Category Archives: Blogs

health

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i am very glad to talk about life in camp where people living in bad mood sun is shining on them no water even to get food is hard they even die because of lack of water you know that water becomes other issues because one person get 12l per day and it is not suffient for daily activity because we need to wash , to cook , to have bath and washing even home materials so we are requesting all the body to help refugee to over come this problem because this can leads to high mortality

computer training

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first and foremost, i would like to introduce my self to the world ,am by the name called abdiqadir and i live in kakuma refugee camp and am so glade to be a member of this group .and at the same time am doing a computer training in a camp.

Call for Papers – The Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, Student Publication – Deadline: 24th October 2010

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As the most recent graduates of the MSc of Forced Migration program at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, we are excited to announce the launch of our free electronic publication The Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration (OxMo) written, reviewed and edited by students. OxMo aims to engage with issues of forced migration within the broader context of human rights through monitoring political, legal and social developments that pertain to displacement, asylum and return. We set no geographic limitations. Ultimately, we endeavour to contribute to strengthening the human rights of forced migrants by bringing attention to the many difficulties they face as well as positive developments taking shape. In addition to this, having identified that the student community remains a highly valuable yet under-tapped intellectual resource, we hope to establish a forum in which students may contribute meaningfully to the wider academic discourse and to participate in transnational dialogues with like-minded others.

Our biannual publication will place great emphasis on: presenting critical analyses of forced migration issues, projects and policies in relation to international organizations and the work of NGOs and national governments; highlighting innovative practices and developments geared towards countering forced migration predicaments; reporting best practices, examining local/grass roots developments, and fostering a space for students, who themselves have been or are currently forcibly displaced, to present their perspectives on current situations. OxMo will be divided into five sections:

  1. Policy
  2. Law
  3. Field Monitor
  4. First Hand Experiences (restricted to those who have first hand experienced of forced displacement), and
  5. Academic Articles. 

We anticipate that as well as our student-based readership practitioners, academics, NGOs, government representatives, general interest readers and forced migrants alike will find our analyses insightful and critically engaging.

To this end, the editorial team would like to invite current students, including recent graduates, undergraduates and those on vocational programs to get involved by submitting short articles of no more than 1000-1500 words in length (for the sections of policy, law, field monitor or first hand) or academic articles of no more than 6000 words in length (inlcuding bibliography) on an issue that relates to any of the topics and areas mentioned above. Please indicate the section under which your submission should be considered. We encourage astute, critical, thought provoking pieces! (Don’t be shy if you haven’t published before or if English is not your first language!)

 

The submission deadline for our first issue is October 24th, 2010.

We invite all of you to take part in this exciting venture and to encourage other students who are working on issues of forced migration, wherever in the world they may be, to get involved and help promote greater understanding of the plight of millions of forced migrants.

 

Kind regards,

Clara Straimer (Co-Editor of First Hand Experiences)


Please send submissions and any questions to oxmofm@googlemail.com and a member of the editorial board will get in touch with you as soon as possible.

Creative Commons, Open Access and the RRN

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At the bottom of every page on the RRN website you’ll now see something slightly different. Instead of the usual “Copyright 2009, All Right Reserved” is a notice that the original content of the RRN website is released for copying under a Creative Commons “Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike” license. This is an opening of the RRN site’s copyright restrictions, that now allow anyone to copy material from the site as long as:

  • The original author and source of the work is maintained
  • The material cannot be resold for commercial gain
  • Any modifications to the original must be freely shared and marked

These changes are open for public discussion; we’d like to hear from people who contribute to the RRN site or are planning to. It is the author’s right to define the way their work is re-distributed; any author can choose an approach different from the site-wide proposed RRN policy. For more information on alternate distribution licenses please see the excellent Creative Commons explanation and tools. Or feel free to contact me for for any specific questions.

– Evan

 

Podcast: Relocation of Young Uyghur Women in China

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The latest in FMO’s growing selection of podcasts focuses on a new Chinese government policy, recruiting young Uyghur women from majority Uyghur areas of East Turkestan, and transferring them to work in factories in urban areas of eastern China. Under this policy, thousands of Uyghur women have been removed from their families and placed into substandard working conditions thousands of miles from their homes. Though official propaganda slogans promote the program as an overwhelmingly positive experience for these women, less than two years after the initiation of the policy, it has already left a history of broken promises and shattered families. In interviews recorded by film-maker Simon James, between September 2008 and July 2009, four experts talk about the impact this programme is having: * Dr. Michael Dillon, visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing * Omer Kanat, Uyghur Service at Radio Free Asia * Amy Reger, Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) * Enver Tohti, chairman of the UK Uighur Association The podcast ‘Relocation of Young Uyghur Women in China’ is now available on Forced Migration Online: http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/uyghur-women/ FMO Podcasts: Forced Migration Online offers a collection of audio podcasts that can be downloaded for free and listened to either on your computer or on the move (http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/). The podcast series includes lectures from forced migration events and discussions between experts on forced migration issues from academia, practitioner organizations and international agencies. Also increasingly the series features interviews with refugees and other displaced people. The podcasts are in MP3 audio format. On your computer you can either use just a web browser (such as Firefox or Internet Explorer), your default multimedia software such as (QuickTime, Windows Media Player or RealPlayer) or dedicated podcast aggregator software. The version for iTunes is synchronised with the slides of the lecture. The software can be downloaded at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/