Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Addressing Internal Displacement in Peace Agreements, 1992–2023: Global Trends and Implications," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 30 July 2026 [open access]

"Authoritarian borders? Turning authoritarian international law inside-out," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (Forthcoming, 2026) [open access]

"Editor’s Introduction: Global Mobility Law - Rethinking the Role of Law in Movement Across Borders," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]

"Freedom of movement, sovereignty, and the Third World in postwar international law (1948-1968)," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (Forthcoming, 2026) [open access]

"'Humanity Washed Ashore': Can Migrants and Refugees Constitute a Collective Civilian Population in the Sense of Crimes Against Humanity?," Journal of International Criminal Justice, Advance Articles, 29 July 2026 [open access]

"An Intergenerational Right of Return: Addressing the Historical Displacement of Diasporic Communities," LSE Law Review, vol. 11, no. 3 (2026) [open access]

International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 108, no. 931 [open access]

- Special issue on "Upholding Humanity in War." 

"Life-Making Under Humanitarian Law," Annual Review of Law and Social Science, vol. 21 (2025) [open access]

Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2 (June 2026) [contents]

- Special issue on "Caught between Justice and Injustice: Interactions and Frictions between International Criminal Law and International Refugee Law."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (20 Aug. 2026)

New Issue of RSQ

A special issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) has been published. The theme of vol. 45, no. 2, June 2026 is "Caught between Justice and Injustice: Interactions and Frictions between International Criminal Law and International Refugee Law." Contents include:

• Caught between Justice and Injustice: Interactions and Frictions between International Criminal Law and International Refugee Law [abstract]
• “No Safe Haven” and the Politics of Accountability: The Extradition and Exclusion of Rwandan Genocide Suspects [open access]
• Persecuted but Undeserving [open access]
• Does “Undeserving” Last Forever? [open access]
  
• From Asylum to the Witness Stand: Asylum Seeking Witnesses in Universal Jurisdiction Trials in Europe [open access]
• International Criminal Law Norm Setting in Domestic Refugee Courts: “Complicity Through Facilitation” and Refugee Exclusion Jurisprudence [open access]
• The Problem of Punishing International Crimes through Immigration Law [open access]

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunities:

Seminar: The Differential Criminalisation of Unauthorised Migration: Controlling the Maritime Movements of Rohingya to and from Indonesia, Singapore, 24 February 2026 [info]

CFP: ARC-UNHCR Conference on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement (REFCON 2026), Kuala Lumpur, 9-11 June 2026 [info]

- Submit proposals by 28 February 2026.

Short pieces:

Australia: Abusive Refugee, Migration Policies Expand (HRW, Feb. 2026) [text]

Fixing the “Foreigner”: What India’s New Immigration Law Gets Wrong About Refugees (RLI Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Rohingya boats: Out of mind but still coming (The Interpreter Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Selective Humanitarianism and the Erosion of Non-Refoulement: India’s Immigration and Foreigners (Exemption) Order 2025 (RLI Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

New open access book:

Between Empire and Nation: South Asian Humanitarianism in the Late Colonial Period (Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2025) [open access]

- This volume provides "a comprehensive history of South Asian humanitarian aid in the context of armed  conflicts in the colonial period. Adopting an international and transnational approach, the book focuses on relief initiatives from the First World War to the Second World War and the early post-war years. Through five case studies, this book offers new insights into the history of volunteer societies and non-state organisations in British India. It enhances readers’ understanding of late colonial public and political activism on the Indian subcontinent. "

Journal articles:

"Causing a Stir: Unwanted Aliens and the Cauldron of Crimmigration Controls Post-NZYQ," Univ. of Queensland Law Journal, Advance Access, 30 Oct. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia. See also related Border Criminologies blog post.

"Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post-colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld," Development and Change, Early View, 23 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"The hope industrial complex: resisting manufactured and false hope with critical hope in peace education, Thailand's refugee context," Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives, Latest Articles, 27 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Humanitarian Crises and Mental Health Coping Strategies Among Myanmar Refugees in Mizoram State, India," Asian Social Work and Policy Review, vol. 20, no. 1 (Feb. 2026) [open access]

"Reflections on the mobility turn and the relationality of (im)mobilities," Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, Latest Articles, 15 Jan. 2026 [open access]

- Uses "the case of Afghan refugees in Korea as an illustration."

