Watch for:
The 2026 edition of Mixed Migration Centre's flagship publication, Mixed Migration Review, will be launched tomorrow. Register for the
webinar
and/or get a
sneak preview here.
Short pieces:
High Commissioner's Harrell-Bond Lecture at the Refugee Studies Centre,
University of Oxford (UNHCR, Oct. 2026) [text]
Is ‘migration choice‘ possible during the migration course? Understanding
biographical migration projects (FluchtforschungsBlog, Oct. 2026) [text]
Statement to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
(UNHCR, Nov. 2026) [text]
UNHCR Archives: A History of Access - Is Access Now History? (Refugee History
Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]
UNHCR Memoirs and Biographies: A Neglected Source for Refugee History (Refugee
History Blog, Nov. 2026) [text]
What Is the Role of Migration and Displacement in Global Conflicts? (Carnegie
Foundation, Nov. 2026) [text]
New open access books:
Handbook of the Anthropology of Mobilities (Berghahn Books, Nov.
2026) [open access]
- "What if the way people move through the world says more about their
identities, cultures and societies than the places they come from or the
destinations they reach? How will the many crises our
planet is currently facing reshape global mobility patterns, and are we
prepared for the humanitarian and environmental challenges it will bring?
This handbook does not at all pretend to have answers to these difficult
questions. However, it does want to offer conceptual anthropological
insights to tackle the issues at hand and to enhance our understanding of
mobilities, broadly defined."
Innovations in Solutions: Building on 100 years of Efforts – The Global
Compact on Refugees
(Peter Lang, Oct. 2026) [open access]
- "Building on over a century of international efforts in refugee
protection, this monograph traces key developments from the early twentieth
century to the present day. It critically examines the impact of the Global
Compact on Refugees (GCR) of 2018 on partnerships for economic inclusion and
refugees’ self-reliance, meaningful participation of refugees in
decision-making processes and academia. The chronology illustrates how the
GCR complements the 1951 Refugee Convention, including for more predictable
frameworks of responsibility-sharing, with a mutistakeholder and a ‘whole-of
society’ approach. Combining decades of field experience and empirical
research, the monograph offers a richly documented resource for students,
researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, while providing practitioner
insights rarely found in academic publications."
Translating Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons to Early Modernity:
Historically Displaced Concepts
(Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2026) [open access]
- "This open access book introduces the concept of Internally Displaced
Persons (IDPs) into early modern migration history, arguing that the current
characterisation of early modern refugee movements is oversimplified. During
this period, hundreds of thousands of people fled Europe’s religious wars,
seeking asylum in neighbouring states or across the seas. The efforts and
trials of these refugees have been chartered and analysed by many prominent
scholars, who have demonstrated the movements’ entanglement with the state
formation process and the rise of humanitarianism. As a result, early modern
refugees are frequently grouped together under the umbrella term ‘religious
refugees’, contrasting them with present-day refugees, which are identified in
terms of national or ethnic belonging. However, as this book demonstrates,
there were considerable differences among the forced migrants, and one of the
most significant was that whereas some of them fled outside of established
political relationships, many of them moved within such bonds and borders. As
today, early modern forced migration was multifaceted and encompassed diverse
groups with diverse needs and motives."
Reports:
Migration Governance Indicators Benchmark Report on the Global Compact for
Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (International Organization for
Migration, Nov. 2026) [text]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally
displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, UN Doc. No. A/81/339 (UN
General Assembly, Aug. 2026) [access]
- This thematic report examines "reconstruction following armed conflict,
generalized violence and disasters, and its role in enabling internally
displaced persons to achieve durable solutions or, conversely, in prolonging
displacement, contributing to its recurrence or generating new
displacement." See also related press release.
Journal articles:
"Agency: A Concept in Need of Resisting?," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 4 Nov. 2026 [open access]
Cold War History, vol. 26, no. 4 (2026) [contents]
- Special issue on "Refugees and the Cold War." The
introduction
is freely available and six articles are open access.
"Drifting as method: Illustrating a concept metaphor for the anthropology of
securitised mobility," Critique of Anthropology, OnlineFirst, 21
Aug. 2026 [open access]
"The Political Representation of Refugees in Modern Democratic Nation-States
(or Lack Thereof)," Splijtstof: The Philosophical Faculty Journal, vol. 54, no. 2 (2026) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 35.
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