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15 April 2021

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities:

Panel launch: Enabling Health Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons, 19 April 2021 [info]

Webinar: Localizing Knowledge Production: Shifting power in forced migration studies, 20 April 2021 [info]

Seminar: How do experiences of colonial displacement challenge formal definitions of who is a refugee?, 6 May 2021 [info]

CFP: Refugees and the (Global) Cold War, Berlin, 29-30 October 2021 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 7 May 2021.

Report launch: 2021 Global Report on Internal Displacement, 20 May 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:  

Adapting the Guiding Principles to new realities (IDMC Blog, April 2021) [text]

Before 1951, Outside Europe: The pre-history of the Refugee Convention, the IRO, and European refugees in Africa and Asia (FluchtforschungsBlog, April 2021) [text]

Colonial effects on the founding of the 1951 Refugee Convention (FluchtforschungsBlog, March 2021) [text]
- See also German version.

"Human displacement will be one of the defining challenges of our century," Varsity, 9 April 2021 [text]
- Interview with Alexander Betts "about the impact of the pandemic on refugees and how to prepare for future migration crises."

Refugee athletes’ epic journey toward Tokyo Games dramatized in new video (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]
- See also related press release.

Refugee Response Index: Pilot Testing Commences (DARA, March 2021) [text]

UNHCR calls for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

COVID-19 and the State of Global Mobility in 2020 (IOM & Migration Policy Institute, April 2021) [text]
- See also related video below.

"Cultural Competence in Refugee Service Settings: A Scoping Review," Health Equity, vol. 5, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

"The Postcolonial Migration State," European Journal of International Relations, OnlineFirst, 10 April 2021 [open access]

"Refugee Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Review of Global Policy Responses," Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, vol. 14 (March 2021) [open access]

Seeking Protection in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and the Future of Asylum (Jesuit Refugee Service & Georgetown Univ., April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Living without them: Stories of families left behind (IOM, April 2021) [access]
- "First episode of a four-part series that looks at the findings of a project carried out...in Ethiopia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe to better understand the experiences and the challenges that families in these countries face while searching for their missing migrant relatives."

A Year of Pandemic: The State of Global Human Mobility & What is on the Horizon, 8 April 2021 [access]
- Follow link for audio and video recordings.

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