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31 March 2024

Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (31 March 2024)

This is a round-up of open access materials produced by authors based in the Global South (GS) and other geographic areas that are less well-represented in the domain of scholarly forced migration literature. Generally, articles are included if either the lead author or at least half of the co-authors are based in the GS. These references are organized by type of open access. The OA items herein were previously referenced on this blog as of 31 March 2024.

Bronze OA:

"'Environmental Refugees': A Case Study of the Chakmas in India," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) 
- Scroll to p. 8.
- Author = India

"Invisible and Excluded: The Plight of Disabled Refugees in International Law," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024)
- Scroll to p. 1
- Author = India

"A Lesson in Creating Community for Educational Rights in Cairo," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) 
- Scroll to p. 71.
- Authors (2) = Egypt

"Socio-economic Integration Strategies of 'Former Rwandan Refugees' in Yaoundé, Cameroon," Journal of Critical Global Issues, vol. 1, no. 1 (2024)
- Author = Cameroon

Diamond OA:

"Apatridia en menores de padres venezolanos en Colombia: leyes sin políticas contundentes = Statelessness  of  Children  born  to  Venezuelan  Parents  in  Colombia: Lawmaking without Convincing Policies," Entramado, vol. 19, no. 2 (2023)
- The full-text is available in both Spanish and English.
- Authors (3) = Colombia

"Application of the Cessation Clauses to the Refugee Problem in Rwanda: Opportunities and Challenges," Rwanda Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Business, vol. 3, no. 1 (2024)
- Authors (4) = Rwanda

"The Association between Intimate Partner Violence and Female Syrian Refugees’ Mental Health," Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry, Ahead of Print, 28 Feb. 2024
- Author = Qatar

"Between Two Worlds: The Role of Bilingual Call Centers in Navigating Post-Deportation Identity among Mexican Returnees," Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, vol. 17, no. 2 (2023)
- Authors (3) = Mexico

"Can Joint Mobility Projects at Universities Promote Safe Transitions for Refugees? The Experience of Jordanian Social Work Students," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1 (2024)
- Authors (8) = Jordan (7, incl. lead), US (1)

"Forced Migration, School Wastage and Refugee Governance: An Empirical Analysis of the Situation of Refugee Children in Cameroon," Annals of the University of Craiova, Series Psychology, Pedagogy, vol. 45, no. 2 (Dec. 2023) 
- Authors (2) = Cameroon

"Historic Transit Migration through Darién, Panama: Qualitative Results of Impact for Local Communities," Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 1 (March 2024) 
- Scroll to p. 18.
- Authors (4) = Affiliated with unspecified Latin American-based org. (lead), US (2), Panama (1)

"Jordan’s Response to Hosting Syrian and Palestinian Refugees: A Comparative Analytical Framework," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1 (2024)
- Authors (3) = Jordan

"The Principle of Substitution: The Argentine Contribution to Private Sponsorship Schemes?," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 39, no. 2 (2023)
- Author = Argentina

"Refugees, Climate Litigation in the Global South and Climate Change: Facing the Gap in the Protection of Climate Refugees in International Law," Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, vol. XXIV (2024)
- Author = Brazil

"Responses to the Question of the Schooling of Refugees in the Commune of Mandjou: Modalities and Evaluation from 2013 to 2023," Annals of the University of Craiova, Series Psychology, Pedagogy, vol. 45, no. 2 (Dec. 2023)
- Authors (3) = Cameroon

"The Role of Regional Integration in Advancing Human Mobility in East and Horn of Africa," Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 1 (March 2024)
- Scroll to p. 12.
- Authors (2) = Kenya (lead), South Africa (1)

"Surviving the Socioeconomic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Migrants in
the Informal Economy in Downtown Bloemfontein, South Africa," Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 1 (March 2024)
- Scroll to p. 49.
- Authors (3) = South Africa

"'They seem so like us': The Discursive Representation of Ukrainian Refugees in Western Media," University Studies in Humanities, no. 15 (2024)
- Author = Lebanon

Gold OA:

Note: Article processing charges (APCs) and other fees are indicated below; waivers are generally offered by gold OA journals but the waiver status of the authors listed below is unknown.

- Authors (7) = Iran (5, incl. lead), UK (1), Switzerland (1)
- APC = USD 3190

"Barriers to Contraceptive Use in Humanitarian Settings: Experiences of South Sudanese Refugee Women Living in Adjumani District, Uganda: An Exploratory Qualitative Study," PLoS ONE 19(3): e0278731 (March 2024)
- Authors (5) = Uganda (4, incl. lead), UK (1)
- APC = USD 2290

"Barriers to Entrepreneurial Refugees’ Integration into Host Countries: A Case of Afghan Refugees," Sustainability, vol. 16, no. 6 (March 2024)
- Authors (5) = Pakistan (2, incl. lead), Pakistan/Saudi Arabia (1), Hungary (2)
- APC = CHF 2400

