Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles (country-level):

"Analyzing 'Threat' in Asylum Reception: Context, Materiality and Institutional Texts in High-Stakes Intercultural Communication," Journal of Intercultural Communication, vol. 25, no. 4 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

"Between Borders and Burdens: Psychological Trauma and Human Security Among Migrants in Transit Countries (Case Studies: Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina)," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 13, no 4 (Dec. 2025) [full-text]

"Classification and Control: Purity and Danger in Britain’s Asylum Regime," Sociology, OnlineFirst, 29 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"'It Was Like a Tsunami': Challenges for Refugee Third-Sector Organizations at a Time of Repressive Asylum Policies," [open access]

- Focuses on Italy and the UK.

"Medico-legal assessment of physical abuses in asylum cases: a multidisciplinary role for multiform issues," Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, Latest Articles, 7 Nov. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Italy.

"Moving beyond securitisation and deservingness: Convergence between political and media discourses about ‘irregular migrants’ in Germany," Discourse & Society, OnlineFirst, 30 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"The Place of Safety in Refugees’ Subjective Well-Being," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 6 Nov. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Shifting Responsibility on a Spectrum: The UK’s Responsibility for Externalised Border Control Operations," Laws, vol. 14, no. 6 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (14 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Commission launches first Annual Migration Management Cycle under the Pact on Migration and Asylum (European Commission, Nov. 2025) [access]

- The text of the first European Annual Asylum and Migration Report can be accessed below. See also a related At a Glance from the European Parliament and a summary in this week's ECRE Weekly Bulletin. 

How to design an independent asylum appeal body (LSE British Politics and Policy Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Migration Crisis or Crisis of Migration Management? Syrian Refugees’ Rights in the EU and Türkiye (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

“They treat us like criminals”: racism at the France-UK border (Free Movement Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

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

Reports & book chapters:

Asylum policy in Denmark (UK House of Commons Library, Nov. 2025) [text]

European Annual Asylum and Migration Report (European Commission, Nov. 2025) [access]

Practical Guide on the Audio Recording of Personal Interviews (EU Agency for Asylum, Oct. 2025) [text]

"Silver Linings of the EU Migration Pact: Progressive Elements and Binding Solidarity," Chapter in Challenges of European Refugee and Asylum Law and Policy (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2026) [preprint]

Towards a point of no return for fundamental rights? The EC’s proposal for a Return Regulation, Policy Note, no. 50 (ECRE, Nov. 2025) [text]

- ECRE will hold a related online briefing on 24 November 2025. Register by 20 November 2025.

Journal articles (regional-level):

Berlin Geographical Papers, vol. 56 (2025) [open access]

- Thematic issue on "Geographies of the European Border Regime: How borders shape the everyday lives of refugees and asylum-seekers."

"Externally driven integration in EU migration policy: enabling integration through indifference, undermining it through conflictive politicisation," Journal of European Public Policy, Latest Articles, 22 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"The Intra-EU Relocation Scheme of 2015: A Test Run for a Dublin Reform," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 6 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Restrictive, liberal, selective or universal? A cross-national analysis of European countries’ policy response to forced migrants from Ukraine," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 6 Nov. 2025 [free full-text]

-  Introduction to not-yet-published special issue.

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (31 Oct. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (31 Oct. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2

Journal articles (health-related aspects):

"Barriers to access and utilization of sexual and reproductive health services among young Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh," Reproductive Health, 22:212 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

"Inequality in receiving maternal health care among Rohingya women living in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps and its associated factors," International Journal for Equity in Health, 24:309 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Investigating the Impact of Syrian Conflict on Women’s Education, Mental Health, and Rights: A Cross-Sectional Study," BMC Women's Health, 25:551 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Loss, trauma, and survival: Experiences of Syrian migrant widows in Türkiye," Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 114 (Jan.-Feb. 2026) [free full-text]

"Structural barriers to prenatal care for migrant women at the United States–Mexico border: a qualitative study," Public Health, vol. 249 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Using a human security lens to examine experiences of violence against women in long-term encampment," PLoS One 20(11): e0336028 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Kenya.

