UN/Government Sites

• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  An introduction to refugee issues, along with photos, maps, teaching guides, news updates and more.

• RefWorld
  Authoritative info from UNHCR, including country reports, legal and policy-related documents and literature references.

• The Migration Page
  A comprehensive site maintained by the International Organization for Migration, an intragovernmental body involved in all aspects of global migration, including refugees.

• Office for Refugee Resettlement
  Domestic refugee resettlement program to provide assistance and services to refugees resettling in the U.S. - this site indexes ORR regulations, information on welfare reform, and medicaid information.

• US Government: The PRM Page
  The State Department's Population, Refugees and Migration Bureau, which formulates US policy and administers US refugee assistance and refugee admissions programs.

• U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS)  
  The INS of the Department of Justice is responsible for implementing immigration policy in the United States.

  Other Sites

• Amnesty International, "Refugee" Campaign
  A national campaign initiated by Amnesty International to generate awareness of why refugees flee.
  
• The Cultural Orientation Website This website was established to create linkages between overseas providers of cultural orientation and domestic resettlement programs. The website provides trainers overseas with links to information about resettlement in the United States, informs resettlement caseworkers on type and length of training provided to refugees overseas, provides basic facts about new refugee groups arriving in the U.S., and offers cultural orientation activities for trainers overseas and in the U.S.
  
• Forced Migration Projects
  Addresses forced migration in the former Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia and the Caribbean. A project of George Soros's Open Society Institute.
  
• International Council of Voluntary Agencies - a network of 80 international NGO's working in disaster response and refugee assistance.  Offers links and an international calendar of events
  
• International Centre for Migration and Health- The ICMH conducts research and migration on health issues, organizes trainings, and provides analysis and background information on policy initiatives.
  
• The Refugee Web - Maintained by Jewish Vocational Services, Boston. Includes listing of upcoming refugee-related events such as seminars, workshops, and conferences.  Also includes a searchable database with information on refugee employment, resettlement and service organizations
  
• Refugee Studies Programme, Oxford University
  A vast, searchable database of this program's Documentation Centre makes this site a researcher's dream.

• Refugee News
  A web site dedicated to news about refugees and asylum seekers and their problems.
  
• Witness A project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.  Contains videos and other resources about human rights violations against refugees and others around the world.

Publications

• The Journal of Refugee Studies
  A quarterly journal, published by Oxford University Press, focusing on refugee research, policies and practice.

• The International Journal of Refugee Law
  Another quarterly journal from Oxford, this one relating to national and international legal issues. The Times of London calls it "one of the key source materials in the field of refugee protection".

• Refugee Survey Quarterly
  Produced by the UNHCR's Centre for Documentation on Refugees, and published by Oxford, this is an authoriative source on current refugee and country information.