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New Book Titles

Please visit my Forced Migration Library blog for a two-part listing of references to new books. Part 1 highlights new books due out in March 2025, while Part 2 lists additional February 2025 titles as well as new open access texts.

Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (28 Feb. 2025)

This is a round-up of open access materials produced by authors based in the Global South (GS) and other geographic areas that are less well-represented in the domain of scholarly forced migration literature. Generally, articles are included if either the lead author or at least half of the co-authors are based in the GS. These references are organized by type of open access. Note that the OA items herein were previously referenced on either this blog or the Forced Migration Library blog as of 1 Feb. 2025.

Authors of the OA materials listed below are encouraged to deposit their work in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA)! The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website. 

Bronze OA:

"Strengthening the Medicolegal System: Fulfilling International Law Obligations during Conflicts and Disasters to Prevent and Resolve Issues of Humanitarian Concern," International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 106, no. 926 (Aug. 2024)

- Author = Iraq

Diamond OA:

"Detención de migrantes indocumentados en Estados Unidos: quién es quién en aprehensiones? = Detention of Undocumented Migrants in the United States: Who is Who in Apprehensions?," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 15 (2024)

- Authors (2) = Mexico

"Dix ans après la nouvelle politique d’immigration marocaine: des sphères d’action distinctes pour une réforme globale?," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 40, no. 4 (2024)

- Author = Morocco

"El estatuto de refugiado erigido como frontera humanitaria en Chile," Colombia Internacional, no. 121 (2025)

- Authors (2) = Chile

"Migración y éxodo en Cuba: tendencias migratorias desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad = Migration and Exodus in Cuba: Migratory Trends from the 19th Century to the Present," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025)

- Authors (2) = Mexico

"Migraciones sur-norte del Caribe, África y Asia en las Américas: 'Detención segmentada' y 'detenibilidad' en Sudamérica," Colombia Internacional, no. 121 (2025)

- Author = Argentina

"Towards Equitable, Transparent and Evidence-based Malaysian Citizenship Law Amendments: Taking Stock of Remaining Risks of Statelessness and Exclusion," Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 6, no. 2 (2024)

- Authors (2) = Malaysia

"Understanding Perspectives and Practices of 'Learning through Play' in East African Refugee and Host-Country Schools," Journal on Education in Emergencies, vol. 10, no. 1 (2025) 

- Authors (7) = Ethiopia (lead), US (3), Uganda (2), Tanzania (1)

"World Conference on Statelessness 2024: Key Takeaways," Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 6, no. 2 (2024)

- Authors (2) = Nepal

Gold OA:

Note: Article processing charges (APCs) and other fees are indicated below; waivers are generally offered by gold OA journals but the waiver status of the authors listed below is unknown.

"Changing Patterns of Family Formation among Internally Displaced Populations in Yemen," BMC Public Health, 24:3365 (Dec. 2024)

- Authors (8) = US (4, incl. lead), Yemen/UK (1), Yemen (3)

- APC = USD 3190

"Determinants of Women Empowerment: Case of Refugee Women Living in Nairobi Kenya," Economies, vol. 13, no. 2 (Feb. 2025)

- Authors (2) = Germany (lead), Kenya (1)

- APC = CHF 1800

"The Effect of Syrian Asylum on the Jordanian National Identity from the Point of View of Yarmouk University Students," Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences, vol. 52, no. 3 (2025) 

- Authors (3) = Jordan/Oman (lead), Jordan (2)

- APC = JD 250-300 (authors based in Jordan), USD 600 (all other authors)

"Facing Migration under Adverse Conditions: Challenges and Resilience in the Colombo-Venezuelan Border Area," BMC Public Health, 25:261 (Jan. 2025)

- Authors (7) = Colombia (5, incl. lead), Germany (2)

= APC = USD 3290

"Gendered Analysis of the Effect of Displacement on Labor Market Outcomes: A Focus on Nairobi County, Kenya," Economies, vol. 13, no. 2 (Feb. 2025)

