Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

"Amid aid cuts and regression, it’s time to embrace spontaneous volunteerism," The New Humanitarian, 28 Jan. 2026 [text]

Clean Energy for Resilient Humanitarian Action (UNHCR Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Even with Reform, Humanitarian Assistance Needs More US Finance (CGD Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related Inklings coverage of the US-OCHA funding deal and UN News story.

Refugee families are more likely to become self-reliant if provided with support outside of camp settings (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

A rearview mirror on America’s year of foreign aid cuts (The Interpreter Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

US Congress Says Yes to Foreign Aid—Now Comes the Hard Part (CGD Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

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Reports & journal articles:

The 10 most under-reported humanitarian crises of 2025 (CARE, Jan. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

2025 Impact Report: Response to new emergencies and protracted crises (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related press release.

2026 Waste Management Landscape: Who is setting the pace in humanitarian waste management? (Logistics Cluster, Jan. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Cash-based Interventions and Mobility: A Review of Current Approaches (International Organization for Migration, Jan. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Coordinating 10 years of collective NGO advocacy at UNHCRʼs governing body meetings: Stakeholder perspectives and impact (LSE & ICVA, Jan. 2026) [access]

Essential Concepts and Best Practices in Delivering MHPSS to People Who Have Experienced Forced Displacement (International Rescue Committee, Jan. 2026) [text]

"Faith-based organisations in multilateral humanitarian aid: A closer look at Country-based Pooled Funds," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 11:2 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

Multimedia:

10-Crises: 2026 year in view, 14 Jan. 2026 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (12 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

A Breakthrough for Refugees’ Work Rights in Thailand and Malaysia? (CGD Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Green Horizons: Mobilizing Climate Capital to Support Safe Routes for Green-Skilled Displaced People (CGD Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

New data show intensifying unauthorized immigration decline, with large local variations (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Jan. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US. Note: "In a follow-up study, we will examine how these swings affect employment growth, using evidence from local labor markets."

Spain: Mass regularization of migrants set to start (InfoMigrants, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Humanitarian exploitation: Ethnographies of labour and deservingness."

Immigrant Workers and the Childcare Crisis: What’s at Stake for Families and the Economy (American Immigration Council, Dec. 2025) [text]

Macroeconomic implications of immigration flows in 2025 and 2026: January 2026 update (Brookings, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Refugee Women, Family Status and Finding a First Job in the Netherlands," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 16 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Remittances by Another Measure: The Economic Value of Migrants’ Time Supporting Their Homelands," Migration Information Source, 20 Jan. 2026) [text]

RISE (Refugee Integration through Support and Employment): The role of support services in enhancing employment and self-employment among Ukrainian refugees in Poland (Disasters Emergency Committee, International Rescue Committee & Save the Children, Jan. 2026) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Available in English, Polish and Ukrainian.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (8 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

2025: A Year of Reckoning for the Humanitarian System - and ReliefWeb at 30 (ReliefWeb Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Digital Borders and Virtual Rights: A Brief Overview of Technology and Forced Migration from a Liberal Feminist Perspective (RLI Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

IOM and TelcoCB Partner to Expand Digital Inclusion for Migrants in the Republic of Korea (IOM, Jan. 2026) [text]

A New Digital Gateway Opens for Refugees in India (UNHCR Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

South Africa’s new immigration policy takes a digital direction – will it succeed? (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Adapting Mobile Technology to Enhance Access to Quality, Equitable and Inclusive Education in Fragile Contexts: The Case of Kakuma Refugee Camp Primary Schools," Journal of the Kenya National Commission for UNESCO, vol. 6, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"AI at the Borders: How the EU AI Act Can Prove to Be Incompatible with Fundamental Rights for Refugees," Georgetown Journal of International Law, vol. 56, no. 3 (2025) [full-text] 

"The Digital Turn in Migration," Chapter in Understanding Digital Responsibilities (Bristol Univ. Press, Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Exploring the Digital Literacies of Refugees from a Funds-of-knowledge Perspective," Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

Social Inclusion, vol. 14 (2026) [open access]

- Thematic issue in progress on "Digitalization and Migration: Rethinking Socio-Economic Inclusions and Exclusions." See additional articles that have been published.

