THEMIS: Flexible ethnography for practice stories of migration: (Elite?) migrants in Asia |
Katherine Botterill presents her paper 'Flexible ethnography for practice stories of migration' co-authored by Karen O'Reiilly and Rob Stone in Parallel session I(C) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 |
Katherine Botterill |
20 January, 2014 |
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THEMIS: A life-course perspective on mobility trajectories and migrant networks among Senegalese migrants |
Eleonora Castagnone and Sorana Toma presents their paper 'A life-course perspective on mobility trajectories and migrant networks' in Parallel session I(C) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 |
Eleonora Castagnone, Sorana Toma |
20 January, 2014 |
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THEMIS: Life paths of migrants: A sequence analysis of Polish labour migrants' family-life trajectories |
Tom Kleinepier presents his paper 'Life paths of migrants', co-authored by Helga de Valk and Ruben van Gaalen in Parallel session I(C) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 |
Tom Kleinepier |
20 January, 2014 |
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THEMIS: Online feedback in migration systems |
Rianne Dekker presents her paper 'Online feedback in migration systems', co-authored by Godfried Engbersen in Parallel session I(B) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 |
Rianne Dekker |
20 January, 2014 |
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THEMIS: Female migration and intergenerational relationships: the use of ICTs by Brazilian migrant women in the United Kingdom |
Tania Tonhati presents her paper 'Female migration and intergenerational relationships: The use of ICTs by Brazilian migrant women in the UK' in Parallel session I(B) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 |
Tania Tonhati |
20 January, 2014 |
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THEMIS: Worldwide@home: transnational networks in the Digital Age |
Maren Borkert presents her paper 'Worldwide@home: transnational networks in the Digital Age' in Parallel session I(B) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 |
Maren Borkert |
20 January, 2014 |
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THEMIS: The (changing) role of family among Afghan communities in Britain and Germany |
Carolin Fischer presents her paper 'The (changing) role of family among Afghan communities in Britain and Germany' in Parallel session I(D) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 |
Carolin Fischer |
16 January, 2014 |
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THEMIS: The complexity of migration: life-strategies of migrant family members and families |
Thomas Geisen presents his paper 'The complexity of migration: life-strategies of migrant family members and families' in Parallel session I(D) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 |
Thomas Giesen |
16 January, 2014 |
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The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems |
Discussion of dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge the power relations which inform information society strategies and actions. |
Robin Mansell |
16 January, 2014 |
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ICTs, Innovation and Regulation in the Somali Territories |
A seminar exploring technology and regulation in the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa. Despite weak or non-existent government institutions, innovation has flourished with local solutions to local challenges. |
Abdirashid Duale |
16 January, 2014 |
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Humanitarian campaigns in social media: network architectures and Kony 2012 as a polymedia event |
An assessment of the optimism surrounding the opportunities that social media offer for humanitarian action, drawing on analysis of the phenomenally popular and controversial Kony 2012 campaign. |
Mirca Madianou |
16 January, 2014 |
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Disjunctures and Connections: Case Studies of How Techno-politics Make and Cut Networks |
In a development context, the ways in which new media objects (eg ICTs) are defined in relation to other objects, people and institutions map out new figurations of power and connection, that revalue and recombine political agency. |
Don Slater |
16 January, 2014 |
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Development 2.0 and beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013 |
Dr Thompson addresses some of the opportunities and contradictions presented by ICT4D and considers some emerging ways in which ICT4D researchers may contribute to the field. |
Mark Thompson |
16 January, 2014 |
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FMR 44 Freedom of movement of Afghan refugees in Iran |
Although legally justifiable, increasing restrictions on movement and work for refugees in Iran have detrimental effects for the refugees. |
Farshid Farzin, Safinaz Jadali |
4 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Insights from the refugee response in Cameroon |
The integration of Central African refugees into existing Cameroonian communities has had far-reaching development impacts on the region and the state as a whole. |
Angela Butel |
4 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 UNHCR in Uganda: better than its reputation suggests |
Mistrust and fear abound among Rwandan refugees in Uganda. The dearth of information available about cessation urgently needs to be addressed by UNHCR. |
Will Jones |
4 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Post-deportation monitoring: why, how and by whom? |
The monitoring of refused asylum seekers post-deportation is critical to effective protection. |
Leana Podeszfa, Friederike Vetter |
4 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Deportation of South Sudanese from Israel |
Israel's aggressive campaign of arrest and deportation of South Sudanese asylum seekers contravenes the principle of non-refoulement and international standards for voluntary, dignified return. |
Laurie Lijnders |
4 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Assisted voluntary return schemes |
