Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

The Invisible Tide: Why Climate Policy Must Address the Unspoken Losses of Coastal Youth (RID Blog, May 2026) [text]

- Focuses on India.

Refugees innovating for inclusive climate action (UNHCR Innovation, June 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Zimbabwe.

Reports & journal articles:

"Climate-Induced Displacement and Migration – Implications on Poverty and Household Food Security in Southern Africa," Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 61, no. 2 (March 2026) [ResearchGate]

"Climate-Induced Exile in Latin America: Intersectionality, Refugee Women, and the Dynamics of Conflict and Negotiation," Histories, vol. 6, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Constrained agency of island and coastal communities facing climate displacement," Forced Migration Review, no. 76 Plus (June 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Indonesia and the Philippines.

"From conflict to climate crisis: How wars shape the future environment," Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 408 (May 2026) [open access]

"From Temporary Climate-Induced Displacement to Permanent Urban Settlement in Pakistan," Migration Information Source, 4 June 2026 [text]

Readiness Assessment of UNHCR’s Focus Area Strategic Plan for Climate Action, EVO/2026/03 (UNHCR, April 2026) [access]

- Follow link for text and summary.

Resource:

Practical Toolkit on Climate Change and Disaster Displacement: Training Materials for Decision-makers and Practitioners (Kaldor Centre, May 2026) [access]

- "These training materials are for decision-makers and practitioners working on international protection claims involving the impacts of climate change and disasters. They accompany the Practical Toolkit on International Protection in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters. The short training video and additional training materials below are intended for use by individuals and organizations seeking to better understand when, and how, international refugee and human rights law apply to people displaced in this context."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (22 May 2026)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Call for applications: Statelessness Essentials Course, Online, 15 June-15 September 2026 [info]

- *More details about the course sessions are provided here. Register by 10 June 2026.

Report launch: Understanding Statelessness in Australia, Melbourne, 18 June 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

"1 Year Later, Deported Bhutanese Refugees Feel the Psychological Toll of Statelessness," The Diplomat, 20 May 2026 [text]

The Conundrum of Ethnic Recognition and the Limits of Group-Based Citizenship Campaigning in Kenya (CSS Blog, May 2026) [text]

Stateless people in Romania: still waiting for recognition and rights (ENS Blog, May 2026) [text]

"Taiwan's Democratic Blind Spot: Statelessness and Legal Exclusion," The Diplomat, 22 May 2026 [text]

Why Germany needs a statelessness determination procedure (ENS Blog, May 2026) [text]

**See also ISI's Monthly Bulletin for more news, information & resources.

Reports & journal articles: 

Applying the statelessness provisions in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (European Network on Statelessness, May 2026) [text]

Deprivation of Citizenship: Humanity, Equality, Democracy, Justice, Social Cohesion in the UK (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, June 2026) [text]

- See also related press release.

Exploring the Interface Between Birth Registration and Citizenship Determination: A Scoping Study in Seven Countries in Southern Africa (UNHCR & Vital Strategies, April 2026) [text]

Forced Migration, Statelessness, and Conflict in Africa: Legal Frameworks, Institutional Gaps, and Policy Pathways, Case Legal Studies Research Paper (Case Western Reserve Univ., Forthcoming) [text]

Guardianship, Nationality and Statelessness (European Network on Statelessness, May 2026) [text]

Melbourne Asia Review, no. 26 (2026) [open access]

- Special issue on "Statelessness in Asia."

"Will I Always be British?" An investigation into the impact of UK citizenship-stripping policies on feelings of belonging, security and Britishness in migrant communities (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, June 2026) [text]

- See also related press release.

Resource:

Global Caselaw Database on Statelessness (Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness) [access]

- "[E]stablished to strengthen access to jurisprudence on nationality, statelessness, and related human rights issues. ...The database covers judgments that address statelessness directly, such as where the applicant is stateless or at risk of statelessness."

*UPDATED

Related posts: 

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (6 May 2026)

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2 (6 May 2026)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Beyond ‘bad actors’: Why do some employers use irregular migrant workers? (MPC Blog, March 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Europe.

