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Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts

27 July 2026

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Gender-Based Violence and the Struggle for Justice: Rohingya Women at the Intersection of Law and Displacement (Oxford Human Rights Hub, July 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Bangladesh.

Navigating Livelihood and Belonging: The Everyday Realities of African Migrant Women in Cape Town (On the Move Blog, June 2026) [text]

Reports:

At What Cost?: Women-Led Organizations, Funding Cuts, and the Price of Survival (Refugees International & Women’s Refugee Commission, July 2026) [access]
- See also related blog post.

Beyond the breaking point: The continuing impact of funding cuts on women’s organizations in humanitarian settings (UN Women, July 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

In Spite of Fear: Women's experiences navigating the compounding challenges of displacement and insecurity in Southeast Burma (Karen Human Rights Group, July 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Displaced women, law and competing patriarchies in late Ottoman Serbia," Past & Present, Advance Articles, 8 July 2026 [open access]

"'The perpetrators are with us, who will help us': Sexual violence and victimisation of young female refugees in Northern Nigeria," International Review of Victimology, OnlineFirst, 17 July 2026 [open access]

"Transforming Masculinities and Preventing Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse by Aid Workers: A Qualitative Review," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Transitioning from Survival to Sustainable Livelihoods: Challenges Faced by Refugee Women in South Africa," Societies, vol. 16, no. 8 (July 2026) [open access]

"Women, Space, Resistance: Kurdish Refugee-Migrants' Narratives from Lavrio and Skaramagas Camps in Greece," Population, Space and Place, vol. 32, no. 5 (July 2026) [open access]

Multimedia:

International Refugee Law and the Global Compact - Where are the Women?, 27 April 2026 [access]
- One presentation is also available via the a/m link.

Related posts:

23 July 2026

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

New open access book/book chapters:

"The Beginnings of Activism? Refusal as Political Engagement for Refugees in Slovakia," Chapter in Everyday Revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Balkans (Routledge, July 2026) [open access]

The British Asylum System in Policy and Practice (Bristol Univ. Press, July 2026) [open access]
- "This clear and concise guide demystifies the UK asylum process from application to post-decision outcomes, placing each stage in its wider historical and policy context. Featuring vivid vignettes and empirical data to bring policy to life, it bridges theory, practice and lived experience to show how national decisions are encountered on the ground."

"Refugee Satire as a Form of Resistance: Polish Displaced Persons Take a Ghost Train and Resettle on Saturn," Chapter in Everyday Revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Balkans (Routledge, July 2026) [open access]

Journal articles:

"Distributing mobility: regressive asylum agreements and racialised difference," London Review of International Law, Advance Articles, 15 July 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK Supreme Court's legal decision AAA (Syria) and others and the migration agreement under which asylum-seekers were forcibly transferred to Rwanda.

"Migrant Securities: Community Obligations, Informal Care, and Everyday Security among Uzbek Migrants in Russia," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 16 July 2026 [full-text]

"Narrative negotiation over migrant agency: framing fire, resistance, and criminalisation in the #FreeTheMoria6ampaign," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 18 July 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Greece.

"To speak or not to speak. The responses of social workers and volunteers to adverse conditions in supporting refugees," European Journal of Social Work, Latest Articles, 18 July 2026 [open access]

"Transnational Engagements among Ukrainian Refugees Residing in Norway under Temporary Protection," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 22 July 2026 [open access]

Related post:

22 July 2026

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

CareLine: Using AI Responsibly to Help Answer Refugees’ Queries (UNHCR Blog, July 2026) [text]

Explainer: How UNHCR is using AI to support refugees and improve operations (UNHCR, July 2026) [text]

‘High-Impact’ or Not? How DHS Classifies AI in Immigration Enforcement (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

"What the WFP cyber-attack has in common with visa scandals," The New Humanitarian, 16 July 2026 [text]

York U awarded $2.5M to investigate, mitigate impact of increasing digital surveillance on refugees (York Univ., July 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Digital Community Engagement in Protracted Crises: A Methodological Framework for Longitudinal Research using the Upinion Platform, HADRI Global Development Working Paper, no. 2 (Western Sydney Univ., 2026) [text]
- Focuses on refugee populations in Greece and the Netherlands.

