Opportunities:
High-Level Officials Meeting: Lessons Learned from the GRF on Meaningful Refugee Participation, Online, 3 April 2025 [info]
Call for registration: Canadian, Regional, and International Responses to Forced Migration, 16th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), Toronto, 26-29 May 2025 [info]
Short pieces:
2024 is Deadliest Year on Record for Migrants, New IOM Data Reveals (IOM, March 2025) [text]
Update on IOM Operations Amid Budget Cuts (IOM, March 2025) [text]
- See also related AP News article.
Reports:
91st meeting of the Standing Committee, Geneva, 12-13 September 2024 [access]
- Follow link for documents, presentations and oral updates. Note that some documents have not yet been posted.
92nd meeting of the Standing Committee, Geneva, 11-13 March 2025 [access]
- Follow link for documents, presentations and oral updates. Note that some documents have not yet been posted. Forthcoming EXCOM Conclusions will focus on climate action, education and an update on refugees with disabilities. See also ICVA's page providing access to the texts of NGO statements delivered at the SC meeting.
Global Displacement Forecast Report 2025 (Danish Refugee Council, March 2025) [access]
- "The world faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis as wars and attacks on civilians are expected to drive 6.7 million people from their homes over the next two years, according to a new forecast by the Danish Refugee Council."
NGO statements at UNHCR Executive and Standing Committee Meetings (ICVA, Jan. 2025) [text]
- "This document is an updated and consolidated version of previous ICVA guidelines and drafting procedures for NGO statements and UNHCR committee meetings."
Refugees and Forced Displacement: A Policy Brief (VoxDev, March 2025) [access]
- "This VoxDevLit synthesises quantitative research conducted between 2010 and 2024, focusing on studies that use experimental or quasi-experimental methods to examine (1) the impacts of forced displacement on host communities and (2) the effectiveness of policies designed to support both forcibly displaced populations and their hosts." Follow link for text and video of launch event.
Standard Operating Procedures: Determining the Legal Identity of Migrants Without Proof of Legal Identity (IOM, 2025) [text]
Journal articles:
"Housing inequalities and health outcomes among migrant and refugee populations in high-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review," BMC Public Health, 25:1098 (March 2025) [open access]
"'Managing' the paradox: refugee self-reliance and solving the problem of refugee policy discontinuity," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 23 March 2025 [open access]
"Mapping the 'middle-spaces' of migration: towards a linked ecology approach to migration industry, migration infrastructure, and migration brokerage," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 (March 2025) [open access]
Routed Magazine, no. 26 (Feb. 2025) [text]
- Themed issue on "Remnants of Covid-19 in a mobile world."
Multimedia:
"Freedom to Choose Whether to Migrate or Stay," Panel at Catholic Social Teaching and Work with Migrants and Refugees at a Time of Uncertainty, 24 March 2025 [Part 1] [Part 2]
The Politics of Immigration and the Politics of Identity, Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025, 5 March 2025 [access]
'Wicked' Challenges in Migration Management: Weaponization, Politicization, and Hostile Influence Operations, 12 March 2025 [access]
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