Monks return to streets of Burma (BBC News) - [text online]
Ministers accused of underestimating number of foreign workers by 400,000 (The Independent) - [text online]
French charity workers face jail for 'abducting children' (The Independent) - [text online]
Ministers ignored calls to improve migration figures (The Guardian) - [text online]
The left can no longer afford to bury the migration debate (The Guardian) - [text online]
The numbers game (The Guardian] - [text online]
UNHCR gets eastern Chad's chiefs and officials talking (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Thousands flee Mogadishu as fresh fighting erupts (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Wednesday 31 October 2007
News Stories (31/10/07)
Tuesday 30 October 2007
News Stories (30/10/07)
Smith 'sorry' for migrants error (BBC News) - [text online]
Darfur camp eviction 'fabricated' - [text online]
Labour plans migrants points system (The Guardian) - [text online]
A grown-up debate about immigration (The Guardian) - [text online]
Central Asia's legal eagles pledge more cooperation for refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Students face up to refugee realities in Montenegro (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Uganda: Across the airwaves comes reassurance to go home - [text online]
Monday 29 October 2007
News Stories (29/10/07)
Growth of our population is unsustainable, says Cameron (The Times Online) - [text online]
Free English lessons 'would help refugees to integrate' (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Somalis demand that Ethiopians leave (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Darfur delegates to agree agenda (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Charity 'smuggled Darfur war orphans to France for £4,000' (The Independent Online) - [text online]
UK and US play Iraq 'blame game' (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Chad 'kidnapping' angers Sarkozy (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Payout for engineer held in Belfast 'because he was black' (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Tories would cut migration, vows Cameron (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Brick Lane's many narratives (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Flagship border force 'puts security at risk' (Guardian Online) - [text online]
The trouble with Brick Lane (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Goldmine dreams end in death for six displaced Afro-Colombians (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Q&A: Introducing refugees from Bhutan to the world (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Luwani Refugee Camp in Malawi closes as UNHCR moves last resident (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Friday 26 October 2007
Beyond camps and forced labour: current intl. research on survivors of Nazi persecution
From the FMO E-mail List:
Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution.
Third international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at the Imperial War Museum, London, 7-9 January 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference is planned as a follow-up to the two successful conferences, which took place at the Imperial War Museum in London in 2003 and 2006. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated, and also open up new fields of academic enquiry.
The aim is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. These will include - but are not limited to - Jews, Gypsies and Slavonic people, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, the disabled, the so-called 'racially impure', and forced labourers. For the purpose of the conference, a 'survivor' is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis' racial, political, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second World War.
The organisers welcome proposals, which focus on topics and themes of the 'life after', ranging from the experience of liberation to the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory and consciousness, and questions of theory and methodology. We are also interested in comparative papers that discuss the experience of victims of forced population transfers during the war and in the immediate post-war years, including the historiographical development from polemical and memoirist approaches to empirical, analytical, and critical studies.
Specific conference themes anticipated are:
* DPs in post-war Europe
* Reception and resettlement
* Survivors in Eastern Europe
* Exiles, émigrés and refugees in the reconstruction process
* Rescuers and liberators
* Child survivors
* Women survivors and gender issues
* Trials and justice
* Testimony and memory
* Film and photography
* Psychological approaches: trauma, amnesia, intergenerational transmission
* Educational issues
* Remembrance and memorials
* Museums and archives
The Advisory Board consists of: Dan Bar-On (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Wolfgang Benz (Technical University Berlin), Gerhard Botz (University of Vienna), Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg), Evelyn Friedlander (Hidden Legacy Foundation, London), Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, New York), Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (University of Münster), Yosefa Loshitzky (University of East London), Hanna Ulatowska (University of Texas at Dallas), Inge Weber-Newth (London Metropolitan University).
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together with biographical background of about 50 words by 28 February 2008 to: Johannes-Dieter Steinert, email: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk <
All proposals are subject to a review process.
Fees: No more than GBP135 for speakers. The fee includes admission to all panels and evening events, lunches, coffees and teas. Further information and registration details will be made available in 2008.
It is intended to publish the conference proceedings. The proceedings of the first conference have been published by Secolo Verlag, Osnabrück (ISBN 3-929979-73-x). The proceedings of the second conference are in press by Secolo Verlag as well. For further information please contact http://www.secolo-verlag.de/ or u.kuhlmann@agentur-sec.de.
