26 September 2022

Thematic Focus: General

Blog posts & press:

Build cities, not camps: A proposal for addressing refugee crises (Future Development Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Changing the Narrative on Refugees (Pursuit Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Debates about migration have never been simple – just look at the Hebrew Bible (The Conversation, Sept. 2022) [text]

Here's how other refugee emergencies can guide government response to the Ukraine crisis (World Economic Forum Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Inclusive policies are needed to help refugees and host communities flourish (Development for Peace Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

The passion, vision and action of Fridtjof Nansen, humanitarian extraordinaire (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]
- Note: This year's Nansen Refugee Award ceremony will take place on 10 Oct. 2022.

UNHCR and Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development Launch Global Islamic Fund for Refugees (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

"Volker Türk appointed new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights," UN News, 8 Sept. 2022 [text]
- See also related comment

Reports & journal articles:

A Call to Action: Transforming the Global Refugee System (World Refugee & Migration Council, Sept. 2022) [text]

"The Challenge of Reaching Undocumented Migrants with COVID-19 Vaccination," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 16 (Aug. 2022) [open access]

"Disinformation on Migration: How Lies, Half-Truths, and Mischaracterizations Spread," Migration Information Source, 8 Sept. 2022 [text]

How does the UN talk about human mobility? A textual analysis of narratives by IOM and UNHCR on migrants and refugees, Working Paper, no. 7 (Toronto Metropolitan Univ., Sept. 2022) [text]

Moments of Negotiated Independence: Localized Knowledge Ecosystems on Forced Migration in East Africa and the Middle East, LERRN Working Paper, no. 20 (Carleton Univ., Sept. 2022) [text]

UNHCR Engagement in Situations of Internal Displacement, 2019-2021 (UNHCR, 2022) [text]

Virtual Informal Briefing on the Global Compact on Refugees: Summary (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]
- See also related Powerpoint presentation.

Multimedia:

I Am Not Your Refugee Podcast Series (openDemocracy) [access]
- Two episodes are currently available. 

New research centers:

Boston University Center on Forced Displacement [info]
- "The Boston University Center on Forced Displacement supports new ideas, technologies, scholarship, awareness, and solution identification that will improve the human condition of vulnerable persons who are forced to leave their homes.  The center supports research and engagement with forced displacement and humanitarian emergencies that is truly interdisciplinary and of the highest scholarly and ethical standards."

Trinity Centre for Forced Migration Studies [info]
- "[T]he new Centre’s main aims are to foster inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research, develop teaching and training for individuals and organisations supporting refugees as well as establishing volunteering networks drawing on existing expertise within the College community in relation to helping those who have experienced forced migration."

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