- Authors (2) = Kenya

- APC = CHF 1800

"The Hidden Crisis: Double Burden of Malnutrition among Refugee Children in South Asia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis from Observational Studies," Frontiers in Nutrition, 9 Feb. 2025

- Authors (7) = India (6), Malaysia (1)

- APC = CHF 3150

"An Investigation using the Hopkins Symptom Checklist and Post Traumatic Growth Inventory Conducted on Refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Rohingya in India," Demography India, vol. 53, no. 2 (2024)

- Authors (2) = India

- APC = INR 1000 (authors based in India), USD 50 (all other authors)

"Legal Residency Status and Its Relationship with Health Indicators among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: A Nested Cross-sectional Study," BMJ Global Health, vol. 10, no. 2 (Feb. 2025)

- Authors (8) = Lebanon (6, incl. lead), US (2) 

- APC = GBP 3410

"Migration and Health Policy: Applying the Nexus to Safety Issues of Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean Sea," Public Health Challenges, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 2025)

 - Authors (12) = Lebanon (3), Cyprus (2), Egypt (2), China (1), UK (1), France (1), Spain (1), UK/Philippines (1)

- APC = USD 2520

"Perspectives on the Implementation Gap in Citizenship Policy," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:6 (Jan. 2025) 

- Authors (2) = Mexico (lead), Switzerland (1)

- APC = USD 1490

"Resilience of Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Foster Care at Tongogara Refugee Camp Zimbabwe," Discover Global Society, vol. 2, no. 1 (Dec. 2024)

- Authors (3) = Zimbabwe/South Africa (lead), Zimbabwe (2)

- APC = USD 1390

"Temporal Trends in the Incidence and Case Severity of COVID-19 Cases among the Syrian Refugees in Azraq Camp in Jordan: A Retrospective Observational Study," PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 19(2): e0012875 (Feb. 2025) 

- Authors (11) = Jordan (8, incl. lead), US (3)

- APC = USD 2670

Green OA:

"Beyond the Normative Impasse of Environmental Migration: From Regimes to Infrastructures in a Latin American Key," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 37, no. 4 (Dec. 2024)

- Preprint version posted on SocArXiv

- Authors (2) = Brazil

"A New Index for Climate-induced Migration Uncertainty," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 1 (Jan. 2025) 

- Preprint version posted on SSRN

- Authors (2) = Nigeria (lead), Nigeria/South Africa (1)

Hybrid OA:

Note: Article processing charges (APCs) are indicated below; waivers are not available for hybrid OA APCs.

"Aligning Sustainable Finance and Fintech to Promote an Integrated Approach to Refugee Finance," Global Policy, vol. 16, no. S1 (Jan. 2025)

- Authors (4) = Qatar (3, incl. lead), UK (1)

- APC = USD 4200

"European Biometric Borders and (Im)Mobilities in West Africa: Reflections on Migrant Strategies for Border Circumvention and Subversion," Politics & Policy, vol. 53, no. 1 (Feb. 2025)

- Author = Nigeria/UK

- APC = USD 2900

"European Union/Africa Synergy: A Panacea to Ending Irregular/illegal Migration from Africa?," The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies, vol. 113, no. 6 (2024)

- Authors (3) = South Africa (2, incl. lead), Nigeria (1)

- APC = USD 3650

"Formal and Informal Integration in Contexts of Displacement: Exploring Implications for Youth Civic Identities," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 8 Feb. 2025

- Authors (4) = UK (2, incl. lead), Lebanon (1), Jordan (1)

- APC = EUR 4421

"From Crisis to Cure: The Afghan Refugee Dilemma, Security, and Technological Interventions," Asiascape: Digital Asia, vol. 11, no. 3 (Dec. 2024)

- Authors (3) = UK (lead), India (2)

