Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunity:

Call for input: Draft Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change [info]

- Submit comments by 15 December 2025. See also related webinar recording.

Short pieces:

Building Power Through Collective Action: Reflecting on our Statelessness & Innovation Conference (ENS Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Corruption and Statelessness in Sabah: How ‘Deportability’ Becomes a Commodity (LSE South East Asia Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

An exceptional situation of exile: Kurdish stateless diaspora a decade after the long summer of migration (FluchtforschungsBlog, June 2025) [text]

Harnessing pro bono collaboration: reflections on the PILnet Global Forum and new ways to address statelessness through the law (ENS Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Las nubes que amenazan el soleado panorama de la apatridia en España (ENS Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Also in English.

The Stateless Within: Citizenship, Exclusion and the Internal Borders of India’s Refugee Regime (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Statelessness in Sweden: 10 Facts with Recommendations from UNHCR (Refworld, Dec. 2025) [text]

Status of Stateless Fighters in International Humanitarian Law: An Overlooked Legal Dilemma (Opinio Juris Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship will depend on its interpretation of one key phrase (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

*Check out the Institute for Statelessness & Inclusion's Monthly Bulletins for more news and publications.*

Reports & journal articles:

"Climate Change, Statelessness, and Digital Sovereignty: Safeguarding Island Nationhood," Kent Law Review, vol. 10, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Tuvalu.

"Ius soli under siege: a comparative analysis of France and the United States," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:84 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

Stripped: The Citizenship Divide (Runnymede Trust & Reprieve, Dec. 2025) [access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Toward a Neoliberal Regime of Belonging?: Rethinking Contemporary Statelessness Governance in Thailand," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 14 Nov. 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (3 Nov. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2 (3 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Dynamics of Activism and Governance in Tindouf Refugee Camps: The Emergence of New Political Actors," Chapter in Governance without Government in the MENA Region: State, Non-State Actors and Evolving Paradigms (Springer, Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Humanitarian Aid Partnerships in Yemen’s Conflict: Understanding the Relationship between the United Nations and Local Non-governmental Organizations in Humanitarian Endeavors," Chapter in Governance without Government in the MENA Region: State, Non-State Actors and Evolving Paradigms (Springer, Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Measurement of COVID-19 vaccination acceptance and associated factors among Afghan refugees in Iran: insights from a cross-sectional study," BMC Public Health, 7 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Migrants' and refugees’ experiences of healthcare access in Egypt: An exploratory qualitative study," SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, vol. 9 (June 2026) [open access]

"Republican People Party’s Policy Towards Syrian Refugees in Türkiye: An Example for Securitization by an Opposition Party," Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Latest Articles, 10 Nov. 2025 [preprint] 

"Rescuing the UNRWA Archive: Saving Palestinian History amidst the Gaza Genocide," History Workshop Journal, Advance Articles, 29 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"Syrian Refugee Governance at the Intersection of Non-state and State Actors: Lessons for Third Sector Engagement in Contested Spaces of the MENA," Chapter in Governance without Government in the MENA Region: State, Non-State Actors and Evolving Paradigms (Springer, Dec. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Jordan.

"When Is Home? Temporality, Closure, and the Continuum of Return After Assad: Challenging the Idea of Return as the Endpoint," Current Issues in Migration Research, vol. 2, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1 (12 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

"Egypt ramps up Sudanese refugee deportations with little UNHCR pushback," The New Humanitarian, 4 Dec. 2025 [text]

"It’s time for a reckoning at the UN in Syria, and beyond," The New Humanitarian, 11 Dec. 2025 [text]

Moroccan families search for their missing children (InfoMigrants, Nov. 2025) [text]

South Africa: latest target in Israel's relocation of Palestinians? (ISS Today, Dec. 2025) [text]

Tunisia: Abusive Prosecutions of Refugee Group (HRW, Nov. 2025) [text]

Understanding UNRWA: The complex history and politics of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (FluchtforschungsBlog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Reports:

“All My Dreams Have Been Erased”: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2025) [text]

Assistance to Palestine refugees, UN Doc. No. A/C.4/80/L.17 (UN General Assembly, Nov. 2025) [access]

- This draft resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly; it extends UNRWA's mandate to 30 June 2029.

Cost of Inaction: The Impact of WFP Assistance Cuts on Refugees in Jordan Food Security (World Food Programme, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UN Doc. No. A/C.4/80/L.16 (UN General Assembly, Nov. 2025) [access]

- This draft resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly. 

Multimedia:

A short history of the Gaza Strip, 15 Oct. 2025 [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (21 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunity:

CFP: Twelfth Annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition [info]

- Submit papers by 7 January 2026.

Short pieces:

Does the United States Still Oppose Torture? (Just Security, Dec. 2025) [text]

The Refugee Convention is under threat, but it is not the problem (Pearls & Irritations, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Trump targets the Refugee Convention: a fundamental shift in asylum norms," Mixed Migration Review 2025 (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2025) [text]

- See also related commentary on PassBlue.

