Opportunities: A Few More Dec. 2024 & New Jan. 2025

Roundtable discussion: Litigating the right to a nationality: a guide for practitioners, London/Online, 4 December 2024 [info]

Webinar: The Future of Complementary Pathways: Paving the Way for Growth, 4 December 2024 [info]

Webinar: MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies, 10 December 2024 [info]

- Info and Q&A session for prospective applicants.

Webinar: Global South reflections on a routes-based approach to protection: Perspectives from Latin America and North Africa, 11 December 2024 [info]

Webinar: 70 years on - the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless people, 12 December 2024 [info]

Webinar: Forced Migration Review, no. 74 Launch Event, 12 December 2024 [info]

Funding opportunity: Request for Concept Notes for NGO Programs Benefiting Afghan Returnees and IDPs in Afghanistan and Afghan Refugees and Stateless Persons in Pakistan [info]

- Submit concept notes by 23 December 2024. 

- **Note: An online information session on this opportunity will be held on 2 December 2024. Follow the a/m link for more details.**

CFP: Contested boundaries: migration and citizenship regimes in comparative perspective, Florence, Italy, 8-9 May 2025 [info]

- Submit proposals by 6 January 2025.

Call for applications: Arthur C. Helton Fellowship Program [info]

- Apply by 17 January 2025.

Call for registration: Forced Displacement in an Urbanizing World, 20th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference (IASFM20), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 21-23 January 2025 [info]

CFP: "Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures," RLI 15th Anniversary Conference, London, 2-4 June 2025 [info]

- Submit proposals by 27 January 2025.

Seminar: Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry survey, Online, 28 January 2025 [info]

CFP: Social Inclusion [info]

- Contributions sought for a thematic issue on "Digitalization and Migration: Rethinking Socio-Economic Inclusions and Exclusions." Submit abstracts by 31 January 2025.

Related post:

- Opportunities: A Few More Nov. & Dec. 2024

New Issue of FMR

The November 2024 issue of Forced Migration Review (FMR) has been published, with a focus on "Financing displacement response." Here's the abstract:

"From humanitarian aid by wealthy governments to remittances from diaspora communities, responses to forced displacement are shaped by funding from an array of actors, in ways that express those actors’ interests and priorities. In recent years, new actors and new financing approaches have emerged. What do these shifts mean for forcibly displaced people and displacement response strategies? How does displacement response financing interact with the choices of forcibly displaced people and their communities, with local and global economies, and with broader geopolitical events and trends? This issue advances understanding of these questions and others."

FMR74 includes 25 articles and was produced in partnership with Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. The issue can be read online, accessed by individual article in HTML format, or downloaded as a complete PDF issue.

**Note that an online launch event for this issue will be held on 12 December 2024. 

Back issues of FMR can be accessed via the search feature.

FMR is an open access publication. It is available online and in print in English, Arabic, French and Spanish. 

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 27 (Nov. 024)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]

- Issue theme is "Ukraine-Gaza: exchange of views."

"Analysing the local governance of internal displacement: an emerging (local) social contract in eastern Ukraine since 2014," Environment & Urbanization, vol. 36, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Asylum, Welfare and Colonialism in Europe: Who Belongs, and Who Deserves?," Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 11 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

- Note: This is the editorial for the special collection on "The Colonial Legacies in Asylum and Welfare in Europe."

Current Issues in Migration Research, vol. 1, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Inaugural issue; includes a special section on "Malmö as a Site of Superdiversity." General section also includes Europe-related articles. Articles are in English or Swedish.

"Legal status and refugees' perceptions of institutional justice: The role of communication quality," Public Administration Review, Early View, 12 Nov. 2024 [open access] 

- Focuses on Germany.

Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 15, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

"Nurses' strategies for coping with stress in the face of the influx of war refugees from Ukraine to Poland," Frontiers in Psychiatry, 21 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Protracted Exile and Active Pariahdom: Turkey’s Kurdish Refugees in Rome," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 17 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"Responsibility, constraint, ambiguity. Discursive legitimizations of the European asylum reform in the German and Austrian news media," Journalism, OnlineFirst, 22 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"Same, same but different? A Discourse Network Analysis of the EU’s framings of refugee arrivals in 2015 and 2022," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"Screening for Asylum at Airports: The Implementation of the ‘Manifestly Unfounded’ Filter in France and Germany, 1980–2005," Social Policy & Administration, Early View, 11 Nov. 2024 [open access]

Multimedia:

Anthropology of Good: Exploring Volunteerism in the 2015 European Refugee Crisis, 27 Nov. 2024 [access]

Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice, 13 Nov. 2024 [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (29 Nov. 2024)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

"Editorial: Is it time to reframe refugee status?," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, vol. 70, no. 7 (2024) [open access] 

- Focuses on the UK.

