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20 December 2021
Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies
Blog posts & press:
Digital protection and combating hate speech against refugees (UNHCR Innovation Service, Dec. 2021) [text]
For LGBT+ migrants, dating apps are about much more than sex (Phys.org, Dec. 2021) [text]
"Fortress Europe: the millions spent on military-grade tech to deter refugees," The Guardian, 6 Dec. 2021 [text]
Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150B (The Hill, Dec. 2021) [text]
Technologies of Expulsion: Rethinking Refugees’ Carceral Economies Beyond Surveillance (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
Reports & journal articles:
Connected Education for Refugees: Addressing the Digital Divide (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
"Digital Refugee Lawyering: Risk, Legal Knowledge, and Accountability," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 4 (Dec. 2021) [open access]
"The Digital Transformation of Refugee Governance," Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (OUP, 2021) [Academia]
Humanitarian AI: The hype, the hope and the future, Network Paper, no. 85 (Humanitarian Practice Network, Nov. 2021) [text]
"Navigating Digital Borderscapes: A Case Study from Rohingya Refugee Settlements in Bangladesh," Asiascape: Digital Asia, vol. 8, no. 3 (2021) [open access]
"Sarcasm Beyond Hate Speech: Facebook Comments on Syrian Refugees in Turkey," International Journal of Communication, vol. 15 (2021) [open access]
Unlocking Learning: The implementation and effectiveness of digital learning for Syrian refugees in Lebanon (UNICEF, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Related post:
Regional Focus: Europe
Blog posts & press:
Afghan Refugees: Asylum Restrictionism and Future of Non-refoulement in
Europe (RLI Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
Asylum by numbers: UK policies on granting refugee status rely too much on
statistics (Free Movement Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
EU solidarity with Poland on migration: a violent response to an imagined
threat (The Conversation, Dec. 2021) [text]
Germany as a ‘Modern Country of Immigration‘. Projects of the New Government
on Migration (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Dec. 2021)
[text]
Launching NORCOM, the Norwegian Dissemination and Communication Network of
PROTECT (PROTECT Project, Dec. 2021) [text]
Migration: Latest challenges [What Think Tanks are thinking] (EPRS, Dec. 2021)
[text]
UK Set to Renege on Fundamental Protections for Asylum Seekers (Human Rights
Watch, Dec. 2021) [text]
See also much more on the latest developments in ECRE's
Weekly Bulletins.
New OA Book:
- "This volume takes up the challenge of providing a comparative
understanding of migration regimes and practices and their consequences for
political systems and the people who have fled their homelands due to
conflict, war and poverty between 2011 and 2020. Empirically, the chapters
included in this volume are based on an impressive amount of empirical
material gathered in 11 countries (Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Italy,
Hungary, Austria, Poland, Germany, the UK and Sweden) within the framework
of the Horizon 2020 project, RESPOND."
Reports:
Afghans seeking protection in Europe: ECRE's compilation of information on
evacuations, pathways to protection and access to asylum in Europe for
Afghans since August 2021 (ECRE, Dec. 2021) [text
via ReliefWeb]
Asylum policy preferences among the European publics: conflict
configurations at the transnational and domestic level, Working Paper,
no. RSC 2021/93 (Migration Policy Centre, 2021) [text]
Figurations of Displacement in Southern Europe: Empirical findings and reflections on protracted displacement and translocal networks of forced migrants in Greece and Italy, Working Paper, no. 9 (TRAFIG, Dec. 2021) [text]
Issue brief: promising practices from working with refugee-led organizations
in Europe (UNHCR, Sept. 2021) [text]
Overview of Status Quo Regarding Evacuations, Pathways to Protection and
Access to Asylum for Afghans in Europe (ECRE, Dec. 2021) [text]
Periodical articles:
"Arctic Asylum: The Legal Regulation of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in
Greenland and Svalbard," Nordic Journal of International Law (Forthcoming) [preprint]
"EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Implementation, Impact and Consequences in the Euro-Mediterranean Context," IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2021 [full-text]
"'In the First Place, We Don’t Like to Be Called "Refugees"': Dilemmas of Representation and Transversal Politics in the Participatory Art Project 100% FOREIGN?," Humanities, vol. 10, no. 4 (Dec. 2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Denmark.
"The Instrumentalization of Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Area: Between Past and Present," IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2021 [full-text]
"Ireland's White Paper to End Direct Provision (2021): Migrant
Accommodation and Control," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 13 Dec. 2021 [open access]
"Mission Impossible? The Moral Discomfort among Swedish and Norwegian Welfare Bureaucrats Encountering Refugees," Nordic Welfare Research, vol. 6, no. 3 (2021) [open access]
"My values, their values: how value conceptualisations influence attitudes
towards immigration," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 14 Dec. 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Austria.
