Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities: 

Webinar: Ethics of Witnessing: Method as Intervention in Forced Migration Studies, 18 February 2021 [info]

Seminar: Implications for Policy of a (Post-?) COVID-19 World…, 17 March 2021 [info]

See also more relevant opportunities listed in this previous blog post.

Blog posts & press:

Commentary on the Implementation of Objective 15: Access to Basic Services (RLI Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

Displacement Severity on the Rise after a Challenging Year (IDMC Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

How Should We Define Refugees? (Refugee Research Online, Jan. 2021) [text]

Reckoning with Refugeedom (Social History Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

"When Will Refugees Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 3 Feb. 2021 [text]

Why Do We Need Further Research on Internal Displacement? (RLI Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

- Note: See also related multimedia below.

Reports & journal articles:

"The Aporia of Refugee Rights in a Time of Crises: The Role of Brokers in Accessing Refugee Protection in Transit and at the Border," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:1 (Jan. 2021) [open access]

- Focuses on Malaysia and the US.

Evaluation of UNHCR’s Innovation Fund, Eval. Report, no. ES/2020/08 (UNHCR, Nov. 2020) [text]

The Globalization of Refugee Flows, Working Paper, no. 28332 (NBER, Jan. 2021) [text]

- Note: Visitors to the NBER site are eligible for 3 free downloads each year.

International Recommendations on Internally Displaced Persons Statistics (IRIS) (UN & Eurostat, March 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related IDMC blog post.

Livelihoods, Food and Futures: COVID-19 and the Displaced (UNHCR, Feb. 2021) [access]

- See also related UNHCR news story.

Narratives on Returning Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Irregular Migrants, Working Paper, no. 2 (Ryerson Univ., Jan. 2021) [text]

"The Relationship Between Human Rights and Refugee Protection: An Empirical Analysis," International Journal of Human Rights, Latest Articles, 1 Feb. 2021 [postprint]

Rewiring Migrant Returns and Reintegration after the COVID-19 Shock (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2021) [text]

UNHCR’s Engagement in Humanitarian-Development Cooperation: Emerging Findings from a Longitudinal Evaluation (Phase 2, Nov. 2019-May 2020) (UNHCR, Dec. 2020) [text]

- Note: This report is comprised of a series of four discussion papers. See also earlier related think piece from phase 1 of the research.

Multimedia:

Refugee Denial: Settler Colonialism and the Making of the Global North Imaginary, 20 Jan. 2021 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

Why Do We Need New Research on Internal Displacement?, 21 Jan. 2021 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

 

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (18 Jan. 2021)