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (30 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Border Criminologies Blog [access]

- See recent posts in a new thematic series on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.

New Common European System for Return (European Commission, March 2025) [access]

- Includes links to additional documents & information. See also related articles from ECRE and Human Rights Watch and an EPRS briefing.

What is the Future of the Prohibition Against Collective Expulsion in the European Human Rights Legal Framework? (EJIL: Talk Blog, March 2025) [text]

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

New open access book:

Borders, Migrations and Human Rights (Ledizioni, 2025) [open access]

- "[T]his volume brings together leading scholars to analyze the resurgence of border enforcement as a central political priority, often at the expense of international legal obligations and human dignity.Drawing from sociology, law, history, psychology, and literary studies, the book interrogates the evolving functions of borders—not only as physical demarcations but as sites of legal, political, and social contestation. Contributors explore topics such as the securitization of migration, the constitutional rights of migrants, EU border policies, the criminalization of solidarity, and the narratives of border-crossing in literature and cultural discourse. Through this multi-faceted lens, the volume reveals how contemporary border practices reshape democratic societies, challenge human rights principles, and expose the persistent tensions between national security and universal justice."

Reports:

Brutal Barriers: Pushbacks, violence and the violation of human rights on the Poland-Belarus border (Egala &Oxfam, March 2025) [text]

Crimmigration through Administrative Surveillance of Civil Society at the EU's External Borders, Law Research Paper, no. 3 (Univ. of Luxembourg, March 2025) [text]

Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU: Theoretical, Interdisciplinary, and Practical Perspectives, Law Research Paper, no. 2 (Univ. of Luxembourg, March 2025) [text]

Living in Fear and Humiliation: Rising Xenophobic Harassment and Violence towards Central Asian Migrants in Russia (Human Rights Watch, March 2025) [text]

Maintaining International Protection in Europe during Syria’s Transition (ECRE, March 2025) [text]

Toolkit on How to Request Interim Measures under Rule 39 of the Rules of the European Court of Human Rights for Persons in Need of International Protection (UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

UNHCR Observations on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (11 March 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (11 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Activists, Smugglers, and Researchers in the Migration Industry in Mexico," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 15 (2024) [open access]

- Available in both English and Spanish.

"Anatomy of a route: Script analysis of irregular migration, smuggling and harms on the Central Mediterranean route to Europe," Criminology & Criminal Justice, OnlineFirst, 31 Oct. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the route from Libya to Malta.

"Child-Centered Anti-Trafficking Approaches in Mediterranean Migration Routes: Italy and Turkey," Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 12 (Dec. 2024) [open access] 

"Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Early View, 19 Dec. 2024 [open access] 

- Focuses on "Eritrean forced migrants travelling along the Central Mediterranean Route."

"Human smugglers or criminalised migrants? Securitarian bordering and the criminalisation of ‘captains’ in the Mediterranean," Trends in Organized Crime, Latest Articles, 11 Nov. 2024 [postprint]

- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 11 Nov. 2025. Focuses on Greece and Italy.

"Leaving at All Costs: Implications of the Italy-Libya Border-Externalization Policy on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking Facilitation," Perspective Politice, vol. 17 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Nigerians.

"The procedural legal status of migrants transported by smugglers in European jurisprudence," European Integration Studies, vol. 20, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling - Pt. 1 (3 Jan. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Court battle to keep Annunciation House open underscores how faith groups strive to welcome strangers in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment (The Conversation, July 2024) [text]

Diverse Flows Drive Increase in U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population (MPI Commentary, July 2024) [text]

- See also related press release.

Immigrants May Benefit While Others Lose Out From the Supreme Court’s Decision Overruling Chevron (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2024) [text]

The Republican Party Platform and Asylum (The Asylumist Blog, July 2024) [text]

Sharply More Americans Want to Curb Immigration to U.S. (Gallup, July 2024) [access via ImmigrationProf Blog]

We’ve Tracked Over 700 Immigration Bills This Year. Here Are the Trends We’ve Seen (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2024) [text]

What the data says about immigrants in the U.S. (Pew Research, July 2024) [text]

- See also related Pew Research posts on the origins of immigrants and unauthorized immigrants.