"Resilience in care organisations: challenges in maintaining support for
vulnerable people in Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic," Disasters, Early View, 7 Dec. 2021 [open access]
"Return sponsorship in the EU asylum system: a normative assessment," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 23, no. 3 (2021) [open access]
"Theorizing the Life and Death of Moments of Openness toward Refugees in the
Global North: The Case of Germany during the 2015–2016 Refugee 'Crisis'," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 6 Dec. 2021 [open access]
Multimedia:
Why are Kurdish people risking their lives to seek asylum?, 6 Dec. 2021 [access]
Related posts:
18 December 2021
New Issue of RSQ
- Humanitarian Accountability in Displacement Contexts: Five Years on from the Grand Bargain [abstract]
- Accountability in Humanitarian Action [open access]
- Skewed Allegiances: Recalibrating Humanitarian Accountability towards Gender [abstract] [embargoed postprint]
- Digital Refugee Lawyering: Risk, Legal Knowledge, and Accountability [open access]
- “Littered with Logos!”: An Investigation into the Relationship between Water Provision, Humanitarian Branding, Donor Accountability, and Self-Reliance in Ugandan Refugee Settlements [abstract] [embargoed postprint]
Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 2
Reports:
2021 Internal Displacement Index Report (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Dec. 2021) [access]
- "The Internal Displacement Index (IDI) -- the first and only tool available to comprehensively measure progress in addressing the phenomenon -- combines information on its impacts, the context in which it happens and governments' efforts to resolve it. Together, these indicators give a value that helps to identify severe cases and gauge progress." Follow link for text, explainer video and interactive companion website.
Big (Crisis) data for predictive models 2021: A literature review and outline of opportunities for UNHCR (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Emerging Lessons from World Bank Group Social Protection Investments in Refugee-Hosting Areas (UNHCR, Aug. 2021; posted Dec. 2021) [text]
Global Migration Indicators 2021 (IOM, Nov. 2021) [text]
IDMC Workplan 2022-2024 (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Dec. 2021) [text]
Joint Evaluation of the Protection of the Rights of Refugees During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Briefing Paper (COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition, Dec. 2021) [text]
- Note: "This paper provides only a short, high-level summary of the emerging themes from the data collection period (August-October 2021)." The full report will be made available at a later date. For more information about this endeavor, see the companion web page and related blog post (with links).
Parallel Paths? Factors Preventing an Adequate Response to Internal Displacement Where Armed Conflict, Generalised Violence and Natural Disasters Converge, RID Working Paper, no. 8 (Researching Internal Displacement, Dec. 2021) [text]
- See also Spanish version.
A People’s Vaccine for Refugees: Ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and other displaced people (Oxfam et al., Dec. 2021) [text via RI]
Refugee and migrant health: Global Competency Standards for health workers (WHO, Dec. 2021) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Follow link for standards and two supporting documents: a knowledge guide and a curriculum guide.
Refugee-led innovations during COVID-19: Best practices from 2020 NGO innovation award (UNHCR, Sept. 2021) [text]
- See also related information on the Refugee-led Innovation Fund.
- Follow link for report in English and French.
What Works for IDPS? Mapping Good Practices on Internal Displacement Management in Europe and Central Asia Region, RID Working Paper, no. 3 (Researching Internal Displacement, Nov. 2021) [text]
Your Rights in Research: An Information Sheet for People Taking Part in Forced Migration Research (Centre for Refugee Studies et al., posted Dec. 2021) [access]
- Note: This information sheet is available in 20 different languages.
Related posts:
Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1
Blog posts & press:
Challenging the Borders of Difference and Inequality: The Power of Place, Processes, and People (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
The Elgar Handbook on Migration and Global Justice (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
"End the tokenism. Give refugees a voice on our own futures," The New Humanitarian, 15 Dec. 2021 [text]
The Global Compact on Refugees: The bumpy road of a social norm in development (RLI Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
Governments pledge over US$1 billion to support UN Refugee Agency’s work for 2022 (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]
Research chairs will anchor knowledge on forced displacement in the Global South (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]
States urged to build on progress made since Global Refugee Forum (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]
- Overview of discussions that took place during the High-Level Officials Meeting.
They Went to Sea in a SIEV (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
Top 10 Migration Issues of 2021 (Migration Information Source, Dec. 2021) [access]
Journal articles:
"Helping Refugees Where They Are," Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 35, no. 4 (2021) [open access]
"Progress of migration scholarship over 60 years of International Migration," International Migration, vol. 59, no. 6 (Dec. 2021) [free full-text]
"Public attitudes towards immigration, news and social media exposure, and political attitudes from a cross-cultural perspective: Data from seven European countries, the United States, and Colombia," Data in Brief, vol. 39 (Dec. 2021) [open access]
"Raw Material: UNHCR’s Individual Case Files as a Historical Source, 1951–75," History Workshop Journal, vol. 92 (Autumn 2021) [free full-text]
Multimedia:
Rethinking Knowledge Politics in Migration Research, Teaching & Practice, 3 Dec. 2021 [access]
Related posts:
17 December 2021
Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects
Blog posts:
Forum seeks solutions for Africa’s 36 million displaced (UNHCR, Dec. 2021)
[text]
- "First-of-its-kind forum brings together business leaders, refugee change
makers and the public sector in Rwanda to find solutions to forced
displacement in Africa."
