Archive for March, 2010

Hidden Voices: Urban Refugees [video]

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Hidden Voices: Urban Refugees is a video produced by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and MediaServe International. The short film highlights the daily struggles facing thousands of urban refugees living in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi. In their own words, the refugees tell of how they face poverty, harassment and violence as they make their way in the urban environment.

The video illustrates the many issues highlighted in a IRC new report – Hidden and Exposed: Urban Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya.

Hidden Voices: Urban Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya from International Rescue Committee on Vimeo.

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“Self-help” among Tibetan Refugees

Friday, March 26th, 2010

A new collection of photographs, focusing on Tibetan refugees in the Indian town of Darjeeling, is now available to view in the FMO photo gallery.

Darjeeling is host to one of the oldest refugee centres in the Tibetan Diaspora. This collection of photos focuses on the work of Darjeeling’s Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre (TRSHC).

Unlike the rehabilitation strategy for the permanent agricultural settlements in Southern India, the TRSHC began with the idea that no refugee could ever be rehabilitated in the fullest sense of the word without “Self-Help”.

The photographs in this collection were originally published in the article ‘Organizing for exile! “Self-Help” among Tibetan refugees in an Indian town‘ by Sudeep Basu, Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion, National Law School of India University.

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Refugee Participation Network

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Archived issues of the ‘Refugee Participation Network’ are now available from the Forced  Migration Online digital library.

The Refugee Participation Network (predecessor to the current  Forced Migration Review) aimed to provide a forum for the regular exchange of practical experience, information and ideas between people working with refugees, researchers and refugees themselves.

Published between 1987 and 1997 by the Refugees Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, issues focus on topics such as: communities, protection, the role of the military, children, the elderly, and international organizations.

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