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This is an article from the New Delhi Times http://www.newdelhitimes.com/canadas-new-minister-of-immigration-is-a-former-refugee123/ By Tarek Fatah, Author and Columnist, Canada On Jan. 10, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a decision that made ripples throughout the world. From Singapore to India, to the BBC and beyond, the only news from Canada that made headlines was about Ahmed Hussen, a Somali-born refugee who arrived on our shores in 1993 and rose to become our Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. For spotting talent and lifting a backbencher into the Privy Council, I tip my hat to Trudeau. For hundreds of thousands of African-Canadian boys and girls, Ahmed Hussen’s story is a beacon of hope. (Readers should know Hussen is a close friend, though we disagree on much.) He first came to my attention at the height of Ontario’s historic (and successful) fight rejecting the use of Sharia law in family law arbitration matters in 2004-2005. On one ...

You will be working within the project 'Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging' (CONNECTINGEUROPE). This project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), by way of a Consolidator Grant awarded to the ... Functieomschrijving You will be working within the project 'Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging' (CONNECTINGEUROPE). This project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), by way of a Consolidator Grant awarded to the principal investigator (PI) Prof. dr. Sandra Ponzanesi (Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands). The project aims to investigate the relation between migration and digital technologies, in particular the way in which the ‘connected migrant’ contributes to new forms of European integration and cosmopolitan citizenship. The project explores digital diasporas in relation to issues of gender, ethnicity and affective belonging, focusing...

Den Haag , 5-11-2014 ​ Sinds begin oktober is er geen zicht op uitzetting van Somalische vreemdelingen binnen een redelijke termijn. Dit blijkt uit een uitspraak van de Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State op een hoger beroep van een Somalische vreemdeling tegen een uitspraak van de rechtbank Den Haag. Zicht op uitzetting binnen een redelijke termijn is een voorwaarde voor de staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie om een vreemdeling die geen verblijfsrecht heeft in Nederland, in zogenoemde vreemdelingenbewaring te mogen stellen. Afspraken In mei 2010 zijn tussen de Nederlandse en Somalische autoriteiten afspraken gemaakt over de gedwongen terugkeer van vreemdelingen naar Somalië. Na twee geslaagde uitzettingen in 2013 hebben de Somalische autoriteiten in november 2013 aangegeven hun medewerking aan uitzettingen tijdelijk te willen opschorten in afwachting van na...

April 2014   Open Society Initiative for Europe Somalis in Amsterdam Download Files Somalis in Amsterdam Download the complete 127-page report. 3.54 MB pdf Somaliërs in Amsterdam Download the complete 126-page report in Dutch. 2.93 MB pdf Somalis in Amsterdam: Executive Summary Download the 4-page document. 138.72 KB pdf Somaliërs in Amsterdam: Samenvatting Download the 5-page document in Dutch. 127.93 KB pdf   Somalis in Amsterdam  explores the experiences and concerns of the Somalis living in the city of Amsterdam, focusing on five areas ...

  October 16, 2014   by Anya Ahmed   Open Society Initiative for Europe   1 comment 100 Years After Somalis Arrive in London, It’s High Time to Learn About Them There has been a Somali presence in London for over a hundred years. The first Somalis to arrive in Britain were economic migrants. Merchant seamen settled in cities including Cardiff, Liverpool, and London. There are records of British Somalis in London dating back to 1914 when they were recruited to fight in the First World War and then subsequently settled there. In the 1990s civil war in Somali forced another wave of migration to Britain. Today, Somalis are one of the most misunderstood groups in the United Kingdom,...

REFUGEES in Kenya can apply and be granted citizenship, if a proposed law is passed and adopted. The law being drafted by the Department of Refugee Affairs will replace the Refugee Act of 2006, which the government said has failed to address refugee issues adequately. The bill is expected to be tabled in Parliament before the end of the year. The DRA commissioner Harun Komen said the bill considers granting citizenship to refugees who have stayed in the country for at least five years upon applying. A refugee who marries a Kenyan citizen will also be considered for citizenship, according to the draft bill that is currently under review by stakeholders. Some refugees have lived in Kenya for more than two decades. Komen also said that Kenya is also putting in place a proper national asylum policy which will provide input to the proposed refugee law. "We found that the Refugee Act 2006 had loopholes and we hope the law will address some of those," he said. The n...

A Somalian prisoner is still serving time inside Lincoln prison nine years after the end of his sentence, inspectors reveal in a damning report today into the overcrowded city-centre Victorian jail. The prisoner, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for rape, completed his sentence in 2002 but was deemed too dangerous to be released prior to his removal from the country. He spent a brief period on bail but was returned in 2008 to the grim prison which holds 50 per cent more prisoners than it should and has high levels of bullying and violence, according to the report. The prison’s inspector said that a second convicted rapist from Iran had spent an extra two years inside the prison after the end of his term. “It seems that for reasons neither man can control, such a return is extremely difficult if not impossible,” according to the report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons. “It cannot be right that they continue to be detained for so long without the authority of...

Published on 19 July 2012 in  Culture Ahlam Mohsen  (author) According to the U.N., sexual violence is one of the worst global protection challenges and leaves all refugee women at risk of sexual violence. A year and a half after fleeing Eritrea following the murder of her husband, 26-year-old Fatima made her way to Yemen with her one-year-old son. Surviving the dangerous sea voyage, several months in Al Kharaz refugee camp and the journey from Aden to Sana’a, Fatima was living on the streets before an Ethiopian woman took her in. It was there, on 45 Street, that her neighbor, a Yemeni man, raped her. “My son was in the room, crying. That didn’t stop him. I screamed loudly. Someone must have heard me, but no one came.” Vulnerabilities of refugees to sexual violence Refugees—those escaping war, persecution, famine or drought—often experience multiple traumatic events, from the death or separation from loved ones to the physical and often treacherous journey from hom...

LJN: BW7346, Rechtbank 's-Gravenhage , zittingsplaats 's-Hertogenbosch , AWB 12/16361 Datum uitspraak: 30-05-2012 Datum publicatie: 04-06-2012 Rechtsgebied: Vreemdelingen Soort procedure: Eerste aanleg - enkelvoudig Inhoudsindicatie: Vreemdelingenbewaring. Vreemdeling afkomstig uit Zuid- of Centraal-Somalië. Zicht op uitzetting ontbreekt. Beroep gegrond. -------------------- 2. Eiser heeft – kort weergegeven – onder meer aangevoerd dat eiser afkomstig is uit ([plaats] in) Zuid-Somalië en er geen zicht op uitzetting naar Zuid-Somalië aanwezig is. Ter onderbouwing heeft eiser verwezen naar uitspraken van deze rechtbank van 21 maart 2012, LJN BW0529, van deze rechtbank, nevenzittingsplaats Groningen, van 15 maart 2012, LJN BV9018, alsmede naar door de Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State bij brief van 6 april aan verweerder gestelde vragen over de mogelijkheden van terugkeer naar Somalië. 3. Verweerder heeft ter zitting voor wat betreft de aanwezigheid va...