"Why we should care about asylum seeking Latina pregnant migrants," Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 5 Nov. 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (14 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Fragile Masculinities and Bangladeshi Labour Migrants in the UAE (COMPAS Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

New Poll: Two-Thirds of U.S. Voters Back Asylum for Women and Girls (CGRS, Oct. 2025) [text]

Refashioning Strength Through Virtue: How Displaced Syrian Men Have Configured Masculinity in Istanbul (COMPAS Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

"Reading Climate into the Refugee Convention: Lessons from the Unfinished Business of Gender-Based Asylum," Chapter in Climate Change, Migration, Gender, and the Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming) [preprint]

- "This chapter traces the incomplete evolution of international refugee law with respect to protection claims related to gender. It examines the similarities and differences between such claims and the emerging area of climate-related displacement law and draws out lessons from the ongoing struggle to see gender as central to the notion of international protection."

Working with women-led organizations including those led by forcibly displaced and stateless women: A How-To Guide for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Operations (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [text]

Journal articles (socio-legal aspects):

"Examining the Impact of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 on Refugee Women," Laws, vol. 14, no. 6 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Gender-based and intersectional violence in migration and refugee contexts: A contextual global approach," International Sociology, OnlineFirst, 1 July 2025 [open access]

"Gendered Violence of Asylum Reporting Requirements," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 56, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Toward a feminist geo-legal reading: US country-of-origin information in asylum adjudication," Area, Early View, 30 Oct. 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (27 Oct. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (27 Oct. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Asylum access adjudication: a multi-level framework for socio-legal research," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 9 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"'But we have to be realistic': examining the origins of temporary protection in the USA and European Union," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 38, no. 1 (March 2025) [open access]

"Discursive and behavioural sources of regime erosion: the case of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)," Journal of European Public Policy, Latest Articles, 25 Oct. 2025 [open access]

- See also related supplement.

"Historical Foundations and Limitations of International Refugee Law," Annual Review of Law and Social Science, vol. 21 (2025) [open access]

"To What Extent Do Article 1 and Article 33 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees Prevent Western Countries from Using It as an Immigration Control Tool?," Leeds Student Law and Criminal Justice Review, vol. 5 (Sept. 2025) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 1.

"Toward a feminist geo-legal reading: US country-of-origin information in asylum adjudication," Area, Early View, 30 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"The Twice Displaced: UNHCR's Role in Evacuations," International Journal of Refugee Law (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Unsafe at Any Speed: “Safe Third Country Agreements”—Offshoring and Eroding Legal Protections Owed to Refugees and Asylum Seekers," Fordham Urban Law Journal, vol. 53, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (13 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Call for proposals: Brill invites proposals for refugee law research books [info]

- No deadline indicated.

Webinar series: Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law, 30 September–15 December 2025 [info]

- Three-part series exploring themes presented in the a/m newly-published open access book. The third seminar on 25 November 2025 will focus on "Laws, Courts and Research."

Webinar: UNHCR at 75: Challenges and Opportunities, 26 November 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Keynote Address, "Building bridges: Advancing refugee protection in a divided world," 2025 Kaldor Centre Conference, 23 Oct. 2025 [text]

- See also related UNSW news release. 

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

Reports & book chapters: 

Judicial Well-being and Resilience Guidelines (International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges, Nov. 2025) [text]

Practical Guide on Free Legal Counselling (EU Agency for Asylum, Oct. 2025) [access]

- Follow link for the guide and an executive summary.

"Reading Climate into the Refugee Convention: Lessons from the Unfinished Business of Gender-Based Asylum," Chapter in Climate Change, Migration, Gender, and the Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming) [preprint]

- "This chapter traces the incomplete evolution of international refugee law with respect to protection claims related to gender. It examines the similarities and differences between such claims and the emerging area of climate-related displacement law and draws out lessons from the ongoing struggle to see gender as central to the notion of international protection."

Safeguarding protection, ensuring efficiency: quick processing of claims unlikely to succeed, Online, 25 June 2025 (Asylum Capacity Support Group, July 2025) [access]

- Follow link for meeting documents and the outcome report.

Strategic Approach to Strengthening National Asylum Systems (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [access]

- Available in English and French.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (20 Oct. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"'As you know, parents' love differs from others': Understanding needs and strengths shaping mental health among unaccompanied Afghan minors in resettlement in the U.S.," SSM - Mental Health, vol. 8 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Exploring levels and factors associated with transition challenges for Syrian refugee parents resettled in Canada," PLoS One 20(11): e0336392 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"First-hand experiences of belonging among child refugees and asylum seekers, post-migration: a meta-synthesis," Frontiers in Psychology, 21 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"The Paradox of Immigrant Children's Rights," Texas Law Review Online, vol. 140 (2025) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Towards an Understanding of Young Refugees’ Identity Dynamics Along the Migration Process: A Systematic Review," Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, Latest Articles, 14 Oct. 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

Webinar on procedural rights of migrant and refugee children in legal proceedings, 7 Oct. 2025 [access]

- Organized by the International Commission of Jurists. Examines "international and EU frameworks ensuring the procedural rights of migrant and refugee children in legal proceedings, including their effective participation in asylum and migration-related proceedings."

