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17 May 2024

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Administrative control mechanisms in the descent-based family reunification of refugees," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 1 May 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany. 

"Empowering young voices: Using action research to combat xenophobia through children’s initiatives," Conflict Trends, no. 4 (2023) [text]
- Focuses on South Africa.

"Facilitating trauma-informed SEL with refugee youth in Uganda via an international research-practice partnership: Lessons learned from The Wellbeing Club," Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, vol. 3 (June 2024) [open access]

"Factors Contributing to Child Marriage among Syrian Refugees in Domiz Camp, Kurdistan Iraq," Journal of International Studies, vol. 20, no.1 (April 2024) [open access]

"Precariousness, Sport Participation and Hope among Young People after Rejections in the Swedish Asylum Process," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 14, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"Protecting Youth: The Dismantling of Youth as a Particular Social Group in Contemporary Asylum Law," Chapter in Critical Geographies of Youth: Law, Policy, and Power (West Virginia Univ. Press, 2023) [SSRN]
- Focuses on the US.

Related post:

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Biden administration Seeks Change to Flores Agreement Protecting Migrant Children (ImmigrationProf Blog, May 2024) [text]

More than 50,000 unaccompanied child migrants missing in Europe (InfoMigrants, April 2024) [text]
- The relevant data are provided on the "Lost in Europe" website.

"The 'overlooked children' of boat arrivals have only known life in Australia. Now they could be deported under proposed migration laws," ABC News (Australia), 2 May 2024 [text]

Refugee youth-led organisations: The under-explored impact and potential (UNICEF, Dec. 2023) [text]

The under-examined role of refugee-led organisations: Assisting refugee children (UNICEF, Dec. 2023) [text]

To understand Trump's family separations, we must understand how Obama set the stage (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2024) [text]

Reports:

Families belong together: Fixing the UK’s broken family reunion system (Refugee Council & Safe Passage International, May 2024) [text]

Healing Hands: A two-generation approach for migrant and host Community families in Ecuador (International Rescue Committee, May 2024) [text]
- Also available in Spanish. 

Research on Child Migration and Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean: Understanding Evidence and Exploring Gaps (UNICEF, April 2024) [text]

Related post:

16 May 2024

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

"The International Law Commission and the Development of International Migration Law," Chapter in Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, vol. 27 (Forthcoming 2024) [preprint]
- "The article then examines the work of the ILC on the law of nationality, including on the elimination and reduction of statelessness, state succession, and finally diplomatic protection."

Palestinian origin or nationality? The case of minors born in Belgium, Nansen Note, no. 1 (Nansen: The Belgian Refugee Council, April 2024) [access]
- Available in French and English.

Pathways to Legal Identity: Exploring the legal framework and barriers to obtaining lineage and nationality in post-conflict Iraq (IOM, April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Stateless Legal Clinic: Innovative Models for Addressing Unmet Legal Need in Australia through Clinical Legal Education," International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, vol. 31, no. 1 (April 2024) [open access]

"Traces of Kinship Care: Preliminary Findings from Nansen Passport Holders’ Documents in the League of Nations and Arolsen Archives," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 4 March 2024 [open access]

Multimedia:

Statelessness: No country to call home (Borders & Belonging Podcast Series, April 2024) [access]

Resource:

Global Movement Against Statelessness [access]
- "[A] community of stateless people, activists and civil society allies dedicated to the eradication of statelessness and the achievement of equal nationality rights for all and the human rights of all stateless people. The Movement centres and is led by people directly impacted by statelessness, nationality deprivation and discriminatory nationality laws and works to increase solidarity in the field. It aims to bring the statelessness field closer together to strengthen collaboration and achieve positive change."

Related posts:

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Webinar: #StatelessJourneys: What’s next for work to protect the rights of stateless refugees in Europe?, 29 May 2024 [info]
- See also related update.

Call for applications: Advanced Course on Childhood Statelessness and the Child's Right to a Nationality, Online, 26 September-14 November 2024 [info]
- Note: The deadline for applying has been *extended* to 31 May 2024.

Call for registration: Tailored Workshop on Statelessness (Arabic), Sanremo, Italy, 23-26 September 2024 [info]
- Register by 3 June 2024.

