Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

 Journal articles:

"'Donki' Migration of Refugees from South Asia to Greece," Border Crossing, vol. 12, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 5 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"European perspectives on migration: media narratives and societal discourses after 2015," Collection in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications [open access]

- Includes articles that focus on Albania, Kosovo, Poland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

"How Does the Content of Deservingness Criteria Differ for More and Less Deserving Target Groups? An Analysis of Polish Online Debates on Refugees and Families with Children," Journal of Social Policy, FirstView, 14 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"The impact of housing on refugees: an evidence synthesis," Housing Studies, In Press, 10 Feb. 2022 [postprint]

- Focuses on the UK. Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until August 2023. See also earlier related research digest.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 1 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Centre-right Parties and Immigration in an Era of Politicization." The introduction is freely available and four articles are open access.

Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 4 (Dec. 2021) [contents]

- Features a special section with a European focus on "The Politics of Uncertainty: Producing, Reinforcing and Mediating (Legal) Uncertainty in Local Refugee Reception." Four articles are open access, including the introduction.

"The lawyers as guardians of the case file: on human-material encounters in immigration law in Russia," International Journal of the Legal Profession, vol. 28, no. 1 (2021) [postprint]

- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 9 June 2022.

"Overseas immigration liaison officers: ‘Knowledge brokers’ and transnational spaces of mid-level negotiations shaping extraterritorial migration control practices," Migration Studies, Advance Articles, 15 Feb. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Reject, limbo, and accept: the effect of migration decisions on asylum seekers," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 25 Feb. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (25 Feb. 2022)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Everyday Violence and Resistance in Europe’s ‘Migration Management’ during the Covid-19 Pandemic (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

- Introductory post in a new "blog series dedicated to ten unique research and practice-inspired blog posts exploring everyday violence and resistance at Europe’s borders." Check the "see also" menu on the right for additional posts.

Is Europe Prepared for a Possible Large-Scale Ukrainian Displacement Crisis? (MPI Commentary, Feb. 2022) [text]

The legal effects of a non-binding instrument: the Marrakech Compact, EU development funds, and policy on irregular migration (PROTECT Project Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

News Comment: UNHCR warns of increasing violence and human rights violations at European borders (UNHCR, Feb. 2022) [text]

"Op-ed: The EU Must Stop Trapping Migrants in Libya or Risk Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 18 Feb. 2022 [text]

"Roundup: What Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis looked like before the Russian invasion," The New Humanitarian, 24 Feb. 2022 [text]

Statement on the situation in Ukraine attributed to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (UNHCR, Feb. 2022) [text]

"Thousands of Ukrainians flee country after Russian invasion," The Guardian, 24 Feb. 2022 [text]

**For more news & developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.

Reports & book chapters:

Country Report: Bulgaria (AIDA, updated Feb. 2022) [text]

Eastern Ukraine: Current humanitarian situation and outlook (ACAPS, Feb. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Fallacy of Control: Tightened Asylum and Reception Policies Undermine Protection in Greece (Refugees International, Feb. 2022) [text]

Figurations of Displacement in and beyond Germany: Empirical findings and reflections on mobility and translocal connections of refugees living in Germany, Working Paper, no. 10 (TRAFIG, Dec. 2021) [text]

- See also related practice note.

"Neither Durable nor a Solution: a critical analysis of broken policies of return between the EU and Afghanistan," Chapter 31 in Direitos Humanos e Vulnerabilidade e o Direito Internacional dos Refugiados (Univ. Federal de Roraima, 2021) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 898.

Multimedia:

The governance of exit regimes and sustainable reintegration post-exit, 25 Jan. 2022 [access]

Resource:

Dicta.eu: digital case tool on asylum [access via ImmigrationProf Blog]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (12 Feb. 2022)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (12 Feb. 2022)

Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

The Board of Immigration Appeals Will Now Provide the Public with Access to Its Unpublished Decisions (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Deploring the Violence, Abandoning the Victim (Just Security, Feb. 2022) [text]

- Discusses fleeing gang violence in Central America as a basis for asylum.

Judicial Imperialism and the “Remain in Mexico” Ruling (Lawfare Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

More migrants are dying along the US-Mexico border, but it’s hard to say how big the problem actually is (The Conversation, Feb. 2022) [text]

Reports: 

Centering Race and Structural Racism in Immigration Policy Research: Considerations and Lessons from the Field (Urban Institute, Dec. 2021) [text]

The Continuing Impact of the Pandemic on Immigration Court Case Completions (TRAC, Feb. 2022) [text]

Deadly Inertia: Needless Delay of “Particular Social Group” Regulations Puts Asylum Seekers at Risk (Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Feb. 2022) [text]

The Dehumanizing Work of Immigration Law (Brennan Center, July 2021) [text]

“How Can You Throw Us Back?” Asylum Seekers Abused in the US and Deported to Harm in Cameroon (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2022) [access]

- A French version is also available.

