Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

Addressing protection in humanitarian evaluations: what ALNAP ’s new guidance needs to achieve (ALNAP Commentary, Aug. 2024) [text]

Humanitarian reform beyond the mega-crisis (HPN, Aug. 2024) [text]

"International aid agencies pay the price for boom and bust," The New Humanitarian, 29 Aug. 2024 [text]

"Save the Children staff dissatisfied with leadership amid restructuring: survey," The New Humanitarian, 29 Aug. 2024 [text]

A seven-step guide to escaping mental health distress as a humanitarian practitioner (HPN, Aug. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Cracks in Coordination: Trust and Engagement in Humanitarian Country Teams (ICVA, Sept. 2024) [text]

CrisisInSight Humanitarian Access Overview (ACAPS, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Humanitarian Leadership: A Literature Review (International Rescue Committee, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Promising Evidence of Coordination Across the Humanitarian–Development Nexus, BASIC Research Research Briefing, no. 3 (Institute of Development Studies, Aug. 2024) [text]

Step-by-Step Guide for Hosting Assistance to People Affected by Crisis (IFRC, July 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Ethical framework and inclusivity: research mechanics of difficult-to-reach migrants in civil military context," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:11 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

"'For them it’s not the work, it’s the life': humanitarian leadership development in the Global South," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:10 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

"Integrating social sciences in community engagement in humanitarian action: benefits and challenges seen from the field," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:12 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

 Muslim Humanitarianism Review, vol. 1, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- New journal "dedicated to fostering scholarly dialogue and advancing research in the field of humanitarian affairs, philanthropy, civil society, public affairs and Muslim humanitarianism."

"'Strange' affinities: Iṣlāḥ and British Muslim volunteers in the Syrian war," American Ethnologist, Early View, 7 Sept. 2024 [open access]

Resource:

Humanitarian Takeaways (CHA & ICVA) [access]

- A "collection of selected and summarised materials on relevant topics for the humanitarian sector." Initial issues available on the Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA) website.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (19 Aug. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

3 ways Canada can welcome and support scientists displaced by war and persecution (The Conversation, Sept. 2024) [text]

Incluusion’s Impressive Impact on Refugee Students and UU Community (Utrecht Univ., Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on The Netherlands.

Scholarship programme prepares refugees to build brighter futures after graduation (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Includes a link to the DAFI Annual Report 2023.

Reports & journal articles:

Advancing inclusion, self-reliance, and solutions through education for refugees: A spotlight on education at the GRF 2023 (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

Ensuring School Re-entry for Pregnant Teenagers and Young Mothers in Uganda Refugee and Host Communities (Brookings Inst., Aug. 2024) [text]

- See also related comment.

"I want a peaceful sky": Education and Children's wellbeing in wartime Ukraine (Save the Children, Sept. 2024) [access]

- Available in English and Ukrainian.

"Imagining new ways of representing refugees: Teaching proposal," Chapter in Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity (transcript Verlag, 2024) [open access]

Refugee Education: Five Years on from the Launch of the 2030 Refugee Education Strategy (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [access]

"Resilience in multicultural classrooms: School relationships can protect the school adjustment of immigrant, refugee and non-immigrant children," British Journal of Educational Psychology, Early View, 21 Aug. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Germany.

"Rupture, loneliness and education: Experiences of refugee and asylum-seeking people," Equity in Education & Society, OnlineFirst, 3 Sept. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

*Schools, Stability, and Community Prosperity: New Students Seeking Asylum (Women's Refugee Commission, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Working with Ministries of Education: Good Practices from the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes (UNHCR, July 2024) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (29 Aug. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"The development and validation of the Palestinian children's traumatic events checklist in a war-torn environment," BMC Psychiatry, 24:254 (April 2024) [open access]

"Growing up in transit: Personal development and resistance of migrant adolescents travelling through Mexico unaccompanied," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 10 (2024) [open access]

"'I wish I had listened and not come to South Africa': fantasies, expectations and trajectories of migration among Ethiopian unaccompanied child migrants into South Africa," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 23 Aug. 2024 [open access]

Mashriq & Mahjar, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Children and Youth Migrants in Middle East and North African History."

"Reflecting on participation’s promises: Insights from collaborative research about unaccompanied child migrants, care, and the UK’s hostile immigration regime," Childhood, OnlineFirst, 8 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Stress and Trauma Symptoms in Young Palestine Refugee Children Following the May 2021 Escalation in Gaza," JAACAP Open, In Press, 22 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Transnational belonging and disrupted care relationships," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 30 Aug. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on New Zealand and Sweden.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (11 Sept. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

From shadow to recognition: how birth registration restores refugee identities (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Rwanda.