- APC = USD 2595

"Hues of Refuge: Framing Compassion and Condemnation in Refugee Portrayals Through a Political-Media Cycle of Reinforcement," Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, FirstView, 4 Feb. 2025

- Author = Lebanon

- APC = USD 3550

"On the Design of Islamic Blended Microfinancing for Refugee Entrepreneurship: An Institutional Logic Perspective," Global Policy, vol. 16, no. S1 (Jan. 2025)

- Authors (3) = UK (lead), Indonesia (2)

- APC = USD 4200

"Pregnant Women’s Concern toward COVID-19 in Iraqi Camps: Differences between IDPs and Refugees - A Cross-sectional Study," International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 21, no. 1 (Feb. 2025)

- Authors (5) = Iraq (2, incl. lead), Italy (3) 

- APC = USD 4105

Related post:

- Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (31 Jan. 2025)

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

The Hidden 30% Cost Premium of Digital Cash Transfers for Refugees (ICTWorks, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Kenya.

The platform transforming how refugee students learn (UNICEF, Jan. 2025) [access]

- Available in English, Polish and Ukrainian.

Smart borders kill: New frontiers of violence and erosion of rights at the world’s borders (Open Global Rights, Feb. 2025) [text]

Symposium: Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns (Völkerrechtsblog, Feb. 2025) [access]

Taking innovation global with two-way communications with refugees (UNHCR Innovation Service, Feb. 2025) [text]

"US immigration is creating a mirage of mass deportations on Google search," The Guardian, 6 Feb. 2025 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Blockchain-based solution for addressing refugee management in the Global South: transparent and accessible resource sharing in humanitarian organizations," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 24 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"European Biometric Borders and (Im)Mobilities in West Africa: Reflections on Migrant Strategies for Border Circumvention and Subversion," Politics & Policy, vol. 53, no. 1 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"Migrants’ and refugees’ digital literacies in life and language learning," ReCALL, FirstView, 19 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Unlocking Artificial Intelligence’s Potential in COI Research, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series, no. 44 (UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

TikTok trails: Decoding migrant smugglers' visual narratives in migration advertising, 11 Dec. 2024 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (5 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

In a New Era for Syria, States Must Take Responsibility for Their Islamic State-Affiliated Prisoners and Families (Just Security Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

"'It'll be a disaster': Uncertainty for thousands forced from West Bank camps by Israeli raids," BBC News, 26 Feb. 2025 [text]

Libya: Migrants Face Extreme Violence and Exclusion from Healthcare (MSF, Feb. 2025) [text]

"US aid freezes escalate Syria’s crisis," The New Humanitarian, 17 Feb. 2025 [text]

Reports: 

From Gaza to the West Bank: The Systematic Undermining of Humanitarian Aid - Making Life Untenable for Palestinians, Humanitarian Access Snapshot #10 (Action for Humanity et al., Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Installing solar-powered pumps in fragile contexts: Main lessons learned from Concern Worldwide’s experience in an IDP camp in Northern Syria, WASH Learning Paper (Concern, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

No Model of Refuge: Sudanese Refugees in Egypt (Refugees International, Feb. 2025) [text]

USAID Funding Freeze and Its Impact on the Humanitarian Response in Syria (Northwest Syria NGO Forum, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Am I Discriminated Against? Explaining Immigrants’ Perceived Discrimination by First Name and Ethnic Origin," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 17 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Former Soviet Union (FSU) and Ethiopian immigrants in Israel.

"Are Forced Migrant Trajectories Path-Dependent? A Markov Analysis," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 24 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians transiting through Turkey, Lebanon, and Egypt.

"Epigenetic signatures of intergenerational exposure to violence in three generations of Syrian refugees," Scientific Reports, 15:5945 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians in Jordan. See also related Science news article.

"Formal and informal integration in contexts of displacement: Exploring implications for youth civic identities," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 8 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on displaced youth in Jordan and Lebanon.