"Technologies for the Integration of Children with Migration Background in Early Education: A Systematic Review," International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, Latest Articles, 12 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Understanding exposure of informal, displaced and migrant populations to e-waste processing residues in the context of Nigeria," Discover Environment, 4:32 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (5 Jan. 2026)

New Issues of Contemp. Europ. Hist., Etnogr. & Ricerca Qual., EJML, Geopolitics, Intl. Migr., JEMS, J. Hum. Counsel., JIMI, Migr. Soc., Mondes & Migr., NJMR

*Reminder: Postprints of articles published in the journals below that are marked with an asterisk can be archived/deposited in a repository immediately after publication (like the Forced Migration Research Archive) - i.e., there is no embargo period! This allows authors to provide open access to their scholarly journal articles without having to pay costly publication fees. Please refer to this earlier blog post for more information. 

Authors of open access articles in these journals are also encouraged to deposit their work in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA). The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website.

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*Contemporary European History, vol. 34, no. 4 (Nov. 2025) [contents]

- Features a special collection on "Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949," with seven open access articles.

Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Humanitarian exploitation: Ethnographies of labour and deservingness."

European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 26, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Asylum for Containment: The contradictions of European external asylum policy." Note: All contents are now open access.

Geopolitics, vol. 30, no. 5 (2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "The Constitution and Contestablity of Borders," with four open access articles.

International Migration, vol. 64, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with eight that are open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 52, no. 2 (2026) [contents]

- Special issue on "Restrictive, liberal, selective or universal? A cross-national analysis of European countries’ policy response to forced migrants from Ukraine." The introduction is freely available and five articles are open access.

Journal of Humanistic Counseling, vol. 64, no. S1 (Dec. 2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Humanistic Counseling Services for Civilian Survivors and Refugees of War," with three open access articles.

Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [contents]

- Features a special collection on "Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways: Global Movements for Resettling Refugees Driven by Local Actors," with five articles that are open access.

Migrations Société, no. 202:4 (2025) [contents]

- Features a dossier on "Sans nation, sans protection: les apatrides."

Migrations Société, no. 200:2 (2025) [contents]

- Features a dossier on "Politiques migratoires et défis ethnoraciaux en Corée du Sud et au Japon."

Migrations Société, no. 199:1 (2025) [contents]

- Features a dossier on “Migrations forcées au Sahel.”

Mondes & Migrations, no. 1352 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

- Themed issue on "Sous-traiter les frontières," with a dossier on "L’Union européenne et les États d’Afrique face aux migrations: coopération ou impasse?"

Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 16, no. 2 (2026) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

Algeria/Tunisia: Forced return of asylum seeker and political dissident a violation of international law (Amnesty International, Jan. 2026) [text]

Beyond the Snapshot: What a Decade of Data Tells Us About Syrian Refugee Living Conditions (INEE Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Israel: Ban on 37 aid groups makes life unbearable for genocide survivors in Palestine, say UN experts (OHCHR, Jan. 2026) [text]

‘We ran from monsters’: Once welcomed by Germany after IS genocide, Yazidis are now deported to a life of limbo in refugee camps (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

We Told You So: Now What for Northeast Syria? (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Between Protection & Resilience: Lessons from Cash Plus Programming in Lebanon (CAMEALEON Consortium, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"'Condoms don't cross your mind when you're hungry': Challenges to safe sex in Libyan IDP camps; A qualitative study," Public Health in Practice, vol. 11 (June 2026) [open access]

"Crise migratoire en Libye: impasses d’une coopération asymétrique," Mondes & Migrations, no. 1352 (Jan.-Mars 2026) [open access]

"L’expulsion de l’immigré irrégulier tunisien en Europe: D’une temporalité à une autre," Mondes & Migrations, no. 1352 (Jan.-Mars 2026) [open access]

"Forced Expulsion of Afghan Refugees from Iran after 2025 Strikes," Obrana a Strategie = Defence & Strategy, vol. 25, no. 2 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"The great settlement theory – why Tunisians fear of being replaced by sub-Saharans?," Journal of North African Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Jan. 2026 [open access]

Region on the Move 2025: Middle East and North Africa (International Organization for Migration, Jan. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (14 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

The Attorney–Smuggler Analogy: Parallel Economies of Mobility at the US–Mexico Border (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

The discursive construction of Albanian migrants and the erosion of modern slavery protection (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

The Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling reinforces its commitments in its second Conference (European Commission, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Decriminalizing Migrant Smuggling (SSRN, Aug. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

How Smuggling Really Works: Drivers, Operations, and Impacts (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2025) [access]

- Follow link for report and recording of related panel discussion.

