News: 73rd Anniversary of the 1951 Convention:
UN Refugee Agency marks 73 years of the Refugee Convention, urging universal accession (UNHCR, July 2024) [text]
- Currently, "149 States worldwide have acceded to the Refugee Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol." More details can be accessed in the newly launched dashboard listed below. See also guidance on "Why Accede to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol" and "Why Withdraw Reservations to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol."
Opportunities:
Call for registration: IARMJ European Chapter Biennial Conference, Dublin, 8-10 September 2024 [info]
- Registration is ongoing. Note: IARMJ = International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges.
Call for registration: IARMJ Asia Pacific Chapter Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 25-26 November 2024 [info]
- The theme is "Vulnerabilities in Refugee and Migration Law: People, processes, and systems." Early bird registration is open until 30 August 2024.
CFP: Junior Scholars in Forced Migration Law Workshop, Maynooth, Ireland, 10 January 2025 [info]
- Submission deadline is 27 September 2024.
Save the dates: IARMJ Africa Chapter Biennial Conference, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 17-21 November 2024 [info]
**See also the legal-related opportunities in this listing.
New open access books:
Governing Migration Through Paperwork: Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation (Berghahn Books, Aug. 2024) [open access]
- "To better understand migration governance and the concrete, daily practices of civil servants tasked with enforcing state laws and policies, it is important to focus on documents, which are core artefacts of bureaucratic work. These can include certificates, letters, reports, case files, decisions, internal guidelines and judgements in both digital and paper form. Based on ethnographic studies in various geographical and bureaucratic contexts, this collection shows how civil servants produce statehood, restrict migrants’ movements and engage with migrants’ strategies to make themselves legible. It contributes to the study of the state as documentary practice and highlights the role of paperwork as a powerful practice of migration control."
International Migration and the Law: Legal Approaches to a Global Challenge (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]
- "This book discusses existing and future trends concerning the development of migratory policies between local and global levels, to understand the challenges and gaps in the protection of migrants. The collection explores international migration and its impact on sovereignty, international cooperation, security, and human rights. In particular, it takes into account the composite framework of international and national rules, and the role of judicial and monitoring bodies in protecting the rights of migrants, with the aim of assessing the state of the art, identifying the gaps, and formulating possible remedies. The work of some international organizations such as the UN and its specialized agencies and the European Union is investigated, together with a set of regional practices such as those of Latin America and South-East Asia, and countries, such as Mexico, Georgia, Tunisia, Italy, and the United States. The issues of the fundamental rights of migrants in the European legal order are also addressed, including the emerging scenarios related to recent crises like the one generated by the war in Ukraine."
Reports & journal articles:
The End of Asylum? Evolving the Protection System to Meet 21st Century Challenges (Migration Policy Institute, July 2024) [text]
Implementing Differentiated Asylum Case Processing Modalities (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]
Managing International Protection Needs at Borders (Migration Policy Institute, July 2024) [text]
Resources:
Evacuations Research Hub [access]
- This program "provides the first comprehensive analysis of evacuations across multiple countries and contexts. By ‘seeing’ evacuations as a form of displacement, and by overcoming existing fragmentation across a diverse range of legal sub-fields, it identifies the legal and policy innovations required to ensure that evacuees’ human rights are respected and that they do not end up in arbitrary or protracted displacement without durable solutions." See also related explainer.
IDP Law and Policy Dashboard [access]
- Provides information and data on national and regional IDP-related instruments. Note: This has replaced the former "Global Database on IDP Laws and Policies," provided via the Global Protection Cluster.
Refugee Treaty and Legislation Dashboard (RTLD) [access]
- Provides information and data on the international, regional and national refugee-related instruments.
Rights Mapping and Analysis Platform (UNHCR) [access]
- Serves as the gateway to the two a/m legal tools.
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