The UNHCR Building, and Locales of the Making of Refugee Law (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

"What is a 'route-based approach' for refugees and migrants?," The New Humanitarian, 17 Nov. 2025 [text]

Reports:

Behind the Brief: The Danger of Institutionalizing Third Country Returns (USCRI, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Provides a summary of a recent USCRI briefing paper, followed by the complete text of the brief itself.

Cross-Regional Forum on Implementing Laws and Policies on Internal Displacement, San Remo, 1-3 Oct. 2025: Final Report (UNHCR et al., Dec. 2025) [text]

UNHCR Country Guidance Explained (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Architecture of Containment: Refugee Protection in a Postliberal Order," International Organization, vol. 79, no. S1 (Dec. 2025) [free full-text]

"Cruel Deference: State Narratives, Credibility, and Power in Convention Against Torture Adjudications," Saint Louis University Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]

- "This Article critically examines the evolution of the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices' authoritative role in U.S. protection claims, with a focus on CAT adjudications."

"Solidarity and Responsibility-Sharing: Does the Global Compact on Refugees advance core principles of international refugee law?," Contemporary Challenges: The Global Crime, Justice and Security Journal, vol. 6 (2025) [open access]

"The Trump Administration’s Unprecedented Violations of the Non-Refoulement Principle," American Journal of International Law, vol. 119, no. 4 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

Multimedia:

International law is failing us. What now? (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series, Dec. 2025) [access]

Non-signatory states in international refugee law, 26 Nov. 2025 [access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (13 Nov. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2 (13 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities: 

GRF Progress Review 2025: Linked events, 9-19 December 2025 [info]

- A number of independently organized events have been organized around the Global Compact on Refugees' objectives. Some are in-person, hybrid and invitation-only. Follow the link above for details.

CFP: "Eroding Solidarity? Forced Migration, Protection, and Inclusion in a World Beyond Order," 6th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies, Hildesheim, Germany, 28-30 September 2026 [info]

- Submission deadline is 9 January 2026.

Short pieces:

The Courage to Welcome: solidarity in a divided world (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Text of the High Commissioner's "One People Oration" at Westminster Abbey.

"Election? What today’s UN leadership vacancies say about the system," Inklings Newsletter (27 Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on UNHCR.

Fact check: Why "85% of refugees are Muslim" is false (DW, Nov. 2025) [text]

Geneva gathering to reaffirm solidarity and deliver new results for refugees (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

- The Global Refugee Forum Progress Review will meet next week in Geneva from 15-17 December 2025.

Humanitarian heroes celebrated with UNHCR Nansen Refugee Awards (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

- See also related press release.

Now more than ever, the world must support UNHCR to continue its life-saving work (Kaldor Centre & Refugee Council of Australia, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Joint statement on UNHCR’s 75th anniversary. See also related Pearls & Irritations post.

Refugia revisited five years on: reflections on the launch of a French language edition (COMPAS Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Sweden’s push for an ex-IKEA CEO to lead UNHCR signals a new refugee order," Al Jazeera, 11 Dec. 2025 [text]

To the New High Commissioner: IDPs Must Remain a Global Priority (RI Commentary, Nov. 2025) [text]

Türk says human rights under attack, yet undeterred, in 2025 (OHCHR, Dec. 2025) [text]

"What if … the United Nations was disbanded next Friday?," Al Jazeera, 7 Nov. 2025 [text]

Reports:

Cities as key policy actors: strengthening urban responses to displacement in the global South (Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Nov. 2025) [access via IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement]

Refugee-Led Responses and Agency in East Africa, the Middle East, and South America: Synthesis of research findings and policy recommendations (LERRN, Dec. 2025) [access]

Journal articles:

"Bayesian Projection of Extant Refugee and Asylum Seeker Populations," Demography, Advance Publication, 5 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Decision-Making Mistakes in Asylum Policy: A Comparative Study of Public Opinion," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 5 Dec. 2025 [open access]

- "This study relies on web survey data from 26 countries, selected as a function of their overall immigration regimes, proximity to migrant-sending countries, citizenship regimes, status as a host or transit country, and response to the United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration."

Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, no. 44 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Retour à la normale? Déplacés et réfugiés face aux normes de la sortie de guerre (1945-1951) = A Return to the Normal? Displaced Persons, Refugees and Postwar Norms (1945-1951)."

"Editorial: Refugees and Humanitarian Support in the Global South: Challenges in Repatriation and Social Cohesion," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 25 Nov. 2025 [open access]

- Discusses the articles included in the research topic of the same name.

"Prioritizing global equity in migration research," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 6 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Systematic literature reviews in migration studies: approaches to context-sensitive synthesis," Comparative Migration Studies, 22 Nov. 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025: Migration and displacement: My grandmother, Lausanne, and some lessons for the present, Oxford, 5 Nov. 2025 [access]

Attacking health: Understanding the dynamics and broader impacts of violence against healthcare, 19 Nov. 2025 [access]

Displacement, solidarity, counter-government, 22 Oct. 2025 [access]

Human rights elites at the United Nations: Felix Ermacora and the first human rights fact finding missions (1967-1993), 29 Oct. 2025 [access]

Towards a New Response to Forced Migration through Local Engagement Refugee Research Network, 12 Sept. 2025 [access]

- See also related press release.