- Authors (4) = Canada (2, incl. lead), Saudi (1), Jordan (1)
- APC = USD 2400

- Authors (5) = Uganda 
- APC = USD 3190

"Faith in Humanity: Religious Charitable Organizations Solidarity towards Migrants in the United Arab Emirates," Religions, vol. 15, no. 3 (Feb. 2024)
- Authors (4) = United Arab Emirates
- APC = CHF 1800

"The Hidden Burden of Dysmenorrhea among Adolescent Girls in Palestine Refugee Camps: A Focus on Well-being and Academic Performance," BMC Public Health, 24:726 (March 2024)
- Authors (6) = Palestine/Norway (lead), Palestine (2), Norway (3)
- APC = USD 3190

"A Human Rights-based Approach for Effective Criminal Justice Response to Human Trafficking," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:4 (Jan. 2024)
- Author = Ethiopia/Netherlands
- APC = USD 790

"'I don't want my marriage to end': A Qualitative Investigation of the Sociocultural Factors Influencing Contraceptive Use among Married Rohingya Women Residing in Refugee Camps in Bangladesh," Reproductive Health, 21:32 (March 2024)
- Authors (2) = Bangladesh
- APC = USD 3090

"The Impact of Policy and Policy Communication on COVID-19 Vaccination Inequalities among Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Colombia: A Comparative Cross-sectional Interrupted Time-series Analysis," BMJ Global Health, vol. 9, no. 3 (March 2024)
- Authors (13) = US (6, incl. lead), Colombia (7)
- APC = GBP 3245

Authors (3) = Kenya
APC = USD 250

- Authors (14) = Uganda 
- APC = USD 2400

"Perceptions and Attitudes of Rohingya Community Stakeholders to Pregnancy Termination Services: A Qualitative Study in Camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh," Conflict and Health, 18:19 (March 2024)
- Authors (7) = Bangladesh (4, incl. lead), UK (1), US (2)
- APC = USD 3190

"Safeguarding in Practice: Anticipating, Minimising and Mitigating Risk in Teenage Pregnancy Research in Urban Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya," BMJ Global Health, vol. 9, no. 2 (Feb. 2024)
- Authors (9) = Kenya (4, incl. lead), UK (4) = UK/Kenya (1)
- APC = GBP 3245 

"Social Vulnerabilities among Immigrants and Refugees in Emergencies and Disasters: A Systematic Review," Frontiers in Public Health, 6 March 2024
- Authors (3) = Iran
- APC = USD 3295

Green OA:

Note: Authors can now deposit their postprints in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA)! The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website.

"Predicting Intention to Vaccinate against COVID-19 in Older Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Findings from a Multi-wave Study," Vaccine, In Press, 13 March 2024 
- Preprint version posted on medRxiv
- Authors (8) = Lebanon 

Hybrid OA:

Note: Article processing charges (APCs) are indicated below; waivers are not available for hybrid OA APCs.

"The Dynamic Space of Aid Relations in Protracted Internal Displacement: The Case of Sri Lanka's Northern Muslims," Disasters, Early View, 5 March 2024
- Authors (5) = Lebanon/UK (lead), Sri Lanka (2), Norway (2)
- APC = USD 3590

Book chapter:

"Doubtful Citizens: Irregularization and Precarious Citizenship in Contemporary India," Chapter in Statelessness in Asia (Cambridge Univ. Press, Forthcoming Aug 2024) 
- Preprint version posted on SSRN
- Author = India (at the time of writing this contribution)

Related post:







New Issues of Alt. Hum., Disasters, Globaliz., Health Educ. Res., Innov. Soc. Sci., Intl. J. Law Context, Ital. Soc. Rev., J. Ident. & Migr. Stud., Migr. Pol. Pract., QRP, REMI

*Reminder: Postprints of articles published in the journals below that are marked with an asterisk can be archived/deposited in a repository immediately after publication (like the Forced Migration Research Archive) - i.e., there is no embargo period! This allows authors to provide open access to their scholarly journal articles without having to pay costly publication fees. Please refer to this earlier blog post for more information.

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives
, no. 25 (2024)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]
- Issue theme is "Food crises: what role for humanitarian actors?"

Disasters, vol. 48, no. 2 (April 2024) [contents]
- Mix of articles, with 10 that are open access.

Globalizations, vol. 21, no. 2 (2024) [contents]
- Special issue on "Cities and the Contentious Politics of Migration." The introduction is freely available and one article is open access.

Health Education Research, vol. 39, no. 2 (April 2024) [contents]
- Special theme issue on "Refugee, immigrant, and migrant health." The introduction is freely available and one article is open access.

Innovation in the Social Sciences, vol. 2, no. 1 (2024) [open access]
- Special issue on "The Legal Ambiguity of the State Crime and the Making of Statelessness."

*International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 20, no. 1 (2024) [contents]
- Special issue on "Law, Migration and Vulnerability: From the Margins to the Centre." The introduction and two articles are open access.

Italian Sociological Review, vol. 14, no 9S (2024) [open access]
- Special issue on "Bordering and Debordering Across Time."

Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, vol. 17, no. 2 (2023) [open access]
- Mix of articles.

Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 1 (March 2024) [open access]
- This issue provides "insights on the short- and long-term impacts of migration."

QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 62, no. 4 (2024) [open access]
- This issue "summarizes contributions, discussions, findings and conclusions from the 68th International Conference of the Association for the World Refugee Problem (AWR) on the subject of 'Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Transnational Skill Partnerships'."

QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1 (2024) [open access]
- Includes "a special focus on refugee situations in the Middle East."

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 40, no. 1 (2024) [open access]
- Thematic dossier focuses on "Migrations et développement. Enjeux politiques."

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: MENA

Focus on Gaza:
  • "Behind the numbers: Gaza’s unprecedented aid worker death toll," The New Humanitarian, 21 March 2024 [text]
  • "Days after U.N. Cease-fire Resolution, Has Anything Changed in Gaza?," New York Times, 29 March 2024 [text]
  • “Famine is Setting in”: The International Court of Justice Returns to Gaza (Just Security Blog, March 2024) [text]
  • Gaza's Famine is Underway (Just Security Blog, March 2024) [text]
  • "Hundreds of trucks full of aid sit idle near border with Gaza as crisis deepens," NBC News, 30 March 2024 [text]
  • "Japan to resume funding to UNRWA, following Sweden, Finland and Canada," Al Jazeera, 29 March 2024 [text]
  • On UNRWA, Palestine Refugees, and International Law (EJIL Talk Blog, March 2024) [text]
  • States must adhere to obligations under Genocide Convention to prevent further loss of life in Gaza, says Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese (OHCHR, March 2024) [text]
  • "UN Security Council passes Gaza ceasefire resolution," The New Humanitarian, 25 March 2024 [text]

Other publications:

"Covid-19 skepticism and public health norms during refugee assistance: does skepticism always lead to poor safety protocol adherence?," BMC Public Health, 24:881 (March 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on refugees in Lebanon, Türkiye, and Jordan.

"'The Decision to Return to Syria is Not in My Hands': Syria’s Repatriation Regime as Illiberal Statebuilding," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2024) [free full-text]

"Faith in Humanity: Religious Charitable Organizations Solidarity towards Migrants in the United Arab Emirates," Religions, vol. 15, no. 3 (Feb. 2024) [open access]

"Hosting Syrian Refugees through the Development Lens: The Case of Jordan," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 40, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

“Let it stay in the heart and injure, rather than going out and exposing me”: Unpacking cultural concepts of distress among Syrian refugees in Jordan (ELRHA Blog, March 2024) [text]

Refugees in Jordan: a data-driven approach for change (IIED, March 2024) [text]

*"Risk perception and desire in decision-making: the case of Syrians’ sea migration to Europe," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 30 March 2024 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

30 March 2024

Thematic Focus: Detention

Opportunity:

Panel discussion: Strategic Litigation Network: After NZYQ – Community Safety Orders, Sydney/Online, 3 April 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Australia High Court Decision and Legislative Reactions: A Cycle of Release and Re-Detention for “Stateless” Immigrants? (Jurist, Feb. 2024) [text]

"Diego Garcia asylum seekers face arbitrary detention: UN inspectors," The New Humanitarian, 19 Feb. 2024 [text]

Doctors should not declare anyone fit to be held in immigration detention centres (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2024) [text]

Number of Detained Migrants Increases; Number of Migrants on ATD Decreases (ImmigrationProf Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Vastria CCAC: Isolation – an overlooked indicator of detention in the context of refugee camps? (RLI Blog, March 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Greece.

Reports & journal articles:

Alternatives to Immigration Detention in Türkiye: What’s the European Union got to do with it?, RSC Working Paper, no. 2024/08 (European Univ. Institute, March 2024) [text]

"'Detention is morally exhausting': melancholia of detention centres in France," Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, vol. 31, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Detention 'Keeps the Families Together': US Zero Tolerance Separations and the Slow Violence of Litigating Family Detention," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 13 Feb. 2024 [preprint]

Electronic Monitoring of Migrants: Punitive not Prudent (ABA Commission on Immigration, Feb. 2024) [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

Immigration Detention in Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China): Severe Detention Regimes and Paltry Conditions (Global Detention Project, March 2024) [text]

"The private harms of detention: why Serco’s violence is not criminalised," Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Latest Articles, 26 Feb. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

'We Can’t See the Sun’: Malaysia’s Arbitrary Detention of Migrants and Refugees (Human Rights Watch, March 2024) [access]

Multimedia:

Book Talk: Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants & the Seeds of Resistance, 19 Jan. 2024 [access]

Related post:

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Access to Work for Those Seeking Asylum: Concerns Arising from British and Swedish Legal Strategies," Industrial Law Journal, Advance Articles, 12 March 2024 [open access]

"Barriers to Entrepreneurial Refugees’ Integration into Host Countries: A Case of Afghan Refugees," Sustainability, vol. 16, no. 6 (March 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Pakistan.