Oversight Agency Says 32,000 Unaccompanied Children Are Missing. But Are They? (Immigration Impact Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Tehran Children": How a Thousand Unaccompanied Child Holocaust Refugees Ended up in Tehran (Refugee History Blog, July 2024) [text]

New open access book:

Transmigration und Place-making junger Geflüchteter = Transmigration and Place-making of Young Refugees (Verlag Barbara Budrich, Sept. 2024) [open access]

- "Attribution of foreignness, (everyday) racism, social inclusion and exclusion - these are only few examples of the numerous challenges young refugees face in the context of flight and migration processes. But how exactly do young refugees position themselves and others in the hosting environments of Greece, Malta, Turkey, Germany and Switzerland? Within the framework of a migration and educational science analysis, this anthology examines the delimitations, limitations and localisations of migrating children and young people as they take place under the conditions of the migration policies of European countries. In addition, the authors take a look at transnational in-between worlds and shed light on the creation of new self-understandings and forms of action as well as the emergence of multiple affiliations." Chapters are in English or German.

Reports & book chapters:

"Developing and Consolidating the Protection of Unaccompanied Minor Migrants in Europe: The Court of Justice's Role," Chapter in International Migration and the Law: Legal Approaches to a Global Challenge (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]

"Enforced transnationalism: Refugees' family lives in Germany under conditions of separation and waiting," Chapter in Family Reunification in Europe: Exposing Inequalities (Routledge, Sept. 2024) [open access]

Mixed-status families and immigrant families with children continued avoiding safety net programs (Urban Institute, Aug. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Procedimientos de Reunificación Familiar: Desafíos y Buenas Prácticas en las Américas en el Marco del Proceso de Quito (Proceso de Quito, Sept. 2024) [text]

"Right to Family Reunification of Migrants and Refugees in the Latin American System," Chapter in International Migration and the Law: Legal Approaches to a Global Challenge (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (23 Aug. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Short pieces:

"Philippines to host a US visa processing center for up to 300 Afghans resettling in America," AP News, 20 Aug. 2024 [text]

Seven Years into the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis: Assessing Progress Toward Repatriation – Challenges and the Way Forward (RLI Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

Reports:

EU Complementary Pathways Network (COMET) Fact Sheets (Migration Policy Institute, Aug. 2024) [access]

- Follow link to access the first four fact sheets from this project, in English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish: 1) Approaches To Matching in Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways for Refugees and Other People in Need of International Protection; 2) Managing The Expectations of Refugees and Other People in Need of International Protection in Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways Programmes; 3) Supporting Volunteer Engagement in Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways for Refugees and Other People in Need of International Protection; 4) Monitoring And Evaluation in Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways for Refugees and Other People in Need of International Protection.

In the Meantime: Gender, Race, Nationality, and "Para-Solutions" for Refugees in Amman, Jordan, LERRN Working Paper, no. 27 (Carleton Univ., Aug. 2024) [text]

Role of UNHCR in the Durable Solutions Working Group in Afghanistan (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Conflict-affected Karen Refugees from Myanmar: Reflections on Their Resettlement in Hartford," Social Development Issues, vol. 46, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

"Networks of persistence: A new framework for protracted displacement from a Georgian lens," International Migration, Early View, 2 Sept. 2024 [open access]

"A Paradox of Inclusion in Cities: Homemaking of Refugees and Natives in Urban Space," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 3 Sept. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Turkey.

"The production of 'evidence' for migrant integration policy in the European Union," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

"Protracted refugee situations and the shrinking durable solutions: could there be a ray of hope in local solutions?," Cogent Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"The Social Inclusion of Migrants Between Policy and Practice: Lessons from Uruguay," International Migration Review, vol. 58, no. 2 (June 2024) [ResearchGate]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (22 Aug. 2024)

Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

ACLED's Conflict Exposure – One Measure to Describe a Conflict (ecoi.net Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Ensuring everyone counts: working together to include stateless and displaced persons in civil registration systems (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

"How to end tokenism and embrace real refugee participation," The New Humanitarian, 10 Sept. 2024 [text]

New open access book:

Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World (Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2024) [open access]

- "Framing Refugees analyzes political discourse on the admission of refugees in six countries from different regions of the world: Germany, Poland, and Turkey, all responding to the exodus of Syrian and Middle Eastern refugees; Chile’s reaction to the Venezuelan displacement; Singapore and its stance toward Rohingya refugees; and Uganda facing the displacement from South Sudan. The book takes a cultural sociological perspective, emphasizing the importance of framing and the cultural repertories that frames are based on. It shows that refugee policies are shaped by how governments and opposition parties respond to two questions: Who are 'we,' the receiving nation? And who are 'they,' the refugees? In framing the 'we' and the 'others,' politicians draw on cultural repertoires, which vary by country and political constituency within a country."