Seminar: Geopolitics and Statelessness in South Asia, Loughborough, UK/Online, 25 June 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

The Campaign to End Statelessness: October-December 2023 Update (UNHCR, April 2024) [text]

International statistics on statelessness (Statistics Norway, May 2024) [text]

"Questions persist as Ottawa prepares Citizenship Act amendments," Policy Options/Options politiques, 14 May 2024 [text]

Statelessness in Norway (Statistics Norway, May 2024) [text]

Unravelling Statelessness: Georgia's Addition to the Statelessness Index (ENS Blog, May 2024) [text]

Related posts:

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues

Reports:

Implications of the Taliban takeover on Afghan women’s migration to Türkiye (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2024) [text]

Palestine: Impact of the war in Gaza on the sexual and reproductive health and health rights of women and girls (ACAPS, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Supporting displaced adolescent boys and male youth in all their diversity who are survivors or at risk of sexual exploitation: A toolkit for frontline workers in humanitarian contexts (UN Women & Women's Refugee Commission, May 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Aligning United States Law with International Norms Would Remove Major Barriers to Protection in Gender Claims," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 23 April 2024 [free full-text]

"Does granting refugee status to family-reunified women improve their integration?," Journal of Public Economics, vol. 234 (June 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Denmark.

"Encounters with kindness: everyday and extraordinary kind interventions in the lives of forced migrant survivors of SGBV," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 7 May 2024 [open access]
- "The data used herein was collected in England, Sweden, Australia, Turkey and Tunisia."

"Gendered Orientalism and Syrian Women Refugees," Fennia, Forthcoming, 25 April 2024 [open access]

"Impacts of an abbreviated personal agency training with refugee women and their male partners on economic empowerment, gender-based violence, and mental health: a randomized controlled trial in Rwanda," BMC Public Health, 24:1306 (May 2024) [open access]

"Looking for Safe Haven in a City Torn Apart by War: Narratives of agency from internally displaced persons in the southern Philippines," Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 22 (2024) [open access]

"The making of ‘Mary Poppins’ migrants: analysing German discourse on displaced Ukrainians 2022–23 through fictional film," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 9 Dec. 2023 [open access]
- See also related post on The Conversation.

"Refugee women in the media – prevalence, representation and framing in international media coverage," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 12 May 2024 [open access]

(Trans)Fronteriza Boletín, no. 20 (2024) [full-text]
- Theme is "Migraciones y feminismos," with most articles focusing on countries in the Americas.

"Women on the move: Understanding the female face of migration to develop targeted policies," European View, OnlineFirst, 8 May 2024 [open access]

Multimedia:

Qué protección existe para las mujeres migrantes que experimentan violencia de genero? Una mirada del contexto en Estados Unidos, Mexico y Colombia, 20 March 2024 [access]

Related posts:

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

"In post-coup Niger, migration becomes legal again," The New Humanitarian, 6 May 2024 [text]

Joint statement: INGOs in DR Congo call for a cessation of hostilities and the respect for International Humanitarian Law (May 2024) [text]
- See also related UNHCR/UNICEF press release.

Mauritania – the latest target in EU migration control (ISS Today, April 2024) [text]

South Africa: Toxic Rhetoric Endangers Migrants (Human Rights Watch, May 2024) [text]

UNHCR launches new learning platform to boost emergency preparedness and response in Africa (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

UNHCR's Regional Director for Southern Africa commends Zambia’s efforts to continue to promote inclusion of refugees into national systems (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

African Human Mobility Review,
vol. 10, no. 1 (2024) [open access]
- Mix of articles focusing on South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Analysis of Forcibly Displaced Persons in Far North Cameroon (Global Protection Cluster, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Between Resilience and Radicalisation: Reassessing the Trajectory of Internally Displaced Populations in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique," Kronos, vol. 50, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"'Here we Punish, Here we Discipline': Forced Displacement, Silencing and the Multiple Faces of Violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique," Kronos, vol. 50, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Host Communities and Refugees in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes, JDC Digest, no. 9 (March 2024) [text]

"'Living between here and there': Trans-local coping with urban marginality among internally displaced persons in urban Ethiopia," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 28 March 2024 [postprint]
- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 14 March 2025. See also related journal article.

"The Massalit Will Not Come Home": Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan (Human Rights Watch, May 2024) [text]

"A positive approach for the protection of the internally displaced persons’ right to participate in elections in Nigeria constitutional democracy," Nnamdi Azikiwe University Journal of International Law and Jurisprudence, vol. 15, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

The Refugee Response in Uganda (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, May 2024) [text]

"Social Inclusion and Justice for the Internally Displaced by the Herdsmen-Farmers Conflict in Benue State, Nigeria," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 5 May 2024 [full-text]

Multimedia:

The Mediatization of Internal Displacement: Do Media Reports Accurately Represent the Severity of Internal Displacement Driven by Flooding in Burundi as Captured by DTM? (IOM, March 2024) [access]
- Follow link for recording of interview that took place Nov. 2023.

