Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

Seasonal Greetings Across Time: Messages from UNHCR’s Archives (UNHCR Blog, Dec. 2024) [text]

A Year of Turmoil: Conflicts, Crises and Displacement in 2024 (UNHCR, Dec. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Ethical Communications Guidelines (UNHCR, Dec. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for dedicated page on UNHCR's website and an executive summary of the guidelines. Note: An earlier version of the guidelines was released in Jan. 2023 but no longer appears to be available.

Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Report of the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/79/590 (UN General Assembly, Nov. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for report in UN languages, a related press release, indicators to review progress related to GCM implementation, and UNGA documents.

Journal articles:

"Applying a Dignity Lens in Migration and Displacement," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 6 Jan. 2025 [full-text]

"Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees: an empirically grounded typology," Theory and Society, Latest Articles, 19 Dec. 2024 [open access]

"Making sense of peace in exile? Displaced people’s intersectional perceptions of peace," Peacebuilding, Latest Articles, 12 Nov. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Kenya and Germany.

"No Place for Truth? Credibility and Dis/belief in Asylum Storytelling," Représentations dans le monde anglophone, no. 28 (2024) [open access]

"A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:58 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

"The Theological Foundations of the Right to Stay in Catholic Social Teaching," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 6 Jan. 2025 [full-text]

"What is in a Label? Exploring how labelling shapes refugees’ experiences," Essex Student Journal, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Discussion with UNHCR’s Madeline Garlick: Critical Themes in Global Forced Migration Policy Today, 25 Nov. 2024 [access]

- Follow link for event report and access to the video recording of the discussion.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1 (19 Dec. 2024)

- Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 2 (19 Dec. 2024)