Conferences, Publications and Other News

Publications:

Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog: List of new online publications available at: http://fm-pubs.blogspot.com/

Publications listed include:

Asylum Rights Watch: Summary of responses June – September 2007 (Asylum Aid, Oct. 2007) [text]

Researching the Legal Aspects of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom (GlobaLex, Nov. 2007) [text]

Other Publications of Note:

Refugee Heritage Project - Report on the London Museums Hub Project to record refugee heritage 2004-2006: available online via the MLA web site at: http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/renaissance/index.cfm?NavigationID=364

Conference News:

Details of the following conferences have been found on the Welcome To Your Library Email list:

Community engagement workshop. Tue 20 Nov, Coventry

http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/communityservices/events/Community+Engagement+Workshop.htm

Community engagement through reading: a proactive role for public libraries. Fri 30 Nov, London
http://www.lga.gov.uk/Event.asp?lsection=46&id=SXB7C6-A7846A72

Older Refugees: from isolation to integration
Wed 09 Jan 2008, City Hall, London
This conference will focus on the issues, challenges and service needs of older refugees and asylum-seekers, concluding the Older Refugees Programme - a 2-year initiative, funded by Lloyds TSB, between Age Concern England, the Refugee Council, Age Concern London and the Greater London Association of Older Women (AGLOW). To register your interest in attending this conference, please email refugees@ace.org.uk or call 020 8765 7523.

Museums and Refugees - Keeping Cultures conference

13-14 Mar 2008, Museum in Docklands, London
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Events/RefugeeMuseums.htm

This international conference will explore how museums and heritage agencies respond to complex historical, ethical, legal, social and political issues. Museums, academic research centres, non-government organisations and government departments/agencies increasingly see the need to explore the cultural contributions and impact of refugee and asylum seeker groups on urban and regional centres.

These issues significantly affect museums’ policy and approaches: participation, curatorial decisions, collecting strategies, partnerships, approaches to programming, as well as shared decision making in collaborative exhibitions and public events. See weblink above for the questions that the conference will seek to address and further details.

Other News

Migration Bibliography: Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Consortium have created a new section on their website providing links to reports and research relating to new migrants in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Further details can be found on the web site at: http://www.refugeeaccess.info/default.asp?step=2&id=54

Asylum Aid: have recently launched their new and updated web site and this can be found at: http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/index.php