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Publications: Children & Conflict, Climate, Minority Groups, Public Health, Repatriation/Rwanda, Weak States via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog February 27th, 2008 at 15:40

Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration: Addressing Vulnerabilities and Harnessing Opportunities - Background Paper (IOM & Greek Chairmanship of the Human Security Network, Feb. 2008) [text] Getting it Done and Doing it Right: A Global Study on the United Nations-led Monitoring & Reporting Mechanism on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, Jan....

Publications: Armed Conflict, Asylum/EU, Children, Climate, Environment/Tanzania, Humanitarian Action, Reintegration/Angola via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog February 2nd, 2008 at 13:00

Better outcomes: the way forward, improving the care of unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UK Home Office, Jan. 2008) [text] Children and armed conflict: report of the Secretary-General, A/62/609–S/2007/757 (UN General Assembly, Security Council, Dec. 2007) [text] Climate change and forced migration, New Issues in Refugee Research no. 153 (UNHCR, Jan. 2008) [text] The Externalisation of...

Environmental Refugees via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog August 10th, 2007 at 16:30

Discussions about climate change have invariably renewed the debate about "environmental refugees." I have collected a number of random references to various resources on this topic. Some are recent publications, some provide background information. The list is definitely not comprehensive. Reports: Climate Change and Forced Displacements: Towards a Global Environmental Responsibility? (CEDEM,...

Research News: Displacement/Burma, Environment, Human Trafficking/UK, Iraqi Ref./Jordan, Protracted Ref. Situations, Resettlement/US, Security via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog March 6th, 2007 at 01:55

New research publications:Burma: The Changing Nature of Displacement Crises, RSC Working Paper No. 39, by A. South (Feb. 2007) [text]Contemporary slavery in the UK, by G. Craig et al, Joseph Roundtree Foundation (Feb. 2007) [site]Human Security Research (22 Feb. 2007) [access]- Current issue focuses on the security realities confronting humanitarian aid workers."Refugee Resettlement in Metropolitan America," by A. Singer and J.H. Wilson, in Migration Information Source (March 2007) [text]New research projects:Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios [web site]- Two-year project that will look into environmental changes/degradation that cause forced migration. Unlike other research, this study will consider "multiple environmental problems and socio-political and demographical...