| LGBTQI and forced migrants (Forced Migration Review 42) |
FMR 42 LGBT refugee protection in the UK: from discretion to belief? |
The UK government used to have no specific guidance or training for decision-makers for claims brought on the grounds of sexual orientation. It was only in 2010 that specific policy guidance was speedily issued and significant progress was seen. |
Amanda Gray, Alexandra McDowall |
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FMR 42 Kosovo: what does the future hold for LGBT people? |
States considering such claims need to look beyond Kosovo's apparently progressive constitution to the rather different reality on the ground. |
Agathe Fauchier |
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FMR 42 Protection in the city: some good practice in Nairobi |
Despite a challenging protection environment, an assistance programme for LGBTI refugees in Nairobi offers examples of good practice that could be replicated in other urban settings. |
Duncan Breen, Yiftach Millo |
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FMR 42 Resources for those representing asylum claims on grounds of sexual orientation |
Resources for those representing asylum claims on grounds of sexual orientation. |
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FMR 42 LGBT refugee resettlement in the US: emerging best practices |
US refugee resettlement agencies are directing more attention and effort toward assisting LGBT refugees and asylum seekers, and best practices are beginning to emerge. |
Scott Portman, Daniel Weyl |
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FMR 42 Grantmaking for SOGI programmes |
With issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity a relatively new field for funders, the opportunity exists for funders to exert strategic influence on the development of improved policy and practice. |
Andrew S Park |
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FMR 42 Sexual orientation and gender identity: developments in EU law |
The amended version of the EU Qualification Directive, adopted in 2011, marks further progress in ensuring LGBTI applicant' rights by explicitly adding gender identity alongside sexual orientation as a cause of persecution. |
Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi |
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FMR 42 "On what grounds?" LGBT asylum claims in Canada |
A number of positive developments have occurred over the past two decades to create more robust protection and community support within Canada, but recent legislative changes will jeopardise fairness and justice for LGBT refugee claimants. |
Sharalyn Jordan, Chris Morrissey |
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Fmr 42 Ensuring protection for LGBTI Persons of Concern |
There needs to be greater awareness not only of the specific protection concerns relating to LGBTI individuals but also of related jurisprudence and guidance available for UN staff, partners, state authorities and decision-makers. |
Volker Türk |
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FMR 42 LGBTI refugees: the Brazilian case |
Public policies in defence and in favour of LGBT people are neither sufficient nor effective in reducing homophobic violence in Brazil. |
Henrique Rabello de Carvalho |
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FMR 42 The Rainbow Group in Mae La camp |
Discrimination, verbal abuse and physical and sexual violence follow Burmese LGBTI people who cross into Thailand to seek shelter in camps. |
Moses |
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FMR 42 Global human rights frameworks applicable to LGBTI migrants |
Although no international legal instrument exists to specifically protect the human rights of LGBTI individuals, over recent years international legal bodies have interpreted basic human rights provisions to apply to LGBTI populations. |
Shana Tabak, Rachel Levitan |
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FMR 42 Mental health challenges of LGBT forced migrants |
Mental health providers can assist in documenting the psychological impact of anti-LGBT persecution and its impact on the ability to secure refugee status. |
Ariel Shidlo, Joanne Ahola |
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FMR 42 LGBT: equally entitled to human rights and dignity |
Recognition that LGBT rights are universal rights is gaining ground. The trend, finally, is positive. But greater respect for LGBT rights and inclusion of LGBT people still is not a worldwide movement. |
Anne C Richard |
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FMR 42 LGBTI asylum claims - the Central and Eastern European perspective |
Low levels of awareness, lack of guidance and cultural hostility are jeopardising asylum seekers' prospects for fair treatment. |
Anna Śledzińska-Simon, Krzysztof Śmiszek |
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FMR 42 New UNHCR SOGI Guidelines |
New UNHCR SOGI Guidelines. |
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| Changing Character of War |
Insurgencies: The Challenges of Intervention |
Professor Beatrice Heuser looks at the systemic challenges of intervening in insurgency. |
Beatrice Heuser |
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How to Clear a Room: Towards a Sociology of Contemporary Urban Combat |
A discussion of the sociology of contemporary urban combat and professionalism in the military. |
Anthony King |
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FMR 42 From the editors |
From the editors. |
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FMR 41 Post-conflict land insecurity threatens re-displacement in northern Uganda |
