AUC Reference

Questions on National Refugee Laws

Students in FMRS are now doing their research papers and must find legal documents to use as sources.  Many people will be looking for national laws regarding refugees. 

For those doing research on Europe, the US, Canada, Asia, South Africa or Australia, please direct them to the government pages regarding immigration/refugees (google-able) AND also direct them to http://www.refugeecaselaw.org/links_3.asp

For those doing research on other countries, specifically in South America and Africa, our resources are slim, but there are some good things to be found at http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/215.html  if you search under the country you are interested in.  *NB: you must know the language of the country you are researching to read most of these laws (not local languages, but things like English, French, or Spanish).

Also, this section of the UNHCR site may be a useful resource.

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/template?page=research&src=/static/legal.html
Under the RefLeg-National Legislation section you can select your country in the drop down box.  You can also use this site to search refugee policy documents by country. Universal and regional instruments.

FMRS Information at Reference Desk

Information on the grey files is now avaible in a folder labled FMRS at the Reference Desk  (in the red metal box next to the phone directory, campus maps, statistical guides, etc).

FMRS Records in Catalog

Please be aware of a new set of call numbers in the  library catalog.  People will start to see call numbers that are a letter/number combination, such as LSU-64, A-35.6, or SU-21.5/3 .  These combinations are derived from the British Refugee Council Classification Scheme and are being used to catalog the FMRS grey files collection (the logic to the system is very straight-forward and I have several keys for users at my desk, in case someone just wants to browse).  To make sure the item is in the FMRS grey files, you should find its designation (“FMRS Grey Files Collection”) in the “alternate title” field at the bottom of the listing. It looks  like this in the catalog:
Add title    FMRS Grey Files Collection.

Anyone wishing to use this collection should come to Wallace Annex in the microform room during my open hours (2:00-6:00 pm Sunday-Tuesday, Thursday) or by appointment which can be made via email: eke@aucegypt.edu

Thanks! Emily