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31 July 2024

Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (31 July 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 either this blog or the Forced Migration Library blog as of 1 July 2024.

Authors of the OA materials listed below are encouraged to deposit their work in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA)! The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website.

Bronze OA: 

- Authors (4) = Ethiopia

Diamond OA: 

"Ammán: Leer la ciudad a través del desplazamiento," ZARCH Journal, no. 22 (2024) 
- Author = Egypt

"The Challenges of Inclusion of the Refugees in Development Plans and National Policy in Kenya: A Case of Urban Refugees in Nairobi," Journal of African Politics, vol. 4, no. 1 (2024)
- Author = Kenya

"Disaster, Risk and Conducting Human Security Research in Southeast Asia," Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, EarlyCite, 18 July 2024
- Author = Brunei Darussalam

"Fronteras y migraciones dentro de ámbitos metropolitanos: Reflexiones a partir del caso de Colonia Juárez en Ciudad de México," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024)
- Author = Argentina

"Organizaciones de la sociedad civil y caravanas: el fortalecimiento de la agencia migrante," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024)
- Author = Mexico

"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

"Understanding Olympic Diplomacy: The Refugee Team at the 2020 Tokyo Games," Cuerpo Cultura y Movimiento, vol. 13, no. 1 (2023)
- Authors (2) = Brazil

"Understanding Syrian Migration in Lebanon: A Methodological Framework," Open Research Europe, 3:137 (June 2024)
- Authors (3) = Norway (lead), Lebanon (2)

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 (6) = Zimbabwe (2, incl. lead), Mozambique (3), Malawi (1)
- APC = USD 1977

- Authors (2) = South Africa
- APC = USD 1285

"Marital Quality in a Context of Displacement: The Role of Union Formation Characteristics among Syrian Refugee and Jordanian Youth," Genus: Journal of Population Sciences, 80:9 (June 2024)
- Authors (2) = UAE/UK (lead), Lebanon (1)
- APC = USD 1390

"Period Poverty, Reuse Needs, and Depressive Symptoms among Refugee Menstruators in Jordan’s Camps: A Cross-sectional Study," BMC Women's Health, 24:384 (July 2024)
- Authors (5) = Jordan
- APC = USD 2790

- Authors (4) = UAE/UK (lead), UK/Zimbabwe (1), Sudan (1), Sudan/UK (1)
- APC = USD 2290

"Problems and Prospects for Reducing Statelessness in the Republic of Kazakhstan," Bulletin of the Karaganda University 'Law Series', vol. 29, no. 2 (2024)
- Authors (2) = Kazakhstan
- APC = up to KZT 40,000

"Refugee Voices vs. Humanitarian Choices: How Much Can Refugee-led Organizations Redefine Power and Agency in Post-2019 Lebanon?," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:8 (July 2024)
- Authors (3) = Lebanon
- APC = USD 1040

"Statelessness of an Ethnic Minority: The Case of Rohingya," Frontiers in Political Science, 27 June 2024
- Author = Bangladesh/China
- APC = USD 780

- Authors (3) = Malaysia
- APC = USD 1690

Hybrid OA:

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

"The ‘Coronavirus Crisis’ and Xenophobia in South Africa: How Did the Pandemic Affect Anti-immigrant Sentiment?," International Migration, Early View, 9 July 2024 
- Author = South Africa
- APC = USD 3500

"Digital Learning in Pandemic Times: Assessing Academic Readiness among Refugee Children in Malaysia," Early Child Development and Care, Latest Articles, 2 April 2024
- Authors (3) = Malaysia (lead), UK (2)
- APC = USD 3300

"Disaster Induced Displacement and Durable Solutions in Africa," Natural Hazards, Latest Articles, 9 July 2024
- Authors (2) = South Africa
- APC = USD 3790

- Authors (2) = Togo
- APC = USD 3090

"Just Around the Corner: How Cross-ethnic Solidarity is Established Between Locals and the Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in a Local NGO," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 2 July 2024 
- Author = China (Hong Kong)
- APC = USD 2990

- Authors = China (Hong Kong)
- APC = USD 3450

"Marriage Economics, Bargaining and Strategic Agency: Egyptian-Syrian Intermarriage Practices in the Context of Displacement," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 101 (July 2024)
- Author = Qatar
- APC = USD 3110

"Silent Suffering: The Hidden Challenges Confronting Unaccompanied Refugee Children through the Eyes of Social Workers," Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 154 (Aug. 2024)
- Authors (3) = Australia (lead), Jordan (2)
- APC = USD 4100

"Withholding the Letter: Transgender Asylum Seekers, Legal Gender Recognition, and the UNHCR Mandate," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 8 July 2024
- Author = UK/South Africa
- APC = EUR 4210

Books/Book chapters:

"Interpersonal Therapy for Refugees in Malaysia," Chapter in Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach (Oxford Univ. Press, May 2024) 
- Authors (2) = Malaysia