"The Cruel Optimism of Work Permits: Vulnerabilities and Deportability Among Rejected Asylum-Seekers and International Students Pursuing Track Changes in Sweden," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 27 March 2024 [open access]

"Does country of resettlement influence the risk of labor market marginalization among refugees? A cohort study in Sweden and Norway," Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment, and Health, OnlineFirst, 25 March 2024 [open access]

"Economic and labour market impacts of migration in Austria: an agent-based modelling approach," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:18 (March 2024) [open access]

"(Hidden) in Plain Sight: Migrant Child Labor and the New Economy of Exploitation," Arkansas Law Review (Forthcoming, June 2024) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Investigating refugees’ negotiation of professional possible selves," Career Development Quarterly, Early View, 21 March 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Switzerland.

"Refugees as Entrepreneurs? A Challenge to HDP Programmes," International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, Latest Articles, 25 March 2024 [open access]

Related post:

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Gebeya and UNHCR launch new platform making it easy for businesses to discover refugee talent in Ethiopia (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

The private sector is pivotal to tackling the global forced displacement crisis (World Bank Voices, Feb. 2024) [text]

"Research Highlights Migrants Pay Gap in Australia," VOA News, 13 March 2024 [text]

Tweaking US trade policy could hold the key to reducing migration from Central America (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

Venezuelan migrants are boosting economic growth in South America, says research (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

Reports:

Economic outcomes of government-assisted refugees in designated destinations: The effect of city size (Statistics Canada, March 2024) [text]

Forced Migration and Refugees: Policies for Successful Economic and Social Integration, Working Paper, no. 687 (Center for Global Development, March 2024) [access]
- Follow link for report and related blog post.

Labour-related experiences of migrants and refugees in South Africa (SIHMA, March 2024) [text]

La Migración Como Motor del Crecimiento Económico: Aumentando la Productividad y Llenando las Brechas Laborales, CLALS Working Paper, no. 47 (American Univ., Feb. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

A Path to Self-Reliance for Displacement-Affected People: Summary Report on Economic Inclusion Barriers and Market Assessments in Kenya and South Sudan (Norwegian Refugee Council, March 2024) [access]

Responsibility Sharing and the Economic Participation of Refugees in Chad, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 10727 (World Bank, March 2024) [text]

Related post:

29 March 2024

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Call for input: HRC56 thematic report on climate change and internal displacement [info]
- Submit comments by 1 April 2024.

Short pieces:

Climate-induced Migration (nccr – on the move Blog, Jan.-Feb. 2024) [access]
- Three-part series.

From Bad to Worse: Climate Migration in Middle East (Lawfare Blog, March 2024) [text]

The Gaps in NAPs: More Must be Done to Integrate Human (Im)mobility into National Adaptation Plans (RID Blog, March 2024) [text

Planned Relocations and Durable Solutions: Learning from Parallel Conversations (RID Blog, March 2024) [text

Vastria CCAC: A rights-based study of the environmental conditions of European reception centers (RLI Blog, March 2024) [text]

Reports:

Country Report on Migration, Environment, and Climate Change in Libya (IOM, March 2024) [text]

Focus Area Strategic Plan for Climate Action 2024-2030 (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

Groundwater: A resilient resource for climate change adaptation in displacement and migration situations (IOM, March 2024) [text]

Report on Migration, Environment, and Climate Change in Yemen (IOM, March 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"‘Environmental Refugees’: A Case Study of the Chakmas in India," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 8.

"How well can we predict climate migration? A review of forecasting models," Frontiers in Climate, 4 Jan. 2024 [open access]

Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, no. 84 (March 2024) [full-text]
 - Focuses on "Climate change, conflict and displacement."

"Refugees, Climate Litigation in the Global South and Climate Change: Facing the Gap in the Protection of Climate Refugees in International Law," Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, vol. XXIV (2024) [open access]

"Social Vulnerabilities among Immigrants and Refugees in Emergencies and Disasters: A Systematic Review," Frontiers in Public Health, 6 March 2024 [open access]

"Staying put in an era of climate change: The geographies, legalities, and public health implications of immobility," WIREs Climate Change, Early View, 6 Feb. 2024 [open access]
- See also related news story.

Multimedia:

Could a Loss and Damage Fund Compensate Climate Migrants? (Changing Climate, Changing Migration Podcast Series, March 2024) [access]

Moving Mountains: Climate Migration in High Altitudes (Changing Climate, Changing Migration Podcast Series, Feb. 2024) [access]

Resources:

Climate Displacement and Resilience Database (UC Berkeley) [access]
- The objective of this database is to "advance protections for peoples displaced by the climate crisis and to connect information and data needed to create strategies in service of the 'Right to Stay'." More info is available in this video recording of the launch event.

CLIMB Database: Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Database (UN Migration Network) [access]
- This database provides access to  policy instruments that contain "provisions of relevance to human mobility in the context of disasters, the adverse effects of climate change, and environmental degradation."

