Thematic Focus: General

In memoriam:

Howard Adelman passed away 23 July 2023. He founded the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in 1988 and served as its director until 1993. For more information on his many accomplishments, please read his obituary on the CRS site (which also includes a link to video of his funeral service) and a remembrance on the Refugee Studies Centre site. A number of his publications can be accessed via the YorkSpace Institutional Repository.

Opportunities:

Call for institutional partners: Sergio Vieira de Mello Chairs [info]

- "De Mello Chairs are universities or academic institutions committed to addressing forced displacement by engaging in research, teaching, and community outreach activities." 

Call for participation: GAIN at the Global Refugee Forum 2023, Geneva, 13-15 December [info]

- Academics who are interested in contributing to or attending the GRF should fill out the form available via the a/m link.

Short pieces:

The first Gil Loescher Memorial Fund award recipients are announced (RSC, July 2023) [text]

Global Immigration Backlash (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2023) [text]

High Commissioner’s statement at the Rome Conference on Development and Migration (UNHCR, July 2023) [text]

*Measuring the poverty of forcibly displaced populations: Challenges, progress, and prospects (Development for Peace Blog, July 2023) [text]

Multistakeholder Pledge: Shifting Power - Advancing Localization of Research and Elevating the Voices of Host and Forcibly Displaced Communities Globally (UNHCR & GAIN, July 2023) [text]

Summary of the International Conference "Forced Migration in a Comparative Life-course Perspective" (ForMOVe Project, July 2023) [text]

"UNHCR, IOM outline new approach to assist growing number of migrants," UN News, 24 July 2023 [text]

New open access books:

Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other (Innsbruck University Press, 2023) [open access]

- "Aware that imagination is a mimetic process, the contributors to this volume try to illuminate different aspects of this complex entanglement, asking whom or what we mean by 'the other': the stranger and migrant, the brother or sister, nature that envelops or defies us, the transcendent Other. The three parts of this book employ mimetic theory to analyze the imagination of the other and the challenges of migration, to illustrate the politics of migration, looking at particular problems and case studies, and to probe the imagination of the other between exclusion and adoration."

Migration and International Relations: IMISCOE Short Reader (Springer, July 2023) [open access]

- "This open access short reader investigates how migration has become an increasingly important issue in international relations since the turn of the 21st century.  It investigates specific aspects of this migration diplomacy such as double citizenship or bilateral agreements on border controls which can become important tools for bargain or pressure. This short reader also discusses the intersections between migration and international relations concerning issues of global governance such as conflicts and refugees, development and mobility, or environmental migration.  The book thereby shows the extent of bargaining involved in migration and international relations, the so called 'soft diplomacy of migrations' as seen in the EU/Turkish agreement on borders in 2016, or the EU negotiations with Maghreb or Sub-Saharan countries on read missions against development programs and visas."

Reports & journal articles:

Alert 2023! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding (Escola de Cultura de Pau, July 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also Spanish version.

"Cognitive Reflection and Endorsement of the 'Great Replacement' Conspiracy Theory," Social Psychological Bulletin, vol. 18 (2023) [open access]

"Estimating Global Bilateral Refugee Migration Flows from 1990 to 2015," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 27 July 2023 [open access]

"A global network of scholars? The geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications," Comparative Migration Studies, 11:16 (June 2023) [open access]

- Note: See below for more info on the Directory of Migration Research Institutions that resulted from this study.

Multimedia:

Improving Communications in the Voluntary Return and Reintegration Network, 25 July 2023 [access]

Precarious Migrants (Migration Oxford Podcast Series, May 2023) [access]

Resource:

Directory of Migration Research Institutes (European University Institute) [access]

- Follow the link for instructions on how to download a data file of the directory and a URL for an interactive version available online. See also this related blog post.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (24 July 2023)