Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities:

*Call for registration: Contexts of Displacement, Refugee Protection and Forced Migrants' Lives, 3rd Conference of the German Network of Forced Migration Researchers, 17-19 September 2020 [info]
- Register by 31 August 2020.

Course: MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies, Refugee Law Initiative, Univ. of London [info]
- Apply by 1 September 2020.

Job announcement: Postdoctoral Fellow in Migration & Development, Immigration Policy Lab, Stanford Univ. [info]
- Submit applications before 15 September 2020.

Call for nominations: Second Annual Best Article Award (International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group, BISA) [info]
- Submit applications by 30 September 2020.

Course: MA in Migration and Displacement, Wits Univ. [info]
- Apply by 30 September 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Coalition Launches Innovative Fundraising Campaign to Support Frontline Refugee-led Organizations Responding to COVID-19 (Asylum Access et al., Aug. 2020) [text]
- See also related Amnesty International news story.

Emigration Rises Along with Economic Development. Aid Agencies Should Face This, but Not Fear It (CGD Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

Fighting Racism and Decolonizing Humanitarian Studies: Toward Mindful Scholarship (PRIO Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

"If You Felt Cooped up in Lockdown, Think of Refugees Confined Indefinitely in Camps," The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2020 [text]

Migrants and Refugees are Being Forgotten in the COVID-19 Response. This Has to Change (World Economic Forum Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

War on Words – What ‘Globalists’ Got Wrong on Migration (ODI Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

We Must Not Forget the Most Vulnerable during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Refugee Research Online, Aug. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"COVID-19 and Other Disasters," Cred Crunch Newsletter, no. 59 (July 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Group Asylum, Sovereignty, and the Ethics of Care," Social Sciences, vol. 9, no. 8 (Aug. 2020) [open access]

The Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees and Migrants: Data and Observations from MMC’s 4Mi Program (Mixed Migration Centre, Aug. 2020) [text]

Migratory Flows at the Borders of Our World (Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones, June 2020) [full-text]
- New book that provides analyses of specific border situations and presents a series of recommendations for the short-, medium- and long-term. See more info in the press release.

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- Thematic Focus: General (11 Aug. 2020)