Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Audiovisual research provides new insights into how migrants navigate major life events (Leiden Univ., Oct. 2024) [text]

Preserving the Digital Legacy: Safeguarding Against All Odds with UNHCR (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

The screening of asylum seekers’ smartphones at the Dutch border (Utrecht Univ., Sept. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

CBP One Mobile Application: Violating Migrants’ Rights to Privacy and Freedom from Discrimination (Univ. of Illinois Chicago & National Lawyers Guild of Chicago, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Digital Migration Infrastructure in return-writing: visualizing the migration landscape of India," Frontiers in Sociology, 24 Sept. 2024 [open access]

The Guide to Usefulness of Existing AI Solutions in Nonprofit Organizations, Part 1 - Humanitarian AI (NetHope, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb] 

"Hate Speech in YouTube Comments on Rohingya Refugees in Thailand and Syrian Refugees in Europe," LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, vol. 17, no.1 (2024) [open access]

Making Digital Learning Work: Lessons from the UNICEF–Akelius Digital Learning Initiative in 12 countries (UNICEF, Oct. 2024) [text]

"Outcome-Driven Dynamic Refugee Assignment with Allocation Balancing," Operations Research, Ahead of Print, 25 March 2024 [preprint]

- Focuses on Switzerland and the US. See also related Harvard Business School post.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (18 Sept. 2024) 

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Short pieces:

Breaking Down Barriers: Improving Asylum Laws for Queer Migrants (Think Immigration Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Experts call on government to better protect Queer people seeking asylum in the UK (Univ. of Birmingham, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Charting a Path for LGBTIQ+ Justice in Humanitarian Response in Asia and the Pacific (Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group & Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies Working Group, Sept. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Cross-effects of cultural and gay capitals in access to refugee status on the grounds of SOGI in France: Study of the formal and informal preparations of West African men for asylum trials," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 37, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [preprint]

"Experiences of transgender migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, and Uzbekistan living in Russia," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

Held back: Poverty of LGBTQI refugees in the UK (Micro Rainbow, Sept. 2024) [text via EIN]

"Queering Humanitarian Practices through the Inclusion of SOGIESC Concepts," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 5, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"Understanding key priority areas of mental health among queer asylum seekers and refugees in Australia through the lens of structural violence: A modified Delphi method study," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 37, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (5 Sept. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues

Opportunity:

Seminar: Climate Change, Displacement and Gender, Online, 28 October 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Beyond Individual Persecution: European Court’s Constitutionalism in Afghan Women’s Asylum Case (EJIL: Talk Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Five trailblazing women win UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Awards for their life-changing work (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related media page.

Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan (LSE Review of Books Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Refugee law between resistance and compliance: a reparative reading of a classic feminist struggle (RLI Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Feminist Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning: The Praxis of Women's Rights and Women-Led Organizations in Conflict, Crisis, and Humanitarian Settings (CARE International &  Women's Peace & Humanitarian Fund, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

‘Rentrez chez vous, ça va passer...’ - Porter plainte pour violences sexuelles: l'épreuve des femmes migrantes, transgenres et travailleuses du sexe en France (Amnesty International, Sept. 2024) [text]

- See also InfoMigrants related article.

Articles:

"Factors Associated with Attendance to and Completion of Prenatal Care Visits in Colombia Among Urban-Residing Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Women," Journal of Migration and Health, In Press, 11 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Gender Trajectories of Afghan Immigrants in Multicultural Societies – Analysis," Eurasia Review, 14 Oct. 2024 [text]

"Gender-based violence and its determinants among refugees and internally displaced women in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis," BMC Public Health, 24:2851 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

"The Journey of a Living Statue: Structural Violence and a Honduran Migrant Woman’s Pathway Toward Asylum and Wellbeing," Social Science & Medicine, In Press, 9 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Legal Challenges and Violence Facing Asylum-Seeking Women at the United States Border," Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law Online, vol. XXIV, no. 2 (2023) [full-text]

