Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Reports:

Leaving No One Behind: Statelessness and the Sustainable Development Goals (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [text]

Statelessness Determination and Protection in Europe: Good practice, challenges and risks (European Network on Statelessness, Oct. 2025) [text]

Statelessness in Europe: Insights, evidence needs and engagement (European University Institute, Oct. 2025) [text]

Toolkit to identify and address statelessness in Germany (European Network on Statelessness, Oct. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973," Past & Present, Advance Articles, 9 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"A comparative analysis between the Rohingyas and Urdu-speaking population in Bangladesh: Repatriation or Statelessness?," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 30 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"A Crisis in the Shadows: Public Health Outcomes and Barriers to Care for Children of North Korean Defectors in China," Frontiers in Public Health, 13 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"Examining the Potential Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Statelessness Determination from a Human Rights Perspective," International Human Rights Law Review, Advance Articles, 10 Oct. 2025 [open access]

Related post:

-  Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (3 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

Short pieces:

"Comment: War-related trauma and displacement in Gaza: the impact on the health and longevity of older adults," The Lancet Healthy Longevity, vol. 6, no. 5 (May 2025) [open access]

Reports:

Adaptation in Adversity: The Impact of Drought on the Livelihood Adaptive Strategies of Refugee Youth with Physical Disabilities in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Refugee-led Research Working Paper, no. 4 (Refugee Studies Centre, Dec. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Inclusive practices for supporting older persons and persons with disabilities in humanitarian settings: A compilation of good and promising practices from the Republic of Moldova (OHCHR, April 2025) [text via UNHCR]

- Focuses on Ukrainians. Also available in Russian.

Mainstreaming disability inclusion in early childhood development for crisis-affected children in the Middle East (International Rescue Committee, May 2025) [text]

*Protection Analysis Update: Risks and barriers faced by persons with disabilities and older persons (Protection Cluster, July 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related UNRWA brief.

Protection of older persons, including those with disabilities, in the context of evacuations: Advocacy note for RC/HC (Protection Cluster, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Ukraine.

Journal articles:

"A comparison of modifiable risk factors for dementia among South Asian migrants and non-migrants aged 50 or older in Tasmania, Australia," BMC Public Health, 25:2362 (July 2025) [open access]

"How inclusive is disaster risk reduction? Perceptions and predicaments of persons with disabilities during disaster in Assam, India," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 4 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

"Return Migration and Ageing," Special collection in International Migration [access]

- Five articles are open access and the introduction is freely available.

"Social Determinants of Health and Well-Being Among Older People from Refugee Backgrounds in Australia: A Longitudinal Study," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 16 June 2025 [open access]

"Vulnerabilities of people with different types of disabilities in disasters: a rapid evidence review and qualitative research," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 3 (July 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Vietnam.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People (5 May 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"À la frontière franco-italienne: un bricolage du droit qui contourne l’asile = At the French-Italian Border: Legal Arrangements Evade the Right to Asylum," De Facto, no. 32 (March 2022) [open access]

De Facto, no. 33 (June 2022) [open access]

- Themed issue on "Migrations et frontières de l’Ukraine en guerre."

"Epistemic Borderwork: Violent Pushbacks, Refugees, and the Politics of Knowledge at the EU Border," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Latest Articles, 21 July 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on the Croatia–Bosnia border. See also related news release.

"The EU's 'return rate' with third countries: Why EU readmission agreements do not make much difference," International Migration, vol. 60, no. 3 (June 2022) [open access]

"Peripheralisation and externalisation of the EU asylum regime: implications for the right to seek asylum on the southeastern EU border islands," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 20 July 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Greece.

"Policies on marginalized migrant communities during Covid-19: migration management prioritized over population health," Critical Policy Studies, Latest Articles, 22 July 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on France, Sweden and the UK.

"Refugee Assemblages: The Figure of the Refugee during the ‘Crisis’ of Europe," Georgetown Public Policy Review (Spring 2022) [full-text]

"Study of Process, Determinants and Consequences of 'Donkey' Migration from South Asia to Greece in Europe," Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 59 (June 2022) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 48.

