Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"But for and a Good Bit More: Conflicting Nexus Standards within Asylum Law and the Role of Animus in Forced Recruitment," Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, vol. 24, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"A 'Distressed Class of People': French Refugees and Mobility Control in Philadelphia, 1790s–1810," 

Itinerario, FirstView, 25 March 2026 [open access]

"Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States," Migration Information Source, 12 March 2026 [text]

"Incapacitating the Immigration Courts," SMU Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Law Enforcement Gang Designations," Virginia Law Review, vol. 113 (Forthcoming, 2027) [preprint]

"Second Class Asylum, Third Country Danger," SMU Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"The Sky is Falling: Immigration Law and Agency Adjudicator Independence," Utah Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Third Country Removals and Counterfeit Due Process in Immigration Enforcement," Tulane Law Review, vol. 101 (2026-2027) [preprint]

"Translating welfare: language brokering and public benefit navigational capital," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 9 March 2026 [open access]

"The Trump Administration’s Immigration Policies Encounter Resistance in the Courts," Migration Information Source, 25 March 2026 [text]

"Welcome to the Trump Administration’s Board of Immigration Appeals. The Immigrant Always Loses," Yale Law Journal Forum (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (2 April 2026)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Community Resistance: Immigration Law in the Face of Mass Deportation & Repression, UC Davis Immigration & Nationality Law Review Symposium, Davis, CA, 17 April 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

Affirmative Asylum Cases Dismissed and Sent to Court Without an Interview (The Asylumist Blog, April 2026) [text]

American Immigration Attitudes by the Civic Health Institutions Project (ImmProf Blog, March 2026) [text]

"Explainer: How the Trump administration is undermining legal immigrants," The Guardian, 21 March 2026 [text]

A German Right-Wing Influencer Has Requested Asylum in the U.S. Does She Have a Case? (The Asylumist Blog, March 2026) [text]

Government Defrauds Legal Immigrants and US Sponsors Who Paid $1 Billion in Fees (CATO At Liberty Blog, March 2026) [text]

How Secretary Mullin Can Reform DHS (Just Security, March 2026) [text]

Interview with an Immigration Judge: Larry Burman (The Asylumist Blog, March 2026) [text]

Two-Thirds of Open Somali Cases Placed on "Somali Rocket Docket" (bklg Blog, March 2026) [text]

US Supreme Court to hear landmark asylum case on border ‘turnbacks’ (UNSW, March 2026) [text]

- See also related posts on Just Security, Lawfare, and SCOTUSBlog. 

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

Reports:

Asylum Cooperative Agreements: Denial of Due Process and Risks of Return to Danger (CGRS, March 2026) [text]

Temporary Protected Status (TPS): An Overview (American Immigration Council, March 2026) [text]

- See also related SCOTUSBlog post.

Resource:

Cuban Migration Projection Dashboard (Niskanen Center, March 2026) [access]

- "This dashboard projects monthly Cuban migration encounters at US borders under three scenarios using a scenario-conditional model calibrated against historical data. It does not use time-series forecasting or machine learning. Each projection is the output of a structured set of assumptions about route accessibility, enforcement posture, and regime behavior."

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (9 March 2026)

Opportunities: More April 2026 & New May 2026

Talk: The UNRWA Archive of Palestine Refugee Family Files, Online, 7 April 2026 [info]

Talk: The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution, Los Angeles, 9 April 2026 [info]

Call for applications: Palestine Refugees and International Law, Istanbul, 8-9 May 2026 [info]

- *Note that the venue and dates have changed.* Closing date for applications is 10 April 2026.

Call for events/speakers: Global Gender and Migration Forum, New York/Online, 27 April-8 May 2026 [info]

- Submit proposals by 10 April 2026.

Semiar: Rethinking mobility: reciprocity and agency for North-South equity, Online, 10 April 2026 [info]

Call for registration: Migration across the Americas I: Governance of Borders, Mobilities and People, Los Angeles, 16 April 2026 [info]

- Co-sponsored by the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS).

Book launch: Decolonizing Queer Migration: Iranian Voices in Exile, Online, 23 April 2026 [info]

Seminar: Rethinking aid: Lessons from refugee‑led responses, Oslo/Online, 23 April 2026 [info]

Seminar: International Refugee Law and the Global Compact: Where are the Women?, Online, 27 April 2026 [info]

- Note: This is the final seminar in WiRL's series on "Refuge in a cold climate: the impact on women." Videos of previous seminars are available here.

Call for proposals: Special issues for International Journal of Refugee Law [info]

- Submission deadline is 4 May 2026.

Call for registration: 52º Curso virtual sobre el Derecho internacional de las personas refugiadas, 8 de junio – 3 de julio 2026 [info]

- Register by 11 May 2026.

Call for proposals: Special issues for Migration Politics [info]

- Submission deadline is 15 May 2026.

Call for proposals: Special issues for Refugee Survey Quarterly [info]

- Submission deadline is 15 May 2026.

Related post:

- Opportunities: A Few More March & April 2026

New Book Titles

Please visit my Forced Migration Library blog for a two-part posting of new book titles. Part 1 highlights new books due out in April 2026, while Part 2 lists additional March 2026 titles, as well as a new reference book and open access texts.