Saberes en Movimiento: Contribuciones desde la Academia y la Sociedad Civil a los Estudios sobre Migraciones en Chile (Ariadna Ediciones, Feb. 2024) 
- Editor = Chile

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30 July 2024

Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

Reports & journal articles:

"Deploying an ageing-astute lens in migration studies: Current research and future directions," International Migration, vol. 62, no. 4 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

Not Invisible: Strengthening Protection for Children with Disabilities in Migration and Displacement (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Resettlement of Older Syrian Refugees in Canada: Key Individual Factors of Social Inclusion," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 40, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Situation and needs of interpreters working with deaf, migrant, refugee and asylum seeking victims of gender-based violence in the Spanish context," Cadernos de Tradução, vol. 44, no. S1 (2024) [open access]

"Unveiling the missing pieces: Addressing research gaps in tackling loneliness among older migrants," International Migration, vol. 62, no. 4 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

Focus on Ukrainians:

"At home, even the walls help": Exploring the palliative care needs, experiences, preferences, and hopes of older people with serious illness in Ukraine (HelpAge International, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Capacity of Polish and Romanian stakeholders to provide support to Ukrainian refugees with disabilities in the metropolitan areas of Warsaw and Bucharest (Collegium Civitas & Romanian Academy of Sciences) [info]

Czechia - Older Refugees from Ukraine: Assessing and Supporting Their Needs (IOM, June 2024) [text via EC]

A Resilient Picture: Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Ukraine (Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development, June 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Situation of Parents of Children with Autism in the Context of Refugeeism and War Trauma," Polish Journal of Educational Studies, vol. 75, no. 1 (Dec. 2023) [open access]
- Focuses on Poland.

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Thematic Focus: Solutions

Short pieces:

"The paperwork nightmare of private refugee sponsorship," Policy Options, 28 June 2024 [text]

"Quebec’s attack on refugee sponsorship," Policy Options, 9 July 2024 [text]

Reports:

Lessons Learned Workshop: Safe Homes Programme - Final Report (IFRC, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Ukrainians in Europe.

Migration Governance Insights on Regular Pathways: Delivering on the Promise of Migration (IOM, 2024) [text]

New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy 2024 (Scottish Govt., July 2024) [access]
- See also related report.

Solutions from the Start: Adapting the Deliverables for Humanitarian Country Teams to Ensure Better Outcomes for Internally Displaced Persons - Learnings from Responses in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, RID Working Paper, no. 43 (Researching Internal Displacement, July 2024) [text]

What can we learn about solutions to refugee accommodation from the Ukraine response? (British Red Cross, July 2024) [access]

Working towards durable solutions for displacement-affected communities in Togdheer region, Somaliland (Research & Evidence Facility, May 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Challenges of Inclusion of the Refugees in Development Plans and National Policy in Kenya: A Case of Urban Refugees in Nairobi," Journal of African Politics, vol. 4, no. 1 (2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Sudanese refugees.

"Hate and Perceived Threats on the Resettlement of Afghan Refugees in Portugal," Societies, vol. 14, no. 7 (June 2024) [open access]

"'Knowledge is confused': Rethinking pull factors in light of asylum and refugee integration policies," International Migration, Early View, 4 July 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Spain.

"Once a refugee, always a refugee? The social construction of refugee status after resettlement," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 12 July 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

"Resettlement Under the Radar: A Study of Japanese Resettlement of North Korean Escapees," International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, vol. 33, no. 1 (2024) [full-text via City Univ. IR]

"Walking a tightrope between policy and scholarship: reflections on integration principles in a hostile environment," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 26 July 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

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29 July 2024

Opportunities: A Few More July & Aug. 2024

Call for registration: International Policy Conference on "Unlocking Human Mobility's Development Potential within the Global South," Tunis, Tunisia, 11-12 September 2024 [info]
- Registration is now open.

Call for papers: Integration Research Futures, 26-27 September 2024 [info]
- Submit abstract by 31 July 2024.

CFP: From Evidence to Policy: Transforming refugee livelihoods strategies in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia - A Research and Policy Symposium, Nairobi, 15-16 October 2024 [info]
- Submission deadline is 1 August 2024.

Funding opportunity: Technical Secretariat to Support the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection [info]
- Proposal application submission deadline is 5 August 2024.

Job announcement: Forced Displacement Officer, International Council of Voluntary Agencies 
- Submit application by 5 August 2024.

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Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Funding Opportunity for a Technical Secretariat to Support the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection [info]
- Proposal application submission deadline is 5 August 2024.

Short pieces:

"‘Entire social fabric’ unravelling in Haiti as displacement continues," UN News, 20 July 2024 [text]

IOM Launches a Data Portal for the Americas to Boost the Implementation of Los Angeles Declaration (IOM, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"No good options for Venezuelans as Maduro declared victor," The New Humanitarian, 29 July 2024 [text]

Panama Plans to Deport Irregular Migrants with Financial Support from the US (Immigration Detention Monitor, July 2024) [text]

Paramilitary Resurgence Drives Mass Displacement in Chiapas (NACLA, July 2024) [text]

**Visit the weekly Americas Migration Brief for a much more extensive round-up of news and publications.

Reports:

Migration Does Not Start at the US Border: A Regional Approach to Managing Migration and Keeping People Safe (Women's Refugee Commission, July 2024) [text]
- "In 2024, most migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border have come from six Latin American countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, and Colombia."

