Thematic Focus: General

Events & opportunities:

Panel discussion: Preventing Internal Displacement Due to Armed Conflict/Violence, Disasters, and Their Intersection, 6 July 2020 [info]

Meeting: 78th Meeting of the Standing Committee, 7-9 July 2020 [info]
- Note: Documents relating to the meeting will eventually be posted here.

Job announcement: Chief of Section (Inter-Agency and Coordination), UNHCR, Geneva [info]
- Apply by 9 July 2020.

Internship: Ethics Office, UNHCR, Geneva [info]
- Apply by 14 July 2020.

Job announcement: Home-based Consultant for SDG Tool for Forced Displacement Contexts Project, UNHCR [info]
- Apply by 15 July 2020.

Blog posts & press:

How Can Academics Help? Conclusions from the Collaborative Meeting with Researchers and Civil Society Leaders (CONREP Blog, June 2020) [text]

Press Statement on the 22nd Anniversary of the Adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (OHCHR, April 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

The Displacement Continuum: The Relationship between Internal Displacement and Cross-border Movement in Seven Countries (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, June 2020) [text]
- The seven countries are Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Myanmar, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.

Global Forced Migration: The Political Crisis of Our Time (US Senate, June 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Global Report 2019 (UNHCR, June 2020) [access]
- Complement to the annual Global Trends report.

INFORM Report 2020: Shared Evidence for Managing Crises and Disasters (INFORM, June 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Keeping Out Extremists: Refugees, Would‐Be Immigrants, and Ideological Exclusion," Journal of Applied Philosophy, Early View, 25 June 2020 [open access]

"Sufficiency, Priority, and Selecting Refugees," Journal of Applied Philosophy, Early View, 23 June 2020 [open access]

The Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Compact on Refugees (UNHCR, July 2020) [text]

Toolkit for Development Partners: Integrating Migration into COVID-19 Socio-economic Response (IOM, May 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR Engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals: Updated Guidance 2019 (UNHCR, June 2020) [text]

Collections:

Forced Displacement and Migration Dossier (German Inst. for International & Security Affairs) [access]
- "This dossier offers an overview of international migration trends and the connections between forced displacement, migration and development. Its focus is on international cooperation in the areas of forced displacement and migration, on developments in Europe’s migrant and refugee policies, and on the migrant and refugee policies of individual states. Each chapter contains a compilation of current publications on the issue by SWP authors."

Internal Displacement Research Programme Working Papers (Refugee Law Initiative) [access]
- Follow link for five literature reviews on internal displacement, with the first providing a review of scholarship at the global level and the other four surveying the literature relating to internal displacement in different regions around the world. A sixth literature review is forthcoming.

LIDC-MLT Outputs (London International Development Centre Migration Leadership Team) [access]
- This aim of this project is to "develop a shared and participatory global strategy for identifying and supporting migration research." A series of Global Migration Conversations and reports on migration research in different regions culminated in the release of the document "Towards a Holistic Migration Research Strategic Agenda: Integration, Partnerships, and Impact." Follow the link to access the various outputs.

Related posts:
- News: World Refugee Day (20 June 2020)
- Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1 (17 June 2020)
- Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 2 (17 June 2020)

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