"Women’s challenges and gender inequality implications in the UK Home Office’s streamlined asylum process: A practice-based, posthuman perspective," JUST: Journal of Language Rights & Minorities, vol. 3, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues (8 Oct. 2024)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

Bangladesh: New Rohingya Refugees Lack Protection, Aid (HRW, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

The pressing case for a new emergency visa to help people fleeing Gaza and other conflicts (The Conversation, Sept. 2024) [text]

The Responsibility to Protect vs. National Sovereignty: The Case of Rohingya Refugees in Myanmar and Bangladesh (RLI Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Road from Rakhine: The uncertain fate of Rohingyas (Raisina Debates, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports:

A fair and fast asylum process for Australia: Lessons from Switzerland, Policy Brief, no. 16 (Kaldor Centre, Sept. 2024) [access]

Migration, Pathway to Nation Building (Parliament of Australia, Sept. 2024) [access]

"National Borders among Families: Removal and 'Bare Life' in India," Migration Politics, Accepted Submission, 9 Sept. 2024 [preprint]

Returning from Pakistan: How are Afghan returnees coping back in their homeland? (Afghanistan Analysts Network, Sept. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Trapped Between Three Conflicts, Central Asian Migrants Face Problems We Can No Longer Ignore, Policy Memo, no. 909 (PONARS Eurasia, Aug. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Anxieties about a Porous Border: Australian Government Responses to Melanesian ‘Boat People’," Australian Historical Studies, Latest Articles, 10 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Global Media Sentiments on the Rohingya Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of News Articles from Ten Countries," Journalism and Media, vol. 5, no. 3 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

"Implications of refugee crisis on public sector healthcare organizations: Empirical observation from Myanmar's Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 37, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [ResearchGate]

"Rewriting Internal Relocation from a Refugee Perspective: The Lived Experience of Refugees in Afghanistan," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (17 Sept. 2024)

New Issues of AHMR, AJIL Unbound, Anti-Traff. Rev., Front. Hum. Dyn., Intl. Migr., JEMS, JHA, JMHS, QRP, Refuge, REMHU, REMI

African Human Mobility Review, vol. 10, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

AJIL Unbound, vol. 118 (2024) [open access]

- Theme is "Symposium on Unsettling the Sovereign 'Right to Exclude'," with a preface and seven articles.

Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 23 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Following the Money II."

Frontiers in Human Dynamics [open access]

- Features a research topic on "Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity (CIGS) in Disaster and Humanitarian Response," with an editorial and four articles.

International Migration, vol. 62, no. 5 (Oct. 2024) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with seven that are open access. Two commentaries are also open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 16 (2024) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 12 that are open access and one that is freely available. 

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 17 (2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "Beyond 'Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay': The Simultaneous Impacts of Co-agency in Migration." The introduction is freely available and three articles are open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 18 (2024) [contents]

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

*Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 5, no. 3 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 12, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [full-text]

- Special issue on "Forced Migration, Deterrence, and Solutions to the Non-Natural Disaster of Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border and Beyond." All articles are free to read, but two are also open access.

QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 40, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Special symposium issue on "Structures of (Un)Welcome." This issue is now complete.

REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024) [open access]

- Special dossier focuses on "Abdelmalek Sayad: Migration, State and Historical Amnesia." The remainder of the issue includes a mix of articles in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 40, nos. 2&3 (2024) [open access]

- Thematic dossier focuses on "Faire et défaire le privilège en migration."

*UPDATED

Tagged Periodicals.

