Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

Welcome Schools in Bremen – From Ad Hoc Measure to Standard School Model? (Univ. of Bremen, Sept. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Ukrainians in Germany.

Reports:

Caught Between Conflict and Funding Cuts: Education Under Threat in West and Central Africa (Norwegian Refugee Council, Sept. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Inclusion, learning and resilience: A review of UNICEF education system strengthening during the Ukraine refugee response (UNICEF, Sept. 2026) [text]

- "This report examines how the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) supported education system strengthening during the Ukraine refugee response in six countries: Bulgaria, Czechia, the Republic of Moldova, Poland, Romania and Slovakia."

Journal articles:

"Accessing Academia in Exile: Experiences of Displaced Ukrainian Scholars in Sweden and University Responses," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 28 Aug. 2026 [open access]

Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, vol. 17, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Voices of the Forcibly Displaced: Transition, Resettlement and Education." Six articles focus on education and schooling.

"Establishing the English Language Competencies of Refugee Teachers: Evidence from Kakuma, Kaloboyei and Daadab Camps in Kenya," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 65, nos. 1-3 (2026) [open access]

"Exploring challenges of integrating Afghan returnee children into schools in Afghanistan," Frontiers in Education, 18 Aug. 2026 [open access]

"Far-right Pressure on Adult Education and Language Provision for Adult Refugees and Migrants," Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung = International Yearbook of Adult Education, vol. 49 (2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Europe.

"Increasing school attendance and retention in refugee settings: Participatory development of the SchoolLinks intervention," PLoS One 21(8): e0357215 (Aug. 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Uganda.

Journal on Education in Emergencies, vol. 11, no. 1 (July 2026) [open access]

- Special issue on "Mobilizing an Effective, Equitable, and Just Data and Evidence Ecosystem for Education in Crisis and Conflict Contexts."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (10 Aug. 2026)

Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

Article 1D: a betrayal of direct responsibility? (VU Amsterdam, June 2026) [text]

Saudi Arabia’s Surging Deadly Treatment of Migrants and Refugees (Immigration Detention Monitor, Sept. 2026) [text]

"'Where do we go?': How Israel’s ‘yellow line’ is closing in on Palestinians," UN News, 12 Sept. 2026 [text]

Yemen Displaced Top 104,000 as IOM Calls for Urgent Action (IOM, Sept. 2026) [text]

- See also related TNH article and UNHCR briefing note.

Reports & journal articles:

"Bilateral Relations Between Refugee-Hosting and Origin Countries: The Case of Türkiye and Syria Until the Fall of Assad," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 41, no. 2 (2026) [open access]

"From relief to resilience: Jordan’s hybrid model of refugee governance in the shadow of the Syrian crisis," Frontiers in Political Science, 9 Sept. 2026 [open access]

"The Future of Humanitarian Work and Political Representation in Lebanon: The Role of the Lebanese Red Cross and the Limitations of Humanitarian Actors," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 65, nos. 1-3 (2026) [open access]

Syria in 2026: Between Transition and Recovery - A Secondary Data Review of Humanitarian Conditions and Operational Implications (Estonian Refugee Council, Aug. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

"What is UNRWA for? The contested purposes of refugee relief in Gaza, 1948–1950," Journal of Global History, FirstView, 13 July 2026 [open access]

"Why humanitarian localisation stalls in conflict settings? Administrative vetoes and risk transfer in Yemen," Development in Practice, Latest Articles, 21 Aug. 2026 [open access]

Multimedia:

Lebanon Between Refuge, Displacement and Exile Within the Homeland: Geographies of Recurrent Displacement (Tahjeer Podcast Series, Sept. 2026) [access]

- In Arabic, with subtitling available.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (9 Sept. 2026)

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

America Sent Them into a Dictatorship’s Torture Chambers, Then Looked Away (Just Security, Sept. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Equatorial Guinea.

Busting anti-migrant myths: South Africa's most common migration myths don't hold up against the data (ISS, Sept. 2026) [access]

Displacement Urbanisation in Nigeria: Governance Gaps and the Exclusion of Self-Settled IDPs (RID Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]

Sierra Leone: Reports of Detention, But Limited Oversight or Access (Immigration Detention Monitor, July 2026) [text]

Reports:

Multidimensional poverty of refugees and host communities in South Sudan, Forced Displacement Survey Thematic Brief, no. 4 (UNHCR, Sept. 2026) [text]

Non-governmental organizations, networks and associations, and African migration, RSC Working Paper, no. 14 (European Univ. Institute, 2026) [text]

Staying and Moving: Refugee Adaptations to Cuts in Humanitarian Support (Danish Refugee Council, Sept. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on South Sudanese refugees in Kenya and Uganda.