MPP as a Microcosm: What’s Wrong with Asylum at the Border and How to Fix It (Refugees International, Feb. 2022) [text]

Articles:

"Mounting Backlogs Undermine U.S. Immigration System and Impede Biden Policy Changes," Migration Information Source, 23 Feb. 2022 [text]

"Ready to Stay: A Comprehensive Analysis of the US Foreign-Born Populations Eligible for Special Legal Status Programs and for Legalization Under Pending Bills," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 4 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"Re-Defining Particular Social Group in the United States: Looking to International Guidance in the Wake of the Matter of A-B- Vacatur," Fordham International Law Journal, vol. 45, no. 3 (2022) [full-text]

Resource:

'Remain in Mexico': Overview and Resources (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2022) [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (3 Feb. 2022)

Opportunities: A Few More Feb. & March 2022

Call for registration: 19th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), Online, 1-5 August 2022 [info]

- Registration is now open. The theme is "Global Issues, Regional Approaches: contexts, challenges, dialogues and solutions."

CFP: Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law [info]

- Topics of interest include "forced displacement and migration during armed conflicts." Submissions accepted on a rolling basis.

CFP: Jerusalem Quarterly [info]

- Contributions sought for special issue on "Retracing UNRWA's History: Archives, Social History, and Visual Culture on Palestinian Mobilities and Humanitarianism." Submit abstracts by 28 February 2022.

Webinar: Bridging the gap: what role should civil society play in supporting refugees and migrants?, 28 February 2022 [info]

Call for submissions: Short Essay Competition: Alternative Perspectives [info]

- Note that the deadline has been *extended* to 1 March 2022.

CFP: Migrants and forcibly displaced persons: Towards greater inclusion and protection, 2nd International Conference of the Research and Evidence Facility, Nairobi and Online, 9-10 June 2022 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 1 March 2022.

Roundtable: Migrations and migrants in the EU: changing narratives – modifying practices – influencing policies, Brussels/Online, 1 March 2022 [info]

Webinar: Alternative pathways for Refugee Protection in the Global South, 2 March 2022 [info]

Job announcement: IDRC Research Chair at Universidad del Pacífico, Peru [info]

- Submit applications by 4 March 2022.

Job announcement: Advocacy Officer, Resourcing Refugee Leadership Initiative (Remote) [info]

- "Applicants must have lived experience of forced displacement." Apply by 6 March 2022.

Discussion: The situation of forced migration and durable solutions in Ethiopia, 7 March 2022 [info]

Webinar: Haunted by Violence, 11 March 2022 [info]

- Will focus on "bureaucratic and liberal violence, simultaneous requests for and censorship of refugee voices, and ongoing histories that compel our returns to questions of displacement and refuge."

Webinar: Refugee Alternatives: Improving Policy, Practice and Public Support, 15 March 2022 [info]

Presentation: Presenting a Culturally Based Trauma-informed Intervention (TICBI) Model, 18 March 2022 [info]

Call for applications: "Displacement, Governance and Human Rights," FFVT Summer School 2022, Nuremberg, Germany, 10-15 July 2022 [info]

- Apply by 31 March 2022.

Related post:

- Opportunities: More Feb. & March 2022

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Opportunity:

Discussion: The situation of forced migration and durable solutions in Ethiopia, 7 March 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"Australia and New Zealand to finalise deal to resettle refugees in ‘next few weeks’," The Guardian, 17 Feb. 2022 [text]

‘I am back to square one’: How COVID-19 impacted recently resettled Yazidi and Syrian refugees (The Conversation, Feb. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

"Long-term refugee targets ‘would help west regain moral purpose’," The Guardian, 15 Feb. 2022 [text]

A refugee and advocate reflects on being a Black woman in the US (UNHCR, Feb. 2022) [text]

Tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees made it to the US – here’s how the resettlement process works (The Conversation, Feb. 2022) [text]

With Australia reopening its borders to tourists, why are thousands of refugees still waiting for entry? (The Conversation, Feb. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Australia’s Treatment of Afghan Refugees: How their date and mode of arrival matters more than their persecution (Refugee Council of Australia, Feb. 2022) [text]

- See also related report.

Can global refugee resettlement practice learn from housing first? : how a U.S. housing programme transformed homelessness and the lessons it holds for refugee policy, STG Policy Paper, no 24 (European Univ. Institute, 2021) [text]

Global Refugee Resettlement: Selected Issues and Questions (US Congressional Research Service, updated Jan. 2022) [text]

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 47, no. 21 (2021) [open access]

- Special issue on "Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration: Vietnamese and Afghan Migrants in Canada, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S."

"Resettlement through Responsibility Sharing," Contribution to Mobility without membership: Do we need special passports for vulnerable groups? (European Univ. Institute, Jan. 2022) [text]

"Shaping the Future: Towards a Solidary Refugee Resettlement in the European Union," European Papers, vol. 6, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"Understanding Integration Experience and Wellbeing of Economic-Asylum Seekers in Italy: the Case of Nigerian Immigrants," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 10 Feb. 2022 [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1 (10 Feb. 2022)

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2 (United States) (10 Feb. 2022)

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

CFP: Jerusalem Quarterly [info]

- Contributions sought for special issue on "Retracing UNRWA's History: Archives, Social History, and Visual Culture on Palestinian Mobilities and Humanitarianism." Submit abstracts by 28 February 2022.