EU Asylum Law in the Face of a Paradigm Shift (Verfassungsblog, Nov. 2024 [text]

Give refugees autonomy to solve the asylum accommodation problem (British Politics & Policy at LSE Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

- See also related blog post and Guardian article.

The Italy-Albania Protocol: Curbing Migration at All Costs (RLI Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

The obsession with curbing small boats continues – it’s time for a reality check (ODI Insights, Nov. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Spain Eyes Amnesty (ImmigrationProf Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

The Strictest Asylum Policy Ever? On Democratic Deficits and Unconvincing Solutions (Verfassungsblog, Oct. 2024 [text]

- Focuses on The Netherlands.

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

Reports:

AIDA Temporary Protection Compilation on 2023 (ECRE, Nov. 2024) [text]

Country Report: Ukraine (AIDA, Nov. 2024) [text]

- Updated profile.

ECRE Comments on the Regulation establishing a Common Procedure for International Protection in the EU (ECRE, Nov. 2024) [text]

Jurisprudence on Material Reception Conditions in Asylum: Sanctions, Reductions and Withdrawals (EU Agency for Asylum, Nov. 2024) [text]

Jurisprudence on the Application of the Temporary Protection Directive (EU Agency for Asylum, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related news release.

Lives on hold: Intentions and Perspectives of Refugees, Refugee Returnees and IDPs from Ukraine (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [access]

UNHCR's key priorities for the next Irish Government (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (12 Nov. 2024)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (12 Nov. 2024)

 

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunity:

Webinar: MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies, 10 December 2024 [info]

- Info and Q&A session for prospective applicants.

Short pieces:

Forced Migration Studies now have a home also at IMISCOE (IMISCOE, Oct. 2024) [text]

The Global Compact for Migration Six Years On: Time for a Shake-up? (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2024) [text]

"Rawlsian Justice and Refugee Crises: Shaping Policies for Displaced Populations," Eurasia Review, 20 Nov. 2024 [text]

Reports:

Global Appeal 2025: Impact, Focus, Outcome, Enabling Areas (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [access]

Global RIghts Project 2024 Report (Univ. of Rhode Island, Nov. 2024) [access]

- See also related article.

Measuring the impact of hosting, protecting and assisting refugees (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [access]

- Scroll down to view reports focusing on education, health and economic participation.

Putting the people in the pictures first: Guidelines for the ethical production and use of content (images and stories), updated version (Bond, 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Social and Behaviour Change Communication for Protection: Guidelines (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Health of people who are displaced in their own countries is a neglected global crisis," Nature, 19 Nov. 2024 [free full-text]

"Practice versus perception: A discussion of the humanitarian principle of independence in the context of migration," International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 106, no. 925 (2024) [free full-text]

"Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration," Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 49 (2023) [open access]

"Strategic Humanitarianism: Host States and Refugee Policy," Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 27 (2024) [open access]

"Towards black methods in research with refugees," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 14 Nov. 2024 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (11 Nov. 2024)

New Issues of Crit. Forced Displ., Crossings, Curr. Issues Migr. Res., Env. & Urb., Genus, Geo. Rev., Global Net., JEMS, Migr. & Soc., REMHU

*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.

Critical Forced Displacement Magazine (2024) [access]

- A new periodical from Boston University's Center on Forced Displacement. Two issues are now available.

Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, vol. 15, no. 1 (2024) [contents]

- Mix of articles.

Current Issues in Migration Research, vol. 1, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Inaugural issue; includes a special section on "Malmö as a Site of Superdiversity." Articles are in English or Swedish.

*Environment & Urbanization, vol. 36, no. 2 (Oct. 2024) [contents]

- Includes a special feature on "Forced Displacement and the City." The editorial is freely available and 8 articles are open access.

Genus: Journal of Population Sciences, June-Nov. 2024 [access]

- Follow the link to access a special collection on "Refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants: Characteristics, trends, determinants, consequences."

Geographical Review, vol. 114, no. 5 (2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "Navigating Organizations, Agencies, and Institutions in Research with Immigrants and Refugees."

Global Networks, vol. 25, no. 1 (Jan. 2025) [contents]

- Issue articles focus on refugees, migrants and diasporas; 16 are open access.

International Migration, vol. 62, no. 6 (Dec. 2024) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 12 that are open access.

*International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 106, no. 925 (April 2024) [full-text]

- Themed issue on "Fundamental Principles." Also includes a section on environmental protection. Note: "All articles accepted for publication in the 2025 volume of the International Review of the Red Cross will be ‘open access’; published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online."

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 19 (2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "Mutual Attrition of Citizenship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in South and Southeast Asia."

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 20 (2024) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 11 that are open access.

Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Includes special themed sections on "Critical Humanitarianisms" and "Colonialism, Postcoloniality, and the Study of Forced Migration."

REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024) [open access]

- Scroll down to view special dossier no. 2 focuses on "Movilidad Humana y Crisis Climática." Includes a mix of articles in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

Guide: Alternative Metrics for Asylum and Border Policies for Better Policy Outcomes (International Rescue Committee, Nov. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for the guide and an executive summary.

"No Refuge from Childhood: How Child Protection Harms Refugees," European Journal of International Law, Advance Articles, 19 Nov. 2024 [open access]

Note on the complementarity between the Global Compact on Refugees and the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related speech by UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection.

"Recognizing international protection: how institutional arrangements affect asylum decisions," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 21 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"The Risks to Refugee Law of Humanitarian Responses to Flight from Ukraine," International Affairs, vol. 100, no. 1 (2024) [SSRN]

"UNHCR–state relations: transfer of authority over refugee status determination," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 22 Nov. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Turkey.

Multimedia:

Coloniality and the racialisation of refugee protection: Reflections on asylum law and policy in South America and the UK, 19 Nov. 2024 [access]

Resource:

Refworld Newsletter, no. 1 (Nov. 2024) [text]

- Highlights recent publications and instruments from UNHCR and other sources that have been added to Refworld.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (23 Nov. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Seminars: RLI 15th International Refugee Law Seminar Series, 10 October 2024-21 March 2025 [info]

- The theme is "Moments in Refugee History and the Development of the Modern Refugee Regime: Understanding refugee law and policy today." 

Call for applications: Arthur C. Helton Fellowship Program [info]

- Apply by 17 January 2025.

CFP: "Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures," RLI 15th Anniversary Conference, London, 2-4 June 2025 [info]

- Submit proposals by 27 January 2025.

Short pieces:

Egypt hosts Africa Chapter of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges (IARMJ) Conference (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]

Global Roundtables on International Protection of Refugees: Exploring Laws on Climate-Induced Displacement and Refugee Travel Documents with Essex Law School and the UNHCR (Essex Law Research Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Seminar on the European Convention on Human Rights and international refugee law compliant procedures at state borders (Council of Europe, Oct. 2024) [text]

New open access books:

Between Protection and Harm: Negotiated Vulnerabilities in Asylum Laws and Bureaucracies (Springer, Oct. 2024) [open access]

- "This open access book dissects the current narratives of ‘vulnerability’ in asylum laws and policies, by unpacking the meanings, productions, and performances, of ‘vulnerability’ in different contexts, from countries of first asylum in the Global South to Europe and Canada. ...[It] examines existing legal and bureaucratic approaches to refugees’ vulnerabilities, which it confronts with the refugees’ experiences and understandings of their own life challenges. It analyses the perspectives from state actors, humanitarian organisations, and social and aid workers, as well as the refugees themselves. By emphasizing how these perspectives relate and feed into each other, the book unpacks the humanitarian replies from states and the international community to refugee movements – including in their implied exclusionary dimensions that generate contestations and implementation difficulties which, if not tackled and understood properly, risk exacerbating and/or producing vulnerabilities among refugees."

Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role: Rights and Responsibility in the Implementation of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees (Springer, Dec. 2024) [open access]

- "This book analyses the characteristics and impacts of existing and emerging asylum governance instruments and their practical implementation in selected countries hosting large communities of refugees around the world. Particular focus is given to the cases of Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Jordan, Niger, Serbia, South Africa and Turkey. Attention is put into regional and country-specific asylum instruments and actors from the perspective of their effectiveness, fairness and consistency with refugee protection and human rights standards as well as the UN GCR commitments. By doing so, the book identifies key lessons learned and offers a critical view on policies framed as 'promising practices' so as to inform future steps in the UN GCR implementation and asylum governance more generally."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (12 Oct. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

Debunking the myth: Who pays for educating unaccompanied minors in public schools? (Niskenen Center Commentary, Oct. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Institutions, not international students, are to blame for rising asylum claims," Policy Options = Options Politiques, 4 Nov. 2024 [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

International conference advances the right to education for refugees and migrants (Jesuit Refugee Service, Nov. 2024) [text]

Measuring foundational learning in forced displacement: field insights and lessons from Mexico (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports:

"Highlighting Education in Conflict and Emergencies," Part 7 in NORRAG Special Issue, no. 10 (Oct. 2024) [access via INEE] 

Mapping study on children of Ukraine’s access to education in Council of Europe member states (Council of Europe, Nov. 2024) [access]

Refugee Education Research Digest (Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Journal articles:

"Education desires and conflict impacts in refugees’ decisions to leave," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 4 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on South Sudanese in Uganda.