Un mundo mejor para la población migrante en América Latina y el Caribe (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo & UNDP, April 2024) [text via Refworld]

Recommendations on the inclusion of civil society in the implementation of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection (June 2024) [text via WRC]

La reintegracion de personas retornadas a Venezuela: Tipos, vulnerabilidades y líneas de acción 
para la promoción de activos humanos (OVM, UNHCR, & UCAB, July 2024) [text]

Risks and protection through the most dangerous zones along transit migration routes in Central America and Mexico (IOM, 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Beyond the narrative: Colombia and the Venezuelan migrants," Global Policy, vol. 15, no. S3 (June 2024) [free full-text]

"The Burden and Risk Factors Associated with Infectious Diseases among Refugees in a Camp for Migrants in Porto Alegre: A Cross-Sectional Survey," Annals of Global Health, vol. 90, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Fronteras y migraciones dentro de ámbitos metropolitanos: Reflexiones a partir del caso de Colonia Juárez en Ciudad de México," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024) [open access]

"Organizaciones de la sociedad civil y caravanas: el fortalecimiento de la agencia migrante," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Mexico.

"The short-term effects of visa restrictions on migrants’ legal status and well-being: A difference-in-differences approach on Venezuelan displacement," World Development, vol. 182 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

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26 July 2024

Round-up: Sport & Forced Displacement

News:

Refugees are participating in two major international sporting events over the next two months. Today is the opening day of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. A team of 37 refugee athletes will be competing in 12 different sports. More info is available on the official Paris Olympics website. The Paralympic Games begin on 28 August 2024, and include a refugee team of eight athletes and one guide runner competing in six sports. 

Related UNHCR press releases include:
- At Paris Olympics opening, UNHCR’s Grandi hails refugee athletes as a beacon of hope and peace (26 July 2024) [text]
- IPC unveils largest Refugee Paralympic Team ever for Paris 2024 (9 July 2024) [text]
- IOC Refugee Olympic Team to represent more than 100 million displaced people at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 (2 May 2024) [text]

UNHCR publications:

Evaluation on the Relevance and Effectiveness of Sport Programming for Refugee Inclusion and Protection, EVO/2022/12 (UNHCR & IOC, April 2022) [text]
- See also related Annexes.

More Than a Game: The UNHCR Sport Strategy 2022-2026 (Nov. 2022) [text]

Sport for Protection Toolkit: Programming with Young People in Forced Displacement Settings (UNHCR, IOC & Terre des Hommes, Oct. 2018) [text]
- Other language versions are available here. See also a related guide for implementing partners.

Olympic Games: Objectives & Assessments

"Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the Refugee Olympic Team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games," Sport in Society, vol. 25, no. 3 (2022) [ResearchGate]

Diversity at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: Gender, Race and Refugees (CAp-UERJ, 2023) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 133 for the section that focuses on refugees.

Olympic Refuge: safe spaces for sport (Olympic Refuge Foundation, 2020) [text]

Refugee Olympic Team: A Message of Hope and Solidarity - Media Kit (International Olympic Committee, 2021) [text]

"Respecting the Right to Nationality in International Sport," Chapter in Sports and Human Rights (Springer, 2024) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 149.

"Understanding Olympic Diplomacy: The Refugee Team at the 2020 Tokyo Games," Cuerpo Cultura y Movimiento, vol. 13, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

General:

"Editorial: Realising the cross-cutting potential of sport in situations of forced displacement," BMJ Global Health, vol. 7, no. 4 (2022) [open access]

Research based interventions in the sports ecosystem (Sportanddev.org, Nov. 2022) [text]
- "Inclusive and collaborative research is needed to better address the needs of forcibly displaced people."

"'Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure," Sport in Society, vol. 25, no. 3 (2022) [open access]
- Focuses on Participatory Action Research.

Sport, Forced Migration and the 'Refugee Crisis' (Routledge, Feb. 2023) [open access]

Sport in Society, vol. 25, no. 3 (2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "Forced Migration and Sport." The introduction is freely available and four articles are open access. Note: This was subsequently published as a book.

