New Issues of BIG Rev., HHR J., Hum. Aid on the Move, Intl. Migr., JEMS, Migr. Pol. Pract., QRP, Routed, ZMF

*Reminder: Authors of open access articles in these journals are encouraged to deposit their work in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA). The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website.

Borders in Globalization Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Border Temporalities in and Beyond Europe."

Health and Human Rights Journal, vol. 26, no. 2 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

- Features a special section on "Distress Migration and the Right to Health."

Humanitarian Aid on the Move, no. 26 (Dec. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Theme is "What Paths to Decolonized Aid?"; a French version is also available.

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

- Mix of articles, with 12 that are open access. The four commentaries and two book reviews are free to read.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 1 (2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 10 that are open access. The editorial and keynote are also freely available.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Governing Transit and Irregular Migration: Beyond Formal Policies and Informal Practices." 

Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 3 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 4 (2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Routed Magazine, no. 5 (2024) [text]

- Theme is "Migration in the MENA Region: (Youth) Perspectives, Policy and Impact."

Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung = Journal of Migration Studies, vol. 4, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Representation of Migration: Documentations, Memorialization and Arts-Based Approaches." Articles are in German or English.

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Activists, Smugglers, and Researchers in the Migration Industry in Mexico," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 15 (2024) [open access]

- Available in both English and Spanish.

"Anatomy of a route: Script analysis of irregular migration, smuggling and harms on the Central Mediterranean route to Europe," Criminology & Criminal Justice, OnlineFirst, 31 Oct. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the route from Libya to Malta.

"Child-Centered Anti-Trafficking Approaches in Mediterranean Migration Routes: Italy and Turkey," Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 12 (Dec. 2024) [open access] 

"Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Early View, 19 Dec. 2024 [open access] 

- Focuses on "Eritrean forced migrants travelling along the Central Mediterranean Route."

"Human smugglers or criminalised migrants? Securitarian bordering and the criminalisation of ‘captains’ in the Mediterranean," Trends in Organized Crime, Latest Articles, 11 Nov. 2024 [postprint]

- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 11 Nov. 2025. Focuses on Greece and Italy.

"Leaving at All Costs: Implications of the Italy-Libya Border-Externalization Policy on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking Facilitation," Perspective Politice, vol. 17 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Nigerians.

"The procedural legal status of migrants transported by smugglers in European jurisprudence," European Integration Studies, vol. 20, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling - Pt. 1 (3 Jan. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

At G7 in Italy, UNHCR’s Grandi emphasized the need to protect victims while preventing exploitation by human traffickers (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

Double Edged Swords: The Role of Technology in Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling (NatCen International & Univ. of Westminster, Dec. 2024) [text]

The Exploitation of Refugees and Migrants Hidden Struggles Along Migration Routes (UNICEF, Dec. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Europe.

New open access volumes:

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons in 2024 (UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Dec. 2024) [access]

- "This edition of the Global Report provides a snapshot of the trafficking patterns and flows at global, regional and national levels. It covers 156 countries and provides an overview of the response to the trafficking in persons by analysing trafficking cases detected between 2019 and 2023. A major focus of this edition of the Report is on trends of detections and convictions that show the changes compared to historical trends since UNODC started to collect data in 2003, and following the Covid-19 Pandemic." See also related InfoMigrants post.

Taking Vulnerabilities to Labour Exploitation Seriously: A Critical Analysis of Legal and Policy Approaches and Instruments in Europe (Springer, Oct. 2024) [open access]

- "This open access book intends to contribute to the debate on migrant labour exploitation by exploring the extent to which the EU and the European countries provide a standard for protecting migrant workers. It moves from a socio-legal and theoretical perspective and builds on critical studies on vulnerability, exploitation, trafficking and migrant labour regimes – along with relevant feminist theories, including theories on social reproduction – while also drawing on extensive fieldwork. By mobilising the concept of ‘situational vulnerabilities’, the book critically investigates the assemblage and interaction of factors creating and amplifying migrant workers’ vulnerabilities to exploitation in the key sectors of agriculture and domestic work. The aim is to highlight how situations of vulnerability to exploitation are generated and exacerbated by relevant legal and policy frameworks, underlining and questioning the tensions, continuities, and ambiguities between different regimes, such as the regimes regulating labour migration and those intended to combat severe exploitation."

