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WELCOME: RACISM and DISPLACEMENT

Dear Colleagues:

Welcome to the CRN 11 May 2020 Newsletter: volume 2, Issue 5.

Systemic and Institutional racism, a chronic disease, entered a new era. Anti-racism solidarity protests, sparked by the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was pinned to the ground by a White police office kneeling on his neck, are sweeping across the world in defiance of a new surge in COVID-19 cases. In the United States alone, a total of two million cases and 115,644 deaths are reported; a quarter and half of all global cases and deaths confirmed, respectfully.

But the chronicity of structural racism across the world is not confined to police brutality, the criminal injustice system, or elite academic institutions, but alive and well in in literally every segment of society where there is racial diversity. Thus, the internally displaced peoples, especially those from the Global South, who “happen” to be Black and Brown peoples, are no exception.

Undisputedly, racism was the main cause of forced displacement during WWII, prompting the drafting of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Host countries’ relentless efforts to close their borders from displaced persons, migrants, refugees, and other immigrants, particularly those from war-torn countries in the Global South, are sustained by racism, xenophobia, and nationalism. Even after acceptance into a host country as a bona fide immigrant, displaced persons still face unending challenges of austerity measures, restrictive policies, detention, ill-treatment, violent attacks, and socio-economic discrimination. These challenges predispose displaced peoples to all forms of human rights abuses, including denial of protection and care for their basic needs.

Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven Bender

DISPLACED PEOPLES’ RIGHTS AND PROTECTION

Global Protection Cluster marks the 20th anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (GP20), with a multi-stakeholder 3-year plan: Plan of Action for Advancing Prevention, Protection and Solutions for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) 2018–2020. This Plan of Action centres around four priority issues identified at a 2017 IDP stakeholder meeting convened by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs: participation of IDPs; national laws and policies addressing internal displacement; data and analysis on internal displacement; and addressing protracted displacement and facilitating durable solutions. More information is available here.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) adopted Resolution 74/131 on 18 December 2019 during the seventy-fourth session of the General Assembly. Recalling the Organization of African Unity Convention governing the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa of 1969 and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Resolution 74/131 “calls upon African States that have not yet signed or ratified the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa to consider doing so as early as possible in order to ensure its wider implementation …”. More information is available here.

On 21 May 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)signed a new agreement to strengthen and advance public health services for the millions of forcibly displaced people around the world. The agreement updates and expands an existing 1997 agreement between the two organizations. More information is available here.

Spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), Rupert Colville, gave a press briefing on Yemen on 12 June 2020: He says, “We are alarmed at the desperate situation in Yemen, where the healthcare system is on the brink of collapse, and are fearful that countless lives will be lost not only to COVID-19 but as a result of malaria, cholera, dengue fever and other diseases. We urge international donors to provide immediate relief to help the millions who have already endured five years of warfare.” More information is available here.

A United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report found that COVID-19 measures will likely to lead to an increase in migrant smuggling and human trafficking in longer term. According to the report, COVID-19 travel and movement restrictions are not stopping the movement of people fleeing conflict, human rights abuses, violence and dangerous living conditions, while the economic consequences of the pandemic are likely to lead to an increase in smuggling of migrants and trafficking in person flows from the most affected countries to more affluent destinations. More information is available here.

On 4 June, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) delivered the first round of cash assistance to vulnerable migrants in Iraq who have lost their incomes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the minimum expenditure basket, each individual received USD 182 to enable them to meet essential needs such as food, rent, and utilities. The recipients — Bangladeshi and Filipino nationals — were referred to IOM Iraq by their respective embassies. More information is available here.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) denounces the attack that killed 16 people, including five girls under the age of 15, on 3 June in Ituri Province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this attack on innocent children,” said Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF Representative in the DRC. “We call on all parties to respect the rights of women and children.” According to UN-verified reports, the attack took place in Moussa, a village in the Djugu area, north of the Ituri capital Bunia. More information is available here.

Statement by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore on the Killing of Health Workers in Somalia. “I am appalled by the abduction and execution of seven health workers at a health center in southern Somalia.”Targeting health care workers is an egregious violation of international law and can constitute a war crime. These heinous attacks interfere with fundamental protections of the right to health and the perpetrators must be held accountable.” More information is available here.

EVENTS CANCELLATION AND COVID-19

CINETS/Border Criminologies Conference Postponed Until 2021

The fifth biennial CINETS conference, a joint project of the CINETS research network and Border Criminologies, is postponed to 2021. It was originally scheduled for September 2020 at Lewis & Clark Law School, but will be held at Leiden University in 2021.

 

GENERAL CALLS: CRN 11 EVENTS

The Journal of Internal Displacement—Call for Submissions

Theme: ‘A Crisis within a Crisis: Global Pandemics and Displacement’
Publication: January 2021 (Volume 11, Issue 1)
Submission Deadline: 1 September 2020

The Journal of Internal Displacement is now accepting submissions for its January 2021 (Volume 11, Issue 1). We are particularly interested in topics on global pandemics and displacement: SARS, Ebola, H1N1 and COVID 19. Download the Call for Paper here.

The Journal of Internal Displacement (ISSN 1920-5813 Online), established in 2009, is the only scholarly and inter-disciplinary platform for raising the profile of displaced populations through discussions, critical dialogue, emerging themes, reflections and explorations on a wide range of topics and regions around the globe. The JID promotes free and open access and does not charge authors for submissions. Visit our website to submit a paper or subscribe for free.

The Journal of Internal Displacement: Research Assistant Position

The Research Assistant will work closely with the Editor-in-Chief and assist the editorial team by researching, collecting, assessing data on institutions (e.g., libraries) and organisations (e.g., humanitarian agencies) interested in global displacement. The overall goal is to promote free and open access to the Journal Internal Displacement to help increase the JID’s impact factor. Download job ad here.

Call for Book Chapters

As the CRN 11 lead on the Research and Development Committee, I am planning to publish an international book on displaced children. I have already contacted potential publishers (e.g., Rowman & Littlefield). The book will attempt to engage academics, researchers, and specialists working on the topic of displaced peoples with a focus on displaced children globally. I am interested in papers concerning:

• children rights
• children with families
• the right to home
• displaced children
• children in society
• children and war
• children and families of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)
• children and families during migration

The deadline for chapter proposal is 25 June 2020. Please send your proposal to

magdalena.butrymowicz@upjp2.edu.pl and ollytola@yahoo.com

Call For Members: Research and Development Committee

CRN 11 is currently recruiting members to join Magdalena Krystyna Butrymowicz who leads the Research and Development Committee. Those interested, please email Magdalena: magdalena.butrymowicz@upjp2.edu.pl. Deadline: Open

Call For Volunteers: Newsletter Editor

CRN 11 is currently recruiting volunteers to lead the Advertisement and Promotion Committee. Those interested, please send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org. Deadline: Open

Interested in making the best use of your time during COVID-19 lockdown? Apply for the CRN11 newsletter editor position.  Submit a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org  and benders@seattleu.edu. Deadline: Open

Become a CRN 11 Research Collaborator

Interested in being a bona fide research collaborator with CRN 11? Email veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org for details on how to apply. Deadline: Open

Invitation to be a Guest Blogger for CRN 11

Do you have an interesting story to tell about internal and international migration and displacement? CRN 11 is eager to share your piece as a guest blogger for our monthly newsletter.  Please submit your stories to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu. Deadline: Open

Call for Papers: Improving Attention to Internal Displacement Globally

In February 2020, a new High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement appointed by the UN Secretary-General began work, preparing concrete and practical recommendations on improving the response to internal displacement, with particular attention to achieving solutions. It gives added momentum to existing initiatives, such as the GP20 process, launched on the 20th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement in 2018. The Refugee Survey Quarterly will publish a special collection to engage researchers, practitioners and policy-makers afresh by feeding into this public debate and to promote new insights and thinking on policy-oriented challenges and solutions to internal displacement. Deadline: 5 July 2020. For more information, visit here.

A Call for Papers: The Displacees and Health – A Challenging Issue in Society

Refugees or internally displaced people are faced with multiple crises from local to international levels in the arena of detention, deportation, fragility, sexual orientation, gender identity, out place experience, armed non-state actors, HIV/AIDS, security, conflict, climate change, education of future generation, ethical concerns, human rights, disability etc. All these issues spur from the basic question of life which is close to the living conditions and life as human beings.  This seems to challenge the existence of health of man as a refugee irrespective of gender, class and citizenship. For more information contact, frnorbypaul@gmail.com.

Call for Pool of Experts: International Association of Refugees and Migration Judges

The International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges (IARMJ) is mid-way through a four year Framework Contract with the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) for the review, update and further development of the Professional Development Series (PDS) for members of courts and tribunals. IARMJ has decided that the midpoint of this Framework Contract is the right time to seek to refresh the pool and to update the particulars of those already included in it. For more information, visit here.

Call for Participants: Advancing Young Scholars and Peacebuilders Careers

We are pleased to announce the call for participants for our project “Advancing Young Scholars and Peacebuilders Careers”. The project aims to strengthen the capacities and future prospects for young researchers and civil society activists from the whole Caucasus region. Within the project we will: (1) offer training on vital skills and input on relevant topics by international experts and scholars; (2) facilitate dialogue and networking among selected candidates; and (3) strengthen the visibility of the participants within the expert community and enable knowledge transfer from the Caucasus into international discourses. To achieve these objectives, the project consists of several components. Deadline: 26 June 2020. For more information, visit here.

Call for Contributions: Comparative Perspectives on Migration, Diversities and the Pandemic

The Comparative Migration Studies issued an open call for articles on the relation between migration and the pandemic. We are particularly interested in articles that take a comparative approach. Prospective papers might examine the consequences of the pandemic for migrants and mobility across different regions and/or jurisdictions; compare policy responses and their effects across different cases; and consider the long-term consequences of the pandemic with regard to questions of diversity.Deadline: 15 July 2020.

RESEARCH, JOBS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS…

University of British Columbia, President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award. Deadline: Ongoing.