"Legal residency status and its relationship with health indicators among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a nested cross-sectional study," BMJ Global Health, vol. 10, no. 2 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"Navigating coexistence: perspectives of host community and Syrian refugees in Al-Mafraq, Jordan," Cogent Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Temporal trends in the incidence and case severity of COVID-19 cases among the Syrian refugees in Azraq camp in Jordan: A retrospective observational study," PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 19(2): e0012875 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (10 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2 (Ukrainians)

Reports & journal articles:

"Attitudes of Ukrainian refugees in Austria: gender roles, democracy, and confidence in international institutions," Genus: Journal of Population Sciences, 81:3 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"Building Bridges or Forging Bonds? Exploring the Role of Social Capital in the Reception of Ukrainian Refugees in Italy," Journal of Regional Science, Early View, 3 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Cohesion’s Action for Refugees in Europe: Increased flexibility but insufficient data hinders future assessment of effectiveness (European Court of Auditors, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Available in multiple languages.

Displaced Ukrainians: Challenges and outlook for integration in the EU (European Parliament, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Navigating Displacement: The Intertemporal Migration and Settlement Experiences of Ukrainians in Latvia," Global Networks, vol. 25, no. 2 (April 2025) [open access]

Policy Paradox: How Robust Host-Country Support for Ukrainian Refugees Can Foster Integration and Return (MPI, Feb. 2025) [text]

Still at risk: Homelessness among displaced Ukrainians in the UK (British Red Cross, Feb. 2025) [access]

Ukraine’s fight for its people: Strategies for refugee and diaspora engagement (Chatham House, Feb. 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1 (27 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Assisted Voluntary Return: Lessons from 1990s Bosnia for Developing Effective Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programmes (RLI Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

Brazzaville hosts a key ministerial meeting on durable solutions for forcibly displaced Central Africans (UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

Facilitating the Informed and Sustainable Voluntary Return of Syrian Refugees (RLI Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

Family from Gaza Settle in UK Following Ukraine Scheme Application: A Legal Loophole? (EIN Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

Language: A bridge to refugee integration and inclusion (UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Central Asia.

The Racial Twist in Trump’s Cutoff of Refugee Admissions (Just Security Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

Refugee Resettlement Organizations Persevere Despite Trump’s Suspension Order (Documented NY, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Things to know about the ruling blocking President Trump’s refugee ban," AP News, 26 Feb. 2025 [text]

- See also related CNN article.

Reports & journal articles:

It is time to act together: Durable solutions for internally displaced persons in Colombia (Internal Displacement Solution Fund, Jan. 2025) [text]

"More than a place for social capital creation: Public library as a place for immigrants’ social integration," Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, OnlineFirst, 17 Nov. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

"Refugee Integration in Germany: The Interplay of Othering, Digital Exclusion, and Identity Negotiation," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 19 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"Understanding the Prevalence and Factors Associated with Accessing Public Housing Programs: Findings from the 2019 Annual Survey of Refugees," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 18 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (18 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Reports: 

Acquisition and loss of citizenship in EU Member States: Overview and key issues (European Parliament, updated Feb. 2025) [text]

Addressing Statelessness and Displacements in Southeast Asia: Workshop Report, January 23-24, 2025 (Centre on Gender and Forced Displacement et al., Feb. 2025) [text]

Feasibility study on a non-binding legal instrument regarding stateless children’s access to nationality (Council of Europe, Feb. 2025) [access]

Journal articles:

"The Civil War and Reconstruction Amendments’ Effects on Citizenship and Migration," Journal of American Constitutional History, vol. 3, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"The Consequences of Ending Birthright Citizenship," Washington Univ. Law Review (Forthcoming 2025) [preprint]

"Limits to Deprivation of National Citizenship under European Union law: The Case of Foreign Terrorist Fighters and the Right to be Readmitted into the EU for Their Children," German Law Journal, FirstView, 10 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"The symbolic violence of citizenship tests: low-schooled refugees narrate their experience," Citizenship Studies, Latest Articles, 5 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Norway and Denmark.