Blog posts & press:

UNHCR survey reveals positive Jordanian attitude towards refugees (UN Jordan, Jan. 2022) [text]

New open access book: 

Refugees on the Move: Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe, Berghahn Books, Feb. 2022 [open access]

- "Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. It examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, the difficulties they face during their journeys, the daily challenges and obstacles they experience, and host governments’ attempts to manage and overcome the so-called 'refugee crisis'."

Reports & book chapters:

11 Years of Crisis Against All Odds: A Summary of the 2021 Annual Needs Assessment (CARE, Jan. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Syrians in Jordan.

"Becoming and Being a (Dis)Connected Forced Migrant," Introductory chapter in Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan (Berghahn Books, Jan. 2022) [free full-text]

MEAL Framework for Localisation of Humanitarian Action in Jordan (Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development, Jordan INGO Forum &  UN Women, May 2021) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for report in English and Arabic.

Rapid Needs Assessment of Returnees to Tawergha (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Note: Tawergha is in Libya.

Rescuing Aid in Syria (CSIS, Feb. 2022) [access]

- Follow link for report and executive summary.

Journal articles:

"Axiological and Ideological Reframing in the Interpreting of Syrian Refugee’s Trauma Discourse: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Interviews as an Example," Journal of Education College - Wasit University, vol. 1, no. 46 (2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians in Jordan and Lebanon.

"Bioeconomy and Migrants’ Lives in Libya," Cultural Anthropology, vol. 37, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Constructing the ‘National Ideal’: The ‘Inclusive’ and ‘Exclusive’ Representations of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Print Media," Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Latest Articles, 12 Feb. 2022 [open access]

Migration Policy Practice, vol. XI, no. 3 (Oct.-Dec. 2021) [open access]

- This special issue "focuses on COVID-19’s socioeconomic impact on migrants and displaced persons in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)." See also video recordings from related webinar series below.

"Narrative analysis of Syrians, South Sudanese and Libyans transiting in Egypt: A MOA approach," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 3 Feb. 2020 [preprint]

"Palestinian Refugees of the Oslo Generation: Thinking beyond the Nation?," Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 50, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

"Representation, trust and ethnicity within refugee communities: the case of Darfurians in Israel," Community Development Journal, Advance Articles, 9 Feb. 2022 [ResearchGate]

Multimedia:

Activism from Exile: How Activists Abroad Influence Politics Back Home, 2 Nov. 2021 [access]

- Focuses on Egyptian and Syrian activists currently in exile. More info here.

Webinar series: COVID-19’s socio-economic impact on migrants and displaced populations [access]

- Included four sessions organized by the Economic Research Forum & the IOM Regional Office for MENA. 

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (8 Feb. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Blog posts & press:

"Immigrants could help the US labor shortage — if the government would let them," Vox, 16 Feb. 2022 [text]

Refugees in the US can't retain employment for long: study says (The Hill, Feb. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Career guidance for culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and/or refugees (Curtin Univ., 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Closing the Gap: From Work Rights to Decent Work for Syrian Refugees in KRI (Norwegian Refugee Council, Feb. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Digital Financial Literacy Training in the Uganda refugee response: A Learning Brief (UNHCR & WFP, Feb. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugees and the Egyptian labour market: an analysis of the potential role of employers' organizations (Federation of Egyptian Industries & ILO, Oct. 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"Business people in war times, the ‘fluid capital’ and the ‘shy diaspora’: The case of Syrians in Turkey," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 3 (Sept. 2021) [postprint]

- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 11 March 2023.

"Excluding livestock livelihoods in refugee responses: A risk to public health," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 9 Feb. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians in Jordan.

"Forced Displacement and Access to the Labour Market: The Case of Gaziantep," Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 58 (Dec. 2021) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 57.

"A help or hindrance? Highly educated refugees’ perceptions of the role of civic integration programmes in accessing the labour market in Oslo, Malmö and Munich," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:8 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

"Immigrants resettlement in developing countries: A data-driven decision tool applied to the case of Venezuelan immigrants in Colombia," PLoS ONE 17(1): e0262781 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

"The labour market integration of migrants and refugees: career guidance and the newly arrived," International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Latest Articles, 12 Feb. 2022 [free full-text]

"Labour market marginalisation in young refugees and their majority peers in Denmark and Sweden: The role of common mental disorders and secondary school completion," PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263450 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

"Refugee Labour and the Politics of Care in Satellite Cities: The Case Study of Eskişehir, Turkey," Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 58 (Dec. 2021) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 71.

