10 March 2025

Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

The Microdata Library in 2024: Expanding Access to Data While Strengthening Privacy Protections (UNHCR Blog, March 2025) [text]

Migrantising Diplomacy (E-International Relations, Feb. 2025) [text]

A miracle of Western tenacity’: how 10 million refugees found homes after World War II (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

The Road to Nowhere? A Critique of the ‘Route-Based Approach’ to Migration and Asylum (RLI Blog, March 2025) [text]

"Sustainable Response: Accelerating Opportunities for Inclusion," JDC Newsletter (Feb. 2025) [text]

Trauma-Informed Participatory Research: Ethical Pathways in Displacement and Migration Studies (RLI Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Global South Reflections and Recommendations on a Routes-Based Approach to Onward and Mixed Movements (UNHCR) (IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement, Feb. 2025) [text]
- This policy brief resulted from a related webinar; the video recording is listed below under multimedia.  

International recommendations on refugee, internally displaced persons and statelessness statistics, Cairo, 26-28 November 2024 [access]
- Follow link for conference documents and presentations.

"Migration aspirations and their realisation: a configurational driver analysis of 26 African and Asian research areas," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:8 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"The Right to Stay, Migrate and Return: Conceptualizing Freedom, Examining Diverse National Contexts and Exploring Policy Implications," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 13, no. 1 (March 2025) [full-text]

Truth matters: How to combat misinformation about refugees and migrants (Kaldor Centre, March 2025) [access]
- See also related post on The Conversation.

UNHCR Toolkit for Participatory Assessment: Practical Guide (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]
- Provisional release. Also available in Spanish.

"Visual Portrayals of Migrants as Threats or Victims are Reductive—But Can Have Far-Reaching Impact," Migration Information Source, 5 March 2025 [text]

Multimedia:

Global South Perspectives on Internally Displaced Persons, 13 Feb. 2025 [access]
- More info about this webinar is provided here.

Global South reflections on a routes-based approach to protection: Perspectives from Latin America and North Africa, 11 Dec. 2024 [access]

No Exit: Preventing Exit to Prevent Entry, 6 Feb. 2025 [access]

The Politics and Process of Refugee Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Factors Conditioning Refugee Leadership in Global South, 6 Feb. 2025 [access]

Resources:

Independent Oversight Portal (UNHCR) [access]
- Provides access to "relevant reports issued by the four independent oversight providers for UNHCR: UNHCR’s Evaluation Office, UNHCR’s Internal Audit Service (OIOS), the UN Board of Auditors, and the UN Joint Inspection Unit – since 2020."

Migration Research to Policy Co-Lab (Migration Policy Centre) [access]
- "There is a significant amount of research and evidence on migration, but it is often not utilised in policymaking. The Migration Research to Policy Co-Lab aims to change that by facilitating knowledge exchange, providing tools for improved research communication, and promoting active collaboration." For more info., see also the video recording of the launch event.

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