Thematic Focus: Global Compacts Round-up

I haven't done one of these in a while but there has been an uptick in activity recently... .

Event:

Global Refugee Forum, Geneva, 16-18 December 2019 [info]
- By invitation only. Follow link for programme and lots of background info. & resources.

RLI seminars: 

Easing Pressure: Uganda and the Global Compact on Refugees, London, 10 February 2020 [info]

Solutions and the Global Compact on Refugees - A Long Road ‘Home’, London, 25 February 2020 [info]

Compacts, Complexity and Coherence: Responding to Mixed Movement through the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration, London, 25 April 2020 [info]

Publications:

“Building a Lifeline: A Proposed Global Platform and Responsibility Sharing Model for the Global Compact on Refugees,” The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice, vol. 21, no. 3 (2019) [full-text]

Caught in Between Borders: Citizens, Migrants and Humans -  Liber Amicorum in Honour of  Prof. Dr. Elspeth Guild (Wolf Legal Publishers, Sept. 2019) [open access]
- See section on the "Global Compact on Migration," with three chapters beginning on p. 315.

Complementarity: The Global Compact on Refugees and 1969 OAU Refugee Convention (Institute for Security Studies, Dec. 2019) [text]

Global Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2 (2019) [contents]
- Includes sub-section on the Global Compact on Migration.

The Global Compact for Migration is More Than Just Its Objectives (RLI Blog, Sept. 2019) [text]

*The Global Compact on Refugees: Lessons from Bangladesh (ODI, Dec. 2019) [text]

"Global Compact on Refugees: Opportunities for Australian Reform and Leadership?," Australian Quarterly Magazine, vol. 90, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2019) [text via Kaldor Centre]

How Germany Can Benefit from the Global Compact for Migration, SWP Comment 2019/C 37 (German Inst. for International & Security Affairs, Sept. 2019) [text]

International Migration, vol. 57, no. 6 (Dec. 2019) [contents]
- Special issue on "The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees," with 19 articles. Includes a freely available article by Filippo Grandi and an open access article on gender.

Is the Global Compact on Refugees Fit for Africa’s Purposes?, SAIIA Occasional Paper, no. 302 (South African Institute of International Affairs, Oct. 2019) [text]

Safe, Regular, Orderly Migration: Advancing Development Approaches to Migration - UNDP Position Paper on the Global Compact for Migration (UNDP, Oct. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Time to Commit: Using the Global Refugee Forum, Policy Note, no. 23 (ECRE, Nov. 2019) [text]

*Welcome, Support, Pledge, Resettle: Responsibility Sharing in the Global Compact on Refugees (Oxfam, Dec. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Wheels in Motion: Who's Done What Since the Global Compact for Migration was Adopted (and What Should Happen Next) (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2019) [text]

*"When Migration Policy isn't about Migration: Considerations for Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration," Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 33, no. 4 (Winter 2019) [abstract]

Workshop: Addressing Refugee Challenges: A Workshop on Research Around the Objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees, Geneva, 13 November 2019 [info]
- Note: This is a preparatory workshop held in advance of the official launch of the Global Academic Interdiscipinary Network (GAIN) at the Global Refugee Forum in December. See also related information note.

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