Thematic Focus: General

Events & opportunities:

International Displacement Conference, Geneva, 1 October 2019 [info]
- Registration details are not yet available.

Migration and Development in the ‘Global South’: Research Challenges and Policy Implications, MiReKoc 15th Anniversary Conference, Istanbul, 24-25 October 2019 [info]

Blog posts & media:

Are Water Shortages Driving Migration? Researchers Dispel Myths (World Economic Forum Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

Are We Suffering from Obsessive Measurement Disorder? (From Poverty to Power Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

"Financing the World’s Refugee Camps," World Finance, 13 Aug. 2019 [text]

First Global Refugee Forum, 17 and 18 December 2019, Palais des Nations, Geneva (UNHCR, Aug. 2019) [text]

IDRC-LERRN Initiative to Support Refugee Research (Carleton Univ., Sept. 2019) [text]

*"Immigration Panic: How the West Fell for Manufactured Rage," The Guardian, 27 Aug. 2019 [text]

"Leak Suggests UN Agency Self-censors on Climate Crisis after US Pressure," The Guardian, 11 Sept. 2019 [text]

No Refuge: Why the World’s Swelling Refugee Population Has Shrinking Options - A CFR InfoGuide (Council on Foreign Relations, 2019) [access]
- Note: A link to educational resources is also provided.

Reports & journal articles:

*Cities and Displacement: Goodwin-Gill on Improving Policy and Practice, Remarks at Cities and Displacement Learning Exchange, Sydney, 27 Aug. 2019 [text]

Evaluative Review of UNHCR’s Policies and Procedures on the Prevention of and Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, ES/2019/03 (UNHCR, June 2019) [text]
- See also management's response.

Foreign Aid, Bilateral Asylum Immigration and Development, GLO Discussion Paper, no. 378 (Global Labor Organization, 2019) [text via EconStor]

"Mapping Migration Studies: An Empirical Analysis of the Coming of Age of a Research Field," Migration Studies, Advance Articles, 3 Aug. 2019 [open access]

Monitoring Food Security in Countries with Conflict Situations: A Joint FAO/WFP Update for the United Nations Security Council (WFP & FAO, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"New Directions in Migration Studies: Towards Methodological De-nationalism," Comparative Migration Studies, 7:36 (Dec. 2019) [open access]

Thematic Listing of Forced Migration Review Articles on...Root Causes of Displacement (FMR, April 2019) [text]

"Where Do Migrants from Countries Ridden by Environmental Conflict Settle? On the Scale, Selection and Sorting of Conflict-Induced Migration," Chapter in Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance (Bristol Univ. Press, Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Who’s About to Leave? A Global Survey of Aspirations and Intentions to Migrate," International Migration, Early View, 15 Aug. 2019 [open access]

*UPDATED

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- Thematic Focus: General (13 Aug. 2019)

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