02 December 2021

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunity:

Model UN Refugee Challenge 2022 [info]
- Four topic guides were recently posted on durable solutions, climate change, statelessness and LGBTIQ+ refugees. "MUN organizers should register for the Challenge at least 6 weeks before the start of their MUN conference." 

Blog posts & press:

Centralized evaluations workplan 2022-2023 (UNHCR) [access]

Concerns about Social Conflict Might Explain Immigration Preferences – Here’s Why (MPC Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Why it's time to bring refugees out of the statistical shadows (World Economic Forum Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Reports:

Financing for Refugee Situations 2018-19 (OECD, 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Global Compact on Refugees Three Years On: Navigating barriers and maximising incentives in support of refugees and host countries (DRC, IRC & NRC, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Global Compact on Refugees Indicator Report (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [access]
- See also related press release and summary of the roundtable that launched the report. 

Mixed Migration Review 2021: Reframing human mobility in a changing world (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2021) [access]
- Follow link for press release and video recording of launch event.

A People’s Vaccine for Refugees: Ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and other displaced people (Oxfam, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Doc. No. A/76/12 (UN General Assembly, 2021) [access]

The Road to 2023: Assessing progress and accelerating delivery on the UN Common Pledges in advance of the next Global Refugee Forum (UNHCR & OCHA, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Strengthening the COVID-19 response within refugee and migrant communities: Improving programming, tackling misinformation, and building inclusion (International Rescue Committee, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

World Migration Report 2022 (IOM, Dec. 2021) [access]
- Follow link for access to report and related microsites. See also related press release and UN News story.

Journal articles:

“Burden-sharing as a Sustainable Tool to alleviate the Global Plight of Refugees,” Journal of Conflict Management and Sustainable Development, vol. 7, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 37, no. 2 (2021) [open access]
- In addition to its general articles, this issue includes a special focus on "Humanizing Studies of Refuge and Displacement," with an introduction, seven articles and a commentary.

"Regions and global migration governance: perspectives ‘from above’, ‘from below’ and ‘from beyond’," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 17 Nov. 2021 [free full-text]
- Note: This is the introduction to a forthcoming special issue on "Regions in Global Migration Governance."

The UNESCO Courier, no. 4 (2021) [full-text]
- The theme of this issue is "Stories of Migration."

"Vulnerability of refugees: Some reflections on definitions and measurement practices," International Migration, Early View, 17 Nov. 2021 [open access]

Multimedia:

Building Research Relationships and Setting the Agenda, 19 Nov. 2021 [access]

CARFMS21: Utopias as Practices: Refugee Protection and the Coming Futures, 27-29 Oct. 2021 [access]

Empire, Asylum, and Refugee Responsibility Sharing, 10 Nov. 2021 [access]

Migrant Categorisation and Labels, 24 Nov. 2021 [access]

MPI 20th Anniversary Conference: Migration & Humanitarian Protection in a Rapidly Evolving World, 15 Nov. 2021 [access]

Refugeedom’s subjects and subjectivities, 27 Oct. 2021 [access]

Types of Knowledge in Forced Migration: Whose Voices and Perspectives Frame Research?, 3 Nov. 2021 [access]

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