Multimedia:

2025 State of Play Assessment on Statelessness in Europe, 19 Feb. 2025 [access]

- See also related ENS editorial.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (26 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Birthright Citizenship: when “home” becomes a game of border politics (LSJ Online, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on both Australia and the US.

Breaking Down Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

- See also related 

Kuwaiti government must end campaign of mass citizenship stripping and repeal recent amendments to Nationality Law (Minority Rights Group, Feb. 2025) [text]

Living Statelessness in the Legal ‘in-between’: Migrants from Thailand in Japan (CSS Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

Press release on the first anniversary of the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on Specific Aspects of the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa (African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Feb. 2025) [text]

"UK to deny citizenship to small boat refugees," BBC News, 13 Feb. 2025 [text]

Unpacking the intersection between Islamophobia and Statelessness (CSS Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

"US appeals court rejects Trump's emergency bid to curtail birthright citizenship," Reuters, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]

- Additional legal proceedings relating to this issue can be viewed here (select "Immigration and Citizenship" from the topic menu).

Victory for Kenyans Denied Citizenship: Constitutional Court Ruling on Identity System Affects Tens of Thousands (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2025) [text]

*Voices from the Margins: Grassroots Resilience in the Face of Statelessness in Lebanon (Borders & Limitations Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

- See also related Minority Rights Group post.

"Watchdog points to loophole leaving children born in Estonia without citizenship," Estonian Public Broadcasting, 17 Feb. 2025 [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (5 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"European Union/Africa synergy: a panacea to ending irregular/illegal migration from Africa?," The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies, vol. 113, no. 6 (2024) [open access]

"Exclusionary by Design: Law, Lawyers, and State Harms in the UK’s Streamlined Asylum Process," State Crime Journal, vol. 13, no. 2 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

"The Italy–Albania Protocol: A new model of border-shifting within the EU and its compatibility with Union law," Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 31, no. 5 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

- See also related LSE Human Rights blog post.

"Migration diplomacy and Greek–Turkish relations: A three-level game analysis," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 2 (April 2025) [open access]

"Migration, subjectivity and identity: navigating power, agency and discourse in interviews with asylum seekers," Multilingua, Ahead of Print, 20 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Italy.

"Norway: Rising Immigration in a Welfare State," Migration Information Source, 12 Feb. 2025 [text]

"(Re)constructing Homelands Between Precarity and Intentionality: Syrian Armenians in Armenia," Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Workers’ experiences in non-profit and for-profit managed asylum systems: A comparative analysis of Italy and Ireland," International Journal of Comparative Sociology, OnlineFirst, 19 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (26 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The Colombian-German Migration Agreement: An Insufficient Strategy (Fluchtforschung Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

German party leaders are united against immigration – but there is little evidence for a key part of their argument (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

Post-Conflict Resettlement in Karabakh: Rebuilding Livelihoods (RID Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

The Vanishing Archive: UNHCR Archives’ Recovery and Preservation of the Records from the Former Yugoslavia (UNHCR Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

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Reports:

Country Guidance: Explained (EU Agency for Asylum, Feb. 2025) [text]

How Social Capital and Support Structures Shape the Experiences of People Affected by the War in Ukraine: The Case of Ukraine, Poland, and Germany (International Rescue Committee, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Mixed Movements in South-Eastern Europe: Challenges Along the Route and Drivers of Onward Movements (UNHCR, Dec. 2024) [text]

Pushed, Beaten, Left to Die: European Pushback Report 2025 (11.11.11 et al., Feb. 2025) [text]

Return or regularization? A temporal analysis of rejected asylum seekers in Germany, RSC Working Paper, no. 6 (European Univ. Institute, Feb. 2025) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Ukraine Emergency Three Years On: 2025 Update (UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (8 Feb. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (United Kingdom) (8 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

After a Long Decade in Detention, Uyghur Men in Thailand Face Transnational Repression (Freedom House Perspectives, Feb. 2025) [text]

Australia responsible for arbitrary detention of asylum seekers in offshore facilities, UN Human Rights Committee finds (OHCHR, Jan. 2025) [text]

- See also related RACS explainer.