"Temporary labour migration in Asia: The transnationality-precarity nexus," International Migration, Early View, 16 Feb. 2022 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (9 Feb. 2022)

Blog series: Global South Authors & Open Access - Pt. 2

As the first post in this series noted, most of the GS-based authors in my sample article set elected to publish in open access journals that do not charge publication fees (so-called "diamond" OA journals). The diamond journal landscape is extremely diverse and quite sizeable, dominating the OA titles indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) -- as of this writing, 12,292 out of a total of 17,478 do not charge APCs. 

In my study, the 153 articles that fell in this OA category were published in 87 different journals; 48 of these are not even indexed in DOAJ, which suggests that the overall number of diamond journals in existence is even more vast (see also Coalition S, March 2021). 

Many of these journals also happen to be published in the Global South (60% of my sample), very often by academic institutions and other non-profit entities. But since they are generally not indexed in the main citation databases like Web of Science and Scopus, they -- like their authors -- tend to lack visibility in the Global North (Tennant, 2020).

To help ameliorate this reality, GN authors can, among other things, provide support to and show solidarity with GS journals by both citing their articles and also publishing in them, as these recent blog posts recommend: 

- Less ‘Prestigious’ Journals Can Contain More Diverse Research, by Citing Them We Can Shape a More Just Politics of Citation (LSE Impact Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

- Publish in the Global South: A Call for Rebellion (OpinioJuris Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

These global/regional resources are useful starting points for identifying relevant journals/journal articles:

African Journals Online (AJOL) [access]

- Hosts over 290 open access journals published in Africa. A list of publisher countries is available here.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) [access]

- For example: enter "migration" in the "Journals" search box, then limit the results by "publisher country"

Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) [access]

- Hosts over 1800 open access journals published in the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Spain & Uruguay; journal contributions from Venezuela and the West Indies are in development.

Here are a few examples of forced migration-specific journals published in the Global South: 

African Human Mobility Review (published by the Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa & University of the Western Cape, in South Africa)

- Here is the most recent issue.  

- Accepts submissions in English. 

Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration (published by the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, in India)

- The current issue is a special issue on "Displacements & Dispossessions."

- Accepts submissions in English. 

REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana (published by the Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios, in Brazil)

- The most recent issue features articles focusing on "Migrants, refugees, and displaced persons in the Middle East and North Africa."

- Accepts submissions in Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish or French. See their CFP for two thematic dossiers in forthcoming issues.  

Revue Hijra: La revue marocaine de droit d’asile et migration (published by La Clinique Juridique Hijra, in Morocco)

- The latest issue features articles from the RLI blog series on the Global Compact for Migration that were translated into French. 

- Publishes submissions in French, Arabic, English and Spanish.

You can locate additional titles in my monthly round-ups of scholarly literature published by GS authors.

References:

- cOAlition S & Science Europe, The OA Diamond Journals Study: Exploring Collaborative Community-driven Publishing Models for Open Access (cOAlition S, March 2021)

- Jonathan P. Tennant, "Web of Science and Scopus are not global databases of knowledge," European Science Editing, 46: e51987

Related post:

- Blog series: Global South Authors & Open Access - Pt. 1

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Blog posts & press:

How and why do migrants use digital tech? (MIDEQ Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

ICRC cyber-attack: Sharing our analysis (ICRC, Feb. 2022) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link to read the open letter in English, Arabic, Chinese, German & Russian.

"Robot dogs could patrol the US-Mexico border," CNN, 19 Feb. 2022 [text]

Reports:

Promoting COVID-19 vaccination uptake among migrant communities on social media: Evidence from Germany (IOM, Feb. 2022) [text]

Protecting Workers from Cyberbullying within Digital Humanitarian Response (Digital Humanitarian Network, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Twenty-First Century Humanitarian Information Manager: A Modern Competencies Framework (Digital Humanitarian Network, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Articles:

"Digitization without digital evidence: Technology and Sweden’s asylum system," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 3 May 2021 [full-text via author]

Geopolitics, vol. 27, no. 1 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management." The introduction is freely available and two articles are open access.

"The Increasing Use of Artificial Intelligence in Border Zones Prompts Privacy Questions," Migration Information Source, 2 Feb. 2022 [text]

"An institutional perspective to bridging the divide: The case of Somali women refugees fostering digital inclusion in the volatile context of urban Kenya," New Media & Society, vol. 24, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"Shifting to Tele-Mental Health in humanitarian and crisis settings: an evaluation of Médecins Sans Frontières experience during the COVID-19 pandemic," Conflict and Health, 16:6 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

"Users' polarisation in dynamic discussion networks: The case of refugee crisis in Sweden," PLoS ONE 17(2): e0262992 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

Resource:

UNESCO Chair in ICT4D [access]

- "[A] group of researchers and practitioners committed to excellence in the use of ICTs for development." One of their current initiatives focuses on "Technology, Inequality and Migration." This page includes links to online surveys for migrants, return migrants and their families. See also recent policy briefs and working papers. 