Journal articles:

African Human Mobility Review, vol. 12, no. 2 (2026) [open access]

- Mix of articles on migration intentions, ICTs, female migrant workers and brain drain.

"Mediating Tensions Between Care and Control: An Ethnographic Exploration of Counting (and not Counting) COVID-19 Amongst Refugees in Uganda," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 11 Sept. 2026 [open access]

"Mortality differentials between self-settled refugees and South Africans in rural South Africa: insights from the Agincourt HDSS, 1994–2018," Conflict and Health, 4 Sept. 2026 [open access]

"Southern Africa’s Migration Integration Is Undermined by Rising Tensions and Changing Trends," Migration Information Source, 17 Sept. 2026 [text]

"Terrorisme et migration résidentielle : Le défis de cohabitation des personnes déplacées internes dans la région du Yadega au Burkina Faso," Espace populations sociétés, vol. 2025/3-2026/1 (2026) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (2 Sept. 2026)

Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

Ceuta and the Politics of ‘Instrumentalised Migration’: How a Border Situation Became Part of Europe’s Wider Legal Battle to Restrict Access (OpinioJuris, Sept. 2026) [text]

Europe borrows Australia’s asylum script – outsourcing rights (The Interpreter Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]

Immigration in Sweden: how the country went from one of Europe’s most welcoming, to one of its most restrictive (The Conversation, Sept. 2026) [text]

*New IOM Data: Migrant Arrivals to Europe Fall 39% in 2026 While Deaths Continue to Rise (IOM, Sept. 2026) [text]

"State of the European Union 2026," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 17 Sept. 2026 [text]

UNHCR publishes detailed observations raising concerns over the Immigration and Asylum Bill (EIN, Sept. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

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

New open access book:

Migration Power Europe: Between Norms and Leverage in the EU's Global Role (European University Institute, July 2026) [open access]

- "This volume conceptualises the European Union as a distinctive migration power: an actor that governs human mobility through several forms of power at once. ...Across twelve chapters, the contributors examine how the EU governs migration through externalisation to neighbouring and transit states, through interdependence rather than direct territorial control, and through the hybridisation of humanitarian, developmental, security, and diplomatic rationales, sustained by financial, legal, infrastructural, and symbolic architectures. The cases range across the Mediterranean, Türkiye, Morocco, Greece, and sub-Saharan Africa, extend to the EU’s own internal institutions, and reach back to the displacement politics of the late 1940s. Rather than seeking to prove the framework universally, the volume stress-tests and refines it through empirically diverse contributions. In doing so, it treats the tensions it surfaces, between coercion and consent, dependence and co-production, and crisis and the long term, as productive openings for theory. The result is a vocabulary for analysing the European Union as a migration power, and for marking the limits of that power."

Reports:

Latest Asylum Trends: Mid-Year Review 2026 (EU Agency for Asylum, Sept. 2026) [text]

- See also related ECRE observations.

Journal articles:

"Between Institutional and Non-Institutional Agency Among Asylum Seekers in Spain," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 17 (2026) [open access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

"Coerced Voluntariness: Parliamentary Narratives on Return Migration in Germany and Turkey," International Migration, vol. 64, no. 5 (Sept. 2026) [open access]

"Conceptualising Identity Transformations of the Apostate Refugee through Un/Learning," Sociological Review, OnlineFirst, 8 Aug. 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Humanitarismo y refugio: la gobernanza ambigua de la protección internacional en Madrid desde la perspectiva de los actores institucionales," Migraciones, Latest Articles, 29 May 2026 [open access]

"Immigration and European Identity: Negotiating the Boundaries of Belonging," The European Legacy: 

Toward New Paradigms, Latest Articles, 14 Sept. 2026 [open access]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issues. Several of the articles have also been posted online, one of which is open access.

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 8, no. 1 (Sept. 2026) [open access]

- Special issue on "Humanitarianism in Times of Democratic Transition: Perspectives from Southern Europe."

"Perception bias: how official statistics shape attitudes towards immigrants," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 8 Sept. 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Italy.

