Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

A century of mobility: A glimpse into the history of refugee travel documents (UNHCR Blog, June 2024) [text]

Displaced and disregarded: understanding the experiences of people in displacement (ODI Insights, June 2024) [text]

"From conflict to climate, displacement hits a new high," DW, 20 June 2024 [text]

The journey to build a new open data finder on forced displacement that includes thematic data (UNHCR Blog, June 2024) [text]

Seeking asylum during COVID-19 and what it means today: How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect people’s ability to seek asylum? (UNHCR Dataviz, April 2024) [access]

Two-year anniversary of the UN Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement - Joint Statement by Principals of the UN Steering Group on Solutions to Internal Displacement: IOM, OCHA, UNDP, UNDPO, UNDPPA, UNICEF and UNHCR (June 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

90th meeting of the Standing Committee, Geneva, 1-3 July 2024 [access]

- Follow link for documents and information on side events.

Alert 2024! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding (Escola de Cultura de Pau, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Also available in Spanish.

"Discrimination and Civic Engagement of Immigrants in Western Societies. A Systematic Scoping Review," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 26 June 2024 [open access]

Global Report 2023 (UNHCR, June 2024) [access]

- Follow link for the full report and summaries in English and French. The companion page provides multiple options to access different sections of the report.

"'Intimacy as method': Ethnographic reflections on equitable knowledge production in migration research," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

Partnership in Action: UNDP and UNHCR Cooperation on Forced Displacement and Statelessness (UNDP, June 2024) [text]

Multimedia:

Five Years Later: Measuring the Outcomes of the Global Compact for Migration, 3 June 2024 [access]

"Learning from the future: Foresight for the next decade of forced migration," Keynote address at the Kaldor Centre Conference 2023, 20 Nov. 2023 [access]

Mapping Global Human Mobility in an Increasingly Complex World, 25 April 2024 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (16 June 2024)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

Academics as Refugee Policy Advocates in Australia (Asylum Insight, June 2024) [text]

Between hardship and hope: The journey of the displaced Rohingya population and their hosts in Bangladesh (End Poverty in South Asia Blog, June 2024) [text]

Grassroots sport can help refugees find their feet in Australia – Brisbane’s Olympic planners need to lead the way too (The Conversation, June 2024) [text]

‘Offshore processing’ in Australia (Externalizing Asylum, June 2024) [text]

The Role of Religious Actors in Refugee Response: A Key, yet Overlooked, Piece of the Puzzle (RLI Blog, June 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

*UNHCR hails local and regional support for IDP bills (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

UNHCR lauds Philippine Government launch of 1st National Refugee Day commemoration (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Boundary-Making and Political Activism in Protracted Exile: Second-Generation Tibetan Refugees in India," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 20 April 2023 [open access]

Convention Refugees in New Zealand: Being Trapped in Immigration Limbo Without the Right to Obtain a Visa (International Justice Advocates Limited, Feb. 2024) [text]

Disasters, vol. 48, no. S1 (July 2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "Local knowledge as the basis of disaster management and humanitarian assistance," with a focus on China, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Six articles are open access.

"Interpersonal Therapy for Refugees in Malaysia," Chapter in Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach (Oxford Univ. Press, May 2024) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 207.

Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, no. 38 (2024) [full-text]

- Special issue on "Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity?"

"Local community responses to Kurdish asylum seekers in Japan," Routed Magazine (May 2024) [full-text]

"The Potential Refugee Status of the Rohingya in Bangladesh under International Refugee Law," Kent Law Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (2024) [abstract] [open access text]

"Protecting National Sovereignty: The ‘Australian Model’ and the Exclusion of Asylum Seekers," Sociology, OnlineFirst, 16 June 2024 [open access]

"The spectres of coloniality that haunt the Rohingya struggle for belonging," Routed Magazine (May 2024) [full-text]

"Still a Negative Case? Japan’s Changing Refugee Policy in the Face of New Geopolitical Challenges," Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 22, no. 6 (June 2024) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (11 June 2024)

Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

"Can Greece’s illegal pushback system be broken?," The New Humanitarian, 2 July 2024 [text]

Criminalising Asylum: From exceptionalism to Rwanda (RLI Blog, June 2024) [text]

"Deaths on migration route to Canary Islands soar to 1,000 a month," The New Humanitarian, 19 June 2024 [text]

EU Screening Regulation: closing gaps in border control while opening new protection challenges? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, June 2024) [text]

Fortress Europe’s ‘Migration Crisis’: A Man-Made Phenomenon (International Development Blog, June 2024) [text]