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (7 Feb. 2022)

Blog Series: Global South Authors & Open Access - Pt. 1

I have been posting round-ups of open access articles published by Global South-based authors on a (mostly) monthly basis since November 2020. My interest in compiling and circulating these round-ups is threefold: First, to more systematically track how authors based in the Global South choose to make their journal articles open access; second, as a means to highlight research undertaken by authors who traditionally have had less visibility within the forced migration scholarly literature base; and finally and more generally, to continue to promote open access to the forced migration research community.

The impetus for initiating these monthly round-ups in part came out of a previous analysis I undertook of trends in OA publishing by GS authors. (You can find the four posts that resulted from that analysis here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.) In order to assess the extent to which open access publication trends have changed or remained the same in the intervening period, I gathered data from 13 months' of round-up postings on: type of open access, region in which authors were based, and author collaborations. 

The total number of articles* referenced between 13 Nov. 2020 and 15 Dec. 2021 was 267. This is definitely an improvement over the 86 articles that I referenced from May to October 2020! Here is the breakdown by type of open access:

% of articles by OA type                     

bronze/diamond = 57%  

gold = 26%    

hybrid = 13%  

green = 4%  

The order of this listing is consistent with previous findings, i.e., Global South authors publish more frequently in OA journals that do not charge a publication fee (so-called bronze and diamond journals). 

The geographic representation of authors shifted somewhat between the first and second studies. Here is the breakdown of the current analysis:

% of articles by author region

Africa = 34% 

Asia = 25% 

Americas = 24% 

MENA = 16% 

Multi-regional = 2%

In my previous analysis, the regional ranking for author location was Americas (35%), Africa (28%), Asia (20%) and MENA (17%). The main conclusion to be drawn from this is that I need to focus more particularly on enhancing my MENA coverage. 

Turning to the breakdown of articles by type of author collaboration, if any:

- Articles by solo authors or co-authors based in the same country = 67%

- Articles by co-authors based in countries in the Global North & in the Global South = 29%

- Articles by co-authors based in 2 or more countries in the Global South = 3%

Looking specifically at the % of GN/GS collaborations by OA type:

- hybrid = 65%

- green = 60% 

- gold = 40%

- bronze/diamond = 14%

This pattern is certainly logical when factoring in the high APC costs associated with hybrid OA. But why are most green OA articles GN/GS collaborations? This and other trends will be discussed further in upcoming posts!

*With a few exceptions, articles are generally included in round-ups if either the lead author or at least half of the co-authors are based in the Global South, the thinking being that this narrower parameter more likely reflects a greater interest on the part of GS authors to provide open access to their work. 

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (incl. Australia) - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Asylum Seekers and Refugee Management: (Im)Balance Burden Sharing Case between Indonesia and Australia," Sriwijaya Law Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

"Conflict-Induced Internal Displacement: A Case Study of Gujarat," Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 58 (Dec. 2021) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 37

"Displacement of the Rohingya Before the ICJ and the ICC: Same Conduct, Different Crimes in International Law?," Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law, vol. 2 (2021) [full-text]

"Implementation, effectiveness and monitoring of telemedicine program in Bhutanese refugees camp in Eastern Nepal," Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, vol. 11, no. 1 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

*"International Norms of Asylum and Burden-Sharing: A Case Study of Bangladesh and the Rohingya Refugee Population," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 4 (Dec. 2021) [free full-text]

"Little Syria: Syrian refugees in car town, Korea," Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Latest Articles, 9 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"Mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in India: an in-depth exploration of challenges and opportunities for three vulnerable population groups," Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, vol. 41, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"A Study on Updating the Model for Monitoring and Evaluation of Involuntary Resettlement Based on the Experience of China," Processes, vol. 10, no. 2 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (incl. Australia) - Pt. 1 (18 Feb. 2022)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (incl. Australia) - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

CFP: Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law [info]

- Topics of interest include "forced displacement and migration during armed conflicts." Submissions accepted on a rolling basis.

Call for concept notes: Programmes Benefiting Afghan Refugees in Pakistan [info]

- Submission deadline is 1 March 2022.

Blog posts & press:

"Afghanistan’s crises, by the numbers," The New Humanitarian, 15 Feb. 2022 [text]

Aid Agencies Can’t Fix Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis (Just Security Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

"Bhasan Char and Refugee ‘Warehousing’," The Diplomat, 8 Feb. 2022 [text]

New Book Chapter: “We Are Alive, but Have No Life”: Rohingya Refugees, Deprived of the Prospects for a Future (PRIO Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

UNHCR Deputy calls for enhanced access to education and livelihoods for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh (UNHCR, Feb. 2022) [text]

New books:

There have been a number of new releases in the last several months that focus on the Asia region, and more are on the horizon. Unfortunately none are open access! Here is a listing of some recent titles that I have come across:

Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific, Routledge, Jan. 2022

Internal Migration within South Asia: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Springer, Jan. 2022

Migration Governance in Asia: A Multi-level Analysis, Routledge, Jan. 2022

The Protection of Refugees in Southeast Asia: A Legal Fiction?, Routledge, Feb. 2022

Resettlement in Asian Countries: Legislation, Administration and Struggles for Rights, Routledge, Dec 2021

The Rohingya Crisis: Human Rights Issues, Policy Concerns and Burden Sharing, SAGE, Dec. 2021

Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Myanmar: Ethnic Conflict and Resolution, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2022

The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India, Routledge, Forthcoming March 2022 

Reports:

Forced Migration Trends in the Asia Pacific, Migration and Mobility in the Asia Pacific Working Paper, no. 2 (Monash Univ. Malaysia, Dec. 2021) [text]

Protection Analysis: Refugee influxes from Myanmar (Protection Cluster, Feb. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Thailand.