Disposable, but indispensable: Irregularised migrants in Europe’s labour markets (MPC Blog, March 2026) [text]

How trade unions and employers’ associations react to irregular migrants: Variations in policy preferences across five European countries (MPC Blog, March 2026) [text]

Labour mobility programmes for refugees: origins, benefits and limitations (RLI Blog, March 2026) [text]

Reports:

Final report of the evaluation of the implementation of UNHCR’s Southern Africa Regional Stepped-up Livelihood and Economic Inclusion Strategy (2021–2024), EVO/2025/19 (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

Unlocking refugee work authorisation in Kenya: a practical framework for economic inclusion, institutional alignment, and national growth (Kenya Coalition for Refugee Economic Inclusion, March 2026) [text via NRC]

Journal articles:

"Entrepreneurial resilience of refugees in the Arctic region," Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, EarlyCite, 11 March 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

"Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations: How Multinational Enterprises Can Drive Refugee Employment," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 24 March 2026 [open access]

"Multi-Trillion Dollar and Multi-Million Worker Contributions: An Economic Accounting of Birthright Citizenship," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 19 March 2026 [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Skilled personnel risk management under war-induced forced migration: implications for labor market sustainability," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 21 March 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Ukrainians.

"Why Don’t They Work? Understanding the Complexity of Work Intentions Among Ukrainian Refugees in Germany," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 11 March 2026 [open access]

Multimedia:

Meeting Labor Skill Needs While Expanding Refugee Protection, 26 Feb. 2026 [access]

- Focuses on Europe.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (10 March 2026)

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Africa’s Colliding Conflicts Compound Forced Displacement Crisis (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Sept. 2025) [access]

"Mozambique: A case study of growing need and global aid cut confusion," The New Humanitarian, 10 Sept. 2025 [text]

A New Dataset is Powering the Fight Against Hunger in Africa (ReliefWeb Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

Uganda has signed a deal with the US to take asylum seekers – what’s behind it and what’s at stake (The Conversation, Sept. 2025) [text]

UN Special Rapporteur Calls on Mauritania to End Abuses Against Migrants and Refugees (Immigration Detention Monitor, Sept. 2025) [text]

"Why African Countries Keep Making Deals to Accept U.S. Deportees," New York Times, 23 Sept. 2025 [text]

Reports: 

Can cash transfers save lives? Evidence from a large-scale experiment in Kenya, Centre for the Study of African Economies Working Paper, no. 10 (Univ. of Oxford, Aug. 2025) [text]

International Refugee Law and the Principle of Non Refoulement: Revisiting the case of Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and Co vs The People of Cameroon, Working Paper, no. 80 (Refugee Law Initiative, Sept. 2025) [text]

Kenya Refugee Response Under Strain: Funding Cuts, Differentiated Assistance, and the Rising Social Cohesion Crisis (NGO Refugee Group, Aug. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Sustainable Responses for Refugees in Southern Africa (UNHCR, Aug. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana," Global Food Security, vol. 45 (June 2025) [preprint]

"Ruins of relief: temporalities of humanitarian aid abandonment in the tri-border zone between DRC, CAR, and South Sudan," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:14 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

"Social Cohesion in Protracted Displacement: Limits to Peace Between Young People in Camps," International Social Science Journal, Early View, 2 Sept. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Kenya.

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (5 Sept. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (5 Sept. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Birthright Citizenship of Child Born to Enemy Alien Visitors," Washington University Law Review Online, 14 Aug. 2025 [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"The Boundaries of Discrimination in Citizenship Revocation: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas for Naturalised Immigrants," Boğaziçi Law Review, vol. 3, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Governance of Citizenship in Turkey: Exceptional Citizenship for Syrians amidst a Protracted Refugee Crisis," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. 23, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

"Making Digital (Non)Citizens: Digital Identity, Non-Knowledge and Statelessness in Cambodia," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 31 July 2025 [open access]

"Making sense of non-belonging and statelessness resulting from citizenship testing: the voices of stateless Kurds," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 14 Aug. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on stateless Kurds in Norway and Denmark.

Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Mix of articles, comments, case notes & book reviews.

