Refugee & Asylum Law: News & Media

Use news sources to verify information regarding events, such as demonstrations, riots, uprisings, etc. 

• Consult the Main Library's News Databases list, a comprehensive list of news source collections, including many international and regional sources, such as allAfrica.com and Access World News.  Many news articles also link to organizations, statistics, and other sources of information the reporters consulted to write about the topic.

Other sources regional or topical online collections:  

• BBC News, Latin America & Caribbean 
• Latin American Network Information Center, Newspapers & News in Latin America
• The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN, humanitarian news and analysis)

Search the web:  using Google or another search engine, run a search and filter for "News" sources.  

To find blogs, use a search engine like http://www.blogsearchengine.org/ or run your search and include blog as a search term.

The web sites of these organizations, groups and governmental bodies may provide some useful information on immigration and refugee issues.

• African Refugee Development Center > About > Blog and Reports
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network
• Center for American Progress:  focus is on US housing, issues include climate change and immigration
• Center for Immigration Studies
• Center for Refugee Studies
• European Council on Refugees and Exiles
• International Rescue Committee
  • IRC Worldwide
• Migration Information Sources
  • Country Resources
• Researching Internal Displacement
• Refugees international > select Issues for information related to causes of migrations or Regions to focus on a part of the world.  
• Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts database (RULAC), International Refugee Law
• Sikh Coalition
• OpenAmericas.org

National Asylum and Immigration Offices

• Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
• Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
• Danish Immigration Service
• New Zealand Immigration Service
• Norwegian Refugee Council
• UK Border Agency
• UK Refugee Council
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Statistics and Reports

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