01 July 2026

New Issue of JRS & Opportunity

The latest issue of Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) has been published. Contents of vol. 39, no. 2, June 2026 include:
  • Waiting out the crisis: a strategy for resisting displacement in Burundi [open access]
  • The role of collective hypervisibility in everyday lives of refugees: the Syrian refugee hubs in metropolitan areas of Turkey [abstract]
  • ‘I needed this journey’: home visits in wartime as transformative events [open access]
  • Jonathan, a refugee who wants to be a Black Korean [abstract]
  • Refuge by ‘technical’ means: humanitarianism, bureaucratic asylum, and the politics of refracted mandates in postcolonial India (1947–1981) [open access]
  • ‘Uganda likes refugees too much’: domestic narratives on refugee protection [abstract]
  • Reproductive health injustice in internally displaced persons camps in Nigeria [abstract]
  • Telling the gendered story: the construction of migrant subjectivities in UNHCR’s animated information campaign [open access]
  • Ambivalent intersectional solidarity: Berlin’s LGBTIQ+ civil society alliances during the war in Ukraine [open access]
  • Art, agency, and access: refugee experiences and resistance in the context of EU’s migration management [open access]
  • Field reflections from training Finnish asylum officials [open access]

Two reviews are also included.

Separately, JRS has announced a call for contributions to a special issue on "Forming and transforming the IDP label: Categories, binaries and internal displacement." Submit abstracts by 31 July 2026.

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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 July 2026, while Part 2 lists additional June 2026 titles as well as new open access books.