Thematic Focus: Solutions

Opportunity:

CFP: Special Issue Journal Proposal [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue proposal on "Durable Solutions in Motion: Rethinking Return and Belonging from a South-South Perspective" that will be submitted to Comparative Migration Studies. Submit abstracts by 15 August 2025.

Short pieces:

Imagining a new way to do resettlement (Asylum Insight, June 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

"A Never-Ending Visa Queue for Refugees," Scoop News, 23 July 2025 [text]

- Focuses on New Zealand.

UNHCR and IOM Launch Organized Voluntary Return Programme for Syrian refugees in Lebanon (UNHCR, July 2025) [text]

New open access book:

Unequal Access: Categorising Refugees in European Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Programmes (McGill-Queen's University Press, July 2025) [open access]

- "Focusing on Europe and programs admitting people to Germany from Lebanon and Turkey, Natalie Welfens explores multilevel policy developments, from the national to the global. She follows the admission chain – from policy formulation, via refugee selection and pre-departure preparations, to refugee reception – and illustrates how policy categories transform based on intersecting social markers such as nationality, gender, and age. Unequal Access reveals the inequalities embedded in the categorization practices of resettlement and humanitarian admission programs, demonstrating how these practices profoundly shape access to protection for refugees."

Reports:

Forecasting refugee return to Ukraine amid ongoing war and uncertainty (Brunel University London & UNHCR, July 2025) [access]

Global Refugee Resettlement: Background and Selected Issues (US Congressional Research Service, July 2025) [text]

A Way Forward as Aid Cuts Threaten Progress for Refugee Integration in Kenya (Refugees International, July 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Accessing social networks and support for Syrian refugees across Canada: categories and processes," Études canadiennes/Canadian Studies, no. 98 (2025) [full-text]

"Belonging After Empire: Displacement and Resettlement of Ugandan Asians and Vietnamese Refugees in Postcolonial Britain," Webster Review of International History, vol. 5, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 48, no. 12 (2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Refugee Resettlement as an Institution." The introduction is freely available and seven articles are open access.

"Harnessing Possibilities and Synergies to Refugee Complementary Migration Pathways in Australia," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 18 July 2025 [open access]

"How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 27 July 2025 [open access]

"'I’m not Swedish, I’m not Arab, I’m a mother': narratives of fragile (un)belonging in a postmigrant society," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 24 July 2025 [open access]

"Legitimizing Integration Policies: National and Local Perspectives on Refugee Integration in Norway," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 28 July 2025 [open access] 

"Successful Establishment Requirements within Canada’s Refugee Resettlement System: Historic Trajectory and Implications," Études canadiennes/Canadian Studies, no. 98 (2025) [full-text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (21 July 2025)