Reports & journal articles:

Assessing Displaced People’s Design Choices Around Social Assistance, BASIC Research Working Paper, no. 30 (Institute of Development Studies, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lebanon, and Pakistan.

"Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 23 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Internalization of Borders: The Concept and Its Applications - Introduction to a Forum," Society, Latest Articles, 23 July 2024 [open access]

"Overlap and Interrelations Between (Im)mobility Motivations," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 2 Sept. 2024 [open access]

"Placing futures in regimes of im/mobilities," Mobilities, Latest Articles, 26 Aug. 2024 [open access]

Urban Governance and refugees: a systematic literature review, Paper presented at the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 11 June 2024 [ResearchGate]

"Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 2 Sept. 2024 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (20 Aug. 2024) 

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Concerned over impact of mpox on refugees and displaced in Africa, UNHCR calls for inclusion and international solidarity (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

- See also related mpox explainer.

Conflicts Causing Record Level of Forced Displacement in Africa (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Sept. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Ethiopia’s New Regulation to Enhance its Asylum Agency: A Positive Step or Missed Opportunity? (RLI Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Kenya champions the free movement of people in east Africa, but it’s failing immigrants and refugees at home (The Conversation, Aug. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Analysing group refugee recognition in African states’ law and practice, Working paper, no. 11 (RefMig Project, 2023) [text]

If bullets miss, hunger won't - Beyond the Numbers: Hunger and Conflict in Sudan (DRC, Mercy Corps & NRC, Sept. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugee Recognition Regime Country Profile: Niger, Working paper, no. 8 (RefMig Project, 2023) [Eng. text] [Fr. text]

Refugee Recognition Regime Country Profile: Uganda, Working paper, no. 10 (RefMig Project, 2023) [text] 

Journal articles:

"The coloniality of power in Uganda's Nakivale Refugee Settlement: struggling for humanitarian authority amidst the 2018 corruption scandal," Disasters, vol. 48, no. 4 (Oct. 2024) [ResearchGate]

"Externalization Beyond 'Immigration Risk'? UK Borderwork Creep in Africa and its Cumulative Rippling Effects," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 5 Sept 2024 [open access]

"An investigation into the underlying causes of socio-economic challenges faced by Congolese refugees in Nairobi," African Journal of Social Issues, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Middle-class youth fleeing Nigeria: rethinking African survival migration through the Japa phenomenon," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 16 (2024) [open access]

"Refugee Protection in Kenya," Journal of Policy and Development Studies, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Trauma and resistance in Niger's emergency transit mechanism: A life narrative study," SSM - Mental Health, vol. 5 (June 2024) [open access]

- See also related IJMHSC article.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (26 Aug. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Adolescent pregnancy amongst displaced women in Bogota: playing between the barbs of structural violence—a qualitative study," Reproductive Health, Latest Articles, 13 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"The Agency of Refugees and Asylum-Seeking Women in the Face of the Inability of States to Provide Protection Against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence," Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 3 (Aug. 2024) [ResearchGate]

- Draws on fieldwork in Greece, Uganda, and Israel.

"A female advantage in asylum application decisions? A gendered analysis of decisions on asylum applications in Italy from 2008 to 2022," Genus: Journal of Population Sciences, 80:13 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

"He leads a lonely life: single men’s narratives of dating and relationships in the context of transnational migration," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 23 Aug. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden and Italy.

"Illegally Crossing an Open Border: The Experiences of Venezuelan Women’s Journeys to Colombia Through Unauthorised Routes," Critical Criminology, Latest Articles, 22 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"'It hurts my heart': Afghan women in London negotiating family relationships and (im)mobility regimes across borders," Population, Space and Place, Early View, 5 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Knowledge gaps related to HIV and condom use for preventing pregnancy: a cross-sectional study among migrants in Sweden," BMC Public Health, 24:2334 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

"Migrant survivors of conflict-related sexual violence accessing a specialist health service in Turin, Italy: a qualitative analysis of clinical forensic interview transcripts," Frontiers in Sociology, 8 Sept. 2024 [open access]

"Polygyny in Denmark: a study of the instrumentalisation of cultural differences in immigration policies," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 8 Sept. 2024 [open access]

Related post:

-  Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (9 Sept. 2024)

 

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Reports & book chapters:

Coercion and Control: The treatment of women seeking asylum in hotel accommodation (Women for Refugee Women, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Examining Barriers to Family Planning Information, Products, and Services Among Ukrainian Refugees and Host Communities in Poland: Findings from Mixed Methods Research to Inform Cash and Voucher Assistance Programming (CARE & Women's Refugee Commission, Aug. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for report and brief.