Reports:
Deepening poverty and debt: Socioeconomic impacts for refugees in Turkey one year on from Covid-19 (IFRC & Turkish Red Crescent, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in
Ethiopia, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9862 (World Bank, Nov.
2021) [text]
From Displacement to Development: How Kenya Can Create Shared Growth by
Facilitating Economic Inclusion for Refugees (Refugees International, Nov.
2021) [text]
Livelihoods and self-reliance programming in refugee and displacement
settings: UNHCR and WFP Corporate Approaches (UNHCR & WFP, Sept. 2021)
- Part 1:
Policy Frameworks
The stress of debt: Effects on the lives of people living in Turkey under temporary and international protection (IFRC & Turkish Red Crescent, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Journal articles:
"Conquering the labour market: the socioeconomic enablement of refugee women
in Austria," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:53 (Dec. 2021) [open access]
"Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in
the Turkish Agricultural Sector," Work, Employment and Society, OnlineFirst, 2 Dec. 2021 [free full-text]
"Financial aid, remittances and their effect on relative deprivation in Rwanda," International Migration, vol 59, no. 6 (Dec. 2021) [open access]
"Refugee Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review of Prior Research and Agenda for
Future Research," Submitted to the Journal of Business Research [preprint]
Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 37, nos. 1&2 (2021) [delayed open access]
- Special issue on "Travail et migrations = Labour and migrations." Articles become open access after a year.
Multimedia:
Leveraging the Benefits That Immigration Can Bring (World of Migration
Podcast, Nov. 2021) [access]
Refugee Voices: Green Energy for Jobs, 13 Dec. 2021 [access]
Related post:
16 December 2021
Regional Focus: Americas
Blog posts & press:
Amid rising needs, partners seek US$1.79bn for Venezuelan refugees and migrants: Joint UNHCR/IOM Press release (Dec. 2021) [text]
Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement and the Refugee Convention (MJIL Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
The Long Shadow of 9/11: Canada and Migration Law, Two Decades Later (Verfassungsblog, Nov. 2021) [text]
On the Perverse Trinity from which Central American Families Flee: State, Market, and Patriarchal Violence (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
Report by Espacio Migrante and Haitian Bridge Alliance Recommends New Approach to Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Tijuana (RI Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
The right to food and housing for Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): geographical distance does not forcibly mean different situations (AfricLAW Blob, Nov. 2021) [text]
Reports:
Análisis de la garantía de derechos a la educación, salud e inclusión laboral de la población migrante de Venezuela en Colombia (Danish Refugee Council, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Challenges in refugee protection and non-refoulement in Tapachula, Mexico: A due process analysis (Danish Refugee Council & Jesuit Refugee Service, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also Spanish version.
Getting it together: Extra-regional migration in South, Central and North America and the need for more coordinated responses (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and Spanish.
Informe Anual del Marco Integral Regional para la Protección y Soluciones: MIRPS 2021 (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Informe de resultado: Consultas comunitarias para la identificación de necesidades y propuestas de respuesta (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Ecuador.
La respuesta del ACNUR para aprovechar una oportunidad histórica para los refugiados y migrantes venezolanos en Colombia (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Searching for Missing Migrants in Central and North America: Five Good Practices of Civil Society Organizations (IOM, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also Spanish version.
"Si no es por pura necesidad": Muertes y desapariciones en trayectos migratorios en Norte y Centroamérica (IOM, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also English version.
Journal articles:
"Aliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control and Subjecthood in the British Atlantic, 1790s–1820s," Past & Present, Advance Articles, 22 Nov. 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Jamaica.
"Covid-19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster," Disasters, Early View, 7 Dec. 2021 [open access]
"Extraregional Migratory Flows in Transit as Complex Unbounded Emergency (Risk): Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Lessons in Costa Rica," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 8 Dec. 2021 [open access]
Related post:
15 December 2021
Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (15 Dec. 2021)
This is a round-up of open access materials produced by authors based in the Global South (GS) and other geographic areas that are less well-represented in the domain of scholarly forced migration literature. Generally, articles are included if either the lead author or at least half of the co-authors are based in the GS. These references are organized by type of open access. The OA items herein were previously referenced on this blog as of 15 November 2021.
