Thematic Focus: General

Events & opportunities:

Volunteer: Barbara Harrell-Bond Foundation [info]
- Part-time, home-based opportunity.

Call for participation: Model UN Refugee Challenge [info]
- Four different deadlines; the first is 20 December 2019.

*Job announcement: Deputy Director & Head of Refugee and Migrant Rights, Amnesty International [info]
- Apply by 31 December 2019.

Job announcement: Assistant Professor in Global Migration and Forced Displacement, UC Santa Barbara [info]
- Apply by 6 January 2020.

*Job announcement: Researcher on Protracted Displacement, IIED [info]
- Apply by 7 January 2020.

CFP: Trajectories of Refuge: Protracted Displacement and Humanitarian Responses, Panel at Royal Anthropological Institute Conference, London, 4-7 June 2020 [info]
- Submission deadline is 8 January 2020.

CFP: Managing and Protecting People on the Move, Stream at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Portsmouth, UK, 1-3 April 2020 [info]
- Submission deadline is 10 January 2020.

CFP: Camps Across the World: Global and Local Perspectives, Luxembourg, 3-4 July 2020 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 15 January 2020.

CFP: REMHU [info]
- Contributions sought for a special dossier on "Civil society and international migration." Deadline for submitting articles is 15 January 2020.

Conference on Forced Displacement, Copenhagen, 17-18 January 2020 [info]

Seminar: Civil Society and the Everyday Politics of the Global Refugee Regime: Early Lessons from the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN), Toronto, 23 January 2020 [info]

CFP: Contexts of Displacement, Refugee Protection and Forced Migrants' Lives, 3rd Conference of the German Network of Forced Migration Researchers, Cologne, Germany, 17-19 September 2020 [info]
- Submit proposals by 31 January 2020.

Blog posts & press:

2019 Update: How Long Do Refugees Stay in Exile? To Find Out, Beware of Averages (Development for Peace Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

Here’s What Inspired Us This Year (RI Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

How Migrants and Their Supporters are Reviving the Ethos of the 19th-century Underground Railroad (The Conversation, Dec. 2019) [text]

Including Forced Displacement in the SDGs: A New Refugee Indicator (Digital Tukul Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

PRIO Migration Research Update (Dec. 2019) [text]

Top 10 Migration Issues of 2019 (Migration Information Source, Dec. 2019) [text]

A Tribute to Sadako Ogata (Order from Chaos Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

Why It's Time to Celebrate Migrants (World Economic Forum Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Evaluation of UNHCR’s Engagement with the Private Sector (UNHCR, Dec. 2019) [text]

"Externalization at Work: Responses to Migration Policies from the Global South," Comparative Migration Studies, 7:48 (Dec. 2019) [open access]
- Intro. to special issue; see articles in the collection here.

Forced Migration Research: From Theory to Practice in Promoting Migrant Well-Being - Proceedings of a Workshop (National Academies Press, 2019) [full-text]

"Images, Emotions, and International Politics: The Death of Alan Kurdi," Review of International Studies, vol. 46, no. 1 (Jan. 2020) [open access]

Lives in Storage: Refugee Warehousing and the Overlooked Humanitarian Crisis (US Committee for Refugees & Immigrants, Dec. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Migrant Union: Navigating the Great Migration (UNDP, Dec. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Volume and Geography of Forced Migration, IMI Working Paper, no. 156 (International Migration Institute, Dec. 2019) [text]

Resources:

OIOS Internal Audit and Evaluation Reports [access]
- Locate reports focusing on UNHCR by entering "refugees" in the "report title" search box, then click on "apply."

Virtual Issue: Refugees and Human Rights (Journal of Refugee Studies, Dec. 2019) [access]
- Compiled to celebrate International Human Rights Day on 10 December. Articles are freely available through December 2019.

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