FMR 23 : published May 2005

Europe: fortress or refuge?

Contents

Interview: Walter Kälin, Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of IDPs

The international response to Darfur by Roberta Cohen

Selecting the new High Commissioner for Refugees by Manisha Thomas and Ed Schenkenberg van Mierop

Speaker's Corner

Who should drive humanitarian responses? by Nick Cater

Human resources neglected prior to repatriation by Atle Hetland

Feature articles

Introduction: Europe – fortress or refuge? by Heaven Crawley

Chequered progress towards a common EU asylum policy by Tim Morris

Towards the integration of refugees in Europe by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles

Europe looks to Africa to solve the ‘asylum problem' by Heaven Crawley

Integration and dispersal in the UK by David Griffiths, Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter

Is Europe failing separated children? by Diana Sutton and Terry Smith

Wasted human resources: employers ignore refugees' potential by Berend Jonker

Europe and the rebuilding of Somalia by Kithure Kindiki

Chechen refugees denied access to Europe by Martin Rozumek

Albania – Europe 's reluctant gatekeeper by Ridvan Peshkopia

Dutch ‘safe zone' in Angola by Joris van Wijk

General articles

Challenges of temporary protection in Syria by Ann Maymann

IDPs in the new Georgia by Freya von Groote

Challenging camp design guidelines by Jim Kennedy

‘Restriction of access' is displacement: a broader concept and policy by Michael M Cernea

Internal displacement in Nigeria : an urgent challenge by Claudia McGoldrick

Recommendations for urban refugee policy by Karen Jacobsen and Loren Landau

Regular features

Updates

UNHCR: Falling asylum figures: a wake-up call for the EU? by Raymond Hall

Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement: Safeguarding IDP voting rights by Erin Mooney and Balkees Jarrah

NRC: Norwegian proposal to clarify refugee status by Vigdis Vevstad

Global IDP Project: 25 million IDPs worldwide: no change

Refugee Studies Centre: Refugee protection: where is the EU heading? by Maria-Teresa Gil Bazo

Publications

Endnote: Land rights: a gift for refugees in West Timor by Ingvild Solvang