Facing an impossible choice: Refugee women’s housing, land and property rights in Syria (Norwegian Refugee Council, Aug. 2024) [text]

Investigating allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse: A toolkit for partners (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

"A Review of Gender and Refugee Studies in Lebanon, Jordan, and Türkiye," Entry in Natural Hazard Science Oxford Research Encyclopaedia (Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2024) [ResearchGate]

UNHCR policy on addressing sexual misconduct (UNHCR, 2024) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues (23 Aug. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

Fifty Shades of Non-Refoulement: The CJEU’s Distorting Reading of Article 1D Refugee Convention for Refugees of Palestinian Origin (ADiM Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Reports:

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

- Issues discussed during this session of the SC included the Note on International Protection, statelessness, UNHCR engagement with IDPs, and efforts to measure the impact of hosting refugees. 

The Displacement Regime Complex: Reform for Protection, Working paper, no. 9 (RefMig Project, 2023) [text]

International Standards on Conscientious Objection to Military Service, Rev. ed. (Quaker United Nations Office, 2024) [text via Refworld]

Migrant Protection Categories in International Law & Practice (Tufts Univ., Oct. 2023) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Deportation as Torture," NYU Journal of International Law and Politics (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Deterrence as Legal Innovation: Management of Unwanted: Mobilities and the Future of Refugee Protection," Chapter in Innovative Public Governance in Times of Crisis (Nomos, Aug. 2024) [open access]

"Introduction," Chapter in Borders and Belonging (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2025) [preprint]

"The Neoliberal Understanding of Human Rights and the Failure to Protect Refugees," Journal of Law and Political Economy, vol. 4, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"Temporary Protection in the European Union and the United States: Same Words, Vastly Different Meanings," Journal of Law and Public Affairs, vol. 9, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Who is Recognized as a Refugee? Insights from Diverse Disciplines," Z'Flucht: Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung, vol. 7, no. 1 (2023) [free full-text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (9 Aug. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Beyond the 'Black Jobs' Controversy: Immigrants and U.S.-Born Black Workers Share a Growing Jobs Pie (MPI Commentary, Aug. 2024) [text] 

Democrats must make the economic case for immigration (The Hill, Aug. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Egypt’s Refugee Situation: Economic Gain or Drain (Sada Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

"Empowering Refugees: Navigating Employment Rights in India," Modern Diplomacy, 18 Aug. 2024 [text]

Enhancing Financial Inclusion for Refugees: Closing 15 Gaps in Current Practices (LinkedIn, Aug. 2024) [text]

The Importance of Immigrant Labor to the US Economy (CMS, Sept. 2024) [text]

Intended and unintended consequences of welfare cuts for refugees (VoxEU, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Denmark.

Research: Why Inclusive Hiring Must Include Refugees (Harvard Business Rev., Aug. 2024) [text]

"Sky-high fees with few benefits: What’s wrong with social security for Syrians in Jordan," The New Humanitarian, 5 Sept. 2024 [text]

Reports:

Labor Market Effect of Granting Amnesty to Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in the Dominican Republic (Inter-American Development Bank, Sept. 2024) [text]

Las personas refugiadas y migrantes trabajadoras tienen derechos en Colombia (ACNUR, July 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Advancing the access of refugees and asylum seekers in Latin America to the labour market: building from the Inter-American case-law," Revista Direito, Estado e Sociedade, no. 63 (2023) [open access]

"The Displacement Economies Framework," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 1 Sept. 2024 [open access]

Pittsburgh Tax Review, vol. 21, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]

- Issue theme is "Immigration & Taxation." Focuses on the US.

"Well Yes, but Actually No! Perceptions of Colombian Informal Workers about Venezuelan Immigration," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest articles, 4 Sept. 2024 [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2 (23 Aug. 2024)

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2 (23 Aug. 2024)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"'Bridging cultures through food': A qualitative analysis of food dynamic between Italian host families and Ukrainian refugees," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 102 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

"Confining by Choking Refugees’ Lifetime," Geopolitics, vol. 29, no. 4 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Greece.

"The effects of 7-week participation in football on personal well-being among male asylum seekers in a UK hotel," Heliyon, vol. 10, no. 17 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

"EU Lawlessness Law at the EU-Belarusian Border: Torture and Dehumanisation Excused by 'Instrumentalisation'," Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Latest Articles, 1 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Externalization Beyond 'Immigration Risk'? UK Borderwork Creep in Africa and its Cumulative Rippling Effects," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 5 Sept. 2024 [open access]

"Perceived loneliness: Why are Syrian refugees more lonely than other newly arrived migrants in Germany?," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:37 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

"Reflexivity in research: addressing power dynamics in researching Syrian refugees in the UK," Language and Intercultural Communication, Latest Articles, 26 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 27 Feb. 2024 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (7 Sept. 2024)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Evidencing pushbacks: How the ECtHR may request information from states (RLI Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Home Office budgeting and asylum overspends (Institute for Fiscal Studies, Aug. 2024) [text]

