26 March 2026

New Issue of JRS

The latest issue of Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) has been published. Contents of vol. 39, no. 1, March 2026 include:
  • Mapping the Global North bias in forced migration studies: three decades of publication and citation trends [open access]
  • Credible fictions: how states stage refugee governance for geopolitical gain [open access]
  • Asylum access adjudication: a multi-level framework for socio-legal research [open access]
  • Accountability without accounting: missing and inconsistent labeling of refugee and asylee students in state datasets [abstract]
  • Digitalisation of the Finnish asylum procedure: from efficiency to procedural vulnerabilities [open access]
  • The racialized, racializer, and anti-racializer: religion and the racialization of refugees in South Korea [abstract]
  • Making Rafha: explaining the establishment of Saudi Arabia’s first and only refugee camp [open access]
  • Perceived discrimination of asylum seekers and refugees in Hong Kong: the empowering role of refugee-led organizations [abstract]
  • Forced migration and fertility: disruption and adaptation outcomes of women fleeing to Türkiye from Syria [open access]
  • Constrained paths: legal status and mobility governance of Syrian refugees after the 2023 earthquakes [abstract]
  • ‘The threat of forced return is the government’s last resort’: structural, cultural, and direct violence towards Syrian refugees in Lebanon [abstract]
  • ‘Partial returns:’ displacement, mobility, and translocal connections in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina [open access]
  • Land for refugees: sharing and exchanging in Northern Uganda [free full-text]
  • ‘Chileans ex Romania’: Resettlement, Containment, and the Limits of UNHCR’s Global Ambitions during the Cold War [abstract]
  • Intermediaries and opacity: understanding refugee family reunification through migration infrastructures [abstract
  • The ties that bind and break: a natural experiment on the role of (in)stability in local and transnational social ties for loneliness among refugees [open access]
  • When the best is the enemy of the good: the ironic negotiation process of Japan’s controversial asylum amendment bill [abstract

Three reviews are also included.

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