Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

Americans Have Mixed to Negative Views of Trump Administration Immigration Actions (Pew Research Center, June 2025) [text]

- See also results from other polls reported in this ImmigrationProf Blog post.

"Can the Trump Administration’s 'Self-Deportation' Campaign Succeed?," Migration Information Source, 18 June 2025 [text]

- See also related CRS "In Focus." 

Immigration Court Proceedings: Process and Data (Congressional Research Service, May 2025) [infographic via ImmigrationProf Blog]

"Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 3 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

A New Immigration System to Safeguard America’s Security, Expand Economic Growth, and Make Us Stronger (Center for American Progress, July 2025) [text]

"Seeking to Ramp Up Deportations, the Trump Administration Quietly Expands a Vast Web of Data," Migration Information Source, 29 May 2025 [text]

"'They Don’t Have the Time for That, Participating in Politics'—How Local Politicians Interpret Political Integration in the USA," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 25 June 2025 [open access]

Trump v. CASA, Inc.: Supreme Court Limits Nationwide Injunctions (Congressional Research Service, July 2025) [text]

- See also two related Just Security posts (here and here) that discuss other options for challenging unlawful agency actions, including using the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), class actions and other types of suits.

Multimedia:

"Cruel and Unamerican: The Abuse of Immigrants to Attack our Constitutional Order," Senate Spotlight Forum, 11 June 2025 [access]

Fifteen Minutes on ICE’s Mass Deportation Agenda, 26 June 2025 [access]

Resources:

Alien Enemies Act Tracker: State of Play (Lawfare) [access]

- This table "table tracks the ongoing litigation challenging deportations under President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. "

Let Them Stay (Refugees International) [access]

- A campaign advocating for humanitarian parole.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (8 July 2025)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported (Pew Research Center, June 2025) [text]

Beyond Borders, Beyond Rights? The U.S. "Staging Expulsion" Policy and the Future of Externalization (OpinioJuris Blog, June 2025) [text]

Big Beautiful Bill Bolsters Immigration Enforcement Budget (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2025) [text]

- See also related Axios article on ICE expenditures and American Immigration Council fact sheet.

Can Near-Historic Low Migrant Encounter Levels at the U.S.-Mexico Border Be Sustained? (Migration Policy Institute, June 2025) [text]

Cancellation of Removal: An Alternative for Some Asylum Seekers (The Asylumist Blog, June 2025) [text]

Court blocks Trump administration's barring asylum seekers at U.S./Mexico border (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2025) [text]

How Immigration is Shaping US Cities (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2025) [text]

Immigration in the Supreme Court, 2024 Term (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2025) [text]

- See also related Verfassungsblog post.

"Migrants aren’t more likely to perpetrate crimes. But they are more likely to be victimized," Deseret News, 5 July 2025 [text]

- See also related Cato At Liberty blog post.

More Court Chaos: The DHS Push to Re-Open Closed Cases (The Asylumist Blog, July 2025) [text]

The Mounting Crisis of Militarizing Immigration Enforcement (Just Security, June 2025) [text]

- See also related post on The Conversation.

Pope Leo’s first US bishop is standing up to Trump on immigration (The Hill, June 2025) [text]

President Trump’s New Travel Ban: What You Need to Know (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2025) [text] [factsheet]

- See also related posts on The Asylumist, Cato At Liberty, Center for Global Development, and The Conversation.

Supreme Court rules Trump can rapidly deport immigrants to Libya, South Sudan and other countries they aren’t from (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

- See also related CFR article.

Trump Creates New System to Impose Millions in Fines on Undocumented Immigrants (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2025) [text]

"Trump is creating new universes of people to deport," CNN, 26 June 2025 [text]

Trump’s ‘Grant and Deport’ Policy Could Lead to More Cases Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2025) [text]

Unequal Before the Law: How Trump’s Death Penalty Order Codifies Dangerous Speech (Just Security, June 2025) [text]

Using Immigration Court as a Trap: ICE's Apprehension of Noncitizens at Immigration Court and Fundamental Fairness (Verfassungsblog, June 2025) [text]

- See also related blog post on The Asylumist, "Know Before You Go" flyer from AILA, and ABA Journal article.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (2 June 2025)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2

Reports: 

Buenas prácticas en capacitación laboral dirigida a personas migrantes y refugiadas 2020-2024 (ACNHR, Mayo 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Uruguay.

