20 January 2026

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

In Parents’ Own Words: Documenting the Stories of Separated Families in Honduras (Women's Refugee Commission, Dec. 2025) [text]

Trump Administration Public-Charge Rule Would Amplify Harms to Immigrant Families (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & book chapters: 

"Environmental Justice, Climate Change and Food Security: Interventions with Refugee Children in Western Uganda," Chapter in Climate Justice in Action: Activism and Adaptation in Eastern Africa (Bristol Univ. Press, Jan. 2026) [open access]

Practical Guide on Age Assessment (EU Agency for Asylum, Nov. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Assessing quality of life in displaced children on Lesvos using PROMIS: a mixed methods study," Quality of Life Research, 35:30 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Atención a NNA migrantes en Sonora: experiencias desde las OSC y el Estado," Frontera Norte, vol. 37 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Mexico. Available in English and Spanish.

"Examining suicidality and associated risk factors among refugee children and adolescents in Uganda," BMC Psychiatry, 25:1169 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"The Impact of War on the Social Behaviors of Children and Adolescents in Refugee Camps," Cihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

"Refugees, Family Dynamics, and Resilience: Integrating Systemic Disruptions and Individual Coping Mechanisms," Journal of Family Issues, OnlineFirst, 30 Dec. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Urgent Returns: The Link Between Family and the Remigration Intentions of Deported Central Americans in an Era of Border Externalization," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 4 (2025) [open access]

"Screening for sexual violence against children in humanitarian settings: a feasibility study of a para-social worker-led intervention in Uganda," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:19 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway," Critical Social Policy, OnlineFirst, 13 Jan. 2026 [open access]

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