How strategic litigation for asylum seekers can be effective (Radboud University, Sept. 2024) [text]

Under the radar: The growing wave of Latin American asylum seekers fleeing to Europe (InfoMigrants, Aug. 2024) [text]

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

New open access book:

Inside Asylum Appeals: Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]

- "Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on what takes place during asylum appeals and puts forward suggestions for improving their fairness and accessibility. Drawing on hundreds of ethnographic observations of appeal hearings, as well as research interviews, the authors paint a detailed picture of the limitations of refugee protection available through asylum appeals. Refugee law can appear dependable and reliable in policy documents and legal texts. However, this work reveals that, in reality, myriad social, political, psychological, linguistic, contextual and economic factors interfere with and frequently confound the protection that refugee law promises during its concrete enactment. Drawing on evidence from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom, the book equips readers with a clear sense of the fragility of legal protection for people forced to migrate to Europe."

Reports: 

Asylum in Europe: The situation of applicants for international protection in 2023 (ECRE, Sept. 2024) [text]

Beyond the "Hybrid Attack" Paradigm : EU-Belarus Border Crisis and the Erosion of Asylum Seeker Rights in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Re:Constitution Working Paper, no. 35 (Forum Transregionale Studien, Aug. 2024) [text]

Destitute and in Danger: people made homeless by the asylum system (Jesuit Refugee Service, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the UK. See also related blog post.

How to be a humanitarian worker when access is denied: life on the Poland–Belarus border (Humanitarian Practice Network, Aug. 2024) [text]

Two decades of EU funds for migration and asylum: The MigFund dataset, RSC Working Paper, no. 32 (European Univ. Institute, Aug. 2024) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (27 Aug. 2024)

New Issue of RSQ

A special issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) has been published. The theme of vol. 43, no. 2, June 2024 is "Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experience." Contents include:

• "Introduction - Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experience [free full-text]
• Revisiting MSS v. Belgium and Greece and Interim Measures before the European Court of Human Rights [open access]
• Rewriting Febles, Decolonialising Exclusion [abstract]
• Securitisation of Refugee Protection: The Judiciary’s Role in the Protection of the Rights of Refugees: Attorney General v. Kituo Cha Sheria & 7 others [open access]
• Rewriting Internal Relocation from a Refugee Perspective - The Lived Experience of Refugees in Afghanistan [open access]
• Poor-Quality Legal Advice: Re-Imagining How Immigration Detention Centres Should Run in England [abstract]
• Plaintiff S99: Rewriting Refugee Law Through a Trauma-Informed Lens [open access]

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

Five new monitoring reports on places of immigration detention released by Independent Monitoring Boards (EIN, Aug. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Indefinite detention, duplicated punishment, and fictitious authority: The NZYQ decision (Australian Human Rights Institute Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Offshore detention policy leaves 1000 refugees with no solution after 11 years (Refugee Council of Australia, Aug. 2024) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

"The Detention of Migrants at the EU's Borders: A Serious Violation of Human Rights and a Threat to the Rule of Law," Chapter in International Migration and the Law: Legal Approaches to a Global Challenge (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]

Held Incommunicado: The Failed Promise of Language Access in Immigration Detention (Cardozo School of Law, Aug. 2024) [access via ImmigrationProf Blog]

- Focuses on the US.

"Immigration Detention: The Assessment of Non-European Human Rights Control Bodies," Chapter in International Migration and the Law: Legal Approaches to a Global Challenge (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]

The Lawfulness of Women’s Deprivation of Liberty in al-Hol Camp (OHCHR, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Syria.

Unzipping Detention from Deportation, Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 634 (Boston College Law School, Aug. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Journal articles:

"'I’ve Been Hurt Every Single Day Here, You Know:' A Feminist Abolitionist Analysis of Immigration Detention," Critical Criminology, Latest Articles, 30 Aug. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Immigration Detention at Sea: maritime migration governance in Australia and the sanctioning of indefinite detention for the purpose of removal," Migration Politics, vol. 3. no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"The Institutional Hearing Program and the Incarceration-to-Deportation Pipeline," Critical Criminology, Latest Articles, 29 July 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

"NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs: The End of Indefinite Immigration Detention in Australia?," Statelessness and Citizenship Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Punishment & Society, vol. 26, no. 3 (July 2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "Changing Detention," with three open access articles that focus respectively on Australia, Canada and Finland.

"Punitive subjectivities and emotions in immigration detention," Migration Politics, Accepted Submission (Aug. 2024) [preprint]

- Focuses on Mexico.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (7 Aug. 2024)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

IOM, UNHCR Commend Ecuador’s Efforts to Regularize Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants (Sept. 2024) [text]

- See also related news story.