New Issue of JRS

The latest issue of Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) has been published. Contents of vol. 37, no. 3, Sept. 2024 include:

• Bringing care in: The meaning of care in refugee solidarity movements [abstract] [ResearchGate]
• The ‘inherent vulnerability’ of women on the move: A gendered analysis of Morocco’s migration reform [open access]
• Bridging distance: Transnational and local family ties in refugees’ social support networks [abstract]
• More than a number: Exploring the impact of age(ing) on refugees’ experiences of arrival [abstract]
• Rohingya women as refugees: Examining displacement, refugeehood and ‘bare life’ [abstract]
• Implications of refugee crisis on public sector healthcare organizations: Empirical observation from Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh [abstract] [ResearchGate]
• Bargaining (in)visibility: Rohingya refugees and the politics of visibility in India [abstract]
• Cross-effects of cultural and gay capitals in access to refugee status on the grounds of SOGI in France: Study of the formal and informal preparations of West African men for asylum trials [abstract] [preprint]
• Understanding key priority areas of mental health among queer asylum seekers and refugees in Australia through the lens of structural violence: A modified Delphi method study [open access]
• Direct and vicarious administrative burden: Experiences of UK public services as Homes for Ukraine host [open access]
• Mismanagement and misinterpretations in asylum interviews: Perspectives from South Africa and Sweden [open access]
• Self-generated asylum evidence: Scripting, staging and desperation in the assessment process [open access]

Also included are eight reviews, one of which is open access.

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

Side event: Protection in Law and Practice: Regional and Global Engagement on Displacement in the Context of Climate Change, Geneva, 15 October 2024 [info]

- Taking place during EXCOM's 75th session.

Seminar: Climate Change, Displacement and Gender, Online, 28 October 2024 [info]

Side event: Advancing the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters: Exploring Multi-stakeholder Perspectives, Practice Insights and Legal Frameworks, Geneva, 28 October 2024 [info]

- Taking place during the RCRC's 34th conference.

Side event: People on the Move in a Changing Climate: Locally Led Action, Geneva, 29 October 2024 [info]

- Taking place during the RCRC's 34th conference.

Short pieces:

Desplazamiento como consecuencia del cambio climático en Colombia: escenarios de vulneración de derechos humanos que exige la atención integral del Estado (Departamento de Derecho del Medio Ambiente Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

Extreme weather is disrupting lives in southern Africa: new policies are needed to keep the peace (The Conversation, Oct. 2024) [text]

Uganda’s struggles resettling climate-displaced communities (African Arguments, Oct. 2024 [text]

Reports:

Briefing Note: Anticipatory Action: An innovative tool at the intersection of disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response (OCHA & UNDRR, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Enduring Change: A Data Review of Firsthand Accounts of Climate Mobility Impacts (International Refugee Assistance Project et al., Sept. 2024) [access]

- Focuses on the US.

Engaging Local Communities for More Effective Climate Mobility Programming (Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2024) [text]

Flood and Drought Displacement Risk in Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan (HABITABLE Project, July 2024; posted Oct. 2024) [text via IDMC]

*Harnessing Development Financing for Solutions to Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific (IDMC & ADB, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Leveraging Collective Intelligence Methods: Participatory Mapping and Citizen-Generated Data to Address Environmental Degradation and Displacement - A Burundi Case Study (IOM & Joint IDP Profiling Service, Sept. 2024) [text]

- A French version is also available.

Mapping human mobility in national and regional disaster risk reduction strategies and related instruments (Platform on Disaster Displacement, UNHCR & UNDRR, Oct. 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for report and summary.

Multimedia:

How We Talk about Climate Migration Shapes Treatment of “Climate Refugees," 4 Oct. 2024 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (28 Sept. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

A data-driven look at how promoting employment fosters refugee mental health (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Germany's migration policy: Balancing labor needs and deportation (InfoMigrants, Oct. 2024) [text]

ILO launches training to boost market-driven livelihood solutions for refugees and host communities in Jordan (ILO, Oct. 2024) [text]

JD Vance is Correct: Immigration Increases Housing Prices, and That’s Okay (CATO at Liberty Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US. See also related Forbes article.

Reports: 

Mass Deportation: Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy (American Immigration Council, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related blog post.