"The humanitarian AI paradox: Key opportunities, challenges and research needs for the use of AI in humanitarian mental health response," Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, vol. 13 (2026) [open access]

"Mediated information grounds: living with(in) pareshani, social networks and gendered media practices among the Rohingya refugees," Information, Communication & Society, Latest Articles, 8 June 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Rohingya refugees in Australia and Bangladesh.

"Mobility as climate change adaptation in South Africa: Exploring the legal and policy significance of artificial intelligence," Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, vol. 18, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Prácticas digitales y experiencias afectivas entre mujeres mexicanas solicitantes de asilo atrapadas en Tijuana, México," Migraciones, vol. 67 (2026) [open access]

"When digital aid meets reality: A socio-technical analysis of feasibility requirements in cash-based interventions," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 231 (Oct. 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Uganda.

Related post:

07 July 2026

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

10 things migration policymakers need to know about AI (WEF Blog, June 2026) [text]

AI can help protect forcibly displaced: UNHCR highlights responsible innovation for refugees (UNHCR, July 2026) [text]

Deferring Accountability, Not Obligation: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Non-Refoulement in Asylum (RLI Blog, June 2026) [text]

For refugees at the economic margins, is AI a threat or an opportunity? (LSE Inequalities Blog, June 2026) [text]

Rethinking tech in alternatives to detention: 10 principles rooted in community empowerment and transparency (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2026) [text]

RETS: Connecting humanitarian response in Chad (UNHCR Blog, June 2026) [text]
- RETS = Refugee Emergency Telecommunications Sector.

The right to education for forcibly displaced people: Exploring ideas on participation, connectedness and technology (BERA Blog, June 2026) [access]
- Blog series.

UNHCR: Hate speech and misinformation are creating real-world harm for displaced people (UNHCR, July 2026) [text]
- See also info on related session at the AI for Good Summit.

Video games are helping players imagine the realities of climate migration (The Conversation, June 2026) [text]

New open access book:

Digital Exiles: Refugee Work in the Global Digital Economy (MIT Press, June 2026) [open access]
- "The pursuit of a digital livelihood—from attending coding schools in Berlin to training datasets for AI in crisis-stricken Lebanon to online freelancing in Kenya’s refugee camps—represents an increasingly important income opportunity for refugees. Digital work programs by aid organizations and the private sector aim to help the forcibly displaced become self-reliant and successful workers, yet, for many, it creates new forms of exclusion, precarity, and risk. Combining human stories with insights from five years of multisited research and applied work with leading organizations, the author presents an alternative vision of an inclusive world of work that can help shape the fair digital economy of the future."

Journal articles:

"Can the subaltern speak online? Digital tactics and conditional audibility of Syrian refugees in Türkiye," Communication, Culture and Critique, Advance Articles, 24 June 2026 [open access]

"Connected lives: smartphones, family ties and dataveillance for Syrian refugees in Greece," Online Media and Global Communication, Ahead of Publication, 11 June 2026 [open access]

"Exploring migration research with large language model: methods and insights," Royal Society Open Science, vol. 13, no. 6 (June 2026) [open access]

"Messy digitality: reflections on using social media methods with Sri Lankan refugees," Digital Geography and Society, In press, 2 July 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

"Professional Inequality in Exile: Digital Precarity among Skilled Syrian Refugees in Germany," Social Inclusion, vol. 14 (2026) [open access]

Related posts:

09 June 2026

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Discussion panel: Borders, Belonging and Justice: Rethinking Refugee Protection in Europe from States to Cities, Online, 15 June 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

EUAA publishes latest asylum trends in EU+ countries (European Commission, June 2026) [access]

One body: a decade of deaths in the Central Mediterranean (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2026) [text]

"Refugees and migration: Is Europe closing its doors?," DW, 1 June 2026 [text]
- Note: The URL provided in the article to the Global Refugee Crisis 2026 report is not correct; use this link instead. The report is only available in German. See also related NPR article and ECRE statement.

Spain’s migration regularisation plan through the eyes of an African migrant researcher: Between opportunity and policy trade-offs (MPC Blog, ) [text]

Journal articles:

"Attitudes towards Immigration Explain Beliefs about Asylum Authorities and Their Decisions," Nordic Psychology (Forthcoming) [preprint]
- Focuses on Finland.

