Summer Break

This will be the last post in this Blog for a few weeks as I will be away on annual leave for a short break. On my return I will be updating the range of blogs and online services offered by the Refugee Archives service here at UEL ahead of a re-launch towards the middle of September, to coincide with the start of the new academic term.

Please feel free to add any comments to this post with recommendations for anything you would like to see added to our online resources.

Best Wishes for now and enjoy the summer!

Paul Dudman
Archivist

New film: 'Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out"

The film 'Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out' is now available to view
on the Forced Migration Online website.

This documentary film looks at the lives of six Iraqi families who have
been forced to flee their homes and are now living as refugees in the
massive urban sprawl of Cairo. As the years pass by, their situations
are becoming increasingly desperate, with little or no rights in their
country of first asylum.


Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out:
http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/iraqis-in-egypt/

More videos can be viewed at:
http://forcedmigration.org/video/

To learn more & to find out how you can help, visit:
http://www.iraqisinegypt.org/


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Iraqis in Jordan Podcast

Iraqis in Jordan Podcast:

The ninth Forced Migration Online podcast is now online. The
podcast was recorded in Amman, Jordan in December 2007 with
additional interviews recorded in February 2008. The Amman
recordings include interviews with a number of Iraqis now living
in Jordan from a range of backgrounds and current situations. The
podcast includes comments from Rana Sweis UNHCR, Amman and Dana
Graber Ladek International Organisation for Migration (IMO), Iraq.
http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/iraqis-in-jordan/
(Source: FMO Discussion List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

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Georgia Website / FMO Papua Video

Website gives voice to people displaced by Georgia’s conflicts

GENEVA, 30 April 2008 – People forced from their homes by war in Georgia have a new opportunity to make their voice heard. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) today published the life stories of 29 people displaced by Georgia’s conflict at www.idpvoices.org. At this site internally displaced people (IDPs) recount their experiences from before, during and after being driven from their homes by conflict.

13 of these personal accounts have also been brought together in the book A Heavy Burden - Internally Displaced in Georgia: Stories from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, published in English, Georgian, and Russian. The book was also unveiled today in Tbilisi, Georgia. (...)

Full text of the press release
IDP Voices website

Please contact the IDMC in case you would like to receive an electronic copy by e-mail.

The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), established by the Norwegian Refugee Council, is the leading non-governmental body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide.

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Forgotten in the Mountains: Displacement in the Highlands of Papua

The film 'Forgotten in the Mountains' is now available to view on the
Forced Migration Online website. The film looks at the issue of forced
displacement of indigenous Papuans in (West) Papua, Indonesia.

Forgotten in the Mountains:
http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/forgotten-in-the-mountains/

More videos can be viewed at:
http://forcedmigration.org/video/

Posted in: Multimedia and Websites & Tools.

Moving Here: New online resource reveals UK migration history

The Moving Here website has now been updated to include significant new resources on the history of migration to the UK, especially designed for schools. Further details of which are included in the following highlights from the associated press release:

Moving Here: New online resource reveals UK migration history: A new online learning resource launches today, offering free and unparalleled access to first-hand experiences of migrants in the UK. Moving Here Schools www.movinghere.org.uk/schools, created in partnership and led by The National Archives, has published contemporary primary source materials to encourage pupils to explore Britain’s multicultural society.

A broad range of learning resources, including interactive activities, has been designed to be used across the school curriculum. The site is ideal to support pupils at Key Stage 2 and 3 (ages 8-14) for History, Geography, Citizenship and ICT. Working with a range of heritage institutions, the project has enabled different minority communities to record their own stories of migration using a variety of sources - stories are told through audio, video, photographs, film and crafts.

For further information, please contact Elise Oliver, press officer at The National Archives
Tel: 020 8392 5237
Email: severine.gould@nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Podcasts on Forced Migration Online

News from Forced Migration Online, (FMO).

As part of its expanding collection of multimedia resources, the
Forced Migration Online team have launched a series of podcasts.
These audio resources comprise a series of discussions between
experts on forced migration issues from academia, practitioner
organizations and international agencies. In the near future, the
team plan to add interviews and life histories of refugees and other
displaced people.

In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the
Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at Oxford (which hosts FMO), FMO are
beginning this series of podcasts with a collection of conversations
with prominent academics, in which they discuss the evolution the
field of refugee and forced migration studies. The first of these is
with the founder and former Director of the RSC, Dr Barbara Harrell-
Bond.

http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/

http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/harrell-bond/

New Refugee Archive Vodpod