The Role of Immigrant Workers in the Green Transition (Migration Policy Institute, Sept. 2024) [text]

User Journeys of Cash + Entrepreneurship Participants - The Venezuela Regional Crisis: A journey mapping case study from Colombia (VenEsperanza Consortium, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Using Poverty Lines to Measure Refugee Self-Reliance, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 10910 (World Bank, Sept. 2024) [text]

Workers’ Organizations Responding to the Needs of Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons (ILO, Sept. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Negotiating fit into host country work settings: Understanding the interplay between the past and the present in the accounts of skilled refugees," Human Relations, OnlineFirst, 30 Sept. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Review of Jordan’s Government Policy on the Issuance of Work Permits to Aid Employment of Refugees," Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Works, vol. 9 (2023) [full-text]

"The role of temporality in refugees’ work-related meaningfulness-making," European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Latest Articles, 28 Sept. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Germany.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (27 Sept. 2024)

News: EXCOM 2024

The 75th session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme (EXCOM) is taking place this week in Geneva, from 14-18 October 2024. View the discussions via livestream on the session page. 

The first order of business is the High-Level Segment on Statelessness during which the Global Alliance to End Statelessness will be officially launched. (See also this related statement from PIERR, or the Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights.)

For a provisional schedule, agenda, selected documents, information on side events, as well as access to the livestream, visit the EXCOM 2024 web pages in English and French.

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

Evacuations in Armed Conflict: A Fine Line Between a Life-Saving Measure and Forced Displacement (EJIL: Talk Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Keynote address at the Refugee Law Initiative Annual Conference, 3 June 2024 [text]

- Theme is "Reinforcing rights and legal principles in the face of global challenges: the Global Compact on Refugees."

Reports & journal articles:

"The African Guiding Principles on the Rights of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Afr. Comm'n H.P.R.)," International Legal Materials, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2024) [open access]

AJIL Unbound, vol. 118 (2024) [open access]

- Theme is "Symposium on Unsettling the Sovereign 'Right to Exclude'," with a preface and seven articles.

Interim Report: The Right to Enter (ILA Committee on International Migration and International Law, 2024) [text via Refworld]

Legal considerations on asylum and non-refoulement in the context of ‘instrumentalization’ (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

- "The term ‘instrumentalization’ has been used, including in some national and supra-national legislation, to describe movements of persons which are forced, encouraged or facilitated with the aim of disrupting essential State functions."

"'Nowhere home'," London Review of International Law, vol. 12, no. 2 (July 2024) [open access]

- "This essay explores the concept of home in international law, the role of international law in the global regime of homemaking, and the prospects and limits of criminalising the destruction of home." Focuses on Gaza.

"A Primer on Trauma-Informed Practice in Refugee Law," Bond Law Review, vol. 36, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Toward a Taxonomy of Freedom of Movement Claims: Identifying Rights-Based Pathways for Today’s Refugees Beyond the 1951 Refugee Convention," Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 65, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]

Resource:

Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR) [access]

- "The Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights brings together independent human rights experts from the UN and regional systems to address areas of concern and cooperate on joint initiatives to enhance the protection and promotion of human rights of refugees and asylum-seekers." This press release provides more info.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (9 Sept. 2024)

Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

Five trailblazing women win UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Awards for their life-changing work (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related media page. The awards ceremony will be held in Geneva on 14 October 2024.

Innovating to support refugees’ mental health (UNHCR Innovation Service, Oct. 2024) [text]

"UN agencies urge Security Council to stop ‘mass graves for migrants’," UN News, 30 Sept. 2024 [text]

Reports:

Funding landscape for research on health, migration and displacement: report for 2016-2020 period (World Health Organization, Oct. 2024) [text]

HLP and protection: from emergency to solutions (Norwegian Refugee Council, Oct. 2024) [text]

Human rights of internally displaced persons: Note by the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/79/334 (UN General Assembly, Sept 2024) [access]

- Transmission of the "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur."

Measuring Irregular Migration (MIrreM) Project [access]

- A number of papers were published in Oct. 2024; see also two related databases, one on Irregular Migration Flow Estimates and Indicators and the other on Irregular Migration Stock Estimates.

Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Note by the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/79/160 (UN General Assembly, July 2024) [access via Univ. of Oxford]

- Transmission of the "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay: Mobile Indigenous Peoples."

Journal articles:

"Coups and refugee flows in autocracies and democracies," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 4 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"From Forced Migration to Displacement?," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 11 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Immigration bureaucracies and state-created categories across the globe," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 9 Oct. 2024 [open access]

- See also earlier related article.

"Social Assistance and Forced Displacement: A New Solution to an Old Problem?," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 40, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (2 Oct. 2024) 

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Short pieces & reports:

Durable Solutions Analysis, Jalalabad/Nangarhar (Asia Displacement Solutions Platform & Samuel Hall, Aug. 2024) [text]

Final Yearly Refugee Resettlement Numbers Show Great Progress (National Immigration Forum, Oct. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Germany’s Federal Admissions Program for People from Afghanistan: The Role of Civil Society in Policy Making and Implementation (RLI Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Insights and recommendations from the "The need to belong: pathways towards durable solutions" conference (On the Move Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on South Africa.

Memorandum on the Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2025 (White House, Sept. 2024) [text]

- See also related UNHCR press release.

The new EU Resettlement Framework: A flexible harmonization undermining fundamental rights (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Rebuilding the U.S. refugee program: A case study in how to increase state capacity (Niskanen Center, Oct. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Comparing Refugee Resettlement Services: A New Global Dataset and Typology," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 9 Oct. 2024 [abstract]

- See also related dissertation, "Policies for Belonging: A Global Comparison of Refugee Resettlement Programs."

"Empowerment and integration of refugee women: a transdisciplinary approach," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11:1277 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

"Intentions, Strategies, and Actions: How Refugees Exert Agency in the Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Process from Jordan and Turkey to Germany," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 40, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Navigating Vulnerability and Integration: Refugee Resettlement from Rwanda to Third Countries under the Medical Needs Category," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 1 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"'Resettlement is worthwhile for our children’s future': reflections from the Stateless Rohingya refugees in Malaysia," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:46 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 25 Sept. 2024 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (25 Sept. 2024)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

Fact sheet: Fourth Ministerial Meeting on the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection (White House, Sept. 2024) [text]

Haiti: A multi-dimensional crisis leading to continued displacement (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [access]

- See also related press release.

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

Reports:

Guía para el registro de personas en situación de desplazamiento forzado interno en México (UNHCR & Govt. of Mexico, Sept. 2024) [text]

Haiti: Increased internal displacement heightens food and health needs in the Grand Sud region (ACAPS, Oct. 2024) [text]

Localization in UNHCR Americas (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- A Spanish version is also available.

Movilidad humana, transferencias monetarias y localización: Estudios de caso en Perú y Ecuador (CALP Network & REACH Initiative, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Necesidades y Satisfacción con la Justicia en Honduras: Brechas de acceso a la justicia para personas desplazadas internamente (Instituto de la Haya para la Innovación del Derecho, Sept. 2024) [text via Refworld]

Unprotected: unveiling gaps in the protection of Venezuelan refugees in Aruba (Amnesty International, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related news story.

Journal articles:

"Invisible Gates Made Visible in Trinidad and Tobago: Projected and Sanctified Violence by the Liberal State upon Illegal Immigrants and Refugees," LIAS Working Paper Series, vol. 11, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"The power of bureaucracies: Shaping migration policy paradigms in Colombia and Ecuador," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Global Migration and "The Route" to the US (Wilson Center NOW, Oct. 2024) [access]

Tackling the Root Causes: Food Insecurity and Forced Migration in Latin America, 9 Oct. 2024 [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (24 Sept. 2024)

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

7 years into the conflict, solutions to displacement in Cabo Delgado remain elusive (IDMC Expert Analysis, Oct. 2024) [text]

M23 conflict caused nearly 3 out of every 4 displacements in the DRC this year (IDMC Expert Analysis, Sept. 2024) [text]