Who wants to be the new UN refugee chief (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series, Nov. 2025) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (20 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"An Exploration of Refugees’ Perceptions, Agency, and the Structural Conditions Shaping Their Lives in South Africa," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 11 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"The Fate of Sub-Saharan Migrants and Refugees," Chapter in The State and the Imperative for Social Policy Reform in Africa (Springer, Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Institutional and policy networks in disaster management in the Horn of Africa: insights from Kenya," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 15, no. 2 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Transnational Indigenous Displacement," with two articles on the DRC and Ethiopia, respectively.

"Land for refugees: sharing and exchanging in Northern Uganda," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 9 Dec. 2025 [free full-text]

"The mixed resilience outcomes of water interventions in the pastoral drylands of the Horn of Africa," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Where to flee? Preferences for host communities among displaced people in Congo," PLoS One 20(12): e0337530 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (10 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Borders of Care: Asylum, Exclusion and Everyday Survival in South Africa’s Health Care System (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Cameroonian chief wins UNHCR Nansen Award for his village’s embrace of refugees (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

Externalisation: ACHPR Calls on African States to Protect Migrants Amid Rising Deals (Immigration Detention Monitor, Nov. 2025) [text]

From Anticolonial Heroes to Post-Independence Liabilities: Morphing Refugee Categorizations in African Geopolitics (FluchtforschungsBlog, Dec. 2025) [text]

In Ethiopia, an Unfinished Peace Risks Betraying the People of Tigray and the Broader Region (Just Security, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Note: The post includes a link to a special report on "The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Tigray."  

Mapping Migration: Inside Africa's First Comprehensive Atlas of Migration (AMMODI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports:

14th World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges, Nairobi, 17-21 November 2025 [access]

- Follow link for conference documents, a selection of papers and video of the opening ceremony.

Analyse de Protection: Escalade de la violence, déplacements forcés cycliques dans un contexte de défis de légitimité pour les solutions (Global Protection Cluster, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the DRC.

Assessing the impact of US funding cuts on communities and humanitarian response: Case studies from South Sudan and Mali (ALNAP, Nov. 2025) [access]

Building a locally driven humanitarian future in Somalia (Oxfam, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Forced Displacement Survey: Zambia 2025 (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [access]

From the fringes to the forefront: Refugee leadership within Uganda’s humanitarian coordination mechanisms (Oxfam, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Impacts of displacement: The socioeconomic effects of displacement in Tangaza and Tureta, Nigeria (IDMC, Nov. 2025) [text]

A Refuge Destroyed: RSF Violations in Darfur’s Zamzam Camp for Internally Displaced Persons (Amnesty International, Dec. 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (17 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"The 1916 National Liberation Uprising in Zhetysu province in Central Asia: The historical fate of Kazakh and Kyrgyz refugees who fled to China," Esboços: histórias em contextos globais, vol. 32 (2025) [open access]

"Addressing precarity for peace and sustainability among refugees: focus on the Rohingya crisis and necessary policy interventions," International Review of Sociology = Revue Internationale de Sociologie, Latest Articles, 24 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Australia's Refugee/Asylum Seeker Geopolitics in Asia: The Role of Incentives," Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, vol. 10, no. 4 (2025) [open access]

"Between Patriots and Refugees: Negotiating Displacement with the State in (Post-)Second World War China," Journal of Contemporary History, OnlineFirst, 1 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Drivers and determinants of extreme humanitarian needs among Rohingya refugee households: Evidence from UNHCR’s multi-sectoral needs analysis," PLoS One 20(12): e0331727 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Exploring the role of cash-based interventions in alleviating food insecurity among the forcibly displaced: the case of Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh," Conflict and Health, 19:81 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

*"From Finding to Making Jari: The Return of Burmese Political Refugees from South Korea," Population, Space and Place, vol. 32, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Pandemic border control and immigration exclusion: Japan’s politics of foreign entry during COVID-19," Comparative Migration Studies, Article in Press, 5 Dec. 2025 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (10 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Immigration panic comes in waves. Data shows who worries most, and when (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Rohingya Refugee Camps at a Crossroads Amid Declining Humanitarian Support (Refugee Watch Online Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Trump wants Australian data on migrant crime. This will only scapegoat vulnerable people (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

Uzbekistan: Cooperation with EU and US Raises Questions about Human Rights Obligations (Immigration Detention Monitor, Dec. 2025) [text]

A Wall Against Rights: How India’s New Border Policy with Myanmar Tests the Limits of International Law (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Beyond Borders: A how-to for covering migration in Asia (DW Akademie, Nov. 2025) [access]

- "Toolkit for reporting on forced displacement and migration in Asia."

A Model of Refugee Self-Governance: The Contributions and Challenges of Refugee-led Initiatives in Thailand (Act for Peace, Nov. 2025) [access]

Multimedia:

Australia’s Immigration Debate: Where Next?, 24 Nov. 2025 [access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (19 Nov. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2 (19 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunity:

CFP: Journal of International Humanitarian Action [info]

- Contributions sought for thematic collection on "Humanitarian Aid Worker: Ethics, Altruism, and Best Practices." Submission deadline is 31 January 2026.

