Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

African countries should resist Europe’s assertive migration diplomacy (ISS Today, Feb. 2026) [text]

As Sudan war approaches fourth year, humanitarian agencies appeal for support to refugees (UNHCR, Feb. 2026) [text]

How African Governments Responded to the 2025 Aid Shock (CGD Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Regional protection scheme needed for Sudan’s displacement crisis (ISS Today, Feb. 2025) [text]

USD 91M Appeal Launched to Support Migrants Along Key African Migration Corridors (IOM, Feb. 2026) [text]

Reports:

Aid and Accountability for Sudanese Refugees in Chad (Refugees International, Feb. 2026) [text]

Aid, Interrupted: Conflict Dynamics Following the USAID Suspension in Africa (Univ. of Sydney, Feb. 2026) [text]

- See also related CGD Blog post.

"Everything belongs to the agencies": performative refugee elections in Kakuma refugee camp, Refugee-led Research Working Paper, no. 10 (Refugee Studies Centre, Nov. 2025) [text]

What communities have taught us about effective and accountable humanitarian aid in Chad (Concern & Ground Truth Solutions, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Ecological Paradoxes of Conflict: The Dual Impact of Armed Conflicts and Humanitarian Crises on Africa's Ecosystems," African Journal of Ecology, vol. 64, no. 2 (March 2026) [free full-text]

"Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 2 (April 2026) [open access]

"Exploring a Scalar Nexus Approach to Understanding Environmental Change Around Refugee Settlements in Uganda," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Latest Articles, 12 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Migrants’ Right to Membership of Political Parties: Reappraisal," Constitutional Court Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on South Africa.

"Sudanese refugees in Chad: addressing overwhelming mental health needs through sustainable partnerships," BJPsych Open, vol. 12, no. 2 (March 2026) [open access] 

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (6 Feb. 2026)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (6 Feb. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Key Messages for COP30 from the Platform on Disaster Displacement (Nov. 2025) [text]

Setting Precedents for Protection: The Falepili Treaty and the Future of Climate Refugee Law (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Three COP30 takeaways for humanitarians," The New Humanitarian, 26 Nov. 2025 [text]

New open access book:

Climate Change, Human Rights, and Adaptive Mobility (Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2025) [open access]

- This book "provides a new conceptual and legal approach to human mobility in the context of climate change, one that seeks to compel and shape more proactive, anticipatory action. [It] anchors its arguments in the international climate change regime, turning to obligations on adaptation found in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. These obligations, though understudied and underutilized, have the potential to be a powerful legal tool. The book therefore seeks to lend them concrete legal meaning. It draws on international climate change and human rights law to weave together doctrinal analysis that considers treaty interpretation, regime interaction, and principles of environmental law with case studies in Bangladesh, the Pacific Islands, and the Sahel. At its core, the book argues that adaptation obligations require states to take measures to address foreseeable risks and ensure human rights."

Reports:

Climate Change, Human Mobility and Security (SIPRI, Nov. 2025) [text]

Climate Displacement in Pakistan: A Review of Law, Policy, and Comparative Contexts (Refugee Solidarity Network, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

No Escape II – The Way Forward: Bringing Climate Solutions to the Frontlines of Conflict and Displacement (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [access]

When a Community Has to Relocate Because the Environmental Risk is Simply Too Great (IDP Protection Expert Group, Nov. 2025) [text via UNHCR]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Climate change and refugee communities in Jordan: Critical reflections on neoliberal resilience-building," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Modeling migration intentions under environmental stress through push pull dynamics and policy effects," Scientific Reports, 15:41699 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on China.

"Reading Climate into the Refugee Convention: Lessons from the Unfinished Business of Gender-Based Asylum," Chapter in Climate Change, Migration, Gender, and the Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming) [preprint]

- "This chapter traces the incomplete evolution of international refugee law with respect to protection claims related to gender. It examines the similarities and differences between such claims and the emerging area of climate-related displacement law and draws out lessons from the ongoing struggle to see gender as central to the notion of international protection."

"Teitiota and Climate Non-Refoulment: The International Law Obligation to Create Domestic Protection Mechanisms," Univ. of San Francisco Law Review, vol. 59, no. 3 (2025) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Vulnerable knowledge: responding to the uncertainties of climate change-related disaster," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

Resource:

Nansen Initiative +10 Blog [access]

- "In 2015, more than 100 governments around the world endorsed the Nansen Initiative’s Protection Agenda – an Agenda for the Protection of Cross-Border Displaced Persons in the context of Disasters and Climate Change. In this commemorative blog, leading experts reflect on subsequent developments in key priority areas identified in the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda, including protection and solutions for people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, and the integration of human mobility within disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategies." See also related news release.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1 (9 Nov. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2 (9 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 25 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet." 