Joint Statement: Trilateral on Irregular Migration - Colombia, United States and Panama, Cartagena de Indias, 26 August 26 2024 [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

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

Reports & book chapters:

Cambios en el perfil de la migración reportada desde los hogares venezolanos (UNHCR, 2023; posted July 2024) [text]

Condiciones de vida y acceso a derechos de personas migrantes y refugiadas venezolanas, colombianas, cubanas, dominicanas y haitianas en Argentina: Informe simplificado (R4V, Aug. 2024) [text]

Memorándum entre el Gobierno de la República de Panamá y el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de América sobre asistencia y cooperación en asuntos migratorios (July 2024) [text via Refworld]

- See also related media note.

"Mexico and the United States of America: Feasible Mutual Migration Agreements in the Light of Agenda 2030," Chapter in International Migration and the Law: Legal Approaches to a Global Challenge (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]

"Rethinking Legal Categories on Forced Migration: Latin American Specificity and Possible Fertilisation of the European System," Chapter in International Migration and the Law: Legal Approaches to a Global Challenge (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]

Tendencias nacionales: El desplazamiento forzado en Ecuador (ACNUR, July 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Adapting and Validating a Survey to Assess Host Communities Support for Migration," Social Indicators Research, Latest Articles, 9 Aug. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Venezuelans in Colombia.

"Exit, or Voice? A Quantitative Investigation of Out Migration Intentionality from Venezuela," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 26 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Foreign Policy Collaborations to Manage Migration in the Americas," Wisconsin International Law Journal, vol. 41, no. 3 (2024) [full-text]

"Illegally Crossing an Open Border: The Experiences of Venezuelan Women’s Journeys to Colombia Through Unauthorised Routes," Critical Criminology, Latest Articles, 22 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Perceived and Pursued Opportunities from Mass Deportation Threats: The Case of Haitian Migrant-Serving Nonprofit Organizations in the Dominican Republic," Nonprofit Policy Forum, Ahead of Print, 1 Aug. 2024 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (16 Aug. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Short pieces:

The issue with using ‘proof’ of sexual orientation in asylum decision-making (RLI Blog, July 2024) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

"Conditions for Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Co-creation with Queer Refugees," Chapter in Transdisciplinarity for Transformation: Responding to Societal Challenges through Multi-actor, Reflexive Practices (Springer, Sept. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on The Netherlands.

Developing safe and legal pathways for LGBTQI+ refugees: An overview of the situation in France, Germany and Italy (Synergies Migrations, April 2024) [text via SOGICA]

Moving targets: The experiences of LGBTIQ+ people on the move across the Americas (Mixed Migration Centre, Aug. 2024) [text]

"A Review of Gender and Refugee Studies in Lebanon, Jordan, and Türkiye," Entry in Natural Hazard Science Oxford Research Encyclopaedia (Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2024) [ResearchGate]

They Know What We Don’t: Meaningful Inclusion of LGBTIQ People in Humanitarian Action (Outright International, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"How Do Legal Aid Cuts in England and Wales Impact LGBTQ+ People Seeking Asylum? Perspectives from Providers and Directly Affected People," Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Latest Articles, 13 July 2024 [open access]

"La jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne sur les demandeurs d’asile LGBTI: une perspective queer postcoloniale," Genre, sexualité & société, no. 31 (Printemps, 2024) [open access]

"Liminality and transactional sex among queer refugees: Insights from Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, and Switzerland," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 22 July 2024 [open access]

"On the Margins of Refuge: Queer Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Belonging and Mobility in post-2019 Lebanon," International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, OnlineFirst, 22 July 2024 [Academia]

"Strategies of passing: Hypervisible bodies, disrespectable affinities, and Syrian trans refugees in Lebanon," Sexualities, OnlineFirst, 18 July 2024 [open access]

"'Were in this together' - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality," Sexualities, OnlineFirst, 18 Aug. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (15 July 2024)

New Issues of Disasters, Geopol., IMR, J. Bus. Ethics, Mashriq & Mahjar, Migr. Stud., Pitt. Tax Rev., Rev., Justicia, SCR, Transitions

*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. 

Authors of open access articles in these journals are also encouraged to deposit their work in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA). The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website.

+Disasters, vol. 48, no. 4 (Oct. 2024) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with eight that are open access.

Geopolitics, vol. 29, no. 4 (2024) [contents]

- Seven articles focus on refugee/migration issues; three of them are open access.

*International Migration Review, vol. 58, no. 1 (March 2024) [contents]

- Includes subsections on "Migrants in Asia," "Immigrant Integration: Human Capital and Labor Markets," "Changes in Migrant and Migration Politics and Policies" and "Refugees and Host Societies." Seven articles are open access and all book reviews are freely available.

