Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Opportunity:

CFP/Call for registration: LGBTQ+ refugees in the welfare state: Research, policy and practitioners in dialogue, Uppsala, 21-22 May 2026 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 25 March 2026. Registration opens 30 March 2026.

Short pieces:

Fighting to Be Felt: Reimagining Feminist Protection Through the Lives of Trans Syrian Refugee Sex Workers in Lebanon (RLI Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

On the limits and harms of LGBTQ+ asylum models: new book Queering UK Refugee Law (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Senegalese LGBTQ+ Migration (Immigration Lab Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on France.

Silence: The Shirika Plan’s Impact on LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Kenya (Immigration Lab Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Ambivalent intersectional solidarity: Berlin’s LGBTIQ+ civil society alliances during the war in Ukraine," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 3 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Flipping the Lens: Using Instagram for Photovoice and Videovoice with LGBTQ+ Migrants in São Paulo," Qualitative Inquiry, OnlineFirst, 5 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"'I feel like I am losing myself': protection, ontological in/security, and queer/trans refugees in Turkey," Security Dialogue, Advance Articles, 6 Jan. 2026 [open access] 

"An LGBTQI+ child rights-based approach to eligibility for international protection," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 15 Jan. 2026 [open access] 

"Putting People in Boxes: Iranian Exiles and Queer Identities," Sexuality & Culture, vol. 30, no. 1 (Feb. 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on "queer Iranians in exile in Turkey, the UK and Canada." See also related project website and research brief.

"Using Creative Arts-Based Methodology to Build Solidarity Between LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ Refugees living in London," Displaced Voices: A Journal of Migration, Archives and Cultural Heritage, vol. 4 (Autumn 2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (17 Dec. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Enhancing legal preparedness for climate displacement: Judicial engagement with the non-refoulement principle in the decade since the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda (Nansen Initiative +10 Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

A ‘last resort’: A decade of addressing gaps in knowledge, guidance and policies on planned relocation (Nansen Initiative +10 Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Resolving Climate-Related Internal Displacement at a Time of Crisis (RID Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Subsidiary Protection and Climate Refugees: A Cure-All or a Limited Remedy? (Völkerrechtsblog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Reports: 

How Caribbean States Became Climate Mobility Policy Innovators (Carnegie Endowment, Jan. 2026) [text]

Predicting Forced Displacement in the Context of Climate Change (UNHCR, Feb. 2026) [access]

- Follow link for report and appendix.

Journal articles:

"Anticipated Ecological Disaster: Climate Change, Perennial Floods and Urban Resilience in Makurdi City, Nigeria," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Bordering, de-bordering, and re-bordering: Fulani mobility in West Africa’s changing climates," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 15 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Decolonizing People: An Understanding of Pashtun Indigenous Community Vulnerability to Climate-Induced Displacement," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Dynamics of Sudden On-Set Hydrometeorological and Geophysical Disaster-Driven Internal Displacement in High-Income Country Context: Insights from the Global Internal Displacement Database," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

"From Ravaged Livelihoods in the Global South to Mediterranean Crossings: The Reality of Climate Migration," Ocean and Society, vol. 3 (2026) [open access]

"Locally-led maladaptation as a configuration of responsibilities: ethnographic photo essay of a bamboo wall in Bangladesh," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 2 (April 2026) [open access]

"The role of soft law in ensuring durable solutions for children displaced by climate change in Africa," African Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 25 (2025) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1 (30 Jan. 2026) 

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2 (30 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

Digital education improves learning, teaching experience in refugee-hosting schools (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Rwanda.

New fully-funded scholarship for graduate students with lived experience of forced displacement (RSC, Feb. 2026) [text]

Trump Administration Actions Jeopardize Decades of Progress in Adult Education and Immigrant Integration (MPI, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Assessing school readiness domains in a large cohort of refugee children: Validation and links with family factors," Studies in Educational Evaluation, vol. 88 (March 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Malaysia.

"Coloniality and decoloniality in education: expressions in the teaching of refugees and immigrants in the municipality of Blumenau-SC," Revista Brasileira de Estudos Pedagógicos, vol. 106 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Brazil.