"Climate Change, Ecocide, and the Rise of Environmental Refugees: The Case of Syria," Political Studies, OnlineFirst, 28 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"Climate change, vulnerability, and cultural loss," Ethics & Global Politics, Latest Articles, 28 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"Evaluating the Impact of the Zero Rupiah Policy Passport (ZRPP) on International Migration as a Coping Mechanism for Climate-Induced Displacement: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 28 Oct. 2025 [full-text]

- Focuses on Indonesia.

"Examining the impact of resettlement typologies in post-disaster social integration: a framework of social and spatial isolation," Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, Latest Articles, 21 Oct. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on China.

Forced Migration Review, no. 76 (Nov 2025) [open access]

- Themed issue on "Climate change: Choices for displaced people."

"Human mobility under disasters: a systematic review and framework for equitable and resilient mobility governance," npj Natural Hazards, 2:99 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Socioeconomic impacts and migration dynamics of riverbank erosion," npj Climate Action, 4:102 (Nov 2025) [open access]

Multimedia:

Virtual Dialogues on Challenges and Prospects for Planned Relocation, 16-17 October 2025 [access]

- Follow link for two video recordings, one for Asia and the Pacific and the other for Africa, Americas and Europe.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1 (9 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Challenges of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the Interventions in the Ashrayan-2 Project," Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners, vol. 17, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Decoding dynamic landslide hazard processes for a massive refugee camp in Bangladesh," Environmental Challenges, vol. 19 (June 2025) [open access]

"Empowering Change: Refugee Agency in Refugee-Led Grassroots Advocacy Organizations," Geographical Review, Latest Articles, 3 March 2025 [full-text via AppState Univ.]

"From Destination to Transit Stop: Syrian Migrants Revising Their Dreams in Japan," Border Crossing, vol. 15, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Social Changes and Their Effects on Community-based Organizations’ Fundraising Efforts for Shan Displaced Communities in Thailand," Journal of Mekong Societies, vol. 21, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Staying put: a comparative study of non-evacuation during environmental disasters," Environmental Research Letters, vol. 20, no. 5 (2025) [open access]

- Two of the three case studies focus on Indonesia and Japan.

"Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Conditions and Health Outcomes: A Comparative Study Between Rohingya Refugees and Local People in Southeastern Bangladesh," Dhaka University Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, vol. 13, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (22 May 2025) 

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

African migration report: climate change and migration in Africa (UN Economic Commission for Africa, Nov. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Also available in French.

"The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty: Statehood and Security in the Face of Anthropogenic Climate Change," American Journal of International Law, vol. 118, no. 4 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

"The Causes and Policy Responses to Forced Migration and Environmental Degradation in Africa," Annual Review of Resource Economics, vol. 16 (2024) [open access]

Climate and water-related vulnerabilities in refugee hosting communities in northern Jordan: Irbid and Ramtha municipalities (International Water Management Institute, Nov. 2024 [text via CGIAR]

Embracing Knowledge and Expertise: Women’s Leadership and Participation in Addressing Climate-Driven Humanitarian Emergencies Across Asia and the Pacific - Case Studies from Afghanistan (Samuel Hall et al., Nov. 2024) [text]

Environmental Crimes and Forced Migration: An Overlooked Nexus (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Nov. 2024) [text]

"Navigating legal frontiers: Climate change, environmental protection and armed conflict," International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 106, no. 925 (April 2024) [full-text]

"Women on the move? Mainstreaming gender in policies and legal frameworks addressing climate-induced migration," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:53 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1 (2 Dec. 2024)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Advancing legal rights in the context of climate and disaster displacement (Free Movement Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Forced Human Mobility Due to Environmental Factors in Peru: Legislative Advances and Implementation Challenges (RLI Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Blending Tradition and Modernity for Disaster Risk Reduction at the Epicenter of Crisis: The Case of Afghanistan and Somalia (Airbel Impact Lab & International Rescue Committee, Nov. 2024) [access]

- The report is available in numerous languages.

Desplazamiento forzado causado por factores climáticos, ambientales y conexos en Colombia, CODHES Informa, no. 116 (Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

It’s Time for Solutions! Addressing Displacement and Other Human Mobility Challenges in the Context of Climate Change Loss and Damage (Loss and Damage Collaboration & Researching Internal Displacement, Nov. 2024) [text]

Localizing Climate Adaptation Planning in Kenya’s Refugee-Hosting Counties (Refugees International, Nov. 2024) [text]

Loss and Damage governance must account for displacement (IDMC, Oct. 2024) [text]

Nexo entre cambio climático, pérdida de biodiversidad y desplazamiento forzado (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- Also available in English.

