02 February 2023

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunity: 

Request for information: Organizations led by forcibly displaced and stateless people: mapping tool [info]
- UNHCR is in the process of gathering information on organizations led by forcibly displaced and stateless people at the global, regional, and country levels in order to facilitate "opportunities of engagement and identify barriers to meaningful participation of such organizations in the lead up to the next Global Refugee Forum." Follow link to complete a questionnaire.

Blog posts & press:

2023: A Moment of Truth for Global Displacement (UNHCR, Jan. 2023) [text]

Double Standards in European and Australian Responses to Ukraine Displacement (Asylum Insight, Jan. 2023) [text]

Reports:

Anthology: The Impact of the Pandemic on Border (Im)mobility
(Univ. of Melbourne, Oct. 2022) [text]
- "[T]he articles in this Anthology explore how borders are maintained in new and untested ways during pandemics and how they contribute to the ongoing marginalization of those most in need of protection." 

Are the UN Member States Committed to the Global Refugee Compact's International Solidarity Norm (Protect Project, Oct. 2022) [text]

Compilation of good practices on engaging with human rights systems (UNHCR, Feb. 2022) [text]

Ethical Communications Guidelines (UNHCR, Jan. 2023) [access]

Outcomes for Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees in Low and Middle-Income Countries (World Bank, Jan. 2023) [text]

Refugee and migrant health toolkit: one-stop resource for countries to advance the health and migration agenda (WHO, Jan. 2023) [access]

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 15 December 2022: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Doc. No. A/RES/77/198 [text]

World Disasters Report 2022: Trust, Equity and Local Action - Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to avert the next global crisis (IFRC, 2023) [access]
- Follow link for report in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. See also related press release.

Journal articles:

"'A collective commitment to improving cooperation on migration': analysis of a thematic consultation session for the Global Compact for Migration," Third World Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 9 (2022) [open access]

"Do Rights Violations Deter Refugees?," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 49, no. 1 (2023) [postprint]

"Hard borders and soft agreements: evaluating governance within the Global Compact for Migration," Third World Quarterly, Latest Articles, 28 Dec. 2022 [open access]

"Immigrants' and refugees' 'funds of knowledge(s)' on the path to intercultural competence," Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Latest Articles, 28 Jan. 2023 [open access]

"International politics of migration in times of 'crisis' and Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic," Migration Studies, Advance Articles, 30 Jan. 2023 [open access]

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