Thematic Focus: General

Blog posts & press:

8 ways displaced and stateless persons can actively engage in the next Global Refugee Forum (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

"2022 Year in Review: 100 million displaced, ‘a record that should never have been set’," UN News, 26 Dec. 2022 [text]

"2022 in review: Migration," The New Humanitarian, 21 Dec. 2022 [text]

Optimism Bias: A Major Challenge in Refugee Responsibility Sharing (Refugee Watch Online, Dec. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Can there be a common ground between NGOs engaged in SAR and state actors? A response to Mann and Mourão Permoser (2022) (MPC, Jan. 2023) [text]

- The kickoff paper and previous responses can be accessed here.

International migration and development: Report of the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/77/236 (UN General Assembly, July 2022) [access]

The Mixed Migration Centre in 2022: Annual catalogue of research & publications (Jan. 2023) [text]

Refusing to turn away: human rights defenders working on the rights of refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, UN Doc. No. A/77/178 (UN General Assembly, July 2022) [access]

Social Cohesion and Forced Displacement: A Synthesis of New Research (World Bank, 2022) [text]

- Related working papers are available here. The findings of the report will be discussed at an event on 18 January 2023.

Journal articles:

"Enhancing State-to-State Dialogue on Internal Displacement: Current Global Fora and Future Prospects," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4 (Dec. 2020) [postprint]

- Note: The embargo on accessing the full-text of this document has now ended.

"The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field?," Migration Studies, Advance Articles, 3 Jan. 2023 [open access]

International Journal for Religious Freedom, vol. 15, nos. 1&2 (2022) [open access]

- Special issue on "Refugees and religious freedom."

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 20 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Spatial and Social Im/mobility in Forced Migration: Revisiting Class." The introduction and three articles are open access.

"Measuring National Refugee Policies: Recent Trends and Implications for Future Development," Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Adv. Online Pub., 27 Dec. 2022 [free full-text]

"Migration Studies: How Should We Approach Them? Learning Through Participatory Practices. The So-Close Case Study," International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24 Dec. 2022 [open access]

"Public Attitudes to Immigration in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Little Change in Policy Preferences, Big Drops in Issue Salience," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 27 Dec. 2022 [free full-text]

"'Recalcitrant' and 'Uncooperative': Why Some Countries Refuse to Accept Return of Their Deportees," Migration Information Source, 20 Dec. 2022 [text]

"Rapid Review of COVID-19 Vaccination Access and Acceptance for Global Refugee, Asylum Seeker and Undocumented Migrant Populations," International Journal of Public Health, 22 Dec. 2022 [open access]

"A review of social networks and social capital for volunteering for refugees," Geografia: Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, vol. 18, no. 4 (2022) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (19 Dec. 2022)