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11 April 2025

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Detaining the "Other" (Völkerrechtsblog, Feb. 2025) [text]

High Court ruling reinforces prolonged and indefinite detention practices, violating Australia’s international obligations (Amnesty International, April 2025) [text]

"How Guantánamo Bay Figures in the Trump Immigration Crackdown," New York Times, 4 April 2025 [text]
- See also related Yahoo article on costs.

Immigration detention practices and policies in Latin America: the impact of Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ decision in Vélez-Loor v. Panama (RLI Blog, March 2025) [text]

"Out of Sight and Out of Mind": Norway’s Failure to Reform its Treatment of Immigration Detainees (Immigration Detention Monitor, Feb. 2025) [text]

Panama: A "Bridge: Serving Trump’s Sweeping Deportation Plans (Immigration Detention Monitor, March 2025) [text]

United States and El Salvador: A Scheme to Deport Migrants from the US to a "Human Rights Black Hole" (Immigration Detention Monitor, April 2025) [text]
- See also related CNN and Politico articles and posts on The Conversation and Human Rights Watch.

Reports & journal articles:

"Approaching pediatric mental health screening and care in immigration detention," The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, vol. 43:100999 (March 2025) [open access]

A Decade of Harm: Survivors of Gender-based Violence Locked Up in Immigration Detention (Women for Refugee Women, March 2025) [text via EIN]
- Focuses on the UK.

Immigration Detention Expansion by Stealth, TexasLaw Legal Studies Research Paper (Univ. of Texas at Austin, March 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

"The Law and Lawlessness of U.S. Immigration Detention," Harvard Law Review, vol. 138, no. 5 (March 2025) [full-text]

Post Visit Summary: Merchant Vessel (MV) Besant and Australian Defence Vessel (ADV) Guidance (Commonwealth National Preventive Mechanism, March 2025) [text]
- Focuses on an "inspection of detention facilities aboard the MV Besant and ADV Guidance. The report reveals conditions that fail to meet both international and domestic minimum standards for detention, particularly in relation to access to medical care, interpreters and adequate accommodation." See also related RCOA news release.

"The Rights of Detained Child Migrants," Arizona State Law Journal, vol. 57 (Forthcoming, 2025) [preprint]

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10 April 2025

Opportunities: More April & May 2025

Panel discussion: Innovative Approaches to Belonging in Urban Spaces: Reframing the Debate on Integration, Migration, and Inclusion from a Multidisciplinary Perspective, Online, 16 April 2025 [info]

Presentation/workshop: Researching Discrimination Among Migrants, Online/Toronto, 17 April 2025 [info]
- A 2-part event, with an online presentation and an in-person workshop.

Call for applications: Non-Residential Fellowship (NRF), Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies [info]
- Apply by 18 April 2025.

Symposium: Defending Hope: Immigration Law Under the 2025 Trump Administration, Davis, CA, 18 April 2025 [info]
- Organized by Immigration and Nationality Law Review.

Seminar: Debts in/of Displacement, Rabat/Online, 23 April 2025 [info]
- Organized by the Research Chair on Forced Displacement at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. Register by 21 April 2025.

Webinar: Immigration Actions in First 100 Days of Trump Second Term, 24 April 2025 [info]

Call for applications: Displaced Scholars Peer Mentoring Program 2025 [info]
- Provides "academic and professional support to early career scholars who have experienced displacement and are studying or researching refugee and forced migration studies." Apply by 30 April 2025.

Seminar: Digital Borders, Identification, and Migrants’ Experiences in the UK, Bristol, UK, 30 April 2025 [info]

Seminars: Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2025, 7 May-11 June 2025 [info]
- The first two seminars are listed below. 

Seminar: Localization in the Rohingya refugee response, Oxford, 7 May 2025 [info]

Seminar: ‘Safe Countries’ and Women’s International Protection, Online, 7 May 2025 [info]

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]
- Contributions sought for a themed issue on "Climate change: choices for displaced people." Submit proposals by 8 May 2025. 

Call for applications:14th Online Course on Statelessness in Russian, 17 June-10 July 2025 [info]
- Apply by 14 May 2025.

Call for applications: 43rd Online Course on International Refugee Law in English, 16 June-11 July 2025 [info]
- Apply by 14 May 2025.

Seminar: Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Northern Frontier, Oxford, 14 May 2025 [info]

Call for applications: Odysseus Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, Brussels/Online, 30 June-11 July 2025 [info]
- The focus will be on "the new instruments adopted in 2024 under the New Migration & Asylum Pact." Apply by 15 May 2025.