"Contingent Safe Waters: Aesthetic Dissensus Between Metaphor and the Whitening of the Russo-Ukrainian War’s Refugees in the Spanish Press," Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, First View, 1 June 2026 [open access]

"Ethics as Methodological Innovation: Participatory Research Adaptations in Panel Survey Research with Syrian Refugees," Frontiers in Political Science, 1 June 2026 [open access]
- Draws "on the Refugee and European Cities Panel (2016–2022) across thirteen cities in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and the UK."

"Ex post gatekeeping and the fiction of border control: pushbacks as a technology of migration governance at the Greek–Turkish Border," Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Latest Articles, 26 May 2026 [open access]

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, vol. 16, no. 3 (2026) [open access]
- Special issue on "Fronteras de excepción: Entre el control migratorio y la resistencia migrante."

"Unsettled times: War, temporality, and Ukrainian transnational lives," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 2 (June 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Ukrainians in Poland.

Related posts:

08 April 2026

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

New open access book:

A Century of Asia Minor Refugees in Greece: Flight, Fight, and Fraternity (Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2026) [open access]
- "This book is a comparative—intergenerational and interregional—history of Asia Minor memories and identities of forced displacement that examines the multilayered relationship between contemporary attitudes and refugee past. Marking the centenary of the Asia Minor population transfer in the context of Greece’s contemporary migration crisis, the research questions that this book addresses are: how have memories of the 1922–24 forced displacement changed over time from one generation to the next? How do people with these memories and identities think about subsequent migration? Following a regional history approach and an oral history approach, this study draws upon literature from several disciplines and rests upon oral testimony. Specifically, it employs a methodology of collecting primary sources using oral testimonies (262 life history interviews) and archival evidence (five thousand oral testimonies) based on three regional case studies, namely the borderland island of Lesvos, Central Macedonia in northern Greece, and Attica."

Journal articles:

"The Construction of Medicolegal Alienation: Physicians’ Lived Experience of Law in Encounters with People Living as Undocumented Migrants in the Context of Medical Humanitarianism," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 41, no. 2 (2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Sweden.

"From the bottom up? Frontline crisis management and informal policy change in international organisations," Review of International Studies, vol. 52, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"International norm dynamics in return and readmission: a research agenda," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 27 March 2026 [free full-text]
- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"Motivators of action: Greek political refugees, the Enlightenment Committee and Soviet literature, 1949-1968," Neograeca Bohemica, OnlineFirst, 28 March 2026 [open access]

"The vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy: Insights from a nationwide survey," PLoS One 21(3): e0341950 (March 2026) [open access]

"'We were attacked due to our language': Kinyabwisha in the family language policies of refugees from the DR Congo in Norway," Language & Communication, vol. 108 (May 2026) [open access]

"What Drives Overstay? The Case of Afghan Asylum Seekers in Germany," Journal of the European Economic Association, Advance Articles, 24 March 2026 [open access]

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07 April 2026

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"'Climate Refugees' Do Not Exist as a Concept—But Countries Are Testing New Approaches to Offer Protection," Migration Information Source, 19 March 2026 [text]

"Climate Vulnerability as a Sociopolitical Construct: A Study on Asylum Seekers in Greece," Journal of Disaster Studies, vol. 2, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Climate-induced migration in West Africa: a systematic review of the literature," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 24 March 2026 [open access]

"Do Climate Conditions in Origin Shape Return Migration Intentions? Evidence from West Africans in Germany," International Migration, vol. 64, no. 3 (May 2026) [open access]

"(Im)mobility in the context of climate change: between legal challenges and legal experiments," Freedom, Security & Justice: European Legal Studies, no. 1 (2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Europe.

"'Not Your Climate Refugees': A Maldivian Perspective on Migration and Adaptation," Island Studies Journal, Early Access, 1 April 2026 [open access]

"Resilience From the Margins: Navigating Climate-Induced Migration in Assam," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 16 March 2026 [ResearchGate]

Related post:

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Protecting children on the move: What you need to know about the numbers, causes and rights of children affected by migration and displacement (UNICEF, March 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Capability Approach as the Ethics of Social Work with Child Refugees," Child & Family Social Work, Early View, 1 April 2026 [open access]

"Evidence on interventions that promote the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeker children and adolescents in transit: a scoping literature review," International Journal for Equity in Health, 25:76 (March 2026) [open access]

