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Photographs: The 27 February Camp

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:50:59 +0000

A new collection of photographs: “The 27 February Camp: Sahrawi refugees in Algeria” is now available on Forced Migration Online.

Approximately 155,000 Sahrawi refugees are currently distributed amongst four major refugee camps in South-Western Algeria, named after the main cities in the Western Sahara (Aaiun, Ausserd, Smara and Dakhla).

A fifth camp, the ’27 February Camp’, is relatively small, having grown up around the National Women’s School. This collection of photographs focuses on life in the 27 February Camp.

The photographs in this collection were kindly provided by Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Elena carried out fieldwork in the 27 February Camp between 2001 and 2009.

View the photographs

Forced Migration Discussion List

Sarah Taylor — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:45:00 +0000

The Forced Migration Discussion List (also known as the FMList) is an email-based community, moderated by staff at Forced Migration Online.

The List provides regular updates on major news, publications and events relating to forced migration.

We have recently printed a new batch of promotional cards (image above) to highlight this service. We would like to thank Cèsar Casellas, who was kind enough to let us use his striking photo of two Saharwi girls in Dakhla refugee camp in the Tindouf region of Algeria.

You can read more about the issues faced by refugees in Algeria in Forced Migration Online’s Algerian Resource Summary. You can also access a collection of photos focusing on the Saharwi people.

For more information about the Forced Migration Discussion List, or to subscribe, please visit Forced Migration Online.

Talk Together 2009

The Forced Migration Online Team — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:59:49 +0000

Talk Together 2009, an ambitious conflict resolution project taking place in Oxford August 5-19, will examine the situation facing an estimated 170,000 people living in refugee camps in Algeria and separated from their families in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. Participants include young people from across the conflict zone, some of whom have grown up in refugee camps, as well as students from ‘neutral’ countries. The project is supported by partners including the European Commission, British Council and United World College. The project course will be filmed and there are also plans to develop a school’s version of the film to aid the learning of conflict resolution skills in schools. Talk Together invite you to demonstrate your support by joining their Facebook group or following them on Twitter.

Podcast: Sahrawi Disappeared

The Forced Migration Online Team — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:41:15 +0000

This podcast was recorded between September 2002 and October 2007 in Algeria, Switzerland and the UK. The podcast includes comments from Philip Luther, Amnesty International, Christian Viret, BIRDHSO and Sidi Omar, Polisario representative to the UK and Ireland as well as former Sahrawi disappeared Daoud El Khadir and other Sahrawis with family members still missing.