Related post:

New Issue of JRS

The latest issue of Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) has been published. Contents of vol. 37, no. 1, March 2024 include:
  • ‘Enjoying Time Alone’: Exploring Solitude as a Positive Space for Refugee Wellbeing [open access]
  • Hope in the Ruins of Home: Narrative Meaning-Making of Forced Displacement, Place Attachment, and Deferred Future Resettlement in Varosha [open access]
  • On Becoming an Artist Anew: Refugees’ Arrival in the Field of Cultural Production in Austria [open access]
  • Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK [open access]
  • Self-selection of Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons in Europe [open access]
  • Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Protection of Refugees and Refugee Camps [open access]
  • Context Matters: The Implications of the Mode of Service Provision for Structural and Relational Integration of Refugees in Ghana and Ethiopia [open access]
  • Standard Involvement Is Not Enough: A Mixed Method Study of Enablers and Barriers in Research Meetings with Forced Migrants [open access]
  • ‘The Decision to Return to Syria Is Not in My Hands’: Syria’s Repatriation Regime as Illiberal Statebuilding [free full-text]
  • Displacement in Place and the Financial Crisis in Lebanon [open access]
  • ‘I Did Not Choose to Be in Your Country’: Social-Racial Hierarchies in Peru and Venezuelan Migrant Women’s Responses [abstract]
  • Working with Afghan Evacuees: Field Reflections on Five Useful Supervision Questions for Crisis Intervention Workers [abstract]

Seven reviews are also included.

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

Reports:

Disabled Immigrants Face Compounding Barriers to Education and Employment: Insights from an Expert Convening and Future Research Directions (Urban Institute, Dec. 2023) [access]
- Focuses on the US. Follow link for report in English and Spanish.

Engaging women in the humanitarian response in Afghanistan: Perspectives from people with disabilities (Ground Truth Solutions, et al, Jan. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"I go to sleep on an empty stomach”: Improving the inclusion of older people in humanitarian nutrition planning and response (HelpAge International, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related blog post.

Palestine: Impact of the conflict on people with disabilities in the Gaza Strip (ACAPS, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Rights of Refugees and Asylum Applicants with Disabilities: Article 26 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Beyond (ECRE, Dec. 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Barriers and enabling factors for utilizing physical rehabilitation services by Afghan immigrants and refugees with disabilities in Iran: a qualitative study," BMC Public Health, 24:893 (March 2024) [open access]

"Disaggregation of humanitarian data by disability: a realist evaluation of the use of the Washington Group Questions to support more inclusive practices," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:6 (Feb. 2024) [open access]

"Invisible and Excluded: The Plight of Disabled Refugees in International Law," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 1.

"Online Bilingual Co-Design: Developing Resources with People with Disability and Family Members from Refugee Backgrounds," The Qualitative Report, vol. 29, no. 2 (2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

"Predicting intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 in older Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Findings from a multi-wave study," Vaccine, In Press, 13 March 2024 [preprint]

Related post:

28 March 2024

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Reports:

The EU’s new counter-smuggling directive proposal: persisting challenges and recommendations towards implementation, Policy Brief, no. 1 (European Univ. Institute, Jan. 2024) [text]

Migrant smuggling in Southeast Asia: Research Findings on Migrant Smuggling in Southeast Asia (UNODC, March 2024) [access]
- Follow link for html and pdf versions of the report. See also executive summary and related press release.

Preventing and countering the facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and stay in the EU (European Parliament, March 2024) [text]

Procedimiento operativo estándar para la protección y atención de personas refugiadas y migrantes frente a la trata de personas en contextos de asistencia humanitaria en el Perú (R4V, Jan. 2024) [text]

Small boats, big business: The industrialization of cross-channel migrant smuggling (Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Feb. 2024) [text]

Trafficking Survivors Lost in the Funding Debate’s Asylum Stipulations (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Jan. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Exploring the ‘Blurred Boundary’: Human Smuggling and Trafficking on the Central Mediterranean Route to Europe," Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, vol. 5, no. 1 (March 2024) [open access]

"From Single & Citizen to Married & Precarious: An Intersectional Analysis of Marriage Trafficking from the Global South," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 28.

"A human rights-based approach for effective criminal justice response to human trafficking," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:4 (Jan. 2024) [open access]

"Multi-Faceted Risk: Exempting Trafficked Asylum Seekers from 'Safe Third County' Agreements in States Not in Compliance with TVPA Minimum Standards," Fordham International Law Journal, vol. 47, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Towards a Spatial Analysis of Refugees Working Outside Camps," Journal of Human Trafficking, Latest Articles, 7 March 2023 [open access]
- Focuses on Bhutanese refugees in Nepal.

Multimedia:

The Impact of Proposed Changes to the Asylum System on Survivors of Human Trafficking, 30 Jan. 2024 [access]
- Focuses on the US.

Related post:

27 March 2024

Opportunities: A few more April 2024

Call for input: HRC56 thematic report on climate change and internal displacement [info]
- Submit comments by 1 April 2024.

Discussion: Demystifying UNRWA: Legal and Policy Challenges Facing the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2 April 2024 [info]

CFP: Climate Change and Migration: New Challenges, Legal Responses, and Policy Solutions, Nottingham, UK, 19 June 2024 [info
- Submit abstracts by 12 April 2024.

