Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Reports & book chapters:

Leaving No Child Behind: Childhood Statelessness and the Fight for Inclusive Education (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, April 2025) [text]

"Statelessness in Asia: Causes, Conditions, and Challenges in Context," Introductory chapter in Statelessness in Asia (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2025) [free full-text]

Journal articles:

"Accounting for the stateless: Indian Tamils and the historical construction of racial inequality in Sri Lanka," Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 38, no. 9 (2025) [open access]

"Intersectionality as method for human rights research: Identifying who is made stateless and how through UN treaty body reviews," Journal of Human Rights, vol. 24, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Life without identity: The invisible socio-political and humanitarian faces of statelessness," Ordu Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi = ODU Journal of Social Sciences, vol. 15, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Nationality Laws in Ethiopia and Eritrea: Overview of Evolution, Attainments and Gaps," Mizan Law Review, vol. 19, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives," Citizenship Studies, Latest Articles, 31 March 2025 [open access]

- Highlights case studies from the Caribbean.

"The problem with the Comoros solution: affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon," Citizenship Studies, Latest Articles, 19 March 2025 [ResearchGate]

- See also related ECDHR post.

"The spectre of statelessness," International Theory, FirstView, 14 April 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Hong Kong.

"Statelessness as a Political-Existential Predicament in the Lives and Writings of Three German-Jewish Intellectuals," The Historical Journal, First View, 15 April 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (18 April 2025)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

A call for the ratification of the AU Protocol on Nationality and Statelessness in Africa (Lawyers for Human Rights et al., April 2025) [text]

Interview with Marin Roman, Coordinator of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness Secretariat (ENS, March 2025) [text]

Nicaragua's stateless people seek justice (Global Voices, April 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish. See also related post on Nicaraguan journalists.

No Country to Call Home: the Hidden Crisis of Statelessness in the UK and beyond (ENS Blog, April 2025) [text]

Pro Bono in Flight: Defending the Right to Board for Stateless People, Refugees (PILnet, March 2025) [text]

Statelessness and the Rewriting of Rights: The Legal Development in Sweden as a Case in Point (EJIL: Talk Blog, April 2025) [text]

Statelessness in South Africa (Blog on the Move, April 2025) [text]

"Suspension of Citizenship" in the Hungarian Constitution: On Statelessness, Bull**** and Authoritarian Lawmaking (EJIL: Talk Blog, March 2025) [text]

Transforming lives through statistics – the Kenyan Citizenship journey (Statistics Norway, April 2025) [text]

The Trump Administration’s 14th Amendment Retcon: ‘Wong Kim Ark’ Does Not Limit Birthright Citizenship (Just Security Blog, March 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Chinese. See also related blog post.

Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship and the impact of the foreign aid funding freeze on statelessness work (ISI, April 2025) [text]

Weaponizing Identity Documents: The Human Right to Legal Identity for Stateless Peoples (DJILP Bulletin, April 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the Rohingya.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (24 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: Education

Focus on the US:

European institutions target ‘scientific asylum-seekers’ from US (The Hill, March 2025) [text]

- See also related news story in Science and post on Phys.org.

The Fight for Immigrant Students’ Education: Policies, Barriers, and What’s at Stake (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2025) [text]

Immigration Enforcement Actions Against International Students (AILA, April 2025) [text]

International Student Visas Revoked (Inside Higher Ed) [access]

- This resource tracks academic institutions whose students have had their legal status changed by the State Dept. As of today, the number is 1400-plus students.

Schools and Immigrant Students Navigate an Era of Rising Immigration Enforcement (Migration Policy Institute, April 2025) [text]

"Some foreign college students are being targeted for deportation. What rights do they have?," ABC News, 31 March 2025 [text]

Targeting Pro-Palestinian Students (and Why That’s Bad for the Jews) (The Asylumist Blog, April 2025) [text]

US: End Campaign of Draconian Campus Arrests (Human Rights Watch, April 2025) [text]

Reports:

Educational challenges in refugee camps in Turkana County, Kenya: a brief literature review (Aries Consult, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

International Student Mobility: A Post-Pandemic Reset or a Broader Challenge? (Migration Policy Institute, April 2025) [text]

Leaving No Child Behind: Childhood Statelessness and the Fight for Inclusive Education (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, April 2025) [text]

Wise in 5: Language Education for Refugees and Migrants in the UK and Ireland (Open Univ., ) [text]

Journal articles:

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Educational Equity for Refugees: Sustainable Practices." 

PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment, no. 11 (2025) 

- Includes three articles that focus on recognizing prior learning credentials of migrants/refugees: 1) "Charting a Course Forward: Bringing the Top-Down and the Bottom-Up Together in Recognition, Validation, and Accreditation (RVA) for Migrants and Refugees"; 2) "Measuring Democracy in Design for Migrant and Refugee Skills Recognition"; and 3) "South Africa: Validation, Flexible Pathways and Systems, Inclusivity, Mobility."