"Evaluating the implementation of intercultural awareness training for the workforce supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children," British Journal of Social Work, Advance Articles, 10 March 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

"The involvement of refugee families in a children’s 'Family Hour' program at a regional Australian museum: opportunities and challenges," Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: Studies of Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival, Latest Articles, 30 March 2026 [open access]

"Mapping the situation of unaccompanied and separated children in Greece: A scoping review," Children and Youth Services Review, In Press, 12 March 2026 [open access]

"Multilevel correlates of childhood violence in refugee settings: findings from the Ethiopia humanitarian violence against children and youth survey," Global Health Action, vol. 19, no. 1 (2026) [open access]
- The authors of this study also published a related article in Child Protection and Practice.

"The Rights and Needs of Children During Times of War and Conflict," Frontiers in Psychology, 16 March 2026 [open access]
- Editorial for the research topic on "The rights and needs of children during times of war and conflict."

"Safe but Broken: A Critical Review on Psychological Risks of Childhood in Refugee Camps," Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 17 (March 2026) [open access]

"Understanding outcomes and resilience factors among refugee and immigrant youth exposed to domestic violence in host countries: A scoping review," Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 175 (May 2026) [open access]

"'Well, there went that playing buddy …': Retrospective narratives about displaceability among children fearing deportation in Denmark and Sweden," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 April 2026 [open access]

Related post:

03 April 2026

Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

Beyond modules alone: why strong education systems are the foundation for life skills development (UNHCR Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

ExCom Conclusion: Education and Disability, NGO Oral Statement at the 95th Standing Committee Meeting, Geneva, 24-26 March 2026 (ICVA, March 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also SC Rapporteur's oral update.

How a pilot program in Ethiopia is building skills and pathways to jobs for refugees and host communities (Education for Global Development Blog, March 2026) [text]

Immigrant kids can attend school regardless of citizenship – some states are challenging this standard (The Conversation, March 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

What learning English means to migrants (The Conversation, March 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Reports & book chapters:

"Higher Education Inclusion for Refugees and International Protection Applicants in Ireland through the Universities of Sanctuary Movement—'Today I have the Keys, and I am Wearing my Good Coat'," Chapter in Transforming Gender Equality and Inclusion Within Higher Education in Ireland: Contemporary Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025) [open access]

In Their Own Words: Students, teachers and frontline education providers on the devastating impact of aid cuts (Global Education Cluster, INEE & Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies, Feb. 2026) [text]

Rapid Review: Exploring Alternative Mechanisms for Recognised Educational Certification in Contexts of Fragmented Governance and Displacement (ERICC, Feb. 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Lessons from Gaza: My Journey into Critical Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in English Language Teaching for Refugees," TESOL Quarterly, Early View, 13 March 2026 [open access]

Nordic Journal of Educational History, vol. 13, no. 1 (2026) [open access]
- Features a thematic section on "Educating Newcomers for the Modern Welfare State: Danish Frontline Organisations as Educational Sites and Drivers of Knowledge from the Late 1960s to the Late 1990s," with an introduction and three articles on refugees, asylum-seekers and immigrants.

"Research Engagement Among Language Teachers for Refugees and Migrants in Greece," Social Sciences, vol. 15, no. 2 (Feb. 2026) [open access]

"Researching Vulnerability in Multilingual Contexts: Trauma, Ethics, and Pedagogy," TESOL Quarterly, Early View, 8 March 2026 [open access]

"Understanding climate refugees from educators’ perspectives: Social studies teachers’ views," PLoS One 21(3): e0344777 (March 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Turkey.

"Voices from the margins: experiences of misrecognition among refugee and asylum parents of children with disabilities upon entry to the education system in England," International Journal of Inclusive Education, Latest Articles, 16 Feb. 2026 [open access]

Related post:

25 March 2026

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

Caged Histories: Violence, Resistance, and the Work of Making Detention Visible (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Greece.

Cameroon: Another Third-Country Removal Scheme Ending with Detention (Immigration Detention Monitor, Feb. 2026) [text]

Canada’s immigration detention system has a racism problem (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2026) [text]

(In)access to legal advice in detention: UK research shows systemic failures (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2026) [text]

Legal refugees now face long detention after DHS reinterprets law on applying for a green card after a year (The Conversation, March 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related post on The Asylumist.