Short pieces:

Early donor support tops $1 billion for 2026, but widening funding gaps leave millions at risk (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

The Precarity of Humanitarian Aid and Its Restriction as a Tactic (Observer Research Foundation, Nov. 2025) [text]

Protection in protracted displacement: Putting personal safety first (IDS Opinion, Dec. 2025) [text]

*Real crises, false choices: rethinking aid efficiency (ODI Comment, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Course Corrections: Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency in Humanitarian Energy (Global Platform for Action, Oct. 2025) [text via UNHCR]

Financing for Locally-led Action: A framework for understanding options and accelerating impact (DanChurchAid, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Global Humanitarian Overview 2026 (OCHA, Dec. 2025) [access]

- See also related UN News story and articles in Reuters and TNH. 

*How to finance refugee leadership: navigating a humanitarian system at breaking point (ODI, Nov. 2025) [text]

*Mind the Gap: NRC’s position on what to do when humanitarian funding can’t support everyone in need (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2025) [text]

Prioritising humanitarian resources: How to decide who receives what kind of support (ALNAP, Nov. 2025) [text]

Prioritising humanitarian resources: How to think clearly about what matters most (ALNAP, Nov. 2025) [text]

Protection Field Coordination Toolkit (Global Protection Cluster, June 2025) [access]

- "​This Toolkit is made up of 12 chapters - which will guide you through the humanitarian coordination system, the expectations of cluster coordination teams, and key concepts in humanitarian action."

Supporting mutual aid: What the evidence tells us (ALNAP, Dec. 2025) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 30 (Nov. 2025)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]

- Issue theme is "Aid in danger: after the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response." See also the companion webpage.

"The Death of USAID: How Elon Musk and Donald Trump Ended America's Foreign Aid Agency," Public Administration and Development, vol. 45, no. 4 (Oct. 2025) [open access] 

"The end of development aid? How aid cuts may reshape migration management," Essay in Mixed Migration Review 2025 (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Foreign Aid Allocation as Migration Control: Root Causes or Migration Management?," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 10 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Funding cuts and crises: struggles and hopes of humanitarian NGOs," Interview in Mixed Migration Review 2025 (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2025) [text]

The Humanitarian Leader, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

"The Impact of Two Decades of Humanitarian and Development Assistance and the Projected Mortality Consequences of Current Defunding to 2030: Retrospective Evaluation and Forecasting Analysis," Preprint submitted to The Lancet, 19 Nov. 2025 [text]

- See also related Reuters article.

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 6, nos. 2-3 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Multimedia:

*Humanitarian aid at a crossroads: making the case for global solidarity, 4 Dec. 2025 [access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 1 (31 Oct. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 2 (31 Oct. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

For refugees, the right to learn is uneven. Here's how to change (EduResearch Matters, Nov. 2025) [text]

Osama Arrives: A New Door Opens for Refugee Students (Skill Path Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

- See also related Univ. of Melbourne news story.

"Responding to the Global Displacement Crisis: A Role for Canadian Universities?," University Affairs, 22 Oct. 2025 [text via LERRN]

"What universities gain from involving displaced students in civic engagement," Times Higher Education, 13 Nov. 2025 [text]

Writing a new future: Education as a passage to promise (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Access to education for migrant children (European Migration Network, Oct. 2025) [text via BAMF]

Integrative Report Project: Exploring Opportunities for the Use of Digital Technologies to Foster Educational Inclusion for Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced Children in Latin America and the Caribbean (Fundación Ceibal, June 2025) [text]

- See also related policy briefs/working papers: 1) Digital Innovations for the Educational Inclusion of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean: Analysis of Best Practices and Recommendations for Their Scalability and Sustainability; 2) Digital Technologies for Leveraging Public Policies in Education for Refugees, Migrants and Displaced Children and Young People: Challenges and Opportunities in LAC; 3) Education Ecosystem in Public Policies for Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced Children and Young People in Latin America and the Caribbean with the Use of Digital Technology; and 4) Education for Refugees, Migrants and Displaced Children and Young People in LAC: Challenges and Opportunities with Digital Technology. 

Measuring learning outcomes for forcibly displaced children in Mexico: Haldo on the Move (UNHCR & Save the Children, May 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Do It Together: Making Makerspace Learning Environments More Accessible for Refugee and Migrant Women," Interacting with Computers, Advance Articles, 11 Oct. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

"For the Nation and the Future: Historical Snapshots into Refugee Education during the Last 100 Years in Finland and Sweden," History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society, Latest Articles, 18 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"From deindividualisation to belonging: the role of welcoming teachers through the lens of Buber's I and Thou," International Journal of Inclusive Education, Latest Articles, 22 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"International Education as Complementary Pathways to Resettlement: The Case of Refugee Background Students in Japan," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 21 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"Language, culture and education: exploring Middle Eastern refugee mothers’ perspectives on navigating Australian schools," Journal for Multicultural Education, EarlyCite, 20 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Learning from and with refugee teachers: exploring subjective journeys and the making of equitable communities in Malaysia," International Journal of Inclusive Education, Latest Articles, 28 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Social Networks and Language Learning in Forced Immersion: Ukrainian Refugees in Poland," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 4 Dec. 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

 Why emergency education saves lives (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series, Nov. 2025) [access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Education - Pt. 1 (21 Oct. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Education - Pt. 2 (21 Oct. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Abusing Discretion: An Interview with Professor Lucas Guttentag on the Trump Administration’s Initial Wave of Immigration Policies," Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, vol. 30, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"Asylum Eligibility: A Circuit Split Between the Second and Fourth Circuits Based Upon Death Threats Rising to the Level of Persecution Per Se," West Virginia Law Review, vol. 128, no 1 (2025) [full-text]

Boston University Law Review, vol. 105, no. 5 (2025) [full-text] 

- Symposium issue on "The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Immigration Law."