"Strengthened or Sidelined? An Evaluation of Pledges to Eradicate Statelessness in the Southern African Development Community," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 11, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

Resource:

Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific (SEAP) [access]

- This reference tool has been newly updated: "This release covers 25 countries across South Asia and the Pacific, with the full downloadable report due in early 2026 once remaining country factsheets are added. New features include expanded coverage of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa, as well as the first regional analysis of digital ID and CRVS systems and their impact on stateless communities. Each factsheet now contains citations, and the website allows for real-time updates and easier navigation."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (4 Sept. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

1 in 3 Tuvaluans is bidding for a new ‘climate visa’ to Australia – here’s why everyone may ultimately end up applying (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

Barriers to Safety: Recognizing Climate Refugees in International Law (RLI Blog, June 2025) [text]

Canada must take action to prevent climate-related migration (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

Climate Change and Internal Displacement: Women’s Voices from Bangladesh (RLI Blog, June 2025) [text]

Environmental Justice and Urban Reintegration: Protecting Climate-Displaced Persons from Resettlement in High-Risk Zones (RID Blog, June 2025) [text]

- References a case study on Fiji.

Flooded, forgotten, still here: The struggle for solutions in Western Kenya’s informal displacement camps (MPC Blog, June 2025) [text]

UNHCR Welcomes SADC’s Landmark Regional Commitment to Address Forced Displacement, Fragility, and Climate Resilience (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

What is Climate Mobility, and Why Should We Care? (Carnegie Endowment, June 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

AJIL Unbound, vol. 119 (2025) [open access]

- Symposium on "Financing Climate Mobility."

"Climate Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Forced Displacement: A 23-Year Spatial Analysis in Colombia," Social Science Quarterly, vol. 106, no. 4 (July 2025) [open access]

"How Systemic Barriers Can Impact Health Inequities When Facing Climate Change Stressors: A Scoping Review of Global Differences," GeoHealth, vol. 9, no. 6 (June 2025) [open access]

"Refugees and host communities’ vulnerability to climate and disaster risks in Rwanda," Frontiers in Climate, 25 June 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (22 May 2025)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

Side event: Protection in Law and Practice: Regional and Global Engagement on Displacement in the Context of Climate Change, Geneva, 15 October 2024 [info]

- Taking place during EXCOM's 75th session.

Seminar: Climate Change, Displacement and Gender, Online, 28 October 2024 [info]

Side event: Advancing the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters: Exploring Multi-stakeholder Perspectives, Practice Insights and Legal Frameworks, Geneva, 28 October 2024 [info]

- Taking place during the RCRC's 34th conference.

Side event: People on the Move in a Changing Climate: Locally Led Action, Geneva, 29 October 2024 [info]

- Taking place during the RCRC's 34th conference.

Short pieces:

Desplazamiento como consecuencia del cambio climático en Colombia: escenarios de vulneración de derechos humanos que exige la atención integral del Estado (Departamento de Derecho del Medio Ambiente Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

Extreme weather is disrupting lives in southern Africa: new policies are needed to keep the peace (The Conversation, Oct. 2024) [text]

Uganda’s struggles resettling climate-displaced communities (African Arguments, Oct. 2024 [text]

Reports:

Briefing Note: Anticipatory Action: An innovative tool at the intersection of disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response (OCHA & UNDRR, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Enduring Change: A Data Review of Firsthand Accounts of Climate Mobility Impacts (International Refugee Assistance Project et al., Sept. 2024) [access]

- Focuses on the US.

Engaging Local Communities for More Effective Climate Mobility Programming (Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2024) [text]

Flood and Drought Displacement Risk in Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan (HABITABLE Project, July 2024; posted Oct. 2024) [text via IDMC]

*Harnessing Development Financing for Solutions to Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific (IDMC & ADB, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Leveraging Collective Intelligence Methods: Participatory Mapping and Citizen-Generated Data to Address Environmental Degradation and Displacement - A Burundi Case Study (IOM & Joint IDP Profiling Service, Sept. 2024) [text]

- A French version is also available.

Mapping human mobility in national and regional disaster risk reduction strategies and related instruments (Platform on Disaster Displacement, UNHCR & UNDRR, Oct. 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for report and summary.

Multimedia:

How We Talk about Climate Migration Shapes Treatment of “Climate Refugees," 4 Oct. 2024 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (28 Sept. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Short pieces:

The Campaign to End Statelessness: January-March 2024 Update (UNHCR, July 2024) [text] 

"People of no nation: how being stateless means living without rights," Voxeurop, 1 Aug. 2024 [text]

Understanding Statelessness as a "shape shifting monster" (CSS Blog, July 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Lebanon.