"Teaching asylum and immigration law in a hostile environment: online education’s role in navigating social work challenges," Social Work Education, Latest Articles, 4 Nov. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Unpacking Labels: A Mental Health Perspective on Refugee Students in Higher Education and Their Geographies of Belonging," Grimshaw Review of International Affairs, vol. 1, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (3 Oct. 2024)

Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

Reports:

Embodied Agency and Resilience: A Framework for Examining Disabled Refugees’ Experiences in the Post-Migration Context, Concept paper (Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance, Oct. 2024) [text]

Growing up well in a new country: Supporting mental health and wellbeing for young people with disability from migrant and refugee backgrounds  (Flinders University, Oct. 2024) [access]

- Focuses on Australia.

HESHIMA Toolkit (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln et al., Oct. 2024) [access]

- This resource "focuses on enhancing humanitarian mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) inclusion through participatory approaches. ...[It] was developed in partnership with a community advisory board of older people (OP) and people living with disabilities (PLWD) with refugee backgrounds residing in Kenya."

Recognised yet invisible: Addressing the needs of older Syrian refugees in Türkiye (HelpAge, Oct. 2024) [text]

War in Cities: Persons with disabilities and the role of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRC, April 2024) [access]

- Available in Arabic, English, French & Spanish.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Disability-Related Risks Among Women and Girls Who are Forcibly Displaced from Venezuela," Disabilities, vol. 4, no. 4 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on  Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.

"From Policy to Practice: The Evolution of Disability-Inclusive Humanitarian Action on Internal Displacement in Vanuatu and Nigeria," Chapter in Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action: 

Operational Challenges and Solutions for Supporting People on the Move (Routledge, Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Inclusion of Displaced Older People in Research and Practice: Insights on Humanitarian Action for Older Filipinos," Chapter in Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action: Operational Challenges and Solutions for Supporting People on the Move (Routledge, Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Service-policy gaps in the settlement journey of Arabic-speaking immigrant newcomer and refugee older adults in Edmonton, Canada," PLoS ONE 19(10): e0311646 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Striving in uncertainty: how disabled refugee women negotiate everyday activities and participation," Disability & Society, Latest Articles, 26 Sept. 2024 [open access] 

- Focuses on Sweden.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People (23 Sept. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues

Short pieces:

Is the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on granting asylum to Afghan women an implication of qualification of gender apartheid in Afghanistan? (EJIL: Talk Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

“You don’t see young women in some camps”: Harrowing reports of sexual violence and healthcare attacks in Sudan’s Aj Jazirah State (UNFPA, Nov. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Key considerations: Female genital mutilation among Sudanese displaced populations in Egypt (Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform, Oct. 2024) [text]

Not Safe Here: The systemic failures to protect women and children from sexual violence and abuse in asylum accommodation (Rape Crisis England & Wales and Imkaan, Oct. 2024) [text via EIN]

Journal articles:

"Are rates of clinical interventions during pregnancy and childbirth different for refugees and asylum seekers in high-income countries? A scoping review," BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 24:742 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

"Asylum-seeker women: Coping strategies and mental wellbeing," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, OnlineFirst, 18 Oct. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

"Closing the Asylum Gender Gap: Why 'Afghan Women' is a Compelling Particular Social Group," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 57 (Forthcoming, 2024) [full-text]

"Gender Differences in the Migration Process: A Narrative Literature Review," Population and Development Review, Early View, 10 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Gendered orientalism and the agency of Syrian, Muslim women refugees," FENNIA, vol. 202, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Sexual and reproductive health of Sudanese refugee girls in Chad: mixed methods study with perspectives from 12–19 year old girls, parents, and health workers," BMC Public Health, 24: 3217 (Nov. 2024) [open access[

"Sexual asylum regimes and politics of belonging: Narratives of deservingness in the political-public discourse in Switzerland," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 4 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues (17 Oct. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Linking Labour Market Aspirations to Perceived Discrimination: The Case of Refugees in Norway," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 40, nos. 2&3 (2024) [open access]

"Migration, human capital, and decent work: Venezuelans in Peru," Heliyon, vol. 10, no. 21 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

"Navigating the Shadows: Syrians under Temporary Protection, Employment, and Hyper-Precarity in Türkiye," Chapter in Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role: Rights and Responsibility in the Implementation of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees (Springer, Dec, 2024) [open access]

"Precarious Lives: Status, Vulnerability and the Right to Work for Protection Seekers in Bangladesh and Jordan," Chapter in Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role: Rights and Responsibility in the Implementation of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees (Springer, Dec, 2024) [open access]

"Refugees Labor Market Integration in Kenya," Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, vol. 50, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"Returning to fund refugeehood: dispersal and survival between Uganda and South Sudan," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"Status, Vulnerability and Rights in Brazil: Operation Welcome and Its Impacts on Asylum and Social Inclusion of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants," Chapter in Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role: Rights and Responsibility in the Implementation of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees (Springer, Dec, 2024) [open access]

- Note: "This chapter examines migration and asylum governance instruments and how their implementation is affecting status determination, vulnerability, and rights, especially the right to work, in Brazil."