Various University, Australian Awards Scholarships. Deadline: 30 June 2020.

Princeton University. Princeton Society of Fellows Fellowship Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2021-2024. Deadline: 4 August 2020/

University of Peace, Master of Laws in Transnational Crime and Justice. Deadline: 6 September 2020.

University of Pretoria, Mastercard Foundation Scholarship Program. Deadline: 31 August 2020.

Birkbeck University of London, School of Law Postgraduate Fee Awards for Master’s Students 2020. Deadline: 30 June 2020.

DePaul University, Part Time Faculty, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Deadline: 30 June 2020.

D-Prize supports a new entrepreneurs who can distribute proven poverty interventions. Deadline: 13 July 2020.

Journal of Transient Migration – call for submission on Contemporary dynamics of the future of work, the platform economy and transient migrants. Deadline: 15 July 2020.

UQIDAR joint-PhD Program 2020, Australia and India, University of Queensland. Deadline: 31 December 2020.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

Summer School – Central Eurasian Studies Society

Summer School – Innovations in Disaster and Climate Risk Reduction, 29 June – 3 August 2020, CEU, Hungary.

Colloque international de l’APAD 2020 (Postponed)

Colloque international de l’APAD 2020, Circulations in the Global South: Ethnographic Explorations of Globalized Exchanges (Les Circulations Dans le Sud Global: Ethnographies des échanges Mondialisés), 08-11 December 2020, l’ Université of Lomé, Togo. For more information contact: colloque@apad-association.org.

The 17^th IMISCOE Annual Conference 2020

The 2020 IMISCOE annual conference is going online! Europe’s largest research network of migration and integration scholars and practitioners is coming together for its first online annual conference. The first online annual conference will take place on July 1 and 2, 2020.

Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza Universita di Napoli Federico II

The 2020 EULAB Summer School on Labour Migration in the European Union, 7-16 July 2020,Department of Law of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.

Association of Commonwealth University Summer School

Association of Commonwealth University Summer School 2020, The Migration Generation? Climate, Youth and Refugees, 2-10 August 2020, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

The Migration Conference 2020

The Migration Conference Organizing Committee cordially invite you to submit abstract(s) to the 8th conference in the series which will take place on 9 to 11 September 2020, South East European University campus, Tetovo, North Macedonia.

The 6^th International Conference on Conflict, Violence and Development

Due to the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the VI International Conference “Conflict, Violence and Development”, organized by the Institute of Social and Economic Studies (IESE) will take place on 15^th  and 16^th  September 2020, in Maputo,Mozambique.

Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Connecting Europe Project

Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Connecting Europe Project Conference, Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday, 4-6 November 2020, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

German Historical Institute

Annual Academic and Policy Symposium, Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers, 16-17 November 2020, Washington, DC.

The Centre for History of the University of Lisbon

The Centre for History of the University of Lisbon, 11^th Iberian African Studies, African Transits in the Global World: History and Memories, Heritage and Innovation, 21-23 January 2021, Lisbon, Portugal.

VAD 2020

The VAD Conference 2020, African Challenges, has been postpone to 02-05 June 2021, co-hosted by the European Conference on African Studies, African Futures, in Cologne Germany.

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration, and Development

Visit the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development, Maastricht University, The Netherlands for a list of events on Migration.

PUBLICATIONS

Comparative Migration Studies, Volume 8, Number 4, Special Issue on Externalization at Work – Responses to Migration Policies from the Global South (2020).

Ov Cristian Norocel, Anders Hellstrom, and Martin Bak Jorgensen, Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections Between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe (2020).

John Washington, The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond (20 May 2020).

Agata Blaszczyk, War and Resettlement: Polish Resettlement Camps in the UK after the Second World War. The experience of creating a settlement policy for Polish political refugees (May 2020).

GENIDA Research Network – INDCaP Project, Recommendations on Internal Displacement in Africa (May 2020). The submissions were coordinated by IDRP Senior Research Associates Dr Romola Adeola, Dr Beatriz Sanchez and Dr Hana Asfour(a JID Editorial Team Member), with support from Prof. David Cantor.

Middle East Research Network – INDCaP Project, Key Problems and Possible Solutions to Internal Displacement in the Middle East ( May 2020). The submissions were coordinated by IDRP Senior Research Associates Dr Romola Adeola, Dr Beatriz Sanchez and Dr Hana Asfour (a Journal of Internal Displacement Editorial Team Member), with support from Prof. David Cantor.

Latin America Research Network – INDCaP Project,  Main Problems and Possible Solutions from Latin America (May 2020). The submissions were coordinated by IDRP Senior Research Associates Dr Romola Adeola, Dr Beatriz Sanchez and Dr Hana Asfour(a JID Editorial Team Member), with support from Prof. David Cantor.

Romola Adeola, Climate Change, Internal Displacement and the Kampala Convention (May 2020).

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Migration, Displacement & Education: Building Bridges, Not Walls (2019).

Nazli Avdan, Visas and Walls: Borders Security in the Age of Terrorism (2019).

Javier S. Hidalgo, Unjust Borders: Individuals and the Ethics of Immigration (2019).

Margit Feischmidt, Ludger Pries, Celine Catat, Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe (2019).

Corporate Watch, The UK Border Regime: A Critical Guide, 2018

Jeffrey S. Kahn, Island of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire (2018).

Nicola Mai, An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders (2018).

Rimple Mehta, Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self Across the Bangladesh-India Border (2018).

Ernesto Castaneda, A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion in New York, Paris, and Barcelona (2018).

IN THE NEWS

Julia Conley, 47 UN Human Rights Experts Condemn US Support for Israel’s ‘Unlawful’ Annexation Plan (16 June 2020).

UNHCR, UNHCR and Twitter launch 2020 World Refugee Day emoji created by Ivorian artist O’Plérou (15 June 2020).

Peter Yeung, Democratic Republic of the Congo Gears Up to Fight 11^th Ebola Outbreak (15 June 2020).

Reeda Al Sabri Halawi, Human Rights Violations of Refugee Populations in Lebanon Amidst the COVID-19 Outbreak (12 June 2020).

IOM, Internally Displaced Persons Must Be “Agents of Their Own Solutions”: IOM Joins High-Level Discussion to Resolve Internal Displacement (11 June 2020).

Sylvia Nabanoba and Vanessa Zola, Restoring Sudan’s Forest Cover, One Tree at a Time (8 June 2020).

Maryla Klajn, Bordering the Biological Threat and the Questionable Logic of Poland’s “Closed Borders” Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic (8 June 2020).

Alicia Alvarez Gill, Forests in Guatemala Find New Guardians: Refugees (5 June 2020).

Antonio Vitorino, IOM Director General Message on World Environment Day (5 June 2020).

International Organization for Migration, Partners Offer “Filter Hotel” to Migrants Needing Quarantine in Northern Mexico (5 June 2020).

Patricia Zengerle, U.S. Bill to Pressure China Over Uighur Rights Goes to Trump for Decision (27 May 2020).

Noahiko Omata, Many Refugees Living in Nairobi Struggle to Survive Because of COVID-19 (20 May 2020).

Camilo Montoya-Galvez, U.S. suspends protections for migrant kids at border, expelling hundreds amid pandemic (7 May 2020).

Trishna as told to Pallavi Pundir, Being Forced into Sex Trade as a Teenager was Devastating. But being Shamed for it Made it Worse (6 May 2020).

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, COVID-19: UNODC Warns of Increased Risks to Human Trafficking Victims (5 May 2020).

Deutsch Welle, Coronavirus Threatens Millions Displaced by Extreme Weather and Conflict (28 April 2020).

António Guterres, The Fury of the Virus Illustrates the Folly of War (23 March 2020).

Tasmasha Hussein, Power Talks (18 June 2019).

Rahaf Albalkhi, Power Talks (18 June 2019).

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WELCOME: COVID-19 & Displacement

Dear Colleagues:
Welcome to the CRN 11 April 2020 Newsletter: volume 2, Issue 4. Even though there is a sign of developing treatment for COVID-19 and a historic decline in new cases, we are still faced with a major public health emergency, especially in the United States. At 30 April 2020, the United States had 1.1 million confirmed cases (a third of the global cases of 3.1 million) and 57,400 deaths due to Coronavirus.

In addition to the race against time to discover vaccines and treatments, state-of-the art technology is also making its mark. The University of Washington is teaming up with Microsoft to develop a “contact-tracing app that helps public health agencies and doesn’t compromise your privacy”. Similarly, Apple and Google are partnering to release application programming interfaces (APIs) between Android and IOS devices using apps from public health authorities on COVID-19 contact tracing.

In spite of the immense progress being made to manage and curb COVID-19, the experience of displaced peoples is grimmer.  Displaced Peoples (i.e., internally displaced peoples, refugees and forced migrants) continue to be disproportionally impacted by COVID-19. On 20 April 2020, President Donald J. Trump tweeted that he would be “signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States”. In France, a country with the fifth highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, homeless peoples are “fined for not staying indoors”.

In spite of the challenge faced by Displaced Peoples, some  efforts are being made by organizations such as UNICEF and the Zolberg’s Institute to ensure their protection.

Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven Bender

DISPLACED PEOPLES’ RIGHTS AND PROTECTION

According to UN Women, emerging data shows that since the outbreak of COVID-19, reports of violence against women, and particularly domestic violence, have increased in certain countries as security, health, and money worries create tensions and strains accentuated by the cramped and confined living conditions of lockdown. More information is available here.

Working in close coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will support countries to assess the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 and take urgent recovery measures to minimize long-term impact, particularly for vulnerable and marginalized groups. More information is available here.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says respect for human rights across the spectrum, including economic and social rights, and civil and political rights, will be fundamental to the success of the public health response. More information is available here.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says the coronavirus pandemic endangers everyone on the planet, including refugees and other people displaced by conflict or persecution. More information is available here.

