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12 February 2020

Thematic Focus: General

Events & opportunities:

Job opportunity: Consultancy on Integrated Solutions to Protracted Displacement, UNRISD [info]
- Submit application by 16 February 2020.

Job opportunity: Strategic Communications Officer, UN Migration Network, Geneva [info
- Application deadline is 3 March 2020.

Call for applications: Building the Evidence on Protracted Forced Displacement: A Multi-Stakeholder Partnership, Young Fellowship Program [info]
- Up to 10 fellowships will be awarded. Submission deadline is 6 March 2020.

Call for applications: 16th Migration Summer School: Migration and Mobility in an Era of Contention, Florence, Italy, 22 June-3 July 2020 [info]
- Apply by 15 March 2020.

Call for applications: 2020 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program [info]
- Candidates sought for "Program Manager, Global Assessment of Country Practices on Refugee and Humanitarian Protection," based at Refugees International which is a participating organization in the fellows program. Submission deadline is 18 March 2020.

Blog posts & press:

How Refugees Went from Heroes to Villains and the Politics of Nostalgia (CONREP Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

Sharing the Burden of the Global Refugee Crisis (Future Development Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Evidence-based Operational Responses to Mixed Migration: Challenges and Best Practice - External Assessment, January 2020 (Mixed Migration Centre, Feb. 2020) [text]

The Global Compact on Refugees: Which Future for a Comprehensive Instrument in Response to People’s Displacement (Fondazione ISMU, Dec. 2019) [text]

Governing Protracted Displacement: An Analysis across Global, Regional and Domestic Contexts, Working Paper, no. 3 (TRAFIG, Feb. 2020) [text]
- See also related Practice Note.

"Migrants Caught in Crises: Contexts, Responses, and Innovation," Chapter 10 in World Migration Report 2020 (IOM, Dec. 2019) [text]
- See also related InfoSheet.

Refugees as Assets not Burdens: The Role of Policy, Brooke Shearer Series, no. 8 (Brookings Institution, Feb. 2020) [text]

"Rehumanizing the Migrant: The Translated Past as a Resource for Refashioning the Contemporary Discourse of the (Radical) Left," Palgrave Communications, 6:12 (Jan. 2020) [open access]

UNHCR’s Leadership and Coordination Role in Refugee Response Settings: Desk Review (UNHCR, Dec. 2019) [text]

Unprepared for (Re)Integration: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria on Refugee Returns to Urban Areas (Danish Refugee Council et al., Nov. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Civil Society and the Everyday Politics of the Global Refugee Regime, Toronto, 23 Jan. 2020 [info]
- Follow link for video and slides.

LERRN’s Roundtable Discussion on Refugee Participation, Ottawa, 30 Jan. 2020 [info]
- Follow this link for video.

New Challenges and New Hopes at the Global Refugee Forum (Carleton Univ., Feb. 2020) [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

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