Matt Galloway spoke with Robin Roth, she is a professor of geography at York University, and with Ei Phyu Han, she is a PhD student and a teaching assistant at York. They were speaking about a geography course taught at the university, that is also offered to refugees living on the Thai-Burma border.
The podcast can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2012/02/22/course-for-refugees/
The Fourth Annual Howard Adelman Lecture was recently held in Toronto, Canada on November 1, 2011 with guest speaker Robert Rubinstein, author of An Italian Renaissance: Choosing Life in Canada, Winner of the 2011 Canadian Jewish Book Award, in the category of Holocaust Literature.
A beautifully delivered talk on being a Jewish refugee in an Italian camp after the Second World War. As you listen, you realise that not much has changed over the last 60+ years in how camps are run, camp inhabitants treated, and how people try to cope in bureaucratic and sometimes unwelcoming administrations.
View the video HERE
Today the European Parliament formally adopted a new set of asylum rules for the European Union. The binding rules now include gender identity as a ground of persecution, which EU Member States must take into account. Governments have already agreed to the changes, which are final.
For more information, visit: http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/press-releases/historic-vote-extends-eu-asylum-standards-to-transgender-people/
Received this blog about Dadaab from the refugee perspective: A Voice from the Voiceless – Dadaab Refugee Camps Kenya
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky College of Law Library
Carol A. Watson
University of Georgia Law School
March 4, 2011
Abstract:
To date, there have been no studies focusing exclusively on the impact of open access on legal scholarship. We examine open access articles from three journals at the University of Georgia School of Law and confirm that legal scholarship freely available via open access improves an article’s research impact. Open access legal scholarship – which today appears to account for almost half of the output of law faculties – can expect to receive 50% more citations than non-open access writings of similar age from the same venue.
To access the research paper, go here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1777090
Interesting posting on Boing Boing about Mac software tools for researchers: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/21/my-essential-mac-res.html
Not strictly research, but telling (and funny, sad and kind of outrageous): http://stuffexpataidworkerslike.com/
This BBC video-clip describes the latest ingenious project from Sugata Mitra, an Indian-born professor at Newcastle University. You’ll most likely know Mitra from his Hole in the Wall computers set into the walls of buildings in India’s poorest slums. Mitra’s new project uses the “UK Granny Cloud” — a large group of British grannies who’ve agreed to volunteer an hour a week to tutor Indian classrooms over Skype video conferences — to supplement education in Indian schools where there is a shortage of teachers. (pulled from Boing Boing)
A very interesting discussion by Michael Barutciski and Catherine Dauvergne on Australian asylum policies. In French and English.
http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2010/10/13/asylum-the-tamil-boat-and-the-australian-way/