The International Chamber of Commerce in its Call to action to save Small and Medium Size Enterprise (SMEs) stated that governments should ensure tailored support for the most marginalized workers including women, migrant workers and refugees to avert worse-case scenarios of COVID-19. More information is available here.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says COVID-19 is having an unprecedented impact on mobility both in terms of regimes for border and migration management, and the situation of all people on the move, including those displaced by conflict or disaster. More information is available here.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director, Henrietta Fore cautioned that COVID-19 will almost certainly gain foothold in refugee camps, crowded receptions centers, or detention facilities holding migrant families. Given how quickly the virus is spreading, such a scenario is looking imminent. More information is available here.

The World Bank, United Nations Educational (UNESCO), Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UNICEF, and theWorld Food Program (WPF) issued a new guideline for reopening schools stressing the exacerbated negative impact and disruption prolonged closure of schools can have on marginalized children which includes the forcibly displaced. More information is available here.

A joint statement by the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs, UNHCR, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and IOM marked the 10^th anniversary of the adoption of the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (the Kampala Convention) on 23 October 2019. More information is here.

Lancet Migration Global Collaboration to advance migration health: Leaving no one behind in the COVID-19 pandemic is a call to urgent global action to include migrants and refugees in the COVID-19 response. More information is available here.

Human mobility and Human Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Principles of protection for migrants, refugees, and other displaced persons. More information is available here.

EVENTS CANCELLATION AND COVID-19

LSA 2020 In-Person Annual Meeting Cancelled

On 20 March 2020, the Law and Society In-Person Annual Meeting was canceled and converted to a Virtual Conference expected to occur from 27 May to 31 May 2020.

IASFM 18 In-Person Annual Meeting Postponed

Due to current travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 virus, and uncertainties about when these restrictions will be lifted, the IASFM Executive Committee has taken the difficult decision to postpone the Ghana conference to July 26-29, 2021. If your paper or panel has been accepted, this acceptance will be carried over to next year.

GENERAL CALLS: CRN 11 EVENTS

The Journal of Internal Displacement—Call for Submissions

Theme: ‘A Crisis within a Crisis: Global Pandemics and Displacement’
Publication: January 2021 (Volume 11, Issue 1)
Submission Deadline: 1 September 2020

The Journal of Internal Displacement is now accepting submissions for its January 2021 (Volume 11, Issue 1). We are particularly interested in topics on global pandemics and displacement: SARS, Ebola, H1N1 and COVID 19. Download the Call for Paper here.

The Journal of Internal Displacement (ISSN 1920-5813 Online), established in 2009, is the only scholarly and inter-disciplinary platform for raising the profile of displaced populations through discussions, critical dialogue, emerging themes, reflections and explorations on a wide range of topics and regions around the globe. The JID promotes free and open access and does not charge authors for submissions. Visit our website to submit a paper or subscribe for free.

The Journal of Internal Displacement: Research Assistant Position

The Research Assistant will work closely with the Editor-in-Chief and assist the editorial team by researching, collecting, assessing data on institutions (e.g., libraries) and organisations (e.g., humanitarian agencies) interested in global displacement. The overall goal is to promote free and open access to the Journal Internal Displacement to help increase the JID’s impact factor. Download job ad here.

Call for Book Chapters

As the CRN 11 lead on the Research and Development Committee, I am planning to publish an international book on displaced children. I have already contacted potential publishers (e.g., Rowman & Littlefield). The book will attempt to engage academics, researchers, and specialists working on the topic of displaced peoples with a focus on displaced children globally. I am interested in papers concerning:

• children rights
• children with families
• the right to home
• displaced children
• children in society
• children and war
• children and families of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)
• children and families during migration

The deadline for chapter proposal is 25 June 2020. Please send your proposal to
magdalena.butrymowicz@upjp2.edu.pl and ollytola@yahoo.com

Call For Members: Research and Development Committee

CRN 11 is currently recruiting members to join Magdalena Krystyna Butrymowicz who leads the Research and Development Committee. Those interested, please email Magdalena: magdalena.butrymowicz@upjp2.edu.pl.

Call For Volunteers: Newsletter Editor

CRN 11 is currently recruiting volunteers to lead the Advertisement and Promotion Committee. Those interested, please send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

Interested in making the best use of your time during COVID-19 lockdown? Apply for the CRN11 newsletter editor position.  Submit a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org  and benders@seattleu.edu.

Become a CRN 11 Research Collaborator

Interested in being a bona fide research collaborator with CRN 11? Email veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org for details on how to apply.

Invitation to be a Guest Blogger for CRN 11

Do you have an interesting story to tell about internal and international migration and displacement? CRN 11 is eager to share your piece as a guest blogger for our monthly newsletter.  Please submit your stories to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu.

Call for Abstracts: APHA’s 2020 Annual Meeting

The International Health Section of the American Public Health Association has put out a special call for abstracts on the COVID-19 pandemic for the 2020 APHA Annual Meeting. Submission on the following themes are encouraged:

• COVID-19 effects on the strength and resiliency of health systems
• COVID-19 among displaced populations or in conflict settings
• COVID-19 effects on NCDs (mental health, chronic conditions/comorbidities, etc.)
• COVID-19 and human rights
• COVID-19 and social determinants/marginalized populations
• COVID-19 as a threat to and an opportunity for the integration of medical and public health systems
• COVID-19 globalism, and the goals of global health

For more information contact, Jessica Keralis: jmkeralis@gmail.com

Call to Participate in LSA 2020 Virtual Conference

Despite the LSA 2020 face-to-face meeting cancellation, CRN 11 is calling on its members to kindly register and participate in the LSA 2020 Virtual Conference (probably via Zoom meetings). Here are some of the Program Committee Plans:

• Paper sessions that allow panelists to deliver papers to an audience of interested participants, with those participants able to engage in meaningful ways – with a “chat” function, everyone can ask their question!
• Plenaries will be available both live and recorded giving you an option to attend even if it’s scheduled at an inconvenient time.
• Author Meets Reader sessions may be longer, allowing us to discuss more thoroughly the newest books in our field.
• Professional development panels – on getting grants, publication, tenure, and other topics – available at the LSA web site all year long.

Since plans are underway and details are still sketchy, please do not hesitate to forward your questions to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

Call for Publications: Quarantine Across Borders

Quarantine Across Borders: A call for blog/e-book entries of personal narratives, commentaries, and critical essays on immigrant, diasporic, borderland communities during the lockdown, quarantine, or shelter-in-place issued during the COVID-19 global pandemic. For more information contact Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian at srivi@tamu.edu or visit here.

Call for Papers: Improving Attention to Internal Displacement Globally

In February 2020, a new High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement appointed by the UN Secretary-General began work, preparing concrete and practical recommendations on improving the response to internal displacement, with particular attention to achieving solutions. It gives added momentum to existing initiatives, such as the GP20 process, launched on the 20th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement in 2018. The Refugee Survey Quarterly will publish a special collection to engage researchers, practitioners and policy-makers afresh by feeding into this public debate and to promote new insights and thinking on policy-oriented challenges and solutions to internal displacement. Deadline for submission is 5 July 2020. For more information, visit here.

RESEARCH, JOBS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Job Opportunities. Deadline: Various

UNHCR is hiring international professional staff, vacancies. Deadline: Various

Rotary Peace Fellowship, Each year, Rotary awards up to 130 fully funded fellowships for dedicated leaders from around the world to study at one of our peace centers. Published date: 3 May 2020.

1325 and Beyond, An international essay competition. Deadline: 10 May 2020.

UN Women, Programme Analyst (Gender, Forced Migration and Trafficking). Deadline: 11 May 2020.

Galina Starovoitova Fellowship on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Kennan Institute, USA. Deadline: 15 May 2020.

GEMMA, Spain, Master’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies 2020. Deadline: 15 May 2020.

University of Pannonia, Hungary, International Studies Master Program 2020. Deadline: 30 May 2020.

Sheffield Methods Institute PhD scholarships, UK. Deadline: 31 May 2020.

Birkbeck University of London, School of Law Postgraduate Fee Awards for Master’s Students 2020. Deadline: 30 June 2020.

DePaul University, Part Time Faculty, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Deadline: 30 June 2020.

D-Prize supports a new entrepreneurs who can distribute proven poverty interventions. Deadline: 13 July 2020.

Journal of Transient Migration – call for submission on Contemporary dynamics of the future of work, the platform economy and transient migrants. Deadline: 15 July 2020.

UQIDAR joint-PhD Program 2020, Australia and India, University of Queensland. Deadline: 31 December 2020.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

Conflict Research Network West Africa

Conflict Research Network West Africa, Micro Dynamics of Armed Conflict and Political Violence in West Africa, 20-23 April 2020, Lagos State University, Lagos State, Nigeria.

International Conference at Universidad de la Salle

Boundaries of the Natural: Matter, Territory, Community (Limites de lo natural: Materia, Territorio, Comunidad), 28-30 May2020, Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá, Colombia.

Armenia and Byzantium Without Borders III

‘Armenia & Byzantium Without Borders III’ Austrian Academy of Sciences, 8–10 May 2020, Vienna, Austria.

ZEW Research Department

The Integration of Immigrants and Attitudes towards the Welfare State (IMES) group, a joint research group of ZEW Mannheim and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim Workshop, Immigration, Integration and Attitudes, 5-6 June 2020, Mannheim, Germany.

Summer School – Central Eurasian Studies Society

Summer School – Innovations in Disaster and Climate Risk Reduction, 29 June – 3 August 2020, CEU, Hungary.

Colloque international de l’APAD 2020

Colloque international de l’APAD 2020, Les Circulations Dans le Sud Global: Ethnographies des échanges Mondialisés, 23-26 June 2020, l’ Université of Lomé, Togo. For more information contact:Elieth Eyebiyi (eelieth@yahoo.fr) and Johara Berriane (johara.berriane@gmail.com).

Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza Universita di Napoli Federico II

The 2020 EULAB Summer School on Labour Migration in the European Union, 7-16 July 2020, Department of Law of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.

