Children and Society Journal

The latest volume of the Journal entitled Children and Society has just been released and this is a special volume dedicated to children and slavery:

Volume 22, Issue 3 is now available online - SPECIAL ISSUE: Child Slavery Worldwide.
Guest Edited by Gary Craig

This special issue of Children and Society is a contribution to understanding the scope and size of child slavery, to help those making or enforcing policy or responding to the victims of slavery to be able to understand the nature of child slavery and, hopefully, to combat it. To read more, please click on the article titles below.

Contents: EDITORIAL: Editorial Introduction Gary Craig Modern-Day Child Slavery Hans van de Glind and Joost Kooijmans ‘International Criminalisation and Child Welfare Protection’: the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child Trevor Buck Child Domestic Labour: A Modern Form of Slavery Jonathan Blagbrough Extreme Forms of Child Labour in Turkey Serdar M. Degirmencioglu, Hakan Acar and Yüksel Baykara Acar Falling Through the Gaps: Safeguarding Children Trafficked into the UK Farrah Bokhari Child Trafficking and Formalization: The Case of International Adoption from Ecuador Esben Leifsen ‘Precious Children in a Heartless World’? The Complexities of Child Trafficking in Marseille Brenda Carina Oude Breuil Life Histories and Survival Strategies Amongst Sexually Trafficked Girls in Nepal Padam Simkha

More Themed and Special Issues from Children & Society:


Special Issue: Asylum Seeking and Refugee Children: Local and Global Perspectives
Volume 21, Issue 4, July 2007
Guest Editors: Jo Boyden & Jason Hart

Special Issue: Gender and Ethnicity in Children's Everyday Lives
Volume 20, Issue 2, April 2006
Guest Editors: Virginia Morrow & Paul Connolly

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New Journal Issues

Health and Human Rights, vol. 10, no. 1 (2008) [full-text]
- First issue in the newly-adopted open access format. Includes an article on promoting greater access to biomedical literature to meet the needs of people around the world who cannot afford the subscription costs generally associated with health and medical journals.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 34, no. 6 (2008) [contents]
- Includes articles on human smuggling and refugee entrepreneurship.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 16, no. 31 (May 2008) [contents]
- Special issue focusing on reproductive health and conflict-/displacement-affected people.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The Researcher, no. 10 (June 2008) [full-text via ecoi.net]
- Mix of articles relating to RSD and protection matters, including an article on the subject of human trafficking.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

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International Journal of Refugee Law

The table of contents for the latest edition of the International Journal of Refugee Law - Volume 20 Number 2, (July 2008) - is now available via the Oxford Journals website at: http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol20/issue2/index.dtl

UEL has a Print and Online Subscription to this journal.

Posted in: Periodicals.

New Periodicals

Ten years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. A Special Issue of Forced Migration Review is now available via the Forced Migration review web site at: www.fmreview.org/GuidingPrinciples10.htm
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

The Refugee Women's Resource Project (RWRP) at Asylum Aid has published issue no.76 of 'Women's Asylum News'.
Download the issue at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/RWRP_Issue_76.pdf (pdf file, 1mb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations News - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 17, no. 1 (2008) [contents]
- Includes an article on displacement from the Three Gorges dam in China.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Conflict Trends, no. 1 (2008) [full-text]
- Tenth anniversary issue.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 17, no. 3 (2008) [contents]
- Special issue on "Social perspectives on disasters in SE Asia."
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Field Exchange, no. 33 (June 2008) [full-text]
- Focus is on nutrition problems.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 21 (Spring 2008) [full-text]
- Mix of articles on human rights.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 20, no. 1 (March 2008) [contents]
- Articles examine the EU refugee qualification directive, Canadian refugee status determination (RSD), Canadian jurisprudence, and the relationship between the ICC and RSD.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (June 2008) [full-text]
- New article added entitled "Have Islamic aid agencies a privileged relationship in majority Muslim areas? The case of post-tsunami reconstruction in Aceh."
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 9, no. 2 (June 2008) [contents]
- Theme of this issue is "Attracting new arrivals to smaller cities and rural communities: findings from Australia, Canada and New Zealand."
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).


Torture Journal, vol. 18, no. 1 (2008) [full-text]
- Includes several articles on the impact of trauma and exposure to conflict on various populations, including displaced Turkish Cypriots.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Posted in: Periodicals.

New Periodcial Issues

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has published issue no.5 its paper 'Federation'.
Download the paper at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/IFIR_Federation_five.pdf (pdf file, 733kb)

(Source: Institute for Race Relations – http://www.irr.org.uk/)

Doughty Street Chambers has published issue no.14 of its 'Human Rights Bulletin' on significant human rights cases and developments at the UK, European and international levels.
Subscribe to the Bulletin at:
http://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/members/join/

(Source: Institute for Race Relations – http://www.irr.org.uk/)

A new volume of the International Journal of Refugee Law has just been released by Oxford Journals. The table of contents for Volume 20, Number 1, (March 2008), is now available online at: http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol20/issue1/index.dtl

The July issue of the Institute for Race Relations’ journal entitled Race and Class has now been published. Further details can be found on the IRR website at: http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/july/ak000003.html

The July edition of the IOM journal entitled Migration is now online and available via the IOM website at: http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/1674?entryId=17687

Posted in: Periodicals.