"Fact-Finding is an Immigration Lawyer's Job: The Importance of Working One-on-One with Clients in Asylum Cases," Univ. of San Francisco Law Review, vol. 59, no. 3 (2025) [full-text]

"A Faster Way to Yes: Re-Balancing American Asylum Procedures," Georgetown Law Journal, vol. 113, no. 5 (2025) [full-text]

- See also related post on The Regulatory Review.

"Immigration and the Supreme Court in the Early Days of the Second Trump Administration," St. Louis Univ. Law Journal (Forthcoming 2026) [preprint]

"Interesting Intersections of Immigration and First Amendment Law," FIU Law Review, vol. 19, no 1 (2025) [full-text]

"Not So Firmly Settled: How the Inconsistent Jurisprudence of the Firm Resettlement Bar Serves as a Tool for Asylum Seeker Exclusion," Fordham Law Review, vol. 94, no. 3 (2025) [full-text]

"The Trump Administration’s Racial Dragnet: Immigration Enforcement in Los Angeles," SMU Law Review (Forthcoming 2026) [preprint]

Related post: 

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (8 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Due Process in Third Country Removals (Lawfare, Dec. 2025) [text]

Narrating immigrants’ pain and tragedy can reduce perceived threat to Muslim immigrants in the US (EurekAlert, Nov. 2025) [text] 

The Travel Ban Comes Home (The Asylumist Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Trump Administration Responds to Tragedy By Putting Hundreds of Thousands of Legal Immigrants’ Lives on Hold (Immigration Impact Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

- See also related blog post on The Asylumist and AILA's Featured Issue page, "Sweeping Immigration Restrictions in the Aftermath of National Guard Shooting."

**Visit the ImmProf Blog for a much more extensive round-up of news and publications.**

Reports:

‘We Need U’: How the U Visa Builds Trust, Counters Fear, and Promotes Community Safety (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2025) [access]

Where Can You Win in Immigration Court? The Impact of Lawyers, Detention, Geography, and Policy (American Immigration Council, Nov. 2025) [access]

Multimedia:

U.S. Immigration Courts at a Crisis Point, 24 Nov. 2025 [access]

Resources:

Banished by Bargain: Third Country Deportation Watch (Human Rights First & Refugees International) [access]

- This newly-launched website "tracks and exposes the human toll of the Trump administration’s forced third country transfer agreements."

CGRS 2025 Webinar Directory (Center for Gender & Refugee Studies) [access]

- "This document lists all of the recorded webinars presented by CGRS staff attorneys since February 2025 that are accessible to all registered CGRS TA users at any time through our online TA library."

Related posts: 

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (19 Nov. 2025)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (19 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Associations Between Forced Sexual Initiation, Post-exposure Prophylaxis Cascades and Subsequent Violence Experiences among Displaced Young Women in Ugandan Informal Urban Settlements," AIDS and Behavior, vol. 29, no. 12 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"The Elusiveness of Life: Birth Outcomes among Venezuelan Migrant Mothers in Colombia," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 2 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Feminisation as empowerment: migrant solidarity chains and resistance among migrants displaced by political persecution," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 27 Nov. 2025 [open access]

- Draws on interviews with migrants who left Turkey and applied for asylum in Europe.

"Gender and intimate partner violence considerations for cash transfer programming in South Sudan," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:18 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Intersectional Harm and Motherhood in the British Asylum System," The British Journal of Criminology, Advance Articles, 2 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Openness, Distrust, and the Making of Belonging: How Intimacy and Belonging are Intertwined in Interpretative Processes of Single Male Refugees from Syria," NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Latest Articles, 18 Nov. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

"Precarious employment and gender-based violence against migrant women," PLoS One 20(12): e0337690 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Wellbeing in the First 1000 Days for Syrian and Afghan refugee women living in Australia: a qualitative study," BMC Women's Health, 25:588 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (6 Dec. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

‘I have to talk about it so that the world can know what happened to women and girls in Sudan’ – rape and terror sparks mass migration (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

Immutable Suffering: How the BIA’s Decision in Matter of K-E-S-G- Complicates Asylum for Victims of Gender-based Persecution (Immigration Law Blog at PennState Law, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Where Return Is a Beginning: Female-Headed Households and Gendered Struggles for Recovery in South Lebanon (RID Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Women and girls fleeing El Fasher describe widespread RSF sexual violence," The New Humanitarian, 21 Nov. 2025 [text]

Reports: 

