29 May 2025

Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

In This Together (UNHCR Innovation Service, May 2025) [text]
- "Ensuring refugees play a substantive role in UNHCR decision-making is a work in progress — and it’s essential for effective, equitable programming."

Pope Leo XIV’s recent predecessors at the Vatican defended migrants. Will he do the same? (The Conversation, May 2025) [text]

Reports:

Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) (Food Security Information Network, May 2025) [access]
- "The report shows conflict, economic shocks, climate extremes, and forced displacement continued to drive food insecurity and malnutrition around the world, with catastrophic impacts on many already fragile regions."

Guidance on Solutions to Internal Displacement (Office of the Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement et al., Feb. 2025) [text]

Navigating migration narratives: Research insights and strategies for effective communication (Publications Office of the European Union, May 2025) [text]

Standard Operating Procedures: Determining the Legal Identity of Migrants Without Proof of Legal Identity (IOM, 2025) [text]

*Supporting Relationships: Refugees and Host Communities (USCRI, May 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Anticipating humanitarian emergencies with a high risk of conflict-induced displacement," International Journal of Forecasting, In Press, 22 May 2025 [preprint]

"Conceptualizing and Measuring Conflict-Related Determinants of Migration," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 26 May 2025 [open access]

"Mapping migration capabilities worldwide," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:31 (May 2025) [open access]

"A scoping review of moral injury in refugees," European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 16, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Two peas in a pod? How to mix methods in ethnic and migration studies," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 17 May 2025 [open access]
- Introduction to forthcoming special issue. Other open access articles that are a part of this collection include: 1) "Behind the scenes: a (self) critical reflection on doing mixed methods"; 2) "Mixed methods, mixed feelings: a review of hurdles faced and vaulting poles to apply when wanting to do and publish mixed methods research"; 3) "Mixing creative and qualitative methods: an appreciative inquiry into responsible knowledge production for engaged scholars"; 4) "Teamwork as the key to mixing methods: lessons from multi-sited research designs"; 5) "Transformation in the use of mixed methods for migration-related research"; and 6) "The why (not) and how (not) of survey to digital footprint linkages: a use-case of ethnic background and social relationships." 

"'Vulnerability': The Trouble with Categorical Definitions in Institutional Ethical Reviews, Forced Migration Research & Humanitarian Practice," Daedalus, vol. 154, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

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