VAD 2020

VAD 2020, Africa Challenges, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 22-25 September 2020, Frankfurt, Germany.

Association of Commonwealth University Summer School

Association of Commonwealth University Summer School 2020, The Migration Generation? Climate, Youth and Refugees, 2-10 August 2020, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Connecting Europe Project

Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Connecting Europe Project Conference, Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday, 4-6 November 2020, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

German Historical Institute

Annual Academic and Policy Symposium, Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers, 16-17 November 2020, Washington, DC.

The Centre for History of the University of Lisbon

The Centre for History of the University of Lisbon, 11^th Iberian African Studies, African Transits in the Global World: History and Memories, Heritage and Innovation, 21-23 January 2021, Lisbon, Portugal.

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration, and Development

Visit the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development, Maastricht University, The Netherlands for a list of events on Migration.

PUBLICATIONS

IOM, Migration Research Series No. 60 (2020).

IOM, International Migration Early View Articles (5 May 2020).

IOM, Migration Policy Practice (Volume X, Number 2 (April-June 2020).

Refugee Law Initiative, Blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration (April 2020).

Julia Sachseder, Cleared for investment? The intersections of transnational capital, gender, and race in the production of sexual violence and internal displacement in Colombia’s armed conflict (3 March 2020).

Roberto Ariel Abeldano Zuniga and Javiera Fanta Garrido, Internal displacement due to disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean (15 February 2020).

Tanja Bastia and Ronald Skeldon, Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development (14 February 2020).

Sergio Parra Cely and Cotilde Mahe, Does internal displacement affect educational achievement in host communities? (January 2020).

IN THE NEWS

Wired, For homeless people, COVID-19 is horror on top of horror (2 April 2020).

The Guardian, Slavery in New Zealand: Inside the story of the Samoan chief who abused power for profit (3 April 2020).

Fabio Teixeira, Olympic games building firm, cult added to Brazil’s slavery “dirty list” (3 April 2020).

Faras Ghani, Libya: Coronavirus outbreak could be “catastrophic” for migrants (4 April 2020).

Chantal da Silva, ICE faces criticism after sheriff’s department called on detainees refusing to work over coronavirus fears (4 April 2020).

Amnesty International, Qatar: Migrant workers tricked into detention then expelled during COVID-19 pandemic (15 April 2020).

IOM, COVID-19 Analytical Snapshots captures the latest information and analysis in a fast-moving environment (20 April 2020).

The Global Legal Action Network and the World Uyghur Congress, UK: Halt forced prison labour goods from China (23 April 2020).

Timour Azhari and Fidelis Mbah, Lebanon arrests suspects for putting Nigerian worker up “for sale” (23 April 2020).

Danica Jorden, COVID-19 sweeping through US immigrant farmworker and meatpacker ranks (23 April 2020).

Aidan McQuade and Ritwajit Das, COVID-19 poses new risks to India’s enslaved waste pickers (27 April 2020).

Borzou Daragahi and Bel Trew, “Living in absolute despair”: Coronavirus trapping domestic workers in virtual “slavery” (30 April 2020).

Freedom United, Petition to End Forced Labor in Qatar (1 May 2020).

SEND US YOUR NEWS AND EVENTS

Displaced Peoples (CRN11) newsletter is published monthly.  The Newsletter is a venue for sharing information regarding displaced peoples, broadly defined. Your contribution to the monthly newsletter is crucial to its sustenance, success and quality. To contribute to the Newsletter, please contact Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven Bender: veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu. To subscribe or unsubscribe visit CRN 11 Displaced Peoples.

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WELCOME: COVID-19 & Displacement

Dear Colleagues:

Welcome to the CRN 11 February-March 2020 Newsletter, our second issue in volume 2. Humanity is faced with a public health emergency- the coronavirus disease.

On 10 December 2019, one of the earliest known cases of a newly discovered coronavirus was reported in Wuhan Central Hospital. By 31 December 2019, 27 cases of what is now known as COVID-19 were confirmed by the Wuhan health officials as China officially notifies the World Health Organisation. On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organisation declared the Outbreak of COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and the Director General raised the outbreak to a pandemic on 11 March 2020.  According to the World Health Organisation Situation Report 75, as of 4 April 2020, there were 1,051,635 cases and 56,935 deaths of COVID-19 reported in 208 countries and territories world-wide.

We are aware of the disproportional impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations especially internally displaced peoples, refugees and forced migrants. We know how challenging it can be to practice social distancing in transit whether during flight or displaced at a make-shift camp. Whatever the situation, we encourage you to do all you can to keep surviving.

Interested in making the best use of your time during COVID-19 lockdown? Apply for the CRN11 newsletter editor position.  Submit a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org  and benders@seattleu.edu.

Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven W. Bender

DISPLACED PEOPLES’ RIGHTS AND PROTECTION

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says there should be no exception with COVID-19: People with disabilities, older persons, minority communities, indigenous peoples, internally displaced people, people affected by extreme poverty and living in overcrowded settings, people who live in residential institutions, people in detention, homeless people, migrants and refugees, people who use drugs, LGBT, and gender diverse persons – these and other groups need to receive support from governments. More information is available here.

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), although the number of reported and confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection among refugees remains low, over 80 per cent of the world’s refugee population and nearly all the internally displaced people live in low to middle-income countries, many of which have weaker health, water and sanitation systems and need urgent support. The UN Refugee Agency provides a series of measures it is taking in its field operations to help respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency and prevent further spread. More information is available here.

The International Chamber of Commerce is supporting a call from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to prevent further spread of COVID-19 to the world’s most vulnerable communities and to advocate for inclusion of refugees and displaced people in national response plans. More information is available here.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) released guidance for employers and businesses on protection of migrant workers during the COVID-19 crisis. Antonio Vitorino, IOM Director General, said the private sector, governments, and other stakeholders must protect the rights and well-being of the estimated 164 million international migrant workers and their communities around the world, as the number of COVID-19 cases passed 1.3 million. More information is available here.

In a statement released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director, Henrietta Fore cautioned that COVID-19 will almost certainly gain foothold in refugee camps, crowded receptions centers, or detention facilities holding migrant families. Given how quickly the virus is spreading, such a scenario is looking imminent. More information is available here.

In a press release, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) raised concern over increasing COVID-19 cases recorded in the Greece Mainland Refugee and Migrant Camp. Some 23 migrants have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Ritsona open accommodation site in Central Greece – an IOM-managed camp which hosts 2,700 people. More information is available here.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)temporarily suspend resettlement travel for refugees. As countries drastically reduce entry into their territories owing to the COVID-19 global health crisis, and restrictions around international air travel are introduced, travel arrangements for resettling refugees are currently subject to severe disruptions. Some states have also placed a hold on resettlement arrivals given their public health situation, which impacts their capacity to receive newly resettled refugees. More information is available here.

A joint statement by the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs, UNHCR, OCHA and IOM marked the 10^thanniversary of the adoption of the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (the Kampala Convention) on 23 October 2019. This ground-breaking treaty (the Kampala Convention) has been ratified by 28 of the 55 countries on the continent. As the world’s first and only continent-wide legally binding instrument for the protection and assistance of internally displaced persons (IDPs), the Kampala Convention is a testament to the determination of African States to address the multiple challenges of IDPs. More information is here.

EVENTS CANCELLATION AND COVID-19

Postponement of the 24^th Annual Conference of ASRF

On 12 March 2020, the Executive Committee of the African Studies and Research Forum decided to postpone the 24th Annual Conference, which was scheduled to be held in Cape Coast, Ghana, from March 26-28, 2020.

LSA 2020 In-Person Annual Meeting Cancelled

On 20 March 2020, the Law and Society In-Person Annual Meeting was canceled, and plans are underway to move to a Virtual Conference. If you have registered for the in-person Annual Meeting and you choose to join the virtual meeting, your registration will be honoured, otherwise, you can request a refund of your registration fee and not participate in the virtual meeting by filling out the refund form by April 15th. Refunds will not be processed after 15 April and you will remain in the program.

IASFM 18 In-Person Annual Meeting Postponed

Due to current travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 virus, and uncertainties about when these restrictions will be lifted, the IASFM Executive Committee has taken the difficult decision to postpone the Ghana conference to July 26-29, 2021. If your paper or panel has been accepted, this acceptance will be carried over to next year.

GENERAL CALLS: CRN 11 EVENTS

Call to Participate in LSA 2020 Virtual Conference

Despite the LSA 2020 face-to-face meeting cancellation, CRN 11 is calling on its members to kindly register and participate in the LSA 2020 Virtual Conference (probably via Zoom meetings). Here are some of the Program Committee Plans:

• Paper sessions that allow panelists to deliver papers to an audience of interested participants, with those participants able to engage in meaningful ways – with a “chat” function, everyone can ask their question!
• Plenaries will be available both live and recorded giving you an option to attend even if it’s scheduled at an inconvenient time.
• Author Meets Reader sessions may be longer, allowing us to discuss more thoroughly the newest books in our field.
• Professional development panels – on getting grants, publication, tenure, and other topics – available at the LSA web site all year long.

Since plans are underway and details are still sketchy, please do not hesitate to forward your questions to me at veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

Call for Book Chapters

As the CRN 11 lead on the Research and Development Committee, I am planning to publish an international book on displaced children. I have already contacted potential publishers (e.g., Rowman & Littlefield). The book will attempt to engage academics, researchers, and specialists working on the topic of displaced peoples with a focus on displaced children globally. I am interested in papers concerning:

• children rights
• children with families
• the right to home
• displaced children
• children in society
• children and war
• children and families of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)
• children and families during migration

The deadline for chapter proposal is 25 June 2020. Please send your proposal to

magdalena.butrymowicz@upjp2.edu.pl and ollytola@yahoo.com

Call For Members: Research and Development Committee

CRN 11 is currently recruiting members to join Magdalena Krystyna Butrymowicz who leads the Research and Development Committee. Those interested, please email Magdalena: magdalena.butrymowicz@upjp2.edu.pl.

