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.

*UPDATED

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:

"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]

"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.

 

*UPDATED

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]

Related post:

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

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

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

Short pieces:

Thoughts on the Trump administration plans re. immigration policy and enforcement & how to prepare: 

Here is a brief summary of immigration areas that will likely be targeted in a second term.

• Asylum Seekers: Consider Taking These Steps Before January 2025 (Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Nov. 2024) [text]
• Biden Should Use His Authority to Protect Vulnerable Immigrants Before He Leaves Office (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]
• Getting Ready for the Trumpocalypse (The Asylumist Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]
• How Trump might target DACA recipients and other immigrant groups (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]
• Immigrants and Their Attorneys Preparing for Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Measures in a Second Trump Administration (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]
• "Inside Trump's plan for mass deportations - and who wants to stop him," Reuters, 10 Nov. 2024 [text]
• "Trump promised the 'largest deportation' in U.S. history. Here's how he might start," NPR, 14 Nov. 2024 [text]

Other items:

Aurora and Springfield aren’t the first cities to become flash points in US immigration debate − here’s what happened in other places used as political soapboxes (The Conversation, Oct. 2024) [text]

Beefing up Border Patrol is a bipartisan goal, but the agency has a troubled history of violence and impunity (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]

Ethel Kennedy and the “Hong Kong Parole Program” of 1962 (ImmigrationProf Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Asylum Seekers’ Rights to Present at POEs (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

- See also related Reuters article. 

How to Build Support for More Welcoming Refugee and Asylum Policies? Get to Know a Refugee (Data for Progress, the Refugee Advocacy Lab & Refugees International, Oct. 2024) [text]

Mass Deportation is Actually Very Unpopular (Data for Progress Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related Vox article.

The New Immigration: How Recent Arrivals at the Border Have Changed the Country and Its Attitudes (ProPublica Series, Oct.-Nov. 2024) [access]

"'Operation Wetback': What Happened Last Time US Conducted Mass Deportations," Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2024 [text]

Temporary Protected Status: What’s Up with That? (Immigration Impact Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

The True, Massive Cost of Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans (Marshall Project, Oct. 2024) [text]

Trump’s anti-Haitian rhetoric reflects America’s long-standing racism against Haiti and its people (The Conversation, Oct. 2024) [text]

What Is the ‘Bipartisan Border Bill’ and How Would It Change the US Immigration System? (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

With New Strategies at and Beyond the U.S. Border, Migrant Encounters Plunge (MPI, Oct. 2024) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (20 Oct. 2024)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (20 Oct. 2024)

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Clashing cartographies in indigenous refugees’ sheltering practices: the embodiment of an alternative sense of spatiality and temporality in an indigenous shelter demobilisation in the north of Brazil," Monções: UFGD Journal of International Relations, vol. 13, no. 25 (2024) [open access]

"Defining, Measuring, and Increasing 'Rootedness' in the High Migration Context of Honduras," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 18 Oct. 2024 [full-text]

*"Equality Rights and the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement," Supreme Court Law Review (Forthcoming, 2025) [preprint]

"Internal Flight Anarchy: Points of Divergence from UNHCR Guidelines in Canadian Decision Making," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 11 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Mediating Mundane Life: Military-Humanitarian Temporalities as Mechanisms of Migration Governance in Brazil," Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Venezuelans.

"Rescaling Food Insecurity: On Eating and Feeding in Migrant Shelters," Migration and Society, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Mexico.

"Selectivity in Migration Governance in the South American Mercosur: Selecting-by-Origin, Selecting-by-Merit, or Not Selecting at All?," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 13 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"Venezuelans in Peru: Adaptation attitudes, optimism and relations with host society," International Migration, Early View, 5 Nov 2024 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (14 Nov. 2024)

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

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

Short pieces: 

ACNUR da a conocer resultados de encuesta de percepciones hacia personas refugiadas en México (Oct. 2024) [text]

Brazilian pioneer of refugee protection honoured at 2024 Nansen Awards (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

Canada's immigration strategy: How reduced targets can preserve positive attitudes (The Conversation, Nov. 2024) [text]

"Deterrence policies and cartel violence fuel a humanitarian crisis in southern Mexico," The New Humanitarian, 21 Oct. 2024 [text]

Food Insecurity as a Forgotten Dimension in Irregular Migration in Central America (International Development Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

Migration drivers and onward movement among migrants in South America (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2024) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

"Migratory studies from the South do not exist? A Latin American perspective," IMISCOE Bulletin, no. 10 (2024) [text]

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

Reports:

After the Darien: Aid and Pathways for Migrants in Panama and Costa Rica (Refugees International, Oct. 2024) [text]

*Central American Migration: Root Causes and U.S. Policy (Congressional Research Service, Oct. 2024) [text]

Escaping from Hardship, Searching for Comfort: Climate Matching in Refugees’ Destination Choices, Growth Lab Working Paper, no. 237 (Harvard Univ., Oct. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Venezuelan refugees in South America.