Refugee Creativity, Fun, and Initiative at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi (Wilson Center, Oct. 2024) [text]

Refugee figures in South Sudan hit the half a million mark as thousands arrive, fleeing conflict in Sudan (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

New open access book:

Voices in the Dark: The Energy Lives of Refugees (Berghahn Books, Oct. 2024) [open access]

- "Humanitarianism is in crisis: refugee numbers increase every year and humanitarian agencies are struggling to meet the needs of displaced people. In refugee camps all over the world, refugees are forced to secure their own access to energy and are provided with limited cooking resources and minimal electricity. Voices in the Dark draws upon a decade of original research to provide evidence on the energy lives of refugees. Focusing on refugee camps in Rwanda and Kenya, the book identifies that urgent change is required within humanitarian responses to forced migration and the climate crisis to ensure that future energy provision in displacement settings is sustainable, reliable and affordable for refugees."

Reports:

Migration Governance Indicators Data on the Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration in Africa (IOM, 2024) [text]

Protecting the Human Rights of Migrants: A Course for Migration Officials in Africa (IOM, 2024) [text]

Sudan: Scenarios - A region-by-region analysis of possible developments affecting humanitarian needs and operations in Sudan until December 2025 (ACAPS, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

What displaced people in the DRC think of humanitarian protection and how to learn from it (Humanitarian Practice Network, Oct. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry representative survey," BMJ Mental Health, vol. 26, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

- See also related post in The Conversation.

"Inhabiting temporariness: the agency-in-waiting of Eritrean refugees in the city," Environment & Urbanization, OnlineFirst, 6 Oct. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Ethiopia.

"Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda," Population, Space and Place, Early View, 26 Sept. 2024 [open access]

"Securitisation of Refugee Protection: The Judiciary’s Role in the Protection of the Rights of Refugees: Attorney General v. Kituo Cha Sheria & 7 Others," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Kenya.

"Traumatised youth harbour feelings of revenge: investigating the association between PTSD symptomatology, vengeance, and willingness to forgive among the Congolese adolescent refugees in Uganda," European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 15, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (27 Sept. 2024) 

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities: 

Seminar: Rohingya in Post-Coup Rakhine State: Navigating Challenges and Exploring Opportunities for Citizenship and Statelessness, Online, 17 October 2024 [info]

Call for applications: Visiting Research Fellowship & Visiting Stateless Legal Clinic Fellowship, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness [info]

- The application deadline for both fellowships is 30 November 2024.

Short pieces:

Building Solidarity: the launch of the Statelessness and Dignified Citizenship Coalition - Asia-Pacific (ENS Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

The Campaign to End Statelessness: April-June 2024 Update (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text] 

IACHR calls on States to continue adopting measures to prevent and eradicate statelessness in the region (OAS, Sept. 2024) [text]

IACHR condemns arbitrary revocation of nationality of 135 recently released prisoners in Nicaragua (OAS, Sept. 2024) [text]

"Lack of birth certificates puts Cameroon's Indigenous people on the brink of statelessness," AP News, 22 Sept. 2024 [text]

A mother’s struggle helps drive a national movement for legal identity in Nepal (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

Palestinian Citizens of Israel Fear Risk of Becoming Stateless Amidst Rising Calls for Citizenship Revocation (ENS Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

Rolling out our new identification toolkit (ENS News, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related editorial.

Trainings for Philippine judges on landmark Rule on Facilitated Naturalization of Refugees and Stateless Persons reaches nationwide coverage (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

UNICEF and UNHCR urge urgent action to end childhood statelessness (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Thailand.

Reports & journal articles:

Briefing note: Addressing statelessness in Europe (European Network on Statelessness, Oct. 2024) [text]

*From Stateless to Citizens: the journey of the Shona community in Kenya (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2.0 (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- An update to the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness: 2014–2024.

*The #IBelong Campaign: A Decade of Action to End Statelessness, 2014-2024 (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related press release.