Resource:

A Look Back at the Family Separation Policy: The Struggle to Uncover the Truth Behind the Trump Administration's Wrongdoings (American Immigration Council, Oct. 2025) [access]

- This platform provides analysis of new FOIA records obtained on "the U.S. government’s chaotic implementation of family separations during the zero-tolerance period and its aftermath. ...Visitors to this site can review never-before-published government records, read analysis by the Council, and hear celebrated actors read first-person accounts by the journalists, attorneys and Congressmen who fought family separations on the front lines."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (13 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Protecting Children on the Move in South Africa: Legal Frameworks, Lived Realities, and Systemic Challenges (On the Move Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Child alert: Haiti’s children confront a polycrisis (UNICEF, Oct. 2025) [access]

Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2024, Conflict Trends, no. 1 (Nov. 2025) [text]

Children on the Move in North Africa and Along Key Routes: Trends, Vulnerabilities and Experiences of Migrant Children (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Family Reunification for Beneficiaries of International and Subsidiary Protection, Fact Sheet, no. 40 (EU Agency for Asylum, Nov. 2025) [text]

*Family reunification of third-country nationals: State of play of law and practice (European Migration Network, Oct. 2025) [text]

- See also related EMN Inform.

"I Don't Have Family, I'm Not Breathing and I'm Not Alive": The impact of refugee family reunion on the mental health of refugees (Helen Bamber Foundation, Oct. 2025) [text via EIN]

- Focuses on the UK.

'I Returned to Life': Why refugee family reunion must be protected (British Red Cross, Oct. 2025) [access]

The Theory of Change: Prevent and Respond to Child Marriage in Humanitarian and Forced Displacement Settings (Plan International & Save the Children, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (7 Oct. 2025)

Opportunities: Even More Nov. 2025

Webinar: The Future of Humanitarian Aid with Jamie McGoldrick, 19 November 2025 [info]

Seminar: Refugee Pathways to Freedom and Peace, Toronto/Online, 19 November 2025 [info]

Call for applications: STARLIGHT 2.0 Training Programme [info]

- This programme aims to "equip experienced lawyers, NGO legal staff, and human rights defenders to use the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in strategic litigation that strengthens democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental rights across the EU." Note: One of the thematic workshops focuses on asylum and migration. Apply by 20 November 2025.

Webinar series: Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law, 30 September–15 December 2025 [info]

- Three-part series exploring themes presented in the a/m newly-published open access book. The third seminar on 25 November 2025 will focus on "Laws, Courts and Research."

Job announcement: Research Adviser, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre [info]

- Focus will be on socio-economic impacts. Apply by 26 November 2025.

Webinar: UNHCR at 75: Challenges and Opportunities, 26 November 2025 [info]

Call for applications: Intern/Volunteer, Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion [info]

- To assist particularly with StatelessHub and the Monthly Bulletin. Apply by 28 November 2025.

Call for applications: Methods of Research with Migrants and Refugees, CMRS Winter Short Course, 7-10 December 2025 [info]

- Apply by 30 November 2025.

CFP: International Workshop on "The Neutral Countries and the Plight of Jewish Refugees during the Holocaust: A Comparative Perspective," Uppsala, Sweden, 12-13 February 2026 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 30 November 2025.

Related post:

- Opportunities: More Nov. 2025 & New Dec. 2025

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2

Reports: 

Autosuffisance des ménages réfugiés dans la région des Savanes au Togo (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

De facto economic integration of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Policy Brief, no. 7 (PRIO, 2025) [text]

Employers’ guide: Integrating refugees into the Greek labour market (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text]

Employment Assessment for Youth on the Move in Mexico City (International Rescue Committee, Nov. 2025) [access]

Resilience at Work: Displacement and Integration in Ukraine’s Labour Market (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

The welfare and market effects of delays in humanitarian assistance, CSAE Working Paper, no. 2025-08-02 (Univ. of Oxford, Oct. 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1 (11 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Challenges, Successes, and Recommendations: U.S. Labor Mobility Pathways for Displaced People (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

The DOT’s trucking crackdown isn’t about safety — it’s about immigration (Niskanen Center Commentary, Nov. 2025) [text]

It’s not digital platforms that hire refugees – it’s people (LSE Inequalities Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Kenya.