*International Migration Review, vol. 58, no. 2 (June 2024) [contents]

- Includes subsections on "Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic," "Immigrant Integration and Well-Being in Europe," "Investigating Patterns of South American Migration and the Borderlands" and "State Control and Regulation of Migrants and Asylum-Seekers." Nine articles are open access and all book reviews are freely available.

Journal of Business Ethics (2024) [access]

- Special collection on "The Business of (Im)Migration: Bodies Across Borders." Seven articles are open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 16 (2024) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 12 that are open access and one that is freely available.

Mashriq & Mahjar, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Children and Youth Migrants in Middle East and North African History."

Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [contents]

- Mix of articles with six that are open access and one that is freely available.

Pittsburgh Tax Review, vol. 21, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]

- Issue theme is "Immigration & Taxation." Focuses on the US.

Revista Justicia(s), vol. 3, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Movilidad humana, emergencia climática y derechos humanos."

Statelessness and Citizenship Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, vol. 8, nos. 1-2 (Aug, 2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "The End of Migration." The Manifesto is freely available.

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Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Evidence as a Specific Knowledge to Inform Humanitarian Decision-Making in Migration Crisis Contexts: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Jordan," International Migration Review, vol. 58, no. 1 (2024) [postprint]

"'It takes courage to return': West African migrants making sense of (In)voluntary return from Morocco amid adventure, failure and destiny," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 29 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Multiple borders in one war: Constructing mental maps of Syrian refugees as threats," Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Early View, 2 Sept. 2024 [Academia]

"Nomadizing the Bedouins: Displacement, Resistance, and Patronage in the Northern Naqab, 1951-52," Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 53, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Recognising Palestinian Refugees: Applicability of Article 1D of the 1951 Refugee Convention in Turkey," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 24 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"The voice of irregular migrants: A mixed-method study exploring the migration process of Iranian asylum seekers to Europe," Intersections, vol. 10, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1 (20 Aug. 2024) 

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Egypt’s Refugee Situation: Economic Gain or Drain (Sada Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

FEWS NET confronts data challenges as war in Gaza obscures understanding of food needs (ReliefWeb Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

Gaza Humanitarian Access Snapshot #4 (13-26 August 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Neglected Morocco earthquake survivors struggle with slow rebuild," The New Humanitarian, 27 Aug. 2024 [text]

Palestine: Humanitarian impact of recent evacuation orders in Gaza (ACAPS, Aug. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

“Water is Life,” One Syrian Told Us. Yet It Remains Elusive for Many (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

"With Gaza population already displaced, some fear Israel has similar plans for West Bank," CBC News, 30 Aug. 2024 [text]

Reports:

How INGO professionalisation in Türkiye is impacting humanitarian response (Humanitarian Practice Network, Aug. 2024) [text]

"I Can’t Go Home, Stay Here, or Leave": Pushbacks and Pullbacks of Syrian Refugees from Cyprus and Lebanon (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2024) [access]

MOPAN Assessment Report: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) (Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network, Aug. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugee Recognition Regime Country Profile: Egypt, Working Paper, no. 7 (RefMig Project, 2023) [text]

USAID’s Gaza Response: External Factors Impaired Distribution of Humanitarian Assistance Through the JLOTS Maritime Corridor (US Agency for International Development, Aug. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (20 Aug. 2024) 

Opportunities: More Sept. 2024 & New Oct. 2024

Call for experts: Technical Advisory Group on health, migration and displacement, WHO [info]

- Submit expressions of interest by 10 September 2024.

Call for registration: Protecting Migrants’ and Refugees’ Human Rights: Recommendations for Policy and Practice, Washington, DC, 11 September 2024 [info]

Job announcement: Director, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School [info]

- Apply by 15 September 2024.

CFP: "Enhancing Compliance with Human Rights from Below in Times of Crisis," Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Symposium, Hasselt, Belgium, 13 December 2024 [info]

- The "symposium seeks to explore how local communities, grassroots movements, civil society organizations and the general public at large can effectively promote and protect human rights when traditional top-down mechanisms falter in times of crisis (climate change, migration flows or political upheavals, etc)." Submit abstracts by 21 September 2024.

CFPs: 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference: Decentering Migration Studies, Paris–Aubervilliers/Online, 1-4 July 2025 [info]

- Submit paper, panel, and workshop proposals by 23 September 2024.

Call for applications: Editorial Board of the Refugee Survey Quarterly [info]

- Apply by 1 October 2024.

Call for registration: Online Course on Refugee Protection within Mixed Movements, 28 October–29 November 2024 [info]

- Register by 7 October 2024.

Workshop: ReDeFi: Refugee decision-making in first countries of asylum, Copenhagen, 7 October 2024 [info]

Call for registration: 16º Curso virtual sobre el Desplazamiento interno, 11 de noviembre – 6 de diciembre de 2024 [info]

- Register by 15 October 2024.