"Refugee education for living well in a world worth living in," Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, Latest Articles, 19 March 2025 [open access]

Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, nos. 64 & 65 (June/Dec. 2024) [full-text]

- Special issue on "Teaching Migration: Responding to a Mobile Time."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (24 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

"Aligning" aid: Which interests and whose interests? (The Interpreter Blog, April 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Can Innovation Help Blunt the Impact of Foreign Aid Cuts on Migration Management Programs? (Migration Policy Institute, April 2025) [text]

Global First Responders: What UNHCR does when emergencies strike (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

"OCHA, the UN’s emergency aid coordination arm, to cut staff by a fifth," The New Humanitarian, 11 April 2025 [text]

Shelter from the Storm: Building Dignified and Resilient Shelters for Refugees (Wilson Center, April 2025) [text]

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts (Boston Univ., March 2025) [text]

- See also related Nature report ($).

"Trump cuts leave aid agencies with pivotal decisions on humanitarian logistics," The New Humanitarian, 3 April 2025 [text]

"UN High Commissioner for Refugees warns that deprioritising international aid will lead to global 'insecurity and instability'," King’s College London News, 11 April 2025 [text]

- Includes video recording of the HC's address.

"The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a ‘death sentence’," AP News, 8 April 2025 [text]

- See also related NYT and Reuters articles and comment published in Nature .

The USAID Fait Accompli (CGD Blog, April 2025) [text]

- See also related Goats and Soda blog post.

"What new funding data tells us about donor decisions in 2025," The New Humanitarian, 17 April 2025 [text]

"White House proposes drastic cuts to State Department and funding for UN, NATO and other groups," AP News, 14 April 2025 [text]

- See also related NYT article. 

"Why a reset is not reform," TNH Inklings Newsletter, 16 April 2025 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Effects of COVID-19 on international organizations, humanitarian action, and human rights," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:7 (April 2025) [open access]

Humanitarian Organisations’ Use of Money Service Providers (Norwegian Refugee Council, April 2025) [text]

Lives in Dignity: Lessons from Applying Development-Oriented Approaches in Forced Displacement Contexts (European Commission & UNOPS, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Our interconnected humanitarian data and analysis ecosystem: resilience, reckoning? (HPN, April 2025) [text]

Practice Note: Continuity of Protection in Humanitarian Coordination Transitions (Norwegian Refugee Council & Protection Cluster, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective (Wiley, 2025) [access]

- Chapters from this forthcoming e-book are being serialised on Global Policy.

UK aid: Reducing spending to 0.3% of GNI by 2027/28 (UK House of Commons Library, April 2025) [text]

- See also related CGD blog post and article in The Independent.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (1 April 2025)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (Focus on Sudan)

Short pieces:

"Eight stories about mutual aid to mark two years of war in Sudan," The New Humanitarian, 15 April 2025 [access]

EU and UNHCR joint event on the regional impact of the war in Sudan: "Eyes on Sudan’s neighbours: prospects for strengthening localised response" - Co-Chairs’ summary (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

High Commissioner's remarks at the Sudan Conference, London, 15 April 2025 [text]

"Sudan in-depth: Aid efforts blocked and weaponised amid sweeping cuts and army gains," The New Humanitarian, 11 April 2025 [text]

Two years of war in Sudan: a devastating combination of record displacement and dwindling aid (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

- See also related press release.

Reports & journal articles:

The Cost of Neglect: Two years of war in Sudan (International Rescue Committee, April 2025) [text]

"Displacement-related stressors in a Sudanese war-affected community; identifying the impact of war exposure and ongoing stressors on trauma symptom severity: a national multi-center cross-sectional study," BMC Public Health, 25:1325 (April 2025) [open access]

Generating evidence-based solutions for strengthening humanitarian response and economic resilience (IFPRI, April 2025) [text]

"Sudan: A nation divided, a people displaced," Journal of Social Encounters, vol. 9, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

Sudan crisis, two years on: The unraveling of the world’s largest humanitarian disaster from the Sahel to the Red Sea (FONGA et al., April 2025) [text via NRC]

Two Years of Conflict in Sudan: Visualizing the World's Largest Displacement Crisis (IOM, April 2025) [text]

Two years of war in Sudan: An updated picture of the humanitarian impact (IMPACT Initiatives, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"We have nothing to go back to": Two years of devastation in Sudan - A focus on the humanitarian crisis affecting millions of Sudanese inside and outside Sudan (ICRC, April 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (17 March 2025)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Africa’s refugee camps are plagued by flooding: we looked into drainage systems that can withstand local conditions (The Conversation, April 2025) [text]

Psychosocial wellbeing: An overlooked dimension in the lives of refugees and host communities in Kenya (Nasikiliza Blog, April 2025) [text]

UNHCR Southern Africa Director Stresses Regional Cooperation to Address Humanitarian Challenges During High-Level Consultative Visit to SADC (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

UNHCR welcomes the release of eight refugees and asylum-seekers in Agadez (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

Voices of Resilience: Inspiration and Challenges of Refugee Leadership in Kakuma (LERRN Blog, April 2025) [text]

Reports:

