Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

Beyond the Data: The ‘why’, ‘who’ and ‘how’ of conflict and violence displacement in 2023 (RID Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Do refugees have a duty to be grateful? (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]

Innovation and partnerships to improve socioeconomic data on forced displacement (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

A New Discovery Tool for Household Survey Questionnaires on Forced Displacement: Towards Data Quality and Consistency (UNHCR Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

UNHCR High Commissioner’s statement to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (Nov. 2024) [text]

UNHCR’s Engagement in Situations of Internal Displacement: Progress, Challenges, and the Road Ahead (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

UNHCR’s photo quality initiative: enhancing photo standards in refugee registration (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports:

75th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, Geneva, 14-18 October 2024 [access]

- Follow link for video recordings of the discussions, documentation, statements and the report of the session. See also related news stories here and here.

Ethics Guidelines of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies (Netzwerk Fluchtforschung, 2024) [access]

- Available in English and German. 

Guidance Package for UNHCR’s Engagement in Situations of Internal Displacement (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

*IASC Policy on Protection of Internally Displaced Persons (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Nov. 2024) [text]

An independent evaluation of UNHCR's decentralization and regionalization reform, EVO/2024/10 (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

- See also executive summary.

Monitoring progress towards solutions to internal displacement: A development-oriented indicator framework (UNDP, Sept. 2024) [text via Refworld]

UNHCR Mid-Year Trends 2024 (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for report and data.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Ain’t I a Migrant?: Global Blackness and the Future of Migration Studies," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 15 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"The Distinction between Refugees and Immigrants: Philosophical Arguments, International Law, and Citizens’ Attitudes in 26 Countries," Comparative Sociology, vol. 23, no. 5 (2024) [open access]

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.

*"From Forced Migration to Displacement?," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, 2nd ed. (Edward Elgar, Oct. 2024) [info]

- Note: Chapters 1, 6, 9 and 13 are free to access.

Multimedia:

Nothing about us without us (Borders and Belonging Podcast Series, Oct. 2024) [access]

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