FMR 34 - Urban displacement

published February 2010

Contents

From the editors

Feature: Urban displacement

Adapting to urban displacement
by Anna Tibaijuka

Meeting humanitarian challenges in urban areas
by Roger Zetter and George Deikun

Protection challenges for persons of concern in urban settings
by António Guterres

Urban displacement and migration in Colombia
by Sebastián Albuja and Marcela Ceballos

Invisibility of urban IDPs in Europe
by Marzia Montemurro and Nadine Walicki

Profiling urban IDPs
by Anne Davies and Karen Jacobsen

Improving living conditions in Bossaso, Somalia
by Filiep Decorte and Ombretta Tempra

The poor and the displaced in Khartoum
by Elisabetta Brumat

The journey towards social exclusion in Colombia
by Rubén Darío Guevara Corral and Diego Andrés Guevara Flétcher

Desperate lives: urban refugee women in Malaysia and Egypt
by Dale Buscher and Lauren Heller

Urban refugee health: meeting the challenges
by Paul Spiegel and the Public Health and HIV Section at UNHCR

Support systems among urban IDPs in Georgia
by Namrita Singh and Courtland Robinson

Education and self-reliance in Egypt
by Marisa O Ensor

Urban shelter and the limits of humanitarian action
by Kate Crawford, Martin Suvatne, James Kennedy and Tom Corsellis

Refugees and space in urban areas in Malaysia
by Alice M Nah

Urban IDPs in Uganda: victims of institutional convenience
by Hilde Refstie, Chris Dolan and Moses Chrispus Okello

Transition, connection and uncertainty: IDPs in Kampala
by Richard Mallett

Urban Somali refugees in Yemen
by Tim Morris

Displacement within the city: Colombia
by Luz Amparo Sánchez Medina

The role of municipal authorities
by Elizabeth Ferris

Surviving in the city
by Jeff Crisp

ATM cash assistance: does it work?
by Sayre Nyce

Cities of Solidarity: local integration in Latin America
by Fabio Varoli

City of Sanctuary – a UK initiative for hospitality
by Jonathan Darling, Craig Barnett and Sarah Eldridge

Hosting ‘the enemy’
by Harry Jeene and Angela Rouse

“Legitimate” protection spaces: UNHCR’s 2009 policy
by Alice Edwards

Spotlight on: Haiti

Using standards to shape response and recovery in Haiti
by Maurice Herson

General articles / Regulars

Beyond good intentions: implementing the Kampala Convention
by Prisca Kamungi

Nowegian Refugee Council
Shade netting: simple design – effective relief
by Ingrid Macdonald

International Displacement Monitoring Centre
Displacement in urban areas: implications for humanitarian action
by Sara Pavanello and Marzia Montemurro

RAISE Initiative
The blind spot of the Millennium Development Goals
by Marlou den Hollander

Cross-border mobility of Iraqi refugees
by Géraldine Chatelard

Non-nationals displaced in South Africa
by Jean-Pierre Misago and Tamlyn Monson

Social mobilisation in IDP camps in Pakistan
by Shingha Bahadur Khadka

Flexible mandate for protection
by Andreas Kamm

IDP camp closure and gender inequality in Timor-Leste
by Phyllis Ferguson

Family breakdown in Bogotá
by Ofelia Restrepo Vélez and Amparo Hernández Bello

Living death: separation in the UK
by Roda Madziva

Voluntary repatriation and the participation of Mauritanian refugees
by Leonora MacEwen