Exploring the Implementation of the 2019 Global Refugee Forum Pledges by the Government of Kenya: A Case Study of the Dadaab Refugee Camps (LERRN, March 2025) [text]

Key Insights from Route-based Research Along the Main Migratory Routes in East and Horn of Africa (IOM, 2025) [text]

The Role of Mid-Transit Cities as Migration Hubs: A Brief Literature Review, Research Paper, no. 7 (Aries Consult, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Unsafe and Overcrowded: The Shelter Crisis Facing Displaced Families in Tigray (Shelter Cluster, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Addis Ababa as a City (e)scape of Refugee Resilience: A Trialectical Perspective," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 40, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Real ethics has dirty feet – data collector perspectives on risk exposure during data collection in conflict-affected Eastern DRC," Conflict and Health, 19:21 (April 2025) [open access]

"Securitization is (normal) politics: Epistemological insights from Kenya’s forced migration and security experience," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 2025) [open access]

"Severe Repression in Eritrea Has Prompted Decades of Exodus," Migration Information Source, 9 April 2025 [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (2 April 2025)

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

Short course: Palestinian Refugee Issues, Cairo, 25-28 May 2025 [info]

- Apply by 15 May 2025.

Short pieces:

*Besieged, Humanitarian Access Snapshot #11 (ActionAid et al., April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Don’t look away (The New Humanitarian) [access]

- Series of first person articles by Palestinians in Gaza.

"Gaza: Acts of war bear hallmarks of atrocity crimes, warn UN humanitarians," UN News, 28 March 2025 [text]

- See also related OHCHR briefing note.

New Israeli Guidelines Threaten to Eliminate Humanitarian Action in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Almost Entirely (Just Security Blog, April 2025) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Palestine Red Crescent urges probe into Israel’s killing of aid workers, seeks missing staffer (JURIST News, April 2025) [text]

"Tunisia dismantles sub-Saharan migrant camps and forcibly deports some," Reuters, 5 April 2025 [text]

Tunisia: Hundreds of migrants intercepted at sea are nowhere to be found (InfoMigrants, April 2025) [text]

UNHCR: Needs intensify as 400,000 Syrians return (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

- Note: References the "Syria is Home" digital information platform, which provides "timely and impartial information on the return process including legal steps, identification documents, access to housing, health care, education and more." 

UNHCR Commends Egyptian Government for Extending Refugee Residence Permits to One Year (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

New open access book:

"Suis-je un réfugié?" Les stratégies de survie de Syriens dans les espaces urbains en Turquie et en Jordanie (Presses de l’Inalco, 2024; OA in April 2025) [open access]

- "Entre 2011 et 2024, plus de 6 millions de personnes ont dû quitter la Syrie. Une grande partie d’entre elles se sont réfugiées dans les pays voisins, notamment en Turquie et en Jordanie. En s’appuyant sur de nombreux entretiens et sur une observation critique des organisations humanitaires qu’elle a pu rejoindre, l’autrice rend compte des stratégies de survie adoptées par les individus en exil dans ces deux pays. S’ils subissent des discriminations du fait de leur statut, ces dernières ne sont pas les mêmes pour tous puisqu’elles se croisent avec d’autres dimensions de leur identité. Leurs stratégies de survie sont donc elles-mêmes traversées par des rapports sociaux de race, de classe et de genre. Alors que la chute du régime de Bachar al-Assad a suscité l’espoir d’un retour, mais aussi la crainte de la remise en question de leur statut pour de nombreux réfugiés syriens, ce livre vise à rendre compte de l’expérience de l’exil dans toute sa complexité."

Reports:

Displaced Communities, Forgotten People: Israel’s Forcible Transfer of Palestinians in the West Bank (Physicians for Human Rights, April 2025) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Available in English, Arabic and Hebrew.

Expansion of the Gaza Buffer Zone: Strategic Patterns and Humanitarian Impact (SARI Global, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

From Libya to Syria: Navigating Displacement Crises Post-Regime (USCRI, April 2025) [text]

Guidance for Humanitarian Aid Workers Negotiating the Stay of IDPs on Private Land in Gaza (Global Protection Cluster, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Internally Displaced Persons in Lebanon: Perspectives on Return and Future Intentions (IOM, March 2025) [text]

Protection Landscape in Syria: A Snapshot (Global Protection Cluster, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Situation Report on International Migration in the Arab Region 2025 - Migration-development nexus: pathways to prosperity (UN ESCWA & IOM, April 2025) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Available in English and Arabic.

Syrians Barometer 2023: A Framework for achieving social cohesion with Syrians in Turkey (MÜGAM & UNHCR, Aug. 2024; posted April 2025) [text]

- See earlier editions here.

Untraceable: Border practices and enforced disappearance in Morocco (ASGI & Univ. of Genoa, March 2025) [access]

Journal articles:

"Are We All Post Traumatic Yet? A Critical Narrative Review of Trauma Among Arab Refugees," International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, OnlineFirst, 13 April 2025 [open access]

- "Our article reviews conceptual articles from the last three decades that propose alternative frameworks to understand trauma and traumatic stress among Arab refugees in the Arab region."