"Transnational Labour Mobility and Issue-Linkages in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: A TWAIL Analysis," TWAIL Review, no. 5 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1 (21 Nov. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The economic impacts of the Syrian refugee migration on Jordan: A trade perspective (Let's Talk Development, Oct. 2024) [text]

Errors Mar Report That Claims Mass Deportation Cuts the Debt (CATO at Liberty Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

For many Venezuelan migrants in the US, working all hours means hope for a life back home (The Conversation, Oct. 2024) [text]

Getting financial service providers “refugee-ready”: four lessons from Uganda (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

New Hope: Ethiopia's Bold Move Grants Refugees the Right to Work (World Bank, Nov. 2024) [text]

Proof that immigrants fuel the US economy is found in the billions they send back home (The Conversation, Oct. 2024) [text]

Shining a spotlight on Nicaraguans’ poverty and wellbeing in Costa Rica (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Economic Participation and the Global Cost of International Assistance in support of Refugee Subsistence Needs (UNHCR & World Bank, Nov. 2024) [text]

- See also related blog post. This resource page provides more background information on this endeavor as well as links to related reports.

Explainer: Immigrants and the U.S. Economy (Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2024) [text]

The livelihoods of urban internally displaced persons (IDPs): time to meet in the middle? (ODI, Sept. 2024) [text]

The U.S. benefits from immigration but policy reforms needed to maximize gains (Economic Policy Institute, Oct. 2024) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (14 Oct. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar (Routledge, Oct. 2024) [open access]

- "This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring the narratives of survivors of state crimes, collected in the aftermath of the 2017 genocidal violence, this book examines the multiple uses of state-issued ID cards and registration documents in producing statelessness and facilitating genocide. In doing so, it challenges some of the international solutions put forward to resolve statelessness. Rohingya narratives disrupt a simple linear understanding of documenting legal identity that marginalises experiences of these processes. The richly layered accounts of the effects of citizenship laws and registration processes on the lives of Rohingya problematise the ways in which international actors have endorsed state ID schemes and by-passed state-led persecution of the group."

Journal articles:

"Building paper bridges: adapting citizenship and immigration regimes to international displacement," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:47 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Venezuelans in Colombia.

"Disaggregating citizenship: Tibetan refugees navigating identity, belonging, and exclusionary state policies in India," PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Early View, 11 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"'A knife with two sides': naturalization and the ambivalent value of citizenship for Syrians in Turkey," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 10 Nov. 2024 [open access]

Multimedia:

Stories of Statelessness: An Auto-Ethnographical Account (Waseda University Podcasts, Nov. 2024) [Part 1] [Part 2] 

-  Focuses on statelessness in Japan.

Resource:

My name, my country, my rights: Legal identity, nationality and statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region (Norwegian Refugee Council, Oct. 2024) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (20 Nov. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Webinar: 70 years on - the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless people, 12 December 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Age, life stages and legality: insights from long-term ethnographic research in northern Thailand (CSS Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

"If you can’t see a problem, you can’t fix it": Five things that need to happen to move from the visibility at UNHCR’s High-Level Segment on Statelessness to tangible impact (ENS Editorial, Oct. 2024) [text]

Joint Statement: One step forward, one step back: Malaysian law reform addresses gender discrimination in its citizenship law, while undermining nationality rights for vulnerable groups – where does this leave the struggle against statelessness? (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion et al., Oct. 2024) [text]

Marking 10 years of the #IBelong campaign: collective actions in addressing statelessness in Ukraine (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

New Global Alliance launched for joint action to end statelessness (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related press release.

News comment: Thailand takes major step towards ending statelessness (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]

Statelessness advocate celebrates historic academic achievement in Kenya (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

Telling Stories of Statelessness (ENS Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

UNHCR calls for renewed action to end Statelessness as #IBelong Campaign ends (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Birth registration and the prevention of statelessness in Europe: identifying good practices and remaining barriers (European Network on Statelessness, Nov. 2024) [text]

Implementing the new statelessness provisions in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (European Network on Statelessness, Nov. 2024) [text]

Litigating the Right to a Nationality: A Guide for Practitioners (UNHCR & Open Society, Nov. 2024) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (10 Oct. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Beyond here and there? A description and typology of multi-transnational extended family configurations of refugees," Genus: Journal of Population Sciences, 80:23 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on refugees from Eritrea and Syria in Germany.

"Drawings in a 'Container': A Visual Narrative Approach to Research with Refugee Children," Social Inclusion, vol. 12 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Africa.