Competencias laborales sin fronteras: oportunidades para el reconocimiento mutuo de certificaciones y la integración de personas migrantes y refugiadas en América Latina y el Caribe (ILO, May 2025) [text]

Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot: Alumni Report 2024 (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

Economic participation of humanitarian migrants in Australia (Australian Institute of Family Studies, June 2025) [text]

The fiscal impact of immigration: Empirical evidence at the local level, LISER Policy Brief, no. 11 (Luxembourg Inst. of Socio-economic Research, May 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US and Italy.

Fostering Economic Opportunities for Forcibly Displaced Communities (Mercy Corps, June 2025) [text] 

The Gender Dimension of Refugees’ Integration in the Labor Market, CEPR Discussion Paper, no. 20318 (Centre for Economic Policy Research, June 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Switzerland.

How do labour market fears shape attitudes toward refugees? (VoxDev, June 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Uganda and Ethiopia.

Immigration Policy and Its Macroeconomic Effects in the Second Trump Administration (American Enterprise Institute, July 2025) [text]

- See also related articles on impacts from the administration's mass deportation operation in Context News and from the Univ. of Pennsylvania.

Is the Gig Economy a Stepping Stone for Refugees? Evidence from Administrative Data, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 17928 (Institute for Labor Economics, May 2025 [text]

- Focuses on Austria.

Qualifications Beyond Borders: Recognition of Ukrainian Diplomas and Qualifications in Poland (Skills Alliance in Poland, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugee mobility and livelihoods in Uganda, RSC Research in Brief, no. 21 (Refugee Studies Centre, April 2025) [text]

Regional Program on Enhancing the Investment Climate for the Economic Empowerment of Refugee, Returnee and Host/Return Community Women in the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region: Regional Report 2024 (UNHCR et al., May 2025) [text]

- See also related annex.

Results from Re:BUiLD’s Wave 1 Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) on Mentorship and Cash Grants for Microentrepreneurs in Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda (International Rescue Committee & IKEA Foundation, June 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1 (7 July 2025)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

*"Trump officials crafting rule to prevent asylum-seekers from getting work permits," CBS News, 3 June 2025 [text]

Ukrainian refugee labour market access shows no impact on local employment outcomes in Czechia (VoxEU, June 2025) [text]

Unlocking financial access for refugees: highlights from the June 2025 DLA Piper International–UNHCR panel in London (UNHCR Blog, June 2025) [text]

​​World Rural Development Day: Refugee-Led Farming Projects That Are Feeding the World (USA for Refugees, July 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Economic Welfare of Refugees and Nationals in Kenya: A Comparative Panel Data Analysis," Economies, vol. 13, no. 7 (June 2025) [open access]

"From Aspiration to Participation? Understanding Why Syrian Women Who Want to Work, Do Not," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 23 June 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on The Netherlands.

"Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the US: Intersectionality as a Blessing and a Curse," Journal of Business Venturing, vol. 40, no. 4 (July 2025) [preprint]

Multimedia:

Refugees at work: Ending exploitation, advancing justice, 28 May 2025 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (28 May 2025)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Editorial: War and asylum," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 1 June 2025 [open access]

- Discusses the articles included in the research topic of the same name.

"Fact Finding is an Immigration Lawyer's Job: The Importance of Working One on One with Clients in Asylum Cases," Univ. of San Francisco Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Internally Displaced Persons," GlobaLex (May/June 2025) [open access]

International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles.

"No Exit: Preventing Exit to Prevent Entry," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Symposium: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Migrant Solidarity in Theory, Law, and Praxis," AJIL Unbound, no. 119 (June 2025) [open access]

"The Time Trap in International Protection: The Misplaced Notion of 'Imminence'," Georgetown Journal of International Law, vol. 56, no. 1 (Fall 2024) [full-text]

"Towards a Theoretical Account of the Refugee in International Law," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 5 July 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (7 July 2025)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Blog series on the application of refugee law in military service-related cases (RLI Blog, June 2025) [access]

Is There a Duty to Repatriate in International Law? (EJIL: Talk Blog, July 2025) [text]

- See also related post on The Conversation that focuses on Australian citizens in Iran and Israel.

