Sites for sore eyes

A good starting point for sources on forced migration is www.unhcr.ch, the huge site of the UN’s refugee agency. Analysis of refugee trends and policies is provided by UNHCR’s Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit www.unhcr.ch/epau.

For news of displacement crises, see the Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) www.irinnews.org and www.reliefweb.int, and for news from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs see www.reliefweb.int/ocha_ol/.

The Reuters Foundation’s AlertNet www.alertnet.org also provides a news service.

The UK’s largest refugee agency, the Refugee Council www.refugeecouncil.org.uk , is a member of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles www.ecre.org   The International Rescue Committee www.theirc.org , the US Committee for Refugees www.uscr.org , the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children  www.womenscommission.org , Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/refugees and Amnesty International http://refuge.amnesty.org all have a wealth of resources. The Overseas Development Institute’s Humanitarian Policy Group www.odi.org.uk/hpg works to analyse and improve the effectiveness of humanitarian agencies.

Information and analysis on internally displaced people is provided by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Global IDP Project www.idpproject.org   The Brookings-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/fp/projects/idp/idp.htm works closely with the UN Secretary General’s IDP Representative www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/7/b/midp.htm   The International Association for the Study of Forced Migration is an independent community of scholars and practitioners concerned about understanding forced migration www.iasfm.org For information on asylum-seekers and a range of online resources, see www.asylumsupport.info.

Information on development-induced displacement and resettlement is provided by the World Bank Involuntary Resettlement Team http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/essd/essd.nsf/Resettlement/home   Resettlement policies are critiqued by the International Network on Displacement and Resettlement www.displacement.net Campaigns on behalf of those displaced by the world’s two biggest current dam projects, India’s Narmada and China’s Three Gorges, include the Friends of the River Narmada www.narmada.org and Probe International www.probeinternational.org/pi/3g/index.cfm.

The Sussex Centre for Migration Research is at www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/SCMR Forced Migration Review www.fmreview.org , the magazine of the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre www.rsc.ox.ac.uk , has back issues online and a set of links. The RSC also hosts the digital library Forced Migration Online www.forcedmigration.org.

Tim Morris
Refugee Studies Centre
University of Oxford
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Oxford OX1 3LA
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