Bronze OA:
"Everyday Struggles of Queer Refugees for Homemaking," Movements: Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (2021)
- Author = Turkey
"The Plight of Refugees in South Africa," Pretoria Student Law Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (2021)
- Author = South Africa
"The Responsibility in Protecting the Rohingya Refugees in Aceh Province, Indonesia: An International Refugees Law Perspective," IIUM Law Journal, vol. 29, no. S2 (2021)
- Authors (3) = Indonesia
Diamond OA:
“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)
- Author = Kenya
"Citizenship Deprivation as an Act of Persecution: Case Study of the Assam Citizen Exercise As A Precursor to A Nation-Wide Determination of Citizenship," Transnational Human Rights Review, vol. 8 (2021)
- Author = India
"Decolonial Regionalism: Reorienting Southern African Migration Policy," TWAIL Review, no. 2 (2021)
- Authors (2) = US/South Africa/UK (lead), South Africa
"'A Peaceful Country': Refugees, Masculinities and Anti-radical National Identity in Early Postcolonial Botswana," Historia: Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa, vol. 66, no. 2 (2021)
- Author = Botswana
"Precarity, Permits, and Prayers: 'Working Practices' of Congolese Asylum-Seeking Women in Cape Town," Africa Spectrum, OnlineFirst, 11 Nov. 2021
- Authors (3) = South Africa (2, incl. lead), UK (1)
"The Principle of Non-Refoulement as Jus Cogens: History, Application, and Exception in International Refugee Law," Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (2021)
- Author = Indonesia
"The Role of Law Clinics in the Fight Against Statelessness by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Nigeria," International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, vol. 28, no. 2 (2021)
- Author = Nigeria
Gold OA:
Note: Article processing charges (APCs) are indicated below; waivers are generally offered by gold OA journals but the waiver status of the authors listed below is unknown.
"COVID-19 Vaccines: Ensuring Social Justice and Health Equity among Refugees in Africa," Annals of Global Health, vol. 87, no. 1 (Nov. 2021)
- Authors (7) = Rwanda (2, incl. lead), UK (5)
- APC = USD 1365
"Prevalence and Predictors of Depression Among Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Survey," Psychology Research and Behavior Management, vol. 14 (Dec. 2021)
- Authors (5) = Ethiopia
- APC = USD 2836
"Towards a Typology of Social Protection for Migrants and Refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 Pandemic," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:52 (Nov. 2021)
- Authors (12) = UK (lead), Uruguay (2), Brazil (1), Mexico (2), Ecuador (2), Colombia (1), Spain (1), Peru (2)
- APC = USD 1180
Hybrid OA:
Note: Article processing charges (APCs) are indicated below; waivers are not available for hybrid OA APCs.
"Refugee Integration and Globalization: Ugandan and Zimbabwean Perspectives," Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, Latest Articles, 25 Sept. 2021
- Authors (4) = Sweden (lead), Zimbabwe (2), UK (1)
- APC = USD 2780
Book chapters:
"Afterword: The Times of Invisibility," Chapter in Invisibility in African Displacements: From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance (Zed Books, 2020)
- Scroll to p. 252.
- Author = South Africa
"Encamped within a Camp: Transgender Refugees and Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya)," Chapter in Invisibility in African Displacements: From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance (Zed Books, 2020)
- Scroll to p. 36.
- Author = South Africa
"Invisibility as a Livelihood Strategy: Zimbabwean Migrant Domestic Workers in Botswana," Chapter in Invisibility in African Displacements: From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance (Zed Books, 2020)
- Scroll to p. 141.
- Authors (2) = South Africa
"A Right to Asylum? Ensuring Effective Protection of Migrant Children’s Rights in Africa," Chapter in Child in Migration: Status and Identity (Nomos, Forthcoming)
- Preprint version of chapter posted in SSRN
- Author = Kenya
Related post:
Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2
Journal articles & book chapters:
"'Bad parents', deportable subjects: borders and deportability in the everyday lives of undocumented families in Belgium," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 14 Dec. 2021 [open access]
"Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of the Healthy Together program for immigrant and refugee families in Canada," International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 17, no. 4 (2021) [open access]
"Mental health of unaccompanied children: effects of U.S. immigration policies," BJPsych Open, vol. 7, no. 6 (2021) [open access]
"The psychological effects of forced family separation on asylum-seeking children and parents at the US-Mexico border: A qualitative analysis of medico-legal documents," PLoS ONE 16(11): e0259576 [open access]
"A Right to Asylum? Ensuring Effective Protection of Migrant Children’s Rights in Africa," Chapter in Child in Migration: Status and Identity (Nomos, Forthcoming) [preprint]
"Same but different: meaning-making among refugee and non-refugee youths," International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 17, no. 4 (2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Norway.
Related post:
Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1
Opportunity:
Request for comments: Identifying Recommendations to Support the Work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families [info]
- Focuses on the US. Submit comments by 10 January 2022.