"Displacement due to riverbank Erosion: A threat to education in Bangladesh," Progress in Disaster Science, vol. 29 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

Education on the edge: Access to education for conflict-displaced and migrant children along the Thailand-Myanmar Border (Save the Children, Jan. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Enjeux de normalité dans les complexes éducatifs des camps de réfugiés de Grèce," Contextes et Didactiques, vol. 25 (2025) [open access]

*"Refugee Access to National Education Systems: A Scoping Review of Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 10 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Relational agency in practice: how migrant and refugee parents navigate digital learning in Western Sydney," International Journal of Inclusive Education, Latest Articles, 7 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Striving for forbidden education: narratives from recently arrived Afghan refugee women in regional Australia," Intercultural Education, Latest Articles, 30 Jan. 2026 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

 - Thematic Focus: Education (16 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunities:

Seminar: The Differential Criminalisation of Unauthorised Migration: Controlling the Maritime Movements of Rohingya to and from Indonesia, Singapore, 24 February 2026 [info]

CFP: ARC-UNHCR Conference on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement (REFCON 2026), Kuala Lumpur, 9-11 June 2026 [info]

- Submit proposals by 28 February 2026.

Short pieces:

Australia: Abusive Refugee, Migration Policies Expand (HRW, Feb. 2026) [text]

Fixing the “Foreigner”: What India’s New Immigration Law Gets Wrong About Refugees (RLI Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Rohingya boats: Out of mind but still coming (The Interpreter Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Selective Humanitarianism and the Erosion of Non-Refoulement: India’s Immigration and Foreigners (Exemption) Order 2025 (RLI Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

New open access book:

Between Empire and Nation: South Asian Humanitarianism in the Late Colonial Period (Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2025) [open access]

- This volume provides "a comprehensive history of South Asian humanitarian aid in the context of armed  conflicts in the colonial period. Adopting an international and transnational approach, the book focuses on relief initiatives from the First World War to the Second World War and the early post-war years. Through five case studies, this book offers new insights into the history of volunteer societies and non-state organisations in British India. It enhances readers’ understanding of late colonial public and political activism on the Indian subcontinent. "

Journal articles:

"Causing a Stir: Unwanted Aliens and the Cauldron of Crimmigration Controls Post-NZYQ," Univ. of Queensland Law Journal, Advance Access, 30 Oct. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia. See also related Border Criminologies blog post.

"Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post-colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld," Development and Change, Early View, 23 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"The hope industrial complex: resisting manufactured and false hope with critical hope in peace education, Thailand's refugee context," Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives, Latest Articles, 27 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Humanitarian Crises and Mental Health Coping Strategies Among Myanmar Refugees in Mizoram State, India," Asian Social Work and Policy Review, vol. 20, no. 1 (Feb. 2026) [open access]

"Reflections on the mobility turn and the relationality of (im)mobilities," Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, Latest Articles, 15 Jan. 2026 [open access]

- Uses "the case of Afghan refugees in Korea as an illustration."

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (30 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

"The Bhasan Char project was never about protection, it’s about Rohingya confinement," The New Humanitarian, 27 Jan. 2026 [text]

Congress Should Stop DHS’s Lawless Misuse of Mandatory Immigration Detention (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the US. See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

EU: New Return Regulation Threatens to Significantly Expand Detention, Warn UN Special Procedures (Immigration Detention Monitor, Feb. 2026) [text]

ICE's Delayed Detention Data is Out, Two Record Highs: 70,000 People Detained, 40,000 on Ankle Monitors (Austin Kocher Substack, Feb. 2026) [text]

- See also related post on the best source of detention data.

Invisible and Detained: How Immigration Detention Reproduces Gender-Based Violence Against Migrant Women in South Africa (Lawyers for Human Rights, Feb. 2026) [text]

A Legal Black Hole: Does Iraq Have the Right to Detain Prisoners Transferred from Syria? (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

Poland – More Migrant Children to be Detained Following Controversial Legislative Changes (Immigration Detention Monitor, Feb. 2026) [text]

Sweetening Migrant Detention in Third Countries (Refugee History Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

The Taken - Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

Visualising Confinement: Creating 3D Models of Greek Detention Centres (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

We Told You So: Now What for Northeast Syria? (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"'Doing Head Miles': The Meaning and Mental Health Consequences of Immigration Detention in the Context of Criminal Deportation," SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, In Press, 5 Feb. 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

Health in immigration detention: Evidence brief for policy and practice (WHO & Global Detention Project, Jan. 2026) [text]

New ICE arrest data show the power of state and local governments to curtail mass deportations (Prison Policy Initiative, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Provides an update to their earlier report, Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump.