While AVR is clearly preferable to deportation, NGOs and academics alike have criticised these schemes for being misleadingly labelled and lacking genuine voluntariness. |
Anne Koch |
4 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Shortcomings in assistance for deported Afghan youth |
Programmes to assist deported Afghan youth to reintegrate on their return are failing miserably. There needs to be much greater awareness of what it is like for them when they return, and of good practice in implementing such programmes. |
Nassim Majidi |
4 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 No longer a child: from the UK to Afghanistan |
Young Afghans forced to return to Kabul having spent formative years in the UK encounter particular risks and lack any tailored support on their return. |
Catherine Gladwell |
4 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 State reluctance to use alternatives to detention |
States continue to show a marked reluctance to implement alternatives to immigration detention. The reason for this may well be because such alternatives ignore the disciplinary function of detention by which states coerce people into cooperation. |
Clément de Senarclens |
4 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Questions over alternatives to detention programmes |
Alternative to detention programmes may be less restrictive and less expensive than formal detention but they may still have drawbacks. The provision of competent legal advice appears to be key to low rates of absconding. |
Stephanie J Silverman |
4 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Flawed assessment process leads to under-use of alternatives in Sweden |
Sweden is often held up as following 'best practice' in legislation with regard to detention and alternatives to detention but research by the Swedish Red Cross highlights a number of flaws. |
Maite Zamacona |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Community detention in Australia: a more humane way forward |
A group of Australian advocates lobbied successfully for the implementation of community detention as a viable, humane alternative, giving asylum seekers an opportunity to engage in a more meaningful existence. |
Catherine Marshall, Suma Pillai, Louise Stack |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Alternatives to detention: open family units in Belgium |
Preliminary outcomes of an alternative to detention programme in Belgium, based on case management and individual 'coaches' for families, are positive and merit consideration by other countries. |
Liesbeth Schockaert |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 New models for alternatives to detention in the US |
While there is growing recognition of the value of community-based alternatives to detention in the US, shortfalls in funding and political will are hindering implementation of improved services and best practice. |
Megan Bremer, Kimberly Haynes, Nicholas Kang, Michael D Lynch, Kerri Socha |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Alternatives to detention in the UK: from enforcement to engagement? |
The UK detains migrants on a large scale, and has had limited success in developing alternatives. The British experience highlights the need for a cultural shift towards engagement with migrants in place of reliance on enforcement. |
Jerome Phelps |
3 October, 2013 |
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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 |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Thinking outside the fence |
The way in which we think about detention can shape our ability to consider the alternatives. What is needed is a shift in thinking away from place-based control and towards risk assessment, management and targeted enforcement. |
Robyn Sampson |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Immigration detention: looking at the alternatives |
Endangering the health and well-being of people by detaining them is unnecessary; governments can instead use community-based alternatives that are more dignified for migrants and more cost-effective for states. |
Philip Amaral |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Do higher standards of detention promote well-being? |
Sweden is generally considered to have high standards of immigrant detention. Irrespective of the high standards life in detention still poses a huge threat to the health and wellbeing of detained irregular migrants. |
Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil, Beth Maina-Ahlberg, Magdalena Bjerneld |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Women: the invisible detainees |
Research by the Women's Refugee Commission into immigration detention of women in the US explores why and how differences in treatment between men and women in detention matter. |
Michelle Brané, Lee Wang |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 A last resort in cases of wrongful detention and deportation in Africa |
Where this is no viable forum to address human rights violations by African states, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights will consider such violations. |
Matthew C Kane, Susan F Kane |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Detention in Kenya: risks for refugees and asylum seekers |
Refugees and asylum seekers detained in Kenya risk multiple convictions and protracted detention due to poor coordination between immigration officials, police and prison officers. |
Lucy Kiama, Dennis Likule |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Detention of women: principles of equality and non-discrimination |
International principles of equality and non-discrimination must be applied to the UK's immigration detention system, which at present fails to meet even the minimum standards which apply in prisons. |
Ali McGinley |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Security rhetoric and detention in South Africa |
The South Africa example is instructive in demonstrating both the limits and the dangers of the increasing reliance on detention as a migration management tool. |
Roni Amit |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 New European standards |
On 29 June 2013 the amended 'Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast)' became law. |
Dersim Yabasun |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Threats to liberty in Germany |
