New Issues:
Development in Practice, vol. 18, nos. 4&5 (August 2008) [contents]
- Focus is on participatory research and gender analysis; includes a literature review.
Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, no. 39 [full-text]
- Features articles on the humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Migrations & Identities, vol. 1, no. 1 (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Calls...
Health and Human Rights, vol. 10, no. 1 (2008) [full-text]
- First issue in the newly-adopted open access format. Includes an article on promoting greater access to biomedical literature to meet the needs of people around the world who cannot afford the subscription costs generally associated with health and medical journals.
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 20, no. 2 (June 2008)...
It is clear that many of today's poor will simply stay poor, even if economic growth is sustained. They are caught in one or more of five poverty traps: insecurity of life or livelihood; weak citizenship status; living in a deprived area; experiencing social discrimination; or held back by poor quality work. The second international Chronic Poverty Report, launched next week, shows that the poorest can be included in progress. ...(read more)...
Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 16, no. 4 (2007) [contents]
- Theme is "The Migration and Development Prism: A Lens on Vulnerabilities and Capabilities."
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 23, no. 1 (Feb. 2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including one on "Australasian libraries in the emergency sector."
Disasters, vol. 32, no. 2 (June 2008) [contents]
- Mix of...
Development in Practice, vol. 18, no. 2 (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including one analyzing the international humanitarian relief system.
International Journal on Multicultural Societies, vol. 9, no. 2 (2007) [full-text]
- Special issue on "Migration and Integration in the Asia-Pacific Region."
International Migration Review, vol. 42, no. 1 (March 2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles,...
from the Center for Global DevelopmentHere is a link to a study from the Center for Global Development. What follows is a clip from the authors introduction:Michael Clemens and Lant PritchettIt is easy to learn the average income of a resident of El Salvador or Albania. But there is no systematic source of information on the average income of a Salvadoran or Albanian. In this new working paper, research fellow Michael Clemens and non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett create a new statistic: income per natural -- the mean annual income of persons born in a given country, regardless of where that person now resides. If income per capita has any interpretation as a welfare measure, exclusive focus on the nationally resident population can lead to substantial errors of the income of the natural...
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....
Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 17, no. 1 (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles including one on learning the lessons of disasters from the past 105 years.
Disasters, vol. 32, no. 1 (March 2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles including one on IDP women in Colombia.
European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 9, no. 4 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 30,...
AWR Bulletin, no. 3/2007 [contents - scroll down]
- Mix of articles with several focusing on asylum in the EU.
Conflict and Health (Dec. 2007) [full-text]
- Three new articles in Dec. 2007.
Conflict Trends, no. 3/2007 [full-text]
- Theme is "Peace Agreements."
Development in Practice, vol. 18, no. 1 (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
International Journal of Migration, Health and Social...
Today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released its 10th annual "Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories" for 2007. The stories focused on the situations in the Central African Republic, Chechnya, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe, as well as the problems of acute malnutrition and TB. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) noted...
The December 2007 issue of Refugees magazine has been published. Its theme is "Refugee or Migrant? Why It Matters." Both an HTML version and a PDF version of the magazine are available.
To coincide with the High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, the UNHCR web site recently launched a new sub-section which examines many of the same concerns addessed in the Refugees magazine...
Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 16, no. 5 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of disaster-related articles.
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 30, no. 6 (2007) [contents]
- Theme of this issue is "New Directions in the Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism."
International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 3, no. 2 (Oct. 2007) [contents, sample article]
- Mix of articles,...
11th European Country of Origin Information Seminar, Vienna, 21-22 June 2007, Country Reports (Nov. 2007) [access]
- Country reports published on Afghanistan and Iraq.
African Migration Workshop, Accra, Ghana, September 2007, Papers (Nov. 2007) [access]
- Abstracts/full-text papers in English and French.
Asylum Deaths: What to do Next (Institute of Race Relations, Nov. 2007) [access]
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Agriculture has been in and out of fashion over the last half century. In the 1950s and early 1960s, it was seen as secondary to manufacturing industry but by the mid 1960s, concerns over population growth and a world food crisis, and the promise of the miracle seeds of the green revolution, made it central to development. It found itself relegated again in the 1980s, as macro-economic concerns dominated. Since the turn of the Century, however, its stock has once again been rising. This is reflected most notably in the publishing of the World Development Report 2008, entitled ‘Agriculture for Development’, which confirms the importance of agriculture to development and the policy agenda ODI, and many others, have been developing for the past decade.The backgroundIn 2000 the Millennium...
African Journal on Conflict Resolution, vol. 7, no. 1 (2007) [full-text]
- Mix of articles, including "The Case against Taylor’s Asylum: A Review of Nigeria’s Domestic and International Legal Obligations."
Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 16, no. 3 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (28 Oct. 2007) [full-text]
- Two new articles posted: "Local and...
