Thematic Focus: General

Blog posts & press:

The Hidden Dangers of Displacement: Landmines and Other Explosive Ordinance (RLI Blog, March 2021) [text]

*How COVID-19 became a cover to reduce refugee rights (The Conversation, March 2021) [text]

Op-ed: Negative narratives, mistaken metaphors - The need for careful language on migration (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2021) [text]

"One year on: How the pandemic has affected refugees, asylum seekers, and migration," The New Humanitarian, 10 March 2021 [text]

Reports/books:

10 Years of Impact (Samuel Hall, 2021) [access]

- Considers the question, "What does ‘impact’ mean in migration & displacement research?"

*Governance of Migration in and through Crisis: A Comparative Report on RESPOND Research, Working Paper, no. 77 (RESPOND Project, March 2021) [text]

The International Organization for Migration: The New ‘UN Migration Agency’ in Critical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, Feb. 2020) [Academia]

Joint Guidance Note on Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for All Migrants (OHCHR et al., March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Locked down and left out? Why access to basic services for migrants is critical to our COVID-19 response and recovery (IFRC at al., March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Also available in Spanish.

Journal articles:

"Asylum Seekers: The Search for Basic Human Right to Healthcare in Industrial Countries," Emory International Law Review, vol. 35, no. 1 (2021) [full-text]

- Focuses on the United States, Japan, Germany, and Switzerland.

"Drivers of Human Migration: A Review of Scientific Evidence," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 1 (Jan. 2021) [open access]

Migration Policy Practice, vol. XI, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2021) [full-text]

- Special issue on "Global Mobility."

"Philosophies of migration governance in a globalizing world," Globalizations, vol. 18, no. 1 (2021) [Academia]

"The Politics of Refugee Protection in a (Post)COVID-19 World," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 3 (Feb. 2021) [open access]

"Positive Learning or Deviant Interviewing? Mechanisms of Experience on Interviewer Behavior," Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Advance Articles, 22 Feb. 2021 [open access]

- Note: Used data from the "IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany."

Third World Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

- Special issue on "New actors and contested architectures in global migration governance." All articles are open access.

Research Project: 

Citizenship, Migration and Mobility in a Pandemic: A Global Study of COVID-19 Restrictions on Human Movement (NCCR: On the Move & Globalcit) [access]

- "Our empirical analysis draws on an original longitudinal dataset of restrictions on human movement with global coverage and a smaller longitudinal dataset covering 27 countries in Europe."

Multimedia:

Ethics of Witnessing: Method as Intervention in Forced Migration Studies, 18 Feb. 2021 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

History of Modern Refugees (Seeking Refuge, Feb./March 2021) [Part one] [Part two]

- Follow links for podcasts.

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- Thematic Focus: General (24 Feb. 2021)