Those seeking asylum in Germany face fast-track assessments, risk of immediate detention and deportation, and lengthy stays in 'communal shelters' scattered throughout Germany. |
Jolie Chai |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Closed detention in the Czech Republic: on what grounds? |
Despite relatively good conditions in the Czech Republic's closed detention facilities, serious questions should be asked about the justification for detention. |
Beata Szakacsova |
3 October, 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 |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 A return to the Pacific Solution |
Over the last 50 years, Australian governments have introduced a range of measures that seek to deter asylum seekers. Current practice sees asylum seekers once again detained in offshore detention in neighbouring countries. |
Fiona McKay |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Be careful what you wish for |
Can the promotion of liberal norms have an unintended and damaging impact on how states confront the challenges of irregular immigration? |
Michael Flynn |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Detention monitoring newly established in Japan |
Recently established monitoring committees in Japan are opening new channels of communication and opportunities for improvements in detention facilities. |
Naoko Hashimoto |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 No change: foreigner internment centres in Spain |
Draft regulations for the running of Spain's Foreigner Internment Centres fall far short of the hopes and demands of those campaigning for better guarantees of the rights of detainees. |
Cristina Manzanedo |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Captured childhood |
States should develop alternatives to immigration detention to ensure that children are free to live in a community-based setting throughout the resolution of their immigration status. |
David Corlett |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 The impact of immigration detention on children |
States often detain children without adequate attention to international law and in conditions that can be inhumane and damaging. Asylum-seeking and refugee children must have their rights protected. |
Alice Farmer |
3 October, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Health at risk in immigration detention facilities |
Since 2004 Médecins Sans Frontières has provided medical and psychosocial support for asylum seekers and migrants held in different immigration detention facilities across Europe. |
Ioanna Kotsioni, Aurelie Ponthieu, Stella Egidi |
3 October, 2013 |
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Mammo Muchie. NSI to IDS - From the National System of Innovation to an African National Innovation and Development System (IDS). |
Mammo Muchie, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Special Panel Session: Innovation in Low Income Countries. Part of the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
Mammo Muchie |
26 September, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Voices from inside Australia's detention centres |
At the heart of the asylum debate in Australia there is little sense of the individual in question. People who had previously been asylum seekers in immigration detention express in their own words the impact that detention had on them. |
Melissa Phillips |
25 September, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Establishing arbitrariness |
There is no understanding of what the term "arbitrary" entails; understanding it requires awareness of the different factors affecting how individual deprivations of liberty are examined and understood. |
Stephen Phillips |
25 September, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Psychological harm and the case for alternatives |
Studies in countries around the world have consistently found high levels of psychiatric symptoms among imprisoned asylum seekers, both adults and children. |
Janet Cleveland |
25 September, 2013 |
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FMR 44 Detention under scrutiny |
UNHCR's new detention guidelines challenge governments to rethink their detention policies and to consider alternatives to detention in every case. |
Alice Edwards |
25 September, 2013 |
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FMR 44 From the editors |
From the editors. |
The editors |
25 September, 2013 |
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Best Paper Award Ceremony, 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
The 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Best Paper Award Ceremony. Chaired by Professor Andrew Hamilton, Vice Chancellor, Oxford University. |
Andrew Hamilton, Xiaolan Fu, Jian Gao |
23 September, 2013 |
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Policy Dynamics and Institutional Dysfunctions in Public Agricultural Research and Innovation. |
George Owusu Essegbey, Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Ghana. Special Panel Session: Innovation in Low Income Countries. Part of the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
George Owusu Essegbey |
23 September, 2013 |
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Innovation Under the Radar in Low Income Countries: Evidence from Ghana. |
Giacomo Zanello, Oxford University. Special Panel Session: Innovation in Low Income Countries. Part of the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
Giacomo Zanello |
23 September, 2013 |
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Yves Doz. The Transformation from Imitation to Innovation in Emerging Economies |
Yves Doz, INSEAD, addresses the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
Yves Doz |
23 September, 2013 |
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Ludovico Alcorta. The Transformation from Imitation to Innovation in Emerging Economies. |
Ludovico Alcorta, UNIDO, addresses the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
Ludovico Alcorta |
23 September, 2013 |
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David Kaplan. The Transformation from Imitation to Innovation in Emerging Economies |
David Kaplan, University of Cape Town, addresses the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