Migración forzada e inseguridad alimentaria en contextos de precariedad en tránsito y llegada en Panamá y Honduras: Un marco para la gobernanza regional (Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana, Oct. 2024) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (11 Oct. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Advancing legal rights in the context of climate and disaster displacement (Free Movement Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Forced Human Mobility Due to Environmental Factors in Peru: Legislative Advances and Implementation Challenges (RLI Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Blending Tradition and Modernity for Disaster Risk Reduction at the Epicenter of Crisis: The Case of Afghanistan and Somalia (Airbel Impact Lab & International Rescue Committee, Nov. 2024) [access]

- The report is available in numerous languages.

Desplazamiento forzado causado por factores climáticos, ambientales y conexos en Colombia, CODHES Informa, no. 116 (Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

It’s Time for Solutions! Addressing Displacement and Other Human Mobility Challenges in the Context of Climate Change Loss and Damage (Loss and Damage Collaboration & Researching Internal Displacement, Nov. 2024) [text]

Localizing Climate Adaptation Planning in Kenya’s Refugee-Hosting Counties (Refugees International, Nov. 2024) [text]

Loss and Damage governance must account for displacement (IDMC, Oct. 2024) [text]

Nexo entre cambio climático, pérdida de biodiversidad y desplazamiento forzado (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

No Escape: On the Frontlines of Climate Change, Conflict and Forced Displacement (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for press release, report and data visualization.

Réintégration verte des migrants déportés: comment la transition vers l’agroécologie peut apporter des solutions durables en Haïti? (IOM, June 2024) [text]

*Who Are Climate Migrants? A Global Analysis of the Profiles of Communities Affected by Weather-related Internal Displacements (IOM, Nov. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans’ Support for Refugees," PS: Political Science & Politics, FirstView, 8 Nov. 2024) [open access]

"Climate risks for displaced populations: a scoping review and research agenda," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 27 Oct. 2024 [open access]

*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.

"Weather deviations linked to undocumented migration and return between Mexico and the United States," PNAS, vol. 121, no. 46 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Charting a Smart Agenda for Managing Climate Migration, 31 Oct. 2024 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (14 Oct. 2024)

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Ethiopia: Fighting, Abuses Putting Sudanese Refugees at Risk (HRW, Oct. 2024) [text]

Unrelenting violence in Sudan drives continued refugee exodus (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]

"'We live in fear': forced expulsions taint Kenya's safe haven image," BBC News, 6 Nov. 2024 [text]

- See also related BBC News article.

Reports:

Key Considerations: Food Assistance Prioritisation in Refugee Settlements in Uganda and its Impacts (Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform, Oct. 2024) [text]

Key considerations: Mutual aid lessons and experiences from Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan (Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform, Oct. 2024) [text]

Understanding the socio-economic profile of refugee arrivals in Mauritania since 2023: Analysis of UNHCR and WFP data on Malian refugees living in Mauritania (UNHCR & WFP, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Journal articles:

"Engaging Data Literacies in Displacement," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 5, no. 3 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Nigeria and South Sudan.

"Experiences and perceptions of migrant populations in South Africa on COVID-19 immunization: an interpretative phenomenological analysis," BMC Public Health, 24:3126 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

"Externally Driven Border Control in West Africa: Local Impact and Broader Ramifications," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 4 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"Political Participation for Social Inclusion of Internally Displaced Persons," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 5, no. 3 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Nigeria.

"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]

"The role of institutional architecture in the reception of refugees in South Africa," International Journal of Human Rights, Latest Articles, 5 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"War-related trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in refugees, displaced, and nondisplaced people during armed conflict in Sudan: a cross-sectional study," Conflict and Health, 18:66 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (11 Oct. 2024)

 

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunity:

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

- See related concept note.

Short pieces:

"Humanitarians: Stop using fear of migration to drive fundraising and advocacy," The New Humanitarian, 15 Oct. 2024 [text]

Prioritising health in humanitarian work: the need for comprehensive and inclusive research [text]

Protecting essential service personnel is a vital part of humanitarian action (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Redefining leadership in humanitarian action between Global North and Global South (Humanitarian Practice Network, Oct. 2024) [text]

"What lies ahead for the UN’s new relief chief," The New Humanitarian, 11 Oct. 2024 [text]

New open access book:

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

- "This book investigates how the evolving situation of different forced migrants is accounted for and addressed in humanitarian action in order to improve their access to support and assistance. Bringing together case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific, this book focuses on a diversity of operational modalities and types of assistance provided by both traditional and non-traditional humanitarian actors to address the specific needs of displaced children, women, people with disabilities and older people, as well as trafficked migrant workers. This book adopts a broad perspective on humanitarian action, acknowledging how its boundaries are challenged and expanded in forced migration contexts. Its operational and theoretical insights will be useful for a range of readers, from humanitarian and migration researchers and students to practitioners and policymakers."

