Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities:

Call for participants: #IAW2026: Why Humanitarian Archives Matter—and Why They Are at Risk [info]

- Links to the Humanitarian Archives Emergency survey.

Workshops: Participatory Sense-Making Workshop on Humanitarian Archives, Records & Datasets, Amman/Bangkok/Bogota/Dakar/Nairobi, July-September 2026 [info]

- Apply by 15 June 2026.

Webinar: The politics of selective visibility: Narratives, knowledge production, and entrenched biases of migration stories, 24 June 2026 [info]

CFP: Journal of Refugee Studies [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue on “Forming and transforming the IDP label: Categories, binaries and internal displacement.” Submit abstracts by 31 July 2026.

Short pieces:

"Cash-strapped UN refugee agency to cut more jobs, even as crises mount," Reuters, 18 May 2026 [text]

UNHCR welcomes new appointments to senior leadership team (UNHCR, June 2026) [text]

Reports:

Alert 2026! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding (Escola de Cultura de Pau, June 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Also available in Spanish.

Conflict trends: A global overview, 1946–2025 (PRIO, June 2026) [text]

Global Peace Index 2026 (Institute for Economics and Peace, June 2026) [access via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Children and Families’ Experiences with Document Portability, Security and Verification During Forced Migration," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 41, no. 2 (2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Afghans, Syrians and Ukrainians in Türkiye, Poland, and Canada.

"Displacement-affectedness: a moral economy lens to examine protracted displacement," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 8 June 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Lebanon, and Pakistan.

Handbook on International Migration and Social Networks (Edward Elgar, May 2026) 

- The introduction and final chapter are freely avaialable.

"Resilience and coping behavior among war refugees from diverse ethnic backgrounds," Discover Psychology, 6:137 (May 2026) [open access]

"Time in refugee studies: a conceptual literature review and prospects from a social theory lens," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 11:16 (June 2026) [open access]

Resource:

Protection and Assistance Services Along Mixed and Onward Movement Routes (UNHCR, IOM & ICVA) [access]

- "The tool provides a cross-regional overview of available services and urgent gaps. It aims to strengthen programme design and coordination, and to support referrals and improve planning and resource mobilization, while helping refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants access relevant, timely and tailored information, protection and assistance where they are. The plan is to gradually expand the product to other major mixed movements routes." Learn more in the joint press release.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (21 May 2026)