Now Is the Time to Uphold the Rule of Law for Refugee Protection: UN and regional experts (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, June 2025) [text]

The protection paradox: How refugee law fails those fleeing failed states (The Interpreter Blog, July 2025) [text]

Reports: 

93rd Meeting of the Standing Committee, Geneva, 17-19 June 2025 [access]

- Follow link for documents, oral remarks and presentations. Issues discussed during this protection-focused session of the SC included the Note on International Protection, durable solutions & complementary pathways, community-based protection, asylum capacity development, UNHCR engagement with IDPs, and efforts to measure the impact of hosting refugees. Note that not all documentation has been posted. See also related NGO statements.

Practical Guide on Membership of a Particular Social Group (EU Agency for Asylum, May 2025) [text]

Summary Conclusions of the Expert Roundtable on travel documents for persons in need of international protection and stateless persons, Colchester, UK, 22-23 Oct. 2024 [text]

Summary Conclusions of the UNHCR Expert Roundtables on Effective Practices in Protection and Displacement (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Summary of the UNHCR Guidance on Article 31 of the 1951 Convention (GIP 14) (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

Human Mobility and International Law, EJIL: The Podcast, no. 35 (30 June 2025) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (23 May 2025)

New Issues of AHMR, AJIL Unbound, Disasters, Fennia, Geopolitics, Glob. Resp. Prot., Intl. J. Comm., JEMS, JIMI, Migr. Pol. Pract., Migr. Stud., Pop. Space Place, Torture J.

*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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African Human Mobility Review, vol. 11, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

AJIL Unbound, vol. 119 (2025) [open access]

- Symposium on "Financing Climate Mobility."

AJIL Unbound, vol. 119 (2025) [open access]

- Symposium on "Transdisciplinary Approaches to Migrant Solidarity in Theory, Law, and Praxis."

Disasters, vol. 49, no. 3 (July 2025) [contents]

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

Fennia: International Journal of Geography, vol. 203, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Reimagining humanitarianism." 

Geopolitics, vol. 30, no. 4 (2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Rethinking the International Organization for Migration." The introduction is freely available and four articles are open access.

*Global Responsibility to Protect. vol. 17, nos. 2-3 (2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Accountability in and after Frozen Conflicts: Lessons from Syria." Seven articles are open access.

International Journal of Communication, vol. 19 (2025) [open access]

- Includes a special section on “Health Communication for Displaced Populations.”

International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 19 that are open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 10 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Rethinking the Production of Knowledge on Migration: A Moral Economies Approach." 

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 11 (2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 11 that are open access.

*Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, vol. 16, no. 1 (May 2025) [contents]

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

Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 26, no. 2 (June 2025) [contents]

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

Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIV, no. 2 (June 2025) [open access]

- Theme is "Navigating Migration Policy Shifts in a Time of Profound Uncertainty."

Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 10 that are open access.

Population, Space and Place, vol. 31, no. 5 (July 2025) [contents]

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

Torture Journal, vol. 35, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2

Reports:

Climate and mobility in the Middle East June 2025: Perceptions, attitudes, and decision-making - Synthesis of field research findings (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2025) [access]

- Follow link for report and four case studies (in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, respectively).

Climate Change and Migration in the Central Sahel (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2025) [access]

- Available in English and French.

Countdown to 2030: Achieving global targets on disaster displacement (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, June 2025) [text]

Danger by Design: How Climate Injustice Harms Displaced People at the U.S.-Mexico Border (International Refugee Assistance Project & Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, May 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

Études sur le lien entre la migration, lʼenvironnement et les changements climatiques dans les régions de Tanger-Tétouan-Al-Hoceima et du Souss-Massa (International Organization for Migration, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Experiencias de desplazamiento forzado interno y reubicación de mujeres en contexto de eventos hidrometeorológicos en comunidades del Corredor Seco de Guatemala, Working Paper, no. 48 (Researching Internal Displacement, July 2025) [text]

Forced to Flee in a Changing Climate: Red Cross and Red Crescent action addressing climate and disaster displacement in Africa (IFRC, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR, May 2025) [access]