Libya: EU Plans in Eastern Libya Threaten Increased “Pullbacks” and Detentions (Immigration Detention Monitor, March 2026) [text]

Motherhood in Detention (Immigration Lab Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Syria’s Al-Hol Camp is Closed, But Another Remains, as Does International Responsibility (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

Why Australia needs a plan to repatriate citizens detained in Syria (Women's Agenda, Feb. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Dignity Not Detention: How States Can Prohibit Immigration Detention Contracts and Why They Should," NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, vol. 28 (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]
- Focuses on the US.

"Incalculable Harm: Analyzing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Immigration Detention in Canada," Ottawa Law Review, vol. 56, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Life in Limbo: Asylum Detention and the Environmental Conditions of Hope," Journal of the American Philosophical Association, FirstView, 28 Jan. 2026 [open access]

Race and Racism in Canada’s Immigration Detention System (Univ. of British Columbia, 2026) [text]
- See also related Border Criminologies blog post.

Words and Bond: Detention Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 226 (Roger Williams Univ., March 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Related post:

04 March 2026

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

New open access books:

From arrival to settlement: Vulnerabilities of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe (Neodemos Association, Feb. 2026) [open access]
- "The new open-access ebook produced as part of the AVRAI (Assessing the Vulnerability of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy) project addresses [the meaning of vulnerability]. Rather than taking vulnerability for granted, the book invites readers to rethink it as a dynamic and relational condition, emerging at the intersection of individual characteristics, social environments, and institutional responses. In doing so, it challenges both emergency-driven humanitarian frameworks and the rigid policy classifications that dominate the European context."

Migration as Anchorage: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London (Berghahn Books, Dec. 2025) [open access]
"On a temporary visit to London, a Palestinian family found themselves unable to return to Gaza during Israel’s 2008 war on their city. Understanding their stay in London as an act of ‘anchoring’, the family opened a Palestinian café and sought to make their lives – as individuals, as a family and as a community – viable in the face of uncertainty. By following the stories of various family members as they struggled to recreate a sense of home, this moving ethnography introduces the concept of anchorage as a novel lens to understand migration, home and place, highlighting the fluidity, temporariness and serendipity of these experiences."

Working the Dutch Asylum Apparatus: An Ethnography of Suspicious Compassion and State Power (Berghahn Books, March 2026) [open access]
- "Since the 1970s, the recurring discourse of a ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe has affected border strategies that create a context of suspicion and criminalise asylum applicants. This book examines how the Netherlands engages with the arrival of certain (often illegalised) travellers and the asylum procedure, a tense liminal space and time that ensures decisions of inclusion and exclusion. Dutch asylum procedure is a peculiar legal procedure that gathers different people and sensitivities together to make swift, life-altering decisions for those applying for protection. Based on an extensive ethnography, this book reveals the ways in which suspicious compassion in Dutch asylum pervades an objective decision-making practice."

Journal articles:

"Anti-refugee Violence and Social Marginalization of Refugees: Evidence from Germany," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 24 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Camp studies trapped in the camp? Re-articulating recent Greek history through the camp as a productive device," Political Geography, vol. 124 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Doing Agency through Personal Networks: The Case of Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Romania," Global Networks, vol. 26, no. 2 (April 2026) [open access]

"The European Union as a humanitarian border: the production of vulnerability in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum," Space and Polity, Latest Articles, 24 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"HIV self-testing awareness among African refugee male sex workers in Italy: A mixed-methods study," PLoS One 21(2): e0343441 (Feb. 2026) [open access]

"Motus Internus: Narrative Turning Points and the Intragroup Emergence of Dehumanizing Ideologies Among Migrants," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 2 March 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Italy.

"Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 62, no. 6 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Networked Migrants and De-Networked Policies—Examining the Nexus of Migration Regimes and Experiences Through a Relational Lens," Global Networks, vol. 26, no. 2 (April 2026) [open access]

"Racialised deservingness and peripheral whiteness: the case of Albanian asylum seekers in Britain," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 18 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Translating ‘legitimate’ violence in deportation: a bottom-up relational approach to EU policy norms in practice," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, March 2026 [open access]

Related post:

13 February 2026

Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

Digital education improves learning, teaching experience in refugee-hosting schools (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Rwanda.

