Archive for Migration

• The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp: Conversation part IV

  by Angela Zarro in response to Bethany Ojalehto and Jacob Akech Bethany’s article takes a close and hard look at the condition of being a refugee, going beyond any use of definitions and categories. The stories that Bethany tells, remind us that refugees are first and foremost people and like ...

• The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp: Conversation part III

  by bethany ojalehto, in response to Jacob Akech Jacob Akech raises an intriguing and perennial question in the study of human cognition. How do our global portraits of human thought account for the striking local diversity of individual minds? In any group of people there exist profound individu...

• The Rosarno Riots and the European Debate on Immigration: A southern point of view

  by Ayman Zohry The Rosarno riots between African immigrants and residents came as a sad opening of the year 2010. Rosarno, with its fertile land, is famous for producing citrus and olive, also produces xenophobia and racism. What happened in Rosarno is just a piece in the immigration puzzle of Eu...

• The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp – Conversation part II

  by Jacob Akech in response to Bethany Ojalehto Bethany's work makes an important contribution to our understanding of violation of refugee rights.  More needs to be written on psychological dimension of human rights violation, especially in refugee camps. However in my view, the article trea...

• The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp – Conversation part I

  by bethany ojalehto We live in time and space, and orient ourselves to the reality around us by perpetually creating our point of existence along these axes. The experience of cognitive freedom is fundamentally tied to our perceived ability to navigate ourselves along these continua as independen...

• Wide Annual Conference 2010:”Migration in the context of globalisation”

  Source: WIDE (Women in Development Europe) June 4-5 2010-Bucharest, Romania. This year´s Conference marks also the 25th anniversary of WIDE. The UN Women´s world conference in Kenya 1985 marked the start for WIDE when feminists in Europe decided it was time to join hands and work together. In...

• African immigrants drift towards Latin America (Reuters)

  Increasing numbers of African immigrants are arriving in Latin America as a consequence of European tightening of  Southern border controls. Full article Which are the perspectives for a strenghtened south-south cooperation between Africa and Latin America on migration and development? R...

• Interview with Mohamed Aden Sheikh: Rebuilding Somalia – whose role and responsibility?

  SID Programme Officer Flaminia Vola interviews Dr. Mohamed Aden Sheikh, former representative of the Somali government (1970 - 1982) and active member of the Somali Diaspora in Italy. 1. The Somali Diaspora SID: In respect to the worsening of the crisis in both the political and humanitari...

• Global Forum on Migration & Developement: A hard journey of policy

  by Angela Zarro The Global Forum on Migration and Development, at its third edition,  was recently held in Athens on 2-3 November 2009. The discussion was structured in 3 main tracks focusing on migration in relation to: MDGs, integration/reintegration issues and institutional and political c...

• AU deals with migration linked to environmental degradation

  Reference to rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters is included in the Kampala convention on IDPs signed at the AU Special Summit on Displacement (October 23, 2009). This has been welcomed as a positive attempt to address migration as a result of climate change and find adequ...