Podcast: Some Subjective Narratives of Ethiopian and Eritrean Refugees in Sudan [access via African Arguments, May 2024]

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15 May 2024

Opportunities: More May & June 2024

Seminar: The Struggle of Becoming the Sole Breadwinner as a Woman Refugee: Case Studies of Syrian Home-Based Businesses in Egypt and Jordan, 16 May 2024 [info]

Research seminar: New perspectives on migrations in Latin America, Durham, UK, 23-24 May 2024 [info]

Roundtable: The making of disability/the making of migration, Leiden, Netherlands, 27 May 2024 [info]

Call for applications: Advanced Course on Childhood Statelessness and the Child's Right to a Nationality, Online, 26 September-14 November 2024 [info]
- Note: The deadline for applying has been *extended* to 31 May 2024.

Call for applications: Refugees International Refugee Fellows Program [info]
- Apply by 5 June 2024.

Seminar: Nordic immigration policies in flux: Domino effects and shifting paradigms, Copenhagen/Online, 7 June 2024 [info]

Panel discussion: Rewriting the Future: Innovations in Global Refugee Employment, London, 11 June 2024 [info]

Roundtable: Sexuality, Gender and Migration: Bridges within research fields and between academia and community, Sussex, UK/Online, 13 June 2024 [info]

Call for registration: ASB-UNHCR Research Workshop on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement 2024, Kuala Lumpur, 12-13 June 2024 [info]

CFP: Who rules over migrants? Autocratic elements in migration policies, Leiden, Netherlands, 14-15 November 2024 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 15 June 2024.

CFP: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law [info]
- Contributions sought that explore the theme of "International Humanitarian Law Under Pressure." Submit abstracts by 19 June 2024.

Seminar: Geopolitics and Statelessness in South Asia, Loughborough, UK/Online, 25 June 2024 [info]

Related post:

Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

Asylum chaos triggers fresh tensions over how to manage Ireland’s post-Brexit border (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]

A new generation of Vietnamese migrants is protesting against their home government (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Russia Distances Itself from Neighboring Afghan Refugees (International Affairs Review, May 2024) [Part One] [Part Two]

Sergio Vieira de Mello academic network: the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Nicolae Testemitanu" partnered with UNHCR to join the international academic network focused on refugee protection (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Moldova.

UK Home Office grants asylum to a Palestinian citizen of Israel amid fears of persecution in the context of an institutionalised apartheid regime (RLI Blog, May 2024) [text]

"UNHCR Flags Issues in Icelandic Immigration Law Amendments," Iceland Review, 10 May 2024 [text]

Use of force: what is it like and what is at stake? (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Reports & journal articles:

"'Bringing order to the border': liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 10 May 2024 [open access

Counting the dead 2020–2021: A new report on the migrants dying on Europe’s borders (ICRC, May 2024) [text]

Country Report: Cyprus (AIDA, May 2024) [text]
- Updated profile.

Delayed Asylum: The Impact of the Exclusion Clause Test (Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Greece.

[ECRE Comments on the Regulation on Asylum and Migration Management] (ECRE, May 2024) [text]

The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: reducing or reinforcing the inhumanity at Europe’s borders? (United Against Inhumanity, April 2024) [text]

"Migrant Death and Disappearability at Sea: Mediterranean Necropolitics as a European Strategy of Migration Deterrence," Journal of Public and International Affairs, 22 April 2024 [text]

"'We Want Our Freedom Back, That's Our Only Need': A Qualitative Study of Health and Social Needs Among Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants Crossing from Belarus to Lithuania," Frontiers in Public Health, 1 May 2024 [open access]

Related posts:

14 May 2024

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities:

Meeting: Facilitating Regular Pathways to a better future: Harnessing the power of migration, International Dialogue on Migration, First Session, 21-22 May 2024 [info]

Call for applications: Refugees International Refugee Fellows Program [info]
- Apply by 5 June 2024.

Short pieces:

IOC Refugee Olympic Team to represent more than 100 million displaced people at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

JDC Newsletter (April 2024) [text]
- Update from the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement.

Zooming in on internally displaced people’s needs to inform better responses (IDMC Blog, May 2024) [text]

New open access books:

Exile/Flight/Persecution: Sociological Perspectives on Processes of Violence (Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2023) [open access]
- "Experiences, processes and constellations of exile, flight, and persecution have deeply shaped global history and are still widespread aspects of human existence today. People are persecuted, incarcerated, tortured or deported on the basis of their political beliefs, gender, ethnic or ethno-national belonging, religious affiliation, and other socio-political categories. People flee or are displaced in the context of collective violence such as wars, rebellions, coups, environmental disasters or armed conflicts. After migrating, but not exclusively in this context, people find themselves suddenly isolated, cut off from their networks of belonging, their biographical projects and their collective histories. The articles in this volume are concerned with the challenges of navigating through multiple paradoxes and contradictions when it comes to grasping these phenomena sociologically, on the levels of self-reflection, theorizing, and especially doing empirical research."