Protecting the Vulnerable: An IRC Brief on Displacement and TIP in Central Africa (International Rescue Committee, Nov. 2025) [text]

Strengthening Responses to Migrant Smuggling (UN Network on Migration, Dec. 2025) [access]

Journal articles:

"From Engagement to Co-Production: Lived Experience and Research for Policy on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking," Journal of Human Trafficking, Latest Articles, 7 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Fugitive Junctures: Life-Seeking, Route-Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Early View, 19 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Human Trafficking: Challenges and Innovative Approaches for Research, Policy and Practice," Journal of Criminal Law, OnlineFirst, 21 Jan. 2026 [free full-text]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"The lived experiences of Ethiopian women trafficked to the Middle East: Departure motives, gender-specific trauma, and coping strategies," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 13 (2026) [open access]

"Trust at Work: Lessons Learned from Co-Researchers Who Have Experienced Human Trafficking," International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24 Dec. 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (10 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Reports: 

The Intelligible Asylum Seeker: Creating an Affectively Credible Protagonist, Global Migration Research Paper, no. 34 (Global Migration Centre, Jan. 2026 [text]

New Frameworks for Language Access: Tracking the Expansion & Features of State & Local Laws & Policies (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reforming the "Aggravated Felony" Category in U.S. Immigration Law: Toward Proportionality, Justice, and Due Process (UC Davis School of Law, Dec. 2025) [text]

Ringing the Alarm Bells: Rising Authoritarian Practices and Erosion of Human Rights in the United States (Amnesty International, Jan. 2026) [access]

- Alarm Bells nos. 6, 7, 8 focus on immigration-related actions.

Sliding Towards Authoritarianism? (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2026) [access]

- See esp. “Targeting Marginalized Communities.” 

Journal articles:

"External and Internal Migration," Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice, vol. 33, no. 3 (Summer 2024) [full-text]

"Membership in a 'Particular Social Group': The Narrow Access to Asylum for Gang-Affected Youth," Univ. of Dayton Law Review, vol. 51, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"An Unclear Connection: The Asylum System's 'One Central Reason' Test," William & Mary Law Review Online, vol. 67, no. 2 (2025) [full-text]

"Unleashing Power in New Ways: Immigration in the First Year of Trump 2.0," Migration Information Source, 13 Jan. 2026 [text]

- See also related webinar recording.

"Weaponized Bureaucracy at the Criminal-Immigration Divide," Washington Law Review, vol. 101 (Forthcoming 2026) [preprint]

Resource:

Know Your Rights Resources for ICE and Border Patrol Encounters (2026 Update) (Austin Kocher Substack) [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt.  1 (25 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

2025 was the 2nd Safest Year for Border Patrol and ICE Agents (CATO AT Liberty Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

The Categorical Approach to Removal Post Loper-Bright (ILJ Online, Dec. 2025) [text]

*Collection: ICE and CBP Operations in Minnesota and Other States (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [access]

Dirty (Baker’s) Dozen: 13 Harmful Trump 2.0 Administration Immigration, Citizenship, and Refugee Policies, as of January 20, 2026 (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2026) [text]

ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related OHCHR press release.

ICE, Lies, and Videotape (The Asylumist Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related Just Security posts (here and here). 

In light of harsh repression in Iran, the US should grant Temporary Protected Status to Iranians already here (Niskanen Center, Jan. 2026) [text]

Most of the 1 million Venezuelans in the United States arrived within the past decade (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

New Ban Bars Half of Legal Immigrants, Even Citizens’ Spouses & Kids (CATO AT Liberty Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related CGD Blog post.

Noncitizens Were Underrepresented in Welfare Fraud Convictions in 2024 (CATO AT Liberty Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Show Your Work: Visualizing the Deportation Data Problem (Austin Kocher Substack, Jan. 2026) [text]

Trump’s immigration crackdown faces growing disapproval from voters (The Hill, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related CS Monitor article.