Guidelines for flood-resilient humanitarian shelters (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Mapping refugees’ and IDPs’ exposure to climate-related hazards (Climate Centre, June 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

Decolonising the Climate Mobility Discourse: Towards a Global South School of Thought on Forced Displacement, 18 June 2025 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1 (5 July 2025)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

1 in 3 Tuvaluans is bidding for a new ‘climate visa’ to Australia – here’s why everyone may ultimately end up applying (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

Barriers to Safety: Recognizing Climate Refugees in International Law (RLI Blog, June 2025) [text]

Canada must take action to prevent climate-related migration (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

Climate Change and Internal Displacement: Women’s Voices from Bangladesh (RLI Blog, June 2025) [text]

Environmental Justice and Urban Reintegration: Protecting Climate-Displaced Persons from Resettlement in High-Risk Zones (RID Blog, June 2025) [text]

- References a case study on Fiji.

Flooded, forgotten, still here: The struggle for solutions in Western Kenya’s informal displacement camps (MPC Blog, June 2025) [text]

UNHCR Welcomes SADC’s Landmark Regional Commitment to Address Forced Displacement, Fragility, and Climate Resilience (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

What is Climate Mobility, and Why Should We Care? (Carnegie Endowment, June 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

AJIL Unbound, vol. 119 (2025) [open access]

- Symposium on "Financing Climate Mobility."

"Climate Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Forced Displacement: A 23-Year Spatial Analysis in Colombia," Social Science Quarterly, vol. 106, no. 4 (July 2025) [open access]

"How Systemic Barriers Can Impact Health Inequities When Facing Climate Change Stressors: A Scoping Review of Global Differences," GeoHealth, vol. 9, no. 6 (June 2025) [open access]

"Refugees and host communities’ vulnerability to climate and disaster risks in Rwanda," Frontiers in Climate, 25 June 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (22 May 2025)

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Absent Tech: Data, Violence and (Non)Credibility at the EU Borders," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Italy.

"Automated Decision-Making in Australia's Migration System: Risks and Opportunities," Chapter in Automation in Public Governance: Theory, Practice and Problems (Hart Publishing, Forthcoming Nov. 2025) [preprint]

"Digital Literacy, Information Precarity, and Gendered Exclusion Among Ukrainian Refugee Women in Hungary," International Journal of Communication, vol. 19 (2025) [open access]

"Digital/Postcolonial Belongings: Migration, Digital Practices & the Everyday," Journal of Intercultural Studies, Latest Articles, 19 May 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Europe.

"Exploring trends and issues in information technology and information systems for humanitarian supply chain: the crossbreed literature review," Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, EarlyCite, 20 May 2025 [open access]

First Monday, vol. 29, no. 8 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Migration narratives on social media: Digital racism and subversive migrant subjectivities." See related news story from Toronto Metropolitan Univ.

"'I think they’re the real villains in all of this': Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X," Theoretical Criminology, OnlineFirst, 28 May 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"An investigation into telemedicine utilization for refugee mental health: a systematic review," Globalization and Health, 21:31 (May 2025) [open access]

"Meeting refugees on Instagram: Platformisation of news and knowledge production about refugees in digital social space," Digital Geography and Society, In Press, 27 June 2025 [open access]

"Reimagining diaspora humanitarianism in the digital age: exploring the near and far diaspora dynamics among Congolese refugees in Nairobi, Kenya," Fennia: International Journal of Geography, vol. 203, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 1 (4 July 2025)

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Digital lifelines for communities in crisis (UNHCR Innovation Service, June 2025) [text]

- Focuses on mental health and psychosocial support for forcibly displaced people in Sudan and beyond.

Everyone is betting on digital work for refugees – but who’s building the systems to support it? (LSE Inequalities Blog, June 2025) [text]

How AI can support anticipatory action to address forced displacement (Development for Peace Blog, June 2025) [text]

- See also related World Bank brief.

