To mark International Migrants Day on 18th December Oxfam Publishing is providing free access to a selection of books, journal articles, policy papers and reports on migration and refugees.

A selection of books and policy papers from Oxfam Publishing available to download free.

Books & Reports

• Transitional Settlement, Displaced Populations
• Foreign Territory: The Internationalisation of EU Asylum Policy. Also available in French
• Protection: An ALNAP Guide for Humanitarian Agencies 
• Development, Women, and War
• Migration and Development
• Prisoners of terrorism?: The impact of anti-terrorism measures on refugees and asylum seekers in Britain
• A Stronger Voice: Report of the workshops carried out by the Anti-Poverty Group of the Migrants Resource Centre, London, for the Get Heard Project
• What's Going On?: A study into destitution and poverty faced by asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland
• Primary: Young asylum seekers in Glasgow
• Let's Talk to the Media: Practical guide for refugee community organisations and refugee practitioners on working with the media

Books available to purchase online:

• Exploding the Migration Myths: Analysis and Recommendations for the European Union, the UK and Albania
• Listening to the Displaced: Action Research in the Conflict Zones of Sri Lanka
• The Sphere Handbook

Policy Papers

• Protecting refugees, IDPs, and asylum-seekers
• The building blocks of sustainable peace: The views of internally displaced people in Northern Uganda. Also available in French and Spanish.
• Token Gestures: The effects of the voucher scheme on asylum seekers and organisations in the UK
• Palestinian Refugees and UNRWA

Development in Practice is peer-reviewed and is published six times a year. The main purpose of Development in Practice is to generate and contribute to debate. The journal is editorially independent, and articles do not necessarily reflect the policy positions of Oxfam GB.

• Physical, psychological, and political displacement in Angola and Mozambique
• The global struggle for the right to a place to live
• Development-induced forced migration: a practical example
• Children, conflict and displacement
• Labour migration: A developmental path or a low-level trap?
• More than a token gesture: NGOs and trade unions campaigning for a common cause
• Post-hoc review of involuntary resettlement issues in two power generation projects
• Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference
• How can Kenyans abroad contribute to national development?
• The development impact of remittances to Nicaragua
• Refugees and migration: Rewriting the definitions

• The gendered use of the media by asylum seekers in Britain
• Marginalisation and ideas of community among Latin American migrants to the UK
• Women, trade, and migration
• Workers on the move: seasonal migration and changing social relations in rural India
• More words but no action? Forced migration and trafficking of women
• Migration, ethnicity and conflict: Oxfam's experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina
• 'Dislocation', shelter, and crisis: Afghanistan's refugees and notions of home
• Gender and rural-urban migration in China
• The needs of refugee women: a human-rights perspective
• Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel
• Deprived of an individual identity: citizenship and women in Nepal

• Oxfam GB's work on Conflict and natural disasters
• Oxfam GB's work on Development

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