Publications
Foreign Territory: The Internationalisation of EU Asylum Policy
by David McKeever, Jessica Schultz and Sophia Swithern. Oxfam GB. March2005. 131pp. ISBN 0-85598-577-7 (English edition). ISBN 0-85598-559-3 (French). £5.00. Available in English and French at www.oxfamgb.org/ukpp/resources/foreignterritory.htm
The politicisation of asylum-related issues and the desire to ‘manage migration’ are the forces behind a wave of new internationalised initiatives which include inadequate safeguards for refugee protection and are insufficiently informed by an understanding of the realities of their lives. Policy analysis is interwoven with original research into refugee realities in Sri Lanka, DRC and Tanzania. Includes agenda for action. Contact Oxfam Publishing, 274 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DZ, UK. Email publish@oxfam.org.uk
Addressing Internal Displacement: A Framework for National Responsibility
Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement. April 2005. 40pp. Free. Online at www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/20050401_nrframework.pdf
The Framework identifies the steps that governments should take to achieve an effective national response to internal displacement, and enables international organisations, regional bodies, national human rights institutions, civil society and the displaced themselves to evaluate the extent to which governments are exercising their national responsibility. Contact the Brookings-Bern Project at The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC 20036, US. www.brook.edu/fp/projects/idp/idp.htm Tel: +1 (202) 797 6489 Email: brookings-bern@brookings.edu
Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of the UN’s Guiding Principles
(Eds) Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury & Samir Kumar Das. Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group with the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement. Jan 2005. 364pp. ISBN 0-7619-3329-8. Free.
Examines displacement caused by conflict, natural disasters and development projects in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Additional focus on the impact of displacement on women and the application of the Guiding Principles to the South Asia region. Contact Brookings-Bern Project (see contact details above).
Rights in Exile: Janus-Faced Humanitarianismby Guglielmo Verdirame and Barbara Harrell-Bond. 2005. 480pp. ISBN 1-57181-527-9. $29.95/£19.95. (Vol 17, Forced Migration series, Berghahn Books) Aims to expose the gap between human rights norms and the mandates of international organisations on the one hand and the reality on the ground on the other. “The central argument is that the international and humanitarian organisations that are in charge of looking after refugees are responsible for extensive and avoidable violations of the rights of those dependent upon them.” (foreword by Justice Albie Sachs) Contact Berghahn Books www.berghanhnbooks.com Email (UK/Europe): orders@plymbridge.com (US/rest of world) berghahnmail@presswarehouse.com
Learning to live together: Developing communities with dispersed refugee people seeking asylum
by Bogusia Temple and Rhetta Moran. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. 62pp. ISBN 1-85935-286-3. £13.95 (+£2.0p&p). Free online at www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/1859352871.pdf
Draws on the work of Refugee and Asylum
Seeker Participatory Action Research, a voluntary organisation working with refugees
and asylum seekers in Manchester. It assesses activities that have been useful
for both the participants and their communities. Contact: York Publishing
Services, 64 Hallfield Road, Layerthorpe,
York YO31 7ZQ, UK. www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/
Tel: +44 (0)1904 430033. Email: orders@yps-publishing.co.uk