14 February 2025

Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1

Opportunities: 

Call for applications: IMISCOE Standing Committee Forced Migration and Refugees [info]
- Positions available are a co-chair, three coordinators and two PhD representatives. Apply by 23 February 2025.

Webinar: Funders' role in advancing the Global Research Agenda on health, migration and displacement, 3 March 2025 [info]

Call for submissions: CARFMS/LERRN Lived Experiences of Displacement Essay Contest [info]
- Submission deadline is 30 March 2025.

CFP: The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs [info]
- Contributions sought for a special issue on "People on the Move: The Commonwealth and Management of International Migration." Submit abstracts by 31 March 2025.

CFP: Societies [info]
- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Borders, (Im)mobility and the Everyday." Submit manuscripts by 31 March 2025.

CFP: Who is a Refugee in the 21st Century? [info]
- Contributions sought for a special issue that will be submitted as a proposal to the Journal of Refugee Studies. Submit abstracts by 31 March 2025.

Short pieces:

Anti-immigration policies: why harsh new rules put in place by Trump and other rich countries won’t last (The Conversation, Jan. 2025) [text]

IKEA Foundation pledges £2 million to Oxford initiative championing refugee leadership (RSC, Jan. 2025) [text]

Trump’s tariff threats fit a growing global phenomenon: hardball migration diplomacy (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

Why we urgently need strategic solutions to internal displacement (WEF Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

Reports: 

2024 Assistance Report: Protecting exiled journalists is crucial for press freedom (Reporters sans Frontières, Jan. 2025) [access]
- Available in English, French and Russian.

Inside the Camp: Reimagining Refugee Governance for a Changing World, IMS Policy and Working Paper Collection, no. 1 (Lebanese American Univ., Jan. 2025) [access]
- "This collection of essays offers a multifaceted examination of refugee camp governance, addressing systemic, participatory, spatial, and social dynamics. It emphasizes innovative frameworks, refugee agency, and the pressing challenges of protracted displacement."

Towards a just approach to the global housing crisis and migrants, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/58/50 (UN General Assembly, Jan. 2025) [text]

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