"Sport, Refugees, and Forced Migration: A Critical Review of the Literature," Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 10 Oct. 2019 [open access]

"A Systematic Review of Research on Sport Migration," Migration & Diversity, vol. 1, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Integration & Belonging:

"Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people," Leisure Studies, Latest Articles, 12 Aug. 2021 [open access]

"Critically examining a community-based participatory action research project with forced migrant youth," Sport in Society, vol. 25, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

"Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports," Sport in Society, vol. 27, no. 7 (2024) [open access]

"European voluntary sport clubs’ enabling and constraining effects on refugees’ social inclusion: an integrative review," Sport in Society, Latest Articles, 4 April 2024 [open access]

"Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 49, no. 17 (2023) [open access]

"Migrant Integration and Cultural Capital in the Context of Sport and Physical Activity: A Systematic Review," Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 20, no. 3 (Aug. 2019) [open access]

"Team and Nation: Sports, Nationalism, and Attitudes Toward Refugees," Comparative Political Studies, vol. 54, no. 12 (Oct. 2021) [open access]
- Focuses on the 2019 Africa Cup football match between Kenya and Tanzania.

"Ukrainian refugees and the Swedish sports movement: new opportunities and challenges," European Sport Management Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

What does "safe sport" mean for forced migrant athletes? Stories and lessons for forced migrant athletes resettled in Canada, Final report for the IOC Olympic Studies Centre Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme (2022) [text]

"Young refugees’ experiences of accumulating horizontal and vertical social capital through organised and informal sports," International Review for the Sociology of Sport, OnlineFirst, 6 Dec. 2023 [open access]

Physical/mental health benefits:

"The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men," Sport in Society, vol. 25, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

"Precariousness, Sport Participation and Hope among Young People after Rejections in the Swedish Asylum Process," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 14, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"'They play together, they laugh together': Sport, play and fun in refugee sport projects," Sport in Society, vol. 25, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

Think Sport. Think Refuge Podcast Series (Olympic Refuge Foundation, 2024) [access]
- "Explores sport's role in promoting peace, belonging, and well-being for refugees."

Uniting the sport and mental health fields to support young people affected by displacement (Sportanddev.org, June 2024 [text]

Winning the Game: How Sport for Development supports the psychological well-being of adolescent refugees (UNICEF, April 2023) [text]

Resource:

Sport and Development [access]
- "This page is aimed at organizations currently using, or aiming to use, sport in their work with refugees, internally displaced people, asylum seekers and host communities. It provides background information on the subject, information and links to key resources, as well as guidance and advice on some of the key considerations when working with displaced people."


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25 July 2024

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Ghana: Expelling People Fleeing Conflict in Burkina Faso (Immigration Detention Monitor, June 2024) [text]

"In Sudan, host families take the strain of the world’s largest displacement crisis," The New Humanitarian, 23 July 2024 [text]

Refugees in Eastern Sudan at Risk: International Organizations Should Act to Provide Safe Evacuation Options (HRW Dispatch, July 2024) [text]

Sudanese Refugee Lawyers Empowering communities in Chad (UNHCR, July 2024) [text]

Supporting refugee self-reliance in East, Horn and Great Lakes of Africa: The role of data (Data Blog, July 2024) [text]

New open access book:

Refugee Reception in Southern Africa: National and Local Policies in Zambia and South Africa (Univ. of London Press, July 2024) [open access]
- "It is no longer realistic (if it ever was) to understand persons who flee across a border as a homogeneous group whose movement abruptly ends once they arrive in a host state or refugee camp. Through a comparative analysis of the politics surrounding the welcome afforded to refugees, this book offers an original perspective on refugee hosting in Southern Africa. Using the cases of Zambia and South Africa, the book explores why some countries maintain encampment reception policies for refugees, and others use more liberal ‘free settlement’ approaches, whereby refugees are granted freedom of movement and permitted to settle in cities and towns. While state-based reception is frequently framed as one-off moments, such as registration, Refugee Reception in Southern Africa examines reception as a complex and ongoing process of negotiations between refugees and state, with reception policies vital in shaping a refugee’s ability to settle and engage with local communities and labour markets."

Reports & journal articles:

Asylum and Protection Mercenarism: Effects of European Externalisation on African Migration Governance (Externalizing Asylum, July 2024) [text]

"The ‘Coronavirus Crisis’ and xenophobia in South Africa: How did the pandemic affect anti-immigrant sentiment?," International Migration, Early View, 9 July 2024 [open access]

Forced Displacement Survey: South Sudan 2023 (UNHCR, July 2024) [text]
- See also related press release.

"Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 9 July 2024 [open access]

"Migration Interrupted: Can Stranded Migrants from Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan Rebuild Their Lives upon Return?," Migration Information Source, 17 July 2024 [text]

UNHCR Position on Returns to South Sudan, Update IV (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

A War on People: The Human Cost of Conflict and Violence in Sudan (Médecins Sans Frontières, July 2024) [access]

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24 July 2024

Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

Change We Can’t Believe in: A Bleak Review of Labour’s Promises on Asylum (RLI Blog, July 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.  

