25 January 2021

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

CFP: Bridging the Gap between Public Policy and Refugee Studies: Tools, Concepts and Frameworks for the Study of Refugee Policy, Panel at International Conference on Public Policy, Barcelona, 6-8 July 2021 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 29 January 2021.

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]
- Contributions sought for a mini-feature on "Non-signatory States and the international refugee regime." Submission deadline is 15 March 2021.

See also this blog post for a listing of online courses provided by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IIHL) that have registration deadlines through March. Note they have also created an online resource library.

Blog posts:

Refugee Legal Aid in Humanitarian Operations (Maja Janmyr Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

What they don’t teach you in school about refugee law (Asylos Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"Are There Moral Duties Toward Refugees? Considerations in Legal Ethics," Laws, vol. 10, no. 1 (Jan. 2021) [open access]

"'Better than Nothing' Approaches to Protection and the Violence of the Law in Turkey and Mexico," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 9, no. 1 (Dec. 2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 121; "This paper discusses the enlistment of ‘transit countries’ by ‘destination countries’ to expand programmes of temporary protection in the former."

"The Incorporation of Local Governments in Soft International Migration Law and the Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 9, no. 1 (Dec. 2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 143.

"The Meaningful Participation of Refugees in Decision-Making Processes: Questions of Law and Policy," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 32, no. 2 (2020) [postprint]

"Movement Law," Stanford Law Review, vol. 73 (Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Non-binding and Therefore Irrelevant? The Global Compact for Migration," International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, vol. 75, no. 4 (2020) [open access]

"The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Sources of International Refugee Law," International & Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 1 (2020) [UNSW]

"Refugee Participation Revisited: The Contributions of Refugees to Early International Refugee Law and Policy," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 28 Nov. 2020 [postprint]
- See also related RLI blog post.

"Refugees," Entry in Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming) [preprint]

"The Relationship Between Human Rights and Refugee Protection: An Empirical Analysis," International Journal of Human Rights (Forthcoming) [postprint]

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