28 April 2025

Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

Empowering development through data on forced displacement (Data Blog, April 2025) [text]

Europe Sanitizes, Africa Exposes: The Visual Politics of Irregular Migration (MPC Blog, April 2025) [text]

Pope Francis, tireless defender of migrants around the world (InfoMigrants, April 2025) [text]

Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi to the Security Council (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

Reports:

2024 Public Health Global Review (UNHCR, April 2025) [access]

Annual Global Overview of Migration Routes 2024 (IOM, April 2025) [text]
- This report "aims to provide a global snapshot of migration in 2024 from a route-based perspective. This approach investigates routes across national and regional boundaries, requiring a multi-country perspective and holistic view of human mobility, which considers people at origin, in transit, and at their destinations."

Bibliometric Analysis of Refugee Policy Research: Mapping the Subfield (LERRN, April 2025) [text]

Strengthening the Participation of Internally Displaced Persons: Workshop Report (McGill Univ. et al., April 2025) [access via LERRN]
- Available in English, French, Spanish, and Ukrainian; also links to videos of the IDP leaders who presented at the workshop.

Journal articles:

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Special issue on "Migration Research and Policy: Bridging the Divide in an Era of Complexity."

"The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s," The Historical Journal, FirstView, 17 April 2025 [open access]

"Why Should Organizational Scholars Study Migration," Organization Science, Ahead of Print, 22 April 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

ECOSOC Special Meeting on "Forced Displacement and Refugee Protection," 24 April 2025 [access]
- Follow link for the agenda, concept note, statements, and a video recording of the meeting. 

Global South Perspective on Internally Displaced Persons, 13 Feb. 2025 [access]

Refugee Protection and the Narrative of Possibility: A Talk with Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 10 April 2025 [access]
- See also related KCL news release.

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