The Door Opens for a New Chapter in European Cooperation on Migration (MPI Commentary, July 2024) [text]

The Gradual Emergence of the Refugee Issue in Türkiye (Australian Outlook, July 2024) [text]

*Labour promised to scrap the Rwanda policy. But its new approach aims to be just as tough on asylum seekers (The Conversation, July 2024) [text]

The role of Courts in the era of EU externalization policies: A focus on Libya, Tunisia, and Niger (RLI Blog, July 2024) [text]

UK Border Force returns migrants in the Channel to France – expert Q&A (The Conversation, July 2024) [text]

Warmth, Laughter, and the Smell of Buns: Perceptions of Home among Forced Migrants from Ukraine, Spotlight on Ukraine, no. 10 (ZOIS, July 2024) [text]
- Interviews were conducted with Ukrainians in Germany and the Czech Rep.

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

New open access book:

Humanitarian Aid and Empowerment of Ukrainian Refugees: The Case of Visegrad Group Countries: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]
- This volume "presents good practices in humanitarian assistance and empowerment of Ukrainian refugees in various areas: emergency aid to large groups crossing the border, organisation of support in places of temporary stay, learning local languages, inclusion of children in school and adults in the labour market, and inclusion in the local community. It indicates the forms of international protection and the scope of their application by migrants from Ukraine, and discusses the temporary protection status dedicated to Ukrainian refugees."

Reports:

Country Report: Hungary (AIDA, July 2024) [text]
- Updated profile.

The Guarantees of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in Respect of Legal Counselling, Assistance and Representation in Asylum Procedures (ECRE, June 2024) [text via Refworld]

Voices from the Camps: Living Conditions and Access to Services in Refugee Camps on the Greek Mainland (Mobile Info Team, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"'Europe was a dream for me. This dream came true but remains unfulfilled at the same time': Navigating life aspirations among forced migrants in Austria and Italy," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 3 (Sept 2024) [open access]

"HIV-infected Latin American asylum seekers in Madrid, Spain, 2022: A prospective cohort study from a major gateway in Europe," Eurosurveillance, vol. 29, no. 29 (July 2024) [open access]

"The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services," Comparative European Politics, Latest Articles, 16 July 2024 [open access]

"Time and displacement: changed temporal experiences of refugee families after reunion," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 23 July 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

Resource:

Ukraine is Home (UNHCR) [access]
- "This online portal aims to provide timely and impartial information to millions of people displaced by the full-scale war. It is designed to help Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced make informed decisions regarding potential return—or continued stay in host countries or host communities.  Users can find guidance on accessing the Government’s compensation mechanisms for destroyed or damaged homes, and eligibility requirements when applying from abroad; personal documents to obtain before and bring when returning to Ukraine; and access to free legal aid and cash assistance provided by UNHCR and its local partners, amongst others."

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Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Meeting:

2nd International Conference on Migrant Smuggling, Strasbourg, 10-11 September 2024 [info]
- Follow link for concept note.

Short pieces:

IOM and UNODC Join Forces to Tackle Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling (IOM, July 2024) [text]

Reports:

Behind Closed Doors: A Storytelling Legal and Empirical Analysis of Human Trafficking Risks in Home Office Hotels Compared to Other Accommodation for Unaccompanied Children and Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK (ECPAT & UCL, July 2024) [access via EIN]

Local Perceptions and Experiences of Smuggling and Human Trafficking in Sudan: The case of North Darfur and Northern State of Sudan, Sudan Working Paper, no. 1 (Chr. Michelsen Institute, June 2024) [text]

Trafficking in persons, mixed migration and protection at sea, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/56/60 (UN Human Rights Council, April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related press release.

Trafficking in Persons Report 2024 (US Dept. of State, June 2024) [access]
- The introduction focuses on "Exploring the Role and Impacts of Digital Technology on Human Trafficking." See also related articles in The Diplomat and RFE/RL.

Journal articles:

"Corruption and Bribery at the Border: Strategies of Survival and Adaptation between People Smugglers and Border Enforcement," ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 709, no. 1 (Sept. 2023) [open access]
- "This study draws on extensive ethnographic research conducted on land routes between West Asia and Europe, interviewing smugglers specifically on the Syrian–Turkish border and the Evros border between Turkey, Greece, and Bulgaria."

"'Markets of Dispossession': How Unaccompanied Minors Navigate Their Criminalization in Lebanon,"  ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 709, no. 1 (Sept. 2023) [free full-text]
- See also related blog post.

"Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa," ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 709, no. 1 (Sept. 2023) [open access]

"Responding to human trafficking among refugees: prevalence and test accuracy of a modified version of the adult human trafficking screening tool," BMC Public Health, 24:1685 (June 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"La trata de seres humanos con fines de explotación sexualen el marco del derecho de asilo europeo y español," Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"New War, Same Battle? Conflict-Related Human Trafficking in the Context of the War in Ukraine," Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, vol. 6, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

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23 July 2024

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Court battle to keep Annunciation House open underscores how faith groups strive to welcome strangers in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment (The Conversation, July 2024) [text]

Diverse Flows Drive Increase in U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population (MPI Commentary, July 2024) [text]
- See also related press release.

