February 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Chaloka Beyani |
03 Mar 2014 |
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574 |
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African Studies and OCAF Seminar: Staying Out of Place: The Dialectics of Being and Becoming in Exceptional Spaces |
Simon Turner, Aalborg University, Denmark, gives a talk for the African Studies Centre |
Simon Turner |
18 Feb 2014 |
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575 |
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Three asylum paradigms |
Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Jean-François Durieux (RSC and the Graduate Institute, Geneva) recorded on 12 February 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Jean-François Durieux |
13 Feb 2014 |
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576 |
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The child in international refugee law |
Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Jason Pobjoy (Blackstone Chambers) recorded on 5 February 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Jason Pobjoy |
13 Feb 2014 |
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Turning wrongful convictions into rights? Asylum seekers and the criminal law |
Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Dr Ana Aliverti (Warwick School of Law) recorded on 29 January 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Ana Aliverti |
03 Feb 2014 |
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At the end of the rainbow: where next for the LGBTI refugee? |
Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by S. Chelvan (No5 Chambers) recorded on 22 January 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
s. Chelvan |
27 Jan 2014 |
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Refugee rights: beyond the 1951 Convention |
Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2014 by Professor Yakin Ertürk (former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women) recorded on 20 November 2013 at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History |
Yakin Ertürk |
20 Jan 2014 |
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FMR 44 Predisposed to cooperate |
Recent research in Toronto and Geneva indicates that asylum seekers and refugees are predisposed to be cooperative with the refugee status determination (RSD) system and other immigration procedures. |
Cathryn Costello, Esra Kaytaz |
03 Oct 2013 |
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FMR 44 My story: indefinite detention in the UK |
When I fled civil war to come to the UK, I thought that I would be free but instead of helping me, the UK detained me for three years. |
William |
03 Oct 2013 |
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FMR 43 The arts in refugee camps: ten good reasons |
Refugees' involvement in artistic activity: music, theatre, poetry, painting, often plays a powerful positive role in their ability to survive physically and even emotionally and spiritually. |
Awet Andemicael |
09 Aug 2013 |
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FMR 41 North Koreans in China in need of international protection |
Ihe international community needs to reconsider how it might better work towards securing protection for North Koreans. Some may be political refugees, others 'refugees sur place'. |
Roberta Cohen |
08 May 2013 |
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FMR 39 |
The Dublin II Regulation makes the first safe country of refuge solely responsible for refugees and asylum seekers. In the case of Italy, the first responsible country has not been acting responsibly. |
Raffaela Puggioni |
08 May 2013 |
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FMR 38 Kenyan refugees included in transitional justice processes |
In the complex relationship between forced migration and transitional justice, a visit by the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission to a refugee settlement in Uganda seems to mark a significant step. |
Bernadette Iyodu |
08 May 2013 |
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FMR 38 Preventing partner violence in refugee and immigrant communities |
For many refugees and other forced migrants, sexual and gender-based violence does not necessarily stop after resettlement; for some, that may be when it starts. |
Greta Uehling, Alberto Bouroncle, Carter Roeber, Nathaniel Tashima |
08 May 2013 |
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FMR 38 A new strategy for meeting humanitarian challenges in urban areas |
Experience indicates that significant challenges remain across key humanitarian operational approaches relating to the needs of growing numbers of IDPs and refugees who migrate to cities. |
Roger Zetter, George Deikun |
08 May 2013 |
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FMR 38 Nearly a refugee: thoughts from Cairo |
Turbulence in North Africa and the Middle East has forced many to flee their homes and countries. One woman in Cairo, on the brink of flight, considers her options. |
Shaden Khallaf |
08 May 2013 |
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FMR 38 Satellite phones help rescue of refugees |
Satellite phones help rescue of refugees. |
Virginia Signorini |
08 May 2013 |
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Immigration and welfare chauvinism: Britain since 1800 |
Professor David Feldman, historian, describes the "welfare chauvinism" existing in Britain since the 18th century. |
David Feldman |
01 Dec 2011 |
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Identification and mobility Control: Police sciences, technology, and international cooperation in West Europe, 1900-1930 |
Dr. Ilsen About takes us through the fascinating development of technology used by police in the early 1900's to allow for the identification of criminals internationally, known as 'distant identification'. |
Ilsen About |
01 Dec 2011 |
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592 |
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No rights for the wicked; human rights and foreign national prisoners |
Retired immigration lawyer Fran Webber goes through case law pre and post the entry into force of the Human Rights Act. |
Frances Webber |
02 Nov 2011 |
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593 |
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RSC Wednesday Seminars 2011: International Law and Statelessness in the 21st Century |
This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's second Wednesday Public Seminar of Michaelmas Term 2011. |
Laura van Waas |
22 Oct 2011 |
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594 |
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RSC Wednesday Seminars 2011: Stateless diasporas and immigration and citizenship regimes in the EU |
This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's first Wednesday Public Seminar of Michaelmas Term 2011. |
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Nando Sigona |
18 Oct 2011 |
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Responding to protracted refugee situations: Lessons from a decade of discussion |
On 23 June 2011, the RSC launched its sixth Policy Briefing on 'Responding to protracted refugee situations: lessons from a decade of discussion' at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in Geneva. |
James Milner, Gil Loescher, Jeff Crisp |
21 Jul 2011 |
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Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2011: The vanishing truth of refugees |
This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture which was on Wednesday 15th June 2011. |
Didier Fassin |
21 Jul 2011 |
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597 |
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RSC Wednesday Seminars 2011: Negotiating local emplacement: the silent integration of refugees on the Zambian-Angolan borderlands |
This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's second Wednesday Public Seminar of Trinity Term 2011. |
Oliver Bakewell |
21 Jul 2011 |
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RSC Wednesday Seminars 2011: Conflict and displacement in Southern Sudan |
This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's seventh Wednesday Public Seminar of Trinity Term 2011. |
Jon Bennett |
21 Jul 2011 |
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RSC Wednesday Seminars 2011: Beyond conventional solutions to the refugee problem: mobility as a strategy for Afghans |
This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's fourth Wednesday Public Seminar of Trinity Term 2011. |
Alessandro Monsutti |
21 Jul 2011 |
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Creative Commons |
RSC Wednesday Seminars 2011: Transnationalism: a fourth durable solution? |
Recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's third Wednesday Public Seminar of Trinity Term 2011, on Wednesday 1st June 2011 at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Laura Hammond |
21 Jul 2011 |