New book:
Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees (McGill-Queen's University Press, Sept. 2025) [open access]
- This book "is a rich oral history based on interviews with 145 former refugees, sharing deeply moving accounts of oppression, concentration camps, genocide, and perilous escapes over land and sea. Survivors reflect on their first impressions of Canada – the unfamiliar snow and cold, the unexpected kindness of neighbours, and occasional encounters with racism. Through their experiences, we come to understand the strengths and weaknesses of Canada’s refugee programs. These stories reveal how refugees’ attachment to Canada grew over the years and how multiculturalism policies facilitated that. Ordinary Canadians played a decisive role in the first mass refugee movement through newly created private sponsorship programs – a role for which the United Nations awarded the Nansen Medal to the Canadian people in 1986."
- Note: This book has been made "available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South, where the majority of forced migration unfolds, whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books, as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book, or the resources needed to purchase these publications." Please refer to the access conditions in the bibliographic record.
Reports:
4Mi Cities Montevideo: Diagnosis of integration experiences in Montevideo (Mixed Migration Centre, Sept. 2025) [access]
- Available in English and Spanish.
Evaluation of the Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund (UK Home Office, Sept. 2025) [text]
Poner fin al desplazamiento forzado prolongado: integración local, retorno y reubicación (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Colombia.
Refugee Integration Outcomes (RIO) Insights: Embarks, Economic Activity, and Housing between 2015 and 2021 (UK Home Office et al., Sept. 2025) [text]
Refugee Resettlement for Fiscal Year 2026: Refugee Populations At-Risk (Human Rights First, Sept. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US.
Shaping the future of community sponsorship in the UK and beyond: expanding pathways for refugee resettlement (Univ. of Birmingham, Sept. 2025) [access]
What Drives Refugees' Return After Conflict?, Working Paper, no. 12118 (CESifo, Oct. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Ukrainians in Europe. See also related press release.
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