FMR 51 January 2016 Destination: Europe
Europe is experiencing the mass movements of displaced people in a way that it has largely been immune from for decades. The manifestations of the ‘migration crisis’ are as disparate as the building of fences to stop people crossing normally peaceful borders, the deaths of people transported by smugglers in unseaworthy boats, EU political leaders bickering over a Common European Asylum System and the numbers they will or will not allow into their respective countries, and contentious responses to the disaster that continues to unfold in Syria. Alongside this we also see an upsurge of grass-roots compassion, solidarity and assistance to those whose human suffering on a grand scale in and around Europe constitutes the reality behind the rhetoric. FMR 51 includes 43 articles on ‘Destination: Europe’, plus five ‘general’ articles. This issue of FMR will be available online and in print in English, Arabic, French and Spanish. Note that the English versions of articles are also available in audio format. Some titles from the long list of articles: Migrants, refugees, history and precedents (C.Bundy); Abuses at Europe's borders (D.Breen); Understanding why Eritreans go to Europe (M.Brhane); Tragedy on the way to Europe: A perspective from Africa (J.Okello); Bulgaria's struggle at the frontline (E.Roberts); Passing through Greece (M. Mogiani); Are asylum and immigration really a European Union issue?(J.Van Selm); Migration terminology matetrs (P.Pace and K.Severance); Europe and the future of international refugee policy (E. Talal); The face of refugees (J.Q.Osorio)

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Forced Migration Review (FMR) is the most widely read publication on forced migration – available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, and free of charge in print and online. It is published by the Refugee Studies Centre in the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Through FMR, authors from around the world analyse the causes and impacts of displacement; debate policies and programmes; share research findings; reflect the lived experience of displacement; and present examples of good practice and recommendations for policy and action.