29 September 2020

Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

CFP: Sport in Society [info]
- Contributions sought for special issue on "Sport and Refugees: Displacement, Migration, and Settlement Journeys." (See also below for new resource on sport and refugees.)

Press:

"World Grows Less Accepting of Migrants," Gallup News, 23 Sept. 2020 [text]
- "[F]irst of two articles analyzing the results from Gallup's second administration of its Migrant Acceptance Index."

"Canada No. 1 for Migrants, U.S. in Sixth Place," Gallup News, 23 Sept. 2020 [text]
- "[S]econd of two articles analyzing the results from Gallup's second administration of its Migrant Acceptance Index."

Reports:

Conflict Trends: A Global Overview, 1946–2019 (PRIO, Sept. 2020) [text]

COVID-19 Global Trends and Analyses: Refugees, Economic Impacts of COVID-19 (Burnet Inst., Sept. 2020) [text]
- Scroll to pp. 6-9 for impact on refugees.

Immobility as the Ultimate “Migration Disrupter”: An Initial Analysis of COVID-19 Impacts through the Prism of Securitization, Migration Research Series, no. 64 (IOM, Sept. 2020) [text]

Integrating Migration into COVID‑19 Socio‑Economic Response: A Toolkit for Development Partners (IOM, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also Spanish version.

Internal Displacement 2020: Mid-Year Update (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Sept. 2020) [text]
- See also related IDMC blog post.

Internal Displacement Index 2020 Report (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Sept. 2020) [text]
- The IDI is a "new way to more comprehensively measure global progress on internal displacement."

Migration and the 2030 Agenda: Making Everyone Count - Migrants and Refugees in the Sustainable Development Goals, D.I.E. Briefing Paper, no. 11 (German Development Institute, 2020) [text]

Repurposing Frozen Assets to Assist the Forcibly Displaced (World Refugee & Migration Council, Sept. 2020) [text]

Resources:

Deeply Humanitarian [access]
- "The New Humanitarian is the new home of News Deeply’s archive of some 5,000 issue-driven, award-winning articles on topics ranging from refugees to Ebola to peacebuilding."

Sport and Refugees (sportanddev, Sept 2020) [access]
- Created as part of a special Week of Action on Sport and Refugees, 21-27 Sept. 2020, "this section will be particularly useful to organisations who use sport in their work with refugees or who would like to in the near future. It provides background on the topic, information and links to key resources, and guidance and advice on some of the key considerations when working with refugees." See also a series of related news stories as well as an article on "scientific research on sport, refugees, and forced displacement."

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