The conference is being organised by
Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum, London
David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London
Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College London
Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton
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Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources.
Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution.
Third international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at the Imperial War Museum, London, 7-9 January 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference is planned as a follow-up to the two successful conferences, which took place at the Imperial War Museum in London in 2003 and 2006. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated, and also open up new fields of academic enquiry.
The aim is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. These will include - but are not limited to - Jews, Gypsies and Slavonic people, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, the disabled, the so-called 'racially impure', and forced labourers. For the purpose of the conference, a 'survivor' is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis' racial, political, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second World War.
The organisers welcome proposals, which focus on topics and themes of the 'life after', ranging from the experience of liberation to the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory and consciousness, and questions of theory and methodology. We are also interested in comparative papers that discuss the experience of victims of forced population transfers during the war and in the immediate post-war years, including the historiographical development from polemical and memoirist approaches to empirical, analytical, and critical studies.
Specific conference themes anticipated are:
* DPs in post-war Europe
* Reception and resettlement
* Survivors in Eastern Europe
* Exiles, émigrés and refugees in the reconstruction process
* Rescuers and liberators
* Child survivors
* Women survivors and gender issues
* Trials and justice
* Testimony and memory
* Film and photography
* Psychological approaches: trauma, amnesia, intergenerational transmission
* Educational issues
* Remembrance and memorials
* Museums and archives
The Advisory Board consists of: Dan Bar-On (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Wolfgang Benz (Technical University Berlin), Gerhard Botz (University of Vienna), Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg), Evelyn Friedlander (Hidden Legacy Foundation, London), Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, New York), Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (University of Münster), Yosefa Loshitzky (University of East London), Hanna Ulatowska (University of Texas at Dallas), Inge Weber-Newth (London Metropolitan University).
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together with biographical background of about 50 words by 28 February 2008 to: Johannes-Dieter Steinert, email: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk <
All proposals are subject to a review process.
Fees: No more than GBP135 for speakers. The fee includes admission to all panels and evening events, lunches, coffees and teas. Further information and registration details will be made available in 2008.
It is intended to publish the conference proceedings. The proceedings of the first conference have been published by Secolo Verlag, Osnabrück (ISBN 3-929979-73-x). The proceedings of the second conference are in press by Secolo Verlag as well. For further information please contact http://www.secolo-verlag.de/ or u.kuhlmann@agentur-sec.de.
The conference is being organised by
Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum, London
David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London
Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College London
Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources.
News Stories (26/10/07)
Zimbabwe
Race-remark scientist quits lab post (The Independent Online) - [text online]
China rejects call for action against Burma as Suu Kyi meets junta (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Soldiers back on Rangoon streets (BBC Online News) - [text online]
Libya seals peace deal for Chad (BBC Online News) - [text online]
Witchcraft allegations plague southern Chad's camps (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Displaced women tell tales of rape and fear in Somalia (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Thursday 25 October 2007
News Stories (25/10/07)
Gordon Brown’s vow to send foreign inmates home is questioned (The Times Online) - [text online]
Darfur peace talks 'doomed' after rebel leaders pull out (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Dutch smash 'voodoo' child trade (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Congolese refugees return to Equateur in growing numbers (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Wednesday 24 October 2007
News Stories (24/10/07)
A portrait of Britain
Optimism as Burma adopts more open approach to UN (The Independent Online) - [text online]
UN tells Belgrade to stop intimidating ethnic Serbs over Kosovo elections (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Burmese people 'waiting in the dark' (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Jails adapted for foreign inmates (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Suu Kyi rallies planned worldwide (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Darfur 'a quarrel over a camel' (BBC News Online) - [text online]
ON THIS DAY NEWS FROM THE BBC ARCHIVES: 1945 - United Nations Organisation is born (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Higher fertility, immigration and longer lives fuelling Britain's population rise (Guardian Online) - [text online]
UK population 'to rise by 10m by 2031' (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Gulf of Aden crossing claims up to 66 lives (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Thousands flee into Uganda to escape North Kivu fighting (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Tuesday 23 October 2007
News Stories (23/10/07)
'Racist' party secures record Swiss vote (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Congo warlord appears before ICC (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Asylum for Eritrean gospel singer (BBC News Online) - [text online]
EU 'blue card' to tempt skilled (BBC News Online) - [text online]
ON THIS DAY NEWS FROM THE BBC ARCHIVES: 1956: Hungarians rise up against Soviet rule (BBC News Online) - [text online]
School and shelter for Pakistan's flood victims (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Boat people risk all to reach Greece (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Monday 22 October 2007
London is the Place for Me
News from the Welcome to Your Library Email Newsletter:
London is the Place for Me
To 24 Nov 2007
http://www.rivingtonplace.org/
London is the Place for Me looks at migration through photography and moving image. Organised by Iniva (Inst of International Visual Arts) and Autograph ABP to mark the launch of Rivington Place, it explores the presence of the many different diasporic communities living in Britain today. On 1 Nov there is a screening of short films by UK based artists who reflect on returning to their birth place while others explore the trials and tribulations of arrival by Britain's diverse migrant communities. Featuring work by Helena Appio, Inge Blackman, Nada Prjl and Alia Syed, followed by discussion.
