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