Thematic Focus: General

Blog posts & press:

Is COVID-19 an opportunity to achieve the rights of refugees? (openDemocracy, Feb. 2021) [text]

Refugees and responsibility-sharing: An emerging trend in the face of record numbers of forcibly displaced people (VoxEU, Feb. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

DPCE Online, no. 4/2020 [access via RESPOND Project]

- Special issue on "Governing through uncertainty? Migration law and governance in a comparative perspective." Features a "selection of the papers discussed in the occasion of the RESPOND conference 'Unpacking the challenges & possibilities for migration governance', held in Cambridge, Newnham College, 17-19 October 2019."

"Every Map is an Act of Creation and not a Mirror of the World: Some rhetorical issues about migration mapping," The Large Glass: Journal of Contemporary Art, Culture and Theory, no. 29/30 (2020) [full-text]

"Forced Migration Magnitude and Violence in International Crises: 1945–2015," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 33, no. 2 (2020) [free full-text]

"Research in forced displacement: guidance for a feminist and decolonial approach," The Lancet, vol. 397, no. 10274 (Feb. 2021) [free full-text]

"A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:8 (Feb. 2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

Empowering emerging scholars in forced migration: A UNHCR and UNSW signing ceremony and discussion, 10 Nov. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for more info and video recording.

Protection in Mixed Movements: Policy Workshop on Protection Challenges on the Central & Western Mediterranean Routes, 15-17 Feb. 2021 [access]

- Follow link for recordings and background materials.

What’s the Role of UNHCR? (Talking Migration, Feb. 2021) [access]

- Follow link for podcast.

What is the Second Refugee Crisis? (Talk Migration, Feb. 2021) [access]

- Follow link for podcast.

Resources:

Discussing Displacement [info]

- Provides "short and accessible articles on topics, authors and themes that crop up in Refugee Studies."

MAGYC (Migration Governance and asYlum Crises) Project [access]

- "Seeks to assess how migration governance has been influenced by the recent 'refugee crises' and how crises at large shape policy responses on migration. The general objective of the project is to appraise policy responses in light of the ‘crisis’ and assess their efficiency for the long-term governance of migration."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (4 Feb. 2021)