UNHCR hosts deliberations on new Protocol to secure the right to nationality and end statelessness in Africa (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

UNHCR welcomes the adoption of the Arab Declaration for Belonging and Legal Identity (UNHCR, July 2024) [text]

USCIS Policy Changes Open New Opportunities for Immigration Lawyers to Support Stateless People (Think Immigration Blog, July 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Reports & journal articles:

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Forthcoming) [access]

- Special issue on "Mutual Attrition of Citizenship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in South and Southeast Asia." The information is freely available and articles on Assam and South Asia are open access.

"The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:34 (July 2024) [open access]

- Note: This article is part of a collection on "Citizenship Policy: From Paper to Practice: Global Perspectives on the Implementation Gap."

Redoubling our efforts on ending statelessness: UNHCR’s strategic plan 2023-2026 (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

Statelessness in Southern Africa Newsletters (Southern African Nationality Network & UNHCR, 2023-2024) [access]

- Follow link to for quarterly newsletters.

Storytelling Guidelines (European Network on Statelessness, Statefree and Apatride Network, July 2024) [access]

- See also related editorial.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (11 July 2024)

 

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Pledges aren’t enough to protect East Africa’s refugees (ISS Today, Nov. 2023) [text]

SADC Member States partner with the African Development Bank and UNHCR to address forced displacement, fragility, and climate resilience in Southern Africa (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

Verifying records of over 61,000 refugees and asylum seekers living in Republic of Congo (UNHCR Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Conflict, climate change, food security, and mobility in the Karamoja Cluster: A study to analyse interactions among conflict, food security, climate change, migration and displacement factors (FAO, IGAD & Interpeace, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Critical Turning Point: The Path to Durable Solutions for Refugees in Uganda (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]

Exploring new approaches to urban refugee hosting in Kenya (IIED, Nov. 2023) [text]

Knowledge, resources and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights: The views and experiences of young refugees living in Kyangwali refugee settlement, Western Uganda (Open Univ., June 2023) [text]

Migration and Displacement in Secondary Cities: Insights from Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda (Migration Policy Institute, Nov. 2023) [text]

- See also video recording of related webinar.

"Systematic Analysis of the Security and Economic Implications of Migration and Regional Conflict in West Africa," Global Journal of Social Sciences, vol. 22, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"When Legal Inclusion is not Enough: The 'Uganda Model' of Refugee Protection on the Brink of Failure," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 15 Nov. 2023 [open access]

White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection: Towards a complete overhaul of the migration system in South Africa (Govt. of South Africa, Nov. 2023) [text via CRAI]

- See also related press statement. Public comments on the white paper can be submitted until 19 January 2024.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (4 Nov. 2023)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

Addressing Statelessness through the Rule of Law (International Development Law Organization & UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

"'The Ancestral Line is through the Father': The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar," Law & Social Inquiry, FirstView, 3 Jan. 2023 [open access]

Birth Registration and Statelessness in the Member States of the Southern Africa Development Community (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness: Accelerating Action in the Final Two Years of the Campaign (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

Identifying and addressing statelessness in the refugee context (European Network on Statelessness, Jan. 2023) [access]

- Follow link for "a series of thematic briefings to help those working in the asylum and migration context in Europe identify and address statelessness in their work."

"Is the automatic loss of South African citizenship for those acquiring other citizenships constitutional? Democratic Alliance v Minister of Home Affairs," South African Journal on Human Rights, Latest Articles, 8 Jan. 2023 [open access]

Joint Submission to the Global Consultation on the International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS), 24 Oct.-21 Nov. 2022 [text]

Statelessness and Citizenship Review, vol. 4, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

- Includes three articles, two critiques/comments, and four case notes.

Resources:

Global Alliance to End Statelessness [info]

- "To implement the recommendation to 'end statelessness' found in the UN Secretary General’s ‘Our Common Agenda’ report, UNHCR is serving as the Secretariat to lead the establishment [of] the Global Alliance to End Statelessness. The Global Alliance will seek to build on the concrete gains and momentum generated by the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024 and serve as a platform to increase collective advocacy efforts, catalyse political commitments to address the problem, and accelerate the implementation of concrete solutions to statelessness. The Global Alliance will be launched in 2023." See also related ENS editorial.