Why Are Border Crossings at Their Lowest Level in Four Years? (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2024) [text]

New/updated open access texts:

Crimmigration Law: An Open Casebook (Kit Johnson, July 2024) [open access]

- This casebook "is designed to serve as the principal text for a course on crimmigration--the intersection of immigration law with criminal law and procedure. The book provides explanations and primary source readings regarding U.S. immigration law, the immigration consequences of criminal conduct, immigration detention, noncitizens in the criminal justice system, federal immigration crimes, states and immigration, border enforcement, and interior immigration enforcement." Also available via the a/m link is a related Statutory Supplement.

Immigration Law: An Open Casebook, Version 2.1 (Kit Johnson, July 2024) [open access]

- This casebook "provides explanations and primary source readings regarding immigration law in the United States. Topics include the constitutional bases for regulating immigration, the contours of the immigration bureaucracy, the admission of immigrants and nonimmigrants into the United States, undocumented migration, the deportation and exclusion of noncitizens, refugee and asylum law, immigration detention, federal and state immigration crimes, border and interior immigration enforcement, and the law concerning citizenship and naturalization."

Reports & journal articles:

“Disrupt and Vilify”: The War on Immigrants Inside the US War on Drugs (Human Rights Watch, July 2024) [text]

"Immigration in the Shadow of Death," Univ. of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 26, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

Managing Migration at the US-Mexico Border: Recommendations for the Biden Administration (Women's Refugee Commission, July 2024) [text]

"Plenary Power: Teaching the Immigration Law of the Territories," Stetson Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Saving Lives, Ending Inefficiencies: Steps to Strengthen the U.S. Asylum Adjudication System (Human Rights First, July 2024) [text]

"The Toll Paid When Adjudicators Err: Reforming Appellate Review Standards for Refugees," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 38, no. 2 (Winter 2024) [full-text]

- "In this article, I provide the first comprehensive circuit-by-circuit study of each of the five core elements of the refugee definition to show the depth of disagreement related to standards of review."

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (4 July 2024)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

Check out this post for legal-related online courses provided by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IIHL).

Blog posts:

Women in International Law Symposium (Völkerrechtsblog, March 2023) [access]

- "This year, the symposium will focus on women in international refugee law and will host a series of blogposts, authored by members of the ‘Women in International Refugee Law’ network, on the contemporary struggles of women and girls seeking asylum and on current developments in this context."

Reports: 

Asylum for Containment: EU arrangements with Niger, Serbia, Tunisia and Turkey = L’endiguement par l’asile: Dispositifs de l’UE avec le Niger, la Serbie, la Tunisie et la Turquie (ASILE Project, March 2023) [access]

- Follow link for report in English and French.

External Processing: A Tool to Expand Protection or Further Restrict Territorial Asylum? (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2023) [text]

Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Migration: Training Guide, Professional Training Series, no. 26 (OHCHR, March 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Country Guidance, Country of Origin Information, and the International Protection Needs of Persons Fleeing Armed Conflicts," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 28 March 2023 [open access]

"Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea: An Endeavor to Connect Law of the Sea and International Human Rights Law," Ocean Development & International Law, vol. 53, nos. 2-3 (2022) [preprint]

"The Influence of International Criminal Law on Refugee Law," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Accepted 1 March 2023 [abstract]

- The final open access version will be published soon.

"The International Organization for Migration and New Global Migration Governance," Harvard Journal of International Law, vol. 63, no. 2 (Spring 2022) [full-text]

"Pushback of Refugees Under International Law: A Conceptual Analysis," Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul, no. 71 (2022) [full-text]

"What Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Syria Have Taught Us About the Politics of International Refugee Law," TRC Journal of Humanitarian Action, vol. 1, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Decolonizing Refugee Law, 16 March 2023 [access]

Safeguarding the right to international protection, PROTECT Final Conference, Brussels,, 6-8 March 2023 [access]

- Follow link for video recordings of the keynote speeches.