Call for registration: 2024 Global Conference on Internally Displaced People, Washington, DC/Online, 18 April 2024 [info]

Networking event: Refugee Education: Continuing Conversations 6, Online, 22 April 2024 [info]

Call for proposals: Journal of Refugee Studies [info]
- JRS is seeking proposals for special issues that have the "potential to inform and invigorate future research on issues of broad importance to the field. ...We welcome proposals from researchers from under-represented groups, including those from the Global South. When developing their proposals, we encourage guest editors to consider issues of representation and diversity, including in terms of career stage." The submission deadline is 30 April 2024.

Related post:


25 March 2024

Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

Arriving at a Crossroads: Can Europe Avoid Replaying the Policy Failures of the 2014-16 Migration Crisis? (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, March 2024) [text]

Did Macron and Tusk Just Chart a Path for Liberals Elsewhere on Immigration? (Just Security Blog, March 2024) [text]

I’ve spent time with refugees in French coastal camps and they told me the government’s Rwanda plan is not putting them off coming to the UK (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

Rwanda asylum deportation plan faces more delays – how did we get here? (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.**

Reports:

Attitudes towards immigration and refugees in Ireland: Understanding recent trends and drivers (Economic & Social Research Institute, March 2024) [text]

Pathways to Protection: Mapping visa schemes and other practices enabling people in need of international protection to reach Europe safely (ECRE, March 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:17 (March 2024) [open access]

"The Catholic Church and Refugees in Slovenia," Religions, vol. 15, no. 4 (March 2024) [open access]

"Coproducing a film resource for asylum seekers in the UK—A field reflection," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 23 March 2024 [open access]

"The Diagonal Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: From 'Displacement' through 'Agency' to 'Scope' and Beyond," German Law Journal, First View, 22 Jan. 2024 [open access]

Italian Sociological Review, vol. 14, no. 9S (2024) [open access]
- Special issue on "Bordering and Debordering Across Time: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Facing Chronopolitics."

"Providing asylum: Spatial distribution of accommodation facilities for Ukrainian refugees against the background of local conditions in a less developed Polish region," Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Administratio Locorum, vol. 23, no. 1 (2024) [open access

"The role of small voluntary sector organisations in tackling complex social challenges: lessons from a charity serving asylum seekers and refugees," Voluntary Sector Review: An international journal of third sector research, policy and practice, Early View, 20 March 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

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21 March 2024

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"The Causes and Consequences of Administrative Burdens in the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 12 March 2024 [open access]

"Contested Belonging in an Election Year: The Case of Refugees Living in Sweden," Journal of Intercultural Studies, Latest Articles, 7 March 2024 [open access]

"Effect of food insecurity on depression, anxiety, and stress among resettled Syrian refugees in Ontario,"  PLOS Global Public Health 4(3): e0002571 (March 2024) [open access]

"Experiencing forced migration: challenges of arriving after displacement from Ukraine," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 15 March 2024 [open access]

"Global Affordable Housing Shortages Can Harm Migrant Reception and Integration," Migration Information Source, 20 March 2024 [text]

*"'It’s not that I don’t like it here, it’s just that I eventually want to live somewhere else': young refugees’ contested arrival experiences, local racialized discourses and emergent future selves in Amsterdam," Urban Geography, Latest Articles, 18 March 2024 [open access]

"Making Your Own Weather: Self-Reliance and Working for Resettlement Among Sudanese Refugee Men in Amman, Jordan," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 39, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

"The Principle of Substitution: The Argentine Contribution to Private Sponsorship Schemes?," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 39, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

Multimedia:

Global perspectives on resettlement and complementary pathways, 27 Feb. 2024 [access]

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Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1

Event:

2024 Consultations on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways, Geneva, 4-7 June 2024 [info]
- This year's theme is "Solutions in action: advancing the 2030 roadmap."

Short pieces:

NGO statement on the oral update on the Executive Committee Conclusion, 89th Standing Committee Meeting, 13-15 March 2024 [oral statement] [written statement
- NGO input on the "this year’s Executive Committee (ExCom) Conclusion on Durable Solutions and Complementary Pathways."

Ukrainian Refugees (nccr – on the move Blog, March 2024) [access]
- Two-part series.

Reports:

Examining Afghan Evacuees’ Resettlement: Insights and Lessons for Future Humanitarian Populations (Urban Institute, March 2024) [text]

From Arrival to Integration: Building communities for refugees and for Britain (Commission on the Integration of Refugees, March 2024) [text]

Relational Wellbeing in the Lives of Young Refugees (MDPI, Feb. 2024) [text]
- "n this Special Issue, we consider the ways in which a relational wellbeing approach can be used to understand the lives and trajectories of refugees in general and young refugees in particular. ...The papers span contexts and countries, offering an international array of experiences, joined by an issue of supra-national importance—that is, the ways interaction and relationality mediate the experiences of becoming and being a refugee."