Southern African Nationality Rights Index (Southern African Nationality Network) [access]

- This new tool "compares and measures access to nationality rights in Africa by assessing law and policy on the protection of stateless people and the prevention of statelessness in the region, against international norms and good practice."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (14 Jan. 2023)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts:

Rwanda lacks recent data on employment, skills, consumption – the cornerstones of good socio-economic programming (UNHCR Blog, Nov. 2022) [text]

- Links to a mapping survey of available datasets.

The Terrible Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Central Africa (Verfassungsblog, Nov. 2022) [text]

Why it’s important to understand the unique plight of internally displaced people in Africa (The Conversation, Nov. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Northern Ethiopia: two years into the crisis (ACAPS, Nov. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Population Data Analysis: Regional Bureau for Southern Africa (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

Protection for Refugees Needed After Two Years of War in Northern Ethiopia (USCRI, Nov. 2022) [text]

“Those Who Returned are Suffering”: Impact of Camp Shutdowns on People Displaced by Boko Haram Conflict in Nigeria (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2022) [text]

UNHCR Position on Returns to North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Adjacent Areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo Affected by Ongoing Conflict and Violence – Update III (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

- See also related news briefing.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (28 Oct. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Reports:

"An American Catastrophe: The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy," The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2022 [English version] [Spanish version]

- See also related interview.

Child labour within the Syrian refugee response: 2020 Stocktaking Report (UNHCR, May 2021; posted Aug. 2022) [text]

Documenting the Impact of Cross-border Case Management for Children on the Move in Southern Africa (Save the Children, 2022) [access]

- Follow link for report and brief.

"Erroneous age assessment of young asylum seekers," Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, no. 11 (2022) [full-text]

- Focuses on Norway.

Guía operativa para la aplicación del interés superior de la niñez y adolescencia en contextos de movilidad humana (UNHCR et al., July 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"An Intersectional Approach to Alternative Care Models: A Case Study of Asylum-Seeking Children at the Makeni Transit Centre in Zambia," York Law Review, vol. 3 (Summer 2022) [full-text]

"Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey," Citizenship Studies, Latest Articles, 28 July 2022 [open access]

"How do diplomats separate refugee families in Brazil?," Routed Magazine, no. OMC22 (2022) [text]

"Predictors of psychological risk and resilience among Syrian refugee children," Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Early View, 12 July 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Lebanon. See also related news release.

"Promoting an Understanding of Forced Migration Among Host Country Children and Exploring Their Views on Refugee Children’s Needs," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Latest Articles, 24 Aug. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (28 July 2022)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Webinar: Mass Atrocities and Statelessness: Under-explored Connections?, 25 August 2022 [info]

CFP: Statelessness and Citizenship Review [info] [info]

- Contributions for a special issue sought from early career statelessness scholars, in particular members of the Global PhDs on Statelessness (GPS) network. Submit abstracts by 1 September 2022.

Call for participation: Consultation on the Nationality Rights Index for Southern Africa, 9 September 2022 

- Follow this link to provide input on Tanzania and this link for input on Zimbabwe.

Call for registration: 6th Online Course on Statelessness, 24 October-18 November 2022 [info]

- Register by 23 September 2022. 

Call for applications: Statelessness Intensive Course 2023, 15-21 February 2023 [info]

- Submission deadline is 30 September 2022.

Blog posts & press:

Asserting Statelessness: Using Archival History to Challenge State Discourse (CSS Blog, July 2022) [text]

The Campaign to End Statelessness: April-June 2022 Update (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

Children born in the largest refugee camp in the world teach us what being stateless means to them (ENS Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the Rohingya in Bangladesh.

Might a ‘victory for human rights’ in the Netherlands benefit stateless children in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): possible applications of Zhao v the Netherlands (ENS Blog, July 2022) [text]

Preventing and solving statelessness in European law (ENS Blog, July 2022) [text]

UNHCR applauds Liberia for removing gender discrimination from its nationality law (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

An update on barriers to citizenship facing stateless children in the UK (ENS Blog, July 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Memorandum of the Establishment of the Eastern African Nationality Network, 11 May 2022 [text]

- See also related press release.

Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness, Good Practice Papers: Action 1 (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

The State We’re in: Ending Sexism in Nationality Laws (Equality Now, July 2022) [access]

- Follow link for report and executive summary in multiple languages and for the Annex of Laws in English. See also related press release. Regional reports are also available for the Americas, Asia, MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Statelessness and Citizenship Review, vol. 4, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

- Special issue on "Children and Statelessness."

