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Shelter in displacement (Forced Migration Review 55)

FMR 55 - Planning for the integration of refugee and host communities in Turkana County, Kenya

The Kalobeyei New Settlement focuses on the creation of a spatial plan to guide settlement in both the short and the long term to the benefit of both host community and refugees.

FMR 55 - Poor Albanians who hosted displaced Kosovars

The experience of hosting displaced Kosovars is one that at least one Albanian village would prefer not to repeat.

FMR 55 - Hosting the displaced – and being hosted

A local family hosting a displaced family in their home is becoming a well-recognised form of shelter for families in displacement.

FMR 55 - Security of tenure in the urban context

Addressing the lack of secure tenure and the risk of forced eviction is one of the defining characteristics of urban shelter response.

FMR 55 - The pavements and slums of Dhaka

Almost half a million people every year seek refuge in Dhaka, compelled by a nexus of climate change, poverty and environmental degradation. Many end up on living on the pavements.

FMR 55 - Mass shelters: inappropriate in displacement

Mass shelters appear to be an inappropriate shelter solution even in the acute onset of a crisis, creating problems of dignity and security and having significant health consequences.

FMR 55 - More design, less innovation

Those working in international agencies to develop shelter solutions for displaced populations can learn much from human-centred design practices of professional architects and planners.

FMR 55 - The humanitarian-architect divide

Humanitarians and architects can fail to find a common language, characterising each other in schematic terms.

FMR 55 - Using public schools as shelter for IDPs in Yemen

The two years of conflict in Yemen have created 3.3 million internally displaced person (IDPs), 20% of whom live in spontaneous settlements or collective centres, including public buildings. Schools top the list of the public buildings that are frequently

FMR 55 General - Cash transfer programming: lessons from northern Iraq

Cash transfers can be a powerful tool in situations of conflict and forced migration. However, the need to adopt a context- and conflict-sensitive approach is of great importance.

FMR 55 General - Facilitating 'reasonable hope' with refugees and asylum seekers

The loss of hope over time has led to despair and a mental health crisis for refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.

FMR 55 General - Vulnerability of refugees with communication disabilities to SGBV: evidence from Rwanda

Refugees with communication disabilities are particularly vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence, in part because of their limited ability to report abuse.

FMR 55 General - The power of education in refugees' lives: Sri Lankan refugees in India

In their determination to take control of an uncertain future, Sri Lankan refugees living in the camps of Tamil Nadu, India, have prioritised education.

FMR 55 General - Children of rape of refugee women, and statelessness, in Egypt

The facilitation of birth registration procedures for children born from rape – particularly of refugee women – is necessary in order to prevent statelessness.

FMR 55 General - Proving torture: demanding the impossible

New research demonstrates that errors by Home Office asylum caseworkers in their handling of expert medical evidence of torture can make it almost impossible for survivors of torture seeking asylum in the UK to prove that they were tortured.

FMR 55 General - Giving birth in transit through Greece

Pregnant refugee women en route through Europe are having to give birth in extremely difficult conditions. They face appalling choices, and their babies risk being stateless.

Resettlement (Forced Migration Review 54)

FMR 54 - From the Editors

This issue of FMR looks at some of the modalities and challenges of resettlement in order to shed light on debates such as how - and how well – resettlement is managed.

FMR 54 - Practical considerations for effective resettlement

There are certain essential elements of resettlement programming benefit both refugees and the states undertaking to receive them.

FMR 54 - The resettlement of Hungarian refugees in 1956

Around the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising it is worth looking back on the efforts to resettle refugees to see that debates about how to help are timeless.

FMR 54 - The internationalisation of resettlement: lessons from Syria and Bhutan

There is clearly political will to engage more on refugee issues through resettlement. A defining feature of this effort is its internationalisation.

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