Resettlement after evictions and displacement: addressing a human rights crisis: Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/55/53 (UN Human Rights Council, Jan. 2024) [text]

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Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces: 

"The clock is ticking to build guardrails into humanitarian AI," The New Humanitarian, 11 March 2024 [text]

The UK government is using private tech companies to deliver public funds to asylum seekers (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

Reports & book chapters:  

"Investigations with Digital Open-Source Information and the Stabilization of International Norms: Protecting the Principle of Non-Refoulement," Chapter in International Law and Technological Change: Testing the Adaptability of International Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming 2024) [preprint]

Leaving No One Behind: Inclusive Fintech for Remittances (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2024) [text]

Mapping Humanitarian Tech: exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes (Access Now, Feb. 2024) [text]
- See also related interview.

MOBILE Working Paper Series (Univ. of Copenhagen) [access]
- A number of papers look at the intersection between technologies and asylum law, particularly in the area of RSD.

"Ukrainian Refugees in Poland: Two Schools Under One Roof—One Is Offline, the Other One Online," Chapter in Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments: A Global Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, March 2024) [open access]

Journal articles:

"Addressing Algorithmic Errors in Data-Driven Border Control Procedures," German Law Journal, First View, 13 Feb. 2024 [open access]

"Designing Effective Mobile Phone Surveys: Insights from Mozambique on Optimizing Call Attempts and Evaluating Response, Refusal, and Contact Rates among Refugees and Asylum Seekers," Survey Methods: Insights from the Field, 22 Feb. 2024 [open access]

"Friends and foes: the ambivalence of the use of NICT during the migratory journey," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 13 Feb. 2024 [ResearchGate]
- Note: NICT = new information & communication technologies

"Humanitarian hacking: Merging refugee aid and digital capitalism," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 19 March 2024 [free full-text]

"Processing payments, enacting alterity: financial technology in the everyday lives of asylum seekers," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 March 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

"Unique data, different values: Explaining variation in the use of biometrics by international humanitarian organizations," Global Policy, Early View, 6 Feb. 2024 [open access]

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News: UNHCR Guidance on Haitians

Yesterday, UNHCR issued new guidance on "International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing Haiti" that reviews current country conditions and assesses international protection needs. The press release notes the following:

"In its new guidance, UNHCR considers that, in line with the 1951 Refugee Convention, Haitians who should be deemed eligible for refugee protection may include political activists, journalists, judges, lawyers and others fighting corruption and crime, among other risk profiles.
   Furthermore, Haitians may also be eligible for refugee protection under the 1984 Cartagena Declaration’s regional refugee definition. Under this definition applied by many countries in the region, refugee protection should be extended to individuals affected by circumstances that seriously disturb public order in the country and by generalized violence in areas impacted by gang activities.
   Countries may also consider granting complementary or temporary protection for people from Haiti, as well as other legal stay arrangements, such as family reunification, humanitarian visas, and access to documentation. Several countries in the Americas are already offering these alternatives to displaced Haitians, enhancing their protection and allowing them to integrate into the communities that welcome them."

The guidance concludes with a "call on States not to forcibly return anyone to Haiti, including those who have had their asylum claims rejected or who have otherwise been found not to be in need of international protection."


20 March 2024

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunity:

Seminar: How States can Promote Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia, Cook, Australia/Online, 25 March 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

"Rohingya trapped in the middle of Myanmar’s escalating conflict," The New Humanitarian, 19 March 2024 [text]

UN and partners seek $852.4m to support Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi hosts (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

Reports:

Australia: Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers (US Library of Congress, Jan. 2024) [text]

Fact-Finding Mission: Humanitarian Aid to the Thai-Myanmar Border with ASEAN Parliamentarians (ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Mobility Shutdown: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration in Asia and the Pacific (Migration Policy Institute, March 2024) [text]

The Protracted Rohingya Refugee Situation in Bangladesh: Towards Reducing Precarity and Increasing Responsibility Sharing (ASILE Project, Feb. 2024) [text]

Saving Lives at Sea in Southeast Asia: Is a Course Correction Possible?, IDSS Paper, no. 020 (Nanyang Technological Univ., Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"The dynamic space of aid relations in protracted internal displacement: the case of Sri Lanka's northern Muslims," Disasters, Early View, 5 March 2024 [open access]

"Neoliberal humanitarianism: Contradictory policy logics and Syrian refugee experiences in Japan," Migration Studies, Advance Articles, 12 March 2024 [open access]

"Towards Better (Territorial) Solutions for Displaced People: The Tibetan Model," Planning Theory & Practice, Latest Articles, 11 March 2024 [open access]

Multimedia:

Shock/Mobility: Displacement in South Asia, 11 Dec. 2023 [access]

Taking Stock: Refugee and Migration Situations in South Asia, 30 Aug. 2023 [access]

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19 March 2024

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities:

Panel discussion: People Forced to Flee, Ottawa, 20 March 2024 [info]

Call for registration: 2024 Global Conference on Internally Displaced People, Washington, DC/Online, 18 April 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Deadliest Year on Record for Migrants with Nearly 8,600 Deaths in 2023 (IOM, March 2024) [text]

Ethics and Intellectual Harm in Research with Refugees (Kujenga Amani, Feb. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

89th meeting of the Standing Committee, 13-15 March 2024 [access]
- Follow link for documents and resources. See also related NGO statements.