"Return of Syrians: Myth or Reality," Border Crossing, vol. 15, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Turkey.

Resource:

Protecting the Human Rights of Migrants at Sea: A Course on the International Law of Maritime Jurisdiction, Interception, and Search and Rescue for the Middle East and North Africa - Facilitator’s Guide (IOM, Feb. 2024) [access]

- See also related e-course.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (28 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

Bringing Refugee Issues to the UN in New York (LERRN, April 2025) [text]

Civilians in Conflict (Data) (ecoi.net Blog, March 2025) [text]

Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action Seminar Highlights the Importance of Data-driven Responses, Policy Coordination, and Inclusive Programming (JICA Ogata Research Institute, April 2025) [text]

Politicians’ attacks on immigrants lack solid evidence: New data set the record straight (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

UNHCR: Funding cuts threaten the health of nearly 13 million displaced people (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

New open access books:

The International Politics of Migration: Interstate Relations and the Peoples Who Cross Borders (Springer, Feb. 2025) [open access]

- "This open access book discusses the impact of cross-border migration on the relationships between sovereign states. While there is already a vast amount of literature on immigration, it often focuses on issues such as human rights, citizenship, and social integration, reflecting the contemporary interests of Western countries. However, as long as the most fundamental norm of international politics remains the mutual recognition of exclusive jurisdictional rights over territory by sovereign states, people crossing borders pose various challenges to this system of sovereign states. It is this awareness of the issue that makes this book unique."

New Directions in South-South Migration (Springer, April 2025) [open access]

- "This open access book...explores crucial migration themes such as migrant integration in urban areas, migration and rural transformation, urban migration policy environment, migration corridors, and migrant precarity and survival, especially food security. It features contributions from eminent scholars in the Global South, namely, Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean and the Middle East. Chapters in the book present theoretical perspectives and practical case studies building on the results of detailed surveys, in-depth interviews, field observations and other materials. The book highlights new findings and research outputs from recent and ongoing collaborative projects between multiple researchers from the Global South and North."

Reports & journal articles:

"International Organisations Are People, Too: IOM’s Role as Coordinator of the UN Migration Network and the Socialisation of International Organisations," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 16 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"Migration governance between sovereignty, security and rights: An analysis of the literature," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

Migration Governance in Unsettled Times: How Policymakers Can Plan for Population Change (Migration Policy Institute, April 2025) [text]

"Political geographies of everyday life and agency in camps," Political Geography, vol. 119 (May 2025) [open access]

"The Power of Passports: How Paper Booklets Became Tools of Global Stratification," Migration Information Source, 1 April 2025 [text]

"Rethinking the International Organization for Migration," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 25 March 2025 [free full-text]

- Introduction to a forthcoming special issue on IOM.

Service Integration and Case Management for People on the Move: A Review of Selected International Practices, Working Paper, no. 197750 (World Bank, March 2025) [text]

Note: Watch for the launch of the 2025 Launch of the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID), which will be published on 13 May 2025.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (26 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

AI in humanitarian missions: Opportunities and challenges (Young Voices Blog, March 2025) [text]

Digital humanitarians: the ITHACA project (UNHCR Blog, April 2025) [text]

Digital Work and Refugees: How Businesses Can Tackle Poverty and Displacement Through Opportunity (Business Fights Poverty, April 2025) [text]

*Press start (UNHCR Innovation Service, April 2025) [text]

- Focuses on gaming in North Macedonia.

Smarter refugee surveys for a more effective humanitarian response (UNHCR Innovation Service, April 2025) [text]

"US immigration officials look to expand social media data collection," AP News, 30 March 2025 [text]

Journal articles:

"Ethical implications related to processing of personal data and artificial intelligence in humanitarian crises: a scoping review," BMC Medical Ethics, 26:49 (April 2025) [open access]

"Fratelli Tutti and Social Media: Solidarity and Social Networks Among Locals and Urban Refugees in Kampala, Uganda," Journal of Social Encounters, vol. 9, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"How Insider-Led Processes Lead to Localization: The Case of Digital Technology and Humanitarian Protection," Global Studies Quarterly, vol. 5, no 1 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

"Interoperability and the multiple modes of ordering in Europe's digital border regime," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

"IOM's WAKA Well unravelled: A multimodal discourse analysis of an internet-based migration-information campaign," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

"'Managing' the paradox: refugee self-reliance and solving the problem of refugee policy discontinuity," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 23 March 2025 [open access]

- "[W]e draw on recent empirical studies to examine how increased access to digital technology can paradoxically lead to less access and agency in relation to health and financial services for refugees and less integration into host community life. "

"Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon's digital humanitarian infrastructures," Big Data & Society, 18 March 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (19 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Short pieces:

Achieving the goal of 27,000 places in the Humanitarian Program (Refugee Council of Australia et al., March 2025) [text]

The Cost of Escape: How IOM Travel Loans Burden Refugees (RLI Blog, March 2025) [text]

Court Orders Government to Comply with Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit Challenging Refugee Ban (IRAP, April 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Increased returns to the Central African Republic signal hope for lasting solutions (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

"Local research to inform longer integration needs of refugees," Brattleboro Reformer, 7 April 2025 [text]

- Focuses on the US.