For many in northern Uganda, access to land and property remains an unresolved issue that threatens peace and sustainable returns. |
Levis Onegi |
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FMR 41 The conveniently forgotten human rights of the Rohingya |
As stateless Rohingya in Burma face containment in IDP camps and within their homes and communities in what is effectively segregation, their human rights are on the whole being ignored. |
Natalie Brinham |
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FMR 41 Challenging RSD clients' preferences for foreign service providers |
Organisations that provide legal services to refugees and asylum seekers face the challenge of responding ethically to clients' requests to be assisted by foreigners as opposed to by nationals in country offices. |
Christian Pangilinan |
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FMR 41 Property restitution in Colombia |
The Colombian government has established a legal framework to prevent further displacement. The rebuilding of community relationships and institutional trust are central to the success of this approach. |
Eduardo Medina |
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FMR 41 Making work safe for displaced women |
Understanding risk factors and protection strategies allows practitioners to ensure appropriate programme design and implementation for displaced women. |
Dale Buscher |
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FMR 41 Preventing re-displacement through genuine reintegration in Burundi |
Displacement is often part of a cyclical process of conflict and displacement. Preventing displacement, therefore, is not only about preventing new displacement but about ensuring that people do not get re-displaced. |
Lucy Hovil |
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FMR 41 East African refugees adapting to life in the UK |
This article reflects on the first-hand life experiences of refugees of East/Horn of Africa origin on arrival in the UK. The experiences, some of which could be seen as humorous or sad, may be informative and relevant for other practitioners. |
Samuel Bekalo |
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FMR 41 Overseas cultural orientation programmes and resettled refugees' perceptions |
Resettled refugees often have misconceptions about their potential for self-sufficiency in the United States, and experience adjustment problems after their arrival. |
Julie M Kornfeld |
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FMR 41 From the Nansen Principles to the Nansen Initiative |
The Nansen Initiative launched in October 2012 aims to build consensus among states about how best to address cross-border displacement in the context of sudden- and slow-onset disasters. |
Walter Kälin |
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FMR 41 The role of women defenders of human rights in Colombia |
Women in Colombia are increasingly being attacked because of their efforts to defend human rights and to bring an end to the conflict and displacement in their country. |
Juanita Candamil, Claudia María Mejía Duque |
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FMR 41 From a lab in Luxembourg to satellites in South Sudan |
A new communications platform for use in humanitarian emergencies made its debut in January 2012 in South Sudan, and is now being deployed elsewhere. Emergency.lu aims to be a global inter-agency tool. |
Marianne Donven, Mariko Hall |
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FMR 41 The UN Security Council and prevention of displacement |
Respecting the prohibitions against forced and arbitrary displacement could significantly reduce the risk of, or prevent, displacement in situations of armed conflict. |
Sanjula Weerasinghe, Elizabeth Ferris |
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FMR 41 Attempts to prevent displacement in the occupied Palestinian territories |
Prevention has become a strategy increasingly adopted by the humanitarian community in addressing forced displacement in the occupied Palestinian territories and responding to immediate emergency needs for families displaced or at risk. |
Karim Khalil |
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FMR 41 Are refugees an economic burden or benefit? |
Governments emphasise the negative impacts and costs but these, although undeniable and well documented, are only part of the picture. |
Roger Zetter |
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FMR 41 Education as an essential component of prevention of youth re-displacement |
If education is seen as a factor that keeps refugees in camps or host communities rather than encouraging them to go back home, it should be systematically included as part of return to prevent re-displacement. |
Marina L Anselme, Barbara Zeus |
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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 |
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FMR 41 Natural disasters and indigenous displacement in Bolivia |
Those seeking to understand and address the reasons for growing numbers of displaced indigenous people in Bolivia should consider the relationship between traditional knowledge and the impacts of climate change. |
Ludvik Girard |
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FMR 41 Lessons from mobilisation around slum evictions in Tanzania |
A study of forced urban eviction in Tanzania shows that grassroots mobilisation alone may be unable to confront the challenges of displacement and that there are risks when mobilisation around displacement is premised on unrealistic expectations. |
Michael Hooper |