Gouverner les Migrations pour Perpétuer la Mondialisation: Gestion Migratoire et Organisation Internationale pour les Migrations
(Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, Avril 2024) [open access]
- "Cette institution clé de la gouvernance migratoire a été marquée du début des années 2000 à 2018 par l’extension de son rôle et de ses activités à l’aune de la gestion migratoire. Cet ouvrage mobilise une approche qui mêle économie politique culturelle et analyse critique du discours pour examiner l’évolution d’un imaginaire à partir de l’interaction entre production de sens, capacité d’action des acteurs sociaux, structuration du contexte institutionnel, et technologies gouvernementales. Fort de l’analyse de réunions et documents de l’OIM, l’ouvrage révèle comment divers fonctionnaires internationaux, diplomates et experts ont formulé, diffusé, matérialisé ou encore contesté la gestion migratoire. L’étude de cet imaginaire permet de comprendre la transformation de l’OIM et son rôle dans la constitution d’une nouvelle gouvernance migratoire suite à l’adoption en 2018 du Pacte mondial pour les migrations."

Migration and Cities: Conceptual and Policy Advances (Springer, June 2024) [open access]
- "This open access book brings together different perspectives on migration and the city that are usually discussed separately, to show the special character of the urban context as a territorial and political space where people coexist, whether by choice or necessity. Drawing on heterogeneous situations in cities in different world regions (including Europe, North America, the Middle East, South, Southeast and East Asia and the Asia Pacific) contributions to this volume examine how migration and the urban context interact in the twenty-first century."

Reports & journal articles:

Border Walls and Refugees, Research Brief in Economic Policy, no. 381 (CATO Institute, May 2024) [text]

The Externalities of Immigration Policies on Migration Flows: The Case of an Asylum Policy, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 16935 (Institute of Labor Economics, April 2024) [text]

Global Protection Update: Forced Returns and Relocations (Global Protection Cluster, April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Globally, Voting Rights Have Increased for Immigrants and Emigrants," Migration Information Source, 1 May 2024 [text]

Revisiting migrants’ contributions from a human rights-based approach: a discussion on facilitating and hindering factors (OHCHR, Forthcoming June 2024) [access]
- Inputs submitted to inform the preparation of this report have been posted online.

A United Nations Agenda for Protection: Strengthening the ability of the United Nations System to protect people through their human rights (OHCHR, March 2024) [text]
- See also related blog post.

Multimedia:

 2024 Global Conference on Internally Displaced People, 18 April 2024 [access]

Related posts:


News: 2024 Global Report on Internal Displacement

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) launched the 2024 edition of its annual Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) today.  It estimates a record high total of over 75.9 million people displaced within their own countries at the end of 2023, 68.3 million as a result of conflict and violence and 7.7 million as a result of disasters. From GRID 2024's key findings (p. 3):

  "68.3 million people were living in internal displacement as a result of conflict and violence at the end of 2023, the highest figure since data became available. Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Colombia and Yemen host nearly half of the world’s internally displaced people. The figure has increased by 49 per cent in five years, fuelled by escalating and protracted conflict in Ethiopia, DRC, Sudan, and Ukraine. Conflict and violence triggered 20.5 million new internal displacements, or movements, across 45 countries and territories during 2023. Sudan, DRC and Palestine accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total.   
  There were 7.7 million people living in internal displacement globally as a result of disasters at the end of 2023. Although data gaps on the duration of disaster displacement make this figure conservative, it shows that, like conflict, disasters can keep people displaced for long periods of time. Disasters triggered 26.4 million new internal displacements, or movements, across 148 countries and territories during 2023. This is the third highest figure in the last decade. A third took place in China and Türkiye as a result of severe weather events and high-magnitude earthquakes."

Visit the landing page for highlights, media information, graphics and videos. The report can be downloaded in full or by regional section. A recording of the discussion that took place during the launch event is available here.

Previous iterations of the report can be accessed here


13 May 2024

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2

Reports:

Análisis de jurisprudencia de los tribunales superiores de justicia en materia de protección internacional en Chile (Centro de Políticas Migratorias & ACNUR, 2024) [text via Refworld]

Declaración de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Declaración de la Red de Instituciones Nacionales de Derechos Humanos del Continente Americano (RINDHCA) sobre su papel y aporte al proceso de Cartagena +40 sobre Refugiados (April 2024) [text via Refworld]

Haiti: Haitians forcibly returned to Haiti - Profiles, migration experience and intentions of Haitians returned in 2023 (IOM, May 2024) [text]
- French version also available.