"Survival over safety: non-reporting of criminalised violence by young migrants excluded from protection," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 25 July 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

"Unexpectedly low Incidence of COVID-19 among Refugees of War from Ukraine to Slovakia in First Month of Conflict," Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention, vol. 13, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (25 July 2022)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunities:

Panel discussion: Accounting for Australia’s refugee policy – from the Tampa to tomorrow, 24 May 2022 [info]

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture: Bordering and Ordering among Refugees from Burma/Myanmar, 25 May 2022 [info]

Call for applications: New Zealand Refugee Advisory Panel [info]

- Deadline is 12 June 2022.

Blog posts & press:

"For desperate Afghans, risky crossings into Iran are worth chancing," The New Humanitarian, 17 May 2022 [text]

"How International Donors Can Better Offer Humanitarian Aid to Myanmar," The Diplomat, 6 May 2022 [text]

Lessons for Ukraine from the Rohingya crisis: even sympathetic communities can lose their enthusiasm for hosting refugees (The Conversation, May 2022) [text]

"Malaysia on potential collision course with UN body over refugee system," The Straits Times, 7 May 2022 [text]

"Pakistan: World’s Second Largest Host of Afghan Refugees," Eurasia Review, 17 May 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Consistency of reports of violence from northern Rakhine state in August 2017," Conflict and Health, 16:22 (May 2022) [open access]

"Factors influencing refugees’ willingness to accept COVID-19 vaccines in Greater Sydney: a qualitative study," Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Early View, 12 May 2022 [open access]

"Fault-lines in temporary migration schemes: The case of Australia and the legacies of settler-colonial mentalities in the exploitation of temporary non-citizens," International Migration, Early View, 19 May 2022 [open access]

"Inter-agency collaboration and disaster management: A case study of the 2005 earthquake disaster in Pakistan," Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Moving forward localisation of humanitarian action in the Philippines: The Philippine Multi-Stakeholder Localisation Dialogue Process Final Report, February-July 2021 (Alliance for Empowering Partnership et al., 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Palaweños helping Palaweños: Localisation of aid driving more sustainable humanitarian outcomes in Palawan (OCHA, May 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Southeast Asia: ASEAN’s Role and Way Forward," Journal of International Studies, vol. 17 (2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

'90 Days & 50 Pounds': Idi Amin, Uganda & the Disbursal of South Asians, 19 May 2022 [access]

Resource:

APRRN Information on Afghanistan [Facebook]

- "This page is dedicated to sharing relevant information and services for Afghan refugees in the region."

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (4 May 2022)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

 Journal articles:

"'Donki' Migration of Refugees from South Asia to Greece," Border Crossing, vol. 12, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 5 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"European perspectives on migration: media narratives and societal discourses after 2015," Collection in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications [open access]

- Includes articles that focus on Albania, Kosovo, Poland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

"How Does the Content of Deservingness Criteria Differ for More and Less Deserving Target Groups? An Analysis of Polish Online Debates on Refugees and Families with Children," Journal of Social Policy, FirstView, 14 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"The impact of housing on refugees: an evidence synthesis," Housing Studies, In Press, 10 Feb. 2022 [postprint]

- Focuses on the UK. Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until August 2023. See also earlier related research digest.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 1 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Centre-right Parties and Immigration in an Era of Politicization." The introduction is freely available and four articles are open access.

Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 4 (Dec. 2021) [contents]

- Features a special section with a European focus on "The Politics of Uncertainty: Producing, Reinforcing and Mediating (Legal) Uncertainty in Local Refugee Reception." Four articles are open access, including the introduction.

"The lawyers as guardians of the case file: on human-material encounters in immigration law in Russia," International Journal of the Legal Profession, vol. 28, no. 1 (2021) [postprint]

- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 9 June 2022.

"Overseas immigration liaison officers: ‘Knowledge brokers’ and transnational spaces of mid-level negotiations shaping extraterritorial migration control practices," Migration Studies, Advance Articles, 15 Feb. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Reject, limbo, and accept: the effect of migration decisions on asylum seekers," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 25 Feb. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (25 Feb. 2022)