"Infrastructure Without Inclusion: What The Rohingya Camps Teach Us," Eurasia Review, 13 June 2025 [text]

"Q&A: Algorithms tested on migrants should worry citizens too," Context News, 2 June 2025 [text]

Smartphones are once again setting the agenda for justice as the Latino community documents ICE actions (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

What is CBP Home: A U.S. Government App to Help Migrants Self-Deport (Documented, June 2025) [text]

Reports:

Digital Literacy Interventions: A Guide for Organizations Working in Forced Displacement Contexts (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Empower, protect, innovate: bootcamps for bridging the gender digital divide - Impact report (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Explain: Artificial intelligence in the humanitarian sector (ALNAP, May 2025) [access]

- Follow link for full briefing and quick read.

[NetHope Case Studies, 2025] [access]

- NetHope is "a consortium of over 60 leading global nonprofits [that] unites with technology companies and funding partners to design, fund, implement, adapt, and scale innovative approaches to solve development, humanitarian, and conservation challenges."

Resource:

Integration starts before arrival: IOM launches app and workbook for refugees (IOM, May 2025) [access]

- Focuses on Germany.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (24 May 2025)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Bordering, belonging, beyond surviving: Critical readings of intersectionality in the nexus of gender-based violence and migration in Ireland," Irish Journal of Sociology, OnlineFirst, 27 May 2025 [open access]

"Efforts in Mainstreaming Gender into Uganda’s Refugee Settlement Policy Approach," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 26 May 2025 [open access]

"Estimating the incidence of induced abortion among women in refugee settings in Ethiopia," Conflict and Health, 19:37 (July 2025) [open access]

"Forced displacement, household composition, and mental health: how gendered family structures relate to adolescent girls’ well-being," BMC Public Health, 25:2066 (June 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Venezuelans in Colombia.

"In the factory of 'migratory risk': Latin American women in the French air border regime," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 22 June 2025 [open access]

"Insights from Refugee Men as They Navigate Intersecting Settlement Challenges and Renegotiate Gender Identities," Australian Social Work, Latest Articles, 2 June 2025 [open access]

"The Long Arm of the Family: Family Role in Partner Selection Among Male Refugees in Germany," Populations, vol. 1, no. 2 (June 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Syrian and Afghan refugees.

"Mobility capital formation among forced migrants: experiences of Ukrainian women in Poland," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 2025) [open access]

"Torture, trauma and posttraumatic symptoms in Syrian women asylum seekers in the Greek border camp of Idomeni," Torture Journal, vol. 35, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Vulnerabilities in displacement: Can humanitarianism protect women?," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 2025) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (3 July 2025)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

A Better Group Protection for Refugee Women (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, June 2025) [text]

- Also in French.

The Learning Refuge: How women-led community efforts help refugees resettle in Cyprus (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

"Rohingya women coerced to use contraception in Bangladesh refugee camps," The New Humanitarian, 29 May 2025 [text]

Sexual Violence Against Migrant Women in Europe: A Need for Change and Greater Protection (Refugee Research Online, July 2025) [text]

Whose Values? Rethinking the Use of Values in EU Law Through the CJEU’s “Feminist” Asylum Cases (Verfassungsblog, June 2025) [text]

Why exclusionary migration policies are not a legitimate response to tackling gender-based violence (Asylum Insight, Jan. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Reports: 

Aftershocks: The Toll of United States Funding Cuts on Displaced Women and Girls in Myanmar’s Polycrisis (Women's Refugee Commission, June 2025) [text]

Futures on Hold: How War and Displacement are Impacting Young Sudanese Women (Women's Refugee Commission, June 2025) [text]

Gender-Based Violence Among Boys and Men in Conflict Settings (Data Friendly Space, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Promising Practices: Harnessing the Power of Organizations led by Forcibly Displaced and Stateless Women (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

Unfunded and Unsafe: How US Aid Cuts Are Threatening Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response in Humanitarian Crises (Women's Refugee Commission, June 2025) [text]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (23 May 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (Americas) (23 May 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Accommodating Childhood in Immigration Removal Proceedings," Univ. of Illinois Law Review (Forthcoming, Spring 2026) [preprint]

- Focuses on the US.

"Family Separation Among Migrants in Need of International Protection: Anticipation, Duration, and Agency," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 5 June 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Costa Rica.