We Also Have Dreams: Human Rights and Quality of Life Issues of the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh (Burma Human Rights Network, Feb. 2022) [access]

- See also related Devex news story.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (incl. Australia) (3 Feb. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Detention

Blog posts & press:

Australia: End Indefinite, Arbitrary Immigration Detention (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2022) [text]

The Black Book of Immigration Detention in Italy (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

'Black Holes': Detention Without Charge and Violations of Human Rights in Italian Detention Centres (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

Expanding the Penal Landscape: The Immigration Detention Phenomena (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

- Introduction to a blog series; three additional posts focus on Mexico, Canada and the US can be accessed via the navigation menu on the right.

Immigration Detention in Trinidad and Tobago (IDC News, Dec. 2021) [text]

"'Limbo': What’s happening to refugees still in immigration detention?," Sydney Morning Herald, 30 Jan. 2022 [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

"Newcastle project finds community better than detention for asylum claims," BBC News, 26 Jan. 2022 [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Novak Djokovic was detained for five days – refugees in the same hotel have been there for years (The Conversation, Jan. 2022) [text]

"Scoop: Biden reinvents migrant detention," Axios, 8 Feb. 2022 [text]

"UN chief: Over 12,000 detainees held officially in Libya," AP News, 17 Jan. 2022 [text]

"What can be done to make the living conditions of detained refugees more humane?," UNSW Newsroom, 8 Feb. 2022 [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Reports & journal articles:

"A 'Binary Choice' for Families in ICE Detention: Examining the Legitimation Costs of Litigating the Flores Settlement Agreement," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 36, no. 1 (Fall 2021) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

Cruel by Design: Voices of Resistance From Immigration Detention (Immigrant Defense Project & Center for Constitutional Rights, Feb. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Detention as Deterrent: Denying Justice to Immigrants and Asylum," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 36, no. 1 (Fall 2021) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Health of children in Australian immigration detention centres: An analysis of the quarterly health reports from 2014 to 2017," Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, Early View, 18 Jan. 2022 [open access]

"The pains of detainment: Experience of time and coping strategies at immigration detention centres," Theoretical Criminology, vol. 25, no. 2 (2021) [free full-text]

- Focuses on Norway. See also related blog post.

"Psychological Distress in Australian Onshore and Offshore Immigration Detention Centres from 2014–2018," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 3 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"Punishing with Impunity: The Legacy of Risk Classification in Immigration Detention," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 36, no. 1 (Fall 2021) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

Using Alternatives to Detention (ATD) as a Systems Change Strategy: Towards Ending Immigration Detention (International Detention Coalition, Jan. 2022) [access]

- Follow link to access paper/executive summary in English, Arabic, French or Spanish.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (17 Jan. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

"COVID-19: Vaccinating stateless people in South Africa," Africa Renewal Magazine (Jan. 2022) [full-text]

"Disciplining Statelessness: Fragmentary Outcomes of the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy in India," Asian Studies Review, vol. 46, no. 1 (2022) [ResearchGate]

Evaluation of PRM-Supported Initiatives to Prevent and Reduce Statelessness (US Dept. of State, Jan. 2022) [text]

"Fallacies of Protection: Statelessness, Law, and the Rohingya in South Asia," Chapter in Revisiting the 1951 Refugee Convention: Exploring Global Perspectives (Observer Research Foundation & Global Policy Journal, 2022)

- Scroll to p. 92.

Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship, vol. 1 (Dec. 2021) [full-text]

- Special issue on the "Rohingya: Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Myanmar."

Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Akkar (UNHCR Lebanon & Siren Associates, Sept. 2021) [text]

- "This study provides an analysis of statelessness among people of Lebanese descent in the northern governorate of Akkar." 

"The Need for a Legal Definition of Stateless Children in Malaysian National Law and Policy: The Perspective from International Human Rights Law," UUM Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Precarious citizenship: detection, detention and ‘deportability’ in India," Citizenship Studies, vol. 26, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Undocumented: An examination of legal identity and education provision for children in Malaysia," PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263404 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (17 Feb. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Call for applications: 3rd Online Course on Statelessness, 4-29 April 2022 [info]

- Apply by 4 March 2022.

Call for applications: 2022 Statelessness Summer Course, Online, 4-15 July 2022 [info]

- Application process is now open. The final deadline is 4 April 2022.