"(Re)producing change in migration studies: Methodological reflections from a longitudinal qualitative panel study with Ukrainian protection holders in Germany," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 4 (Dec. 2026) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (4 Sept. 2026)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (4 Sept. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

UNSW Book Forum: Solidarity in International Disaster Response Law, Sydney/Online, 22 September 2026 [info]

Lecture: Evacuations in Disasters: A Double-Edged Sword for International Protection, Melbourne, 14 October 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

"Editorial: Climate-related migration: Is occupational therapy prepared?," British Journal of Occupational Therapy, OnlineFirst, 15 Sept. 2026 [free full-text]

Mobility provisions in recent Australia–Pacific bilateral agreements (DevPolicy Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]

Mobility Without Membership? Nationality (In)security in Pacific Migration Pathways in the Context of Climate Change (CSS Blog, Aug. 2026) [text]

The Nepalese Flood is a Call to Action (RLI Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]

"What 13 minutes in Nepal can teach us about acting before disaster strikes," The New Humanitarian, 9 Sept. 2026 [text]

Reports:

Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change (McMullin Centre on Statelessness & UNHCR, Sept. 20265 [access]

- Note: Access to the text is embargoed until 22 September.

Journal articles:

Climate Refugees and Social Justice: A Case Study of South Africa–Is There Hope for Equality and Inclusion?," The Thinker, vol. 107, no. 2 (2026) [open access]

"Climate Refugees in a Legal Vacuum: Bridging the Protection Gap in the International Refugee Convention," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 65, nos. 1-3 (2026) [open access]

"Interrogating the Conceptualisation and Use of 'Agency' in Environmental Relocation," Frontiers in Climate, 8 Sept. 2026 [open access]

"The Legal Void in Climate-Induced Displacement: Towards a Global Protection Framework," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 65, nos. 1-3 (2026) [open access]

"Weather Extremes in Indigenous Communities in Mexico and Undocumented US Migration and Its Duration," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 4 (2026) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1 (3 Sept. 2026)

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2 (3 Sept. 2026)

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

America Sent Them into a Dictatorship’s Torture Chambers, Then Looked Away (Just Security, Sept. 2026) [text]

The Courage to Save Our Souls (The Asylumist, Sept. 2026) [text]

ICE Is Releasing 23% More Convicted Criminals Than Under Biden (CATO At Liberty Blog, Aug. 2026) [text]

Termination of TPS for El Salvador: What’s the Impact? (WOLA, Sept. 2026) [text]

- See also related NPR news story.

The Unjust Justification for Revoking Asylum Seekers’ Visas (The Asylumist, Sept. 2026) [text]

What comes next for the 1 million people who have lost – or will soon lose – Temporary Protected Status (The Conversation, Sept. 2026) [text]

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

Reports:

Banished to the South: The Human Cost of Deportation (WOLA, CDH Fray Matías & Kino Border Initiative, Aug. 2026) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

Migration Dynamics and Conditions at the U.S.-Mexico Border: August 2026 (Strauss Center, Aug. 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"La criminalización de la inmigración venezolana en Estados Unidos," Norteamérica: Revista Académica del CISAN-UNAM, vol. 21, no 2 (2026) [open access]

"Forum Shopping and Judge Shopping: An Empirical Analysis of Immigration Policy Cases," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Haitian Immigrants in the United States," Migration Information Source, 3 Sept. 2026 [text]

"'We Will Hunt You Down': espectáculo, humillación y resistencia en la política migratoria trumpista," PÉRIPLOS: Revista de Estudios sobre Migraciones, vol. 10, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (27 Aug. 2026)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (27 Aug. 2026)

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

Short pieces:

Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark (Marshall Project, July 2026) [text]

Immigration enforcement is supplying a long‑standing economic market for prisoners (The Conversation, Aug. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Parents are Giving Up Green Card Fights to Get Their Kids Out of Immigrant Jail (Marshall Project, Aug. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

*Ten Things We Know from the Latest ICE Detention Data (Vera Institute of Justice, Sept. 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"The borderwork of sexual violence in immigration detention," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 6 Aug. 2026 [open access]

"Detained Minor-Days in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Facilities, 2022–2026: National Surveillance of Child Detention Exposure," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Latest Articles, 9 Sept. 2026 [open access]