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FMR 39 Local hosting and transnational identity |
Tunisian people, rather than their government, led the response to the humanitarian crisis when Libyans started their own revolt and people starting fleeing across the border. |
Katherine E Hoffman |
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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 |
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FMR 41 Preventing displacement |
Displacement can be a means of escaping violence but it can also bring great suffering. Displacement is not inevitable, so what can we do to prevent it? |
Valerie Amos |
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FMR 41 Towards a uniform legal system of protection |
There exists a set of inter-related normative texts for the protection of the environment and for the prevention and reduction of disasters, as well as for ensuring respect for human rights in all circumstances. |
Dimitrios Chotouras |
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FMR 41 Businesses' human rights responsibilities |
Businesses have the responsibility to avoid infringements of human rights that could lead to displacement and also to take actions to remedy their human rights violations that might lead to displacement. |
Corinne Lewis |
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FMR 39 We are not all Egyptian |
For many refugees in Egypt the weeks of the revolution were marked by isolation, fear and brutality. In the aftermath of the revolution, the promise of greater freedom has not yet been extended to refugees. |
Martin Jones |
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FMR 39 Newly recognised humanitarian actors |
'New' humanitarian leaders are growing in profile, impact and capacity. They need to be recognised as equals by the international humanitarian community. |
James Shaw-Hamilton |
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FMR 41 To prevent or pursue displacement? |
The repertoire of survival actions of at-risk civilians includes both avoiding and attempting displacement. But there are also overlaps, combinations and tacking back and forth between the two, while trying to mitigate the risks that any choice entails. |
Casey Barrs |
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FMR 41 Recognising the land rights of indigenous peoples and rural communities |
Current global trends are putting increasing economic pressure on land and natural resources, raising the risk that new waves of internal displacement may be caused by the combined forces of climate change and large-scale investment in agriculture. |
Rhodri C Williams |
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FMR 39 From commitment to practice: the EU response |
The EU's response to events in North Africa in 2011 indicates that more is needed to translate a commitment to solidarity from limited aid and statements of principle into practical reality. |
Madeline Garlick, Joanne van Selm |
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FMR 41 From the editors |
From the editors. |
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FMR 41 Predicting disasters and protecting rights |
In order to prevent or reduce disaster-related displacement, we need to address some clear gaps in both knowledge and capacity by improving research on and awareness of disaster risks and associated human rights, and the capacity to address them. |
Justin Ginnetti, Nina Schrepfer |
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FMR 41 The ICRC approach in situations of pre-displacement |
The ICRC prioritises the need to prevent displacement-triggering events when possible. Their experience highlights the complexity of the challenges and the central role of working in partnership to serve communities at risk. |
Veronika Talviste, Jamie A Williamson, Anne Zeidan |
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FMR 39 Dispossession and displacement in Libya |
Inability to access pre-displacement housing, land and property poses a significant obstacle to the achievement of durable solutions for most IDPs in Libya. Displacement and dispossession cannot be separated from the legacy of the Gaddafi era. |
Rhodri C Williams |
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FMR 39 An asylum spring in the new Libya? |
An asylum spring in the new Libya? |
Jean-François Durieux, Violeta Moreno-Lax, Marina Sharpe |
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FMR 41 International Humanitarian Law: a short summary of relevant provisions |
International Humanitarian Law: a short summary of relevant provisions in relation to the right not to be displaced. |
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FMR 41 The management of climate displacement |
Knowing that displacements will occur as a result of climate change, the humanitarian community will need to work pre-emptively with communities identified as likely to be threatened on the land-based solutions that may be available to them. |
Scott Leckie |
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FMR 39 Looking beyond legal status to human need |
What humanitarians can expect more of in the future is more mixed flows defying rigid categorisation and calling for a humanitarian response based on common needs for assistance and protection. |
Tarak Bach Baouab, Hernan del Valle, Katharine Derderian, Aurelie Ponthieu |
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FMR 39 Proud to be Tunisian |
Proud to be Tunisian. |
Elizabeth Eyster, Houda Chalchoul, Carole Lalève |
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FMR 41 Driving displacement: explosive weapons in populated areas |