Call for registration: 39ème Cours en ligne sur le Droit international des réfugiés en français, 11 November–6 December 2024 [info]

- Register by 15 October 2024.

CFP: Conference on "Navigating the politics of (dis)integration: Refugee families’ pathways to inclusion," Brussels, 23-24 April 2025 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 15 October 2024.

CFP: Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal [info]

- Contributions sought for special issue on "Child, Early and Forced Marriage and Unions: Diverse Practices, Diverse Perspectives." Submit abstracts by 15 October 2024.

Call for registration: 5th Online Course on Advocacy for Protection, 25 November– 2 December 2024 [info]

- Register by 21 October 2024.

Call for registration: 40th Online Course on International Refugee Law, 18 November–13 December 2024 [info]

- Register by 21 October 2024.

Call for registration: Advanced ELENA Course 2024, Porto, Portugal, 22-23 November 2024 [info]

- A draft agenda is now available. Register by 22 October 2024.

Call for applications: Statelessness Intensive Course, Online, February 2025 [info]

- Apply by 30 September 2024.

Related post:

- Opportunities: More Aug. & Sept. 2024

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Job announcement: Director, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School [info]

- Apply by 15 September 2024.

Call for applications: Statelessness Intensive Course, Online, February 2025 [info]

- Apply by 30 September 2024.

Short pieces:

Comprehensive Refugees and Stateless Persons Protection Bill Filed at Philippine House of Representatives (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

Confronting Kafkaesque Bureaucracy: Stateless-Led Initiatives to Address Ignorance and Foster Inclusion (CSS Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Five things to know about statelessness (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

From the limbo of statelessness to belonging in Panama (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

The Status of Citizenship (Northeastern Univ. Law Rev. Forum, Aug. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"With citizenship, I will feel complete" (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Turkmenistan.

Reports & journal articles:

"In-Between Categories: Documenting Greek Children’s Legal Belonging in the Suez Canal Region," Mashriq & Mahjar, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Manufacturing Statelessness through Exclusionary Citizenship Law: A Comparative Study on Kenya and South Africa," International Comparative Jurisprudence, vol. 10, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Statelessness and Citizenship Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Statelessness Policy Brief (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

Update on Statelessness, UN Doc. No. EC/75/SC/CRP.14 (Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, June 2024) [text]

- See also related presentation at the 90th meeting of the Standing Committee.

Multimedia:

Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: Statelessness of Religious and Ethnic Minority Groups, 22 Aug. 2024 [access]

Statelessness in Malaysia: Current Debates, 19 June 2024 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (8 Aug. 2024)

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

‘Good Moral Character?’ Holding Trump to the Same Standards as the Immigrants He Vilifies (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

"How Does Immigration Affect the United States? UC Davis experts study immigration in relation to jobs, crime and disease," UC Davis Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024 [text]

How the U.S. should prepare for another Venezuelan migration wave (Niskanen Center Commentary, Aug. 2024) [text]

Narrowing the Gates to Asylum (Leir Migration Monitor, Aug. 2024) [text]

What Project 2025 Says about Immigration (Immigration Impact Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Reports:

The Cost of Immigration: Enforcement and Border Security (American Immigration Council, Aug. 2024) [text]

Fewer Migrants, Greater Danger: The Impact of 2024’s Crackdowns (WOLA, Aug. 2024) [text]

Immigration Bills to Track in Congress (US Committee for Refugees & Immigrants, Aug. 2024) [text]

Las Mariposas de la Frontera: One Asylum Seeker’s Search for Safety (US Committee for Refugees & Immigrants, July 2024) [text]

Presumed Guilty: "Illegal Alien" Evidence and the Rights of Non-Citizen Defendants, Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 27 (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Aug. 2024) [text]

Resistant to Reform? Improving U.S. Immigration Policy Through Data, Evidence, and Innovation (Carnegie Endowment, Aug. 2024) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Are We All in This Together? Examining Nonprofits’ Perceptions of Governmental Actors in the Management of the U.S. Refugee Crisis," Nonprofit Policy Forum, Ahead of Print, 6 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Nonrefoulement: Responding to Asylum-seekers through the Prism of Subversive Stories: A Study of Three Trials of Innocence," Chapter in Furthering Interfaith Biblical Scholarship, A Festschrift in Memory of André LaCocque (Wipf & Stock, 2024) [SSRN]

"Strengthening Temporary Protected Status Through Executive Action," Buffalo Law Review, vol. 72 (Forthcoming, 2024) [full-text]

"Who Volunteers at Refugee and Immigrant Nonprofits? Results from Two Studies," Nonprofit Policy Forum, Ahead of Print, 13 June 2024 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (19 Aug. 2024)