Trump’s Remigration Agenda and Its Implications (RLI Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

The Two Million Deportation Myth: How Aggressive ICE Enforcement Distorts Immigration Data (Center for Migration Studies, Jan. 2026) [text]

‘We want you arrested because we said so’ – how ICE’s policy on raiding whatever homes it wants violates a basic constitutional right, according to a former federal judge (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

What a Proper Investigation of Alex Pretti’s Killing Would Look Like (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [text]

**Visit the Americas Migration Brief and ImmProf Blog for a much more extensive round-up of news and publications.**

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (13 Jan. 2026)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (13 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 2

Reports:

Health in immigration detention: evidence brief for policy and practice (WHO, Jan. 2026) [text]

Immigration Detention Expansion in Trump’s Second Term (American Immigration Council, Jan. 2026) [text]

Latino ICE Detentions Dramatically Reshaped Under Trump (UCLA & UNSEEN, Jan. 2026) [access]

- See also other reports in this series.

Journal articles:

"Carceral Remains, Abolition Remains: Immigration Detention in Madrid," Antipode, vol. 58, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Hunger strikes among asylum seekers in Australian immigration detention: prevalence, precipitants, characteristics, and management," BMC Public Health, 14 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Restriction of Movement and Deprivation of Liberty under the New Pact," Chapter in European Yearbook on Human Rights, vol. 2 (2025) [open access]

Surveillance & Society, vol. 23, no. 4 (2025) [open access]

- Features "a guest-edited section on 'Global Futures of Digital Confinement'. Articles focus on immigrants and asylum-seekers.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1 (25 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

United States

92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions (Austin Kocher Substack, Jan. 2026) [text]

DHS Doesn’t List CECOT Prison Deportees in Its Worst of the Worst Data (CATO At Liberty Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many for Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit (Marshall Project, Dec. 2025) [text]

- See also related Time Magazine article.

ICE's Deadly December: Record-Setting Detained Population and Detention Deaths (Austin Kocher Substack, Dec. 2025) [text]

- See also related post on The Hill.

Motherhood under Surveillance: The Gendered Violence of ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Rubio argues US cannot return Venezuelans despite court order (The Hill, Jan. 2026) [text]

Elsewhere

Australia: UN Experts Raise Serious Concerns Regarding Country’s Migrant Detention System (Immigration Detention Monitor, Jan. 2026) [text]

Immigration detention: A mental health crisis without borders (King's College London, Jan. 2026) [text]

*IOM Emergency Teams Support Migrants in Libya Following Discovery of Mass Grave and Underground Detention Sites (IOM, Jan. 2026) [text]

Thailand: Detention and Coerced Returns of Vietnamese Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Immigration Detention Monitor, Jan. 2026) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (17 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Book chapters:

"The ECHR and Human Rights Protection in Immigration and Asylum Law: From a Catalyst Role to a Constitutional Task," European Yearbook on Human Rights, vol. 2 (2025) [open access]

*"Refugee housing in Europe: an introduction to the challenges and problems in multi-dimensional governance," Chapter in Refugee Housing in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities in Multi-Dimensional Governance (Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026) [free full-text]

"Stereotyped Narratives as Mechanisms of Discrimination: The Evolution of the ECtHR Approach in Protecting Migrants’ Rights," European Yearbook on Human Rights, vol. 2 (2025) [open access]

Journal articles:

"Different refugees, different portrayals. A GDELT-based comparative analysis of the mediatic portrayal of Syrian refugees in 2015 and Ukrainian refugees in 2022 across seven European countries," European Journal of Communication, OnlineFirst, 11 Dec. 2025 [open access]

European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 26, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Asylum for Containment: The contradictions of European external asylum policy." Note: I am re-listing this reference because the contents were not all open access when the issue was initially published.

"The interplay between origin- and receiving-country conditions: experimental evidence on Ukrainian refugees’ return intentions," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Jan. 2026 [open access]

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 52, no. 2 (2026) [contents]

- Special issue on "Restrictive, liberal, selective or universal? A cross-national analysis of European countries’ policy response to forced migrants from Ukraine." The introduction is freely available and five articles are open access. See also related research project.