The issue of the role of explosive weapons in generating displacement in urban areas has recently risen up the international agenda. |
Simon Bagshaw |
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FMR 41 Voluntariness to remaın |
The 'choice' to remain rather than flee is often in effect not really voluntary. |
Arzu Guler |
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FMR 39 Resettlement is needed for refugees in Tunisia |
With Tunisia experiencing wide-ranging political, social and economic change, there is an imperative need to alleviate the burden of hosting people fleeing Libya who are unable to return to their countries of origin. |
Amaya Valcárcel |
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FMR 39 Protection for migrants after the Libyan Revolution |
Irregular and mixed migration is still of great concern in post-revolutionary Libya, made more complex by the securitisation of border control issues and the inherent challenges of an interim government consolidating its authority. |
Samuel Cheung |
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FMR 41 The history and status of the right not to be displaced |
The many existing fragments of law relating to arbitrary displacement have a common thread running through them, revealing a human right not to be displaced. The existence of such a right has not yet been recognised in any international legal instrument. |
Michèle Morel, Maria Stavropoulou, Jean-François Durieux |
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FMR 41 Flooding in Thailand: flee, fight or float |
The severity of recent flooding in Thailand and the probability of future flooding have triggered a re-assessment of coping mechanisms employed by both the Thai population and the government. |
Wan S Sophonpanich |
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FMR 41 Undermining development: forced eviction in Bangladesh |
The case of a proposed coalmine in Bangladesh clearly illustrates the potential for human rights violations in such projects, the need for stronger safeguard policies that uphold people's rights and prevent displacement, and the power of local protest. |
Kate Hoshour |
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| North Africa and displacement (Forced Migration Review 39) |
FMR 39 Protecting and assisting migrants caught in crises |
The 2011 Libya crisis brought into sharp focus how global migration patterns are re-defining the range and type of needs and vulnerabilities of persons affected by a humanitarian crisis. |
Mohammed Abdiker, Angela Sherwood |
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FMR 39 Migrants caught in crisis |
A number of new initiatives point to ways in which the international community, particularly governments, could help reduce the vulnerabilities of migrant workers during conflict and crisis situations. |
Brian Kelly |
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| Preventing displacement (Forced Migration Review 41) |
FMR 41 The tool box at states' disposal to prevent displacement: a Swiss perspective |
A harmful action that is looming and has not yet taken place is difficult for third-party states to denounce or counter. A whole range of measures and methodologies is at their disposal enabling them to contribute to the prevention of forced displacement. |
Isabelle Gómez Truedsson |
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| Preventing displacement (Forced Migration Review 41) |
FMR 41 Shelter interventions prevent and mitigate displacement |
In hazard-prone developing countries, shelter interventions are an important way to prevent or mitigate natural disaster-induced displacement. To be effective, they need to be multi-faceted and carried out with the involvement of the communities affected. |
Davina Wadley |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 The networking Tibetan diaspora |
The networking Tibetan diaspora. |
Emma Tobin |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 Sifting hype from reality |
Sifting hype from reality. |
Paul Currion |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
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, Cathleen Crain |
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| North Africa and displacement (Forced Migration Review 39) |
FMR 39 Bordering on a crisis |
While the phenomenon of 'mixed migratory flows' has long been recognised, this was the first time it applied to a large-scale displacement. It required a coordinated humanitarian response for a large and diverse group of displaced persons. |
Guido Ambroso |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 Community Technology Access project |
Community Technology Access project. |
Daniela Ionita |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 Technology and engineering to support work with refugees |
New partnerships are being forged to encourage young engineers to use their skills in the service of refugees. |
Stephanie Hunt, Geoffrey C Orsak |
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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 |
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FMR 39 From the editors |
From the editors. |
Editors |
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FMR 39 The reintegration programme for Bangladeshi returnees |
When evacuated Bangladeshi migrants arrived home, the government, civil society, international organisations and the private sector cooperated to help them. |
Anita J Wadud |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 Satellite phones help rescue of refugees |
Satellite phones help rescue of refugees. |