"Humanitarian Programming on Child Migration in Northern Africa and Southern Europe: The Role of Data," Chapter in Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action: Operational Challenges and Solutions for Supporting People on the Move (Routledge, Oct. 2024) [open access]

"In Whose Best Interests? Comparing Children’s Treatment in Immigration Court and in Child Protection Hearings in Minnesota: Similar Issues Without the Relevant Tools or Best Interests Standard," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 14 Nov. 2024 [full-text]

*"No Refuge from Childhood: How Child Protection Harms Refugees," European Journal of International Law, Advance Articles, 19 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"The Spaces in Between: Understanding Children’s Creative Expression in Temporary Shelters for Asylum Seekers," Social Inclusion, vol. 12 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Canada.

"'The Story's in the Telling': Using Narrative Genre as a Lens to Explore the Well-Being and Life Projects of Unaccompanied Young Migrants and Refugees," Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 [open access]

- Focuses on Europe.

*"When all is at sea: Attachment insecurity as a mediator of risk in Tamil asylum-seeking children," Development and Psychopathology, FirstView, 19 Nov. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (20 Nov. 2024) 

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

IOM and UNICEF Renew Partnership to Protect, Include and Empower Climate-Displaced Children (IOM, Nov. 2024) [text]

Judge Strikes Down ‘Keeping Families Together’ Parole Process (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Reports:

Challenges in Access to Birth Registration for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Ethiopia (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

Child migrants: Irregular entry and asylum (European Parliament, Nov. 2024) [text]

Children in Migration: Research Report (MIDEQ, Sept. 2024) [text via Samuel Hall]

- Focuses on "children migrating along corridors like Burkina Faso-Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia-South Africa, and Egypt-Jordan."

Localization for Early Childhood Development and Child Protection in Guatemala (Georgetown Univ., Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also recording of related webinar and resource page.

Niñas, niños y adolescentes en movilidad - Escuchando sus voces: Testimonios de miedos, esperanza, y resiliencia (The Dialogue, Oct. 2024) [access]

- Focuses on the Americas.

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Gehad Madi--Children are Children First and Foremost: Protecting Child Rights in Migration Contexts, UN Doc. No. A/79/213 (UN General Assembly, July 2024) [text via Refworld]

Safeguarding the rights of unaccompanied children at EU Borders under the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Joint NGO analysis and recommendations (International Rescue Committee et al., Nov. 2024) [access]

- Available in English and Greek.

Unprotected: Analysis of funding for child protection in humanitarian action in 2023 (The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action et al., Sept. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for the report in English and executive summaries in French, Spanish and Arabic. A recording of the launch event is also available.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (29 Sept. 2024) 

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

‘Beyond the Façade’: A Pragmatic Approach on Immigration Detention That Paves the Way for Fair Trial Rights Recognition (RLI Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

Government to introduce urgent legislation after High Court strikes down law to monitor former immigration detainees (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Australia. See also related Amnesty International statement.

"Incoming Trump admin is eyeing new immigrant detention centers near major U.S. cities," NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024 [text]

Mix and Match: Detention, “De-Facto Detention” or just Restrictions of Freedom of Movement in the New Pact (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports:

La detención migratoria afecta el bienestar físico, psicológico y social de las personas (International Detention Coalition, Oct. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Mexico.

Never in the best interests of the child: Risks of child detention in the screening and border procedures under the 2024 EU Migration Pact (International Commission of Jurists, Nov. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Noncitizens in the U.S.: Public Information on Federal Incarcerations (US Government Accountability Office, Sept. 2024) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Offshoring Human Rights: Detention of Refugees at Guantánamo Bay (International Refugee Assistance Project, Sept. 2024) [text]

Out of sight: Human rights violations in Thailand’s immigration detention centers (FIDH, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related blog post.

Snapshot of ICE Detention: Inhumane Conditions and Alarming Expansion (National Immigrant Justice Center, Sept. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Unlocking rights: towards ending immigration detention for asylum-seekers and refugees (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [access]

Journal articles:

"Extrajudicial Segregation: Challenging Solitary Confinement in Immigration Prisons," Harvard Law Review Forum, vol. 137, no. 4 (2024) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Investigating whether offshore immigration detention and processing are associated with an increased likelihood of psychological disorders," British Journal of Psychiatry, FirstView, 11 Nov. 2024 [free full-text]

- See also related news release and post in The Conversation.

"Island Detention and Seeking Asylum in the Asia-Pacific: The Entanglement of Humanitarianism in State Practices of 'Grey Sovereignty'," Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea.

"Poor-Quality Legal Advice: Re-Imagining How Immigration Detention Centres Should Run in England," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2 (June 2024) [postprint]

- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 12 April 2026.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (6 Sept. 2024) 

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Forced Displacement in an Urbanizing World, 20th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference (IASFM20), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 21-23 January 2025 [info]

- Note: This conference will also include presentations that focus on regional approaches and urban displacement in the Asia Pacific.