"Friends from the Past, Friends for the Future: Exploring How Young Refugees’ Friendship Practices Change and Endure Through Life Transitions," YOUNG, OnlineFirst, 6 June 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

"Governing Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Border Violence, De-Subjectification and Humanitarianism in Southern European Borderlands," Children & Society, Early View, 16 June 2025 [open access]

"Legal Protections for Children in Refugee and Migrant Crises in Central and Eastern Europe," Frontiers in Political Science, 3 June 2025 [open access]

"Post-crisis health reality and wellbeing of children within Syria: a scoping review of research from 2012 to 2024," Conflict and Health, 19:39 (July 2025) [open access]

"Protecting unaccompanied migrant youth in transit through Mexico: frontline perspectives on appropriate policy implementation," Health Policy and Planning, Advance Articles, 5 June 2025 [open access]

"State Interventions into Refugees’ Family Life: (Un-)Intended Consequences of Family Reunification Policies in Germany," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 11 June 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

Exploring children’s wellbeing in situations of mobility and displacement, 5 June 2025 [access]

- "This seminar explores how displacement and mobility shape children’s wellbeing, drawing on research with Syrian Armenian children and families who moved to Armenia following the Syrian war."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (3 July 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

From Data to Action: OECD-UNHCR Datathon Harnessing Data for Forcibly Displaced and Stateless Children (UNHCR Blog, June 2025) [text]

Strengthening adaptive social protection for children in crisis: The role of implementation science (Protect and Invest in People Blog, June 2025) [text]

World Refugee Day: Prolonged refugee separation is harming families — and Canada’s economy (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

World Refugee Day: The biggest migration routes in the world (UNICEF Blog, June 2025) [text]

Reports: 

Crossing Lines: Realities of migrant children at EU external borders (Save the Children, June 2025) [access]

Denial of Humanitarian Access to Children: A Guidance Note for the Children and Armed Conflict Agenda (UN Office of the SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict & UNICEF, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Hunger, Harm, and Hard Choices: The cost of the humanitarian funding crisis for children (World Vision, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Lives in transit: migration routes in West Africa - Analysis of the movements and risks faced by children and young people (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2025) [text]

Nurturing childhoods in freedom: Promising approaches in Mexico’s residential care for children on the move (International Detention Coalition, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protecting Children in Migration: A Nexus between Migration and Child Protection (IOM, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Through Their Words: Children’s voices in contexts of migration and displacement (UNICEF, July 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (31 May 2025)

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

African refugees bear the brunt of shifting global politics (ISS Today, June 2025) [text]

[Blog series: Two posts on Sudan’s overlapping food, water, and energy crises] (CGIAR, June 2025) 

- Part 1: Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis: The Collapse of Food, Water, and Energy Security

- Part 2: Beyond Emergency Relief: Rethinking Humanitarian Response in Sudan

Responding to a Shifting Crisis: Rethinking Support for Displaced People and Their Hosts in DRC (Concern, June 2025) [text]

Sudan War Series (African Arguments, June 2025) [access]

- In this blog series, "through a number of themes that explore the intersections of war, displacement, identities and capital, Sudanese researchers, many of whom are themselves displaced, highlight their own experiences, the unique dynamisms within the larger communities affected by war, and readings of their possible futures."

UNHCR welcomes DRC-Rwanda peace agreement as opportunity to end cycles of displacement (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

What happens when aid is cut to a large refugee camp? Kenyan study paints a bleak picture (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

Reports:

Besieged, Attacked, Starved: Mass Atrocities in El Fasher and Zamzam, Sudan (Médecins Sans Frontières, July 2025) [text]

- Also available in French.

Beyond IDPs: How Displacement Shapes Broader Narratives of Blame, Aid, and Identity in the DRC (Insecurity Insight, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Also available in French.