"Suicide as a fatal injury in U.S. immigration and customs enforcement detention: proportionate mortality and comparison with non-suicide detainee deaths," Injury Epidemiology, 10 Sept. 2026 [open access]

"When Detention Becomes a Death Sentence: The Urgent Need for Greater Due Process Protections for ICE Detainees," Vanderbilt Law Review, vol. 79, no. 2 (2026) [full-text]

"Working While Detained: Litigating One-Dollar-Per-Day 'Voluntary' Labor in U.S. Immigration Detention," California Law Review, vol. 114 (2026) [full-text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1 (16 Sept. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Australia: 25 Years of Abusive Offshore Detention (HRW, Sept. 2026) [text]

Hate Speech, Firm Action: How Malaysia is Failing Rohingya Refugees (ImpACT, July 2026) [text]

- See also related story.

A Plea from Forgotten Families in Detention in Northeast Syria: “What Will Happen to Our Children?” (Just Security, Sept. 2026) [text]

United Kingdom: Expanding Detention Capacity Despite Continued Evidence of Harm (Immigration Detention Monitor, Aug. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Aid Worker Security Report 2026 – When the threat is the state: Detentions of humanitarian workers (Humanitarian Outcomes, Aug. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

*At the margins: Places and conditions of detention - Comparative Report (ECRE, Sept. 2026) [text]

"Carceral Borders: Detention, Punishment, and the Automation of Confinement," Chapter in Border Necrotechnics: Automation, Surveillance, and the Racial Politics of Migration Control (Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Europe and the US.

"Carceral maneuvers, carceral distractions: Analyzing the retraction and expansion of Canada's power to detain non-citizens," Social & Legal Studies, 10 Sept. 2026 [open access]

Italy: Extraterritorial Migration Detention and Human Rights Obligations - The Agreement with Albania (Amnesty International, Aug. 2026) [text]

The legal framework for the detention of people seeking asylum in Europe: Comparative Report (ECRE, Sept. 2026) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (16 July 2026)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

Australia has spent 25 years ‘stopping the boats’, but that’s not the same as controlling migration (The Conversation, Aug. 2026) [text]

Between Protection and Precarity: Progress, Limits and Deficiencies of Asylum Governance in Taiwan (RLI Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]

From Military Rule to Arakan Army: The Dilemma of Rohingya Repatriation (RLI Blog, Sept. 2026)[text]

Government recycles past failed policy with plan for time limit on asylum claims (RCOA, Sept. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Nepal Floods: UN And Partners Launch $49.6 Million Emergency Appeal (OCHA, Sept. 2026) [text]

New open access book:

Politics of Denial and Non-Recognition of Genocide: The Case of the Rohingya (Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2026) [open access]

- "While the mass atrocities against the Rohingya are well-documented, this book shows how recognition and accountability continue to be constrained by state denial, geopolitical diplomacy, and legal thresholds. Drawing on transdisciplinary backgrounds, the contributors reveal how the Rohingya have been systematically rendered stateless through denationalisation and state-sponsored narratives, which continue to shape the search for justice, including through the ongoing International Court of Justice case. The book’s distinctive contribution is to combine survivor-centred evidence with broader legal analysis. Organised in three parts, the chapters combine socio-legal analysis with empirical evidence from refugee camps, addressing structural violence, water insecurity, gender-based violence, domicide, media-framing, and the governance of protracted displacement.  In doing so, the book goes beyond familiar accounts of displacement to show how genocide operates before, during, and after 2017 through genocidal denial. It connects Rohingya survivor testimony, grounded field evidence, and contemporary debates on genocidal intent, non-legal definitions, and post-atrocity governance."

Journal articles:

"Existential Refugees: An Insider Ethnography of the Being of Refugeehood among Malayaga Tamils in India," Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Good Faith at Sea: Non-Refoulement, Maritime Interdiction and Malaysian Practice Under International Law," Laws, vol. 15, no. 5 (Aug. 2026) [open access]

"Irregular maritime migration and legal protections: the Rohingya refugee crisis," SN Social Sciences, Latest Articles, 6 Aug. 2026 [ResearchGate]

"Locating the 'local' in aid localisation: the case of humanitarian response in Myanmar," Development in Practice, Latest Articles, 10 Aug. 2026 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (28 Aug. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Call for applications: Statelessness Intensive Course 2027, Online, 10-16 February 2027 [info]

- Early bird submission deadline is 30 September 2026. Otherwise, the overall deadline for applications and scholarship requests is 21 October 2026.