Resource:

Refugee Law Teaching Support Initiative (RELATE) (Hungarian Helsinki Committee) [access]

- This website aims to support refugee law educators by providing access to free training materials, multimedia, and other relevant resources. Recently, RELATE published a Manual for Teachers of International Refugee Law, "a free model syllabus aimed at guiding junior educators to prepare and launch their first teaching activities in refugee law and international protection. It includes relevant, freely available international legal and soft law instruments, international and domestic jurisprudence, training manuals, reports, articles, and audiovisual resources."

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (21 Feb. 2023)

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2 (21 Feb. 2023)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Events:

Meeting: 2018 High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges, Geneva, 18-19 December 2018 [info]
- This year's theme is "Protection and Solutions in Urban Settings: Engaging with Cities." Follow link for concept note, programme and background materials.

Lecture series: Current Thinking in Refugee Law, London
- Two lectures will be held in January 2019: "State Protection and Internal Relocation," 10 January 2019 and "Is it Time to Stop Putting Status Determination at the Heart of the Refugee Response?," 23 January 2019.

Publications:

"Can the Rule of Law Apply at the Border?: A Commentary on Paul Gowder’s The Rule of Law in the Real World," Saint Louis University Law Journal, vol. 62, no. 2 (2018) [SSRN]

Political Participation of Refugees in Their Country of Nationality, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series (UNHCR, Nov. 2018) [text]

"Punishment and Protection, Two Sides of the Same Sword: The Problem of International Criminal Law under the Refugee Convention," Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 59, no. 2 (Summer 2018) [full-text]

*Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating Protection in a Changing World, Sydney, 23 Nov. 2018 [info]
- Follow link for conference report, video, and podcasts of all sessions.

"Responsibility Sharing: From Principle to Policy," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 9 Dec. 2018 [free full-text]

The Role of Parliamentarians in Implementing International Humanitarian Law (IFRC, Nov. 2018) [text]

"Temporary Protection Regimes and Refugees: What Works? Comparing the Kuwaiti, Bosnian, and Syrian Refugee Protection Regimes," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 34, no. 2 (2018) [open access]

Multimedia:

Addressing Contemporary Protection Challenges in Complex Crises, New York, 2 Nov. 2018 [info]
- Follow link for video.

Persecution and Convention Reason, Current Thinking in Refugee Law Lecture Series, London, 4 Dec. 2018 [info]
- Follow link for podcast. See also related slides.

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (5 Nov. 2018)
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2 (5 Nov. 2018)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

New Issues of Confl. Med., Dis. Prev. & Mgmt., IJMBS, JEiE, JID, Kanere, New Crim. Law Rev., OxMo, Reset. News

Confluences Méditerranée, vol. 2016/4, no. 99 (2016) [contents]
- Focus of this issue is "Syrie: entre fragmentation et résilience."

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, vol. 26, no. 1 (Feb. 2017) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including "Post-disaster Resettlement and Livelihood Vulnerability in Rural China."

International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, vol. 3, no. 1 (2017) [contents]
- Special issue on "Refugee (Re)Settlement: Law, Policy and Service Provision in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK."

Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 7, no. 1 (Jan. 2017) [open access]
- Includes "'Trapped in Impermanence': Making Architectural Modifications to IDP Camp Shelters as a Self-settlement Strategy" and "Socio-economic and Health Implications of Urban Renewal on Internally Displaced Persons in Ogun State, Southwestern Nigeria."

Journal on Education in Emergencies, vol. 2, no. 1 (Dec., 2016) [full-text]
- Mix of articles.

Kanere: Kakuma News Reflector (Dec. 2016) [full-text]
- News and views from Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya.

New Criminal Law Review, vol. 20, no. 1 (Winter 2017) [contents]
- Special issue on "Criminal Justice Adjudication in an Age of Migration."

Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 6, no. 2 (Jan. 2017) [full-text]
- Includes articles on LGBTI refugees, asylum-seeker children in the Netherlands, forced displacement in Colombia, Syrian military deserters, Portugal's response to refugees, and voluntary repatriation of Afghan women refugees.

Resettlement News, nos. 33-34 (Jan.-July 2016) [full-text]
- Lead article is "The Controversy over Safeguard Policies."

