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19 January 2024

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities: 

Call for applications: International Online School in Forced Migration, 11-15 March 2024 [info]
- "Offers are made on a first-come, first-served basis to suitably qualified and experienced applicants. Each school has a maximum of 50 spaces."

Call for applications: Associate Editor, Journal of Refugee Studies [info]
- Apply by 31 January 2024.

Panel discussion: Attitudes to Migration and Patterns of Discrimination: Findings from Japan, the UK, Colombia, and Peru, Oxford/Online, 2 February 2024 [info]

Short course: Research Methods in the Refugee and Forced Migration Field, London, 4-8 March 2024 [info]
- Apply by 4 February 2024.

Short pieces:

Access to justice for migrants: Can academics do more? (MIDEQ Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

"Everything politicians tell you about immigration is wrong. This is how it actually works," The Guardian, 29 Dec. 2023 [text]

Excluding refugee-led organisations (RLOs) from the formal refugee response is a lose-lose: Three reasons why RLOs need to be front and centre at this Global Refugee Forum (ODI Insights, Dec. 2023) [text]

"Q&A: 2023 migration and forced displacement, in review," The New Humanitarian, 22 Dec. 2023 [text]

“Refugees” or “Migrants”? How word choices affect rights and lives (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

There's no such thing as social cohesion! What aid actors need to understand about the social relations of displaced people (ODI Insights, Jan. 2024) [text]

Top 10 Migration Issues of 2023 (Migration Information Source, Dec. 2023) [access]

*The US is struggling to handle an immigration surge – here’s how Europe is dealing with its own influx (The Conversation, Jan. 2024) [text]

New open access book:

The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality
(Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2023) [open access]
- "This open access handbook examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insights that can inform theoretical and policy understandings and unlock migration’s development potential." See also related MIDEQ blog post.

Reports:

Co-production of Knowledge in Forced Migration Studies: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Challenges and the Possibilities for the Emergence of Best Practices, LERRN Working Paper, no. 21 (Carleton Univ., Jan. 2024) [text]

Confronting Compassion Fatigue: Understanding the Arc of Public Support for Displaced Populations in Turkey, Colombia, and Europe (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2024) [text]

The failure to fund refugee-led organisations: Why the current system is not working, and the potential for change (ODI, Nov. 2023) [access]

Forging the Path to Meaningful Refugee Participation: Interdisciplinary Analysis of Power, Agency, and Participation, LERRN Working Paper, no. 22 (Carleton Univ., Jan. 2024) [text]

General Comment No. 1 on Enforced Disappearances in the context of Migration (Committee on Enforced Disappearances, 2023) [access]
- This article provides a brief overview of the comment.

The Mixed Migration Centre in 2023: Annual catalogue of research & publications (Mixed Migration Centre, Jan. 2024) [access]

Moral responsibilities towards refugees, Ethical Annotation, no. 2 (Utrecht Univ., 2023) [text]

Research for Advocacy & Systemic Change: A Ridiculously Simplified Guide to Intersectional & Decolonial Research + Examples (Mara Tissera Luna, Jan. 2024) [access via LinkedIn]
- The examples provided focus on forced migration.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Researching health and internal displacement: Introduction to the special series," Journal of Migration and Health, 20 Dec. 2023 [open access]
- Articles in the series are available here.

"Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty," Geopolitics, vol. 28, no. 4 (2023) [open access]

"State Interests and the Global Response to Forced Displacement: How Can We Move Forward?," Chapter in Global Governance and International Cooperation: Managing Global Catastrophic Risks in the 21st Century (Routledge, Forthcoming) [preprint]

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