CFP: Statelessness & Citizenship Review [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Citizenship, Statelessness and Emerging Technologies." Submission deadline is 1 October 2026.

Short pieces:

The right to belong: Ukraine's progress in reducing statelessness and the new challenges of war (UNHCR, Aug. 2026) [text]

Stripped There, Held Here: Iraq’s Burden in the Global Failure to Repatriate ISIS Foreign Terrorist Fighters (OpinioJuris, Sept. 2026) [text]

Walls of paper, walls of stone: the architectures of Palestinian statelessness (ENS Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]

**See also ISI's Monthly Bulletin for more news, information, articles, & resources.

Reports & journal articles:

"Assessing the impact of the Global Statelessness Fund on resourcing and decision-making power for affected communities in the Asia-Pacific," Humanitarian Exchange, no. 87 (Aug. 2026) [full-text]

"Citizenship Revoked, Humanity Denied: The Existential Cost of Statelessness," Howard Law Journal, vol. 69, no. 2 (2026) [full-text]

- Includes a focus on the US.

"Competing Faces of Citizenship Beyond Naturalization: Hmong Refugees and the Politics of Recognition in the United States After the Vietnam War," Genealogy, vol. 10, no. 4 (Sept. 2026) [open access]

"Members Only," Brown Political Review, 13 Sept. 2026 [text]

- Focuses on the Bidoon in Kuwait.

Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

- Mix of articles, commentary, case notes and book reviews.

Statelessness as a Barrier to Self-Determination: The Rohingya Experience, Refugee-Led Governance, and the Politics of Belonging, Working Paper, no. 6 (Harvard Univ., Sept. 2026) [text]

Multimedia:

65th Anniversary Event of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 2 Sept. 2026 [access]

- See also related summary of the discussions that took place.

Resources:

Statelessness: A Web Research Guide (updated Aug. 2026) [access]

- "The aim of this guide is to introduce readers to the concept of statelessness and point them to key information sources... ."

Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific (SEAP) (Nationality For All) [access]

- See this news release for information about SEAP's latest update, which incorporates research on the intersection of digital ID systems and statelessness in the Asia Pacific region.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (29 Aug. 2026)

Opportunities: A Few More September & New October 2026

Discussion panel: Pushbacks Against Migrant Rights in Europe and the United States, Boston, 17 September 2026 [info]

Seminar: What Europeans think about immigration and why it matters, Florence, Italy/Online, 28 September 2026 [info]

Seminar: A world of climate refugees? Climate change, mobility and conflict, Copenhagen, 29 September 2026 [info]

Short-term work: Professor Anker Hiring Research Assistants for Law of Asylum 2027 [info]

- Apply by 30 September 2026.

CFP: Statelessness & Citizenship Review [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Citizenship, Statelessness and Emerging Technologies." Submission deadline is 1 October 2026.

CFP: "The Unravelling of Refuge: Resettlement, Peacebuilding, and Safety in a World of Uncertainty," 17th Biannual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), Manitoba, 12-14 May 2027 [info]

- Submission deadline is 1 October 2026.

Seminar: Labour’s legacy and current approach to asylum, refugees and migration, London, 7 October 2026 [info]

Webinar: After Chișinău and the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration: Human Rights, the ECHR and Migration, 7 October 2026 [info]

Book discussion: Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics, Oxford, 14 October 2026 [info]

Call for applications: Demetrios G. Papademetriou Young Scholars Program, Migration Policy Institute [info]

- Interns sought for the Spring semester (Jan.-April 2027). Note: "Internships are available both in person and remotely, as well as to those residing outside the United States." Apply by 15 October 2026.

CFP: Workshop on the "Climate-mobility nexus in North and West Africa," Agadir, Morocco, 23-24 March 2027 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 16 October 2026.

Seminar: The relevance of the 1951 Refugee Convention in a fragmented world, Oxford, 21 October 2026 [info]

- During this discussion, "a double special issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (volume 38, issues 3 and 4) commemorating the anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention" will also be introduced.

Call for registration: 55th Online Course on International Refugee Law (English), 23 November- 18 December 2026 [info]

- Register by 26 October 2026.