"Ties that bind and unbind: charting the boundaries of European Union citizenship," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 5 Aug. 2022 [open access]

"'What about it is unclear? I mean I was born here': Ungeklärte Staatsangehörigkeit and the (re-)production of de facto statelessness in Germany," Citizenship Studies, Latest Articles, 26 July 2022 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (7 July 2022)

Thematic Focus: Gender Issues - Pt. 2

 Journal articles:

"Barriers to male condom use in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh: A qualitative study," The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, In Press, 20 May 2022 [open access]

"Covid-19 and female migrants: policy challenges and multiple vulnerabilities," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:23 (June 2022) [open access]

- Focuses on female Zimbabwean migrants in Botswana and South Africa.

"Crisis upon crisis: a qualitative study exploring the joint effect of the political, economic, and pandemic challenges in Lebanon on Syrian refugee women’s fertility preferences and behaviour," Conflict and Health, 16:35 (June 2022) [open access]

"Family planning knowledge, attitude and practice among Rohingya women living in refugee camps in Bangladesh," Reproductive Health, 19:105 (May 2022) [open access]

"Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-based Violence and Integration: Effects, Risks and Protective Factors," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 15 June 2022 [open access]

"In search of legal stability: predicaments of asylum-seeking mothers in Berlin," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 6 June 2022 [open access]

"Maternal Care and Pregnancy Outcomes of Venezuelan and Colombian Refugees," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Latest Articles, 6 June 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Ecuador.

"Revitalizing and Reforming International Asylum Law: A Proposal to Add Gender to the Refugee Definition," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 36, no. 2 (Winter 2022) [full-text]

"Risk factors for miscarriage in Syrian refugee women living in non-camp settings in Jordan: results from the Women ASPIRE cross-sectional study," Conflict and Health, 16:32 (June 2022) [open access]

"Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post-conflict northern Uganda," Disasters, vol. 46, no. 3 (July 2022) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender Issues - Pt. 1 (18 June 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines, vol. 55, no. 3 (2021) [contents]

- Special issue on "African Refuge/Refuge africain." The editorial and one other article are freely available and two articles are open access.

"Commitments to forced migrants in African peace agreements, 1990–2018," International Journal of Human Rights, Latest Articles, 3 Dec. 2021 [ResearchGate]

"Community engagement in pastoralist areas: Lessons from the public dialogue process for a new refugee settlement in Turkana, Kenya," Pastoralism, 11:26 (Nov. 2021) [open access] 

"COVID-19 Vaccines: Ensuring Social Justice and Health Equity among Refugees in Africa," Annals of Global Health, vol. 87, no. 1 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

"Decolonial Regionalism: Reorienting Southern African Migration Policy," TWAIL Review, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"Invented, invited and instrumentalised spaces: conceptualising non-state actor engagement in regional migration governance in West Africa," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 16 Nov. 2021 [open access]

"'A peaceful country': Refugees, masculinities and anti-radical national identity in early postcolonial Botswana," Historia, vol. 66, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"Prevalence and Predictors of Depression Among Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Survey," Psychology Research and Behavior Management, vol. 14 (Dec. 2021) [open access]

"South Africa Reckons with Its Status as a Top Immigration Destination, Apartheid History, and Economic Challenges," Migration Information Source, 18 Nov. 2021 [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (14 Dec. 2021)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Reports & articles:

Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2021 (UNHCR, March 2021) [text]

Estudio regional sobre inscripción tardía de nacimientos, otorgamiento de documentos de nacionalidad y apatridia: estándares, mejores prácticas, barreras y desafíos en Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, República Dominicana y Uruguay (UNHCR, OAS & CLARCIEV, Jan. 2021) [text]

"Libya's Forgotten Ones," Zenith, 23 March 2021 [text]

"The Myopic Loss of Nationality Rights Leading to Statelessness," Gonzaga Journal of International Law, vol. 24, no 2 (March 2021) [full-text]

The Nationality and Statelessness of Nomads Under International Law: With a comprehensive examination of the nationality and statelessness of former Bedouin in Kuwait, Tuareg in Mali and Sama Dilaut (Bajau Laut) in Malaysia, Dissertation (Tilburg Univ., Dec. 2020) [text]

A Place to Call Home: Shining a Light on Unmet Legal Need for Stateless Refugee Children in Australia (Refugee Advice & Casework Service and Peter McMullin Centre, March 2021) [access]

- Follow the link for the report and related video of the launch event.