ORR shortens refugee assistance from 12 to 4 months (EPI, April 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Reports & journal articles:

9th Migration Observatory Report: "Immigrant Integration in Europe" (Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto & Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, March 2025) [text]

"Allowing time to piece the puzzle together: experiences of Norwegian service providers in supporting the empowerment of refugees with limited formal education," European Journal of Social Work, Latest Articles, 21 March 2025 [open access]

"The citizenship-integration nexus from below: migrants’ understanding of citizenship acquisition as a pathway to integration in Italy and Spain," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 21 March 2025 [open access]

"Emotion regulation and attitudes toward FARC-EP ex-combatants and Venezuelan migrants: effects of a reappraisal training," BMC Psychology, 13:359 (April 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Colombia.

Making a New Journey: Comparing the Settlement Experiences of Adult and Child Refugees in Atlantic Canada, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 17785 (Institute of Labor Economics, March 2025) [text]

"Navigating a Paradox: Well-Being and Dimensions of (Non-)Belonging of Syrian Refugees in Austria," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 26 March 2025 [open access]

"Research with Refugees: Working with Ethnic Community-Based Organizations," Geographical Review, vol. 114, no. 5 (2024) [ResearchGate]

- Focuses on the US.

"Resettlement of the first wave of Syrian refugees in Canada: Language training, employment-related services and employment income," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1 (21 March 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2 (ERS Special Issue) (21 March 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

As Criminal Violence Grows, Ecuadorians Escape Internally: A Government Stance on Displacement is Pending (Researching Internal Displacement, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Part of a series on "Internal Displacement in the Context of Organised Criminal Violence." Note: A compilation of all five contributions is available here, along with a call for future contributions to the series.

"As Trump ends asylum, is Mexico a viable alternative for those left stranded?," The New Humanitarian, 3 April 2025 [text]

- See also an earlier related TNH article.

Crossing the entire world for a better life: Extracontinental migration in the Americas (Doctors without Borders, April 2025) [text]

Governance in Transit: Migration Control and Cartel Power in the Darién Gap (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2025) [text]

"How Latin American countries should counter Trump’s migration crackdown," The New Humanitarian, 1 April 2025 [text]

"How Trump's US aid freeze stymied Colombia’s immigration system," Al Jazeera, 17 March 2025 [text]

Letters to the governments of Costa Rica and Panama urge countries to address injustices relating to U.S. return scheme (Human Rights First, et al., March 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

"Rise in asylum seekers crossing into Quebec as U.S. revokes status of thousands of migrants," CBC News, 8 April 2025 [text]

"What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced," Time Magazine, 21 March 2025 [text]

**Visit the weekly Americas Migration Brief for a much more extensive round-up of news and publications.

Reports & journal articles:

De la hospitalidad al control: ¿Securitización de la migración en Perú? (Encuentros Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"A Deportation Boomerang? Evidence from U.S. Removals to Latin America and the Caribbean," Demography, Advance Publication, 26 March 2025 [open access]

"Emotion regulation and attitudes toward FARC-EP ex-combatants and Venezuelan migrants: effects of a reappraisal training," BMC Psychology, 13:359 (April 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Colombia.

"Health in Transit: A case study on the migratory trajectories of Haitian populations in Chile and Mexico," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 11 (2025) [open access]

"Impacts of COVID-19 on Venezuelan migrants in the Andean corridor," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

Observaciones: Visita de trabajo a Panamá (Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, April 2025) [text]

- "El objetivo de la visita fue observar la situación de las personas en el contexto de la movilidad humana en tránsito por Panamá, desde un enfoque regional, así como recibir información sobre las medidas adoptadas por el Estado para la protección de los derechos humanos de esta población."

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (19 March 2025)

Regional Focus: United States

Opportunities:

Symposium: Defending Hope: Immigration Law Under the 2025 Trump Administration, Davis, CA, 18 April 2025 [info]

- Organized by Immigration and Nationality Law Review.

Webinar: Immigration Actions in First 100 Days of Trump Second Term, 24 April 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Asylum Fraud is Real, But It’s Not What You Think (The Asylumist Blog, April 2025) [text]

- " I am speaking here about the fraud perpetrated by the Asylum Office itself. How can the Asylum Office commit fraud, you ask? By pretending to fairly adjudicate asylum applications while at the same time, making it impossible for asylum seekers to properly present their cases–that’s how."

Here’s Where Trump’s Deportations are Sending Migrants (Council of Foreign Relations, April 2025) [text]

"Judge halts Trump administration from ending humanitarian parole for people from 4 countries," CBS News, 10 April 2025 [text]

- See also related Immigration Impact blog post and Refugees International explainer.