Immigrants May Benefit While Others Lose Out From the Supreme Court’s Decision Overruling Chevron (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2024) [text]

The Republican Party Platform and Asylum (The Asylumist Blog, July 2024) [text]

Sharply More Americans Want to Curb Immigration to U.S. (Gallup, July 2024) [access via ImmigrationProf Blog]

We’ve Tracked Over 700 Immigration Bills This Year. Here Are the Trends We’ve Seen (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2024) [text]

What the data says about immigrants in the U.S. (Pew Research, July 2024) [text]
- See also related Pew Research posts on the origins of immigrants and unauthorized immigrants.

Why Are Border Crossings at Their Lowest Level in Four Years? (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2024) [text]

New/updated open access texts:

Crimmigration Law: An Open Casebook (Kit Johnson, July 2024) [open access]
- This casebook "is designed to serve as the principal text for a course on crimmigration--the intersection of immigration law with criminal law and procedure. The book provides explanations and primary source readings regarding U.S. immigration law, the immigration consequences of criminal conduct, immigration detention, noncitizens in the criminal justice system, federal immigration crimes, states and immigration, border enforcement, and interior immigration enforcement." Also available via the a/m link is a related Statutory Supplement.

Immigration Law: An Open Casebook, Version 2.1 (Kit Johnson, July 2024) [open access]
- This casebook "provides explanations and primary source readings regarding immigration law in the United States. Topics include the constitutional bases for regulating immigration, the contours of the immigration bureaucracy, the admission of immigrants and nonimmigrants into the United States, undocumented migration, the deportation and exclusion of noncitizens, refugee and asylum law, immigration detention, federal and state immigration crimes, border and interior immigration enforcement, and the law concerning citizenship and naturalization."

Reports & journal articles:

“Disrupt and Vilify”: The War on Immigrants Inside the US War on Drugs (Human Rights Watch, July 2024) [text]

"Immigration in the Shadow of Death," Univ. of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 26, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

Managing Migration at the US-Mexico Border: Recommendations for the Biden Administration (Women's Refugee Commission, July 2024) [text]

"Plenary Power: Teaching the Immigration Law of the Territories," Stetson Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Saving Lives, Ending Inefficiencies: Steps to Strengthen the U.S. Asylum Adjudication System (Human Rights First, July 2024) [text]

"The Toll Paid When Adjudicators Err: Reforming Appellate Review Standards for Refugees," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 38, no. 2 (Winter 2024) [full-text]
- "In this article, I provide the first comprehensive circuit-by-circuit study of each of the five core elements of the refugee definition to show the depth of disagreement related to standards of review."

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22 July 2024

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Aligning public and private interests to advance financial inclusion for displaced persons and their hosts (UNHCR Blog, July 2024) [text]

Immigrants Do Not Displace US Workers or Reduce Wages (Immigration Impact, July 2024) [text]

Reports:

Crossing borders, building livelihoods: The insecure economic lives of migrants in Libya (Mixed Migration Centre, July 2024) [text]

Chad Economic Update 2024 - Special Chapter: Hosting Refugees in an Inclusive Manner (World Bank, April 2024) [access]
- See also related blog post.

Guía para la contratación de personas refugiadas y migrantes en Perú (Tent Partnership for Refugees, June 2024) [text]

Guía para la Orientación socioeconómica y laboral para personas refugiadas y migrantes del Servicio de Orientación para el Migrante (SOM) (Govt. of Peru & ILO, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Peru.

Pathways for Regular Migration: Perceptions of Migrant Workers and Recovery in Ukraine (IOM, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"The bidirectional relationship between social contracts and entrepreneurship: Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Kurdistan Region of Iraq," Mediterranean Politics, Latest Articles, 18 July 2024 [open access]

"Cash transfers amid shocks: A large, one-time, unconditional cash transfer to refugees in Uganda has multidimensional benefits after 19 months," World Development, vol. 173 (Jan. 2024) [full-text via UNHCR]

"Corporate Human Rights Responsibility in Illiberal Regimes: The Example of the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis in Hungary," Business and Human Rights Journal, vol. 9, no. S1 (Feb. 2024) [open access]

"Employment outcomes of refugee women and men: multiple gender gaps and the importance of high-skill jobs," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 18 July 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Austria.

"'The Plan Is No Plan': Ontological Security and Resilience of Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Labour Market," Czech Sociological Review, Prepublished online, 19 July 2024 [open access]

"Predictors, barriers, and facilitators to refugee women’s employment and economic inclusion: A mixed methods systematic review," PLoS ONE 19(7): e0305463 (July 2024) [open access]

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Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

AIT Hosts “Refugee Voices from Southeast Asia” Workshop in Commemoration of Refugee Day (Asian Inst. of Technology, June 2024) [text]

Kaldor Centre explainer: Why, 11 years on, Australia’s exclusion of refugees who arrive by boat is a failure (Kaldor Centre, July 2024) [text]

Pakistan: One-year extension of UN-registered Afghan refugees a welcome first step, lifeline must extend to all (Amnesty International, July 2024) [text]

UNHCR, NAPC sustain capacity development initiative to boost Philippine Government’s awareness, advocacy for IDP Protection (UNHCR, July 2024) [text]

Reports:

The Accountability, Politics and Humanitarian Toll of the Rohingya Genocide (New Lines Institute, June 2024) [text]

Forced Displacement: A Rapidly Rising Vulnerability and Its Challenges for an Inclusive and Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (Asian Development Bank, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- "Three main causes of forced displacement are outlined and discussed—violence, inequality, and environment and climate change."