David Kaplan |
23 September, 2013 |
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Xiaolan Fu. The Transformation from Imitation to Innovation in Emerging Economies. |
Xiaolan Fu, Oxford University, addresses the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
Xiaolan Fu |
23 September, 2013 |
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Anne Miroux. Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Inclusive and Sustainable Development. |
Anne Miroux, UNCTAD, addresses the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
Anne Miroux |
23 September, 2013 |
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Luc Soete. Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Inclusive and Sustainable Development. |
Luc Soete, Maastricht University, addresses the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
Luc Soete |
23 September, 2013 |
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Calestous Juma. Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Inclusive and Sustainable Development. |
Calestous Juma, Harvard University, addresses the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. |
Calestous Juma |
23 September, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Understanding refugees' concepts of sexual and gender-based violence |
Sexual and gender-based violence prevention campaigns that incorporate culturally sensitive understanding will stand a better chance of breaking down barriers to accessing services. |
Carrie Hough |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Emergency need for telecommunications support |
The Haiti experience challenged the international humanitarian community to take advantage of the possibilities of increasingly available and common communications technologies and networks, and to ensure access to the infrastructure enabling it to do so. |
Marianne Donven, Mariko Hall |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Poetry as women's resistance to the consequences of Bedouin displacement in Jordan |
Bedouin women are able to mitigate some of the consequences of that displacement through the opportunities and influence they have gained as Nabati poets. |
Maira Seeley |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Older people and displacement |
At all phases of the displacement cycle, flight, displacement and return, older people are exposed to specific challenges and risks which are not sufficiently taken into account. |
Piero Calvi-Parisetti |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Harming asylum seekers' chances through poor use of human rights treaties |
Over the past decade, UK courts and administrative tribunals have become increasingly comfortable relying on international human rights treaties in cases where non-citizens claim asylum or other means of protection from persecution. |
Stephen Meili |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Trails of Tears: raising awareness of displacement |
Trails of Tears have arisen to draw attention and give legitimacy to multiple movements for fairness and justice, hoping to create a community of support strong enough to rectify a past injustice or prevent a future one. |
Ken Whalen |
9 August, 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 |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Crisis in Lebanon: camps for Syrian refugees? |
Lebanon has absorbed the enormous Syrian influx but at a high cost to both refugees and Lebanese populations. Current humanitarian programmes can no longer cope and new approaches are needed. |
Jeremy Loveless |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 State fragility, displacement and development interventions |
The development approach to displacement brings advantages not only in addressing the needs of refugees, IDPs and host communities but also in helping societies tackle the underlying aspects of fragility that may have caused the displacement. |
Yonatan Araya |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Psychiatric treatment with people displaced in or from fragile states |
Psychiatrists working to assess psychological distress and mental health in fragile states, or with refugees from fragile states, need to adopt flexible approaches. |
Verity Buckley |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Displacement in a fragile Iraq |
The post-Saddam Iraqi state enjoys only limited support from the population, excludes significant sections of its people from power, suppresses the opposition and does not protect citizens from arbitrary arrests, and corruption is rampant. |
Ali A K Ali |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Was establishing new institutions in Iraq to deal with displacement a good idea? |
The humanitarian, developmental and political consequences of decades of mass forced migration are part of the legacy that the current political leaders of Iraq need to address. |
Peter Van der Auweraert |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 The curious case of North Korea |
Displacement and distress migration within and outside North Korea may be an indicator of state fragility but a reduction in numbers should not necessarily be read as a sign of improving conditions there. |
Courtland Robinson |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Data quality and information management in DRC |
Forced migration creates special challenges to collecting data and monitoring responses in fragile states where infrastructure and systems are weak or non-existent. |
Janet Ousley, Lara Ho |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Refugees from Central American gangs |
El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are largely ignored by refugee agencies who underestimate transnational criminal organisation' abuses and powers of control, while overestimating national governments' ability and willingness to protect their citizens. |
Elizabeth G Kennedy |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Networked governance in Ecuador's border regions |
In order to improve security for both Colombian forced migrants and Ecuadorians, an approach that takes advantage of governance networks can allow residents to negotiate access to resources and rights that they otherwise would not be able to enjoy. |