Blogs & press:
Against the Best Interests of the Child: The Global Injustice of Migrant Externalization (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
Family Separation Has Caused Life-Long Trauma Years Later (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
Leading human rights groups call for renewed commitment to solidarity and action to protect children in migration at EU borders (Refugees International et al., Dec. 2021) [text]
Lone refugee children go from homelessness in Greece to new lives across Europe (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]
Syria: Repatriate at least 27,000 children held in dire conditions in north-east Syria (Amnesty International, Nov. 2021) [text]
Reports:
Crossroads: The Syrian children’s rights and the Global Refugee Forum (World Vision, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
DeCID Handbook: Co-designing built interventions with children affected by displacement (UNICEF, UN-Habitat & University College London, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Immigration Court's Data on Minors Facing Deportation is Too Faulty to Be Trusted (TRAC, Dec. 2021) [text]
Missing from the Story: The Urgent Need for Better Data to Protect Children on the Move (UNICEF, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Technical Guidance: Child Friendly Procedures (UNHCR, 2021) [text]
Related post:
Thematic Focus: Gender Issues
Blog posts & press:
Gender-based violence survivors learn to rebuild engines as they rebuild lives (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the DRC.
How gender norms influence school enrollment and domestic work for Syrian refugee adolescents in Jordan (Development for Peace Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
Refugee women scale Atlas mountain to tackle gender violence (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Morocco.
Refugee women take the lead in combating gender-based violence (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Malaysia.
UNHCR urges support to address worsening gender-based violence impact on displaced women and girls (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]
We interviewed 150 women migrants – revealing how their journeys involve peril at every turn (The Conversation, Nov. 2021) [text]
Reports & journal articles:
"Allies, access and (collective) action: Young refugee women’s navigation of gendered educational constraints in Greece," DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (2021) [open access]
"Better to be Raped than to be Killed": A Gendered Analysis of Internal Displacement in Burkina Faso, RID Working Paper, no. 5 (Researching Internal Displacement, Nov. 2021) [text]
Forced migration and sexual and gender-based violence: findings from the SEREDA project in the UK (Univ. of Birmingham, Nov. 2021) [text]
- See also related LSE British Politics and Policy blog post.
"Gendered aspects of distress migration: Taking note of Rohingya voices," DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (2021) [open access]
"The impact of interventions to reduce risk and incidence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict states and other humanitarian crises in low and middle income countries: a systematic review," Conflict and Health, 15:86 (Nov. 2021) [open access]
In Harm's Way: Adolescent Girls in Northwest Syria: Survivors of Vulnerability, Inequality and Discrimination (Plan International, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Intersectionality and refugee women: The shortcomings of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum from an intersectional perspective (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Nov. 2021) [text]
"When does migration law discriminate against women?," AJIL Unbound, vol. 115 (2021) [open access]
The Women Peace and Security Index: A new lens on forced displacement (International Rescue Committee & Georgetown Univ., Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Women's Barriers to Access Humanitarian Services (Danish Refugee Council et al., Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Multimedia:
Protection and Empowerment of Displaced Women and Girls from Central America and Mexico: Using the MIRPS framework to protect, assist and empower, 7 Dec. 2021 [access]
- See also related press release and news story.
Related post:
14 December 2021
Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2
Journal articles:
Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines, vol. 55, no. 3 (2021) [contents]
- Special issue on "African Refuge/Refuge africain." The editorial and one other article are freely available and two articles are open access.
"Commitments to forced migrants in African peace agreements, 1990–2018," International Journal of Human Rights, Latest Articles, 3 Dec. 2021 [ResearchGate]
"Community engagement in pastoralist areas: Lessons from the public dialogue process for a new refugee settlement in Turkana, Kenya," Pastoralism, 11:26 (Nov. 2021) [open access]
"COVID-19 Vaccines: Ensuring Social Justice and Health Equity among Refugees in Africa," Annals of Global Health, vol. 87, no. 1 (Nov. 2021) [open access]
"Decolonial Regionalism: Reorienting Southern African Migration Policy," TWAIL Review, no. 2 (2021) [open access]
"Invented, invited and instrumentalised spaces: conceptualising non-state actor engagement in regional migration governance in West Africa," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 16 Nov. 2021 [open access]
"'A peaceful country': Refugees, masculinities and anti-radical national identity in early postcolonial Botswana," Historia, vol. 66, no. 2 (2021) [open access]
"Prevalence and Predictors of Depression Among Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Survey," Psychology Research and Behavior Management, vol. 14 (Dec. 2021) [open access]
"South Africa Reckons with Its Status as a Top Immigration Destination, Apartheid History, and Economic Challenges," Migration Information Source, 18 Nov. 2021 [text]
Related post:
Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1
Blog posts & press:
Hopehood across the frontier: permanent transience at Kakuma refugee camp (Refugee History Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
The right to food and housing for Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): geographical distance does not forcibly mean different situations (AfricLAW Blob, Nov. 2021) [text]
Reports:
In search of dignity: Refugees in Kenya face a reckoning (MSF, Dec. 2021) [text]
- See also related press release.