"A Scoping Review of UK Immigration and Asylum Laws: The Endless Cycle of 'Migration Fix'," Genealogy, vol. 10, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Tales of Agency and Exclusion: Deconstructing the ‘Own Culpable Conduct’ Requirement in the ECtHR Migration-Related Jurisprudence," European Journal of International Law, vol. 36, no. 3 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Tracing Asylum Hope: An Ethnographic Account of the Social Dimensions of Hope Across Migration Trajectories," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 20 Jan. 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (23 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Cyprus Presidency includes focus on effective migration management and ProtectEU (European Comm., Jan. 2026) [text]

English lessons shouldn’t be an immigration test – why the UK’s new policy risks deepening exclusion (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

From tourist visa to immigration: What is the size of overstaying flows in the Schengen Area? (MPC Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

The Mass Deportations of Lithuanians during the Two Soviet Occupations (RID Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Ziobro’s Asylum in Hungary: Accountability, Mutual Trust, and Autocratic Legalism (Verfassungsblog, Jan. 2026) [text]

**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.**

Reports:

CCBE Guide for Bars & Lawyers on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Also available in French.

Overview of the Implementation of Safe Country Concepts, Situational Update, no. 24 (EU Agency for Asylum, Jan. 2026) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (12 Jan. 2026)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (12 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues

Reports:

Study visit to Sweden on good practices in upholding the rights of asylum-seeking and refugee women and girls (ECRE, Jan. 2026) [text]

A Year of Disruption: The Impact of USG Funding Cuts on Women and Girls in Jordan (International Rescue Committee, Jan. 2026) [text]

A Year of Harms: The Impact of US Foreign Aid Cuts on Women and Girls in Humanitarian Crises (Women's Refugee Commission, Jan. 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Arts-based methods for resistance and decolonization in refugee women's research," Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 115 (March-April 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Canada.

"Contributing Factors to Cohesion within Women’s Refugee Networks," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 12 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Northern Ireland & the Republic of Ireland.

"Men, Masculinities and Transnational Migration in the Canadian Context: A Scoping Review," Journal of Men’s Studies, vol. 33, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- See also abstract of more recent related article.

"Refugee Women, Family Status and Finding a First Job in the Netherlands," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 16 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"'The revolution might be a start … ': Gender norm change amongst Chin refugees in Mizoram, India," Development in Practice, Latest Articles, 29 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Telling the gendered story: the construction of migrant subjectivities in UNHCR’s animated information campaign," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 13 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Transnationalism and Social Control of Female Chechen Refugees: Comparative Analysis of Women Fleeing Domestic Violence and Political Persecution," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 13 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Women-Led Strategies Amid Structural Inequalities: An Ethnography of a CSO Supporting Migrant Mothers in Valparaíso, Chile," Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues (19 Dec. 2025)

Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

Short pieces:

Invisible Twice: The Hidden Challenges of Refugees with Disabilities (The Diplomatic Pouch, Dec. 2025) [text]

Refugee Protection in the Lens of Age: Towards an Age-Sensitive Approach (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Educational attainment and employment among immigrants with disabilities (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada & Statistics Canada, Dec. 2025) [text]

Untold Stories of Disablement and Displacement: Syrian Refugees in Canada (Practical Action Publishing, Aug. 2025) [info]

- See also related dissertation.

Journal articles:

"Aging in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Older Syrian Refugees in the Greater Toronto Area," Journal of Ageing and Longevity, vol. 6, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Ageing in precarity: refugee and asylum seeker experiences of housing and home in later life," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 13 Nov. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Assessing the impact of disabilities on healthcare access among Sudanese refugees in Egypt during the 2023 crisis: a discriminant analysis approach," Frontiers in Medicine, 11 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Dementia risk among individuals with a migrant background—a scoping review," Frontiers in Dementia, 17 Nov. 2025 [open access]

*"Frailty and disability among older adults residing in Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh," PLoS One 21(1): e0341499 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Perceived Social Support Among Older Adults Residing in the Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh," Health & Social Care in the Community, 29 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"'Physical rehabilitation without vocational rehabilitation is unfinished business': The IRO’s Rehabilitation Programme for Displaced Persons with Disabilities, 1948‑1952," Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, no. 44 (2025) [open access]

"Psychological adaptation and resilience among elderly refugees: protective and risk factors in confronting trauma and social isolation," Frontiers in Psychology, 9 Dec. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Egypt.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People (10 Nov. 2025)