Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

"Star-studded refugee football team takes the pitch for UN," UN News, 19 May 2026 [text]

Steven Vertovec Appointed President of the New International Panel on Migration (IPM) (Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science, May 2026) [text]

Reports:

Against the Current: Three Years of Rescuing People in the Mediterranean (EMERGENCY, May 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Every Autocrat’s Dream: A Global Snapshot of the Human Rights Harms of US Foreign Aid Cuts (Human Rights Watch, May 2026) [text]

Freedom in the World 2026: The Growing Shadow of Autocracy (Freedom House, May 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Global Displacement Forecast 2026 (Danish Refugee Council, April 2026) [access]

- Follow link for this year's report and key findings, as well as access to previous forecasts. See also recording of related webinar.

UNDP–UNHCR Joint Collaboration Framework 2026–2030 (2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"From Barriers to Abuse: Border Hardening and Torture," International Organization (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Imagining Migratory Futures: The Transnational Chain of Actors in Migration Information Campaigns Between Africa and Europe," Special collection in International Migration (2025-2026) [access]

- The editorial is freely available and four articles are open access.

"Performing for multiple audiences: Immigration bureaucracies and horizontal accountability," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 2 (June 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Multimedia:

Thinking Borders: Vicki Squire (Thinking Global Podcast Series, May 2026) [access]

Resource:

Celebrating the new Refugee Studies Centre blog [access]

- "A platform for sharing research and reflections on current issues related to forced migration."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (29 April 2026)

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.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (23 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

"History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism," New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025 [text]

"Immigration agency deports highest numbers since 2014, aided by more flights," AP News, 19 Dec. 2024 [text]

The Inequalities of Humanitarian Parole (Immigration Lab Blog, Dec. 2024) [text]

"Inside the 'targeted operations' ICE agents carry out against undocumented immigrants," NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024 [text]

Nearly 54% of extreme conservatives say the federal government should use violence to stop illegal immigration (The Conversation, Jan. 2025) [text]

"Palestinians seeking US refuge face a Kafkaesque nightmare. Trump could make it even worse," The Guardian, 17 Dec. 2024 [text]

Providing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants improves birth outcomes, research shows (The Conversation, Jan. 2025) [text]

Temporary Protected Status: An Overview (American Immigration Council, Dec. 2024) [text]

What to expect on immigration policy from a Trump White House (Brookings Commentary, Dec. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

*"Abandoning Deportation Adjudication," Stanford Law Review, vol. 77 (Forthcoming, 2025) [preprint]

"Administrative Subordination," Univ. of Chicago Law Review, vol. 91, no. 6 (2024) [full-text]

"Hues of Humanitarianism: Exploring the Inequities of Humanitarian Parole in the U.S.," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 4 (2024) [open access]

"The Migration of Abolition Theory," North Carolina Law Review, vol. 103 (Forthcoming, 2025) [preprint]

"Subnational immigration policymaking in the United States: the role of issue entrepreneurs in California, Texas, and Florida," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 23 Dec. 2024 [open access]

Which places would be most affected by the Trump administration’s immigrant deportation proposals? (Brookings, Dec. 2024) [text]

Multimedia:

The Biden Legacy on Immigration: A Complex Picture, 17 Dec. 2024 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (20 Dec. 2024)

Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Governing Migration Through Paperwork: Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation (Berghahn Books, Aug. 2024) [open access]

- "To better understand migration governance and the concrete, daily practices of civil servants tasked with enforcing state laws and policies, it is important to focus on documents, which are core artefacts of bureaucratic work. These can include certificates, letters, reports, case files, decisions, internal guidelines and judgements in both digital and paper form. Based on ethnographic studies in various geographical and bureaucratic contexts, this collection shows how civil servants produce statehood, restrict migrants’ movements and engage with migrants’ strategies to make themselves legible. It contributes to the study of the state as documentary practice and highlights the role of paperwork as a powerful practice of migration control."

Journal articles:

"Beyond the present, the nation, and Europe: Three different uses of history in reflexive migration studies," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

"The Causes and Consequences of Refugee Flows: A Contemporary Reanalysis," American Political Science Review, FirstView, 7 May 2024 [open access]

"COVID-19 among migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons: systematic review, meta-analysis and qualitative synthesis of the global empirical literature," eClinicalMedicine, OnlineFirst, 10 July 2024 [open access]

"The migration decisions of Syrian and Ukrainian refugees as perceived by their receiving communities," Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, In press, 29 July 2024 [open access]

- "Participants were surveyed in Lebanon, Jordan, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland."

"Respect and Asylum," Journal of Applied Philosophy, Early View, 2 July 2024 [open access]

"Risk of suicide and suicidal behavior in refugees: A meta-review of current systematic reviews and meta-analyses," Journal of Psychiatric Research, vol. 177 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1 (2 Aug. 2024)

Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Celebrating Refugee Talents: The 2024 Refugee Olympic Team (Wilson Center, July 2024) [text]

The Ethics of Conducting Community-Based Research with Forced Migrants as an Early Career Researcher (LERRN Blog, July 2024) [text]

Hablemos de Migración: Glosario de conceptos clave (IADB Blog, June 2024) [text]

In some countries, immigration accounted for all population growth between 2000 and 2020 (Pew Research Center, July 2024) [text]

A Pen Through Time: Nicholas Morris’s 27-Year UNHCR Journey (UNHCR Blog, July 2024) [text]

- Note: Includes a link to Nicholas Morris' book, As It Happened: Eight Accounts of Experiences with UNHCR.

Rich countries are paying poorer ones to manage their refugee crises: 3 reasons this is dangerous (The Conversation, July 2024) [text]

Reports:

Core Reception Principles: Welcoming People Seeking Safety, Supporting Host Communities, and Advancing Fair, Effective Asylum Systems (International Rescue Committee, July 2024) [text]

The Prospect of Shared Hegemony Between the US and China in Addressing Displacement (E-International Relations, Aug. 2024) [text]

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

- See also related editorial. Note: These guidelines were developed by organizations that work with individuals who are stateless but may also be used to help amplify other voices. 

WHO global action plan on promoting the health of refugees and migrants, 2019–2030 (World Health Organization, July 2024) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (3 July 2024)