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NEWSLETTER: JULY 2018

NEWSLETTER: JULY 2018

CALL FOR CRN 11 VOLUNTEERS

CRN 11 is recruiting volunteers for the following position:

For more information, email: veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

JOIN CRN 11 RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

Interested in being a bona fide research collaborator with CRN 11? Send an expression of interest to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org including the following:

  • biographical sketch (250 words maximum)
  • affiliation
  • research interests
  • list of recent publications
  • a headshot (optional), and
  • a link to your website

As a CRN 11Research Collaborator, you will have the opportunity to share your draft research papers, chapters or manuscripts with colleagues in order to receive constructive feedback and collaborate on research and publication projects.

BOOKS, REPORTS AND ARTICLES

UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

NEWS

A 1-Year-Old Boy Had a Court Appearance Before an Immigration Judge in Phoenix: “The boy is one of hundreds of children who need to be reunited with their parents after being separated at the border, many of them split from mothers and fathers as a result of the Trump administration’s ‘zero-tolerance policy.’”

ICE’s Union Thinks Donald Trump Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing on Immigration: “We had absolutely no input” on the administration’s ongoing strategy… or on who the new head of ICE should be… calling it “another broken promise” by the Trump administration.” What the union wants is more funding to detain and an end to “catch and release.”

World Refugee Day 2018: How Many Displaced People Are There Around the Globe and What Is Being Done to Help?:“Just 100,000 refugees were resettled by the international community in 2017, a year in which 2.9m new asylum seekers were created as conflicts raged in Syria, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan… [Thankfully,] fourteen countries are already pioneering a new blueprint for responding to refugee situations and [soon] a new Global Compact on Refugees will be ready for adoption by the United Nations General Assembly.”

Existing TPS for Yemenis extended:“In the fourth year of what the UN secretary general called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the Trump administration is once again demonstrating a disregard for basic humanitarian principles in its decision to merely extend Temporary Protected Status for some people from Yemen, but not allow recent arrivals to be covered by it.”

Gbong Gwom Jos on Peace and Conflict Resolution: First in a series re the Jos crisis, the author takes a look at the conflicts in the Plateau State of Nigeria, finding they cannot be divorced from the impact of colonial rule and tin mining.

Iraq: 373 Displaced People Return to Nineveh Province: “Some 5.8 million Iraqis were displaced after Daesh took control… in 2014. The Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration (IDD) announced that 373 displaced persons from the camps have returned to their original areas of residence in the northern province of Nineveh.”

Germany Presents New, More Restrictive Migration Plan: “Germany’s top security official . . . unveiled his new plan on controlling and limiting migration, which he called a “turning point” in the country’s asylum policy.”

Are you interested in volunteering for CRN-11? Visit Displaced Peoplesfor more information. To subscribe, unsubscribe or submit newsworthy information, send an email to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.