East Africa: A Refugee Haven under Threat (Inter-Agency Working Group for East & Central Africa, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Regional Trends: Forced Displacement in West and Central Africa in 2025 (UNHCR, June 2025) [access]

Safe, but not surviving: Sudan’s urban refugees in Uganda (Norwegian Refugee Council, June 2025) [text]

Southern Africa: Empowering people, strengthening systems - Sustainable responses to displacement (UNHCR, June 2025) [access]

Sustaining Protection Under Pressure: The Impact of Humanitarian Funding Cuts on Protection Programming in West and Central Africa (Global Protection Cluster, July 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Uganda’s Congolese refugee surge: a humanitarian model under threat (Norwegian Refugee Council, June 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Balancing Retributive and Restorative Justice Processes at the National Level: Addressing Violence Against Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Uganda," Journal of African Law, FirstView, 2 June 2025 [open access]

"Choosing to stay: The Resilience-Accessibility Framework as a new perspective on immobility amidst adversity," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 3 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Nigeria.

Fennia: International Journal of Geography, vol. 203, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Reimagining humanitarianism." Five articles focus on Africa.

"Human Rights Denied: Forced Evictions and Housing Injustice in the Democratic Republic of Congo," Pace International Law Review, vol. 37, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"Mental health and structural injustice: a qualitative investigation of interlocking patterns of disadvantage among displaced populations in Nairobi, Kenya," Conflict and Health, 19:40 (July 2025) [open access]

"The Role of Local Staff in the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s State-Building Work in Djibouti: A Postcolonial Perspective," Geopolitics, vol. 30, no. 4 (2025) [ResearchGate]

"Securitizing Migration in South Africa: From Welcoming Refugees to Dealing with Security Threats," New Political Science, vol. 47, no. 2 (June 2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (30 May 2025)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Short pieces:

Ethiopia hosts high-level dialogue on refugee inclusion and support to host communities (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Informal Pathways of Integration for Internally Displaced Persons in Urban Settings in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Lessons for Policy Makers (RID Blog, June 2025) [text]

Resettlement as a Temporal Border (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Niger.

Resettlement or Relocation? The Politics of Palestinian Resettlement in Eastern Africa (RLI Blog, June 2025) [text]

Q&A: Why Challenging the Trump Administration’s Ban on Refugee Resettlement is So Important (Refugees International, June 2025) [text]

Reports: 

UNHCR Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2026 (UNHCR, June 2025) [access]

- Follow link for report and data set. See also related briefing note.

Integration between challenges and opportunities: a study on socio-economic conditions of refugees in Italy (UNHCR et al., June 2025) [text]

Safe Pathways for Refugees V: OECD-UNHCR study on pathways used by refugees (OECD & UNHCR, June 2025) [access]

- Follow link for current report and related dashboard, as well as previous editions as of 2019. The press release is available here.

Staying safe: Inter-agency insights on protection and accountability for refugees from Ukraine (UNHCR, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Community Sponsorship in the Basque Country: Empowering Autonomy and Integration Through a Constructive Private and Public Partnership," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 10 June 2025 [open access]

"Exploring Refugees’ Survival and Coping Mechanisms within the Framework of Migrant Integration and Malta’s Immigration Policy," Migracijske i etničke teme, vol. 41, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"The Fragile Yet Unmistakable Long-Term Integration of Syrian Refugees in Jordan," Migration Information Source, 5 June 2025 [text]

"(L)earning ‘belonging’: processes of inclusion and exclusion in Malta’s migrant integration programme," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 21 June 2025 [open access]

"Living Pro Bono Loco: My Year in the Access to Justice Gap and the Humanitarian Refugee Crisis in the American Southwest," Richmond Public Interest Law Review, vol. XXVIII, no. 3 (2025) [full-text]

"Welfare Pluralism and a Policy Window in Refugee Policies: The Emergence and Proliferation of Community Sponsorship in Europe, 2013–2023," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 3 June 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

Making Migrant Return and Reintegration Sustainable: Lessons from Two Continents, 25 June 2025 [access]

What does Trump’s refugee suspension mean for Africa?, 4 June 2025 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (30 May 2025)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Reshaping Rohingya Futures: Coping Strategies and Emerging Agencies (Springer, June 2025) [open access]

- "This edited book presents many hitherto unaddressed aspects of post-genocide Rohingya lives in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Amid an everyday struggle for daily essentials, violent tensions within and outside the camps, growing anti-Rohingya sentiment in the host community as well as the decreasing international support during the repatriation process, Rohingya adolescents and youths show strategies of coping and agency to alter their present and reshape their future. An upsurge in digital literacy, mounting transnational connectivity, growing engagement with diaspora Rohingya activism and a cumulative presence in social media for sentiment mobilisation on a local and global scale has motivated them to bring about change for themselves and their community within the camps."