Land, Conflict and Displacement in South Sudan: A Conflict-Sensitive Approach to Land Governance (Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Struggling Against All Odds: Psycho-Social Implications of the Anglophone Crisis on Internally Displaced Youths in Cameroon, GENIDA Working Paper, no. 1 (Researching Internal Displacement, March 2021) [text]
Urban mixed migration: Experiences of migrants moving to, through and from cities in West and North Africa (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and French.
Multimedia:
A Refugee-led Study on Refugee-led Organisations in East Africa, 3 Nov. 2021 [access]
- Follow link for video recording and presentation slides.
Related post:
Regional Focus: United States
Blog posts & press:
Apprehensions at the Border Dropped 15% This Fall, Highlighting Mexico’s Role in Stopping Migrants (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
Biden Reinstates the ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program: What You Need to Know (Immigration Impact Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
How Behavioral Factors Impact Communication on Immigration Policy (Niskanen Center Commentary, Nov. 2021) [text]
The Immigration Policy Successes and Failures of the Biden Administration (Immigration Impact Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
It Is Too Simple to Call 2021 a Record Year for Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border (MPI Commentary, Oct. 2021) [text]
"Many Migrants Are Quickly Expelled, but Others Can Stay. Here’s Why," New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021 [text]
The State of Asylum: Biden’s First Year (Niskanen Center Commentary, Dec. 2021) [text]
Reports & journal articles:
Biden Administration Poised to Eliminate Critical Safeguard Amid Escalating Reports of Erroneous Credible Fear Decisions (Human Rights First, Dec. 2021) [text]
"Court-Ordered Relaunch of Remain in Mexico Policy Tweaks Predecessor Program, but Faces Similar Challenges," Migration Information Source, 2 Dec. 2021 [text]
"Immigration Law's Arbitrariness Problem," Columbia Law Review, vol. 121, no. 7 (2021) [full-text]
"Impact of forensic medical evaluations on immigration relief grant rates and correlates of outcomes in the United States," Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, vol. 84 (Nov. 2021) [open access]
The Impact of Nationality, Language, Gender and Age on Asylum Success (TRAC, Dec. 2021) [text]
"Law as a Tool of Terror," Iowa Law Review, vol. 107, no. 1 (2021) [full-text]
"Locking the Golden Door and Throwing Away the Key: An Analysis of Asylum during the Years of the Trump Administration," Touro Law Review, vol. 37, no. 3 (2021) [full-text]
Multimedia:
Sharing Responsibility for Refugees (Borderlines Podcast, Nov. 2021) [access]
Related post:
Event: High-Level Officials Meeting, 14-15 Dec. 2021
The High-Level Officials Meeting is "an opportunity for senior government officials and representatives of relevant stakeholder groups to take stock of progress and maintain the momentum towards achieving the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR). Participants will identify progress, challenges and where further engagement is needed to increase support, self-reliance and access to solutions for refugees, taking into consideration the challenges posed by the pandemic."
More information and a link to watch the livestream are provided on the HLOM page. Also visit the virtual space for a "digital one-stop-shop that allows participants to share content in line with the 2021 HLOM theme of 'reflecting progress and charting the future'."
13 December 2021
Opps: Last Minute Dec. & More Jan. 2022
Job announcements: Migration and Displacement Pillar, Samuel Hall [info]
- Two positions have recently been advertised: Project Lead and Research Assistant; both open until filled.
Launch event: Revisiting Protracted Displacement: Policies, mobility & agency, 14 December 2021 [info]
CFP: Bodies on the Edge: Life and Death in Migration, Oxford, 28-30 April 2022 [info]
- Deadline for submitting proposals is 15 December 2021.
CFP: Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance. 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference, 29 June-1 July 2022, Oslo (Hybrid) [info]
- Submit proposals for papers, panels and workshops by 15 December 2021.
Course: Migration and Integration: Refugees, Rights and Realities, Amsterdam, 17-28 January 2022 [info]
- Apply by 15 December 2021.
Webinar: Voices from the Border: “It’s very hard to have rights” - Refugee and Migrant Communities in Tijuana During the Pandemic, 16 December 2021 [info]
Call for registration: Courses on Refugee/Migration Law and Internal Displacement [info]
- The first seven courses offered in 2022 by IIHL's Department of International Refugee Law and Migration Law are now open for registration. Application deadlines range from 17 December 2021 to 28 January 2022.