Informe Anual de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos 2023 (CIDH, Dec. 2023) [access]

La persistencia del estado de cosas inconstitucional a veinte años de la Sentencia T-025 de 2004: IV Encuesta Nacional de Verificación sobre el Goce Efectivo de Derechos de la Población Desplazada, El Reto ante la Tragedia Humanitaria del Desplazamiento Forzado, vol. 22 (CODHES, March 2024) [text]

Precluding Protection: Findings from Interviews with Haitian Asylum Seekers in Central and Southern Mexico (Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Haitian Bridge Alliance & the UC Law SF Haiti Justice Partnership, April 2024) [access]

Third Ministerial Meeting on the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, Guatemala City, 7 May 2924 
- See related UNHCR press release, White House fact sheet announcing new initiatives, US State Dept. press release regarding humanitarian assistance for the Western Hemisphere, and a US State Dept. pre-meeting briefing that provided an "Interagency U.S. Migration Policy Overview." IOM also launched a new website for the Los Angeles Declaration

Related post:

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Research seminar: New perspectives on migrations in Latin America, Durham, UK, 23-24 May 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Cartagena +40: con la Declaración de Montevideo finalizó la primera reunión de Ciudades Solidarias en las Américas (ACNUR, April 2024) [text]
- Links to the "Declaración de Montevideo sobre Contribuciones de las Ciudades Solidarias al Plan de Acción de Chile (2024-2034)."

Chile: CIDH expresa preocupación por reformas migratorias que restringen el derecho al asilo (CIDH, May 2024) [text]

"Ecuador sues Mexico over asylum decision at World Court," Reuters, 29 April 2024 [text]
- See also related explainer.

"Lawless and neglected: Local Colombians see Darién influx as economic lifeline," The New Humanitarian, 1 May 2024 [text]
- See also related "first person" article.

Setting the record straight on refugee claims by international students (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Canada.

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

Journal articles:

"Borders and liminality in the right to health of migrants in transit: The case of Colchane in Chile and Necoclí in Colombia," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 9 (2024) [open access]

Cuadernos Intercambio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe, vol. 21, no. 1 (2024) [open access]
- Focuses on migration in the Americas, including Haiti, Central America and Mexico.

"'Everything I Have Seen There, That I Know …': Witnessing the Colombian armed conflict through refugees’ narratives of implication," PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Early View, 6 May 2024 [open access]

"'Humanitarian Corridors': Legal Scheme to Deter Venezuelans from Entering Ecuador?," International Journal of Legal Information, First View, 2 April 2024 [free full-text]

Related post:

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Farewell to ReliefWeb Mobile: A New Journey Begins (ReliefWeb Blog, April 2024) [text]

Paving a way to digital livelihoods (UNHCR Innovation Service, April 2024) [text]

"US explores AI to train immigration officers on talking to refugees," Reuters, 7 May 2024 [text]

Reports:

CBP One – A blessing or a trap? (Amnesty International, May 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US. Spanish version also available.

Navigating the US-Mexico Border: Digital Practices of Migrants and Their Psychosocial Needs (Jesuit Refugee Service &  Boston College, April 2024) [text]

Talent Has No Borders: Creating Connections for Refugees and other Displaced People to Decent Digital Livelihoods (Finn Church Aid & Na’amal, April 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]
- A video recording of a related webinar is available here.

"We Couldn’t Wait": Digital Metering at the US-Mexico Border (Human Rights Watch, May 2024) [access]
- Focuses on the US. Available in English and Spanish.

Journal articles:

"Beyond victim and hero representations? A comparative analysis of UNHCR’s Instagram communication strategies for the Syrian and Ukrainian crises," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 11 May 2024 [open access]

"Digital Speech and Future Persecution," Nevada Law Journal, vol. 25 (Forthcoming, 2024) [preprint]

"Exploring the perspectives and practices of humanitarian actors towards the Participation Revolution in humanitarian digital health responses: a qualitative study," Globalization and Health, 20:36 (April 2024) [open access]

"Searching for settlement information on Reddit," International Migration, Early View, 2 May 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Canada.

"VR technology and humanitarian crisis: Political ideology and the intention to donate in the case of the Syrian refugee crisis," New Media & Society, OnlineFirst, 23 April 2024 [free full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Where have Ukrainian refugees gone? Identifying potential settlement areas across European regions integrating digital and traditional geographic data," Population, Space and Place, Early View, 9 May 2024 [open access]

Multimedia:

Humanitarian Extractivism: the digital transformation past, present, future, 8 May 2024 [access]

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Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2

Other publications: 

Short pieces & reports:

A conscious coupling: The EU-Egypt ‘strategic and comprehensive partnership’ (Mixed Migration Centre, April 2024) [text]

The Consequences of Settler Violence and Forced Displacement on the Health and Wellbeing of Palestinian Communities in Area C (Physicians for Human Rights Israel, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Impact of funding cuts on operations in the MENA Region (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

Lebanon: Stepped-Up Repression of Syrians (Human Rights Watch, April 2024) [text]

MENA Accountability to Affected People (AAP) Toolkit: Strengthening Inclusion and Accountability to Affected People (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

Missing ID: An assessment of the challenges in obtaining travel documents for migrants in Libya (IOM, April 2024)

"Tunisia accused of ‘mass desert dumping’ of migrants," The New Humanitarian, 7 May 2024 [text]

Journal articles & book chapters

"Correlates of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among the forcibly displaced: evidence from Libya," Archives of Public Health, 82:70 (May 2024) [open access]

"Factors contributing to the mental wellbeing of Afghan migrants in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 6 (2024) [open access]

"Flight and Displacement from Syria: Why Regional History and Family Figurations Matter," Chapter in Exile/Flight/Persecution: Sociological Perspectives on Processes of Violence (Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2023) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 143. Focuses on Jordan.

