The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) at York University is launching a new series of publications titled the CRS Working Paper Series. Each month CRS will feature an essay or article written by a student or a faculty, staff or community member associated with the centre. The working papers will then be featured online through the CRS Web site and a collection of selected papers will be published and released in conjunction with the CRS summer course on refugee issues.
York’s Centre for Refugee Studies welcomes submissions to the series on a number of themes related to refugee studies. These include (but are not limited to):
- Gender, women, and children
- Canada's asylum policies and practices
- Global asylum needs, national practices, and international burden-sharing
- Long-term refugee segregation and integration
- Return, reconstruction, and reintegration
- Poverty as cause and consequence of displacement development, environment, conflict, and displacement
- Sovereignty, civil conflict, and humanitarian intervention
- Refugee NGOs and IGOs: challenges and dilemmas
- Refugee and diasporic communities and their internal, intranational and transnational relationships
- Peace implementation, return, reconciliation, reconstruction and reintegration
- Globalization, development, environment, conflict and displacement
- Ethics, human rights and public discourse
- Vulnerability and agency
- Emerging realities and potential futures
Members of the York community interested in publishing a paper on any of these themes are invited to submit an electronic version to the CRS Working Paper Series editor Pablo Bose, by e-mail to pbose@yorku.ca.
The deadline for the second CRS Working Paper (Nov. 2005) is Oct. 21. For more information, visit York’s Centre for Refugee Studies Web site.