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

Forced Migration FAQ [access]

Guide to Forced Migration Periodicals [access]

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

SRLAN Current Awareness Bibliography [access]

Guides

"Statelessness: A Web Research Guide." Forced Migration Current Awareness (August 2011) [text]

"Internally Displaced Persons: Guide to Legal Information Resources on the Web." Forced Migration Current Awareness (originally published April 2009; revised & updated August 2011) [text]

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

"Guide to International Refugee Law Resources on the Web."  Forced Migration Current Awareness (originally published July 2000; revised & updated August 2011) [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]