Quick Guides: Researching Statelessness (UNHCR, March 2021) [text]

"Racial Discrimination in Nationality Laws: A Doctrinal Blind Spot of International Law?," Columbia Journal of Race and Law, vol. 11, no. 1 (2021) [full-text]

Revocation of citizenship: The new policies of conditional membership, EUI Working Paper, no. RSC 2021/23 (European Univ. Institute, 2021) [text]

"Stateless and Persecuted: What Next for the Rohingya?," Migration Information Source, 18 March 2021 [text]

Statelessness Newsletter (January-March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and its implementation in Southern Africa.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (2 April 2021)

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Books & reports:

Addressing Sexual Violence against Men, Boys, and LGBTIQ+ Persons in Humanitarian Settings: A Field-Friendly Guidance Note by Sector (Women's Refugee Commission, Feb. 2021) [text]

EU law and the mutual recognition of parenthood between Member States: the case of V.M.A. v Stolichna Obsthina (Globalcit, Jan. 2021) [text]

- See also related ENS blog post.

LGBT Adult Immigrants in the United States (UCLA, Feb. 2021) [text]

Lives That Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians (Routledge, March 2021) [abstract]

Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe (UCL Press, March 2021) [open access]

- Note: Access to the complete text will not be available until the book has been formally published on 8 March 2021.

Journal articles:

"Housing policy with violent outcomes: the domestication of queer asylum seekers in a heteronormative society," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 47, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

"Imaginaries about Brazil in the Media Consumption of LGBTIQ+ Immigrants and Refugees in the City of São Paulo," International Journal of Communication, vol. 15 (2021) [open access]

"Mapping Homo/Transphobia: The Valorization of the LGBT Protection Category in the Refugee-Granting System," ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, vol. 20, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

- Focuses on France.

“Precarious Living, Absent Livelihoods: LGBTQI Refugees in ‘First Asylum Cities’,” Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 9, no. 1 (Dec. 2020) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 16.

"Queer studies and religion in Southern Africa: The production of queer Christian subjects," Religion Compass, vol. 15, no. 1 (2021) [Univ. of Western Cape]

*"Reconocimiento de la Condición de Refugiado en México: personas LGBTI y Discriminación en Guatemala," La Revista de Derecho, vol. 41 (2020) [open access]

"Refugeeness, sexuality and gender: spatialized lived experiences of intersectionality by queer asylum seekers and refugees in Paris," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Accepted 18 Feb. 2021 [abstract]

- Note: This open access article has been provisionally accepted but the final formatted text is not yet available.

"Los refugiados LGTBI en España: buscar protección en tiempos de control migratorio," Anuario CIDOB de la Inmigración 2020 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (16 Dec. 2020)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

News re. recent US action on resettlement:

President Biden has signed an Executive Order that re-commits to supporting and expanding refugee resettlement in the US, effectively reversing the steps taken over the last four years by the Trump administration to decimate the program. The new refugee admissions cap will be set at 125,000. Here is the accompanying State Dept. press statement. UNHCR applauded the move, pointing to the low numbers of refugees resettled in 2020 globally. See this Vox article for more info. 

Blog posts & press:

Could the Biden administration pressure Australia to adopt more humane refugee policies? (The Conversation, Jan. 2021) [text]

The New Pact on Migration and Asylum and the recommendations of the EU Commission on legal pathways to protection in the European Union (Human Rights Here Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

"The long road to sorting out US refugee resettlement," The New Humanitarian, 26 Jan. 2021 [text]

"The pandemic is no excuse to shut the door on refugee resettlement," The New Humanitarian, 25 Jan. 2021 [text]

Refugees in new locations and destinations: lifelines and backlashes (COMPAS Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Small groups of refugee families to be allowed into New Zealand," RNZ, 5 Feb. 2021 [text]

With refugee resettlement at a record low in 2020, UNHCR calls on States to offer places and save lives (UNHCR, Jan. 2021) [text]

- Note: Includes a link to a factsheet summarizing resettlement data for 2020.