Short pieces:

Another rushed migration bill would give the government sweeping powers to deport potentially thousands of people (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Dozens of refugees are still stranded in precarious situations in PNG – and support from Australia is dwindling (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]

Financial stress and cultural differences make migrants particularly vulnerable to gambling harms. Here’s why (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

"Help the Rohingya help themselves," The New Humanitarian, 6 Nov. 2024 [text]

Reports:

Decreasing funds while repatriation is a distant destiny: can localisation be an answer to the protracted Rohingya crisis? (Humanitarian Practice Network, Nov. 2024) [text]

Japanese Emigration, Nikkei Communities, and Forced Migration: A Study from the Perspective of Human Security and International Cooperation, JICA Ogata Research Institute Discussion Paper, no. 28 (Japan International Cooperation Agency, Nov. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Civil Society Silos: Racialized Neoliberal Logics and Subversive Expertise in the Movement against Australia's Operation Sovereign Borders," Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Decoding Online Narratives and Unraveling Complexities in the Rohingya Refugee Crisis," Social Media + Society, 18 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"India’s refugee policy dilemma and its impact on Myanmar refugees at the India–Myanmar frontier," Discover Public Health, 21:153 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Island Detention and Seeking Asylum in the Asia-Pacific: The Entanglement of Humanitarianism in State Practices of 'Grey Sovereignty'," Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"New Zealand: From Settler Colony to Country Reliant on Temporary Immigration," Migration Information Source, 16 Oct. 2024 [text]

"Of Truths and Snakes: The Percussive Effects of Asylum Seeking in Australia," Medicine Anthropology Theory, vol. 11, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Tamil asylum seekers and refugees from Sri Lanka in Australia.

"Refugee Registration Schemes in Malaysia: Governing Refugees by Maintaining the Status Quo and Reinforcing Borders," Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (16 Oct. 2024)

Opportunities: A Few More Nov. & Dec. 2024

Call for registration: 2024 Academic & Policy Symposium, New York/Online, 18 November 2024 [info]

- Theme is "Looking Forward: Challenges and Opportunities in Migration."

Panel discussion: Cartagena +40: Where Next for Refugee Protection in Latin America?, Washington, DC/Online, 18 November 2024 [info]

Call for registration: Building Knowledge: Temporary Protection in Europe, Brussels, 20 November 2024 [info]

Webinar: Cross-border Legal Aid Interventions in Humanitarian Contexts: Sharing Good Cross-Border Practices, 20 November 2024 [info]

Webinar: Immigration Reform in 2025: What Is Possible?, 20 November 2024 [info]

Call for Applications: Reporting Institute on Forced Migration and Children in Europe, Paris, 4-6 April 2025 [info]

- Open to "Reporters and editors based in Europe who work in print, digital, audio, photography, television and video with a minimum of three years’ professional journalism experience." Apply by 25 November 2024.

Consultancy: Mapping of Civil Society and Their Perspectives on Durable Solutions in the Great Lakes, Danish Refugee Council [info]

- Submit RFPs by 26 November 2024.

Roundtable: Images of Migration and the Ethics of Visual Research on Migration and Social Exclusion, London/Online, 3 December 2024 [info]

Report launch: Mixed Migration Review 2024, 5 December 2024 [info]

Call for applications: Winter Course on "Migration and Integration: Refugees, Rights & Realities," Online, 20-31 January 2025 [info]

- Scholarships are also available. Application deadline is 8 December 2024.

CFP: Journal of International Migration and Integration [info]

- Contributions sought for a special collection on "Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways: global refugee resettlement movements driven by local actors." Submission deadline is 31 December 2024.

Related post:

- Opportunities: More Nov. 2024 & New Dec. 2024

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Europe (Hart Publishing, Oct. 2024) [open access]

- "This open access book focuses on private sponsorship of refugees, which has slowly begun to increase the opportunities for refugees to start new lives in Europe, without putting themselves or their families at risk from perilous journeys. After contextualising the phenomenon and describing the most notable European programmes, the book argues that private sponsorship schemes characterised by naming and additionality should be further explored and trialled within Europe. Having considered the phenomenon from both theoretical and practical viewpoints, the book argues that this would be possible by balancing private sponsors’ claims with state sovereignty, in matters such as welfare, integration and security."