Virginia Signorini |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 Technology: bringing solutions or disruptions? |
The availability of information through new technologies is challenging existing power relations and current ways of working, and we may not be prepared for the consequences. |
Paul Currion |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
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 |
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FMR 39 Migration and revolution |
The Arab Spring has not radically transformed migration patterns in the Mediterranean, and the label 'migration crisis' does not do justice to the composite and stratified reality. |
Hein de Haas, Nando Sigona |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 Mobile phones used for public health surveillance in Darfur |
Mobile phones used for public health surveillance in Darfur. |
Kbede Deribe |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 The role of technology in family tracing in Kenya |
Capitalising on the spread of mobile phones and the internet, new digital tools can help refugees trace missing family members. Security of data is a vital aspect of any such tools. |
Lucy Kiama, Christopher Mikkelsen, Caroline Njeri, Mikkel Hansen |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 'Identity unknown': migrant deaths at sea |
Political unrest in North Africa has led to a resurgence in irregular migration to Europe and an increase in migrant deaths at sea, yet there is still no framework for identifying those who die or recording their numbers. |
Stefanie Grant |
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FMR 38 Protracted internal displacement: is local integration a solution? |
Recent research in six countries in Africa, Europe and Latin America highlights a range of factors that may help or hinder integration. |
Elizabeth Ferris, Kate Halff |
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FMR 39 The bittersweet return home |
Migrants left Libya in haste and in fear for their lives. A rapid international response saved lives and facilitated the return home but a premature return may have some unwelcome repercussions. |
Asmita Naik, Frank Laczko |
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FMR 38 Refugees enjoy freedom to surf in Uganda |
Refugees enjoy freedom to surf in Uganda. |
Angella Nabwowe-Kasule |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 Country of Origin Information: old problems, modern solutions |
The current multitude of sources of information paradoxically renders access to good quality Country of Origin Information for refugee status determination procedures quite cumbersome. |
Marco Formisano |
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FMr 38 Forgotten and unattended: refugees in post-earthquake Japan |
Refugees and asylum seekers suffered restrictions on movement, increased impoverishment and shortage of essential information. |
Katsunori Koike |
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FMR 39 Broadening our perspective |
Broadening our perspective, remarks from the IOM Director General. |
William Lacy Swing |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 From the local community in Colombia into cyberspace |
From the local community in Colombia into cyberspace. |
Juan David Gómez-Quintero |
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FMR 38 Making online connections |
Internet-based technologies are changing the way refugees are able to remain connected to their origins while adjusting to life in a new country. |
Jennifer Flemming |
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FMR 38 New technologies always an improvement? |
New technologies always an improvement? |
LIsbeth Pilegaard |
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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 |
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| North Africa and displacement (Forced Migration Review 39) |
FMR 39 Legal protection frameworks |
The large-scale displacement associated with the recent popular uprisings in North Africa both reinforces and challenges the role of legal protection mechanisms. |
Tamara Wood |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 Android phones for mosquito net surveys |
Android phones for mosquito net surveys. |
Sarah Hoibak, Marian Schilperoord |
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| The technology issue (Forced Migration Review 38) |
FMR 38 Sharing sensitive data on forced migrants |
Can a collaborative web-platform for sharing critical demographic information about displaced people improve delivery and response? |
Prisca Benelli, Alessandro Guarino, Jen Ziemke |
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FMR 38 Language training in the Czech Republic |
Language skills are crucial for the integration of refugees into the local community. In the Czech Republic, all persons granted international protection have the legal right to language tuition but there are shortcomings in provision. |
Markéta Bačáková |
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FMR 39 Positive lessons from the Arab Spring |
Positive lessons from the Arab Spring. |
António Guterres |
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| Biology - Organisms Lectures |
Organisms Lecture 3: What have Plants done for us? |
Third lecture in Professor Tim Walker's Organisms lecture series in which he looks at what plants have contributed to human existence. |
Tim Walker |
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| NDM Units |
Structural Genomics Consortium Oxford |
Meet our Structural Genomics Consortium. |
Wen Hwa Lee |
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