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Migration Forced
Student’s
Name: Phimonwan Wanna (Ahm)
A. Title of agency or organization? Forced Migration
B. Where is home base (city/state/country)? University of
Oxford, United kingdom
C. Date founded? 1997
D. Names of key spokespersons/officers. Dr Marilyn Deegan,
FMO Founder and Advisor
E. What/who is key constituency or audience? Anyone who is
seeking for information about forced migration. It could be
librarian, students, researcher, practitioner or policy maker etc.
F. What are the agency’s main activities? Carry out the
multidisciplinary research and teaching on the causes and
consequences of forced migration. Also being a wide variety online
resources for students, researchers and anyone who is interesting
about migration forced
G. Mission statement? (you may quote mission statement if
available; use quotation marks!)
“To give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and
to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an
international community of users.”
H. What are the key im/migration issues of concern to this
agency? They concern about the movements of refugees and internally
displaced people (or who are people displaced by conflicts) as well
as people displaced by natural or environmental disasters (Tsunami),
chemical or nuclear disasters, famine, or development projects.”
I. As best as you can determine, on what
evidence/sources/research/community does this agency base its
informational statements issued, press releases, reports, etc.? I
have found on the webpage and they have achieved so many task on
helping people who have displaced
J. Any publications? (what types, sample titles; if online,
give links) FMR (Force Migration Review) a magazine.
K. Give at least one citation about this agency from a
newspaper article (preferably an Arizona newspaper). Use a citation
index to research this e.g., Lexis Nexis, available from the
Migration Course Web Page made by the Fletcher Library:
http://library.west.asu.edu/subjects/SOC/soc331.html Briefly
state what the article is about, and provide a quote from the
article that includes the agency’s name and gives a good idea of
this agency’s perspective on im/migration. Note: not a quote from
agency’s own web site!
L. Any other issues of interest about the agency? Human
rights, Food and nutrition, psychosocial issue, women and child.
M. Is the agency noticeably pro or con immigration? (You may
need to determine this from “reading around” in its position papers,
press releases, news reports, etc) As far as I have read about this
organization web page, I do like what they are doing and they
focusing on the problem of people who are misplaced or displaced
which is quite a serious problem nowadays so they are not being
against immigration at all and also they try to help all immigrants
be understood why do they have to migrate.
N. Web site? Give URL.
www.forcedmigration.org |