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Forced Migration Review: Urban Displacement

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Issue 34 of Forced Migration Review (FMR) is now available in the digital library. This issue focuses on the topic of “Urban Displacement”.

Articles explore the complexity of the challenges faced by those displaced into urban areas and by those seeking to protect and assist them, and argue for the need for a radical rethinking of approaches by the international community.

The issue also includes a spotlight on Haiti and the use of standards to shape response and recovery after the earthquake in January, plus a selection of articles on subjects such as Mauritania, South Africa, Timor-Leste, Colombia, Pakistan, the new Kampala Convention, family separation in the UK, cross-border mobility of Iraqi refugees, and maternal mortality among conflict-affected populations.

FMR is also published in French, Spanish and Arabic.

Forced Migration Online’s latest resource summary, which complements FMR 34, is also available to view online. It provides links to key resources, websites and documents exploring contemporary debate on these issues, as well as links to wider issues concerned with human rights and displacement.

Full Issue

Resource Summary

Individual Articles

Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Photograph of Iraqi refugee couple. Cairo, Egypt, 2008 Photo: Joshua van Praag.

The film ‘Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out’ is now available to view online. The documentary looks at the lives of six Iraqi families who have been forced to flee their homes and are now living as refugees in the massive urban sprawl of Cairo. As the years pass by, their situations are becoming increasingly desperate, with little or no rights in their country of first asylum.

UPDATE: Visit iraqisinegypt.org for the latest media releases, films, podcasts and more.

IASFM 11 Conference: Plenary 5 Podcast

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Photograph of John Nassari, Martin Jones, Susan Martin, Barbara Harrell-Bond, Richard Black and Susan McGrath. Cairo, January 2008. Photo: Paolo Luca.

The final podcast in the series recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) is now available online.

The fifth plenary event began with a commemoration of the Journal of Refugee Studies’ 20th Anniversary by Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond and Richard Black, followed by a review of the conference by IASFM 11 Rapporteur John Nassari. The video review of the event is also available on this blog.

IASFM 11 Conference: Plenary 4 Podcast

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Photograph of Eftihia Voutira, Mehmet Yashin, Stephanos Stephanides, Giorgia Donna, Elzbieta Gozdziak, Arild Birkenes and Zachary Lomo. Cairo, January 2008. Photo: Forced Migration Online/John Pilbeam.

The latest podcast in a series recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) is now available online.

The fourth plenary event began with poetry readings by Mehmet Yashin and Stephanos Stephanides, followed by a panel discussion ‘The Voices of the Displaced in Forced Migration Research’ chaired by Elzbieta Gozdziak, with Eftihia Voutira, Giorgia Donna, Arild Birkenes and Zachary Lomo as the panelists.

IASFM 11 Conference: Plenary 3 Podcast

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Photograph of Susan Martin, Aicha Belarbi, Ahmet Icduygu, Mark Schlakman, Susan Kneebone, and Jeffrey Crisp at the third plenary event of IASFM 11. Cairo, January 2008. Photo: Forced Migration Online/John Pilbeam.

The latest podcast in a series recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) is now available online.

The third plenary event included a panel discussion ‘Regions at the Crossroads: Transregional Forced Migration’ chaired by Susan Martin, with presentations by Mark Schlakman, Aicha Belarbi, Jeffrey Crisp and Ahmet Icduygu and Susan Kneebone.

IASFM 11 Conference: Plenary 2 Podcast

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Photograph of UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd. Cairo, January 2008. Photo: Forced Migration Online/John Pilbeam.

The latest podcast in a series recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) is now available online.

The second plenary event began with the keynote address ‘Palestine refugees in the contemporary context: a view from UNRWA’ by Karen Abu Zayd, Commissioner General of UNRWA, followed by a panel discussion ‘The situation of refugees in the Middle East’ chaired by Maysa Ayoub, and including Helen Young, Patricia Fagen and Shahira Samy.

IASFM 11 Conference: Plenary 1 Podcast

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Photograph of Ray Jureidini, Philippe Fargues and Nancy Baron at the first plenary event of IASFM 11. Cairo, January 2008. Photo: Paolo Luca.

FMO has launched the first of a series of podcasts recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), held in Cairo between January 6th and 10th 2008. The 11th IASFM conference was hosted by the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program of the American University in Cairo. A large proportion of those attending and giving presentations were researchers and practitioners from the global South. The FMO team made audio recordings of the conference’s plenary sessions. The further details about the conference can be accessed on the FMO event page.

IASFM 11 Conference

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Between January 6th and 10th 2008, the 11th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference was hosted by the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program of the American University in Cairo. The Forced Migration Online team attended to participate and record audio at the plenary events for the FMO podcast series. Details of the podcasts have been posted on this blog.

Our conference round-up begins with a video review of the event produced by the IASFM rapporteur John Nassari. The video is a part of the rapporteur’s conference report, along with a more traditional oral report which was delivered in the final plenary session of the conference. The video report features participants reading quotes which were originally spoken by others during the conference.

Forced Migration Online Podcast 1: Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Photo of Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond. Oxford, August 2007.

In this podcast Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond and Prof Roger Zetter discuss the evolution of the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) and of the academic field of refugee studies or forced migration studies. As the founding former director of the RSC and the current director respectively, and with a long shared history of collaboration since the centre was established, Harrell-Bond and Zetter are well placed to discuss its early years and the changes it has undergone. In this conversation, they also talk about the current state of refugee protection and the asylum process, and examine the responses of the international community, particularly UNHCR.