Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

"‘It’s the only hope’: Inside the effort to help Gaza university students continue their studies," The New Humanitarian, 26 Sept. 2024 [text]

A new chapter of hope: refugee students embark on university journeys in Canada (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

Supporting refugee students: How and why universities should prioritize inclusivity, access (Univ. of Michigan, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Towards educational continuity in Niger's emergency zones (NRC, Sept. 2024) [text]

Reports: 

Decolonising Knowledge Production in the Field of Refugee Education: Unsettling the Ontology and

Epistemology of a Nascent Field (Centre for Lebanese Studies, Sept. 2024) [text]

Education provision for newly arrived displaced adolescents (Refugee Education UK, Sept. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for report, policy brief and summary. See also related article in The Guardian.

Empowering lives through education: Equation of foreign academic documents in Uganda - quick guide (Norwegian Refugee Council, Sept. 2024) [text]

Expanding Refugee Access to National Education Systems: The State of the Evidence on Enabling Factors, Constraints, and Interventions (Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis Consortium, Sept. 2024) [text via INEE]

- See also related webinar recording.

Palestinian Education Under Attack in Gaza: Restoration, Recovery, Rights and Responsibilities in and through Education (Univ. of Cambridge & Centre for Lebanese Studies, Sept. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Biding time with close strangers: teachers’ sensemaking of newly arrived refugee youths’ educational aspirations in the Norwegian context," Cogent Education, vol. 11, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Exploring preservice teachers’ social domination orientation and prejudice toward Syrian refugees: the mediation of empathy," Social Psychology of Education, Latest Articles, 18 Sept. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Turkey.

"Improving Teachers' Attitudes towards Refugee Students," Problems of Education in the 21st Century, vol. 82, no. 4 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Turkey.

"Psychological and Pedagogical Aspects of Adaptation of Displaced Ukrainian Children to the  Educational Environment of Another Country," International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, vol. 16, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"Scale of Perceptions of Future Primary School Teachers on Unaccompanied Foreign Minors: Exploratory and Confirmatory Analysis," Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 8 (July 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Spain.

Multimedia:

Share the Platform: Collaborative Strategies for Refugee Integration in Academia, 9 May 2024 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (12 Sept. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

'Migrants for sale': An investigation into the clandestine migrant smuggling economy on the Mediterranean route (InfoMigrants, Sept. 2024) 

- Five-part series: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5.

Reports:

Corruption, Human Trafficking and UK Borders, CSC Working Paper, no. 19 (Univ. of Sussex, Sept. 2024) [text]

- See also Part 1 and Part 2 of a related blog post.

Linkages Between Trafficking, Smuggling, Labour and Migration Policy Regimes: Socioeconomic Implications for Women Migrant Workers (IOM, 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Sudan and Tunisia.

No identity, no protection: How lack of documentation drives modern slavery (UNU & The Freedom Fund, Sept. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Vulnerability and resilience to exploitation and trafficking among people fleeing Ukraine in Berlin, Bern and Warsaw (Mixed Migration Centre, Sept. 2024) [text]

Vulnerability to trafficking in persons in the context of the war in Ukraine (IOM, UNHCR & UNODC, Sept. 2024) [access]

- Focuses on Poland and Romania.

A Year in Review: Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Section (UNODC, 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 23 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Following the Money II."

"Toward effective protection of victims of human trafficking in mixed migration flows: referral mechanisms shaped on individual need - The Italian experience and the European perspective," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 1 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Turkey Aims to Halt Irregular Migration and Migrant Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean," Migration Information Source, 27 Aug. 2024 [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (26 Aug. 2024)

Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

70 Years of Trying to Improve Global Migration Statistics: Time for A New Approach (COMPAS Blog, Sept. 2024) [Part 1] [Part 2]

Reports:

Changing the Narrative on Forced Displacement: Findings from the UK-UNHCR-World Bank Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement Research Program (World Bank, 2024) [text]

- See also related Devdiscourse blog post. Additional documents related to this project can be accessed here.

Evidence for Responding to Displacement: A Scoping Review of Rigorous Impact Evaluations (Innovations for Poverty Action, Nov. 2023) [text]

Focus Area Strategic Plan for Protection and Solutions for Internally Displaced People 2024-2030 (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

Funding landscape for research on health, migration and displacement: report for 2016-2020 period (WHO, Oct. 2024) [text]

A Global View on Responses to Internal Displacement: Where to Go from Here? (Refugees International, Sept. 2024) [text]

Mixed returns: Return migration and reintegration dynamics - Insights and key messages from MMC’s research and 4Mi data collection (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2024) [text]

Monitoring progress towards solutions to internal displacement: A development-oriented indicator framework (UN Development Programme, Sept. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Solidarity in disaster scholarship," Disasters, Early View, 17 Sept. 2024 [open access]

"Why Has Migration Research So Little Impact? Examining Knowledge Practices in Migration Policy Making and Migration Studies," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 19 Sept. 2024 [open access]

Multimedia:

Asymmetrical Sympathies: The Global North’s Response to Protection Seekers (Migration Oxford Podcast Series, Aug. 2024) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (10 Sept. 2024)

New Book Titles

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