"Protecting human rights in detention: Does anybody care?," Alternative Law Journal, OnlineFirst, 6 Feb. 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

Profiting Off Pain: Privatized Detention, Mass Surveillance and the Drive for Immigrant Prosecutions (National Immigration Project & American Univ., Jan. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Rethinking Preventive Detention," UCLA Law Review, vol. 73 (Forthcoming) [preprint]

- Focuses on the US.

New books:

FYI: These titles include subsections that focus on immigration detention.

Forced Migration and Health Justice (Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2026) [info]

Gender Equality Behind Bars: A Feminist Approach to Penality Policies Worldwide (Palgrave Macmillan, Feb. 2026) [info]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1 (25 Jan. 2026) 

- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 2 (25 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

Advancing South-South Strategic Dialogue on Refugee Leadership (LERRN, Feb. 2026) [text]

Global Human Rights Repository: A central hub for human rights data (HURIDOCS, Feb. 2026) [text]

Reimagining Responses to the Refugee Crisis (Carleton Univ., Jan. 2026) [text]

Trump’s 'Board of Peace' isn’t about Gaza: It’s about replacing the UN (EPC, Feb. 2026) [text]

- See also related Q&A on Just Security and ECFR post.

UNHCR’s Salih calls for global shift from managing to resolving displacement (UNHCR, Feb. 2026) [text]

New open access book:

Enforced Disappearances: On Universal Responses to a Worldwide Phenomenon (Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2025) [open access]

- This volume "discusses the UN human rights (both treaty bodies and special procedures) response to the key challenges of missing persons and enforced disappearances, including reparations, family rights, involvement of non-state actors, and the migration context. The book also includes several illustrative case studies from Latin America, Africa, Mexico, Western Balkans, and the Asia-Pacific region, which demonstrate the current challenges and problems relating to enforced disappearances in domestic or regional settings."

Reports & book chapters: 

Review of the consultations with non-governmental organizations held in 2025 (UNHCR & ICVA, Aug. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Prepared for the 76th session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, Geneva, 6-10 October 2025. More info about the outcomes of regional NGO consultations held in 2025 can be found via UNHCR (scroll down).

"Thinking about academic networks through social network analysis," Chapter in The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights (Edward Elgar, Oct. 2025) [preprint]

Journal articles:

"Camp Time: Heterochronies in ‘Other Spaces'," Population, Space and Place, vol. 32, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on "humanitarian-run camps in Jordan and privatized city shelter camps in the US."

"Categorical misalignments in immigration systems: spillovers, omissions, liminality, and the production of inequality," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 52, no. 3 (2026) [free full-text]

- Keynote address for 11th SCMR-JEMS International Conference, Sussex, UK, 2024. See also earlier related article in the American Sociological Review.

"Eliminationist politics: an analytical framework," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 9 Feb. 2026 [free full-text]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"Jennifer Hyndman's Managing Displacement, 25 years on," Political Geography, In Press, 9 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Navigating the Nexus of Displacement, Policy, and Governance," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Organised forced migration and the external drivers of eliminationist politics," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 9 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Restricting boat refugees at sea – rescuing the sovereign? The response to boat refugees across time and space, 1979–2001," International Journal of Maritime History, 27 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"What Drives Anti-Migrant Vigilantes," Migration Information Source, 28 Jan. 2026 [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (21 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

Establishing the Board of Peace: Key Questions about the Launch of the Trump Administration’s New Peace-Building Initiative (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

- See also related TNH opinion piece.