Seminar: The Other Refugee: Women, Children, Elderly, and Disabled Refugees in Early 18th-Century Baltics, Uppsala, Sweden, 23 May 2025 [info]


Note: I received an email announcing the CMRS Summer 2025 Short Courses, but I have not yet found info about these courses online. I will provide more details once there is something I can link to, but in the meantime, you can request further information from cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu. The application deadline is 15 May 2025.

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09 April 2025

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunity:

Call for applications: Non-Residential Fellowship (NRF), Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies [info]
- Apply by 18 April 2025.

Short pieces:

"Australia to redirect $100m in foreign aid to Indo-Pacific region after Trump pulls funding," The Guardian, 25 March 2025 [text]

Challenges Faced by the Myanmar Community in South Australia: Recommendations for Improved Access to Services (Refugee Research Online, March 2025) [text]

"Myanmar earthquake worsens one of the world’s largest and most neglected humanitarian crises," The New Humanitarian, 2 April 2025 [text]
- See also related Reuters article.

Pakistan: Opaque ‘Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan’ targeting Afghan refugees must be withdrawn (Amnesty International, March 2025) [text]
- See also related UNHCR message, OHCHR press release, and new Amnesty campaign publication below.

The Plight of North Korean Refugees in China (Wilson Center, April 2025) [text]

UN and partners seek $934.5m for life-saving aid to 1.5 million Rohingya refugees and their hosts in Bangladesh (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Us and them: Indonesia’s migration policy (Maastricht Univ., March 2025) [text]

WFP cuts Rohingya food assistance: What does losing $6.50/month mean? (HPN, March 2025) [text]
- See also update from AP News.

"Where my heart belongs": Disaster-induced displacement in Nabavatu village, Fiji (RID Blog, March 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

2025-26 Federal Budget: What it means for refugees and people seeking humanitarian protection (Refugee Council of Australia, March 2025) [text]

"Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance?," Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 69, no. 4 (April 2025) [preprint]
- Focuses on South Korea.

"Death toll among the Bangladeshi refugees of the 1971 war," PLoS ONE 20(4): e0320760 (April 2025) [open access]

"Is universal health coverage really better? Unintended consequences of the 2019 Amendment of the National Health Insurance Act for humanitarian sojourners in South Korea," International Journal for Equity in Health, 24:42 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

Issue Brief on Regular Migration Pathways No.1: Data Insights and Trends in Asia and the Pacific -Facilitating Pathways for Regular Migration (IOM, March 2025) [text]

'Treat us like human beings': Afghans in Pakistan at risk of unlawful deportation (Amnesty International, April 2025) [text]

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Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

"Judge orders White House to restore legal aid to unaccompanied migrant children," NPR, 2 April 2025 [text]
- See earlier related AP News article.

More than a million children in the Gaza Strip deprived of lifesaving aid for over one month (UNICEF, April 2025) [text]

Reuniting refugee families: How to fix family reunion for refugees (RCOA, April 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Trump’s New Registration Requirement Could Forcibly Separate Millions of Immigrant Families (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

A Devastating Nexus: Armed Conflict, Displacement, and the Erosion of Child Protection in Eastern DRC, Research Paper, no. 4 (Aries Consult, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Developing a conceptual family needs framework for newcomer immigrants and refugees: A community-based participatory research approach," International Health Trends and Perspectives, vol. 5, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Canada.

"'Eat, Sleep, School, Repeat': The Influence of the Dutch Asylum System on the Capabilities and Aspirations of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Adolescents During Their Transition to Adulthood," Children & Society, Early View, 16 March 2025 [open access]

"Family separation and COVID-19: The impact of international border restrictions on refugees in Australia," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

"'Fox-like. One eye open, one eye closed': Child supervision among Syrian refugee mothers in Canada," Frontiers in Psychology, 1 April 2025 [open access]

"New Data on Unaccompanied Minors in US Immigration Court (2009–2023)," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 28 March 2025 [open access]

"Parent-Child Separation and Plans for Family Reunification after Deportation to Mexico from the United States," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]

"Relational ethics of care in research with young people: reflections from a study with young refugees and their families," Cambridge Journal of Education, Latest Articles, 24 March 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

"'Without family, I do not have a life': transnational family dynamics of unaccompanied refugee adolescents," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 21 March 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on The Netherlands.

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08 April 2025

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Altruism, Ethnic Identity, and the Limits of Shared Hardship," Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, FirstView, 21 March 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on "formerly displaced ethnic Serbs’ reactions to Syrian refugees traveling along the Balkan route."

"Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television," Media, Culture & Society, OnlineFirst, 25 March 2025 [open access]

"Community-level drivers of attitudes towards immigration in Ireland," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 7 April 2025 [open access]

"Confession, death and disbelief: interrogating the asylum cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union," Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Latest Articles, 30 March 2025 [open access]

"Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Research with Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Youth in European Cities," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 4 (March 2025) [open access]

"Exploring hospitality, hostility and (un)home in accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK," Hospitality & Society, vol. 15, nos. 1-2 (March 2025) [postprint]

"Loneliness among refugees in Germany: On the significance of flight, host country conditions and personality traits," Journal of Public Health, Latest Articles, 1 April 2025 [open access]

"Long Marginalized, Roma Displaced from Ukraine Have Faced Further Exclusion," Migration Information Source, 26 March 2025 [text]

"Multi-stakeholder knowledge exchange events as a tool of migration infrastructure: evidence from the North West of England," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 4 April 2025 [open access]

"Navigating Displacement: The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis in Europe," Global Networks, vol. 25, no. 2 (April 2025) [open access]
- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"The populist far right paradox: the identification of the enemy and its exceptions in the immigration policies of the Meloni government in Italy," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:17 (March 2025) [open access]

"Unveiling Subtle (Negative) Attitudes Towards Immigration in Spain in the Post-COVID Era: Challenges for Policymakers," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 7 April 2025 [open access]

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Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Between Law and Reality: the Challenges for Palestinian Refugees in Bulgaria (ENS Blog, March 2025) [text]

Conflicting realities: mapping discrepancies in migrant deaths data on the Atlantic route (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2025) [text]

Migrant offshoring: the EU's plan to deport more rejected asylum seekers under scrutiny (InfoMigrants, April 2025) [text]
- See also related statement from several EU-funded research projects.

Migrants in Limbo: The inefficacy of Italy’s migrant housing framework (Refugee Research Online, April 2025) [text]

Money, not Protection: How Assisted Return Programmes Influence Refugee Status Determination (RLI Blog, March 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Germany.

What Britons and Europeans really think about immigration – new analysis (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.**

Reports:

Catalogue of EUAA Judicial Publications: Reference material for members of courts and tribunals (EU Agency for Asylum, March 2025) [text]

Country Reports (AIDA, March & April 2025) 
- See updated profiles for Bulgaria and the UK.

Looking Forward: The Alliance of Ukrainian CSOs (Refugees International, March 2025) [text]

Public preferences for policies vis-à-vis irregular migrants in Europe: the roles of policy design and context (European University Institute, April 2025) [text]
- See also related Forbes article.

Refugee migration, unemployment and anti-asylum attitudes: Evidence from the 1990s Yugoslav refugee crisis, IRENE Working Paper, no. 3 (Univ. of Neuchâtel, March 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Switzerland.

Threadbare: The Quality of Immigration Legal Aid (Migrants Organise, March 2025) [text via EIN]
- Focuses on the UK.

Unhoused and Unheard: How Belgium’s persistent failure to provide reception violates asylum seekers’ rights (Amnesty International, April 2025) [access]

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07 April 2025

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (Reprod. & Maternal Health)

Journal articles, focusing on reproductive & maternal health:

"Breastfeeding Practices and Exclusive Breastfeeding among Syrian Refugee Mothers in Jordanian Host Communities," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 11 (2025) [open access]

"Determinants of institutional delivery service utilization among internally displaced vulnerable populations in Benadir region, Somalia: A community based cross-sectional study," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 11 (2025) [open access]

"Investigating the impact of armed conflict, cultural factors, and demographic characteristics on access to family planning services in Northwest Syria: a cross-sectional study," BMC Health Services Research, 25:489 (April 2025) [open access]

"Leveraging telemedicine to explore contraceptive use and attitudes among refugee women: an observational cross-sectional analysis," BMJ Open, vol. 15, no. 3 (March 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Pakistan.

"Menstrual hygiene management among girls and women refugees in Africa: a scoping review," Conflict and Health, 19:20 (March 2025) [open access]

"Reproductive agency and the acceptability of divorce, abortion, and homosexuality among migrants from the Middle East and Africa living in Sweden: a cross-sectional analysis," International Journal for Equity in Health, 24:53 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"Reproductive Coercion and Abuse Among Forcibly Displaced Populations Worldwide: Evidence from a Systematic Review," Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, OnlineFirst, 18 March 2025 [open access]


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Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

CFP: Symposium on Gender, Displacement, and Islamic Philanthropy: Advancing Humanitarian Innovation, Birmingham, UK, 8-9 September 2025 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 10 April 2025.

