Opportunities:
GRF Progress Review 2025: Linked events,
9-19 December 2025 [
info]
- A number of independently organized events have been organized around the
Global Compact on Refugees' objectives. Some are in-person, hybrid and
invitation-only. Follow the link above for details.
CFP: "Eroding Solidarity? Forced Migration, Protection, and Inclusion in a
World Beyond Order," 6th Conference of the German Network for Forced
Migration Studies, Hildesheim, Germany, 28-30 September 2026 [
info]
- Submission deadline is 9 January 2026.
Short pieces:
The Courage to Welcome: solidarity in a divided world (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [
text]
- Text of the High Commissioner's "One People Oration" at Westminster Abbey.
"Election? What today’s UN leadership vacancies say about the system,"
Inklings Newsletter (27 Nov. 2025) [
text]
- Focuses on UNHCR.
Fact check: Why "85% of refugees are Muslim" is false (DW, Nov. 2025) [
text]
Geneva gathering to reaffirm solidarity and deliver new results for refugees
(UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [
text]
- The Global Refugee Forum Progress Review will meet next week in
Geneva from 15-17 December 2025.
Humanitarian heroes celebrated with UNHCR Nansen Refugee Awards (UNHCR, Dec.
2025) [
text]
Now more than ever, the world must support UNHCR to continue its life-saving
work (Kaldor Centre & Refugee Council of Australia, Dec. 2025) [
text]
- Joint statement on UNHCR’s 75th anniversary. See also related Pearls &
Irritations
post.
Refugia revisited five years on: reflections on the launch of a
French language edition (COMPAS Blog, Nov. 2025) [
text]
"Sweden’s push for an ex-IKEA CEO to lead UNHCR signals a new refugee order,"
Al Jazeera, 11 Dec. 2025 [
text]
To the New High Commissioner: IDPs Must Remain a Global Priority (RI
Commentary, Nov. 2025) [
text]
Türk says human rights under attack, yet undeterred, in 2025 (OHCHR, Dec. 2025) [
text]
"What if … the United Nations was disbanded next Friday?,"
Al Jazeera, 7 Nov. 2025 [
text]
Reports:
Cities as key policy actors: strengthening urban responses to displacement
in the global South (Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Nov. 2025) [
access
via IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement]
Refugee-Led Responses and Agency in East Africa, the Middle East, and South
America: Synthesis of research findings and policy recommendations
(LERRN, Dec. 2025) [
access]
Journal articles:
"Bayesian Projection of Extant Refugee and Asylum Seeker
Populations,"
Demography, Advance Publication, 5 Dec. 2025 [
open access]
"Decision-Making Mistakes in Asylum Policy: A Comparative Study of Public
Opinion,"
International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 5 Dec.
2025 [
open access]
- "This study relies on web survey data from 26 countries, selected as a
function of their overall immigration regimes, proximity to migrant-sending
countries, citizenship regimes, status as a host or transit country, and
response to the United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration."
Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, no. 44 (2025) [
open access]
- Special issue on "Retour à la normale? Déplacés et réfugiés face aux
normes de la sortie de guerre (1945-1951) = A Return to the Normal?
Displaced Persons, Refugees and Postwar Norms (1945-1951)."
"Editorial: Refugees and Humanitarian Support in the Global South:
Challenges in Repatriation and Social Cohesion,"
Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 25 Nov. 2025 [
open access]
- Discusses the articles included in the
research topic
of the same name.
"Prioritizing global equity in migration research,"
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 6 Dec. 2025 [
open access]
"Systematic literature reviews in migration studies: approaches to
context-sensitive synthesis,"
Comparative Migration Studies, 22
Nov. 2025 [
open access]
Multimedia:
Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025: Migration and displacement: My
grandmother, Lausanne, and some lessons for the present, Oxford, 5 Nov. 2025
[
access]
Attacking health: Understanding the dynamics and broader impacts of violence
against healthcare, 19 Nov. 2025 [
access]
Displacement, solidarity, counter-government, 22 Oct. 2025 [
access]
Human rights elites at the United Nations: Felix Ermacora and the first
human rights fact finding missions (1967-1993), 29 Oct. 2025 [
access]
Towards a New Response to Forced Migration through Local Engagement Refugee
Research Network, 12 Sept. 2025 [
access]
Who wants to be the new UN refugee chief (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast
Series, Nov. 2025) [
access]
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