Lecture: Barham Salih, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Oxford, 26 October 2026 [info]

Webinar: The Refugee Convention at 75 – Fatally limited or vitally focused?, 28 October 2026 [info]

CFP: Design for Humanity Journal [info]

- New diamond open access journal published by Fordham University's Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA). The theme of the first issue is "Designing for Displacement." Submit abstracts by 31 October 2026.

Related post:

- Opportunities: A Few More August & September 2026

CFPs/New Issues of Esp. Pop. Soc., Global Justice, Hum. Exchange, JEMS, J. Org. Change Mgmt., Mashriq & Mahjar, Migraciones, Periplos, SCR, Terr. Pol. Gov.

*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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CFPs: 

Comparative Migration Studies [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Durable Solutions in Motion: Rethinking Return and Belonging from a South-South Perspective." Submission deadline is 30 September 2026.

Statelessness & Citizenship Review [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Citizenship, Statelessness and Emerging Technologies." Submission deadline is 1 October 2026.

Design for Humanity Journal [info]

- New diamond open access journal published by Fordham University's Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA). The theme of the first issue is "Designing for Displacement." Submit abstracts by 31 October 2026.

New issues: 

Espace populations sociétés, vol. 2025/3-2026/1 (2026) [open access]

- Features a dossier on "Trajectoires de mobilités et parcours de vie."

Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, vol. 15, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Ubuntu and Migration: Reflections from African Perspectives."

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 87 (Aug. 2026) [full-text]

- Thematic issue on "Local leadership in a changing humanitarian architecture."

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 52, no. 15 (2026) [contents]

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

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 52, no. 16 (2026) [contents]

- Special issue on "International Norm Dynamics in Return and Readmission: A Research Agenda." The introduction is freely available and five articles are open access.

*Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 39, no. 5 (Aug. 2026) [contents]

- Special issue on "Past, Present and Future Changes in Migrant Entrepreneurship Landscape." The editorial is freely available and two articles are open access.

Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (2026) [open access]

- Special issue on “Marriage across Different Migratory Movements: Exploring Emerging Perspectives on Conjugal Relationships in the Middle East and North Africa.” 

Migraciones, no. 66 (March 2026) [open access]

- Special issue on "For a Political Ecology of Migration: Understanding Mobility, Immobility and Resistances in the Socioecological Transformation."

Migraciones, no. 67 (July 2026) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

PÉRIPLOS: Revista de Estudios sobre Migraciones, vol. 10, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

- Special issue on "Discursos de odio y resistencias migrantes."

Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Territory, Politics, Governance, vol. 14, no. 8 (2026) [contents]

- Special issue on "Nudging protection seekers elsewhere within Fortress Europe." The introduction is freely available and six articles are open access.

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Short pieces:

Performing Truth: The Epistemic Paradox of Queer Asylum (RLI Blog, Aug. 2026) [text]

Reports:

Jurisprudence related to LGBTIQ Applicants in International Protection, Fact Sheet, no. 47 (EU Agency for Asylum, Sept. 2026) [text]

Trump Administration Immigration Policies Endanger Persecuted LGBTQI+ People (Human Rights First, July 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Faire face aux persécutions et partir : les ressorts de la migration d’exilé·es LGBT+ ayant demandé l’asile en France," Espace populations sociétés, vol. 2025/3-2026/1 (2026) [open access]

"How precariously employed gay, bisexual, and queer immigrant and refugee men in Toronto make meaning of work, health, and wellbeing," Scientific Reports, 29 Aug. 2026 [open access]

"'Manufacturing Vulnerability' in UK Asylum: Shifting Standards of Proof and Sexual Diversity," Laws, vol. 15, no. 5 (Aug. 2026) [open access]

"Same-sex marriage and migration: politics of belonging, state regulations, and new ways of doing family across borders," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 31 Aug. 2026 [free full-text]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"Theorizing Queer Kinship and the Normative Family in the Canadian Sponsorship of Syrian Refugees," ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, Forthcoming, 13 July 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians.

"Transforming Destinations: The Impact of Integration Interventions on the Mobility Decisions of Displaced LGBTIQ+ Persons in Mexico," Migraciones, vol. 67 (July 2026) [open access]

"Undoing intimacy, redrawing borders. Dealing with sexual violence in queer asylum support organizations," Emotion, Space and Society, vol. 60 (Aug. 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on France.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity - Pt. 1 (8 July 2026)

- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity - Pt. 2 (8 July 2026)