Global Network of Research Centres on Forced Migration

There are now at least two dozen research centres throughout the world focusing at least partly on issues of forced migration. Taken together, they are an extremely rich resource for the field of forced migration. However, as to be expected, there are sharp disparities amongst them, especially between centres of the global South and North in terms of access to resources as well as connectedness to one another and to the field itself. Such disparities are troubling because they reflect, and thus exacerbate, the geo-political dynamics of forced migration. Furthermore, they stunt processes of knowledge dissemination and mobilization between different regions of the world. Given this, the Global Research Network of research centres will facilitate more effective mechanisms of cooperation and connectedness amongst research centres as well as with scholars, NGOs and practitioners working outside of them.
 
The eight initial RRN partners are located in Bogota, Brisbane, Cairo, Calcutta, Johannesburg, Oxford, Tehran, and Washington, D.C. It is expected that they will be joined by others. The deeper the connection between institutions in refugee protecting regions in the South and international associations and institutions, the more successful we will be in finding solutions to refugee problems on our respective doorsteps. Since each of the RRN partner centres has its own network of researchers and students as well as connections with NGOs and policy makers, this network will follow a "cluster of clusters" model, a dynamic web of global connections and relationships that will stimulate the development of new research partnerships and projects and promote the dissemination of findings to stakeholders in the international refugee regime around the world.
 
In addition, this global network of centres will facilitate stronger coordination amongst the various educational programs as well as resource libraries. The network will focus on the communications assets and needs of network members and explore strategies for knowledge exchanges within and between researchers in the Global South and North. In between in-person meetings, the partners will maintain ongoing connections through the development of a virtual research community.

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Remittances update -- Africa General

 Remittances update

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Global Integrity releases 2009 report on corruption

 Global Integrity released its 2009 Report on corruption on 23/02/2010.

Faith-based humanitarianism conference - Las Casas Institute / Refugee Studies Centre

Deadine / Event Date: 
2010/09/21 (All day)

Faith-based humanitarianism conference

21-23 September 2010, Oxford

The Refugee Studies Centre and the Las Casas Institute on Ethics, Governance and Social Justice are organizing an international conference on ‘Faith-based humanitarianism: the response of faith communities and faith-based organisations to people affected by conflict, crisis and forced migration’.

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South Africa to send 22 Ugandans home

 

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Open Centres for Migrants, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees in Europe

INTRODUCTION:

I am in the process of completing a literature review on the Open Centre in Europe. This research is a part of my Major Research Paper for the Master of Arts in Public Policy program at Ryerson University. I have listed this as a forum topic to allow other researchers who know of key pieces of literature on this topic to post the titles here. I have attached my research proposal to this forum as well as copy and pasted it below. Thank you for your input on this matter. Please feel free to comment or critique any information posted here. I can be contacted at thomas.cameron@ryerson.ca

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Think piece on research clusters

Scholars writing on research clusters seem to agree that the diversity of the geographic concentration of interconnected universities, research centers, private companies, suppliers, service providers, NGOs in a particular field tends to benefit the productivity of research clusters (Descrochers, Sautet, Hospers, 2008, p. 243). In fact, they support the idea that the larger the diversity in a cluster, the better.

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