East, Horn of Africa and Great Lakes (EHAGL) Region Gender Equality Promising Practices 2024 (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text]

Migrant Women: Narratives and perceptions (UN Women, Dec. 2025) [text]

Publications focusing on Ukrainians:

New open access book:

Women War Refugees from Ukraine: Two Years Since the Invasion (Peter Lang, Nov. 2025) [open access]

- "Research on Ukrainian war refugees residing in Poland demonstrates the challenges currently faced by most Western countries. It offers insights into the mechanisms of immigrants’ integration processes into a new socio-cultural environment. This publication presents the results of research on the living conditions of Ukrainian forced migrants residing outside their home country. The conducted research aims to show the nature of their adaptation and integration, and to identify the factors facilitating these processes. To this end, longitudinal research was conducted, involving two CAWI surveys. The first survey was carried out in the initial period following the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the second after two years of ongoing conflict. The book is a valuable source of knowledge on the migration of Ukrainians following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. It also shows what life abroad looks like from a two-year perspective and demonstrates the changes taking place within the studied population."

Journal articles:

"Managing migration: Female mayors and the intake of refugees," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 240 (Dec. 2025) [preprint]

- Focuses on Germany.

"Manifestations of (Mis)Recognition amongst Germany-based Refugee Women from Ukraine," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 21 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Negotiating racialised and gendered hierarchies of refugee ‘double deservingness’: uncovering hidden grassroots support for Ukrainian women in England as agentic and vulnerable," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Negotiating Temporariness Through Action, Re-action and Non-action: Ukrainian Women Under TPD in Germany," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 23 Nov. 2025  [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (14 Nov. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (14 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Short pieces:

"Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump’s new policies," AP News, 5 Dec. 2025 [text]

As Australia welcomes its millionth refugee, its hardline border policies endure. We can lead by example again (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

"As the US suspends visas, an in-depth look at the global Afghan refugee crisis," The New Humanitarian, 28 Nov. 2025 [text]

Commission proposes a Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Plan for 2026-2027 (European Commission, Nov. 2025) [text]

Hope and hardship have driven Syrian refugee returns – but many head back to destroyed homes, land disputes (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]

Syria’s return dilemma: What will durable solutions really take? (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Syrian refugees in Germany face pressure to return (InfoMigrants, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Trump administration orders review of Biden-era refugees, memo shows," Reuters, 24 Nov. 2025 [text]

- See also related statement from Refugees International and AILA Practice Alert.

"Trump pushes for more restrictions on Afghan refugees. Experts say many are already in place," AP News, 28 Nov. 2025 [text]

New open access book:

Beyond the Cities: The Dynamics of Migrant Settlement in Regional Australia (Springer, Nov. 2025) [open access]

- "This open access book examines migrant settlement in regional Australia, offering policy recommendations and conceptual frameworks for sustainable integration. With a focus on key areas such as socio-political contexts, employment, education, health, and family challenges, this book provides a holistic approach to understanding and addressing the complexities of migrant settlement."

Reports:  

2026 State Policy Guide (International Rescue Committee, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Community Sponsorship or Community Support for Refugees? The Case of Norway (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [access]

The Dismantling of US Refugee Resettlement and Its Impacts (Rice Univ., Dec. 2025) [text]

Executive Orders Suspending Refugee Resettlement: Legal Challenges Under the Trump (SSRN, Aug. 2025) [text]

The Importance of Social Networks amongst Refugees Resettled through the Community Sponsorship Scheme and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (Open University, Nov. 2025) 

- Two policy briefs present findings from this research project: "Building belonging: Strengthening CS for refugee integration in the UK" and "From assistance to agency: Enhancing the UK resettlement scheme for lasting integration."

Reshaping Durable Solutions: Return, Retrenchment, and Refugee Agency in Lebanon, IMS Policy and Working Paper, no. 1 (Lebanese American University, 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Syrians.

Journal articles:

"Afghan refugees, humanitarian interventionism and the global cold war in the 1980s," Cold War History, Latest Articles, 1 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Cities, Asylum Reception and Legal Uncertainty: National Integration Framework and the Limits of Local Authorities," International Migration, vol. 53, no. 6 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Italy.

Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, no. 44 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Retour à la normale? Déplacés et réfugiés face aux normes de la sortie de guerre (1945-1951) = A Return to the Normal? Displaced Persons, Refugees and Postwar Norms (1945-1951)."

"Executive Overreach and Fear: An Analysis of U.S. Refugee Resettlement Under Trump’s Authoritarianism," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 11 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

Nordisk välfärdsforskning = Nordic Welfare Research, vol. 10, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Nordic Street-Level Integration Work."

"Population Displacement and State Building: The Legacies of Pashtun Resettlement in Afghanistan," International Organization, First View, 26 Nov. 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (5 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

10 years of EU-funded migration research: shaping the future of Europe through evidence-driven policy (European Commission, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Moldova Shoulders Disproportionately Large Ukrainian Population, in the Shadow of the European Union and Russia," Migration Information Source, 4 Dec. 2025 [text]

On the perils of the ‘Danish model’ (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

S.S. and Others V. Italy: When the ECtHR Chose Borders Over Rights (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

The UK government’s latest policy approach to asylum and returns: will it work, and at what expense? (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

- See also related posts on IPPR and the LSE British Politics and Policy Blog.