"UNRWA and the Historical Evolution of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan: Policy Mobilities and the Role of Refugees in Home-Making on the Scale of the Camp," Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, vol. 23, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"What Blocked the UN’s Response to the Earthquakes in Northwest Syria? Reflections on a Humanitarian System Premised on Government Consent," Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, vol. 15, no. 1 (April 2024) [open access]

"Yemen's humanitarian collaboration during conflict: UN and local NGOs in focus," World Development Perspectives, vol. 34 (June 2024) [open access]

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Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1 (Gaza)

Focus on Gaza:
(listed in chronological order)
  • "Germany signals it will resume funding UN agency for Palestinians," Reuters, 24 April 2024 [text]
  • UNRWA Preliminary Response to the Final Report of the Independent Review of Mechanisms and Procedures to Ensure Adherence by UNRWA to the Humanitarian Principle of Neutrality (UNRWA, 24 April 2024 [text via ReliefWeb]
  • "Countries are reinstating funds for UNRWA — but not the United States," Washington Post, 26 April 2024 [text]
  • "ICRC Director: We will not replace the UNRWA," Swissinfo.ch, 29 April 2024 [text]
  • UK aid to the West Bank and Gaza Strip: FAQs (UK House of Commons Library, 29 April 2024) [text]
  • Too many journalists and aid workers are being killed in Gaza despite rules that should keep them safe (The Conversation, 30 April 2024) [text]
  • "White House considers welcoming some Palestinians from war-torn Gaza as refugees," CBS News, 30 April 2024 [text]
  • "Israel's Rafah offensive: What you need to know," DW, 6 May 2024 [text]
  • Gaza: Israel Flouts World Court Orders - Aid Still Being Obstructed Despite Famine (Human Rights Watch, 7 May 2024 [text]
  • Gaza war: as ceasefire talks break down the humanitarian crisis continues to escalate (The Conversation, 7 May 2024) [text]
  • Israel has made Gaza the deadliest place for aid workers (International Crisis Group, 7 May 2024) [text]
  • "'They fear what’s coming': How Israel's Rafah escalation is affecting civilians and the aid response," The New Humanitarian, 8 May 2024 [text]
  • "Humanitarian operations in Gaza at risk of grinding to a halt for lack of fuel," VOA News, 10 May 2024 [text]
  • I’ve spent decades overseeing relief operations around the world, and here’s what’s going wrong in Gaza (The Conversation, 10 May 2024) [text]
  • Palestine: Gaza Operations in Rafah (ACAPS, 11 May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
  • "Israeli forces push into Gaza from north and south," Reuters, 13 May 2024 [text]

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10 May 2024

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Focus on Ukrainians:

Publications

The Effect of Conflict on Refugees' Return and Integration: Evidence from Ukraine, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 16962 (Institute of Labor Economics, April 2024) [text]

Exploring the Uncertainty of Ukrainian Refugees, Spotlight on Ukraine, no. 6 (Center for East European & International Studies, April 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Poland.

The Impact of Private Hosting on the Integration of Ukrainian Refugees, IPL Working Paper, no. 2 (Immigration Policy Lab, April 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Germany.

Reception and integration of displaced people from Ukraine (European Parliament, April 2024) [text]

Safe Homes: Lessons learnt from private hosting initiatives for people fleeing Ukraine (European Commission, April 2024) [text]
- See also related Red Cross EU report.

Understanding return intentions and integration of Ukrainian refugees (VoxEU, May 2024) [text]

Resource

Ukraine Refugee Situation Factbook (UNHCR) [access]
- "The Ukraine Refugee Situation Factbook is a centralized and easy-to-navigate repository that consolidates and catalogues key facts and findings related to refugees from Ukraine in more than 15 thematic areas, including population characteristics, different protection issues, sectoral needs, livelihoods and wellbeing, and return intentions, among others. The indicators are compiled from publicly available reports and microdata from UNHCR-led surveys across different host countries in Europe, from 2022 onwards." More info is provided in this pamphlet.