Kyrgyzstan: Migration Data Gaps Analysis (IOM, Jan. 2024) [text]

Negotiating belonging in an age of precarity: Externalization in Southeast Asia (Externalizing Asylum, July 2024) [text]

The Nexus of Hindu Nationalism, Democratic Governance, and Refugee Rights: A Case Study of Rohingya Refugees in India (Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Critical Studies of Inter-Asian Societies Project, July 2024) [text]

‘Offshore processing’ in Australia (Externalizing Asylum, July 2024) [access via UNSW]

Populations in Peril: Decoding Patterns of Forced Displacement in Myanmar (World Bank, May 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Disaster, risk and conducting human security research in Southeast Asia," Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, EarlyCite, 18 July 2024 [open access]

Dve Domovini = Two Homelands, no. 59 (2024) [open access]
- Special issue on "Labor Migration in Ukraine and the Post-Soviet Space." Includes articles on Central Asia countries & Japan.

"Just Around the Corner: How Cross-ethnic Solidarity is Established Between Locals and the Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in a Local NGO," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 2 July 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Hong Kong.

"Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong," Language in Society, FirstView, 3 May 2024 [open access]

"Refugees and mental wellbeing: A call for community approaches in Aotearoa New Zealand," Mental Health and Social Inclusion, EarlyCite, 16 July 2024 [open access]

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19 July 2024

Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

Jordan: New Alliance allows more refugees to access university studies (UNHCR, July 2024) [text]

"Largest global mapping of higher education opportunities for refugees to be launched," Times Higher Education, 21 June 2024 [text]

New project will map routes to higher education for Venezuelan refugees and migrants (UNESCO, June 2024 [text]

University of Nairobi and UNHCR launch Refugee Resource Centre, to foster research and policy changes on forced displacement (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

Reports:

Education of Refugee Children and Youth from Ukraine: An Analysis of Major Challenges and Trends Based on Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) and Other Data (UNHCR et al., June 2024) [access]

Refugee students from Ukraine in the Polish education system (Center for Citizenship Education, April 2024) [text via UNICEF]

Rohingya Children in India: Access to Education and the Quest for a Better Future (Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Critical Studies of Inter-Asian Societies Project, Feb. 2024) [text]

UNHCR Engagement with Academia: Ensuring an effective response to refugees’ situations and empowering forcibly displaced people through data and education (UNHCR, July 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Romania.

Journal articles:

"Development of a tailored educational strategy in primary schools to cope with volatility of education in internally displaced camps: a case study from Northwest Syria," Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care, Latest Articles, 17 May 2024 [open access]

"Digital learning in pandemic times: assessing academic readiness among refugee children in Malaysia," Early Child Development and Care, Latest Articles, 2 April 2024 [open access]

"Governance and Duty in Global Refugee Education: A Kantian Perspective," Frontiers in Education, 1 July 2024 [open access]

"Language learning, gender and education: Understanding the agency and affordances of refugee-background women with emergent literacy," Linguistics and Education, vol. 81 (June 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Sweden and New Zealand.

"Learning Together Through Shared Book Reading: Experiences of Burmese Refugee Mothers and Their Preschoolers," Early Childhood Education Journal, Latest Articles, 14 May 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

Polish Journal of Educational Studies, vol. 75, no. 1 (Dec. 2023) [open access]
- Special issue on "Children, youth and adults in the context of migration, refugeeism, and war trauma—challenges and tasks of education."

"Stuffing the Refugee Education Pipeline: The Integration Process and the Exclusion of Refugees from Knowledge Production in a Western Destination Country," Frontiers in Education, 1 July 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Norway.

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18 July 2024

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

AI at the Border: Racialized Impacts and Implications (Just Security Blog, June 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Automating Deportation: The Artificial Intelligence Behind DHS's Immigration Enforcement Regime (Just Futures Law & Mijente, June 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Creating a model for sustainable, community-led connectivity (UNHCR Innovation Service, July 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Uganda.