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Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 20 (Spring 2007) [full-text]
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 33, no. 8 (2007) [contents]
Migration Letters, vol. 4, no. 2 (Oct. 2007) [full-text]
- Special issue on "Migration and Human Security in the Balkans."
The Researcher, vol. 2, no. 3 (Sept. 2007) [full-text]
Torture Journal, vol. 17, no. 2 (2007) [full-text]
- Shared reports from the...
Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 16, no. 4 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 30, no. 5 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 9, no. 3 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Hommes et Migrations, no. 1266 (mars/avril 2007) [contents, selected full-text]
- Focus is on "Nouvelles figures de l’immigration en...
New Issues:
Disasters, vol. 31, no. 3 (Sept. 2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3 (August 2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (August 2007) [full-text]
- New article posted on humanitarianism and the Muslim world.
Refugees Magazine, no. 147 (August 2007) [full-text]
- Special issue on stateless people.
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AWR Bulletin: Quarterly on Refugee Problems, vol. 45, no. 2 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles including one on terrorisim and asylum in Europe.
International Migration Review, vol. 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (Aug. 2007) [text]
- Two new articles on the anthropology of humanitarianism and on systematic rape in Eastern Congo....
Development in Practice, vol. 17, nos. 4&5 (2007) [contents]
- Focus is on "Buzzwords and Fuzzwords: Deconstructing Development Discourse." Special development "lotto board" available here.
Human Rights Brief, vol. 14, no.3 (Spring 2007) [full-text]
- Includes focus on migration issues.
Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, no. 38 (June 2007) [full-text]
- Features articles on disaster risk...
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 22, no. 2 (May 2007) [full-text]
- Mix of articles.
Forced Migration Review, no. 28 (July 2007) [full-text]
- Focus is on Southern capacity-building. Also includes a range of articles on other topics.
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 21, no. 3 (Spring 2007) [contents]
- Includes articles on human trafficking, African refugee resettlement...
AWR Bulletin, vol. 45, no. 1 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including one on refugee protection and human rights.
Conflict, Security and Development, vol. 7, no. 2 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Development in Practice, vol. 17, no. 3 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 21, no. 2 (Winter 2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Global-e: A...
Conflict and Health (March 2007) [full-text]
- Open access journal with several new articles added in March.
European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 9, no. 1 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles including one on 'protection in regions of origin' and European asylum law.
Human Rights Brief, vol. 14, no. 2 (Winter 2007) [full-text]
- Mix of articles relating to international human rights......
AWR Bulletin, vol. 44, no. 4 (Dec. 2006) [contents]
- Mix of articles including one on harmonizing European asylum policy.
Conflict Trends, no. 1 (2007) [full-text]
- Focus is on parliaments and conflict resolution.
Development in Practice, vol. 17, no. 2 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles; an overview of the issue is provided in the editorial.
Disasters, vol. 31, no. 2 (June 2007)...
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A Comprehensive European Migration Policy (EU, May 2007) [text]
Forced Evictions - Towards Solutions? Second Report of the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions to the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT (AGFE, 2007) [text]
Human tide: the real migration crisis (Christian Aid, May 2007) [text]
International Human Rights Research Guide (GlobaLex, March 2007) [text]
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Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 15, no. 4 (2006) [contents]- Special issue focusing on "Sex Trafficking in Asia and Australia."Disasters, vol. 31, no. 1 (March 2007) [FREE full-text]- Special issue reproducing papers from June 2006 forum "on the use of food aid and the potential roles and activities of WFP in Sudan."Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 21, no. 1 (Fall 2006) [contents]- Mix of articles including one on detaining asylum-seekers in Australia and another on U.S. asylum and foreign policy considerations.Human Rights Tribune, vol. 12, no. 2 (Feb. 2007) [text]- Special issue on good governance.Migration Letters, vol. 4, no. 1 (2007) [text]- Mix of articles including several on women migrants.Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1 (2007) [contents]- EXCOM 2006...
I have come across several periodical titles that I was not previously familiar with. It’s interesting to see how the periodical format has evolved and the blurring of print and online versions. Start with the Journal of Migration and Refugee Issues: This is a typical scholarly journal, peer-reviewed and published by an academic press. Its web site offers contents and a sample article online, so no significant online presence.Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict is also a peer-reviewed journal but aimed more particularly at professionals and practitioners. It’s produced by the War Trauma Foundation and published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. The WTF's journal site includes contents of the current...
International Migrants Day, on the 18th of December, is usually marked by a number of international events to highlight the role of migrant workers in today’s globalised economy and draw attention to improving labour standards. However, the event passes unnoticed for those who have been championing the cause of internal migration. This is the migration of the poor who circulate in their millions between their villages and towns, plantations, agro-processing units, mines and quarries. Here there appears to be a serious mind block at the policy level. The dominant view in India, for example, is that migration is a symptom of rural distress. The costs – separation from families, increased drudgery for women left behind, risk of exposure to disease and missed school for accompanying...