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Event:

67th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, Geneva, 3-7 October 2016 [info]
- See also the Note on International Protection prepared for this session and related remarks from UNHCR's Protection AHC.

Publications:

"Excluding the Most Vulnerable: Application of Article 1F(a) of the Refugee Convention to Child Soldiers," International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 20, no. 4 (2016) [preprint via SSRN]

"How Robust Refugee Protection Policies Can Strengthen Human and National Security," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 4, no. 3 (2016) [open access]

"Is There Any Blood on My Hands? Deportation as a Crime of International Law," Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 29, no. 3 (Sept. 2016) [free full-text]

"New Models of International Agreement for Refugee Protection," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 4, no. 3 (2016) [open access]

Refugee Status Determination, 66th Meeting of the Standing Committee, UN Doc. no. EC/67/SC/CRP.12 (EXCOM, May 2016) [text]

"Regionalism and Refugee Protection," Chapter 1 in Refugees, Regionalism and Responsibility (Edward Elgar, 2016) [full-text via SSRN]

"Rethinking the Assumptions of Refugee Policy: Beyond Individualism to the Challenge of Inclusive Communities," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 4, no. 3 (2016) [open access]

"Wasted Lives: Borders and the Right to Life of People Crossing Them," Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 17, no. 1 (Forthcoming 2017) [postprint via SSRN]

"When a Refugee Isn't," Rights in Exile Newsletter, no. 73 (Sept. 2016) [full-text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (19 Aug. 2016)


Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Events & Opportunities: A Few More July 2016/New August 2016

Job vacancy: Research consultancy for project on "Witnessing International Crimes: Refugees in Europe and Accountability Procedures" [info]
- Review of applications will begin 20 July 2016 and will continue until a suitable candidate has been found.

Workshop: Being Outside Afghanistan: Everyday Experiences of Social Becoming, Self‐Construction and Resource Mobilisation among Afghans Abroad: An Interdisciplinary Workshop, Oxford, 28-29 July 2016 [info]

CFP: Mobility, Gender and Family Relations for Progress of the World’s Women by UN Women [info]
- Deadline for proposals is 29 July 2016.

Job vacancy: Senior Policy Officer on Forced Displacement, ICVA [info]
- Apply by 7 August 2016. (Note: Applications will be considered as they arrive.)

CFP: Refugee Research Methodologies Workshop, Istanbul, 7-8 October 2016 [info]
- Submission deadline is 15 August 2016.

Scholarship: Guy Goodwin-Gill Scholarship [info]
- Supports students pursuing MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies at Univ. of London. Application deadline is 17 August 2016.

CFP: Hugo Conference: Environment, Migration and Politics, Liège, Belgium, 3-5 November 2016 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 19 August 2016.

Call for contributions: 2nd Annual International and Comparative Disaster Law Essay Contest [info]
- Submission deadline is 31 August 2016.

Seminar: The Humanitarian-Development Nexus Re-Revisited, Oslo, 31 August 2016 [info]

CFP: International Journal of Refugee Law [info]
- Contributions sought for special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees. The deadline is 31 August 2016.

Related post:
- Events & Opportunities: Additional June & July 2016

Tagged Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Detention

Asylum Seeker Mistreatment: The Criminal Law Perspective (Refugee Research Blog, April 2016) [text]

Can Inspection Produce Meaningful Change in Immigration Detention?, Working Paper, no. 12 (Global Detention Project, May 2016) [text]

Excluded from Justice? Immigration Detainees in Canada (Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights Blog, April 2016) [text via Academia.edu]

"Human Rights and Refugee Protest against Immigration Detention: Refugees’ Struggles for Recognition as Human," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 32, no. 1 (2016) [open access]

ICRC Policy Paper on Immigration Detention (ICRC, April 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

Manus Island: Behind the Wire (Inside Story, May 2016) [text]

New Data on 637 Detention Facilities Used by ICE in FY 2015 (TRAC, April 2016) [text]

United States Immigration Detention (Global Detention Project, updated May 2016) [text]

Who is Responsible for Harm in Immigration Detention? Models of Accountability for Private Corporations, Working Paper, no. 11 (Global Detention Project, Feb. 2016) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (7 April 2016)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Events & opportunities:

CFP: The Place of International Human Rights Law in Times of Crisis, ESIL International Human Rights Law Interest Group Workshop, Riga, 7 September 2016 [info]
- Submit abstracts and other materials by 15 April 2016.