London is the Place for Me
To 24 Nov 2007
http://www.rivingtonplace.org/
London is the Place for Me looks at migration through photography and moving image. Organised by Iniva (Inst of International Visual Arts) and Autograph ABP to mark the launch of Rivington Place, it explores the presence of the many different diasporic communities living in Britain today. On 1 Nov there is a screening of short films by UK based artists who reflect on returning to their birth place while others explore the trials and tribulations of arrival by Britain's diverse migrant communities. Featuring work by Helena Appio, Inge Blackman, Nada Prjl and Alia Syed, followed by discussion.
News Stories (22/10/07)
Asylum-seekers 'are left to starve' in Britain (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Anger at call for police to search more black people (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Case reveals tragedy of immigrant sex slaves (The Independent Online) - [text online]
'Racist' campaign pays off in Swiss poll (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Rules of law (The Guardian Online) - [text online]
Britain's tough treatment of migrants (The Guardian Online) - [text online]
Extra £500 on offer to failed asylum seekers (The Guardian Online) - [text online]
Poll boost for Swiss right-wing (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Friday 19 October 2007
News Stories (19/10/07)
Selected news stories:
Robert Fisk: Secret armies pose sinister new threat to Lebanon (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Robert Fisk: Secret armies pose sinister new threat to Lebanon (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Swiss anti-foreigner party set to make election gains (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Voices from the past heard online as world's digital archive nears fruition (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Investing in local integration in Turkmenistan (UNHCR Online) - [text online]
Almost 100 Roma return to Kosovo city (UNHCR Online) - [text online]
Fire destroys UNHCR tents worth US$1 million in Syria depot (UNHCR Online) - [text online]
Congo warlord flown to The Hague (BBC Online News) - [text online]
Thursday 18 October 2007
News Stories (18/10/07)
Selected Online News Stories (18/10/07 ):
Aid halted after UN food chief kidnapped (Times Online) - [text online]
UN stops Somalia food aid after gunmen seize official (Independent Online) - [text online]
Museum drops race row scientist (BBC Online) - [text online]
Leading Burmese dissidents freed (BBC Online) - [text online]
MPs warning about 'worker vacuum' (BBC Online) - [text online]
In a muddle on migration (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Housing project brings hope to refugees in Caucasus (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Wednesday 17 October 2007
News Stories (17/10/07)
Motivated immigrants fill skills gap and solve labour shortages (The Times Online) - [text online]
Home Office: migrants work harder, earn more and pay more tax than Britons (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Legal Opinion: Has Britain US
Ethiopia's 'own Darfur' as villagers flee government-backed violence (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Migrants are a boon to UK economy, says study (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Migrants - the verdict: hardworking and skilled but with social problems in tow (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Minority and faith groups can help cohesion (Guardian Online) - [text online]
UK better off with immigration, report shows (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Migration 'causes pressure in UK' (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Bashir holds S Sudan crisis talks (BBC News Online) - [text online]
UNHCR resources redeployed to Mauritania (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UNHCR helps Roma group find a new home in Montenegro - [text online]
Tuesday 16 October 2007
UNHCR News Stories
UNHCR helps Palestinians mark Eid in Baghdad (UNHCR Online) - [online text]
UNHCR helps women raise their voice in Somalia's Puntland (UNHCR Online) - [online text]
UNHCR helps women raise their voice in Somalia's Puntland (UNHCR Online) - [online text]
