I am an independent information specialist who focuses on forced migration issues. After receiving my Master’s in Library Science in 1991, I worked for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Washington, DC and Geneva, as well as the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford.  I have written a number of articles and produced a variety of information resources relating to refugees and forced migration, including the following:

Blogs

Forced Migration Current Awareness (FM-CAB) [access]

- A current awareness service highlighting web research and information relating to refugees, IDPs and forced migration.

Researching Refugees [access]

- Created to track web technologies that can help refugee researchers keep up to date with new information in their field. Discontinued in July 2009.

Online Resources

New Items (can be accessed directly or via FM-CAB): Books, Journal Articles, Law

SRLAN Current Awareness Bibliography [access]

Guides

"Internally Displaced Persons: Guide to Legal Information Resources on the Web." Law Library Resource Xchange (April 2009) [text]

Collecting Children's Refugee Literature: A Bibliography (March 2009) [text]

"Guide to International Refugee Law Resources on the Web."  Law Library Resource Xchange (originally published July 2000; revised & updated March 2009) [text]

“Guide to Forced Migration Resources on the Web.”  Forced Migration Online (published June 2000; most recent update July 2006) [text]

Journal & Newsletter Articles/Papers

"Looking Online for Legal Literature," Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 14 (April 2011) [text]

Self-Archiving Rates of Journal of Refugee Studies Authors (posted 1 May 2010) [text]

'Is That Forced Migration Text Online?' Testing an Information Access Rule of Thumb (posted 20 November 2009) [text]

"Using a Wiki to Publish a Research Guide," Library Hi Tech News, vol. 25, no. 9 (2008) [preprint] [abstract]

"Keeping Up with Refugee Research." Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3 (September 2007) [abstract]

"Supporting the Forced Migration Research Community."  JISCMail Newsletter, no. 15 (February 2007): 1-2 [text]

"Forced Migration Online: A New Tool for Research." ASSIGNation, vol. 20, no. 3 (April 2003): 49-52.

Deegan, Marilyn and Elisa Mason.  “Forced Migration: A Complex Subject.”  Library + Information Update (November 2002): 40-41

"Forced Migration Studies: Surveying the Reference Landscape."  Libri, vol. 50, no. 4 (2000): 241-251 [text] 

“Resolving Refugee Problems: An Introduction to the United Nations Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme and Its Documentation.”  Journal of Government Information, vol. 27, no. 1 (2000): 1-11 [abstract]