Asylum Update 3rd February 2010
2 February 2010
Research
The Immigration Advisory Service has published a new report by Natasha Tsangarides: The Refugee Roulette: The role of country information in refugee status determination See also executive summary here
Staying: Dream, Bin, Soft Stud and Other Stories by Oreet Ashery brings together the stories of women who fled home countries such as Nigeria, Uganda and Jamaica for Britain due to their sexuality. Produced in collaboration with the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group.
Journal article: Optimal discretion in asylum lawmaking by Monheim-Helstroffer, J. and Obidzinski, M. in the International Review of Law and Economics Vol 30 No 1.
The All Wales NGO Children’s Policy Group, which includes the Welsh Refugee Council, has published a Child and adolescent mental health briefing
IRR Briefing Paper No. 5: Youth deaths: the reality behind the “knife crime” debate from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) deals among many other aspects with the vulnerability of refugees and new migrants to knife crime.
Submissions are invited for a special issue of an academic journal looking at Forced Migration and Mobilities Research. Contributions should analyse environmentally induced migration from a mobilities perspective.Deadline: 5 February. Email Nick Gill or Javier Caletrío at Lancaster University.
The Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford) has added seven new titles to its Working Papers Series including
- WP 55: Prima facie determination of refugee legal status: An overview of its legal foundation, Matthew Albert
- WP 56: Did 9/11 matter? Securitisation of asylum and migration in the European Union from 1992 to 2009, Dace Schlentz
- WP 57: The securitisation of asylum: Protecting UK residents, Joshua Seidman-Zager
- WP 58: Civilian protection in Sri Lanka under threat, Edward Benson, Bhavani Fonseka and Ambika Satkunanathan
- WP 59: From ethnic insiders to refugee outsiders: A community level ethnography of Greek Cypriot identity formation and transference since displacement, Rebecca Brubaker
Policy and law
Lord West of Spithead has confirmed to the House of Lords that during 2009 111 children were detained at Tinsley House immigration removal centre for more than 72 hours.
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has provided parliament with figures for charter flights removing immigration detainees and destinations. This week sees protests against the first Joint European Union Charter flight (‘Flight PVT-JEUC’) under the new scheme agreed at the EU summit in Brussels last year.
Events
Tuesday 9 February 2010: Refugee Council SMILE seminars, London. The Refugee Council’s SMILE (Supporting and Mentoring in Learning and Education) Project is running a series of seminars in February. For more information email Karla Mclaren
Resources
The Scottish Ethnic Minorities Directory is receiving entries for its next edition until February 28 2010. Email Positive Action in Housing for details.
The proceedings and podcasts of the international conference on 'Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives' held at the University of Oxford in January 2010 are now available on the conference blog