Reports & journal articles:

Beyond Walls and Fences: EU Funding Used for a Complex and Digitalised Border Surveillance System (PICUM & ECRE, July 2024) [text]

"Biometric Technology at the Borders of Citizenship: Identifying Technical Standards for Introducer-Based Remote Onboarding in Global Contexts of Statelessness, Nomadism, Displacement, and Refuge," International Journal of Digital Law and Governance, 8 July 2024 [open access]

"Digital learning in pandemic times: assessing academic readiness among refugee children in Malaysia," Early Child Development and Care, Latest Articles, 2 April 2024 [open access]

"The digital trail of Ukraine’s 2022 refugee exodus," Journal of Computational Social Science, Latest Articles, 16 July 2024 [open access]

Online communities: How do people on the move to North America use social media? Overview of the information shared by migrant populations in public Facebook groups (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2024) [text]

"Social Inclusion of Gen Z Ukrainian Refugees in Lithuania: The Role of Online Social Networks," Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 7 (July 2024) [open access]

"The use of digital platforms by citizen aid actors during the Ukraine humanitarian crisis," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 8 July 2024 [open access]

"Versatility of social networking sites in meeting the acculturation needs of migrant populations between 2019 and 2023," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11:842 (June 2024) [open access]

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New Issues of Comp. Migr. Stud., Disasters, Dve Domo., GILJ, Hum. Exch., Hum. Leader, JEMS, JIMI, Pol. Q., Polish J. Educ. Stud., Soc. Res., Zarch

Comparative Migration Studies [open access]
- Special collection on "The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas."

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.

Dve Domovini = Two Homelands, no. 59 (2024) [open access]
- Special issue on "Labor Migration in Ukraine and the Post-Soviet Space."

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 38, no. 2 (Winter 2024) [full-text]
- Mix of articles.

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 85 (June 2024) [full-text]
- Issue theme is "Women-led organisations in humanitarian response."

The Humanitarian Leader, vol. 6, no. 1 (Feb. 2024) [open access]
- Mix of articles.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 13 (2024) [contents]
- Special issue on "Arts-based approaches, migration and violence: intersectional and creative perspectives." The introduction is freely available and five articles are open access.

Journal of International Migration and Integration [contents]
- Special collection on "Claiming time: refugees and asylum seekers dealing with the production of different temporal regimes by politics of asylum and reception." The editorial is freely available and four articles are open access.

Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 25, no. 2 (June 2024) [contents]
- Mix of articles, with nine that are open access.

The Political Quarterly, vol. 95, no. 2 (2024) [open access/free full-text]
- Features a sub-section on "Immigration and Asylum Policy After Brexit."

Polish Journal of Educational Studies, vol. 75, no. 1 (Dec. 2023) [open access]
- Special issue on "Children, youth and adults in the context of migration, refugeeism, and war trauma—challenges and tasks of education."

Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 91, no. 2 (Summer 2024) [contents]
- "As many of our regular readers know, Social Research was launched in 1934 by the University in Exile scholars who were brought out of Germany to the New School in 1933 as Hitler was consolidating his power. How better to celebrate this than by organizing an issue on exile? ...Some of the pieces in this issue look at exile forced by war and political persecution. Some reflect on the difference between being an exile and being a refugee, and one in particular argues that a new vocabulary is needed."

ZARCH Journal, no. 22 (2024) [open access]
- Features thematic dossier on "Entre la permanencia y la temporalidad. Campos, urbanidad y tiempo."

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17 July 2024

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Decoding Humanitarian Discourse: A Deep Dive into Climate Resilience with the Humanitarian Encyclopedia Dashboard (ReliefWeb Blog, July 2024) [text]

Expanding refugee protection for a changing climate (Pearls & Irritations, July 2024) [text]

"Here’s what extreme weather means for life in three refugee camps," Washington Post, 17 July 2024 [text]

Is It Time to Stop Referring to 'Planned Relocations' as 'Climate Adaptation'? (RID Blog, July 2024 [text]

Kaldor Centre calls for support for Tuvaluans settled under treaty (UNSW News, July 2024) [text]

UN Refugee Agency sounds the alarm on climate change pounding refugee communities (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Articulating and Claiming the Right to Stay in the Context of Climate Change," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 38, no. 2 (Winter 2024) [full-text]

"The Climate Migrant Financing Facility: Flexible Contracting and Strict Transparency for the Looming Climate Migration Crisis," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 38, no. 2 (Winter 2024) [full-text]

"Climate-Induced Displacement and the International Protection of Forced Migrants," Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 91, no. 2 (Summer 2024) [full-text via Zolberg Inst.]

"Disaster induced displacement and durable solutions in Africa," Natural Hazards, Latest Articles, 9 July 2024 [open access]

"Environmental governance is critical for mitigating human displacement due to weather-related disasters," Communications Earth & Environment, 5:363 (July 2024) [open access]

"Patterns of hurricane induced displacement in The Bahamas: Building equitable resilience in small island developing states," Climate Risk Management, vol. 45 (2024) [open access]

"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]

Right to Life with Dignity for Climate-displaced Persons: Proposing a Legal Standard Based on International Human Rights Norms & Local and Indigenous Peoples’ Perspectives (ICAAD, July 2024) [text via Common Dreams]

Submission by UNHCR: Parliamentary inquiry into Australia’s response to the priorities of Pacific Island countries and the Pacific Region (July 2024) [text]

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