Migrants as threats to national security. Who benefits? (International Development Blog, June 2024) [text]

The new, higher standard of proof doesn’t apply to human rights claims (Free Movement Blog, June 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Responsibility-determination under the new Asylum and Migration Management Regulation: plus ça change… (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, June 2024) [text]

Ukrainian refugees: Council extends temporary protection until March 2026 (Council of the EU, June 2024) [text]

What will Hungary's EU presidency mean for migrants? (InfoMigrants, June 2024) [text]

"Which EU countries are accused of pushing back migrants?," DW, 18 June 2024 [text]

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

Reports & journal articles:

"Ambivalent Encounters in Calais," Journal of Intercultural Studies, Latest Articles, 18 June 2024 [open access]

Country Reports (AIDA, June 2024) 

- See updated profiles for Austria and Greece.

Data analysis of decisions on asylum applications and recognition rates at second or higher instances in 2023, Fact Sheet, no. 26 (EU Agency for Asylum, June 2024) [text]

ECRE Comments on the Regulation Establishing a Common Procedure for International Protection in the Union (ECRE, June 2024) [text]

European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 26, no. 2 (June 2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "Asylum for Containment: The contradictions of European external asylum policy." The introduction is freely available and one article is open access.

"Has the war in Ukraine changed Europeans’ preferences on refugee policy? Evidence from a panel experiment in Germany, Hungary and Poland," Journal of European Public Policy, Latest Articles, 2 Feb. 2024 [open access]

The Political Quarterly, vol. 95, no. 2 (April/June 2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Immigration and Asylum Policy After Brexit."

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (14 June 2024)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (14 June 2024)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

Born into displacement: Palestinian children’s struggle for rights on World Refugee Day (MPC Blog, June 2024) [text]

Canada’s family-based immigration program for Sudanese fleeing war is too little, too late (The Conversation, June 2024) [text]

Introduction to our 'Childhood and Migration' blog series (Childhood, Law & Policy Network Blog, July 2024) [text]

"Judge partially ends court oversight of migrant children, chipping away at 27-year arrangement," AP News, 28 June 2024 [text]

- Focuses on the US.

The rights of migrant and asylum-seeking children and the impact of news reporting (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2024) [text]

Reports:

Challenges related to the reception of unaccompanied children from Ukraine in Poland - legal representation issues (International Centre for Migration Policy Development, June 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Cruel Indifference: Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Before and After Zero Tolerance (UCLA, June 2024) [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

Guardianship solutions and services for unaccompanied and separated children under temporary protection in the EU: the case of Ukrainian children (International Centre for Migration Policy Development, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Ukrainians.

Operational Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support and Child Protection (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

Policy on Child Protection (UNHCR, Jan. 2024) [text]

- See also the related "Operational Guidance on Child Protection Core Programme Actions," which "provides a guide on how to operationalize the Child Protection Policy to implement the higher-level principles and standards therein."

Journal articles:

"The Best Interests of the Immigrant Child in Asylum Cases: What Is the Answer?," Univ. of Dayton Law Review, vol. 49, no. 3 (2024) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Child Migrant Workers: The Invisible Children?," Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, vol. 52, no. 2 (Springer 2024) [SSRN]

- Focuses on the US.

"The limitations of Private International Law regarding the protection of unaccompanied migrant children in the European Union," Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Silent suffering: The hidden challenges confronting unaccompanied refugee children through the eyes of social workers," Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 154 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Jordan.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (18 June 2024)

News: New Climate Displacement Resource

A new study has been published as part of UNHCR's Legal and Protection Policy Research Series: 

Protection of Persons Displaced Across Borders in the Context of Disasters and the Adverse Effects of Climate Change: A Review of Literature, Legislation and Case Law to Support the Implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees (June 2024) [text]

Here's a description of its objective:

"This review of relevant literature, legislation, and case law aims to identify relevant good practices to provide international protection based on international and regional refugee and human rights law or to provide admission and stay based on migration law to persons displaced across borders in the context of disasters and adverse effects of climate change who do not or are unable to apply for international protection. Rather than purporting to be comprehensive, it focuses on particularly illustrative academic studies, reports, legislation, and case law. The resulting compilation attempts to provide relevant information in an accessible form to support the development of guidance about how to adequately address protection challenges in the context of disaster- and climate change-related displacement."

New Book Titles

Please visit my Forced Migration Library blog for a two-part listing of references to new books. Part 1 highlights new books due out in July 2024 along with additional June 2024 titles, while Part 2 lists new legal and open access texts.