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

New open access book:

Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe: Local, National and International Perspectives (Manchester Univ. Press, Nov. 2025) [open access]

- "This book explores actors, practices and meanings of humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. It brings together a diverse group of scholars who offer a cutting-edge perspective on how wars and conflict, state-building processes, nationalist activism and policies, socialist politics or regime changes influenced the emergence and trajectories of humanitarian aid. It examines how international ideas and discourses about humanitarian aid have shaped its practices in the region. It also highlights the agency of aid recipients and looks at how policymakers and experts in the region co-produced paths of humanitarian aid giving. Lastly, it analyses the emergence, development and effects of local humanitarian initiatives; thus, it challenges unidirectional narratives of international and Western-centric humanitarianism."

Journal articles:

"Applying Classical Migration Theories to Forced Displacement: The Case of Displaced Ukrainians in Berlin, Warsaw, and Budapest," KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Latest Articles, 28 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Early View, 19 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Beyond refugee camps: housing solutions for war refugees from Ukraine in Poland," Crime, Law and Social Change, vol. 83, no. 1 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"The Constitutionality of the Italy–Albania Protocol of November 2023," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Credibility assessment of religion-based asylum claims from a comparative perspective," Freedom, Security & Justice: European Legal Studies, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

"Facilitating research participation through a research navigator programme: researchers’ insights from a project with asylum seekers and refugees," Conflict and Health, 19:88 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

"Intergroup Contact with Refugees Shapes Levels of Social Fear of Crime," European Journal of Social Psychology, Early View, 18 Nov. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Germany.

"Let Me Move: A Legal Analysis of Residence Restrictions on Asylum-Seekers in Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands," Social & Legal Studies, vol. 34, no. 3 (2025) [postprint]

"Migrant Reception Centres and Coercive Social Control: Rule by Legal Uncertainty?," Social & Legal Studies, vol. 34, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Spain.

"Selective Humanitarianism in Asylum Policies: Yezidi Refugees in Germany and France," Nationalities Papers, FirstView, 26 Nov. 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (23 Nov. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (23 Nov. 2025)

Opportunities: More Dec. 2025 & New Jan. 2026

Short course: Palestine Refugees and International Law, Beirut, Beirut, 13-14 March 2026 [info]

- The application process is open and offers are made on a first-come-first-served basis

Launch event: Banished by Bargain—Third Country Deportation Watch, Online, 5 December 2025 [info]

Call for applications: International Online School in Forced Migration, 8-12 December 2025 [info]

- "Participants will be admitted on a rolling basis and admissions/bookings will close when maximum capacity has been reached."

Presentation: 'The Child That I Left Behind': Memory, Trauma & Reconstruction of Childhood in Nakba Narratives, 17 December 2025 [info]

CFP: Sixth Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies, Vienna, 28 September–1 October 2026 [info]

- Submit proposals by 20 December 2025.

Call for applications: Refugee Studies Centre Visiting Fellowships & Sally Hogg Prize, Academic Year 2026-27 [info]

- Note: The Sally Hogg prize provides funding to cover costs of the Fellowship. Submit applications for both by 2 January 2026. 

Call for applications: Framing the Narrative: Public Opinion on Migration and Media Influence, CMRS Winter Short Course, Cairo, 11-15 January 2026 [info] [more info]

- Apply by 4 January 2026.

CFP: 4th JDC Research Conference on Forced Displacement, Bangkok, 27-29 May 2026 [info]

- Submit completed papers or extended abstracts by 5 January 2026. 

CFP: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "The New Asylum Seekers: Subnational Dynamics of Migration Governance in the United States." 

- Submit proposals by 7 January 2026.

CFP: Twelfth Annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition [info]

- Submit papers by 7 January 2026.

Call for applications: Expert Witness Training Course, London, 16 February 2026 [info]

- Apply by 10 January 2026. 

CFP: Genealogy [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Journeyalogy: Other-stories and counter-mappings of migration." Submit abstracts by 10 January 2026. 

Book launch: Age Discrimination and Migration Policy in Canada: Toward an Equitable Approach, Toronto/Online, 14 January 2026 [info]

Seminar: Human rights law under threat in Europe: Restricting rights in asylum and migration cases, London, 15 January 2026 [info]

Call for applications: Introduction to International Refugee Law, CMRS Winter Short Course, Cairo, 1-5 February 2026 [info] [more info]

- Apply by 25 January 2026.

Seminar: The Refugee Convention in a hostile world: diverse contexts of risk, London, 29 January 2026 [info]

Call for applications: Humanitarian Leadership Program [info]

- "A 10-week online learning experience designed for individuals interested in exploring leadership within the humanitarian and social impact sectors."

- Application period ends on 30 January 2026.

Call for input: Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking on the rights of migrant, refugee, asylum-seeking and stateless children who are victims of trafficking or at risk of trafficking in persons [info]

- Submission deadline is 30 January 2026.