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Comparative analysis of resettled refugees’ social networks: A mixed-method approach with visualisation tools," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 6 Nov. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

*"Everyday refugee integration: A holistic reconceptualization of refugee integration through the everyday practices of Hazara Afghan refugees," Journal of Sociology, OnlineFirst, 14 Nov. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

*"From cognitive processes to discursive practices: Taking a critical discursive psychology approach to refugee and asylum seeker integration," Social and Personality Psychology Compass, vol. 18, no. 11 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"From Mere Life to a Good Life: Shifting Refugee Integration Policy from Outcomes to Capabilities," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 13 Nov. 2024 [open access] 

"How the Rebuilt U.S. System Resettled the Most Refugees in 30 Years," Migration Information Source, 30 Oct. 2024 [text]

"'In a village, everybody knows the stranger': Constructing local belonging of refugees in rural areas in Germany," Sociologia Ruralis, Early View, 4 Nov. 2024 [open access]

*"Selecting Refugees for Resettlement to Norway and Canada," Chapter in Between Protection and Harm: Negotiated Vulnerabilities in Asylum Laws and Bureaucracies (Springer, Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Spatial overlap: trade-offs in refugees’ residential choices," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 12 Nov. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Germany.

"State Policy and Immigrant Integration," Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 27 (2024) [open access]

"Thinking alike, acting alike? An assessment of organizational homophily and paradigmatic pragmatism in networks for local integration policies," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:51 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Belgium.

"Wanted Refugees: The Forming of an Instrument Constituency for Refugee Resettlement in the European Union," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

"What do host country natives think of return migration? resentment and calls for refugee return," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Oct. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Turkey.

 

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (16 Nov. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Consultancy: Mapping of Civil Society and Their Perspectives on Durable Solutions in the Great Lakes, Danish Refugee Council [info]

- Submit RFPs by 26 November 2024.

Call for applications: Winter Course on "Migration and Integration: Refugees, Rights & Realities," Online, 20-31 January 2025 [info]

- Scholarships are also available. Application deadline is 8 December 2024.

CFP: Journal of International Migration and Integration [info]

- Contributions sought for a special collection on "Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways: global refugee resettlement movements driven by local actors." Submission deadline is 31 December 2024.

Short pieces:

Launch of the High-Level Committee on Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission (European Commission, Nov. 2024) [text]

Lessons from one of the largest and longest refugee crises in history (RLI Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the Indo-Chinese Refugee Crisis.

Presidential election could help decide fate of the 70,000 Afghans living temporarily in the US (The Conversation, Oct. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

UNHCR leads the revitalization of a Coordinated Solutions Process for the Somalia situation in the East Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region and Yemen (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]

The US Refugee Admissions Program: What's at Stake in the Election (CMS, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Conclusion No. 117 (LXXV): Durable Solutions and Complementary Pathways - Adopted by the Executive Committee (2024) [text]

Global Refugee Resettlement: Background and Selected Issues (Congressional Research Service, Nov. 2024) [text]

National Strategy to implement solutions pathways to internal displacement in Ethiopia: Solutions to Internal Displacement in Ethiopia (Govt. of Ethiopia, 2024) [text via Refworld]

- See also related announcement.

South Sudan: Durable Solutions Strategy and Plan of Action for Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, Returnees, and Host Communities (Govt. of South Sudan, Oct. 2024) [text via Refworld]

The U.S. Refugee Program serves American interests at home and abroad (Niskanen Center, Sept. 2024) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (11 Oct. 2024)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Reports:

The Biden Administration’s Revised Proclamation and Final Rule, “Securing the Border” (Congressional Research Service, Nov. 2024) [text]

Current Inadmissibility Decisions at U.S. Ports of Entry (TRAC, Nov. 2024) [text]

Fact-checking Over 12,000 of Donald Trump’s Statements About Immigration (Marshall Project, Oct. 2024) [text]

Fleeing Terror in Southern Mexico: Why Numerous Guerrero Refugees Qualify for Asylum (Seattle Univ., Oct. 2024) [text]

Navigating the Border: San Diego’s and Tijuana’s Migrant Reception Efforts (Rice Univ., Oct. 2024) [text]

Needs Assessment: Wellbeing of Asylum Seekers in New York City and the Washington, D.C. Area (HIAS, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Permanent Legal Immigration to the United States: Policy Overview (Congressional Research Service, Nov. 2024) [text]

What is Affirmative Asylum? (Congressional Research Service, Oct. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Administrative Violence in Immigration Law," Arizona Law Review, vol. 66, no. 3 (2024) [full-text]

"The Afterlife of 'Title 42': Autopsy and Reformation," Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Explaining the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Stalemate in Congress," Catholic Univ. Law Review, vol. 73, no. 3 (2024) [full-text]

Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 12, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [full-text]

- Special issue on "Forced Migration, Deterrence, and Solutions to the Non-Natural Disaster of Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border and Beyond." All articles are free to read, but two are also open access.

"Migrant Deaths in California’s Borderlands, 2018–2023," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 12 Nov. 2024 [full-text]

*"What Congress Needs to Break the Immigration Reform Stalemate," Catholic Univ. Law Review, vol. 73, no. 4 (2024) [full-text]

- This is the "second article of a series that began with an analysis of why immigration reform has been unsuccessful over the past 30 years despite bipartisan support." See above for the first article.

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Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (15 Nov. 2024)