Call For Volunteers

CRN 11 is currently recruiting volunteers to lead the Advertisement and Promotion Committee. Those interested, please send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

The Journal of Internal Displacement

Are you interested in being a part of a vibrant and scholarly network of passionate academic-advocates of displaced peoples globally? Consider applying for the following positions with the

Journal of Internal Displacement: editorial board membership, reviewer, and research assistant. Contact Veronica Fynn Bruey, Editor-in-Chief for more information at veronica.fynnbruey@journalofinternaldisplacement.com.

The Journal of Internal Displacement—Call for Submissions

The Journal of Internal Displacement (ISSN 1920-5813 Online) is now accepting submissions for its January 2021 issue (Volume 11, Issue 1). Established in 2009, the Journal of Internal Displacement is the only scholarly and inter-disciplinary platform for raising the profile of displaced populations through discussions, critical dialogue, emerging themes, reflections and explorations on a wide range of topics and regions around the globe. The JID promotes free and open access and does not charge authors for submissions. Visit our website to submit a paper or subscribe for free.

COVID-19 & Queer Asylum

COVID-19 & Queer Asylum is a virtual symposium featuring NGO representatives and lawyers working on queer asylum, LGBTQI+ activists and LGBTQI+ persons seeking asylum and refugees from Germany. This symposium is intended to provide a platform for discussing the manner in which such pandemic and its political responses affects LGBTQI+ persons in terms of  isolation and trauma, access to health services, and EU-policy. These panels are followed by a counselling forum led by lawyers and  judges. Join in from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM on 29 April 2020.  For more information, click here.

Become a CRN 11 Research Collaborator

Interested in being a bona fide research collaborator with CRN 11? Email veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org for details on how to apply.

Invitation to be a Guest Blogger for CRN 11

Do you have an interesting story to tell about internal and international migration and displacement? CRN 11 is eager to share your piece as a guest blogger for our monthly newsletter.  Please submit your stories to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu.

RESEARCH, JOBS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa, Two Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups (Junior/Senior), University of Ghana, Ghana. Deadline: 10 April 2020.

IASH-CTPI Duncan Forrester Fellowship, University of Edinburgh, UK. Deadline: 30 April 2020.

University of Edinburgh – University of Leiden Joint Funded PhD Studentship, UK and The Netherlands. Deadline: 1 May 2020.

Galina Starovoitova Fellowship on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Kennan Institute, USA. Deadline: 15 May 2020.

Sheffield Methods Institute PhD scholarships, UK. Deadline: 31 May 2020.

Journal of Transient Migration – call for submission on Contemporary dynamics of the future of work, the platform economy and transient migrants. Deadline: 15 July 2020.

UQIDAR joint-PhD Program 2020, Australia and India, University of Queensland. Deadline: 31 December 2020.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

Conflict Research Network West Africa

Conflict Research Network West Africa, Micro Dynamics of Armed Conflict and Political Violence in West Africa, 20-23 April 2020, Lagos State University, Lagos State, Nigeria.

International Conference at Universidad de la Salle

Boundaries of the Natural: Matter, Territory, Community (Limites de lo natural: Materia, Territorio, Comunidad), 28-30 May2020, Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá, Colombia.

Armenia and Byzantium Without Borders III

‘Armenia & Byzantium Without Borders III’ Austrian Academy of Sciences, 8–10 May 2020, Vienna, Austria.

ZEW Research Department

The Integration of Immigrants and Attitudes towards the Welfare State (IMES) group, a joint research group of ZEW Mannheim and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim Workshop, Immigration, Integration and Attitudes, 5-6 June 2020, Mannheim, Germany.

Summer School – Central Eurasian Studies Society

Summer School – Innovations in Disaster and Climate Risk Reduction, 29 June – 3 August 2020, CEU, Hungary.

Colloque International de l’APAD 2020

Colloque international de l’APAD 2020, Les Circulations Dans le Sud Global: Ethnographies des échanges Mondialisés, 23-26 June 2020, l’ Université of Lomé, Togo. For more information contact: Elieth Eyebiyi (eelieth@yahoo.fr) and Johara Berriane (johara.berriane@gmail.com).

Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza Universita di Napoli Federico II

The 2020 EULAB Summer School on Labour Migration in the European Union, 7-16 July 2020,Department of Law of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.

VAD 2020

VAD 2020, Africa Challenges, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 22-25 September 2020, Frankfurt, Germany.

Association of Commonwealth University Summer School

Association of Commonwealth University Summer School 2020, The Migration Generation? Climate, Youth and Refugees, 2-10 August 2020, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Connecting Europe Project

Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Connecting Europe Project Conference, Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday, 4-6 November 2020, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

German Historical Institute

Annual Academic and Policy Symposium, Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers, 16-17 November 2020, Washington, DC.

The Centre for History of the University of Lisbon

The Centre for History of the University of Lisbon, 11^th Iberian African Studies, African Transits in the Global World: History and Memories, Heritage and Innovation, 21-23 January 2021, Lisbon, Portugal.

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration, and Development

Visit the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development, Maastricht University, The Netherlands for a list of events on Migration.

PUBLICATIONS

Cees Gorter, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot, Crossing Borders: Regional and Urban Perspectives on International Migration (30 June 2020).

Caroline Favas, Guidance for the Prevention of COVID-19 Infections among High-risk Individuals in Camps and Camp-like Settings (31 March 2020).

Refugee International, COVID-19 and the Displaced: Addressing the Threat of the Novel Coronavirus in Humanitarian Emergencies (30 March 2020).

Freedom United, Refugees subjected to forced labor in Libya now threatened by coronavirus (26 March 2020).

Oleg Bazaluk, Svitlana Balinchenko, Discursive Adjustments Indicators: The Case of Internal Displacement in Ukraine  (12 March 2020).

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Women and Girls in Internal Displacement (5 March 2020).

Justin Mudekereza, A Word of Warning to the World (24 February 2020).

Sonia Elks, Slavery not a crime for almost half the countries in the world – study (12 February 2020).

Human Rights Watch, Deported to Danger: United States Deportation Policies Expose Salvadorans to Death and Abuse (5 February 2020).

Johannes Hoogeveen, Utz Pape, Data Collection in Fragile States: Innovations from Africa and Beyond (February 2020).

Marion Noack, Protracted Displacement in the Horn of Africa (February 2020).

Raymond A. Atugaba, Francis Xavier, Dery Tuokuu, Vitus Gbang, Statelessness in West Africa: An Assessment of Stateless Population and Legal Policy, and Administrative Frameworks in Ghana (31 January 2020).

Lisa Brown Buchanan, Jeremy Hilburn, Cara Ward, Wayne Jounell, Examining Internal Displacement through the Rohingya Crisis (8 January 2020).

International Organization for Migration, World Migration Report 2020 (December 2019).

Svitlana Balinchenko, Conflict-related Democracy Predictors in Ukraine: Tolerance and Participation Tendencies in Migration-affected communities (15 November 2019).

The World Bank Group, Informing Durable Solutions for Internal Displacement in Nigeria, Somali, South Sudan, and Sudan(November 2019).

Krista Rand, Margaret Kurth, Cody H. Fleming, Igor Linkov, A Resilience Matrix Approach for Measuring and Mitigating Disaster-induced Population Displacement (10 September 2019).

Sue Easton, Loretta Lees, Phil Hubbard, Nicholas Tate, Measuring and Mapping Displacement: The Problem of Quantification in the Battle against Gentrification (8 July 2019).

IN THE NEWS

UNHCR Live Blog, Refugees in the COVID-19 Crisis (8 April 2020).

Danish Refugee Council, DRC will remain and continue support to displaced people during COVID-19 crisis (8 April 2020).

Marie McAuliffe and Celine Bauloz, The coronavirus pandemic could be devastating for the world’s migrants 6 April 2020.

The Economist, The world’s refugee camps are on coronavirus disaster in waiting 6 April 2020.

AfricaNews, Coronavirus-Mauritania: Holding the line, border officials mobilise against COVID-19 1 April 2020.

Human Rights Watch, Myanmar: Displacement camps are COVID-19 tinderboxes (30 March 2020).

Ali Al Bayaa, Global displacement, COVID-19 and the risk of a False-positive flattened curve (25 March 2020).

Wendy Williams, COVID-19 and Africa’s Displacement Crisis (25 March 2020).

Tyler Gillett, New Uzbekistan law grants citizenship to nearly 50,000 stateless persons (22 March 2020).

Maysoon Dahab, Keven van Zandvoort, Stefan Flasche, et al., COVID-19 control in low-income settings and displaced populations: What can realistically be done? (20 March 2020).

Soleiman Al-Khalidi, Over 800,000 Syrians, mostly women and children, flee Russian backed offensive: U.N. (13 February 2020).

Zenit, Pope at Angelus calls for halt to human trafficking (9 February 2020).

Helen Davidson, ‘Finally, a life’: Canada comes to the rescue when a refugee family loses hope in Australia (7 February 2020).

Stefanie Glinski, US-Iran tensions fuel Afghan returns (6 February 2020).

Zita Holbourne, Stop the mass deportation flight to Jamaica on 11 February 2020 (4 February 2020).

Ryan Devereaux, Federal judge reverses conviction of border volunteers, challenging government’s “gruesome logic’ (4 February 2020).

Ruth Maclean and Abdi Latif Dahir, New U.S. travel ban shuts door on Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria (2 February 2020).

Justice for Immigrants, U.S. Bishop Chairmen voice opposition to Proclamation that further restricts immigration and family reunification (2 February 2020).

UNHCR, Nakout, a refugee from South Sudan, pens a letter to her long-lost daughter (23 January 2020).

Damian McIver, Boy with Down syndrome, leukemia likely to go into foster care if Chinese mum is deported (3 June 2019).

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WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear Colleagues:
Happy New Year!

Welcome to the CRN 11 January 2020 Newsletter, our first issue in volume 2. We have entered the second decade of the second millennia, and we are excited about all the potential it has for our network.