Reports:

Addressing documentation and modern slavery risks in Kenya: Key recommendations and best practices (UNU & Freedom Fund, Oct. 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for a policy brief as well as comics in English and Swahili "illustrating the challenges faced by people in Kenya as they navigate life without legal documents."

Child Trafficking and Armed Conflict (UN, Oct. 2024) [access]

Mixed migration in the Western Balkans: Shifting policies, smuggling dynamics and risks (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2024) [text]

Special Hearing Report on Understanding the Risks of Trafficking of Children of Ukraine, including for the Purposes of Sexual and Labour Exploitation (Council of Europe, Oct. 2024) [text via Refworld]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (2 Oct. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

Education as a catalyst for refugee and host community integration in Kenya (UNHCR Blog, Dec. 2024) [text]

Education Cannot Wait announces US$ 2.6 million grant to UNHCR to accelerate refugee inclusion in national education systems (UNHCR, Dec. 2024) [text]

The Landscape of Refugee Education Research: Complicit Scholarship in Violence, Oppression and Imperialism (INEE Blog, Dec. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Alternative Secondary Education Pathways in Nyarugusu Camp: Preparing Refugee Youth for Higher Education in Tanzania and Beyond, Refugee-led Research Working Paper, no. 2 (Refugee-led Research Hub, Nov. 2024) [text]

"A Case for the Right to Education for Stateless and Undocumented Children: A South African Analysis in the Light of International Law," Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, vol. 27 (2024) [open access]

"Dealing with learning uncertainties during COVID-19 pandemic: Reflections of alone and unaccompanied refugee children in Uganda," Contemporary Journal of African Studies, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Locked-down learning amid COVID-19: young refugees in Greece and their supporters co-navigating a new crisis," Critical Studies in Education, Latest Articles, 18 Dec. 2024 [open access]

"Pathways to Integration and Language Acquisition: A Comparative Analysis of Refugee Children’s Social Integration and Foreign Language Difficulty in Lebanon and Australia," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 28 Nov. 2024 [open access]

"Syrian refugee youths' science learning in a 'dialogic' third space: Pushing boundaries in the Lebanese educational system through translanguaging," Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 62, no. 1 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

"'Thank you for helping our children': refugee families’ perspectives," Educational Research, Latest Articles, 3 Dec. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (8 Dec. 2024)

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Border Technologies Under Trump 2.0 (Just Security Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

- See also related podcast below.

A digital self-help tool based on the WHO materials reduces distress among refugees: results from an RCT (SpringerNature Research Communities, Nov. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Ukrainians.

How AI can help combat mis- and disinformation about migration (WEF Blog, Dec. 2024) [text]

The perfect recipe for a refugee-inclusive digital economy? (UNHCR Innovation Service, Dec. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Egypt.

Reports:

Administrative Instruction on End User Devices (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

Policy on Information Security (UNHCR, March 2023) [text]

The use of multisectoral electronic vouchers to reduce protection risks for people in transit in Colombia (ZOA, Dec. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Civil Organizing in War: Evidence from Syrian Facebook Communities," Perspectives on Politics, FirstView, 26 Dec. 2024 [open access]

"Digital solutions for migrant and refugee health: a framework for analysis and action," The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 50:101190 (March 2025) [open access]

"The Exercise of State Power Over Migrants at Sea Through Technologies of Remote Control: Reconceptualizing Human Rights Jurisdiction," International & Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 4 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Mediating digital literacies across transnational refugee networks: language and resilience inside and outside Syria," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 8 Dec. 2024 [open access]

Multimedia:

*How Border Technologies Impact Migration (Just Security Podcast, Jan. 2025) [access] 

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (5 Dec. 2024)

New Book Titles

Please visit my Forced Migration Library blog for references to new books due out in January 2025, as well as new legal and open access texts.