15 February 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]

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