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22 January 2020

Thematic Focus: General

Events & opportunities:

Request for info: Researcher seeks proposals for reform of the global refugee regime that were produced in the Global South [info]

Seminar: Civil Society and the Everyday Politics of the Global Refugee Regime, Toronto, 23 January 2020 [info]

Training: Migration Communication Strategies: Effective Approaches to Depolarize the Debate, Florence, Italy, 2-3 April 2020 [info]
- Early bird application deadline is 31 January 2020.

*Job announcement: Program Coordinator, Migration, Displacement, Humanitarian Policy (MDHP), Center for Global Development [info]
- Apply by 13 February 2020.

Job announcement: Research Assistant, Migration, Displacement, Humanitarian Policy (MDHP), Center for Global Development [info]
- Apply by 14 February 2020.

CFP: The Here and Now in Forced Migration: Everyday Intimacies, Imaginaries and Bureaucracies: An International Workshop Organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany, 22-23 October 2020 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 15 February 2020.

Call for participation: Model UN Refugee Challenge [info]
- Four different deadlines; next one is 15 March 2020.

Blog posts & media:

After the Forum: New Directions in Global Refugee Policy (TRAFIG Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

Global Migrant Deaths Decline, but Tragedies Continue Worldwide (IOM, Dec. 2019) [text]

Global Migration, by the Numbers: Who Migrates, Where They Go and Why (World Economic Forum Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

Key Takeaways from the Global Refugee Forum (UNHCR, Jan. 2020) [text]
- Links to a fuller summary of the forum's outcomes.

Migrants and the Bond with God: Attachment and Survival are Linked (The Conversation, Jan. 2020) [text]

New Approaches to Address Forced Displacement (UNDP Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

On Refugees and Innocence (Public Seminar, Jan. 2020) [text]

Refugees All Over the World Pressured to Go Back Home in 2019 (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2019) [text]
- See also related The New Humanitarian article.

"The World is Turning Its Back on Refugees," The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2019 [text]
- "The UN Global Compact on Refugees furthered a dangerous narrative: that refugees are worth saving only if they’re useful." See also related reply from UNHCR and authors' response.

Reports & journal articles:

Bridging the Gaps: Governance of Protracted Displacement across Global, Regional and National Levels, Practice Note, no. 3 (TRAFIG, Jan. 2020) [text]

Emergency Watchlist 2020 (International Rescue Committee, Jan. 2020) [text]

The Ever-rising Securitisation of Mixed Migration (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2019) [text]

International Migration, vol. 57, no. 6 (Dec. 2019) [free full-text]
- Special issue on "The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees." Note: The contents are currently freely available, even though they are not labeled as such!

LERRN Working Papers (Carleton Univ., Dec. 2019) [access]
- Currently available are three working papers "examining the humanitarian-development nexus from the perspective of protection, solutions and intersectionality."

Monitoring Methodology for Cross-border Displacement Associated with Conflict (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Jan. 2020) [text]

Paradoxes of Migration and Development, MADE Working Paper, no. 157 (International Migration Institute, Dec. 2019) [text]

"Reflections and Directions for Research in Refugee Studies," Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 43, no. 3 (2020) [abstract]
- Note: An eprint may eventually be deposited in the author's institutional repository.

States of Refuge: Keywords for Critical Refugee Studies, Globalization Working Paper, no. 1 (McMaster Univ., Sept. 2019) [text]

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