"The International Organization for Migration as a Counterweight to States? The 2030 Agenda, the GCM, and the Strategic Vision of IOM," Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, vol. 29, no. 4 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

"Managing forced migration: Overt and covert policies to limit the influx of Ukrainian refugees," World Affairs, vol. 187, no. 1 (Spring 2024) [open access]

Lessons from COVID-19: Managing Borders in the Next Global Public-Health Crisis (Migration Policy Institute, March 2024) [text]

Migration Governance Insights: Informing People-centred Migration Policies (IOM, March 2024) [access]
- Follow link for report and executive summary.

Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 1 (March 2024) [open access]
- This issue provides "insights on the short- and long-term impacts of migration."

"Why failed asylum seekers should have a conditional right to stay: an ethical guideline for policy debates," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:14 (March 2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Forced Displacement Amid Global Conflict (Baker Briefing Podcast Series, March 2024) [access]

Resource:

IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement [access]
- New website of the IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement, "a collaborative project between thirteen research institutions around the world."

Related post:

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2

Short pieces:

Archaeological films as primary sources for Palestinian history (Refugee History Blog, March 2024) [text]

Jordan’s Syrian Refugee Response and Discriminatory Development Aid (MERIP, March 2024) [text]

"Living as Stateless Palestinians in Jordan," Sapiens, 7 March 2024 [text]

On Writing the History of a Modern Refugee Camp (Refugee History Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Jordan.

The Silent Exodus from Northeast Syria (Sada Blog, March 2024) [text]

Syrian refugees face waning support and hope after 13 years (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

New open access book:

Urban Displacement: Syria's Refugees in the Middle East
 (Berghahn Books, March 2024) [open access]
- "Syria’s massive displacement (2012–present) is one of the largest, most complex and intractable humanitarian emergencies of today. More than 5.7 million Syrian refugees live mainly in cities and urban areas throughout the rest of the Middle East. Urban Displacement examines multiple dimensions of this crisis from political and socioeconomic predicaments to questions of social belonging, the complexity of the international, regional and national responses and how they affect urban spaces. The volume brings together many experts in the field of forced migration studies and displacement in the Middle East and presents a range of in-depth ethnographic data, large-scale surveys, and policy recommendations."

Reports & journal articles:

"Can Joint Mobility Projects at Universities Promote Safe Transitions for Refugees? The Experience of Jordanian Social Work Students," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1 (2024) [open access]
- See also related journal article.

Creating an Inclusive Refugee Response in Jordan (ASILE Project, Feb. 2024) [text]

Diverging Paths: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration in the Middle East and North Africa (Migration Policy Institute, March 2024) [text]

"Extra-ordinary cooperation between ordinary Ottomans: creation of the first Armenian refugee settlements in the Syrian Jazira, 1918–1926," Contemporary Levant, Latest Articles, 15 March 2024 [open access]

"Jordan’s Response to Hosting Syrian and Palestinian Refugees: A Comparative Analytical Framework," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Update on UNHCR operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 89th meeting of the Standing Committee, 6 March 2024 [text]
- See also related remarks and NGO statement.

Related post:

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1 (Gaza)

Focus on Gaza:

Famine imminent in northern Gaza, new report warns (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also OHCHR comment and related article in The New Humanitarian.

Gaza: Airdrops and sea routes are no alternative to aid delivery by land - 25 NGOs call on governments to prioritize ceasefire and ground-based humanitarian aid as deaths from malnutrition and disease rise (Amnesty International, March 2024) [text]

Gaza conflict: rising death toll from hunger a stark reminder of starvation as a weapon of war (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

Implications of the International Court of Justice’s Provisional Measures in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), 27 Feb. 2024 [access]

Inflicting Unprecedented Suffering and Destruction: 7 ways the government of Israel is deliberately blocking and/or undermining the international humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip (Oxfam, March 2024) [text]

"No evidence from Israel to back UNRWA accusations, says EU humanitarian chief," Reuters, 14 March 2024 [text]

NZ can help people fleeing Gaza with emergency family reunification – will the government act? (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

Palestinian Women in Gaza: Cruel Realities of Displacement (Sada Blog, March 2024) [text]

Section 620I: No Military Assistance to States Restricting U.S. Humanitarian Assistance (Just Security Blog, March 2024) [text]

Siege and Starvation: How Israel Obstructs Aid to Gaza (Refugees International, March 2024) [text]
- See also related article in Al Jazeera.

"UNWRA Chief Warns Agency’s Fate ‘Hangs in the Balance’," IPS News, 6 March 2024 [text]
- See also related article in The New Humanitarian. Note: AustraliaCanada and Sweden recently announced they will resume their funding of UNRWA.

*"Why Isn’t More Aid Getting to Gazans?," New York Times, 20 March 2024 [text]

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