Reports:

The Broken Lens: Antimicrobial Resistance in Humanitarian Settings (Médecins Sans Frontières, Nov. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Falling short? Humanitarian funding and reform (Development Initiatives, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related article in The New Humanitarian.

Neutrality, Access, and Making Localisation Work (Global Interagency Security Forum, Nov. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Roadmaps for Energy Access in Displacement Settings (READS) Programme (UNITAR) [access]

- Follow link for reports and other information about the project.

Strengthening Legal Aid and Access to Justice in Humanitarian Settings: A compilation of learning on relevant strategies and effective practices (Global Protection Cluster, Nov. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Hunger in global war economies: understanding the decline and return of famines," Disasters, Early View, 15 Oct. 2024 [open access]

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 5, no. 3 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

"Understanding leadership challenges faced by humanitarian aid workers: insights from the experiences of NNPHL training participants," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:15 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (7 Oct. 2024)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Asylum Denial Beyond Borders: The International Dimensions of British Responses to Tamil Asylum Seekers in the 1980s," History Workshop Journal, Advance Articles, 7 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"Devious refugees and harmless borders? How Frontex inverts deviance and blame," Race & Class, OnlineFirst, 4 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"The Migration Decision-Making Process Among Ukrainian Refugees: Different Contexts of Reception," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 9 Nov. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Ukrainians in the Czech Rep., Poland and Israel.

"The multiplicity of state agencies, categories of inclusion and exclusion, and experiences of young asylum seekers," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 31 Oct. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Germany.

"'Now I Do Not Eat, it is Just For My Children': Mapping Food Access Disruption Among Refugees and Migrants in Athens, Greece," Glocality, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Public attitudes towards immigrants: A curious case of Croatia," International Migration, Early View, 24 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Three-dimensional trust: disentangling trust relations in the context of converted asylum seekers," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 28 Oct. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

"Why do civil society organisations working on international protection tend to have positive dispositions towards refugees? A macro-level opportunity structure model," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, vol. 8, no. 5 (2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Protection in the UK: The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, 30 Oct. 2024 [access]

Related post:

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

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The contradictions in Hungary’s immigration policy and communication (MPC Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

"Diego Garcia asylum seekers offered direct transfer to the UK," The New Humanitarian, 4 Nov. 2024 [text]

EU Leaders Should Uphold Right to Asylum in Europe (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2024) [text]

EU Pact Instruments on Asylum and Minimum Human Rights Standards (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Europe is not prepared for the looming Lebanese refugee crisis (The Conversation, Oct. 2024) [text]

Fair and Fast Asylum Processing: Lessons from Switzerland (Just Security Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Paths to Peace: Reconciliation Strategies for Ukraine’s Displaced Populations (RLI Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

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

New open access books:

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. As such, the book provides a better understanding of the concept of 'mobility' in asylum governance, and the ways in which it is articulated into legal and policy instruments framed as 'protection' and - in the language of the UN GCR - 'third country solutions' for refugee mobility, including resettlement, private/community sponsorships, humanitarian corridors, in the European Union and around the world."

Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe (Bloomsbury Academic, Sept. 2024) [open access]

- "Refugees have existed since ancient times but it was in the early modern era that they first became a distinct social and political category. This open access book maps the early modern ‘invention of the refugee’ and in the process uncovers their impact on local, regional, and transnational politics. With case studies ranging from Scandinavia to the Maghreb, Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe traces how refugees transformed Europe. Topics explored include: the development of refugees as a political group in early modern societies; the role of displaced minorities in forging humanitarian networks; and the impact of refugees on migration management and imperialism. Most notably, this collection of essays moves beyond discussions of expulsion and flight to shine a spotlight on how states responded critically and constitutionally to refugees – as a means of galvanizing social groups, reinforcing identities, promoting activities, and expanding bureaucratic reach."

Reports:

Clear Principles, Divergent Practices: The Right to Know in National Security Related Immigration Matters in EU Member States (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Oct. 2024) [text via Refworld]

Jurisprudence on the Application of the Temporary Protection Directive: Analysis of Case Law from 2022-2024 (EU Agency for Asylum, Oct. 2024) [text]

Moldova's Temporary Protection: Addressing Displacement from Ukraine and Planning for the Future (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2024) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (18 Oct. 2024)