Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (30 Sept. 2025)

This is a round-up of open access materials produced by authors based in the Global South (GS) and other geographic areas that are less well-represented in the domain of scholarly forced migration literature. Generally, articles are included if either the lead author or at least half of the co-authors are based in the GS. These references are organized by type of open access. Note that the OA items herein were previously referenced on either this blog or the Forced Migration Library blog as of 1 Sept. 2025.

Authors of the OA materials listed below are encouraged to deposit their work in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA)! The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website.

Bronze OA:

"Financial Inclusion of Refugees: The Role of Trust and Financial Literacy," ORSEA Journal, vol. 15, no. 1 (2025)

- Authors (5) = Uganda

Diamond OA:

"Constraints and Prospects of Faith-Based Refugee Protection in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 11, no. 2 (2025)

- Authors (3) = Kenya

"Cross-Border Solidarity: Migrant-Led Associations as Spaces of Epistemic Resistance and Food Security Innovation in South Africa," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 11, no. 2 (2025)

- Author = South Africa

"Factors Influencing U.S. and Canadian Policy Responses to Ukrainian Refugees," Estudios fronterizos, vol. 26 (2025)

- Authors (2) = Mexico

"From Theory to Classroom: Implementing Translanguaging Pedagogy for Refugee Learners," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 41, no. 1 (2025)

- Authors (2) = Malaysia

"Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Child Trafficking in Wolaita Sodo, Southern Ethiopia: Insights from the Origin Community," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 11, no. 2 (2025)

- Authors (3) = Ethiopia

"Persisting in Dispossession: Palestinian Dialect, Identity, and 75 Years of Exile in Lebanon," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 2 (2025)

- Author = Qatar/Lebanon

"Reflections on Refugee Political Subjectivation: The Case of the Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon," CONfines de Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencia Política, vol. 21, no. 41 (2025)

- Author = Costa Rica

"Rowing Against Climate Adversity and Lack of Family Support: The Everyday Lives of Migrants’ Wives in Rural Mozambique," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 11, no. 2 (2025)

- Authors (2) = Mozambique (lead), US (1)

"Statelessness as an Academic Concern: The Indian Supreme Court’s Engagement with Citizenship Policy in In Re: Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955," Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025) 

- Author = India

"Strengthened or Sidelined? An Evaluation of Pledges to Eradicate Statelessness in the Southern African Development Community," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 11, no. 2 (2025)

- Authors (2) = South Africa

"UNHCR and Statelessness 30 Years On: A Call for Mandate Review and Mandate Equality," Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025)

- Author = Cameroon

"Venezuelan Migration in Colombia: A Critical Literature Review," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 33 (2025)

- Authors (3) = Spain (lead), Chile (1), Colombia (1)

Gold OA:

Note: Article processing charges (APCs) and other fees are indicated below; waivers are generally offered by gold OA journals but the waiver status of the authors listed below is unknown.

"Indonesia and the UNHCR: Different Approaches to East Timorese Refugees in West Timor," SAGE Open, 29 Aug. 2025

- Author = Indonesia

- APC = USD 2100

"Nutritional Vulnerabilities among Rohingya Refugee Children in Cox’s Bazar: A Cross-sectional Analysis," Discover Social Science and Health, 5:125 (Aug. 2025)

- Authors (4) = Bangladesh

- APC = USD 1490

"Opinion Leadership, Threats, and Enhancers to Social Cohesion and Unity of South Africans and African Immigrants in the Post-apartheid Era," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 4 Sept. 2025

- Author = South Africa

- APC = CHF 1175

"Reproductive Health Risks of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Humanitarian Settings of Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis," Conflict and Health, 19:64 (Aug. 2025)

- Authors (10) = Ethiopia

- APC = USD 3290

"Stalled Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees: Diplomatic Hurdles, Regional Politics, and the Path to Sustainable Solutions," Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, vol. 12, no. 3 (Sept. 2025)

- Authors (2) = Bangladesh (lead), Turkey (1)

- APC = USD 1810

"Thailand’s Responses to Asylum Seekers: International Pressures and Domestic Compliance to the Principle of Non-refoulement," Cogent Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 1 (2025)

- Author = Thailand

- APC = USD 2195

"Xenophobic Attacks Against Asylum Seeker, Refugee, and Migrant Entrepreneurs in Atteridgeville, South Africa: A Social Identity Perspective," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 9 (Sept. 2025)

- Authors (3) = South Africa (2, incl. lead), Australia/South Africa (1)

- APC = CHF 1800

Green OA:

"Remittances, Food Insecurity, and Coping Strategies of West African Migrants in Accra, Ghana," Global Food Security, vol. 45 (June 2025)

- Preprint version posted on SSRN

- Authors (6) = Ghana

Hybrid OA:

Note: Article processing charges (APCs) are indicated below; waivers are not available for hybrid OA APCs.

"Cultural Rights and Social Inclusion: Reflections on the Engagement of Refugee Communities in Egyptian Museums," Curator: The Museum Journal, Early View, 13 Aug. 2025

- Authors (2) = Germany/Egypt (lead), Egypt (1)

- APC = USD 2760

Periodical issues:

African Human Mobility Review, vol. 11, no. 2 (2025)

- Mix of articles. Published by the Scalabrini Institute on Human Mobility in Africa and the University of the Western Cape, both based in South Africa.

REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 33 (2025) 

- Features a thematic dossier on "Iniciativas de emprendimiento y autoempleo de migrantes." Articles are published in either English, Portuguese or Spanish. Published by the Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios, based in Brazil.

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- Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (31 Aug. 2025)