Seminar: ‘Safe Countries’ and Women’s International Protection, Online, 7 May 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

From Refugee Recognition to Accountability: Can the ECJ’s Landmark Ruling Shape the ICC’s Approach to Gender Persecution in Afghanistan? (RLI Blog, March 2025) [text]

No Way Home: How an ISIS-era Law Prevents Yazidi Women and Their Children Born of Conflict from Returning to Sinjar, Iraq (Just Security Blog, March 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Addressing the needs of women and girls on the move: Toward an inclusive, intersectional and culturally sensitive approach (Making Aid Work for Displaced Women, March 2025) [text]

"Gender-Based Persecution, Protection, and Particularity: The Case for Returning to Acosta," Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, vol. 43, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"Non-citizen women and visa cancellation: the role of gender in Australia’s current deportation regime under s 501," Griffith Law Review, Latest Articles, 16 Jan. 2025 [open access]
- Note: "s 501" refers to section 501 of the Migration Act 1958.

"'She Didn’t Know [What] She Was Talking About, Because She Was a Woman': The Perspective of Service Providers on Rohingya Refugees’ Adjustment to US Gender Roles," Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, Latest Articles, 2 April 2025 [open access]

"'They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else': Questioning the Idea of 'Refugee Women's' General Vulnerability to Violence," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 26 Feb. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

Through Their Eyes: Experiences of Displaced Sudanese Women and Girls in Eastern Chad (SIPRI, March 2025) [text]

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03 April 2025

New Issues of Alt. Hum., Asyl, EJML, Hum. Exch., Intl. Migr., J. Lat. Am. & Carib. Anthro., JECS, JEMS, Ref. Watch, Routed

*Reminder:  Postprints of articles published in the journals below that are marked with an asterisk can be archived/deposited in a repository immediately after publication (like the Forced Migration Research Archive) - i.e., there is no embargo period! This allows authors to provide open access to their scholarly journal articles without having to pay costly publication fees. Please refer to this earlier blog post for more information. 

Authors of open access articles in these journals are also encouraged to deposit their work in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA). The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website.
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Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 28 (March 2025)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]
- Issue theme is "The Crisis of the Humanitarian Action in the Age of Climate Change."

Asyl, no. 1 (2025) [contents]
- Mix of articles, in English, French or German.

*European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 27, no. 1 (2025) [contents]
- Mix of articles, with three that are open access.

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 86 (March 2025) [full-text]
- Issue theme is "Climate change adaptations in humanitarian programming."

International Migration, vol. 63, no. 2 (April 2025) [contents]
- Mix of articles, with 22 that are open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (2025) [open access]
- Special issue on "Educational Equity for Refugees: Sustainable Practices."

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 7 (2025) [contents]
- Mix of articles, with 11 that are open access.

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 30, no. 1 (March 2025) [contents]
- Includes a special section on the Mexican and Central American migratory landscape. Two articles are open access and one is freely available.

Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, nos. 64 & 65 (June/Dec. 2024) [full-text]
- Special issue on "Teaching Migration: Responding to a Mobile Time."

Routed Magazine, no. 26 (Feb. 2025) [text]
- Themed issue on "Remnants of Covid-19 in a mobile world."

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02 April 2025

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Call for applications: "Climate Migration Futures: Shaping The Research Agenda for 2050," 2025 CRS Summer Course on Refugee Issues, Toronto, 2-6 June 2025 [info]
- Early bird application deadline is 15 April 2025; final deadline is 25 April 2025.

Short pieces:

4 ways to prevent and manage climate migration (World Economic Forum, March 2025) [text]

How the Global Migration Crackdown Affects Climate Finance (Carnegie Endowment for Intl. Peace, March 2025) [text]

Just Security’s Climate Archive [access]
- There are categories for "Migration and Displacement," "Disasters" and "Humanitarianism."

Supporting states with displacement indicators for disaster risk reduction (IDMC Blog, March 2025) [text]

Reports:

Funding Climate Mobility Projects: Key Players and Strategies for Growth (Migration Policy Institute, March 2025) [text]

Guide for Planning Mass Evacuations in Disasters (CCCM Cluster, 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related checklist.

Oral update on ExCom Conclusions (2025 theme: Climate action as relevant to the
activities of UNHCR) - NGO Collective Statement/Written Statement (ICVA, March 2025) [text]

"There’s Just No More Land": Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands (Human Rights Watch, March 2025) [access]

Journal articles:

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 28 (March 2025)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]
- Issue theme is "The Crisis of the Humanitarian Action in the Age of Climate Change."