Lebanon’s First Refugee Crisis and the Paradox of Non-Integration (Borders and Limitations: The IMS Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

OPT Post-ceasefire Deal Reality, Humanitarian Access Snapshot #13 (ActionAid et al., Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Refugee Platform in Egypt launches the first interactive digital database to archive public policies on migration and asylum in Egypt and Mediterranean countries (RPE, Feb. 2026) [text]

Reports:

Article 1D of the Refugee Convention and Palestinians from Gaza: the cessation of UNRWA protection and assistance?, MOBILE Working Paper, no. 75 Univ. of Copenhagen, Oct. 2025) [text]

Humanitarian Access Overview - Spotlight on fragmented contexts: Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen (ACAPS, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Leveraging comparative advantages to advance solutions for refugees in Jordan: UNHCR's catalytic role in a context of scarce humanitarian funding (UNHCR, Feb. 2026) [text]

Refugee inclusion and urban livelihoods: A qualitative assessment of UNHCR’s refugee livelihood support program in Alexandria, Egypt (CGIAR, Dec. 2025) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Continuity and change in Saudi Arabia's development and humanitarian aid," Chapter in Foreign Aid of Gulf States: Continuity and Change (Routledge, 2025) [open access]

"The evolution of the Gulf states as humanitarian donors," Chapter in Foreign Aid of Gulf States: Continuity and Change (Routledge, 2025) [open access]

"Exploring the preference for bilateral aid: Gulf oil states' aid to Yemen," Chapter in Foreign Aid of Gulf States: Continuity and Change (Routledge, 2025) [open access]

"Navigating Vulnerability in the Context of Resettlement: Syrian Youth in Türkiye," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 42, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"The prohibition on forced displacement, the right to leave, non-refoulement, and the right to return: four sides of the same coin?," International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Forthcoming) [postprint]

"Saudi Arabia's foreign aid: the singularity of Yemen as a case study," Chapter in Foreign Aid of Gulf States: Continuity and Change (Routledge, 2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (27 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (Americas)

Short pieces & reports:

Orientaciones para la preparación ante el cierre o interrupción de servicios y programas de protección de la niñez y adolescencia (Child Protection Area of ​​Responsibility, Jan. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Venezuela.

UN experts alarmed by child rights violations in USA immigration procedures (OHCHR, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related UN News story.

Journal articles:

"Families on the move – Latin American perspectives," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Jan. 2026 [free full-text]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"Framing child refugee deaths across water borders: media narratives of Alan Kurdi and Valeria Martínez-Ramírez in Turkey and Mexico," Comparative Migration Studies, 2 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Health status and living conditions of north-bound migrant minors in Mexico at place of origin and during the migration journey: A cross-sectional, mixed-methods study," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 13 (2026) [open access]

"Is there a right to family reunification for refugees in Latin America?," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Motherhood on the move: new evidence of vulnerability for central American mothers migrating with children," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"'They See It in My Eyes': How Undocumented Mothers Experience and Transmit Immigration-Related Far," Affilia, 23 Jan. 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

"Traveling Together, Traveling Alone: Experiences of Violence and Danger for Migrating Children and Families in the US–Mexico Borderlands," Social Sciences, vol. 15, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (10 Feb. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces & reports:

"Repatriating children from Syria’s IS camps is the right thing and the smart thing to do," The New Humanitarian, 3 Feb. 2026 [text]

Violence against Children and Youth in Humanitarian Settings: Findings from a 2024 survey of refugee camps in Ethiopia (Baobab Research Programme Consortium et al., Dec. 2025) [text]

- See also related video recording of the report's launch event.

Journal articles:

"Challenges and Strategies in the Daily Lives of Children from Migrant and Refugee Backgrounds in Australia: The Voices of Children and Parents," Journal of Child and Family Studies, vol. 35, no. 2 (Feb. 2026) [open access]

"Framing child refugee deaths across water borders: media narratives of Alan Kurdi and Valeria Martínez-Ramírez in Turkey and Mexico," Comparative Migration Studies, 2 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Problematizing Child-Led Participatory Research in Refugee Contexts: Reflections from a Photovoice Study in Uganda," International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Reassessing Age Assessment: When the Violence of Age Meets the Violence of the Border," Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1 (Feb. 2026) [postprint]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (20 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

The Bodily Remainder: Chicago Organisers after the Immigration ‘Blitz’ (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Collection: ICE and CBP Operations in Minnesota and Other States (Just Security, Jan.-Feb. 2026) [access]

Expert Survey on DHS, CBP, and ICE Reforms (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive (The Conversation, Feb. 2026) [text]

I’m a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here’s how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

Migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border are at their lowest level in more than 50 years (Pew Research Center, Feb. 2026) [text]

More Asylum Seekers Are “No Shows” in Immigration Court (The Asylumist Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

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

Reports: 

Development of the U.S. Asylum System: In Brief (Congressional Research Service, Jan. 2026) [text]

Do Border Policies Deter Migrants? (SSRN, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related Just Security post.