Reports & journal articles:

Five ways to safeguard protection in development-oriented approaches to solutions to internal displacement (Norwegian Refugee Council, April 2024) [text]

"From struggle to strength in African and Middle Eastern newcomers’ integration stories to Canada: A participatory health equity research study," PLoS ONE 19(4): e0302591 (April 2024) [open access]

"Integration Between Excessive Demands and the Desire to Belong: Young Refugees’ Biographical Accounts of Integration," Chapter in Exile/Flight/Persecution: Sociological Perspectives on Processes of Violence (Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2023) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 123. Focuses on Switzerland.

"Mandated economic self-sufficiency from state and refugee perspectives: refugee integration policy and practice in Sweden and New Zealand," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 May 2024 [open access]

Plan Nacional de Reasentamiento y Vías Complementarias de Admisión a la República Argentina para personas refugiadas, apátridas y necesitadas de protección internacional (Comisión Nacional Para Los Refugiados (CONARE) de Argentina, Nov. 2023) [text via Refworld]

Seeking Data from the Department of State on the Cities Where Refugees Have Resettled (American Immigration Council, April 2024) [text]

Social Inclusion, vol. 12 (2024) [open access]
- Special issue on "Migrants’ Inclusion in Rural Communities."

"The True, the Good, the Spiteful: An Auto(bio)psy of Bosnian Refugee Experience in Sweden," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 8 May 2024 [open access]

Related posts:

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Reports:

CBP One – A blessing or a trap? (Amnesty International, May 2024) [text]
- Spanish version also available.

The Effect of Lawful Crossing on Unlawful Crossing at the US Southwest Border, Working Paper, no. 10 (Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 2024) [text]
- See also related blog post.

Expanding Temporary Protected Status Significantly Benefits U.S. Citizen Family Members (FWD.us, April 2024) [text]

Immigration: Grounds of Inadmissibility (US Congressional Research Service, May 2024) [text]

Top Places with the Most Immigrants Recently Ordered Deported (TRAC, April 2024) [text]

"We Couldn’t Wait": Digital Metering at the US-Mexico Border (Human Rights Watch, May 2024) [access]
- Available in English and Spanish.

Multimedia:

Migrants claiming asylum can be allowed into the U.S. Here's how it works (NPR Morning Edition, May 2024) [access]

Related post:

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for participation: American Immigration Council Seeks Volunteers for Credible Fear Interview Preparation in CBP Hotline [info]

Short pieces:

Crime Rates, Not the Number of Crimes, are a Better Way to Judge Immigrant Criminality (CATO at Liberty Blog, April 2024) [text]

Federal Register: Application of Certain Mandatory Bars in Fear Screenings (Proposed Rule) (ImmigrationProf Blog, May 2024) [text]
- See also related Politico article and ImmigrationProf blog post.

"How Defining ‘Refugees’ Shapes the Lives of Millions," New Lines Magazine, 12 April 2024 [text]

Many immigrants to the US are fleeing violence and persecution − here’s how the federal government can help cities absorb them (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]

Many US cities are eager to welcome migrants. We need to make it easier for them to do so (The Hill, May 2024) [text]

Reimagining the Asylum Office (The Asylumist Blog, May 2024) [text]

Trump promises to deport all undocumented immigrants, resurrecting a 1950s strategy − but it didn’t work then and is less likely to do so now (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]

New open access book:

Arab Americans in the United States: Immigration, Culture and Health
 (Springer, Jan. 2024) [open access]
- This book "presents a cross-cultural perspective between culture and illness. It touches upon identity struggles, the notion of not feeling 'safe, understood, accepted', and its relation to Arab American health. The book provides a comprehensive review of the history of Muslims in America and discusses better healthcare services for chronic illness—diabetes. It provides an ethnographic framework for building cultural belief models of illness, which helps study any illness among any population. It is a must-read for everyone interested in understanding the relationship among culture, health, and immigration, as well as the importance of building cultural belief models of illness and their possible impact on providing better healthcare services."

Journal articles:

"Immigraft," Wisconsin Law Review, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]
- "This Essay introduces the term immigraft to capture this phenomenon, defined as the unjust transfer of funds from individuals to the state in the context of efforts to obtain immigration benefits or relief from the state."

"Manufactured State Immigration Emergencies as State Vigilantism," Texas A&M Law, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]
- See also related VOA article.

