To commemorate its 60th Anniversary, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is facilitating a ministerial-level meeting on 7 and 8 December 2011 to review protection gaps and measures to address them. States are being encouraged to make voluntary pledges at this meeting. The pledging process will serve as an opportunity for States to identify issues and challenges of importance to them and promote realistic ways to respond.
The Refugee Studies Centre, as a leading centre for multidisciplinary, independent and critical scholarship on the causes and consequences of the forced displacement of populations, is supporting this process by highlighting a number of the RSC’s resources which are relevant to the proposed pledges and which, we hope, will help States in their thinking about the issues at stake.
These key resources are listed below, organised thematically under the pledge themes.
Addressing statelessness
- RSC Research Project: Stateless diasporas
- RSC Research Project: The Bedouin Health Project
- Conference report: Refugee Status Determination and rights in Southern and East Africa
- RSC Policy Briefing 3: Statelessness, protection and equality
- Forced Migration Review issue 32: Statelessness
- Working Paper 55: Prima facie determination of refugee status: An overview and its legal foundation
PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION
- RSC Research Project: Young undocumented migrants in the UK
- RSC Research Project: The Bedouin Health Project
- Book: Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Mobilization, and the Neoliberal Order
- RSC Policy Briefing 5: Protecting Palestinian children from political violence: The role of the international community
- RSC Policy Briefing 4: Iraq's refugees-beyond 'tolerance'
- Forced Migration Review issue 35: Disability and displacement
- Forced Migration Review issue 30: Burma’s displaced people
- Forced Migration Review 27: Sexual violence: weapon of war, impediment to peace
- Forced Migration Review issue 14: Older displaced people: at the back of the queue?
- Forced Migration Review issue 9: Gender and displacement
- FMO Research Guide: Gender and displacement
- FMO Research Guide: Children and adolescents in conflict situations
- FMO Research Guide: Reproductive health
- FMO Research Guide: Forced migration and public health
- Working Paper 74: Sexual orientation in Refugee Status Determination
- Working Paper 67: Negotiating childhood: Age assessment in the UK asylum system
- Working Paper 53: Displaced adolescent girls’ protection: Could casuistry be a methodology for humanitarians?
- Working Paper 52: Understanding and addressing the phenomenon of 'child soldiers'
RESOLVING PROTRACTED REFUGEE SITUATIONS
- RSC Research Project: Unlocking crises of protracted displacement for refugees and internally displaced persons
- Book: Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications
- Book: Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East
- RSC Policy Briefing 7: Protracted Sahrawi displacement: Challenges and opportunities beyond encampment
- RSC Policy Briefing 6: Responding to protracted refugee situations: Lessons from a decade of discussion
- RSC Policy Briefing 1: Environmentally displaced people: Understanding the linkages between environmental change, livelihoods and forced migration
- Forced Migration Review issue 36: Democratic Republic of Congo: Past. Present. Future?
- Forced Migration Review issue 33: Protracted displacement
- Forced Migration Review issue 30: Burma’s displaced people
- Forced Migration Review issue 26: Palestinian displacement: a case apart?
- Working Papers 77-79: Unlocking crises of protracted displacement
- Working Paper 62 Livelihoods under protracted conflict: A case study of Sri Lanka
- Working Paper 54: How long is too long? Questioning the legality of long-term encampment through a human rights lens
IMPROVING HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
- RSC Research Project: Costs and impacts of forced migration
- RSC Research Report: Protecting environmentally displaced people: Developing the capacity of legal and normative frameworks
- Book: Refugees and International Relations
- Conference report: Faith-based humanitarianism
- Conference report: Protecting People in Conflict and Crisis: Responding to the Challenges of a Changing World
- Workshop report: Dynamics of conflict and forced migration in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- RSC Policy Briefing 1: Environmentally displaced people: Understanding the linkages between environmental change, livelihoods and forced migration
- RSC Policy Briefing 2: Development assistance and refugees: Towards a North-South grand bargain?
- Forced Migration Review issue 36: Democratic Republic of Congo: Past. Present. Future?
- Forced Migration Review issue 34: Adapting to urban displacement
- Forced Migration Review issue 31: Climate change and displacement
- Forced Migration Review issue 29: Humanitarian reform: fulfilling its promise?
- FMO Research Guide: Urban refugees
- Working Paper 72: Humanitarian assistance as containment: New codes for a new order
- Working Paper 63: The African Union, the United Nations and civilian protection challenges in Darfur
- Working Paper 58: Civilian protection in Sri Lanka under threat
- Working Paper 50: UNHCR as an autonomous organisation: Complex operations and the case of Kosovo
- Working Paper 46: ‘Voluntary repatriation’ and the case of Afghanistan: A critical examination
- Working Paper 40: Return in dignity: A neglected protection challenge