CFP: Looking back, moving forward: Migration studies in times of societal transformation, Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) Conference, Ghent, 14-16 September 2026 [info]

- Submit proposals by 31 January 2026.

Related post:

- Opportunities: Even More Nov. 2025

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Building skills and decent work opportunities for migrant women in Italy (MPC Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Federal refugee employment program faces 'extremely long, ballooning wait times'," CBC News, 17 Nov. 2025 [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

"From Dependence to Dignity: Policies that are opening doors to self-reliance," JDC Newsletter (Nov.  2025) [text]

The global race for talent: Other nations are outpacing the U.S. on high-skill immigration (Niskanen Center, Nov. 2025) [text]

Small & steady: How migrant remittances from Europe keep families and countries afloat (InfoMigrants, Dec. 2025) [text]

Without Work Permits, Refugee Women in Nairobi Face Exploitation and Hardship (African Arguments, Nov. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Advancing the Jobs Agenda: Toward Self-Reliance in Refugee Situations, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 11246 (World Bank, Oct. 2025) [text]

Beyond the Camp: Realizing Ethiopia’s Commitment to Refugee Self-Reliance (Refugees International, Nov. 2025) [text]

Financial Inclusion of People Benefiting from Humanitarian Cash Transfers (Cash Hub, ICRC & PROPARCO, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

From Policy to Practice: Lessons from the Implementation of the Refugee Work Rights Policy in Ethiopia, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 11254 (World Bank, Nov. 2025) [text]

Immigration and Changes in Labor Force Demographics, FRBSF Economic Letter, no. 28 (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Mapping America’s immigration needs: A county-level model for matching migrants to local economies (Niskanen Center, Nov. 2025) [text]

Refugee Integration Outcomes (RIO): Employment from 2015 to 2023 (UK Home Office, Nov. 2025) [access]

Reviewing the Journey of Self-reliance in the Uganda Refugee Response (U-Learn, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

Journal of Fair Trade, vol. 6, no. 2 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

- Issue focuses on migration and refugees.

"'More Than Sufferers': Digital Boundary‑Making and Belonging Through Work Among Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Finland," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Yemenis in South Korea: Risky Freedom under the Refugee Act and the Employment Permit System," Arabian Humanities, no. 20 (2025) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1 (11 Nov. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2 (11 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Key Messages for COP30 from the Platform on Disaster Displacement (Nov. 2025) [text]

Setting Precedents for Protection: The Falepili Treaty and the Future of Climate Refugee Law (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Three COP30 takeaways for humanitarians," The New Humanitarian, 26 Nov. 2025 [text]

New open access book:

Climate Change, Human Rights, and Adaptive Mobility (Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2025) [open access]

- This book "provides a new conceptual and legal approach to human mobility in the context of climate change, one that seeks to compel and shape more proactive, anticipatory action. [It] anchors its arguments in the international climate change regime, turning to obligations on adaptation found in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. These obligations, though understudied and underutilized, have the potential to be a powerful legal tool. The book therefore seeks to lend them concrete legal meaning. It draws on international climate change and human rights law to weave together doctrinal analysis that considers treaty interpretation, regime interaction, and principles of environmental law with case studies in Bangladesh, the Pacific Islands, and the Sahel. At its core, the book argues that adaptation obligations require states to take measures to address foreseeable risks and ensure human rights."

Reports:

Climate Change, Human Mobility and Security (SIPRI, Nov. 2025) [text]

Climate Displacement in Pakistan: A Review of Law, Policy, and Comparative Contexts (Refugee Solidarity Network, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

No Escape II – The Way Forward: Bringing Climate Solutions to the Frontlines of Conflict and Displacement (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [access]

When a Community Has to Relocate Because the Environmental Risk is Simply Too Great (IDP Protection Expert Group, Nov. 2025) [text via UNHCR]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Climate change and refugee communities in Jordan: Critical reflections on neoliberal resilience-building," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Modeling migration intentions under environmental stress through push pull dynamics and policy effects," Scientific Reports, 15:41699 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on China.

"Reading Climate into the Refugee Convention: Lessons from the Unfinished Business of Gender-Based Asylum," Chapter in Climate Change, Migration, Gender, and the Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming) [preprint]

- "This chapter traces the incomplete evolution of international refugee law with respect to protection claims related to gender. It examines the similarities and differences between such claims and the emerging area of climate-related displacement law and draws out lessons from the ongoing struggle to see gender as central to the notion of international protection."

"Teitiota and Climate Non-Refoulment: The International Law Obligation to Create Domestic Protection Mechanisms," Univ. of San Francisco Law Review, vol. 59, no. 3 (2025) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Vulnerable knowledge: responding to the uncertainties of climate change-related disaster," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

Resource:

Nansen Initiative +10 Blog [access]

- "In 2015, more than 100 governments around the world endorsed the Nansen Initiative’s Protection Agenda – an Agenda for the Protection of Cross-Border Displaced Persons in the context of Disasters and Climate Change. In this commemorative blog, leading experts reflect on subsequent developments in key priority areas identified in the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda, including protection and solutions for people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, and the integration of human mobility within disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategies." See also related news release.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1 (9 Nov. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2 (9 Nov. 2025)