refugee camps

Refugee Participation Network 1989, No. 5

Contents: Back to'English 900'; The Lutaya School; Refugee Camps in Thailand: Ration Distribution Systems; RPN Responses; Restrictive Practices: Asylum Trends in the West; The Needs of Kurdish Refugee Women in Denmark; Settlement Strategies; Mental Health; The Refugee Child and Child-to-Child; Preventable Causes of Child Mortality in Refugee Emergencies.

Refugee Participation Network 1991, No. 10

Contents: Mauritanian Refugees in Senegal; Creating Camps for Mozambican Refugees in Swaziland; Recommendations of the Food Aid Co-ordination Meeting; Some Heretical Thoughts; The Refugee Education Charter; Educational Materials on Refugees Library and Information Services for Refugees; Organisations Providing Book Services; Convention on the Rights of the Child: Implications for Refugee Children; Bereavement: Past Versus Present; Gulf War: Mass Migration and Displacement; Refugees or Migrants? The Case of the Pontian Greeks.

Refugee Participation Network 1995, No. 18

Contents: 1. Population movements and the environment by Steve Lonergan; 2. Are there environmental refugees? by JoAnn McGregor; 3. Stoves, trees and refugees: the Fuelwood Crisis Consortium in Zimbabwe by Gus Le Breton; 4. The environment, cooking fuel and UN Resolution 46/182 by E LaMont-Gregory; 5. The environment of refugee camps: a challenge for refugees, local populations and aid agencies by Thomas Hoerz; 6. The internally displaced of Peru: the option of return for communities in Huanta Province, Ayacucho by David Westwood; 7.

Entrenched relations and the permanence of long-term refugee camp situations

This paper reviews literature on protracted refugee situations and constructs a theoretical structure to explain the entrenched nature of refugee camps – a de facto fourth ‘durable solution.’ It argues that the relations among UNHCR, state governments (developed and developing), and refugees are often rigid and create a trajectory for similar future relations and for continued protracted refugee situations.

Norwegian Refugee Council: Shade netting: simple design – effective relief

The Norweigan Refugee Council' s simple but innovative shelter design provided relief forthousands of displaced people in Pakistan. Ths is an effective example of the ShelterCluster generating a solutionacross the shelter providers in anemergency.

Citizenship and statelessness in South Asia

This paper purports to examine the state of statelessness in South Asia, one of the regions in which the phenomenon thrives and is much underreported. It examines three rejected peoples of the subcontinent: the Estate Tamils in Sri Lanka; the Bhutanese in Nepal; and the Biharis in Bangladesh.

The repatriation predicament of Burmese refugees in Thailand: a preliminary analysis

This paper aims to provide an overview of the political complexities of the repatriation issue and a consideration of the pre-conditions for human security, which are necessary before a future repatriation is possible. It investigates the key elements of the repatriation question in view of international protection principles and the wider political setting in which the issue is situated, involving the host country, country of origin, UNHCR, and the refugees’ representatives.

Vital links in social security: Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps, Kenya

This paper highlights that approximately 120,000 refugees are living in Ifo, Dagahaley and Hagadera. Most of them originated from the regions of ‘Jubadda Hoose’ and ‘Shabeellaha Hoose’, the lowlands of the two main rivers in South Somalia. Research was carried out in the three refugee camps as well as in Nairobi (Eastleigh) and Garissa, the Kenyan towns where most Somali refugees can be found. The author of this paper intended to find an alternative representation of refugees, who are often depicted either as vulnerable victims or cunning crooks.

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