New fully-funded scholarship for graduate students with lived experience of forced displacement (RSC, Feb. 2026) [text]

Trump Administration Actions Jeopardize Decades of Progress in Adult Education and Immigrant Integration (MPI, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Assessing school readiness domains in a large cohort of refugee children: Validation and links with family factors," Studies in Educational Evaluation, vol. 88 (March 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Malaysia.

"Displacement due to riverbank Erosion: A threat to education in Bangladesh," Progress in Disaster Science, vol. 29 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

Education on the edge: Access to education for conflict-displaced and migrant children along the Thailand-Myanmar Border (Save the Children, Jan. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Enjeux de normalité dans les complexes éducatifs des camps de réfugiés de Grèce," Contextes et Didactiques, vol. 25 (2025) [open access]

*"Refugee Access to National Education Systems: A Scoping Review of Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 10 Feb. 2026 [open access]

*"Refugee education in Australia: reflections on resettlement policy, educational provision, and schooling practices," Journal of Education Policy, Latest Articles, 10 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Relational agency in practice: how migrant and refugee parents navigate digital learning in Western Sydney," International Journal of Inclusive Education, Latest Articles, 7 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Striving for forbidden education: narratives from recently arrived Afghan refugee women in regional Australia," Intercultural Education, Latest Articles, 30 Jan. 2026 [open access]

*UPDATED

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12 February 2026

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

"The Bhasan Char project was never about protection, it’s about Rohingya confinement," The New Humanitarian, 27 Jan. 2026 [text]

Congress Should Stop DHS’s Lawless Misuse of Mandatory Immigration Detention (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

EU: New Return Regulation Threatens to Significantly Expand Detention, Warn UN Special Procedures (Immigration Detention Monitor, Feb. 2026) [text]

ICE's Delayed Detention Data is Out, Two Record Highs: 70,000 People Detained, 40,000 on Ankle Monitors (Austin Kocher Substack, Feb. 2026) [text]
- See also related post on the best source of detention data.

Invisible and Detained: How Immigration Detention Reproduces Gender-Based Violence Against Migrant Women in South Africa (Lawyers for Human Rights, Feb. 2026) [text]

A Legal Black Hole: Does Iraq Have the Right to Detain Prisoners Transferred from Syria? (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

Poland – More Migrant Children to be Detained Following Controversial Legislative Changes (Immigration Detention Monitor, Feb. 2026) [text]

Sweetening Migrant Detention in Third Countries (Refugee History Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

The Taken - Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

Visualising Confinement: Creating 3D Models of Greek Detention Centres (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

We Told You So: Now What for Northeast Syria? (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"'Doing Head Miles': The Meaning and Mental Health Consequences of Immigration Detention in the Context of Criminal Deportation," SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, In Press, 5 Feb. 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

Health in immigration detention: Evidence brief for policy and practice (WHO & Global Detention Project, Jan. 2026) [text]

New ICE arrest data show the power of state and local governments to curtail mass deportations (Prison Policy Initiative, Dec. 2025) [text]
- Provides an update to their earlier report, Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump.

"Protecting human rights in detention: Does anybody care?," Alternative Law Journal, OnlineFirst, 6 Feb. 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

Profiting Off Pain: Privatized Detention, Mass Surveillance and the Drive for Immigrant Prosecutions (National Immigration Project & American Univ., Jan. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Rethinking Preventive Detention," UCLA Law Review, vol. 73 (Forthcoming) [preprint]
- Focuses on the US.

New books:

FYI: These titles include subsections that focus on immigration detention.

Forced Migration and Health Justice (Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2026) [info]

Gender Equality Behind Bars: A Feminist Approach to Penality Policies Worldwide (Palgrave Macmillan, Feb. 2026) [info]

Related posts:

04 February 2026

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Beyond the far-right: an ethnographic approach to cultural and institutional grievances in migration-centred mobilisations in Cyprus and Greece," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 31 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"'The Concept of a Better Life': The Transit of Bangladeshi Migrants to the Schengen Area via Central and Eastern Europe," Population, Space and Place, vol. 32, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Conspiracy Beliefs and the 'Us Versus Them' Mentality: Identity Threat and Attitudes Toward Ukrainian Refugees in Slovakia," Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Early View, 25 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"(Im)permanent Settlement: Protracted Displacement and Secondary Movement Experiences of Syrian Refugees from Turkey to Austria," Social Sciences, vol. 15, no. 2 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"International refugee norm sabotage: An analysis of anti-migration groups in the UK," British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 28, no. 1 (Feb. 2026) [open access]

"Migrant deservingness as an emerging concept: Unveiling public views on asylum seeker settlement through conjoint analysis," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 111 (March 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Belgium.