Beyond Borders to Behind Bars: Examining the Impact of Mental Health on Migrants in Detention Centers in the U.S. (Refugee Research Online, Feb. 2025) [text]

Northeast Syria: Camp Detainees Face Uncertain Future (HRW, Feb. 2025) [text]

Sending Migrants to Guantánamo Bay is a Costly, Abusive Shift in Immigration Detention (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US. See also related Just Security blog post and Niskanen Center commentary.

Strange Inconsistencies in ICE Detention Statistics (TRAC, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Reports & journal articles:

"Circularity of violence and institutionalisation: understanding women’s (im)mobility across borders," Journal of Gender-Based Violence, Early View, 10 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- "Draw[s] on narratives of migrant and refugee women in prisons in India and Australia... ."

"Migraciones sur-norte del Caribe, África y Asia en las Américas: 'Detención segmentada' y 'detenibilidad' en Sudamérica," Colombia Internacional, no. 121 (2025) [open access]

Practice Advisory: The Laken Riley Act's Mandatory Detention Provisions (National Immigration Project, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Samos: Unlawful detention and sub-standard conditions must not become a blueprint for the EU Migration Pact (Amnesty International, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Greece.

"'Who's breaking the law … not us, them!': Inside immigration detention in Portugal," American Journal of Community Psychology, Early View, 13 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1 (3 Feb. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 2 (United States) (3 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

The Chilling Effect of Trump’s Indiscriminate Immigration Arrests & Propaganda (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

Deportation fears create ripple effects for immigrants and their communities (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

GOP Budget Reconciliation Plan—Cutting Essential Programs to Supercharge Deportations (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

ICE Raids: Ambition Meets Reality (The Asylumist Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

- See also related Guardian news article.

"In the Trump administration, nearly every major department is an immigration agency," AP News, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]

"Judge blocks Trump administration immigration enforcement at some churches, temples," Politico, 24 Feb. 2025 [text]

Summary of Executive Orders and Other Actions on Immigration (Center for Migration Studies, 13 Feb. 2025) [text]

Survey shows immigrants in Florida – even US citizens – are less likely to seek health care after passage of anti-immigrant laws (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Trump signs order aimed at ending federal benefits for some immigrants," AP News, 19 Feb. 2025 [text]

Trump’s Doubly Flawed “Invasion” Theory (Just Security Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

What We Know about Trump’s Efforts to Roll Back TPS for Venezuelans and CHNV Parole (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

- See also related CBS News article and ImmigrationProf blog post.

Reports & journal articles:

"Financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrant communities in Portland Maine: a qualitative study," Archives of Public Health, 83:48 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"The Idea of Latin American Refugees and Understanding the Moral Force of Their Asylum Claims," Chapter in Philosophical Contestations (Lexington Books, Forthcoming) [preprint]

Immigrant and Native Consumption of Means-Tested Welfare and Entitlement Benefits in 2022, Briefing Paper, no. 184 (CATO Institute, Feb. 2025) [text]

- See also related blog post.

"Lethal Immigration Enforcement," Cornell Law Review, vol. 109, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]

Lives in Limbo: Devastating impacts of Trump’s migration and asylum policies (Amnesty International, Feb. 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

Understanding and Responding to Trump's Immigration Action, 19 Feb. 2025 [access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (10 Feb. 2025)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (Keeping Up) (10 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

"Calibrating Comfort in the Care-Control nexus of Humanitarian Borderwork," Migration Politics, 5 Feb. 2025 [preprint]

- Focuses on Venezuelans in Brazil.

Criminal Groups and Internal Displacement: What Lessons Can We Learn from Central America Ten Years On? (Researching Internal Displacement, Feb. 2025) [text]

- First contribution in a series on "Internal Displacement in the Context of Organised Criminal Violence."