Blog posts & press:

The Campaign to End Statelessness: Oct.-Dec. 2021 Update (UNHCR, Oct. 2021) [text]

Caught in the storm without a boat: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stateless Persons (RLI Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

Citizenship stripping as alternative border control: Syrian counter-perspectives (ENS Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

From evaluation to implementation – Casting a constructively critical eye over UNHCR’s statelessness work (ENS Editorial, Feb. 2022) [text]

Is the current rights framework sufficient to protect the stateless? (Open Global Rights, Jan. 2022) [text]

Shining a Light on the Meaning and Value of Citizenship for Internally Displaced Persons (RID Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Stateless people gain access to documentation in Russia (ENS Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

Statelessness statistics and IROSS: The UN Statistical Commission grapples with definitions (CSS Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Sweden needs automatic acquisition of nationality at birth for stateless children – here’s why (ENS Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Transforming Gender Discriminatory Legal Frameworks: Reflecting on Transitional Justice as a Site for Combating Statelessness in Syria (CSS Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

(Un)Ending Statelessness: The Unclaimed Invisibles, Failing Legal Systems and a Pandemic (RLI Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Vicious Circles of Roma Statelessness in Serbia – A Road Map (ENS Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (14 Jan. 2022)

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities: 

Events: Migration Week, 14-18 February 2022 [info]

- The theme for this year's week is "Cooperation and Partnership: Implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration."

Call for submissions: Short Essay Competition: Alternative Perspectives [info]

- Note that the deadline has been *extended* to 1 March 2022.

Call for applications: 18th Migration Summer School, Florence, Italy, 27 June-8 July 2022 [info]

- Apply by 20 March 2022.

Call for applications: "Displacement, Governance and Human Rights," FFVT Summer School 2022, Nuremberg, Germany, 10-15 July 2022 [info]

- Apply by 31 March 2022.

Blog posts & press:

2021 for UNHCR’s Microdata Library: What did we achieve? (UNHCR Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the Champion States: A step forward towards implementation? (RLI Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

A template for government-led compliance? A closer look at the ‘six-step process for GCM implementation’ (RLI Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

New handbook:

Protecting Internally Displaced Persons: A Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions (UNHCR et al., Feb. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

- "This handbook is intended primarily as a guide for NHRIs to build a deeper understanding of: 1) the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and other relevant international and regional standards...; 2) the essential role of NHRIs in preventing forced and arbitrary displacement, and in promoting and protecting the human rights of IDPs in emergency settings and in their search for durable solutions...; 3) how NHRIs can work with each other, with GANHRI and their regional or subregional networks, as well as with other regional and global partners, to advance the human rights of IDPs."

- Also available in French and Spanish.

Reports:

COVID-19 Evaluative Evidence Brief, no. 2 (UNHCR, Jan. 2022) [text]

Decentralized Evaluations (UNHCR) [access]

- A number of evaluation reports were posted in Dec. 2021; they assess UNHCR projects & programmes relating to a variety of issues including non-communicable diseases; child protection programming; communication campaigns in Colombia; maternal/newborn care in Chad, Niger and Cameroon; livelihoods and energy projects for Somalis in Ethiopia; and alternatives to detention in the UK.

Identity, Identification, Access: Exploring Evidence-based Strategies for Healthcare Access of Internally Displaced Persons, RID Working Paper, no. 16 (Researching Internal Displacement, Jan. 2022) [text]

(Im)mobility in international research cooperation: knowledge and partnerships between the South and North, East and West, FFVT Project Note, no. 1 (Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Vernetzung und Transfer, Oct 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"Addressing the Prevention of Internal Displacement: The Right Not to Be Arbitrarily Displaced," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 31 Jan. 2022 [open access]

"Feedback Loops and Facilitation: Catalyzing Transformational Multi-Stakeholder Refugee Response Partnerships," Sustainability, vol. 13, no 21 (Oct. 2021) [open access]

"Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 11 May 2021 [free full-text]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:7 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

"Resiliency with Forced Migrants: A Qualitative Study of Providers and Forced Migrants through a Resilience Perspective," Behavioral Sciences, vol. 12, no. 2 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Creative Methods in Challenging Times, 27 Jan. 2022 [access]

How (not) to Save Refugees, 5 Feb. 2022 [access]

Revisiting Protracted Displacement: Policies, mobility & agency, 14 Dec. 2021 [access]

Ties that bind? Opportunities and pitfalls of migrants’ international networks, 18 Jan. 2022 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (28 Jan. 2022)

Job/New Issues of EJHP, Geopolitics, GILJ, GR2P, HDSR, Intl. Migr., IMR, ICRC Rev., JEMS, JIRS, Lang. & Migr., Migr. Pol. Pract., Stud. in Soc. Just.

*Reminder: Postprints of articles published in the journals below that are marked with an asterisk can be archived/deposited in a repository immediately after publication - i.e., there is no embargo period! This allows authors to provide open access to their scholarly journal articles without having to pay costly publication fees. Please refer to this earlier blog post for more information. 

Job announcement: 

Editor for International Migration Review [info]

- Apply by 28 February 2022.