Mondes & Migrations, no. 1352 (Jan. 2026) [open access]
- Themed issue on "Sous-traiter les frontières," with a dossier on "L’Union européenne et les États d’Afrique face aux migrations: coopération ou impasse?"

"Politicising safety and racialised and gendered criminalisation: Political agenda-setting and the case of Albanian asylum-seekers in the UK," British Journal of Politics and International Relations, OnlineFirst, 20 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Testing the liberal borders of the EU: (De)Constructing the right of asylum through informality," Political Geography, vol. 126 (April 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on the Italian-Slovenian border. 

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20 January 2026

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

In Parents’ Own Words: Documenting the Stories of Separated Families in Honduras (Women's Refugee Commission, Dec. 2025) [text]

Trump Administration Public-Charge Rule Would Amplify Harms to Immigrant Families (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & book chapters: 

"Environmental Justice, Climate Change and Food Security: Interventions with Refugee Children in Western Uganda," Chapter in Climate Justice in Action: Activism and Adaptation in Eastern Africa (Bristol Univ. Press, Jan. 2026) [open access]

Practical Guide on Age Assessment (EU Agency for Asylum, Nov. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Assessing quality of life in displaced children on Lesvos using PROMIS: a mixed methods study," Quality of Life Research, 35:30 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Atención a NNA migrantes en Sonora: experiencias desde las OSC y el Estado," Frontera Norte, vol. 37 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Mexico. Available in English and Spanish.

"Examining suicidality and associated risk factors among refugee children and adolescents in Uganda," BMC Psychiatry, 25:1169 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"The Impact of War on the Social Behaviors of Children and Adolescents in Refugee Camps," Cihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

"Refugees, Family Dynamics, and Resilience: Integrating Systemic Disruptions and Individual Coping Mechanisms," Journal of Family Issues, OnlineFirst, 30 Dec. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Urgent Returns: The Link Between Family and the Remigration Intentions of Deported Central Americans in an Era of Border Externalization," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 4 (2025) [open access]

"Screening for sexual violence against children in humanitarian settings: a feasibility study of a para-social worker-led intervention in Uganda," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:19 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway," Critical Social Policy, OnlineFirst, 13 Jan. 2026 [open access]

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12 January 2026

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Commission welcomes political agreement on first EU list of safe countries of origin and new rules to facilitate the application of the safe third country concept (EU Commission, Dec. 2025) [text]

Countdown to Chișinău: The Risk of Politicising the ECHR over Migration (EJIL: Talk Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The EU’s migration policies – An overview of developments in 2025 (EPRS, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Reporters’ diary: IOM uses UN immunity to avoid scrutiny of Greek returns," The New Humanitarian, 22 Dec. 2025 [text]

Journal articles:

"Art, agency, and access: refugee experiences and resistance in the context of EU’s migration management," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 9 Jan. 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Greece.

"Chessboard politics: the contested emergence of EU return and readmission norms," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 Jan. 2026 [open access]

Contemporary European History, vol. 34, no. 4 (Nov. 2025) [contents]
- Features a special section on "Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949," with seven open access articles.

"The geopolitics of asylum from the part of those seeking it: Refugee subjects and freedom as possibility," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Syrian asylum seekers in Greece.

"Trauma, Post-migration Factors, and Ulysses Syndrome in Refugees in Host Countries," Quaderns de Psicologia, vol. 27, no. 3 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Spain and Ireland. 

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18 December 2025

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Bridging the Gaps: Albania takes steps to improve access to documentation for refugees, with support from UNHCR under the EU4Migration Project (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

Germany’s plan to deport Syrian refugees echoes 1980s effort to repatriate Turkish guest workers (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]

Justice and Home Affairs Ministers agree position on key migration laws and security policies (European Commission, Dec. 2025) [text]
- See also related ECRE editorial.