Monday 15 October 2007
News Stories (15/10/07)
Britain ranks highly in survey on immigration (The Independent) - [text online]
South Sudanese present demands (BBC News) - [text online]
UN concern over
Friday 12 October 2007
News
Junta told that UN 'deplores' Burmese violence (The Indeoendent) - [online text]
Robert Fisk: A reign of terror which history has chosen to neglect (The Independent) - [online text]Turkey recalls ambassador after US vote on Armenian 'genocide' (The Independent) - [online text]
East Europeans reach the parts others can't (Guardian Online) - [online text]
Sudan's southern rebels walk out (BBC Online) - [online text]
UN Security Council rebukes Burma (BBC Online) - [online text]
Foreign mission raises hopes for better security in eastern Chad (UNHCR News) - [online text]
Queen Noor joins UNHCR training for outreach volunteers in Jordan (UNHCR News) - [online text]
UNHCR condemns Sudan’s recent deportation of Ethiopian refugees (UNHCR News) - [online text]
Thursday 11 October 2007
News Stories (11 Oct. 2007)
Details of selected news stories from the UK press:
Only now, the full horror of Burmese junta's repression of monks emerges (The Independent) - [online text]
PM's offer to look 'sympathetically' at asylum cases gives hope to Lay Naing (The Independent) - [online text]
US judge rules Guantanamo inmate cannot be deported (The Independent) - [online text]
Bush and Congress dispute Armenian 'genocide' status (The Independent) - [online text]
Afghanistan refugees fight to stay in camps (The Independent) - [online text]
France's first immigration museum opens (The Guardian) - [online text]
UK population breaks through 60m barrier (The Guardian) - [online text]
Turkey condemns US Armenia vote (BBC News Online) - [online text]
Wars in Africa wipe out aid gains (BBC News Online) - [online text]
Handicrafts expertise helps resettled refugee make good in Brazil (UNHCR News) - [online text]
From the Blogs:
Asylum - an Inside Story from Iraq (ICAR Blog) - [online text]
Monitoring Conferences (FMO Blog) - [online text]
Only now, the full horror of Burmese junta's repression of monks emerges (The Independent) - [online text]
PM's offer to look 'sympathetically' at asylum cases gives hope to Lay Naing (The Independent) - [online text]
US judge rules Guantanamo inmate cannot be deported (The Independent) - [online text]
Bush and Congress dispute Armenian 'genocide' status (The Independent) - [online text]Afghanistan refugees fight to stay in camps (The Independent) - [online text]
France's first immigration museum opens (The Guardian) - [online text]
UK population breaks through 60m barrier (The Guardian) - [online text]
Turkey condemns US Armenia vote (BBC News Online) - [online text]
Wars in Africa wipe out aid gains (BBC News Online) - [online text]
Handicrafts expertise helps resettled refugee make good in Brazil (UNHCR News) - [online text]
From the Blogs:
Asylum - an Inside Story from Iraq (ICAR Blog) - [online text]
Monitoring Conferences (FMO Blog) - [online text]
Wednesday 10 October 2007
News Stories (10 Oct. 2007)
Selection of Online News Stories from the UK Press:
Interpreters can choose cash for resettlement or new life in UK (The Times) - [Text Online]
Swiss election descends into bitter racism row (The Times) - [Text Online]
Sudanese troops behind fatal attack on peacekeepers, says Darfur rebel chief (The Independent) - [Text Online]
Overseas Aid: Aid package stays true to £9bn promise made at G8 (The Independent) - [Text Online]
MPs question new passport costs (BBC News Online) - [Text Online]
Doors closing on Iraqi displaced (BBC News Online) - [Text Online]
Clashes between allies in Darfur (BBC News Online) - [Text Online]
Polar bear sock snack helps raise US$20,000 for UNHCR (UNHCR News) - [Text Online]
Determined Zimbabweans flow into South Africa (UNHCR News) - [Text Online]
Families settle in Afghan's Baghlan province after years on the road (UNHCR News) - [Text Online]
UNHCR deeply concerned after fire in Iraq's Al Tanf desert camp (UNHCR News) - [Text Online]
News from around the Blogs:
From the field: Zimbabweans in South Africa (Refugees International) - [Text Online]
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