Refugees who left their homes and became successful business owners – in their own words (Loughborough Univ., Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Syrian forced migrants in Turkey have built businesses despite challenges. Here’s what has helped them succeed (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

USCIS Restricts Work Permits for Asylum Seekers (The Asylumist Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

When Trump’s immigration raids become foreign policy (Niskanen Center Commentary, Oct. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Government Efforts to Boost Diaspora Remittances Earn Mixed Results," Migration Information Source, 5 Nov. 2025 [text]

"Integrated psychological capital and theory of planned behavior as predictors of entrepreneurial intentions among refugees," Discover Psychology, 5:143 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Uganda.

"Navigating overqualification: Syrian female refugees with university degrees in the labour market," Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 114 (Jan.-Feb. 2026) [free full-text]

- Focuses on Türkiye.

"A qualitative study of the experiences of Syrian physicians in Türkiye: the need to strengthen integration," Human Resources for Health, 23:63 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Ukrainian displaced women entrepreneurs in EU countries: Pathways to inclusion in the European business environment," Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 114 (Jan.-Feb. 2026) [free full-text]

"Weathering the storm: Career development stories of Syrian refugee women in Türkiye," Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 114 (Jan.-Feb. 2026) [free full-text]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1 (28 Oct. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2 (28 Oct. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

Abandoned in the desert: the reality of migrant smuggling (UNODC, Oct. 2025) [text]

Not the same crime: Understanding the difference between human trafficking and migrant smuggling (UNODC, Oct. 2025) [text]

Reports: 

Climate Chains: Mapping the Relationship between Climate, Trafficking in Persons and Building Resilience (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Ethiopia and the Philippines.

Human Smuggling and Trafficking Ecosystems: North Africa and the Sahel - 2025 Series (Global Initiative) [info]

- Currently, two country reports have been published: Libya (Oct. 2025) & Niger (Nov. 2025)

“They don’t think we are humans”: The Cycle of Human Trafficking for Ransom in Libya (Tilburg Univ. & Langaa Research & Publishing, 2025) [full-text]

- Note: This dissertation is published as vol. 6 of the "Connected and Mobile: Migration and Human Trafficking in Africa" book series.

*Trafficking in human beings - the international dimension (European Migration Network, July 2025) [access]

- Follow link for study and country reports. See also related EMN Inform.

Trafficking in Persons Report 2025 (US Dept. of State, Sept. 2025) [access]

- Note: Under the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act, this annual report must be submitted by the State Dept. to Congress by 30 June. However, according to The Guardian, the release of this year's TIP was delayed due to funding and staff cuts. Moreover, references to LGBTQ victims of human trafficking have been removed. See more info here.

Journal articles & book chapters:

Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 25 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet."

"Beyond borders and blockades: human trafficking risks among vulnerable Palestinian populations under occupation," BMC Public Health, 25:3544 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

"Human trafficking risks in countries unaccustomed to migration: Romanian assistance providers’ experiences with conflict-affected migrants from Ukraine," European Journal of Criminology, OnlineFirst, 6 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Labor Trafficking among Migrant Populations: A Scoping Review and Qualitative Interview Study with Stakeholders," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Trafficked Persons as Convention Refugees: Opportunities and Obstacles in Asylum Claims based on a Risk of (Re-)Trafficking," Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, vol. 39, no. 1 (2025) [postprint]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Who are human traffickers? Evidence from Romanian prisons," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:81 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

"Who is the 'Vulnerable' Victim? Trafficked and Smuggled Persons as Victims of Crime Under EU Law," Chapter in Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU (Routledge, Sept. 2025) [postprint]

- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 9 March 2027.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (3 Oct. 2025)

Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

Short pieces:

Conflict, disasters, and disability inclusive disaster risk reduction (IDS Opinion, Oct. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Funding for older people in humanitarian crises (HelpAge International, Oct. 2025) [text]

Insights on refugees with disability in Australia: Foundations for Belonging 2025 (Settlement Services International & Western Sydney Univ., Sept. 2025) [text]

- See also related post on The Conversation. 