Call for applications: Three Vacancies, Department of International Refugee Law and Migration Law, IIHL [info]
- Candidates sought for Assistant Legal Researcher (French & English), Online Learning Assistant (Arabic & French) and Junior Collaborator (Academic Unit). The application deadline for all three positions is 31 December 2021.
Job announcement: Deputy Regional Representative Asia Pacific, ICVA [info]
- Apply by 2 January 2022.
Job announcement: Representative for West and Central Africa, ICVA [info]
- Apply by 2 January 2022.
Training course: Forced Migration: The Humanitarian Challenge of the Decade, Online, 18 January-10 May 2022 [info]
- Register by 7 January 2022.
Call for contributions: Annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition [info]
- Submission deadline is 15 January 2022.
Call for applications: Thriplow Charitable Trust Bursary [info]
- Awarded to student accepted into the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies at the Refugee Law Initiative. Apply by 21 January 2022.
Call for applications: Lives in Dignity Grant Facility [info]
- Submit concept note by 23 January 2022.
CFP: 4th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies, Chemnitz, Germany, 28-30 September 2022 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 31 January 2022.
CFP: IASFM19: Global Issues, Regional Approaches – contexts, challenges, dialogues and solutions, Online, 1-5 August 2022 [info]
- Submit proposals for panels, papers and good practices by 31 January 2022.
Related post:
10 December 2021
Thematic Focus: Solutions
Blog posts & press:
‘Friends for life’: how living with locals helped refugees feel at home in a
new country (The Conversation, Dec. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on The Netherlands.
*‘I say Tajikistan or Uzbekistan’: why Afghan refugees feel unwelcome in Australia, even after becoming citizens (The Conversation, Dec. 2021) [text]
The Ongoing Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Refugee Resettlement (Asylum
Insight, Dec. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.
"Refugees in Kenya Welcome New Law Allowing Them to Integrate into Economy,
Society," VOA News, 30 Nov. 2021 [text]
Resettlement is one important contribution to refugee protection
(Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Dec. 2021) [text]
- Q&A with UNHCR rep. in Germany. See also related publication below.
Western countries use resettlement policies strategically (The Loop Blog,
Dec. 2021) [text]
Reports:
Expanding Refugee Pathways to Canada: Strategies for welcoming Afghan and
other refugees, CERC Migration Policy Brief, no. 5 (Ryerson Univ., Nov.
2021) [text]
Future-proofing resettlement policies: Next steps for resettlement and
community sponsorship in the EU (European Policy Centre, Dec. 2021) [text]
The Integration of Refugees in Romania: A Non-Preferred Choice, Working Paper,
no. 155 (COMPAS, Nov. 2021) [text]
Repatriation as a Durable Solution: Refugee Perspectives on Repatriation
Policies and Education in Dadaab Refugee Camp, LERRN Working Paper, no. 16
(Carleton Univ., Nov. 2021) [text]
Settlement experiences of recently arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq in
Victoria in 2018/19: Report no. 3 (Univ. of Technology Sydney et al., 2021) [text]
- See also other
related outputs
from this project.
The State of Costa Rican Migration and Immigrant Integration Policy (Migration
Policy Institute, Nov. 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and Spanish; see also
video/audio recordings
in English and Spanish of a related webinar.
Towards a Global Resettlement Alliance (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Dec. 2021)
[access]
Towards the Sustainable Integration of Internally Displaced Anglophones in the
West Region of Cameroon, RID Working Paper, no. 6 (Researching Internal
Displacement, Nov. 2021) [text]
Multimedia:
Future-proofing EU Resettlement Policies (European Policy Centre) [access]
- Follow link to access video recordings of four roundtables related to this
project.
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Related post:
Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2
Reports & journal articles:
Briefing: Romani women’s activism and role in addressing statelessness in
Europe (European Network on Statelessness, Nov. 2021) [text]
- See also related blog post.
"Citizenship Deprivation as an Act of Persecution: Case Study of the Assam
Citizen Exercise as a Precursor to a Nation-Wide Determination of
Citizenship," Transnational Human Rights Review, vol. 8 (2021)
[open access]
"Disciplining Statelessness: Fragmentary Outcomes of the Tibetan
Rehabilitation Policy in India," Asian Studies Review, Latest
Articles, 14 June 2021 [ResearchGate]
Modes of acquisition and loss of citizenship around the world: comparative
typology and main patterns in 2020, Working Paper, no. RSC 2021/90
(Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, 2021) [text]
- See also related blog post.
"The Role of Law Clinics in the Fight Against Statelessness by the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Nigeria," International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, vol. 28, no. 2 (2021) [open access]
"Statelessness, forced migration and the security dilemma along borders: an
investigation of the foreign policy stance of Bangladesh on the Rohingya
influx," SN Social Sciences, vol. 1, no. 7 (July 2021) [free full-text]
Related post:
Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1
Opportunity:
CFP: Statelessness and Citizenship Review [info]
- The submission deadline is 31 January 2022.