Advanced Course on International Criminal Law, "Special Focus: International Criminal Justice, Migration and Human Trafficking," The Hague, 30 May-8 June 2016 [info]
- Apply by 18 April 2016.

Call for applications: Arnold & Blema Steinberg Post-Doctoral Fellowships in International Migration Law & Policy, Montreal [info]
- Application deadline is 30 April 2016.

Call for applications: Odysseus Prizes for Publications on EU Immigration or Asylum Law [info]
- Submit applications by 8 May 2016.

CFP: International Journal of Refugee Law [info]
- Contributions sought for special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees. The deadline is 31 August 2016.

Publications:

[EXCOM Conclusions Process]
- See oral update at recent Standing Committee meeting and NGO statement.

The Future of Refugee Protection: What New Approaches to Meet a Growing Crisis? (openDemocracy, April 2016) [access]
- View new additions to this debate.

"Grappling with Global Migration: Judicial Predispositions, Regulatory Regimes, and International Law Systems," Tulsa Law Review, vol. 51, no. 2 (2015) [full-text]

IA Forum Interview: Prof. James B. Hathaway Discusses Migration and International Law (International Affairs Forum, 2016) [text]

The Role of the Special Advocate as an Alternative to Non-disclosure: Examining and Looking Beyond the Balancing Act, RSC Working Paper Series, no. 114 (Refugee Studies Centre, March 2016) [text]

Resources:

The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law (MSF) [access]
- "You will find here all the entries of the Practical Guide, regularly updated. The website is intended to be simple to use, interactive and didactic. In order to provide intuitive navigation, each entry is integrated into a broader category, a search engine is available and you will also find an index of convention and ratifications."

Quality Assurance (Refworld) [access]
- "Quality assurance projects differ in terms of objectives, length of cooperation and breadth of engagement. This special feature on Refworld aims to provide a dedicated platform for sharing publicly available project reports and relevant quality assurance tools and other publications which have been developed in the context of such projects. It also provides some examples of State run quality assurance mechanisms in which UNHCR does not have direct involvement." Side note: See also my related posts which highlighted many of these quality assurance projects.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (15 March 2016)

Tagged Events & Opportunities, Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

Thematic Focus: Detention

Book Review: Immigration Detention: The Migration of a Policy and Its Human Impact (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2016) [text]

Border Criminologies: Assessing the Changing Architecture of Crime and Punishment, Working Paper, no. 10 (Global Detention Project, Feb. 2016) [text]

"Comparing Immigration Detention in Britain and France: A Matter of Time?," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 18, no. 2 (Forthcoming 2016) [eprint via SSRN]
- Note: When published, this article will appear under the title "Human Rights and Immigration Detention in France and the UK."

"Detained: A Study of Immigration Bond Hearings," Law & Society Review, vol. 50, no. 1 (March 2016) [free full-text]

"Getting in, Getting out and Getting back: Conducting Long-term Research in Immigration Detention Centres," Chapter in Reflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Research (Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming 2016) [eprint via SSRN]

The Impact of Immigration Detention on Mental Health: A Literature Review (Univ. of Oxford, 2016) [text via SSRN]
- Appendix 5 of "Review into the Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons: A Report to the Home Office by Stephen Shaw," pp. 303-332.

"Reception or Detention Centres? The Detention of Migrants and the New EU 'Hotspot' Approach in the Light of the European Convention on Human Rights," Critical Quarterly for Legislation and Law (Forthcoming) [eprint via SSRN]

Tales of Legitimate Immigration Detention (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2016) [text]
- First post in week-long blog series; the other four posts can be accessed via the "see also" menu on the right.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (5 Feb. 2016)

Tagged Publications. 

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Complicity under Article 1F(a) of the 1951 Convention (RefLaw Blog, Oct. 2015) [text]

Does Global Refugee Policy Exist and Does It Matter? (Global Refugee Policy Network, 2015) [access]
- Follow link for video interviews with policy experts.

