Resources
Published: 13 Oct 2016
TRAC Immigration Project on US federal immigration enforcement
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data gathering, research and distribution organisation at Syracuse University in New York. TRAC’s Immigration Project is a multi-year programme that aims to systematically request detailed information from the US government on its immigration enforcement activities, check its veracity, and make it available to the American people, US Congress, immigration groups and others in easily understandable formats. Reports on a range of immigration enforcement topics are currently available, and studies on the granting of affirmative asylum and the workings of the immigration courts are under development. TRAC wishes to extend an invitation to scholars, media ,the general public and other interested individuals and organisations to contact them with comments and suggestions, for example to suggest topics in need of improved coverage, possible data sources and so on.
“Refugee Crisis in Europe” on UNHCR’s Global Focus portal
The “Refugee Crisis in Europe” page is now available via Global Focus, UNHCR’s main operational reporting portal for donors and other key partners. The page hosts UNHCR updates on refugee movements into and within Europe, information on European operational and policy responses, and on emergency funding sources and levels. The broader Global Focus site provides an overview of global protection risks and regularly updated information on UNHCR programmes, operations, funding needs and donor contributions. Additionally, updates on the emergency response in the Mediterranean, including latest arrival data, are available at UNHCR’s Information Sharing Portal.
Resource Person for Victims of Accusations of Witchcraft for the Rights in Exile Programme
The persecution of those accused of being witches continues today in communities around the globe, and is particularly prevalent in Africa. Accusations of witchcraft are grounds for asylum, and as Resource Person for Victims of Accusations of Witchcraft at the Rights in Exile Programme, Dr. Jean La Fontaine, can provide assistance in such cases. The Rights in Exile website provides various resources, including a brief introduction to this phenomenon and details of specialists on witchcraft and sorcery with experience in writing objective declarations for asylum cases relating to witchcraft accusations. Experts are based in several different countries, and can assist in cases originating from their home countries and others on which they have expertise.
Scaling the Refugee Summit: a free reading list from Oxford University Press
In honour of the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants, held on 19 September 2016, Oxford University Press has provided a reading list comprising Journal of Refugee Studies articles from selected as potentially of assistance in providing solutions for some of the most fundamental failings of the international protection regime. The reading list and the articles are available without charge via this OUP blog post.
New issue of Journal of Refugee Studies
The latest issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies includes pieces such as Measuring the Potential for Mass Displacement in Menacing Contexts; Unpredictability, Invisibility and Vulnerability: Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors’ Journeys to Australia; Socio-Economic Impact of the Crisis in Northern Mali on Displaced People; Organized Chaos: Informal Institution Building among Palestinian Refugees in the Maashouk Gathering in South Lebanon; Internal Displacement, the Camp and the Construction of Citizenship: Perspectives from Northern Uganda.
Refuge publishes a special issue on the Indochinese Refugee Movement
The current issue of Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees focuses on the Indochinese Refugee Movement and private sponsorship. Pieces include The Indochinese Refugee Movement and the Launch of Canada’s Private Sponsorship Program; A Case Study of the Vietnamese in Toronto: Contesting Representations of the Vietnamese in Canadian Social Work Literature; The Indochinese Refugee Movement and the Subsequent Evolution of UNHCR and Canadian Resettlement Selection Policies and Practices; and Private Sponsorship: Complementary or Conflicting Interests?