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Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48)

FMR 48 - The costs of giving and receiving: dilemmas in Bangkok

Local faith-based organisations play a central role in meeting the basic needs of the increasing urban refugee population in Bangkok. This raises challenges for all involved.

FMR 48 - Faith and the politics of resettlement

For some asylum seekers in Turkey, conversion may be an opportunistic strategy to improve resettlement prospects.

FMR 48 - Principles and proselytising: good practice in Ethiopia

Faith-based organisations need to ensure that in providing essential humanitarian assistance they do not exploit the vulnerability of people by proselytising, whether overtly or covertly.

FMR 48 - Jewish roots of humanitarian assistance

The act of assistance is an act of respect for the humanity of others and is not the preserve of any one faith.

FMR 48 - Chins in Mizoram state, India: a faith-based response

The faith community in Mizoram state in India has played an instrumental role in providing social services, changing perceptions of refugees, and providing access and assistance, reaching the most vulnerable where there's no international presence.

FMR 48 - Engaging IDPs in Sri Lanka: a Buddhist approach

A Buddhist Sri Lankan NGO provides an example of how endogenous faith-based civil society organisations can help mobilise IDPs in owning and defining strategies for their own protection. - See more at: http://www.fmreview.org/faith/contents#sthash.Ktl8olu

FMR 48 - An ecumenical organisation for asylum seekers in Switzerland

An ecumenical organisation provides socio-pastoral assistance for asylum seekers while they go through the first crucial steps of the asylum proceedings.

FMR 48 - African refugees and the particular role of churches in the UK

Many churches have the necessary physical and social assets to assist refugees in the community both individually and by bringing them together.

FMR 48 - Post-disaster recovery and support in Japan

As a locally based faith-based organisation, there were several aspects that enabled Soka Gakkai to contribute effectively to the relief effort following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, responding to both physical and psychological needs.

FMR 48: ‘Welcoming the stranger’ and UNHCR’s cooperation with faith-based organisations

Since its creation in 1950, UNHCR has engaged with faith-based organisations, faith communities and faith leaders in carrying out its work. Recently, UNHCR has been more actively exploring the role of faith in humanitarian responses.

FMR 48 - What’s faith got to do with it?

Use of the faith-based label demands greater clarification lest it lose coherence and result in adverse policy implications, excluding religiously motivated actors from providing much-needed assistance to displaced communities, particularly inside Syria.

FMR 48 - Refugees’ integration in Uganda will require renewed lobbying

A legal decision about whether refugees in Uganda can become citizens continues to be delayed.

FMR 48 - The 1969 OAU Convention and the continuing challenge for the African Union

Forty years after the OAU Convention on Refugees came into force, the dismal state in which refugees in Africa find themselves these days raises the question as to whether the Convention has lived up to expectations.

FMR 48 - From violence to more violence in Central America

Many Central American migrants flee their home country as a result of violence and threats from the criminal gangs. A large number of them also encounter the same type of violence that they are fleeing when on the migratory routes through Mexico.

FMR 48 - Work and refugee integration in Sweden

One of the main challenges facing refugees trying to integrate in their host country is finding a suitable job. Sweden recognises this issue and is investing in making inclusion in the labour market the driver of refugee integration.

FMR 48 - Frozen displacement: Kashmiri Pandits in India

In the 1990s nearly 250,000 people were displaced by violence in India. More than 20 years later the question for them is whether the responses to their displacement so far can form the basis for long-term solutions for their protracted displacement.

FMR 48 - Reflections from the encampment decision in the High Court of Kenya

Civil society groups are embracing a recent victory in the High Court of Kenya as a reminder of the important role that strategic litigation can play in the enforcement and promotion of refugee rights.

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Silent University Visible Award Ceremony 2013

The Silent University Visible Award Ceremony 2013 took place at the Oxford Department of International Development on 20 May 2014. Ahmet Öğüt, Silent University founder, was presented with the Visible Award, and various speakers contributed to the event.

Creation, imagination, speculation: age assessment and the asylum procedure

Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2014. Seminar by Professor Gregor Noll (Lund University) recorded on 5 March 2014 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.

Detention and deportation (Forced Migration Review 44)

FMR 44 My story: indefinite detention in the UK

When I fled civil war to come to the UK, I thought that I would be free but instead of helping me, the UK detained me for three years.

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