Immigration Enforcement in the First Nine Months of the Second Trump Administration (Deportation Data Project, Jan. 2026) [text]

Oversight of the Use of Force by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Law Enforcement Officers (Congressional Research Service, Feb. 2026) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Empty Justice: Ethnographic Court-Witnessing in Authoritarian Times," Journal for the Anthropology of North America, vol. 29, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

- "This article investigates the operations of United States immigration courts ethnographically, examining how law, politics, and bureaucracy converge in the everyday production of immigration adjudication."

"The Far-Reaching Impacts of Trump’s Anti-Immigration Offensive," Current History, vol. 125, no. 868 (Feb. 2026) [free full-text]

"For the Sake of Migrant Futures: Historicizing Migrant Deaths in Shipping Containers on the U.S. – Mexico Border in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries," California History, vol. 103, no. 1 (Spring 2026) [free full-text]

"Immigrant and refugee experiences in the Utah WIC program: a qualitative study," International Journal for Equity in Health, 27 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Inventing a New Order of Uncertainties: Trump’s Anti-Immigration Policy and the Dilemmas of African Deportees," Chapter in African Perspectives on Trump 2.0: United States Foreign Policy and the New World (Re)Order (Univ. of Pretoria, 2025) [ResearchGate]

"Trump’s Immigration Policy and United States Foreign Relations," Chapter in African Perspectives on Trump 2.0: United States Foreign Policy and the New World (Re)Order (Univ. of Pretoria, Dec. 2025) [ResearchGate]

Multimedia:

Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times (Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility) [access]

- Podcast series that "examines Trump administration policies and actions affecting immigration and migrants and their communities." Season 2 episodes are now being posted.

Resource:

ImmigrationLawHelp.org [access]

- "A searchable online directory of over 1,000 free or low-cost nonprofit immigration legal services providers in all 50 states."

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (26 Jan. 2026)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (26 Jan. 2026)

Opportunities: A Few More Feb. & March 2026

Call for participants: The well-being of people involved in research on forced displacement & associated human rights abuses [info]

- "We are currently only gathering data from people who lived/worked in the UK or were based at a UK institute or organisation while involved in any capacity with research on forced migration and/or associated human rights abuses." No deadline indicated.

Seminar: Revisiting the Local Turn in Migration and Diversity Governance, Cairo, 10 February 2026 [info]

Seminar: Far-right terror, the securitization of refugees, and transnational geopolitics in the EU, Cairo, 12 February 2026 [info]

- Note: This seminar has been postponed.

CFP: The refugee-migrant distinction: toward a global history, Cambridge, 15-16 October 2026 [info]

- Submit proposals by 16 February 2026.

Discussion panel: Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants: Current Developments and Likely Futures, Online, 17 February 2026 [info]

CFP: Humanrightization in Migration Societies: Conditions, Forms, Consequences, Giessen, Germany,  7-8 May 2026 [info]

- Submit proposals by 23 February 2026.

CFP: ARC-UNHCR Conference on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement (REFCON 2026), Kuala Lumpur, 9-11 June 2026 [info]

- Submit proposals by 28 February 2026.

Seminar: Grounding the Components of an Ethical Response to Refugees, Oxford, 4 March 2026 [info]

Seminar: Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Common but Differentiated Legal Obligations, Oxford, 11 March 2026 [info]

CFP: "Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe," Panel at European Academy of Religion Conference, Rome, 30 June-3 July 2026 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 13 March 2026.

CFP: Unsettling Communities: Diversity, Mobility and Displacement in an Age of Growing Authoritarianism, Birmingham, UK, 7–9 September 2026 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 16 March 2026.

**See also legal-related employment opportunity and courses listed in this previous post.

Related post:

- Opportunities: More Feb. 2026 & New March 2026

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Africa's Migration Transition: A Long-Run Historical Perspective," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 23 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Bridging the Implementation Gap: Refugee Governance and Institutional Coordination in Uganda’s Borderlands," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 22 Jan. 2026 [full-text]

"Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 133, no. 9 (Sept. 2025) [preprint]

- Focuses on Kenya and Uganda.