"Behavioral savings sessions increase the pursuit of solar products among refugees in Uganda," npj Climate Action, 4:32 (March 2025) [open access]

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 86 (March 2025) [full-text]
- Issue theme is "Climate change adaptations in humanitarian programming."

Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 15, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Special issue on "Climate Change and Environmental Displacement."

"Prioritizing involuntary immobility in climate policy and disaster planning," Nature Communications, 16:2581 (March 2025) [open access]

Multimedia:

Climate Change, Migration & Conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 18 March 2025 [access]

Climate Refugees: The Fabrication of a Migration Threat, 26 March 2025 [access]

International Protection in the Context of Climate Change in Africa, 27 Feb. 2025 [access]

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Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

"An RSF atrocity, a mass evacuation, and another side to mutual aid in Sudan," The New Humanitarian, 27 March 2025 [text]

UNHCR: DR Congo crisis deepens as funding cuts hit critical humanitarian aid (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

UNHCR’s Grandi hails launch of Kenya’s landmark refugee inclusion plan (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]
- See also related statement.

Reports:

Escaping Khartoum: Understanding forced displacement, Sudan Brief, no. 1 (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Feb. 2025) [text]

Food insecurity among internally displaced people in Somalia: Trends analysis over time (2017–2024) (FAO & IDMC, March 2025) [text]

Lessons Learned: Anticipating displacement in South Sudan and Burkina Faso (Danish Refugee Council, Dec. 2024; posted March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Risking Their Lives to Survive: Ituri, Land of Violence and Displacement (Médecins Sans Frontières, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Also available in French.

The Shirika Plan: Kenya's bold approach for refugee integration (International Center for Humanitarian Affairs, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Speaking up against EU externalisation: Activist-led migration information campaigns in Senegal, CMI Brief, no. 1 (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Feb. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"The importance of city services to internally displaced persons, returnees, and host residents in Juba, South Sudan," Journal of Urban Affairs, Latest Articles, 17 March 2025 [open access]

"Knowledge, attitude, and perception on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: cross-sectional study among Eritrean refugees in Kampala," Pan African Medical Journal, 49:103 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

"Local Engagement of Nigerians with Neocolonial EU Humanitarian Return Policies: Civic Policing and Awareness-Raising Activities," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 30 March 2025 [open access]

"A mixed-methods nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practices survey of IDPs, returnees, and host community members in four counties of Jonglei state, South Sudan," Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 44:48 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

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01 April 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

Cuts in US development assistance (EPRS, March 2025) [text]

"Decolonise How? To change humanitarian aid, we need to change media coverage too," The New Humanitarian, 25 March 2025 [text]

Defending humanitarian aid in terms of national security obscures its real purpose (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

Europe compounding Trump aid vandalism – Australia must take a different path (The Interpreter Blog, March 2025) [text]

"HNPWhat next?," The New Humanitarian, 27 March 2025 [text]

The Humanitarian Reset, ERC letter to IASC Principals (March 2025) [text]

How Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save? (CGD Blog, March 2025) [text]
- See also related NYT article. 

"Humanitarian data drought: The deeper damage wrought by US aid cuts," The New Humanitarian, 25 March 2025 [text]

[Posts relating to the US Agency for International Development (USAID)] (Center for Global Development Blog, 2025) [access]

Statement by UNHCR’s Filippo Grandi on the impact of global aid cuts on refugees (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]
- See also related InfoMigrants interview and UN News article.

TNH Inklings Newsletter (March 2025)

US aid cuts are a soft power surrender to China (The Interpreter Blog, March 2025) [text]

US isn’t first country to dismantle its foreign aid office − here’s what happened after the UK killed its version of USAID (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

[ACAPS Reports on Implications of USAID Cuts and Funding Freeze]

"Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement," Journal of Global History, FirstView, 24 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Intermediary models to advance locally led humanitarian action (ALNAP, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring," Big Data & Society, 21 March 2025 [open access]

What crisis affected communities need from a humanitarian reset: A guide based on two years of conversations with people on the front lines of crisis (Ground Truth Solutions, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"You Already Know Enough: Certainty and Ignorance in Data-Driven Humanitarianism," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 13 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Resources:

The future of aid (ODI) [access]

US Foreign Aid Funding Cuts & Suspensions: Resources & Updates (ICVA) [access]

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New Book Titles

Please visit my Forced Migration Library blog for references to new books due out in April 2025, as well as additional titles published in March 2025 and new open access texts.
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