As collaborators, we are eagerly anticipating our participation in three conferences and one summer school: ASRF, LSA, IASFMand ACU Summer School.

We are excited about the publication of Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe on 15 January 2020. To order your copy with a 30 per cent discount, use the code LEX30AUTH20 when purchasing from Rowman and Littlefield.

CRN 11 is also in the final stage of organizing presentations for Law and Society 2020. We need chairs and discussants for our sessions. Please contact us if you are interested. Remember to register for LSA 2020.

Are you interested in sharing your research work and experience on the CRN 11 platform? We would like to hear from you.  Be the first to get your piece featured as a guest blogger on the CRN 11 website.

CRN11 is in search of an editor for the monthly newsletter. Please send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu.

NEW PUBLICATION

Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe explores the burdens and impact of perilous migration, while considering which laws, policies, practices, and venues might establish empathy and protection for migrants. This interdisciplinary volume envisions and calls for a transformation in migration policy, motivated by the common goal of drastically reducing the peril migrants face when compelled to make their treacherous journeys. All contributors to this volume agree on the inadequacy of current approaches and the dire need for change in global migration law and policy. Therefore, the book seeks to inform, educate, persuade, and facilitate newer or less-heard perspectives, toward wider participation and influence within the forced migration policy debate. Guided by the famous advice of Karl Marx that the point should be changing the world rather than merely analyzing or interpreting it, the contributors suggest practical measures to fix the current gap in responses to migrant peril, along with strategies for diagnosing, countering, and promoting human romoting human dignity and social justice, with the aim of preventing future deaths and injuries in migrant journeys across the globe.

Reviews

Humans are a migratory species. Migration has enriched the world in so many ways. It has also brought out the worst among humankind. Deadly Voyages provides a collection of carefully studied accounts of the trials and tribulations of migration. It provides readers a deeper perspective into the human failings around migration and the resulting divisions and harms.
— Shafik Dharamsi, University of Texas at El Paso

An extremely timely and invaluable contribution to migration policy and scholarship. It offers a vivid and incisive account of migrants forced to take treacherous voyages by bringing together compelling empirical materials across the globe. This interdisciplinary book deserves wider readership among those interested in gaining deep insights into the dilemma and aspirations embedded in these journeys.
— Naohiko Omata, Oxford University

Deadly Voyages is a must-read text for anyone seeking to fully understand the true scale and multi-faceted impact of displacement in today’s seemingly ever-hostile world.
— Ben Hudson, University of Lincoln

To order your copy with a 30 per cent discount, use the code LEX30AUTH20 when purchasing from Rowman and Littlefield.

GENERAL CALLS: CRN 11 EVENTS

Call For Members: Research and Development Committee

CRN 11 is currently recruiting members to join Magdalena Krystyna Butrymowicz who leads the Research and Development Committee. Those interested, please email Magdalena: magdalena.butrymowicz@upjp2.edu.pl.

Call For Volunteers

CRN 11 is currently recruiting volunteers to lead the Advertisement and Promotion Committee. Those interested, please send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

Call for Editorial Board Members and Reviewers

The Journal of Internal Displacement is accepting applications for editorial board membership and reviewers. All interested should email: internaldisplacement@gmail.com.

Call for Journal: Journal of Internal Displacement

The Journal of Internal Displacement is accepting application for a research assistant. For more information contact, Veronica Fynn Bruey, Editor-In-Chief: internaldisplacement@gmail.com.

Become a Research Collaborator

Interested in being a bona fide research collaborator with CRN 11? Email veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org for details on how to apply.

Guest Blogger on CRN 11

Do you have an interesting story to tell about internal and international migration and displacement? All CRN 11 members are invited to be a guest blogger for our monthly newsletter.  Please submit your stories to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu.

RESEARCH, JOBS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS

International President’s Entrance Scholarships 2020 at University of Western Ontario, Canada. Deadline: 14 February 2020.

SOAS Master’s Scholarships 2020, University of London, UK. Deadline: 20 February 2020.

International Undergraduate Excellence Awards 2020 at University of Nottingham, UK. Deadline: 13 March 2020.

Two days short course on Palestine Refugees and International Law, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Turkey. Date: 13-14 March 2020.

Call for Chapter Proposals – The Never-Ending Journey: Cultural Representations of Central American Migration in the 21st Century. Deadline: 31 March 2020.

Journal of Transient Migration – call for submission on Contemporary dynamics of the future of work, the platform economy and transient migrants. Deadline: 15 July 2020.

PhD Scholarships for UQIDAR joint-PhD Program 2020, Australia and India, University of Queensland. Deadline: 31 December 2020.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

Law and Society Review Symposium

Law & Society Review Symposium: Facing Immigration Detention Revised Submission. Deadline: 15 February 2020

Inequalities, Peace, Conflict, and Justice in Turkey – Workshop

The “Inequalities, Peace, Conflict, and Justice in Turkey” workshop, 6-7 March, Lund University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Turkey.

The Fifth Liberal Education Conference

The Fifth Liberal Education Conference on the theme of Liberal Education in Era of Migration, Refugee Crises, and Decolonization, Medicine Hat College and Mount Royal University, 7 March 2020, Medicine Hat College and Mount Royal University, Alberta, Canada.

The 2021 MLA Convention on the Theme of Persistence

Citizen Acts, MLA Toronto, 7-10 January 2021. Contact Joanna Davis-McElligatt at joanna.davis-mcelligatt@unt.edu by 15 March 2020.

African Studies and Research Forum 24^th Annual Conference

African Studies and Research Forum 24^th Annual Conference, The African Condition: Challenges and Prospects, 26-28 March 2020, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Penn State University’s African Studies Program

Penn State University’s African Studies Program 7th Annual Conference titled: “Africa on the Rise! 60 years after 1960”, 17-18 April 2020, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

Under the European Asylum Rainbow

Under the European Asylum Rainbow:Intersectional Queer Challenges 2020, 29 April 2020, Campus Westend Festsaal Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.

International Conference at Universidad de la Salle

Boundaries of the Natural: Matter, Territory, Community (Limites de lo natural: Materia, Territorio, Comunidad), 28-30 May2020, Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá, Colombia

Law and Society Annual Meeting

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Rule and Resistance, 28-31 May 2020, Denver, Colorado, USA.

IARCEES 43^rd Annual International Conference

Environment, Territory, Mobility: The 43rd Annual International Conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies, 7-8 May 2020, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Armenia and Byzantium Without Borders III

‘Armenia & Byzantium Without Borders III’ Austrian Academy of Sciences, 8–10 May 2020, Vienna, Austria.

Summer School – Central Eurasian Studies Society

Summer School – Innovations in Disaster and Climate Risk Reduction, 29 June – 3 August 2020, CEU, Hungary.

IASFM ’18

International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Biannual Conference IASFM18, Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy, 27-30 July 2020, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.

Association of Commonwealth University Summer School

Association of Commonwealth University Summer School 2020, The Migration Generation? Climate, Youth and Refugees, 2-10 August 2020, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration, and Development

Visit the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development, Maastricht University, The Netherlands for a list of events on Migration.

PUBLICATIONS

Queer Muslim Asylum in Germany Newsletter: The first of its kind produced by Dr Mengia Tschalaer.

Mobilités, circulations et frontières: Migrations, mobilités et développement en Afrique Tome 1 by Elieth Peyebiyi and Angele Flora Mendy.

Stratégies familiales, diasporas et investissements: Migrations, mobilités et développement en Afrique Tome 2 by Elieth Peyebiyi and Angele Flora Mendy.

Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge by Silvia Pasquetti and Romola Sanyal

Displaced: A Holocaust Memoir and the Road to a New Beginning by Linda Schwab and Todd M Mealy

Forced Migration Research: From Theory to Practice in Promoting Migrant Well-Being – Proceedings of a Workshop by Steve Olson and Maly K Majmundar.

The Political Philosophy of Refuge by David Miller and Christine Straehle.

IN THE NEWS

Freedom United, Indian schoolgirl hero leads new anti-trafficking campaign, 30 January 2020.

Oumar Ba, This tiny African country got the UN’s top court to investigate Myanmar for genocide, 29 January 2020.

Amnesty International, UN landmark case for people displaced by climate change, 20 January 2020.

UNHCR, Key takeaways from the Global Refugee Forum, 17 January 2020.

UN, New El Salvador law, a victory for forced displacement victims, 10 January 2020.

The Local, Austria court strikes down law aimed at cutting benefits for migrants, 17 December 2019.

SEND US YOUR NEWS AND EVENTS

Displaced Peoples newsletter is published monthly. If you would like your news, story, event or publication included, please email details before the 10th of every month. Information received after this date will be included in the following month if the date is still relevant. Items to be included on our website can be sent at any time.

To subscribe or unsubscribe visit CRN 11 Displaced Peoples. To submit newsworthy information, send an email to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

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Welcome and Announcements

Dear Colleagues:

Welcome to the CRN 11 November-December (Nov-Dec) 2019 Newsletter, our last issue in volume 1. We have come to the end of another year with so many prospects for 2020. We successfully launched the Journal of Internal Displacement new website, assisted with planning the IASFM 18 in Ghana, and added nine (9) new research collaborators.

We are excited about beginning 2020 with the publication of Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe. To preorder your copy with a 30 per cent discount, be sure to use the code LEX30AUTH20 when purchasing from Rowman and Littlefield.

CRN 11 is also in the process of organizing presentations for Law and Society 2020. Remember to register by 7 December to get the early-bird rate by saving between $10-$30.

Please join me in welcoming our newest researcher and member, Miss Adebimpe Desire Fashina, an Assistant Lecturer/PhD Candidate at the Department of Liberal Studies, Technical University of Mombasa, Kenya.

CRN11 is still in search of an editor for the monthly newsletter. All interested persons should send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu. The position will remain open until it is filled.

