<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<br>
<br>
-------- Original Message --------
<table class="moz-email-headers-table" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap">Subject: </th>
<td>[LING-ETHNOG] Language and Asylum Research Group</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap">Date: </th>
<td>Wed, 11 May 2011 07:04:16 +1000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap">From: </th>
<td>Diana Eades <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Diana.Eades@UNE.EDU.AU"><Diana.Eades@UNE.EDU.AU></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap">Reply-To:
</th>
<td>Diana Eades <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Diana.Eades@UNE.EDU.AU"><Diana.Eades@UNE.EDU.AU></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap">To: </th>
<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:LING-ETHNOG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">LING-ETHNOG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
<br>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The
convenors of Language and Asylum Research Group (LARG) are happy
to announce the launch of LARG's website: </span><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.essex.ac.uk/larg"><font
color="blue"><u>http://www.essex.ac.uk/larg</u></font></a></span></div>
<div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">LARG
is a group of experts who share an interest in LADO (<font
class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">Language </font>Analysis
for the Determination of Origin) as a research topic, from a
practitioner's point of view, or both.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
primary mission of LARG is to stimulate research, contribute
to the further development of guidelines, and promote
best-practice for practitioners working in this field,
through exchange of informed views, in the spirit of and
extending the scope of the 2004 <i>Guidelines for the Use of
Language Analysis in relation to Questions of National
Origin in Refugee Cases</i>.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On
LARG's website, you will be able to read about language
analysis in asylum cases, keep up with research-in-progress,
already published research, relevant legal decisions, and
much more.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Applications
for LARG membership are welcome from academics,
practitioners, lawyers, qualified linguists, government
representatives, NGOs, and anyone else with an interest in
responsible, valid and scholarly practices in LADO. </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We
also welcome news about LADO activities, research,
publications, government policies and legal decisions, as
well as links to relevant websites. Our email address is
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:larg@essex.ac.uk"><font
color="blue"><u>larg@essex.ac.uk</u></font></a>></span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please
forward this announcement to others interested in this area.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank
you</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Diana
Eades and Peter Patrick, LARG Co-convenors.</span></font></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>