Thematic Focus: General

Free access:

Protecting the Internally Displaced: Rhetoric and Reality (Routledge, 2018) [info]
- Complimentary seven-day download is currently on offer, otherwise $15.00 for a permanent version.

Opportunity:

Call for blog posts: Border Criminologies Blog [info]
- Seeking pieces that focus on border control and Covid-19.

Blog posts & press:

Coronavirus Lockdowns Force the World’s Poorest into Deadly Trade-offs between Their Health and Livelihoods (The Conversation, May 2020) [text]

The Rocky Road to a Mobile World after COVID-19 (MPI Commentary, May 2020) [text]

RSC COVID-19 Blog [access]
- "[P]resents short articles relating to COVID-19 from RSC staff, students and associates."

Vatican Calls for More Protection for Internally Displaced (InfoMigrants, May 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

*Catholic Teaching and Interventions on the Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact on Safe Orderly and Regular Migration (Center for Migration Studies, April 2020) [text]

*A Comprehensive Framework for Studying Migration Policies (and a Call to Observe Them Beyond Immigration to the West), GIGA Working Paper, no. 321 (GIGA, April 2020) [text]

COVID-19 and Mixed Population Movements: Emerging Dynamics, Risks and Opportunities (UNHCR & IOM, May 2020) [text]

"The Global Compact of Refugees: A Viewpoint of Global South," Refugee Watch, no. 54 (2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 1.

"Implementation of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration: A Whole-of-Society Approach," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 27 April 2020 [open access]

"New Moral Questions and Refugees," Philosophers' Magazine, no. 89 (2020) [text]
- "Should we extend protections to those fleeing Covid-19"?

The Role of the Global Compact on Refugees in the International Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (UNHCR, May 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR's Approach to Age, Gender and Diversity (UNHCR, Dec. 2019) [text]

Multimedia:

First three seminars in RSC's series on Strengthening Refugee-led Humanitarian Response during the COVID-19 Pandemic:
- Global Agenda Setting, from the Bottom Up: The Global Refugee-Led Network (GRN), 6 May 2020 [access]
- Without Recognition, without Assistance: Refugee-led Responses in Urban Contexts, 13 May 2020 [access]
- New Partnerships: How International Organisations can Support Refugee-led Organisations, 21 May 2020 [access]

Materializing the Transient: Ethnographies and Museums in the Study of (Forced) Migration, Göttingen, 14-16 May 2020 [access]
- The conference aimed "to study the material dimension of hopes and expectations that characterize experiences of migration." Follow link to access recorded keynote lectures in the respective panel session, as well as the poster presentations.

Resource:

Stakeholder Inputs to High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement [access]
- Submitted contributions organized by type of author (i.e., Member States, IGOs, NGOs, Think Tanks, etc).

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: General (6 May 2020)

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