Legal briefing: Statelessness and the right to respect for family and private life (European Network on Statelessness, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also recording of related webinar.

"Reflexivity and emotion in the citizenship journey of stateless India-Bangladesh enclave dwellers," Discover Global Society, 2:59 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Being Stateless: An Oral History Podcast (McMullin Center on Statelessness) [access]

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (3 Sept. 2024)

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2

Reports: 

COVID-19 Outbreaks in Refugee Camps: A Simulation Study (World Bank, July 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Jordan.

Expulsion with no exit: one year of war in Gaza, Nota Internacional, no. 309 (CIDOB, Oct. 2024) [text]

Gaza: 1 Year On - Accountability Report (Oxfam, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Israeli obstructions to aid and attacks on humanitarian workers: Médecins du Monde's year in the occupied Palestinian territory (Médecins du Monde, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Palestine (Gaza): United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) (Asylos, Sept. 2024) [text]

Turbulent Borders, Displaced Lives: The Christian Narrative in South Lebanon’s Geopolitical Landscape, RID Working Paper, no. 45 (Researching Internal Displacement, Oct. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

*"An Analysis of the Religious Solidarity Discourses Regarding the Syrian Refugees in Türkiye," Religions, vol. 15, no. 10 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Assessing the Intersectional Impact of Domestic Migration Law: Reacting to State-Created Categories and Vulnerabilities of Asylum Seekers in Israel," Israel Law Review, First View, 4 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Humanitarianism as a tool of statecraft: contested authority, sovereign violence, and humanity in the Syrian civil war," Disasters, Early View, 30 Sept. 2024 [open access]

"An imperial meantime: The invisible violence of a humanitarian peace in Western Sahara," American Ethnologist, Early View, 16 Sept. 2024 [open access]

"Manifestations and drivers of secondary trauma among service providers working with Syrian refugees: A mixed-methods study from Istanbul, Turkey," International Social Work, OnlineFirst, 23 Sept. 2024 [open access]

"Migration aspirations in relation to border closures, employment opportunities and risk-taking attitudes: lessons from an online survey experiment," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 18 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

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Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1 (10 Oct. 2024)

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Displacement-based Discrimination Impeding Access to Personal Documents (Sada Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on IDPs in Libya. See also related documentary below.

The Double-Edged Sword of Humanitarianism: UNRWA and Struggle for Palestinian Agency in the Colonial Context (Opinio Juris, Oct. 2024) [text]

Gaza Humanitarian Access Snapshot #6 (11 Sept.-9 Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related statement by IASC principals.

*Ignored, Displaced and Powerless: Lebanon’s IDPs Caught Between Escalating Hostilities and Government Neglect (RID Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

"Israel’s Lebanon assault: A double suffering for Syrian refugees," The New Humanitarian, 2 Oct. 2024 [text]

*Lebanese civilians are fleeing the south, fearing an Israeli invasion − a look back at 1982 suggests they have every reason to worry (The Conversation, Sept. 2024) [text]

Joint Statement: Tunisia is Not a Place of Safety for People Rescued at Sea (Amnesty International, Oct. 2024) [text]

One year of war in Gaza (The New Humanitarian, Oct. 2024) [access]

- "A collection of our coverage chronicling humanitarian impacts, aid challenges, and the experiences of Palestinians for whom Gaza is home." See also related OCHA news story.

The Syrian Civil War: A Decade of Conflict, Displacement, and Global Impact (Modern Diplomacy, Oct. 2024) [text]

Syrians escape bombings in Lebanon to the country they once fled (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related press release.

UNHCR, Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sanremo Institute organize a three-day workshop on Asylum Management (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

A year of escalating conflict in the Middle East has ushered in a new era of regional displacement (The Conversation, Oct. 2024) [text]

Multimedia:

Gaza’s Intensifying Humanitarian Catastrophe: Expert Perspectives, 30 Sept. 2024 [access]

Internal Shadows: The Unseen Plights of Libya's IDPs (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Sept. 2024) [access]

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Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (19 Sept. 2024)