15 September 2020

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunity:

Webinar: Sampling Respondents in Migration Surveys: Challenges and Trade-offs, 8 October 2020 [info]

Blog posts & press:

5 Reasons Why Sharing Responsibility for Refugees is Smarter than Ever in the Time of COVID-19 (UN Sustainable Development Group Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

The End of the Road? Rejected Asylum Seekers in the Global South (RLI Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

Refugee Deaths and Refugee Lives (Refugee History Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

Resilience of Youth: How Young People are Supporting Displaced Communities Amid COVID-19 (Kaldor Centre, Sept. 2020) [text]

"Three Lessons from the Global South on Combating the Pandemic," The New Humanitarian, 7 Sept. 2020 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

COVID-19 and the Global Compact for Migration: Is a Compact Born in a Crisis Born Again in the Whirlwinds of Three Global Crises? (Mixed Migration Centre, Sept. 2020) [text]

Guidance Brief: How to Maximise the Use of Social Sciences Evidence for Public Health Emergencies in Humanitarian Settings (Anlaytics for Operations Working Group, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Justice for Migrants and Refugees: A Discussion of Gillian Brock’s Justice for People on the Move by the Author of No Refuge," Journal of Global Ethics, 6 Sept. 2020 [free full-text]

Least Protected, Most Affected: Migrants and Refugees Facing Extraordinary Risks during the COVID-19 Pandemic (IFRC, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Public Attitudes Towards Immigration and Immigrants: What People Think, Why, and How to Influence Them, Working Paper, no. 588 (ODI, Sept. 2020) [text]

WorldRiskReport 2020 (Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft & Ruhr University Bochum, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
 - Includes a focus on "Forced Displacement and Migration."

New open access book:

Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing (Transcript, 2020) [access]
- I referenced this title last month, but the text has just been recently posted! 

Multimedia:

COVID-19 and Refugees (UNHCR, Sept. 2020) [access]
- "The maps, stats and facts on how the pandemic has impeded efforts to protect the displaced and affected their access to basic rights."

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