New issues:

European Journal of Health Psychology, vol. 29, no. 1 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Health and Well-Being of Refugee Children and Adolescents." The editorial is freely available and four articles are open access.

Geopolitics, vol. 27, no. 1 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management." The introduction is freely available and two articles are open access.

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 36, no. 1 (Fall 2021) [full-text]

- Mix of articles, notes and current development reports that focus inter alia on detention, deportation, Title 42, immigration policy, and human rights issues.

*Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 14, no. 1 (Feb. 2022) [contents]

- features five articles on the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia, three of which are open access. 

Harvard Data Science Review, no. 4.1 (Winter 2022) [open access]

- Includes a special theme on "World Migration and Displacement: Data, Disinformation, and Human Mobility."

International Migration, vol. 60, no. 1 (Feb. 2022) [free full-text]

- Includes a special section on “Policies and Politics of Venezuelan Migration in Latin America,” a mix of original articles, commentary on Afghans and their migration/displacement, and two book reviews.

*International Migration Review, vol. 56, no. 1 (March 2022) [contents]

- Includes sub-sections on "Migration and Methods: Data Ethics, Big Data, and Databases," "International Migration, Economic Mobility, and Migrant Vulnerabilities," and "Shaping Migration Flows: Conflict, Public Opinion, and Policy," as well as three freely available book reviews. Six articles are open access.

*International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 103, nos. 916-917 ( April 2021) [contents]

- Themed issue on "Counterterrorism, sanctions and war."  Note that the full-text will eventually be made freely available on ICRC's website.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 47, no. 20 (2021) [contents]

- Special issue on "(Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities." The introduction is freely available.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 47, no. 21 (2021) [open access]

- Special issue on "Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration: Vietnamese and Afghan Migrants in Canada, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S."

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 1 (2022) [contents]

- Mix of articles, two of which are open access and one of which is freely available.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 2 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Centre-right Parties and Immigration in an Era of Politicization." The introduction is freely available and four articles are open access.

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. 20, no. 1 (2022) [contents]

- Mix of articles.

Lengua y Migración = Language and Migration, vol. 13, no. Extra. 2 (2021) [full-text]

- Special issue on "LMOOCs for the linguistic and social integration of displaced people." Articles are in English or Spanish.

Migration Policy Practice, vol. XI, no. 3 (Oct.-Nov. 2021) [full-text]

- This issue "focuses on COVID-19’s socioeconomic impact on migrants and displaced persons in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)." 

Studies in Social Justice, vol. 16, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

- Special issue on "Borders, Boundaries, and the Impact of COVID-19 on Immigration to Canada."

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

"Biden’s immigration polices have left Haitians stranded in Mexico," Vox, 20 Jan. 2022 [text]

"In Haiti, gang violence strains aid operations and demands new approaches," The New Humanitarian, 7 Feb. 2022 [text]

Reports & book chapters:

Atención a la población haitiana en México, Informe especial, no. 2 (UNHCR, Jan. 2022) [text]

"The Continued Pivotal Role of the 1951 Convention in Refugee Protection: evidences from dialogues with Latin American Refugee Law and the GCR," Chapter 17 in Direitos Humanos e Vulnerabilidade e o Direito Internacional dos Refugiados (Univ. Federal de Roraima, 2021) [full-text]

Encuesta de Alta Frequencia = High Frequency Survey, July-Sept. 2021 (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]

- First round of a survey to assess the protection situation of the population affected by forced displacement currently in Costa Rica.

Study on the protection situation of Venezuelan refugees and migrants in the Caribbean (IOM & R4V, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Impacts of Political Discourse on Vulnerable Migrant and Refugee Communities: Comparative Media Analysis in Brazil, Mexico and Japan," Journal of Human Security Studies, vol. 10, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

International Migration, vol. 60, no. 1 (Feb. 2022) [free full-text]

- Features a special section on “Policies and Politics of Venezuelan Migration in Latin America,”  with the following articles:

- Introduction: Latin American Political and Policy Responses to Venezuelan Displacement

- The Cartagena Refugee Definition and Venezuelan Displacement in Latin America

- The Cartagena refugee definition and nationality-based discrimination in Mexican refugee status determination

- Reacting to Change within Change: Adaptive Leadership and the Peruvian Response to Venezuelan Immigration

- What do immigrants make of immigration policies? Insights from interviews with Venezuelans in Chile

- Between liberal legislation and preventive political practice: Ecuador’s political reactions to Venezuelan forced migration

- Colombia's open-door policy: An innovative approach to displacement?

- Progressive legislation but lukewarm policies: The Brazilian response to Venezuelan displacement

"Invisibles o invisibilizados? La COVID-19 y los solicitantes de refugio venezolanos en Perú," Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, no. 129 (2021) [open access]

"Media and government framing of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic," International Review of Education, Latest Articles, 26 Jan. 2022 [open access]

"Sheltering as a destabilising and perpetuating practice in the migration management architecture in Mexico," Third World Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (21 Jan. 2022)