Warmly,
Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven W. Bender

CRN 11: Upcoming Publication

Edited by Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven W. Bender, Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe, explores the burdens and impact of perilous migration, while considering which laws, policies, practices, and venues might establish empathy and protection for migrants. This interdisciplinary volume envisions and calls for a transformation in migration policy, motivated by the common goal of drastically reducing the peril migrants face when compelled to make their treacherous journeys. To preorder your copy with a 30 per cent discount, be sure to use the code LEX30AUTH20 when purchasing from Rowman and Littlefield.

General Calls: CRN 11 Events

Call For Members: Research and Development Committee

CRN 11 is currently recruiting members to join Magdalena Krystyna Butrymowicz who leads the Research and Development Committee. Those interested, please email Magdalena: magdalena.butrymowicz@upjp2.edu.pl.

Call For Volunteers

CRN 11 is currently recruiting volunteers to lead the Advertisement and Promotion Committee. Those interested, please send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

Call for Editorial Board Members and Reviewers

The Journal of Internal Displacement is accepting applications for editorial board membership and reviewers. All interested should email: internaldisplacement@gmail.com.

Become a Research Collaborator

Interested in being a bona fide research collaborator with CRN 11? Email veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org for details on how to apply.

Opportunities, Jobs, Scholarships…

View current opportunities with the International Organization for Migration here.

International & Global Studies Adjunct Instructor Spring 2020 – Migration at Portland State University. Click here for more details.

Current vacancies at the Danish Refugee Council. Click here for more details.

Find a position and internship at the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. Click here for more details.

Be a changemaker for displaced people, work for the Norwegian Refugee Council. Click here for more details.

Penn Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration (CSERI) Fellowship Program 2020, USA

Application Deadline: 20 December 2019. Click here for more details.

Migrations Postdoctoral Fellowships 2020 at Cornell University, USA. Application Deadline: 15 January 2020. Click here for more details.

Forte’s International Postdoctoral Programme 2020, Sweden. Application Deadline: 23 January 2020. Click here for more details.

Papers, Proposals, and Contributions

Guest Blogger on CRN 11 (CRN 11 Event)

Do you have an interesting story to tell about internal and international migration and displacement? All CRN 11 members are invited to be a guest blogger for our monthly newsletter.  Please submit your stories to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu.

Environment, Territory, Mobility: The 43rd Annual International Conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies 7-8 May 2020, University College Dublin, Ireland. Deadline: 10 January 2020. For more information, please contact, Dr Jennifer Keating, Assistant Professor of Modern East European History, University College Dublin, jennifer.keating@ucd.ie.

Law & Society Review Symposium: Facing Immigration Detention Revised Submission. Deadline: 15 February 2020

Upcoming Conferences

African Studies and Research Forum 24^th Annual Conference, The African Condition: Challenges and Prospects, 26-28 March 2020, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Rule and Resistance, 28-31 May 2020, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.

International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Biannual Conference IASFM18, Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy, 27-30 July 2020, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.

Association of Commonwealth University Summer School 2020, The Migration Generation? Climate, Youth and Refugees, 2-10 August 2020, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Visit the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development, Maastricht University, The Netherlands for a list of events on Migration.

Publications

Latest research and publications from the Center for Migration Studies Journals.

Juan Francisco Saldarriaga and Yuan Hua, A gravity model analysis of forced displacement in Colombia, December 2019.

Alison Heslin, Natalie Delia Deckard, Robert Oakes, Arianna Montero-Colbert, Displacement and resettlement: Understanding the role of climate change in contemporary migration, 29 November 2019.

Krista Rand and Cody H. Fleming, An interdisciplinary review to develop guidelines for modeling population displacement as a function of infrastructure reconstruction decisions, 15 November 2019

Michel Vols and Christoph Schmid, Houses, Homes and the Law, 28 October 2019.

Karen Chapple, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Transit-Oriented Displacement or community dividends?: Understanding the effects of smarter growth on communities, 26 March 2019.

Media

DW, Dozens killed as migrant boat sinks off Mauritania coast, 5 November 2019.

DW, Germany: Thousands of migrants return after deportation, report says 5 November 2019.

DW, Land migration in Africa twice as deadly as Mediterranean, says UNHCR, 5 November 2019.

Owen Bowcott, Gambia files Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar at UN Court, 11 November 2019.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, Journey of resilience, 12 November 2019.

Relief Web, Internally displaced persons in Ukraine urgently need durable solutions [EN/UK], 26 November 2019.

Derek Groen and Diana Suleimenova, Climate refugees: why we can’t yet predict where millions of displaced people will go, 28 November 2019.

Freedom United, UK government’s treatment of trafficking victims ruled unlawful, 13 December 2019.

A Apelblat, EU main donor of humanitarian aid to displaced persons, 14 December 2019

Abdullah Alif, Bangladesh has more internally displaced people than Myanmar, 15 December 2019.

Send us your events, news, links…

Displaced Peoples newsletter is published monthly. If you would like your news, story, event or publication included, please email details before the 10th of every month. Information received after this date will be included in the following month if the date is still relevant. Items to be included on our website can be sent at any time.

To subscribe or unsubscribe visit CRN 11 Displaced Peoples. To submit newsworthy information, send an email to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

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Welcome and Announcements

Dear Colleagues:
Welcome to the CRN 11 October 2019 Newsletter.

The deadline for the Law and Society 2020 in Denver, Colorado is approaching! Consider presenting a paper on Displaced Peoples by designating CRN 11 when submitting online.

The Journal of Internal Displacement launched its fresh new website using the Open Journal System (OJS). All are encouraged to visit, subscribe, and experience the new look. For more information, visit the Journal of Internal Displacement.

We continue with our excitement for the Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe book project. Be sure to preorder your copy from Rowman and Littlefield. Watch this space for more info.

CRN11 is still in search of an editor for the monthly newsletter. All interested persons should send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu. The position will remain open until it is filled.

Warmly,
Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven W. Bender

CALL FOR PAPERS: LAW AND SOCIETY 2020

CRN 11 invites you to submit a paper(s) to be considered for a panel, salon, or round-table presentation for the Law and Society Annual Meeting 2020.  The LSA 2020 deadline for abstract submission is 6 November 2019. In order to put together a Panel, Salon or Round-Table Presentation on Displaced Peoples, please submit a working title and a brief abstract by 21 October 2019 to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu. For more details on the LSA 2020 Call for Papers, click here.

General Calls

Upcoming Book: Deadly Voyages Migrant Journeys Across the Globe (CRN 11 Event)

Edited by Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven W. Bender, Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe, explores the burdens and impact of perilous migration, while considering which laws, policies, practices, and venues might establish empathy and protection for migrants. This interdisciplinary volume envisions and calls for a transformation in migration policy, motivated by the common goal of drastically reducing the peril migrants face when compelled to make their treacherous journeys. To pre-order, visit: Rowman and Littlefield.

Call For Members: Research and Development Committee (CRN 11 Event)

CRN 11 is currently recruiting members to join Magdalena Krystyna Butrymowicz who leads the Research and Development Committee. Those interested, please email Magdalena: magdalena.butrymowicz@upjp2.edu.pl.

Call For Volunteers (CRN 11 Event)

CRN 11 is currently recruiting volunteers to lead the Advertisement and Promotion Committee. Those interested, please send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

Call for Editorial Board Members and Reviewers (CRN 11 Event)

The Journal of Internal Displacement is accepting applications for editorial board membership and reviewers. All interested should email: internaldisplacement@gmail.com.

Become a Research Collaborator (CRN 11 Event)

Interested in being a bona fide research collaborator with CRN 11? Email veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org for details on how to apply.

Opportunities, Jobs, Scholarships…

Job Vacancies at IOM

To view current opportunities with the International Organization for Migration click here.

Vacancies at IOM ILO Launches Global Media Competition on Labour Migration

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is launching its fifth annual Global Media Competition to recognize exemplary media coverage of labour migration. This year’s themes are ‘fair recruitment’ and ‘the future of labour migration’. For more details, click here.

Oxford University’s Migration Studies pathway offers an interdisciplinary training that brings together research centres that are world-renowned for their work on international migration. For more information, click here.

Papers, Proposals, and Contributions

Guest Blogger on CRN 11 (CRN 11 Event)

Do you have an interesting story to tell about internal and international migration and displacement? All CRN 11 members are invited to be a guest blogger for our monthly newsletter.  Please submit your stories to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu.

IASFM 18 (CRN 11 Related Event)
International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Biannual Conference IASFM18, Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy, University of Ghana, Ghana. Deadline: 4 November 2019.

Horizon 2020 Within Marie Sklowdowska-Currie Actions

International Workshop on ‘Expanding The Penal Landscape: The Immigration Detention Phenomena’, Centre For Criminology And Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto (Canada). For more details, email: ana.ballesteros@utoronto.ca

Others

The University of Vienna’s Workshop on Armenia & Byzantium Without Borders III. Deadline: 31 October 2019.

The Ekphrasis: Images, Cinema, Theory, Media Journal Special Issue on Poetics of the Borders: Meeting Points and Representational Border-Crossings in Contemporary Central and Eastern European Cinema. Deadline: 1 November 2019.

American Society of International Law, Annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition. Deadline: 15 November 2019.

Upcoming Conferences

MiReKoc 15^th Anniversary Conference on Migration and Development in the Global South: Research Challenges and Policy Implications, 24-25 October, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Register for the annual gathering of researchers, academics, and practitioners in the migration and settlement field, dubbed Strangers in New Homelands Conference: International Conference Dedicated to Examining How Immigrants and Refugees Deal With Life Change, 30 October-1 November 2019, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

Centre on Global Migration and the School of Business, Economics and Law, Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies, 6-9 November 2019, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Support refugees + LGBTIQA by attending the inaugural Australian conference on LGBTIQA+ refugees: Queer Displacements: Sexuality Migration and Exile, 13-15 November 2019, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Participate in the Family Discover Once Again? In Law, Economy and Sociology: The Problem of Migration and Family Relation, 14 November 2019, Krakow, Poland. For more information, contact: konferencja.emigracja@upjp2.edu.pl.

The Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Centre (DAKAM) invite you to join the Refugees and Forced Migration ’19 / IV International Interdisciplinary Conference on Refugees and Forced Immigration, 15 November 2019, Istanbul, Turkey.

For a chance to network with international professionals and more, register for the 3^rd Global Conference, Diasporas: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference, 1-2 December 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.

For a chance to be part of constructed change, register for the 3^rd Global Conference, Migrations: An Interdisciplinary Project, 1-2 December 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.

OECD 9^th Annual International Conference, Immigration in OECD Countries, 12-13 December 2019, Boulongne-Billancourt, France.

Visit the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development, Maastricht University, The Netherlands for a list of events on Migration.

Publications

International Organisation for Migration, Supporting Brighter Futures: Young women and girls and labour migration in South-East Asia and the Pacific, October 2019.

Alex Munoz and Kelsey Shanks, The Impact of Internal Displacement in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Internally Displaced People, Interethnic Relations, and Social Cohesion in Duhok, June 2019.

Ronli Sifris and Maria Tanyag, Intersectionality, Transitional Justice, and the Case of Internally Displaced Moro Women in the Philippines, May 2019.

Ryszard Piotrowicz, Conny Rijken, and Baerbel Heide Uhl, Routledge Handbook on Human Trafficking, April 2019.

Trafficked!: A Natalie McMasters Mystery, April 2019.

Sadiki Koko, The Challenges of Power-Sharing and Transitional Justice in Post-civil War African Countries: Comparing Burundi, Mozambique and Sierra Leone, 2019.

Media

Staff Reporter, Piñera declares emergency in Santiago de Chile after violent metro fare protests (19 October 2019).

Will Christou, ‘The Situation is miserable’: IDPs caught between Turkey and Damascus’ forces (17 October 2019).

Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Exclusive: Thailand’s human traffickers flout 99% of court orders to compensate victims (15 October 2019).

Manny Maung, Internally displaced Kachin battle to return home (12 October 2019).

Government of Fiji, Official launch of Fiji’s Climate Relocation and Displaced Peoples Trust Fund for Communities and Infrastructure (24 September 2019).

Send us your events, news, links…

Displaced Peoples newsletter is published monthly. If you would like your news, story, event or publication included, please email details before the 10th of every month. Information received after this date will be included in the following month if the date is still relevant. Items to be included on our website can be sent at any time.

To subscribe or unsubscribe visit CRN 11 Displaced Peoples. To submit newsworthy information, send an email to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

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Welcome and Announcements

Dear Colleagues:

Welcome to the CRN 11 September 2019 Newsletter.

Law and Society 2020 in Denver, Colorado is here! Consider submitting a paper on Displaced Peoples.

In September 2019, the Journal of Internal Displacement launched its fresh new design. All are encouraged to visit and experience the new look. For more information, visit the Journal of Internal Displacement.

We continue with exciting news on the Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globebook project that will be published in late 2019. Be sure to preorder your copy from Rowman and Littlefield.

CRN11 is in search of an editor for the monthly newsletter. All interested persons should send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu by 30 September 2019.

Warmly,
Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven W. Bender

CALL FOR PAPERS: LAW AND SOCIETY 2020

As you may know, the Law and Society Annual Meeting 2020 Call for Papers has been released. CRN 11 invites you to submit a paper(s) to be considered for a panel, salon, or round-table presentation. The LSA 2020 deadline for abstract submission is 6 November 2019. In order to put together a Panel, Salon or Round-Table Presentation on Displaced Peoples, please submit a working title and a brief abstract by 21 October 2019 to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu. For more details on the LSA 2020 Call for Papers, click here.

General Calls

Upcoming Book: Deadly Voyages Migrant Journeys Across the Globe (CRN 11 Event)

Edited by Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven W. Bender, Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe, explores the burdens and impact of perilous migration, while considering which laws, policies, practices, and venues might establish empathy and protection for migrants. This interdisciplinary volume envisions and calls for a transformation in migration policy, motivated by the common goal of drastically reducing the peril migrants face when compelled to make their treacherous journeys. To pre-order, visit: Rowman and Littlefield.

Call For Members: Research and Development Committee (CRN 11 Event)

CRN 11is currently recruiting members to join Magdalena Krystyna Butrymowiczwho leads the Research and Development Committee. Those interested, please email Magdalena: magdalena.butrymowicz@upjp2.edu.pl.

Call For Volunteers (CRN 11 Event)

CRN 11is currently recruiting volunteers to lead the Advertisement and Promotion Committee. Those interested, please send a cover letter and CV to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.

Call for Editorial Board Members and Reviewers (CRN 11 Event)

The Journal of Internal Displacement is accepting applications for editorial board membership and reviewers. All interested should email: internaldisplacement@gmail.com.

Become a Research Collaborator (CRN 11 Event)

Interested in being a bona fideresearch collaborator with CRN 11? Email veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org for details on how to apply.

Call for Editor(s): International Migration

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Wiley invite applications for the editorship of International Migration. For more information, visit: International Migration.

Papers, Proposals, and Contributions

Guest Blogger on CRN 11 (CRN 11 Event)

Do you have an interesting story to tell about internal and international migration and displacement. All CRN 11 members are invited to be a guest blogger for our monthly newsletter.  Please submit your stories to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org and benders@seattleu.edu.

IASFM 18 (CRN 11 Related Event)

International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Biannual Conference IASFM18, Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy, University of Ghana, Ghana. Deadline: 4 November 2019.

Others

Stanford Law, the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies,Borders: Laws of Physical and Conceptual Space, 3-7 March 2020, Stanford Law School, Stanford, San Francisco, CA, USA. Deadline: 30 September 2019.

BISA Working Group and the University of Bath, Post-graduate Research Workshop on International Migration Politics, London, UK. Deadline: 23 September 2019.

International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology on Immigrant Political Participation in the Global South,Porto Alegre, Brazil. Deadline: 30 September 2019.

Call for papers on Forced Displacementin UN City, 17-18 January 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark. Deadline: 1 October 2019.

Call For Papers, University of California Irvine’s Annual Global Studies Conference, 31 January – 1 February 2020, USA. Deadline: 18 October 2019.

The Ekphrasis: Images, Cinema, Theory, Media Journal Special Issue on Poetics of the Borders: Meeting Points and Representational Border-Crossings in Contemporary Central and Eastern European Cinema. Deadline: 1 November 2019.

American Society of International Law, Annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition. Deadline: 15 November 2019.

Upcoming Conferences

Attend the IDMC second interdisciplinary Internal Displacement Conference, 1 October 2019, Domaine de Penthes, Chemin de l’Impératrice 18, Geneva.

Register for the American Society of Comparative Law 2019 Annual Meeting, 17-19 October 2019, Columbia, MO, USA.

MiReKoc 15^thAnniversary Conference on Migration and Development in the Global South: Research Challenges and Policy Implications, 24-25 October, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Register for the annual gathering of researchers, academics, and practitioners in the migration and settlement field, dubbed Strangers in New Homelands Conference: International Conference Dedicated to Examining How Immigrants and Refugees Deal With Life Change, 30 October-1 November 2019, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

Centre on Global Migration and the School of Business, Economics and Law, Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies, 6-9 November 2019, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Support refugees + LGBTIQA by attending the inaugural Australian conference on LGBTIQA+ refugees: Queer Displacements: Sexuality Migration and Exile, 13-15 November 2019, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Participate in the Family Discover Once Again? In Law, Economy and Sociology: The Problem of Migration and Family Relation, 14 November 2019, Krakow, Poland. For more information, contact:

konferencja.emigracja@upjp2.edu.pl.

The Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Centre (DAKAM) invite you to join the Refugees and Forced Migration ’19 / IV International Interdisciplinary Conference on Refugees and Forced Immigration, 15 November 2019, Istanbul, Turkey.

For a chance to network with international professionals and more, register for the 3^rdGlobal Conference, Diasporas: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference, 1-2 December 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.

For a chance to be part of constructed change, register for the 3^rdGlobal Conference, Migrations: An Interdisciplinary Project, 1-2 December 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.

OECD 9^thAnnual International Conference, Immigration in OECD Countries, 12-13 December 2019, Boulongne-Billancourt, France.

Visit the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development,Maastricht University, The Netherlands for a list of events on Migration.

Jobs

Political Science / Legal Studies – Assistant Professor – Law & Inequality. Click here for more details.

Publications

Elisabeth Wacker, Ulrich Becker, and Katharina Crepaz, Refugees and Forced Migrants in African and the EU, 2019.

Victoria Reyes, Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines, September 2019

Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Leah Kimathi, and Michael Omondi Owiso, Refugees and Forced Migration in the Horn and Eastern Africa, 2019.

American Journal of Public Health, Immigrant Public Health: Practice and Justice, September 2019.

S. Megan Berthold and Kathryn R. Libal, Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives, June 2019.

Eve Lester, Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia, March 2018.

Alice Bloch and Giorgia Dona, Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates(15 August 2018).

Media

BBC News, Rwanda agrees deal to take in hundreds of African migrants(10 September 2019).

Baghdad – Asharq Al-Awsat, The Iraqi displaced no one wants(13 September 2019).

Staff Reporter, Report: 2019 ‘disastrous’ for displacement(13 September 2019).

Crispian Balmer and Catherine MacDonal, Rome court says Migrant ship can enter Italy’s waters, overriding Salvini(14 August 2019).

Wladimiro Pantaleone, Italy says Eritrean in migrant case was victim of mistaken identity(12 July 2019).

BBC News, The Africans risking death in jungle trying to reach US(12 September 2019).

Send us your events, news, links…

Displaced Peoples newsletter is published monthly. If you would like your news, story, event or publication included, please email details before the 10th of every month. Information received after this date will be included in the following month if the date is still relevant. Items to be included on our website can be sent at any time.

To subscribe or unsubscribe visit CRN 11 Displaced Peoples. To submit newsworthy information, send an email to veronica.fynnbruey@tuki-tumarankeh.org.