Thematic Focus: General

Opportunity:

Job announcement: President, Migration Policy Institute [info]
- Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and the position will remain open until filled.

Publications:

10-Point Plan of Action on Refugee Protection and Mixed Migration: 2016 Update (UNHCR, Dec. 2016) [access]
- See also related news story.

10 Things to Know about Refugees and Displacement (ODI, Dec. 2016) [text]

International Migration: Key Findings from the US, Europe and the World (Pew Research, Dec. 2016) [text]

Making the Invisible Visible – and Empowered (IDMC Blog, Dec. 2016) [text]

Migrant Deaths Worldwide Top 7,100 - Over Half in the Mediterranean (IOM, Dec. 2016) [text]

"Refugees and Rivals: The International Dynamics of Refugee Flows," Conflict Management and Peace Science, OnlineFirst, 25 July 2016 [free full-text]

[Series "that puts today’s crisis in the historical perspective of World War II and its aftermath"] (History News Network, Oct.-Nov. 2016) [access]
 - Focuses on "the world’s indifference to Jewish refugees in the 1930s."

Top 10 Migration Issues of 2016 (Migration Policy Institute, Dec. 2016) [access]

What Could a Trump Presidency Mean for Refugees? (World Policy Blog, Dec. 2016) [text]

Web sites:

Refugee History [access] [Twitter]
- "A new online platform & working network bringing academic research to policy, press & public discussion." See also related Refugees Deeply report.

World on the Move (American Anthropological Association) [access]
- "[A] national public education initiative aiming to change the public conversation about an important, yet difficult topic – migration and displacement."

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: General (3 Dec. 2016)

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