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Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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.

Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

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

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

Excision, Exclusion and Exile: Australia's Refugee Policy and Responsibility Shifting in the Asia-Pacific

Dr Michelle Foster, Melbourne Law School

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Detention and deportation (Forced Migration Review 44)

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.

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