"Non-coupables! Le Non-refoulement, les Assurances Diplomatiques et la Réinstallation des Acquittés des Juridictions Pénales Internationales dans Leurs Pays d’Origine," International Criminal Law Review, vol. 15, no. 5 (2015) [eprint via SSRN]

The Principle of Non-Refoulement in Light of Subsidiary Protection: A Review of the Prohibition on Refoulement and its Related Jurisprudence (Maastricht University, March 2015) [text via SSRN]

Report of the Expert Meeting on the ILC's Draft Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters, Working Paper, no. 3 (International Disaster Law Project, 2015) [text]

"The Right Not to Hold a Political Opinion: Implications for Asylum in the United States and the United Kingdom," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 46, no. 3 (Spring 2015) [full-text via SSRN]

"'The Right to Have Rights': Undocumented Migrants and State Protection," Kansas Law Review, vol. 63 (forthcoming, 2015) [full-text via SSRN]
- Part of a 2014 symposium on "Statelessness & Belonging:Perspectives on Human Migration."

"The Role of International Organizations and Human Rights Monitoring Bodies in Refugee Protection," Special issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1 (March 2015) [access]
- Follow link for free full-text issue.

Time to Reform the International Refugee Regime (OUP Blog, Sept. 2015) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (21 Sept. 2015)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

"Another Parochial Decision? The Common European Asylum System at the Crossroad between IHL and Refugee Law in Diakité," Questions of International Law, Zoom in, 16 Feb. 2015 [text via SSRN]

"The Benefit of the Doubt" in Asylum Law  (RefLaw Blog, March 2015) [text]

Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals (EIN, updated 2015) [text]

"Book Review: Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security," Law & Politics Books Review, vol. 24, no. 12 (Dec. 2014) [text]

"Searching for Consistency in Asylum's Protected Grounds," Iowa Law Review, vol. 100, no. 4 (2015) [full-text]

"Establishing a Positive Right to Migrate as a Solution to Food Scarcity," Emory International Law Review, vol. 29, no. 1 (2014) [full-text]

Journal of International Criminal Justice, vol. 12, no. 5 (Dec. 2014) [free full-text]
- Theme is "The Interaction between Refugee Law and International Criminal Justice."

Migrants' Rights (UN Audiovisual Library of International Law, 2015) [access]
- Follow link for video of lecture.

"Sanctuary in the 21st Century: The Unique Asylum Exception to the Extradition Rule," Michigan State International Law Review, vol 23, no. 1 (2014) [full-text]


Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (6 Feb. 2015)

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New - and Free - Issue of JICJ Explores Intersection of Refugee & Criminal Law

A special issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice (JICJ) has just been published.  The theme is "The Interaction between Refugee Law and International Criminal Justice."  It includes 16 articles and four book reviews, all of which - happily! - are freely available (although on a temporary basis only). Read the introduction for a complete overview of the contents.

Topical Issues:

• Systematising Systemic Integration: ‘War Refugees’, Regime Relations, and a Proposal for a Cumulative Approach to International Commitments [text]
• The Laws of War and the Protection of ‘War Refugees’: Reflections on the Debate and its Future Directions [text]
• Gender at the Intersection of International Refugee Law and International Criminal Law [text]
• The Interaction between International Refugee Law and International Criminal Law with respect to Child Soldiers [text]
• Assessing Ability and Willingness of States: What Can the ICC Learn from International Refugee Law? [text]
• Human Trafficking: Mapping the Legal Boundaries of International Refugee Law and Criminal Justice [text]

Symposium on Exclusion and Post-Exclusion from Refugee Status:

• Harmonizing Exclusion under the Refugee Convention by Reference to the Evidentiary Standards of International Criminal Law [text]
• Exclusion under Article 1F(b) of the Refugee Convention: The Uncertain Concept of Internationally Serious Common Crimes [text]
• Terrorism and Article 1F(c) of the Refugee Convention: Exclusion from Refugee Status in the United Kingdom [text]
• Jurisdictional Competence Through Protection: To What Extent Can States Prosecute the Prior Crimes of Those to Whom They Have Extended Refuge? [text]
• Refugee Exclusion and Extradition in the Netherlands: Rwanda as Precedent? [text]
• Protecting Witnesses at the International Criminal Court from Refoulement [text]

