03 February 2024

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

Call for participants: LouvainX: Migration Law MOOC [info]
- The course begins 6 February 2024 and runs for 16 weeks.

Seminar: Evacuations as Displacement, Online, 14 February 2024 [info]

Call for applications: Two three-year Postdoctoral Fellow positions available, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW [info]
- Part of “Evacuations in International Law: Disasters, Conflict and Humanitarian Crises” research programme. Apply by 20 February 2024 AEDT.

Call for applications: Editorial Board members, International Journal of Refugee Law [info]
- Apply by 1 March 2024.

CFP: Global Mobility Law: Norms, Geographies and Theory, Copenhagen, 5-6 September 2024 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 1 March 2024.

Call for applications: Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Refugee Law [info]
- One or two successors are sought to take over for the two current editors-in-chief when they step down at the end of the year. Apply by 10 March 2024.

Reports & journal articles:

Expanding Protection Options? Flexible Approaches to Status for Displaced Syrians, Venezuelans, and Ukrainians (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2024) [text]

"Meta-Borders and the Rule of Law: From Externalisation to ‘Responsibilisation’ in Systems of Contactless Control," Netherlands International Law Review (Forthcoming) [eprint]

"Migration Policies in the OSCE Region," Chapter in Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance: Studies on Transformation and Development in the OSCE Region (Springer, ) [open access]
- Focuses on "differential responses to Ukrainian, Syrian and Afghan refugees."

Protecting the Vulnerable in the Twenty-First Century: An International Perspective (SSRN, Dec. 2023) [text]
- Assesses whether or not the Refugee Convention "adequately deals with twenty-first century issues."

"Refugee Rights in Islam and in Modern Refugee Law with Special Reference to the Non-Refoulement Principle," Middle East Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (Dec. 2023) [full-text]

"The risks to refugee law of humanitarian responses to flight from Ukraine," International Affairs, vol. 100, no. 1 (Jan. 2024) [full-text via UBC]

Multimedia:

Displacement from Conflict: Old Realities, New Protections?, 31 Jan. 2024 [access]

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