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Somali Women’s Studies Centre

Our vision is to be a catalyst for positive change in the lives of Somali women through enhancing their capacity to undertake research and providing them a forum to tell their stories, to articulate their specific needs, and to exert their agency by calling for solutions that will effectively address the marginalization they experience in … Continue reading Somali Women’s Studies Centre

Regional mixed migration summary for December 2011 & January 2012

The RMMS Mixed Migration Summary is now available : a summary of mixed migration statistics, issues and analysis from the Horn of Africa and Yemen for the months of December 2011 and January 2012. As always trends and conditions are changing and tens of thousands of people have been on the move against a turbulent … Continue reading Regional mixed migration summary for December 2011 & January 2012

Climate change, human mobility and protection: Initial evidence from Africa

Kolmannskog, V. (2010). Climate change, human mobility and protection: Initial evidence from Africa. Refugee Survey Quarterly 29(3): 103-119. http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/3/103.full.pdf Nowadays it is increasingly recognized that climate change constitutes a factor of displacement that cannot be disregarded anymore. In its First Assessment Report in 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that the gravest effects … Continue reading Climate change, human mobility and protection: Initial evidence from Africa