Protected No More – How States Are Responding to Immigration Enforcement in Sensitive Locations (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2025) [text]

Trump authorizes military use of public land along southern border (The Hill, April 2025) [text]

Trump is Trying to Deter Us from Representing Immigrants in Court. It Won’t Work (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2025) [text]

"Trump Wants to ‘Terminate’ Legal Immigrants’ Social Security Numbers," Rolling Stone, 10 April 2025 [text]

Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans to El Salvador sparks legal questions likely to reach the Supreme Court (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

- See also related update on court actions posted on ImmigrationProf Blog and an Immigration Impact blog post. An unfolding parallel development involves a Salvadoran who was erroneously deported to El Salvador; see update from CNN.

Visa Revocations Disregard South Sudan War Risks, Overlook U.S. Communities’ Embrace of Refugees (Just Security Blog, April 2025) [text]

"What Rights Do Immigrants Have?," New York Times, 9 April 2025 [text]

When Did the Betrayal Begin? (Lawfare, March 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Afghans.

Reports:

The Alien Enemy Act: History and Potential Use to Remove Members of International Criminal Cartels (Congressional Research Service, April 2025) [text]

Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper, no. 49 (Univ. of Chicago, April 2025) [text]

Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Alien Children at Ports of Entry: An Analysis of Processing and Processing Capacity (Rand, April 2025) [text]

The Impact of U.S. Immigration and Border Externalization Policies on Haitian and Other Black Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Migrants (Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

The New Registration Requirement: Frequently Asked Questions (ILRC, April 2025) [text]

Noncitizen Access to Legal Counsel in Immigration Court Differs by Language Spoken (TRAC, April 2025) [text]

Primer on U.S. Immigration Policy (Congressional Research Service, March 2025) [text]

Trump Immigrant Removals Now 10 Percent Below Biden’s Record (TRAC, March 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times (Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility) [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (27 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Detaining the "Other" (Völkerrechtsblog, Feb. 2025) [text]

High Court ruling reinforces prolonged and indefinite detention practices, violating Australia’s international obligations (Amnesty International, April 2025) [text]

"How Guantánamo Bay Figures in the Trump Immigration Crackdown," New York Times, 4 April 2025 [text]

- See also related Yahoo article on costs.

Immigration detention practices and policies in Latin America: the impact of Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ decision in Vélez-Loor v. Panama (RLI Blog, March 2025) [text]

"Out of Sight and Out of Mind": Norway’s Failure to Reform its Treatment of Immigration Detainees (Immigration Detention Monitor, Feb. 2025) [text]

Panama: A "Bridge: Serving Trump’s Sweeping Deportation Plans (Immigration Detention Monitor, March 2025) [text]

United States and El Salvador: A Scheme to Deport Migrants from the US to a "Human Rights Black Hole" (Immigration Detention Monitor, April 2025) [text]

- See also related CNN and Politico articles and posts on The Conversation and Human Rights Watch.

Reports & journal articles:

"Approaching pediatric mental health screening and care in immigration detention," The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, vol. 43:100999 (March 2025) [open access]

A Decade of Harm: Survivors of Gender-based Violence Locked Up in Immigration Detention (Women for Refugee Women, March 2025) [text via EIN]

- Focuses on the UK.

Immigration Detention Expansion by Stealth, TexasLaw Legal Studies Research Paper (Univ. of Texas at Austin, March 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"The Law and Lawlessness of U.S. Immigration Detention," Harvard Law Review, vol. 138, no. 5 (March 2025) [full-text]

Post Visit Summary: Merchant Vessel (MV) Besant and Australian Defence Vessel (ADV) Guidance (Commonwealth National Preventive Mechanism, March 2025) [text]

- Focuses on an "inspection of detention facilities aboard the MV Besant and ADV Guidance. The report reveals conditions that fail to meet both international and domestic minimum standards for detention, particularly in relation to access to medical care, interpreters and adequate accommodation." See also related RCOA news release.

"The Rights of Detained Child Migrants," Arizona State Law Journal, vol. 57 (Forthcoming, 2025) [preprint]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (25 Feb. 2025)

Opportunities: More April & May 2025

Panel discussion: Innovative Approaches to Belonging in Urban Spaces: Reframing the Debate on Integration, Migration, and Inclusion from a Multidisciplinary Perspective, Online, 16 April 2025 [info]

Presentation/workshop: Researching Discrimination Among Migrants, Online/Toronto, 17 April 2025 [info]

- A 2-part event, with an online presentation and an in-person workshop.

Call for applications: Non-Residential Fellowship (NRF), Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies [info]

- Apply by 18 April 2025.

Symposium: Defending Hope: Immigration Law Under the 2025 Trump Administration, Davis, CA, 18 April 2025 [info]

- Organized by Immigration and Nationality Law Review.

Seminar: Debts in/of Displacement, Rabat/Online, 23 April 2025 [info]

- Organized by the Research Chair on Forced Displacement at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. Register by 21 April 2025.

Webinar: Immigration Actions in First 100 Days of Trump Second Term, 24 April 2025 [info]

Call for applications: Displaced Scholars Peer Mentoring Program 2025 [info]

- Provides "academic and professional support to early career scholars who have experienced displacement and are studying or researching refugee and forced migration studies." Apply by 30 April 2025.