*"El estatuto de refugiado erigido como frontera humanitaria en Chile," Colombia Internacional,  no. 121 (2025) [open access]

"Forced Migration and Violent Crime: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus to Brazil," Journal of Development Studies, vol. 61, no. 2 (2025) [preprint]

- See also related dissertation.

"Los Haitianos, las caravanas and transborder racial affect: Emotions and triangulated representations of Caribbean and Central American migrants in Mexico," Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Early View, 24 Oct. 2024 [free full-text]

Mexico: Anticipated impact of new US immigration policies on people on the move (ACAPS, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Migración y éxodo en Cuba: tendencias migratorias desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad = Migration and Exodus in Cuba: Migratory Trends from the 19th Century to the Present," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]

- Available in Spanish and English.

Multimedia:

The Canada-United States safe third country agreement: A critical legal perspective, 15 Jan. 2025 [access]

Questions of Privileged Migration to North America in the Second Half of the 20th Century, 5 Feb. 2025 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (24 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Amid Tariff Threats, Migration Management is Key to the Evolving Trump-Sheinbaum Relationship (MPI, Feb. 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

"As Trump’s anti-migrant push gains steam, advocates urge Canada to act," Al Jazeera, 7 Feb. 2025 [text]

"Canada refugee claims drop as country issues fewer visas," AP News, 19 Feb. 2025 [text]

Colombia: 30 days in limbo amid escalating armed conflict (NRC, Feb. 2025) [text]

Criminal Groups and Internal Displacement: What Lessons Can We Learn from Central America Ten Years On? (RID Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

- First contribution in a series on "Internal Displacement in the Context of Organised Criminal Violence."

"Facing pressure from Trump, Costa Rica and Honduras join Panama as stopovers for foreign deportees," AP News, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]

The hidden truth about migrant deaths at the Canada-U.S. border (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

IACHR expresses concern over recent migration and asylum policies and measures in the United States (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Feb. 2025) [text]

What Trump’s mass deportation plans mean for Latin American countries (New Atlanticist Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

Why are migrants dying trying to cross into the US? These are the 3 main risks they face (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

"With doors closed to the US, asylum-seekers turn to their Plan B: A new life in Mexico," AP News, 13 Feb. 2025 [text]

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

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (2 Feb. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2 (2 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

The Impact of Family Separation on Children (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

*"Trump administration reverses its previous decision and reinstates legal aid for migrant children," AP News, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]

UNHCR and OECD Datathon: Harnessing Data for Forcibly Displaced and Stateless Children (UNHCR Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Guía de buenas prácticas para la protección y promoción de los derechos de la niñez en movimiento en las Américas (Diálogo Interamericano & OEA, Feb. 2025) [text]

Refugee Family Reunion Project: Workshop Report (King's College London, Feb. 2025) [text via EIN]

- Focuses on the UK.

Journal articles:

"Changing patterns of family formation among internally displaced populations in Yemen," BMC Public Health, 24:3365 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

"The hidden crisis: double burden of malnutrition among refugee children in South Asia – a systematic review and meta-analysis from observational studies," Frontiers in Nutrition, 9 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"International Law, African Courts, and Protection of the Rights of Refugee Children," Fordham International Law Journal, vol. 48, no. 2 (2025) [full-text]

"Intersections of Peace: Refugee Children’s Unique Perspectives Through Storytelling and Arts-Based Methods," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 22 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- "Young refugee participants from sub-Saharan backgrounds engaged in a series of storytelling workshops to explore their integration processes in Algeria." 

"Mind the Empathy Gap: An Analysis of Agency and Emotional Encounters in the Asylum Appeals of Former Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 22 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Resilience of unaccompanied refugee children in foster care at Tongogara Refugee Camp Zimbabwe," Discover Global Society, vol. 2, no. 1 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

*"Virtuality for Real Children: Unaccompanied Minors and US Immigration Custody," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 23 Feb. 2025 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (9 Feb. 2025)