Lana Balyk, Jeff Pugh |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Surviving the odds: education, commerce and development among displaced Somalis |
Private entrepreneurship and the disapora play important roles in supporting displaced people in fragile ungoverned situations. They are also valuable in helping those situations emerge from fragility. |
Abdirashid Duale |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Flight, fragility and furthering stability in Yemen |
Yemen is one of the world's most fragile states. Less well understood is how this context affects the vulnerability of refugees, IDPs and migrants themselves and what can be done to strengthen protection for them. |
Erin Mooney |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Humanitarian responses in the protection gap |
Often a combination of factors pushes people to leave their country, and the voluntary character of their departure remains debatable, challenging humanitarians both to meet needs and to adapt to changing categories of forced displacement. |
Aurelie Ponthieu, Katharine Derderian |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Post-disaster Haitian migration |
Those who left Haiti in the chaotic aftermath of the 2010 earthquake did not generally find the same posture of solidarity and humanitarianism overseas that was apparent in the significant international assistance that followed the disaster. |
Diana Thomaz |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 The 'phantom state' of Haiti |
The fragile nature of the state had turned emigration into a major feature of Haitian life even before the earthquake displaced hundreds of thousands of people. |
Andreas E Feldmann |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 The displaced claiming their rights in fragile states |
To date, displaced persons in fragile and conflict-affected states have had little success in claiming their rights for housing, land and property violations. Creative legal thinking and strategic litigation has the potential to change this. |
Antonia Mulvey |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Can Refugee Cessation be seen as a proxy for the end of state fragility? |
The cessation of refugee status results from a judgment that a sufficient change has occurred in the refugees' country of origin that they no longer require international protection. |
Georgia Cole |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 'Everyone for themselves' in DRC's North Kivu |
While the international donor community has been trying to engage with DRC by partnering with the government to implement the New Deal for Aid Effectiveness for Fragile States, communities in DRC. |
Luisa Ryan, Dominic Keyzer |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Repeated displacement in eastern DRC |
The provision of some basic assistance in places to which people flee makes this process slightly easier but in the absence of state-led protection, multiple displacement has become a defining feature of the Kivu conflict. |
Fran Beytrison, Olivia Kalis |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Fragile states, collective identities and forced migration |
Governance and the rule of law should be vital considerations in attempts to deal with forced migration in fragile states such as DRC. |
Kelly Staples |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Fragile states and protection under the 1969 African Refugee Convention |
Current practice in African states highlights both the potential and the limitations of the 1969 African Refugee Convention in providing protection to persons displaced from fragile states. |
Tamara Wood |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Peace villages for repatriates to Burundi |
Burundi's peace villages, which are intended both as models for reintegration and as centres of economic development, have encountered a number of problems which are related to the country's continued fragility as a state. |
Jean-Benoît Falisse, René Claude Niyonkuru |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 application/pdf iconPDF audio/mpeg iconMP3 Liberia: local politics, state building and reintegration of populations |
Interventions aiming to assist IDPs and refugees returning home in fragile states would do well to take note of the local political and economic contexts in the aftermath of war, because these deeply affect the reintegration of war-affected populations. |
Jairo Munive |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 Displaced populations and their effects on regional stability |
A better understanding of state fragility, combined with improvements in policy and funding for displaced populations, is necessary to prevent the proliferation of further regional conflicts. |
Joe Landry |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 How to engage constructively with fragile states |
Donors have allocated increasing resources in fragile states to the reform and/or rebuilding of the architecture of the state, such as justice systems, the police and army, and the management of ministries in efforts to support stability. |
Jon Bennett |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 State fragility, refugee status and "survival migration" |
State fragility demands the protection of people fleeing the omissions of states, whether due to states' unwillingness or to their inability to provide for their citizens' fundamental rights. |
Alexander Betts |
9 August, 2013 |
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FMR 43 From the Editors |
From the editors. |
The editors |
9 August, 2013 |
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Emigration from Central and Eastern Europe: Origin Country Perspectives |
WELFARE SYSTEMS AS EMIGRATION FACTOR: EVIDENCE FROM THE NEW ACCESSION STATES presented by Lucia Kurekova (Central European University, Budapest) |
Lucia Kurekova |
29 May, 2013 |
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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 |
10 May, 2013 |
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FMR 42 LGBT aid workers: deployment dilemmas |
LGBT aid workers and their managers confront a number of dilemmas in deciding whether LGBT staff will be safe - and accepted - working in certain countries. |
Anon |
10 May, 2013 |
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