Understanding ageism at the intersections: learning to inform future research, programming and advocacy (2024–25) (HelpAge International, Nov. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Challenges of Accessibility: Experience of Receiving Ukrainian War Refugees with Disabilities in Poland and Romania," Social Inclusion, vol. 13 (2025) [open access]

"Exclusionary Ableism," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 39, no. 1 (Fall 2024) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Healthy Ageing Futures for Older Women Asylum Seekers: Advancing Oral Histories and Futures Methods," International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 1 Oct. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"International Law and the Protection of Migrant Children with Disabilities," Laws, vol. 14, no. 5 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

"Minority or migrant? Loneliness among older immigrants in England," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 5 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Prevalence and determinants of quality of life among Rohingya older adults residing in the refugee camp in Bangladesh," BMC Geriatrics, 25:698 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

"Using a Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Study the Mental Health of Older Adults with a Refugee Life Experience," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 22, no. 8 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Nepali Bhutanese in the US.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People (14 July 2025)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 25 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet." 

"Climate Change, Ecocide, and the Rise of Environmental Refugees: The Case of Syria," Political Studies, OnlineFirst, 28 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"Climate change, vulnerability, and cultural loss," Ethics & Global Politics, Latest Articles, 28 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"Evaluating the Impact of the Zero Rupiah Policy Passport (ZRPP) on International Migration as a Coping Mechanism for Climate-Induced Displacement: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 28 Oct. 2025 [full-text]

- Focuses on Indonesia.

"Examining the impact of resettlement typologies in post-disaster social integration: a framework of social and spatial isolation," Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, Latest Articles, 21 Oct. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on China.

Forced Migration Review, no. 76 (Nov 2025) [open access]

- Themed issue on "Climate change: Choices for displaced people."

"Human mobility under disasters: a systematic review and framework for equitable and resilient mobility governance," npj Natural Hazards, 2:99 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Socioeconomic impacts and migration dynamics of riverbank erosion," npj Climate Action, 4:102 (Nov 2025) [open access]

Multimedia:

Virtual Dialogues on Challenges and Prospects for Planned Relocation, 16-17 October 2025 [access]

- Follow link for two video recordings, one for Asia and the Pacific and the other for Africa, Americas and Europe.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1 (9 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Afghan Refugees Caught Between Climate Hazards and Deportation in Karachi, Pakistan (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Battlefields to wastelands: UN warns conflicts are destroying ecosystems worldwide," UN News, 6 Nov. 2025 [text]

COP30 in Belém: Putting People at the Heart of Climate Action (IOM, Nov. 2025) [access]

The Missing Link: How Better Data Sharing Could Ease South Asia’s Climate Refugee Crisis (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

New solar-hybrid water systems bring relief to 165,000 refugees in Kiryandongo settlement (UNICEF, Nov. 2025) [text]

The Real Disaster May Only Just Be Beginning for Those Displaced by Hurricane Melissa (RID Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

The REP Fund at COP30 (UNHCR Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

- REP = Refugee Environmental Protection Fund.

Revisiting the 2015 Guidance on Planned Relocations: A decade of progress and future horizons (RID Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

UNHCR wins AidEx Sustainable Initiative of the Year Award for innovative Green Financing Facility (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Climate, displacement and mental health. Overlapping challenges and opportunities (CGIAR, Oct. 2025) [text]

E-Waste Circular Economy Transition to Scale Project (Mercy Corps & IOM, Oct. 2025) [access]

- Focuses on Uganda.

Funding Futures: Access to Funding for Planned Relocation as Loss and Damage (Platform on Disaster Displacement, Oct. 2025) [text]

Missing in (Climate) Action? Displaced Communities and the Search for Durable Solutions: Bangladesh as a loss and damage case study, RID Working Paper, no. 49 (Researching Internal Displacement, Oct. 2025) [text]

Scoping study on promoting labour market reintegration in the context of climate mobility in Pacific Island countries (ILO, Oct. 2025) [text]

Toolkit for developing a circular economy for e-waste in displacement settings (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (17 Oct. 2025)

New Issues of Anthro. Middle East, Berlin Geo. Papers, Health Ed. & Behav., Humanity, ICRC Rev., IJMHSC, JEMS, JID, JIMI, J. Migr. Hist., Pol. Res. Exch.

*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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Anthropology of the Middle East, vol. 20, no. 2 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Middle Eastern Migrants in East Asia: Navigation of Identity, Religion and Belonging."

Berlin Geographical Papers, vol. 56 (2025) [open access]

- Thematic issue on "Geographies of the European Border Regime: How borders shape the everyday lives of refugees and asylum-seekers." 

*Health Education & Behavior, vol. 52, no. 5 (2025) [contents]

- Includes a theme section on "A Case for Achieving Refugee Health Equity: Dismantling the Influence of Structural Oppression in Refugee Health Disparities." One article is open access.

Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, vol. 15, no. 3 (Fall 2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

*International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 21, no. 3 (Oct. 2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with one that is open access.

International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 107, no. 929 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

- Issue theme is "Protection of the Dead."

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 19 (2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 13 that are open access.

Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 15, no. 2 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Transnational Indigenous Displacement."

Journal of International Migration and Integration [access]

- Special collection on "Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways: global refugee resettlement movements driven by local actors." Five articles are open access, including the introduction.

Journal of International Migration and Integration [access]

- Special collection on "Making solidarity in migration contexts: from the self, the local to the transnational." The editorial is freely available and four articles are open access.

Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 26, no. 3 (Sept. 2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 16 that are open access.

*Journal of Migration History, vol. 11, no. 3 (2025) [contents]

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

Political Research Exchange, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025) [contents]

- Includes five articles that are part of a special collection on "Searching the Power of Discretion. The Implementation of Migration Policies Through Relational Approaches." All are open access.

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Asylum Seekers’ Rights Denied and Border Communities Disrupted: Ethnographic Accounts on the 2023 Border Closure in Lukeville, Arizona," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 10 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

"Criminalization of Immigration," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

"Ditching Deference: Redefining Particular Social Groups in the Wake of Loper Bright," Emory Law Journal, vol. 75, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"How the 2025 Invocation of Alien Enemies Act Erodes Immigrants’ Rights," Fordham Urban Law Journal, vol. 53, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"Immigration Adjudication, Judicial Review, and the Uneven Incorporation of Administrative Law Norms," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 40 (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]

"Immigration, Due Process, and Executive Power," Journal of National Security Law & Policy Online (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Immigration Venue Exceptionalism," Cornell Law Review, vol. 111, no. 5 (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]

"Opportunities and Pitfalls in the Loper Bright Landscape for Immigration Cases," Michigan State Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Sub-Saharan African Immigrants in the United States," Migration Information Source, 16 Oct. 2025 [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (7 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Defending ‘Sanctuary’ Principles During the Chicago Crackdown (Just Security, Nov. 2025) [text]

DHS Admits It Provided “Erroneous” Information on Texts of Noem and DHS Brass, Hasn’t Confirmed It Followed Law (American Oversight, Nov. 2025) [text]

Explainer on Termination of Parole (Refugees International, last update 27 Oct. 2025) [text]

- Available in multiple languages.

From the Field: At the Border of Language and Law. Translating Indian Journeys to the U.S. Asylum System (Border Criminologies Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

How America's Retreat from Refugee Protection Undermines Global Stability (Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Oct. 2025) [text]

National Immigrant Rights Organizations Sue the Federal Government Over Withheld Records on ICE Arrests in Immigration Courts (American Immigration Council, Oct. 2025) [text]

"Refugees will be among the first to lose food stamps under federal changes," ABC News, 30 Oct. 2025 [text]

The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing (The Conversation, Oct. 2025) [text]

"Trump put a new fee on asylum seekers. Many say they don’t know how to pay," Politico, 21 Oct. 2025 [text]

Trump-Proofing Your Asylum Application (The Asylumist Blog, Oct. 2025) [Part 1] [Part 2]

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

Reports:

Changing Origins, Rising Numbers: Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States (Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2025) [text]

Immigration is Not Invasion, Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 19 (George Mason Univ., Nov. 2025) [text]

Maine’s Immigrant Communities: Diverse Origins, Characteristics, and Challenges (Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2025) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (15 Oct. 2025)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (15 Oct. 2025)

New Issue of FMR

The November 2025 issue of Forced Migration Review (FMR) has been published, with a focus on "Climate change: Choices for displaced people." Here's the abstract:

"From rising sea levels threatening coastal populations to the intensifying frequency and severity of natural hazards, the climate crisis is rendering homes uninhabitable and futures uncertain for millions – especially for those who have been least responsible for climate change. The contributions to this issue of FMR emphasise that responses to climate displacement must be proactive, rights-based, and human-centered, moving beyond reactive measures. Authors from five continents share from their unique perspectives to bring you a rich body of articles which we hope will inform and inspire, bringing fresh thinking and provoking debate."

FMR76 includes 23 articles and can be read online, accessed by individual article in HTML format, or downloaded as a complete PDF issue.

Back issues/articles of FMR can be accessed via the search feature.

FMR is an open access publication. It is available online and in print in English, Arabic, French and Spanish. 

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