"The Theater of Refuge," Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice, vol. 13, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Title 42 Postmortem: U.S. Pandemic-Era Expulsions Policy Did Not Shut Down the Border," Migration Information Source, 25 April 2024 [text]

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09 May 2024

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Being migrant or nomadic or refugee in the Nusantara," Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, vol. 23, no. 3 (2023) [open access]

"Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh," Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 50, no. 6 (2023) [open access]

"‘Doing’ Legal History in Refugee Law: A Snapshot of Bangladesh’s Engagement with Non-Refoulement," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 14 June 2023 [ResearchGate]

"Exploring risky health behaviors and vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases among transnational undocumented labor migrants from Bangladesh: a qualitative study," BMC Public Health, 24:1261 (May 2024) [open access]

"Housing and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: findings from an Australian qualitative longitudinal study,"  BMC Public Health, 24:1138 (April 2024) [open access]

"The impact of religious identification on national identification and engagement in collective action to support Rohingya refugees: A comparison between Australia and Malaysia," Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Early View, 30 April 2024 [open access]

"Seeking Safer Shells: An Analysis of Interpretations, Justifications, and Rationales Behind Decisions on North Korean Defectors’ Right to Asylum," Journal of Public and International Affairs, 22 April 2024 [text]
- Uses case studies from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and China.

"A Study on the Impact of Refugee Influx on the Agricultural Service, Systems and Products: The Case of Rohingya Refugees in Teknaf, Bangladesh," Asian Journal of Human Services, vol. 26 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for registration: ASB-UNHCR Research Workshop on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement 2024, Kuala Lumpur, 12-13 June 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

"‘Bleak milestone’: UN says 3 million forced to flee in Myanmar conflict," Al Jazeera, 8 May 2024 [text]

Coalition demands amendments to government’s deportation bill, as crucial High Court judgement set for Friday (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

The government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its deportation bill. Given the findings, it’s easy to see why (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

"Is Japan 'xenophobic' like US President Biden claims?," DW, 6 May 2024 [text]
- See also related blog post.

UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner applauds Indonesia’s humanitarian traditions on refugee protection (UNHCR, April 2024) [text]
- See also related story.

What does actionable displacement data look like? (IDMC Blog, April 2024) [text]
- Uses examples from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam.

Reports:

Building Trust During COVID-19 in Humanitarian Settings: Lessons Learnt (Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan, March 2024) [text]

Protecting Refugees in Australia and Globally (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

Multimedia:

Migrants and refugees are easy political targets (What’s Unsaid Podcast Series, May 2024) [access]
- Focuses on Pakistan's expulsion of Afghan refugees.

Related post:

08 May 2024

News: World Migration Report 2024

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched the 12th volume of its flagship publication, the World Migration Report. Here's a description of the contents:

"The report highlights that international migration remains a driver of human development and economic growth, highlighted by a more than 650 per cent increase in international remittances from 2000 to 2022, rising from USD 128 billion to USD 831 billion. The growth continued despite predictions from many analysts that remittances would decrease substantially because of COVID-19.
   ...[It also] reveals that while international migration continues to drive human development, challenges persist. With an estimated 281 million international migrants worldwide, the number of displaced individuals due to conflict, violence, disaster, and other reasons has surged to the highest levels in modern-day records, reaching 117 million, underscoring the urgency of addressing displacement crises.  
   Migration, an intrinsic part of human history, is often overshadowed by sensationalized narratives. However, the reality is far more nuanced than what captures headlines. Most migration is regular, safe, and regionally focused, directly linked to opportunities and livelihoods. Yet, misinformation and politicization have clouded public discourse, necessitating a clear and accurate portrayal of migration dynamics."

Part I of the report provides key data and information on migration around the world, while part II provides "an evidence-based analysis of complex and emerging migration issues." The complete report can be read online or downloaded as a PDF. An interactive page highlights key findings via data visualizations. 

More information in the form of factsheets and infographics is provided on the Media Resources page. In addition, several toolkits have been developed that draw on research and analysis presented in the World Migration Reports

Previous editions can be accessed in English, French and Spanish


07 May 2024

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2

Reports:

Competing for Talent: What Role Can Employment- and Skills-Based Mobility Projects Play? (Migration Policy Institute, April 2024) [text]

Designing and Implementing Market-led Interventions in Forced Displacement Settings (ILO, Feb. 2024) [text]

Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden, Working Paper, no. 4 (UNU-MERIT, Feb. 2024) [text]

Impacto Fiscal de la Migración Venezolana en Colombia: Realidad versus Potencial (IOM, April 2024) [text]

Labor market integration of refugees in Germany: new lessons after the Ukrainian crisis, Social Protection & Jobs Discussion Paper, no. 2404 (World Bank, April 2024) [text]

Refugees find employment in very different settlement contexts, INFLUX Policy Brief, no. 1(2) (CMI et al., April 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Ukrainians in Estonia.

Skilled Worker Visas for Refugees: An Evaluation of the UK's Displaced Talent Mobility Pilot (DTMP) (Refugee Studies Centre, April 2024) [text]
- Note: A related seminar will be held in Oxford on 5 June 2024.

Talent Has No Borders: Creating Connections for Refugees and other Displaced People to Decent Digital Livelihoods (Finn Church Aid & Na’amal, April 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]
- A video recording of a related webinar is available here.

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