Journal articles:

"Co-production Through Volunteerism in Emergency Management: Drawing Lessons from Canada’s Syrian Refugee Resettlement Initiative," Canadian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 1, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

"The Impact of Syrian Refugee Arrivals on Local Systems of Support in Canada," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 4 Jan. 2021 [free full-text]

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 80 (in progress) (Jan. 2021) [access]

- Focuses on integration, adaptation and social challenges for refugees and immigrants. The texts of all articles can be accessed for free; three of them are open access. 

Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, vol. 17, no. 1 (2020) [contents]

- Special issue on "Refugee Resettlement in Early Twenty-First Century New Zealand."

"Special Section: Return, Remixing and Reconciliation after Conflict," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 5 Feb. 2021 [open access]

- Note: The three articles referenced in this overview are not yet available.

Resource:

Migration and the Law Database: A new global benchmark on integration policies (KNOMAD) [access]

- "KNOMAD has compiled a global database of national legal frameworks affecting the integration of economic migrants and refugees. ...Data is provided for 20 qualitative indicators across four dimensions: economic opportunities, health care, housing, and political integration." More info is provided in this blog post.

Multimedia:

Local Integration of Refugees: The Southern African Experience, 19 Jan. 2021 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (15 Jan. 2021)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Blog posts & press:

Decolonising statelessness: unpacking colonial legacies and deconstructing forms of epistemic violence (Critical Statelessness Studies Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

From Citizen to Criminal: Citizenship Determination in India and the Limits of Due Process (The Leaflet, Jan. 2021) [text]

Introducing “Hawiati”: A network for stateless solidarity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (ENS Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

‘Legal identity’, statelessness, and private international law (Conflict of Laws, Jan. 2021) [text]

"Op-ed: The Pact’s Statelessness Blind Spot Must be Remedied: Here’s How," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 29 Jan. 2021 [text]

UNHCR welcomes Iceland’s decision to join global efforts to end statelessness (UNHCR, Jan. 2021) [text]

A victory for human rights in Zhao v. the Netherlands (the ‘Denny case’): Nationality from birth, without exceptions (ENS Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

‘A whole new world has opened in front of me’ (UNHCR, Jan. 2021) [text]

- Focuses on Uzbekistan.

Reports & journal articles:

2020 Year in Review (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, Jan. 2021) [text]

Citizenship and Statelessness in the Member States of the Southern African Development Community (UNHCR, Dec. 2020) [text]

"Citizenship and the Mass Production of Statelessness in Assam," Chapter in India Exclusion Report 2019–2020 (Centre for Equity Studies & Three Essays Collective, 2020) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 189.

“Implications of India’s New Citizenship Law on its Refugees,” Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 9, no. 1 (Dec. 2020) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 94.

Legal Identity and Statelessness in Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific Issues, no. 147 (East-West Center, Jan. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

“The Statelessness of the Children of North Korean Women Defectors in China,” Human Rights Brief, vol. 27, no. 2 (Winter 2020) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 98.

“Three Branches of Coping with Statelessness Risk in Colombia,” Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 9, no. 1 (Dec. 2020) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 134.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (13 Jan. 2021) 

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Exploring resource scarcity and contextual influences on wellbeing among young refugees in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda: findings from a qualitative study," Conflict and Health, 15:3 (Jan. 2021) [open access]

"The ‘Host’ Label: Forming and Transforming a Community Identity at the Kakuma Refugee Camp," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 13 Jan. 2020 [postprint]

"Humanitarian crisis in north-eastern Nigeria: Responses and sustainable solutions," Journal of Public Affairs, Early View, 9 Nov. 2020 [ResearchGate]

"The Impacts of Internal Displacement on Local Communities: Examples from Ethiopia and Somalia," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4 (Dec. 2020) [free full-text]

"Predictors of Irregular International Migration among Youth in Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia," Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 16, no. 1 (June 2020) [open access]

"Social Capital's Role in Humanitarian Crises," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 1 April 2020 [ResearchGate]

- Focuses on Uganda and Nigeria.

"Success Twinned by Challenge: An Urban IDP Response in Ethiopia," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4 (Dec. 2020) [free full-text]

"Taking us to the vulnerability scene: Television news coverage and framing of internally displaced persons in Nigeria," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 25 Oct. 2020 [ResearchGate]

- See also earlier related article.

Multimedia:

Borders, mobilities and immobilities in Southern Africa, 13 Jan. 2021 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (15 Jan. 2021)