Blog posts & press:
Are parents of foundlings really “unknown”? Avoiding statelessness under international nationality law (ENS Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
Evaluation of UNHCR-led Initiatives to end Statelessness (UNHCR Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
The implications of Chile’s 2021 Immigration Law for citizenship and nationality (GLOBALCIT Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
Myanmar's discriminatory citizenship law: are Rohingyas the only victims? (MMB Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
“Non-Citizens” of the Baltics: Common Misconceptions explained (ENS Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
Statelessness: Those who do not officially exist have no rights (Global Policy Journal Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
Statelessness and the Right to Nationality: Developing a Determination Procedure in Nigeria (GLOBALCIT Blog, Sept. 2021) [text]
Statelessness in the Asia Pacific: The birth of Nationality for All (ENS Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]
"They're the invisible victims of climate change," NPR, 9 Nov. 2021 [text]
UNHCR urges governments to accelerate progress and resolve plight of world’s stateless (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]
Multimedia:
The Architecture of Citizenship Deprivation in Britain and Its Raced, Gendered and Classed Effects, 22 Nov. 2021 [access]
Book Launch: Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner, 1 Dec. 2021 [access]
Preventing statelessness in nationality deprivation: The Pham case from an international perspective, 25 Oct. 2021 [access]
- Focuses on the UK.
A Stateless Dialogue: Those Affected & Those in Power, 14 Oct. 2021 [access]
Related posts:
09 December 2021
Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items
Opportunities:
Call for registrations: Courses on Refugee/Migration Law and Internal Displacement [info]
- The first seven courses offered in 2022 by IIHL's Department of International Refugee Law and Migration Law are now open for registration. Application deadlines range from 17 December 2021 to 28 January 2022.
Call for applications: Three Vacancies, Department of International Refugee Law and Migration Law, IIHL [info]
- Candidates sought for Assistant Legal Researcher (French & English), Online Learning Assistant (Arabic & French) and Junior Collaborator (Academic Unit). The application deadline for all three positions is 31 December 2021.
Blog posts:
5 TV series you didn’t know could help you understand refugee law (Digital Diplomacy, Nov. 2021) [text]
From the 1951 Convention to the 1967 Protocol: how the refugee regime was globalized (Refugee History, Dec. 2021) [text]
Hyper-legalism and Obfuscation: How States Evade Their Obligations Towards Refugees (ASCL Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
Reports & journal articles:
"The 1951 Refugee Convention and Non-Signatory States: Charting a Research Agenda," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 3 Dec. 2021 [open access]
"Commentary Section," International Migration, vol. 59, no. 4 (2021) [access]
- Scroll down to view five freely available or open access commentaries on the role and legacy of the 1951 Refugee Convention on the occasion of its 70th anniversary.
Comparative perspectives on airport asylum procedures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Policy Brief, no. 12 (Kaldor Centre, Dec. 2021) [text]
"The Final Refugee Paradigm: A Historical Warning," Canadian Journal of Human Rights, vol. 10, no. 1 (2021) [open access]
Forced Migration Review, no. 68 (Nov. 2021) [open access]
- This issue "includes a major feature on Externalisation. With States increasingly taking action beyond their own borders to prevent the arrival of refugees and asylum seekers, we examine the consequences for protection."
"Introduction: The Spirit of International Solidarity, the Right to Asylum, and the Response to Displacement," Human Rights Review, Latest Articles, 27 Nov. 2021 [open access]
- Intro to forthcoming special issue.
"National Constitutions and Refugee Protection," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, 2021) [preprint]
"The Principle of Non-Refoulement as Jus Cogens: History, Application, and Exception in International Refugee Law," Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (2021) [open access]
"Racial Borders," Georgetown Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2022) [preprint]
*"The relationship between human rights and refugee protection: an empirical analysis," International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 25, no. 10 (2021) [free full-text]
"Unfolding Africa's Impact on the Development of International Refugee Law," Journal of African Law, vol. 65, Supp. S1 (May 2021) [open access]
Your Guide to Protection Case Management (IRC & UNHCR, Oct. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
Multimedia:
Launch events for the 4th edition of The Refugee in International Law:
- The Refugee in International Law: Then and Now, 29 Sept. 2021 [access]
- Refugee Status Determination: Law and Practice, 9 Nov. 2021 [access]
Lecture series: 70 years of Geneva Convention – a reason to celebrate? [access]
- So far, the following three lectures have taken place: 1) The History and Development of International Refugee Protection, 28 Oct. 2021; 2) The Geneva Refugee Convention and its History, 11 Nov. 2021; and 3) Protection in the Global South: The Situation in First Destination Countries, 25 Nov. 2021.
- Video recordings can be accessed via the a/m link.
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