"Forced displacement in Africa: Could the Tanzanian Maasai obtain justice? The East African Court of Justice case under the lens of the Ogiek case before the African Court," African Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 25, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Human Rights in Resettlement Policies of European Bilateral Development Finance Institutions Operating in Sub-Saharan Africa: Hitting the Mark?," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Introducing a Survivor-Centred Policy Framework for Conflict-Induced Internal Displacement in Uganda," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"The subversion of politics: Political prohibitions on refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa," African Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 25, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Typology of Internally Displaced People: Insights from Northern Nigeria," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (6 Feb. 2026)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

End of Year Reflections (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on West and Central Africa.

New Refugee Law Practitioners' Handbook (Univ. of Cape Town, Feb. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on South Africa. Note: Info only, no full-text access available.

Reports & book chapters:

Can development assistance prevent conflict? (PRIO, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on South Sudan and Mozambique. See also related policy brief.

Draft Revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection (Govt. of South Africa, Dec. 2025) [text via UCT]

- Note: The deadline for public comments has been extended to 15 February 2026. See also related Facebook post from the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town.

In the shadow of law: navigating ECOWAS free movement law in West African borderlands, MOBILE Working Paper Series, no. 79 (Univ. of Copenhagen, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Introduction," Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya (Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2026) [free full-text]

Mapping African Migration: Insights from UN DESA Data on Patterns, Trends, and Misconceptions, SWP Working Paper, no. 03 (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Dec. 2025) [text]

- See also related post on The Conversation.

Rethinking aid in Sudan and South Sudan: Recommendations from the Kampala meeting (Rift Valley Institute, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (19 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Reports:

Frequently Asked Questions: Route-Based Approach to Mixed Movements (UNHCR & IOM, Jan. 2026) [text]

Overview of Practices in Relation to Country of Origin Information and Country Guidance (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

Rescue at Sea: A Guide to Principles and Practice in the Context of Refugees and Migrants Movements (International Maritime Organization & UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Also available in French and Spanish.

Safe Third Country Agreements: What is Happening to International Refugee Law? (ILJ Online, Jan. 2026) [full-text]

The Weakening Foundation of International Protection (Baker Institute, Feb. 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Annual Conference 2025 Keynote Address: The Role of History in International Law Scholarship: A Personal Reflection," Australian Year Book of International Law Online, vol. 43, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"The ICRC and academia: An untold story about preserving humanity in war through international humanitarian law," International Review of the Red Cross, First View, 6 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Protecting People or Promoting Ideologies? Insights from the Constitutional Asylum Dataset," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 19 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Redefining the mobility paradigm in international law," International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 21, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Rethinking the Refugee: From Migrant Hierarchies to Migration as a Human Right," Seton Hall Law Review, vol. 56, no. 3 (2026) [full-text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (6 Feb. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Seminar: Non-refoulement Caught Between Custom and Jus Cogens?, London, 10 February 2026 [info]

Job announcement: Outreach Assistant, Department of International Refugee Law and Migration Law, IIHL [info]

- Apply by 16 February 2026.

Call for registration: 49th Online Training Course on International Refugee Law (Arabic), 31 March–30 April 2026 [info]

- Register by 3 March 2026.

Call for registration: 19th Online Course on Internal Displacement (English), 13 April-8 May 2026 [info]

- Apply by 16 March 2026.

Call for registration: 50ème Cours en ligne sur le Droit international des réfugiés (français), 27 avril-22 mai 2026

- Register by 30 March 2026.

Short pieces:

Beyond Compliance Symposium: The harm of displacement – Towards full(er) protection (Armed Groups and International Law Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

When Judicial Review Protects Refugee Law from Political Interference (RLI Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on a recent UK High Court ruling that restored refugee status to a Palestinian citizen of Israel." 

Multimedia:

Irregular migration responses: small boats, return hubs and the future of the refugee regime, 9 Dec. 2025 [access]

The Refugee Convention in a hostile world: diverse contexts of risk, London, 29 Jan. 2026 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (9 Jan. 2026)