National Issues:

• Australia’s Treatment of Asylum Seekers: From Human Rights Violations to Crimes Against Humanity [text]
• Left Out of Exclusion: International Criminal Law and the ‘Persecutor Bar’ in US Refugee Law [text]
• The Notion of Complicity in UK Refugee Law [text]
• Ezokola v. Canada: The Correct Place of International Criminal Law in International Refugee Law-making [text]

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New Issue of IJRL

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (IJRL) is now available. Contents for vol. 26, no. 1, March 2014 include:

• Legal Subjectivity and the Refugee [abstract]
• Regional Cooperation and Refugee Protection in Latin America: A ‘South-South’ Approach [abstract]
• Strengthening the Protection of Migrants and Refugees in Distress at Sea through International Cooperation and Burden-Sharing [free full-text]
• Persecution, Concealment and the Limits of a Human Rights Approach in (European) Asylum Law – The Case of Germany v Y and Z in the Court of Justice of the European Union [abstract]
• Separating the Persecutors from the Persecuted: A Feminist and Comparative Examination of Exclusion from the Refugee Regime [abstract]
• International Humanitarian Law and Raison d’Etat: the Balance Sheet of Kazakhstan’s Ratification of the Geneva Convention on Refugees [abstract]

This issue also reproduces one legal decision and UNHCR's new military service guidelines.  Two book reviews are included as well.

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Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Events & opportunities:

Who is a Refugee?, Kuala Lumpur, 29 April 2014 [info]
- While the deadline for registration is 15 April 2014, only a limited number of places are available, so interested participants should sign up ASAP!

Second Postgraduate Workshop on Refugee Law, London, 25 April 2014 [info]
- Registration deadline is 16 April 2014.

What Are the Implications of Human Rights for our Understandings of Refugee Law?, Online Discussion Forum, 23 April–7 May 2014 [info]
- Registration required to participate.

ELENA Course: Credibility Assessment in Asylum Claims, Madrid, 5-7 May 2014 [info]
- Registration is now open. Interested participants are advised to register ASAP!

Publications:

Legal Support, not Legal Advice (NCADC, March 2014) [text]

Providing for Protection: Assisting States with the Assumption of Responsibility for Refugee Status Determination - A Preliminary Review,  PDES/2014/01 (UNHCR, March 2014) [text]

Online Symposium: The Globalization of High Seas Interdiction - Sale’s Legacy and Beyond (Opinio Juris, March 2014) [access]
- Discussions from recent symposium have been made available; scroll down to see related posts.

Resources Guide for Legal Practitioners Working with Refugee Children, 4th ed. (ILPA, March 2014) [text]

Testifying Behind Bars: Detained ICC Witnesses and Human Rights Protection (SSRN, Jan. 2014) [text]

Related posts:
- News: Online Protection Manual Launched
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (13 March 2014)

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Seminar Series

"Boundaries of Freedom," COMPAS Seminar Series, Hilary Term [info]
- The first two lectures slated for January include "A Matter of Convention? Drawing Lines between Slavery and Freedom, and between Forced and Voluntary Migration" (on the 23rd) and "Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement" (on the 30th).

CRS 2013-2014 Seminar Series, Centre for Refugee Studies [info]
- The next scheduled lecture will take place on 15 Jan. 2014 on "Sexuality, Asylum and Transit: Thinking Through the Experiences of Iranian Queer Refugees in Turkey."

International Refugee Law Seminar Series, Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) [info]
- The series continues with a seminar on "Constraints on Executive Power: Explaining Variation in the Acceptance of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Europe," scheduled for 21 Jan. 2014.

"Human Rights, Asylum and Refugee Protection," RSC Seminar Series, Hilary Term [info]
- The two January seminars include "At the End of the Rainbow: Where Next for the LGBTI Refugee?" (on the 22nd) and "Turning Wrongful Convictions into Rights? Asylum Seekers and the Criminal Law" (on the 29th).

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