Reports & journal articles:

"COVID-19 induced challenges in refugee management: lessons learned from Rohingya camps in Bangladesh," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 26 June 2025 [open access]

"A critical review of Chinese law on (mass) expulsion of aliens through a lens of international law," Griffith Law Review, Latest Articles, 27 March 2025 [open access]

"Discursive Strategies to Legitimise Restrictive Approaches Toward Asylum Seekers: Controversial Bill to Amend Japan’s Immigration Act in 2023," Journal of Intercultural Studies, Latest Articles, 24 June 2025 [open access]

"Exploring the barriers and facilities migrants face in accessing COVID-19 vaccines in Malaysia: A qualitative study," PLoS One 20(6): e0326045 (June 2025) [open access]

Protection and assistance for Afghans in mixed migration: Insights on Afghans en route to Pakistan and Türkiye (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2025) [text

"Tracing housing aid modalities and solutions to protracted displacement: experiences among Sri Lanka’s northern Muslims," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 20 June 2025 [open access]

"Understanding the impact of social connectedness on health and well-being among refugees in Australia," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 4 June 2025 [open access]

"Using photovoice methodology to capture narratives of Sri Lankan Northern Muslims displacement," Fennia: International Journal of Geography, vol. 203, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (2 July 2025)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

"10 Years of Rohingya Refugees Stranded at Sea," The Diplomat, 26 May 2025 [text via HRW]

Australia’s role in preventing the next Andaman Sea refugee catastrophe (The Interpreter Blog, May 2025) [text]

Bangladesh’s Humanitarian Corridor Dilemma (E-International Relations, June 2025) [text]

Destabilisation of refugee camps in Bangladesh could lead to a new exodus of Rohingyas (The Interpreter Blog, June 2025) [text]

From Haven to Hostility: India’s Changing Immigration Policy on Rohingya Refugees (Jurist News, June 2025) [text]

"Funding cuts force new thinking for world’s largest refugee camp," The New Humanitarian, 10 June 2025 [text]

Japan's Immigration Policy and the Kurdish Population (FPRI, June 2025) [text]

Living in limbo: The precarious existence of refugees in Malaysia (Monash Lens, June 2025) [text]

"Pakistan to consider extending deadline for Afghan refugees facing mass deportation," AP News, 30 June 2025 [text]

Pakistan’s deportation policy: Questioning its adherence to non-refoulement (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2025) [text]

A voice at the table: refugee panel ends stellar first term (Univ. of Auckland, July 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

Book Launch: Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia, 18 June 2025 [access]

A Closing Window: How Aid Cuts Are Undermining Rohingya Possibilities, 5 June 2025 [access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (22 May 2025)

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2 (Focus on Australia) (22 May 2025)

New Issue of IJRL

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (IJRL) has been published. Contents of vol. 37, no. 1, March 2025 include:

• Four Decades of Scholarship on International Refugee Law: Future Directions for the IJRL [free full-text]
• More on the Meaning of ‘Protection’ in the Refugee Definition [abstract]
• Protection from Indiscriminate Violence in Armed Conflict: The Scope of Subsidiary Protection in the European Union [open access]
• Finding Religion: Assessing Religion-Based Asylum Claims in Refugee Status Determination Procedures in Norway and Canada [abstract]
• Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism: A Case of Partial Acculturation to International Refugee Law [abstract]
• Controlling the Discretion to Expel under Article 32 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: Comments on the Meaning of Terms, particularly ‘Public Order’ and ‘Ordre Public’, and on the Importance of Judicial Control [abstract] [preprint]

In addition, readers will find case law summaries; the texts of "Note on International Protection: Note by the High Commissioner" and "Conclusion No 117 (LXXV) on Durable Solutions and Complementary Pathways (2024)," both issued during the 75th EXCOM session; and one book review.

Tagged Periodicals.

New Book Titles

Please visit my Forced Migration Library blog for a two-part listing of references to new books. Part 1 highlights new books due out in July 2025 along with additional June 2025 titles, while Part 2 lists new legal and open access texts.