What makes people welcome or reject refugees? What research in Germany reveals (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]

**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.**

Reports:

ECRE Comments on the Qualification Regulation (EU) 2024/1347 (ECRE, Dec. 2025) [text]

To Leave or Stay? Examining the Role of Counseling and Reintegration Assistance in the Return Decision-Making of Migrants Ordered to Leave the Netherlands (Migration Policy Institute, Dec. 2025) [text]

Union support for asylum, migration and integration (European Parliament, Dec. 2025) [text]

"You can't stay but you can't go": State violence at the UK-France border (Humans for Rights Network, Dec. 2025) [text via EIN]

Journal articles:

"Just Like Us? 'Sameing' Ukrainian Refugee Migration," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 11 Dec. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"'Migrant data can never be accurate': studying migration and borders through the notion of data quality," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 10 Dec. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Greece.

"One century, two refugee crises in Greece: de-nationalising the past/de-naturalising the present," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 9 Dec. 2025 [open access]

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17 December 2025

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Advancing responsible finance: a joint conversation between financial institutions, UNHCR, UNEP-FI and PRI (UNHCR Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Conflict, forced displacement, and growth: Evidence from Uganda (VoxEU, Dec. 2025) [text]

Refugees’ right to work and economic integration: evidence from Ethiopia (Oxford Martin School Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The US already faces a health care workforce shortage – immigration policy could make it worse (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]

USCIS Restricts Work Permits… Again (The Asylumist Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports: 

Best Practices for Designing and Managing Labor Migration Corridors to Europe (Migration Policy Institute, Dec. 2025) [text]

Country Brief: Mozambique (Private Sector Solutions in Forced Displacement, Dec. 2025) [text]
- Previously published country briefs are available for Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.

Legal status and labour access: insights from migrant workers in Greece (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2025) [text]

Profile of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Libya (International Organization for Migration, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Asylum seekers, new businesses, and job creation," Journal of Population Economics, vol. 38, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Employment Verification: The Next Front for U.S. Immigration Enforcement?," Migration Information Source, 20 Nov. 2025 [text]

"Fixed-term Employment and Subjective Well-being: A Comparison of Natives, Migrants and Refugees," Work, Employment and Society, OnlineFirst, 5 Dec. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"A multi-level process perspective on refugee workplace integration," European Management Review, Early View, 8 Aug. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Sweden.

*"Not one ‘Muslim penalty’: ethnic, religious, and gendered variations in precarious work in the UK," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 17 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Precarious employment and gender-based violence against migrant women," PLoS One 20(12): e0337690 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

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23 November 2025

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils: Jewish Refugees in Soviet Occupied Poland 1939–1940," Eastern European Holocaust Studies, Ahead of print, 13 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Emotional foundations of refugee policy support: The role of threats and emotions towards refugees," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 110 (Jan. 2026) [free full-text]
- Focuses on Poland.

"Energy as social relation: Refugees' energy commons for infrastructuring beyond the grid," Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 130 (Dec. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Greece.

"Immigrant and Refugee Mobility Across the Urban–Rural Continuum in Three European Countries," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 21 Nov. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.

"Navigating Administrative Burden: The Role of Bureaucratic Self-Efficacy and Social Capital Among Ukrainian Asylum Seekers," Social Policy and Society, FirstView, 10 Nov. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Switzerland.

"Refugees, Homelessness and the ‘Move-On’ Process," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 11 (Nov. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

"La regularización de las personas solicitantes de protección internacional: alternativas ante un horizonte sombrío," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Spain. Available in both Spanish and English.

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11 November 2025

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2

Reports: 

*Adapting on the edge: Accelerating climate resilience through market systems development in fragility and displacement context (ILO, Oct. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Ethiopia.

Autosuffisance des ménages réfugiés dans la région des Savanes au Togo (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

De facto economic integration of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Policy Brief, no. 7 (PRIO, 2025) [text]

Employers’ guide: Integrating refugees into the Greek labour market (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text]

Employment Assessment for Youth on the Move in Mexico City (International Rescue Committee, Nov. 2025) [access]

Resilience at Work: Displacement and Integration in Ukraine’s Labour Market (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

The welfare and market effects of delays in humanitarian assistance, CSAE Working Paper, no. 2025-08-02 (Univ. of Oxford, Oct. 2025) [text]

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