Seminar: Digital Borders, Identification, and Migrants’ Experiences in the UK, Bristol, UK, 30 April 2025 [info]

Seminars: Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2025, 7 May-11 June 2025 [info]

- The first two seminars are listed below. 

Seminar: Localization in the Rohingya refugee response, Oxford, 7 May 2025 [info]

Seminar: ‘Safe Countries’ and Women’s International Protection, Online, 7 May 2025 [info]

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]

- Contributions sought for a themed issue on "Climate change: choices for displaced people." Submit proposals by 8 May 2025. 

Call for applications:14th Online Course on Statelessness in Russian, 17 June-10 July 2025 [info]

- Apply by 14 May 2025.

Call for applications: 43rd Online Course on International Refugee Law in English, 16 June-11 July 2025 [info]

- Apply by 14 May 2025.

Seminar: Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Northern Frontier, Oxford, 14 May 2025 [info]

Call for applications: Odysseus Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, Brussels/Online, 30 June-11 July 2025 [info]

- The focus will be on "the new instruments adopted in 2024 under the New Migration & Asylum Pact." Apply by 15 May 2025.

Seminar: The Other Refugee: Women, Children, Elderly, and Disabled Refugees in Early 18th-Century Baltics, Uppsala, Sweden, 23 May 2025 [info]

Note: I received an email announcing the CMRS Summer 2025 Short Courses, but I have not yet found info about these courses online. I will provide more details once there is something I can link to, but in the meantime, you can request further information from cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu. The application deadline is 15 May 2025.

Related post:

- Opportunities: More March/April 2025 & New May 2025

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunity:

Call for applications: Non-Residential Fellowship (NRF), Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies [info]

- Apply by 18 April 2025.

Short pieces:

"Australia to redirect $100m in foreign aid to Indo-Pacific region after Trump pulls funding," The Guardian, 25 March 2025 [text]

Challenges Faced by the Myanmar Community in South Australia: Recommendations for Improved Access to Services (Refugee Research Online, March 2025) [text]

"Myanmar earthquake worsens one of the world’s largest and most neglected humanitarian crises," The New Humanitarian, 2 April 2025 [text]

- See also related Reuters article.

Pakistan: Opaque ‘Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan’ targeting Afghan refugees must be withdrawn (Amnesty International, March 2025) [text]

- See also related UNHCR message, OHCHR press release, and new Amnesty campaign publication below.

The Plight of North Korean Refugees in China (Wilson Center, April 2025) [text]

UN and partners seek $934.5m for life-saving aid to 1.5 million Rohingya refugees and their hosts in Bangladesh (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Us and them: Indonesia’s migration policy (Maastricht Univ., March 2025) [text]

WFP cuts Rohingya food assistance: What does losing $6.50/month mean? (HPN, March 2025) [text]

- See also update from AP News.

"Where my heart belongs": Disaster-induced displacement in Nabavatu village, Fiji (RID Blog, March 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

2025-26 Federal Budget: What it means for refugees and people seeking humanitarian protection (Refugee Council of Australia, March 2025) [text]

"Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance?," Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 69, no. 4 (April 2025) [preprint]

- Focuses on South Korea.

"Death toll among the Bangladeshi refugees of the 1971 war," PLoS ONE 20(4): e0320760 (April 2025) [open access]

"Is universal health coverage really better? Unintended consequences of the 2019 Amendment of the National Health Insurance Act for humanitarian sojourners in South Korea," International Journal for Equity in Health, 24:42 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

Issue Brief on Regular Migration Pathways No.1: Data Insights and Trends in Asia and the Pacific -Facilitating Pathways for Regular Migration (IOM, March 2025) [text]

'Treat us like human beings': Afghans in Pakistan at risk of unlawful deportation (Amnesty International, April 2025) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (18 March 2025)

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2 (18 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

"Judge orders White House to restore legal aid to unaccompanied migrant children," NPR, 2 April 2025 [text]

- See earlier related AP News article.

More than a million children in the Gaza Strip deprived of lifesaving aid for over one month (UNICEF, April 2025) [text]

Reuniting refugee families: How to fix family reunion for refugees (RCOA, April 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Trump’s New Registration Requirement Could Forcibly Separate Millions of Immigrant Families (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

A Devastating Nexus: Armed Conflict, Displacement, and the Erosion of Child Protection in Eastern DRC, Research Paper, no. 4 (Aries Consult, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Developing a conceptual family needs framework for newcomer immigrants and refugees: A community-based participatory research approach," International Health Trends and Perspectives, vol. 5, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Canada.

"'Eat, Sleep, School, Repeat': The Influence of the Dutch Asylum System on the Capabilities and Aspirations of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Adolescents During Their Transition to Adulthood," Children & Society, Early View, 16 March 2025 [open access]

"Family separation and COVID-19: The impact of international border restrictions on refugees in Australia," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

"'Fox-like. One eye open, one eye closed': Child supervision among Syrian refugee mothers in Canada," Frontiers in Psychology, 1 April 2025 [open access]

"New Data on Unaccompanied Minors in US Immigration Court (2009–2023)," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 28 March 2025 [open access]

"Parent-Child Separation and Plans for Family Reunification after Deportation to Mexico from the United States," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]

"Relational ethics of care in research with young people: reflections from a study with young refugees and their families," Cambridge Journal of Education, Latest Articles, 24 March 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"'Without family, I do not have a life': transnational family dynamics of unaccompanied refugee adolescents," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 21 March 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on The Netherlands.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (17 March 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (17 March 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Altruism, Ethnic Identity, and the Limits of Shared Hardship," Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, FirstView, 21 March 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on "formerly displaced ethnic Serbs’ reactions to Syrian refugees traveling along the Balkan route."

"Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television," Media, Culture & Society, OnlineFirst, 25 March 2025 [open access]

"Community-level drivers of attitudes towards immigration in Ireland," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 7 April 2025 [open access]

"Confession, death and disbelief: interrogating the asylum cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union," Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Latest Articles, 30 March 2025 [open access]

"Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Research with Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Youth in European Cities," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 4 (March 2025) [open access]

"Exploring hospitality, hostility and (un)home in accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK," Hospitality & Society, vol. 15, nos. 1-2 (March 2025) [postprint]

"Loneliness among refugees in Germany: On the significance of flight, host country conditions and personality traits," Journal of Public Health, Latest Articles, 1 April 2025 [open access]

"Long Marginalized, Roma Displaced from Ukraine Have Faced Further Exclusion," Migration Information Source, 26 March 2025 [text]

"Multi-stakeholder knowledge exchange events as a tool of migration infrastructure: evidence from the North West of England," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 4 April 2025 [open access]

"Navigating Displacement: The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis in Europe," Global Networks, vol. 25, no. 2 (April 2025) [open access]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"The populist far right paradox: the identification of the enemy and its exceptions in the immigration policies of the Meloni government in Italy," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:17 (March 2025) [open access]

"Unveiling Subtle (Negative) Attitudes Towards Immigration in Spain in the Post-COVID Era: Challenges for Policymakers," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 7 April 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (8 April 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Between Law and Reality: the Challenges for Palestinian Refugees in Bulgaria (ENS Blog, March 2025) [text]

Conflicting realities: mapping discrepancies in migrant deaths data on the Atlantic route (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2025) [text]

Migrant offshoring: the EU's plan to deport more rejected asylum seekers under scrutiny (InfoMigrants, April 2025) [text]

- See also related statement from several EU-funded research projects.

Migrants in Limbo: The inefficacy of Italy’s migrant housing framework (Refugee Research Online, April 2025) [text]

Money, not Protection: How Assisted Return Programmes Influence Refugee Status Determination (RLI Blog, March 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Germany.

What Britons and Europeans really think about immigration – new analysis (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.**

Reports:

Catalogue of EUAA Judicial Publications: Reference material for members of courts and tribunals (EU Agency for Asylum, March 2025) [text]

Country Reports (AIDA, March & April 2025) 

- See updated profiles for Bulgaria and the UK.

Looking Forward: The Alliance of Ukrainian CSOs (Refugees International, March 2025) [text]

Public preferences for policies vis-à-vis irregular migrants in Europe: the roles of policy design and context (European University Institute, April 2025) [text]

- See also related Forbes article.

Refugee migration, unemployment and anti-asylum attitudes: Evidence from the 1990s Yugoslav refugee crisis, IRENE Working Paper, no. 3 (Univ. of Neuchâtel, March 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Switzerland.

Threadbare: The Quality of Immigration Legal Aid (Migrants Organise, March 2025) [text via EIN]

- Focuses on the UK.

Unhoused and Unheard: How Belgium’s persistent failure to provide reception violates asylum seekers’ rights (Amnesty International, April 2025) [access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (21 March 2025)
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (21 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (Reprod. & Maternal Health)

Journal articles, focusing on reproductive & maternal health:

"Breastfeeding Practices and Exclusive Breastfeeding among Syrian Refugee Mothers in Jordanian Host Communities," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 11 (2025) [open access]

"Determinants of institutional delivery service utilization among internally displaced vulnerable populations in Benadir region, Somalia: A community based cross-sectional study," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 11 (2025) [open access]

"Investigating the impact of armed conflict, cultural factors, and demographic characteristics on access to family planning services in Northwest Syria: a cross-sectional study," BMC Health Services Research, 25:489 (April 2025) [open access]

"Leveraging telemedicine to explore contraceptive use and attitudes among refugee women: an observational cross-sectional analysis," BMJ Open, vol. 15, no. 3 (March 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Pakistan.

"Menstrual hygiene management among girls and women refugees in Africa: a scoping review," Conflict and Health, 19:20 (March 2025) [open access]

"Reproductive agency and the acceptability of divorce, abortion, and homosexuality among migrants from the Middle East and Africa living in Sweden: a cross-sectional analysis," International Journal for Equity in Health, 24:53 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"Reproductive Coercion and Abuse Among Forcibly Displaced Populations Worldwide: Evidence from a Systematic Review," Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, OnlineFirst, 18 March 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (7 April 2025)