No Escape: On the Frontlines of Climate Change, Conflict and Forced Displacement (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for press release, report and data visualization.

Réintégration verte des migrants déportés: comment la transition vers l’agroécologie peut apporter des solutions durables en Haïti? (IOM, June 2024) [text]

*Who Are Climate Migrants? A Global Analysis of the Profiles of Communities Affected by Weather-related Internal Displacements (IOM, Nov. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans’ Support for Refugees," PS: Political Science & Politics, FirstView, 8 Nov. 2024) [open access]

"Climate risks for displaced populations: a scoping review and research agenda," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 27 Oct. 2024 [open access]

*REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 32 (2024) [open access]

- Scroll down to view special dossier no. 2 focuses on "Movilidad Humana y Crisis Climática." Includes a mix of articles in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

"Weather deviations linked to undocumented migration and return between Mexico and the United States," PNAS, vol. 121, no. 46 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Charting a Smart Agenda for Managing Climate Migration, 31 Oct. 2024 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (14 Oct. 2024)

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: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

"Hundreds killed in flooding disasters around the globe," The New Humanitarian, 16 Sept. 2024 [text]

"Is New Zealand's immigration 'set up' to take in climate migrants from the Pacific?," RNZ, 3 Sept. 2024 [text]

"Saving humans is not enough. Humanitarian purpose needs to change," The New Humanitarian, 9 Sept. 2024 [text]

South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change? (The Conversation, Sept. 2024) [text]

Reports: 

Climate mobility and childhood: Examining the risks, closing the data and evidence gaps for children on the move (International Data Alliance for Children on the Move, Sept. 2024) [access]

- Follow link for report and executive summary.

International Law and Sea Level Rise, Presented at the 81st Biennial Conference of the International Law Association, Athens, 25-28 June 2024 (ILA Committee on International Law & Sea Level Rise, June 2024) [access]

Participation, Engagement and Representation of Migrants, Displaced Persons and Refugees in Loss and Damage Financing, Action and Support (Loss and Damage Collaboration, Sept. 2024) [text via PDD]

Public Opinion of Climate Migrants: Understanding What Factors Trigger Anxiety or Support (Migration Policy Institute, Sept. 2024) [access]

Water security and climate resilience in the Somali Region, Ethiopia: An assessment of the vulnerabilities of refugee and host communities (CGIAR, Sept. 2024) [text]

WorldRiskReport 2024 - Focus: Multiple Crises (Ruhr University Bochum & Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft, Sept. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Climate hazards and human migration: literature review," Environmental Research: Climate, vol. 3, no. 4 (2024) [open access]

"Climate Refugees and the Limits of Reparative Obligations to Offer Asylum," Law and Philosophy, Latest Articles, 11 Sept. 2024 [open access] 

"Climate Refugees Left Adrift in Legal Impasse: The Need for International Recognition of People Displaced by Climate Change," NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, vol. 56, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]

"Disasters and international law: an introduction," Chapter in Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, 2nd ed. (Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024) [free full-text]

"Possibilities and limitations of anticipatory action in complex crises: acting in advance of flooding in South Sudan," Disasters, Early View, 4 Sept. 2024 [open access]

Revista Justicia(s), vol. 3, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Movilidad humana, emergencia climática y derechos humanos."

"The Role of Environmental Severe Degradation in National Asylum Cases: Jurisprudential Wake-Up Calls for the Asleep (EU) Legislator?," Chapter in International Migration and the Law: Legal Approaches to a Global Challenge (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]

"When is Climate-Change Related Internal Displacement of International Concern?," Chapter in The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement (Oxford Univ. Press, 2024) [PhilPapers]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (30 Aug. 2024)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

"Afghans fear life on both sides of Durand Line," The New Humanitarian, 22 May 2024 [text]

China Forcibly Returns 60 Refugees to North Korea (Human Rights Watch, May 2024) [text]

How the 2024 Federal Budget impacts refugees and asylum seekers (Kaldor Centre, May 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Placing protection at the heart of Philippine private sector emergency response (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

Reports:

40 Years: Working together with displaced communities on the Thai Myanmar border (The Border Consortium, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Displacement and Environmentalism: A Resettlement and Conservation Controversy from Wilpattu, Sri Lanka, RID Working Paper, no. 40 (Researching Internal Displacement, April 2024) [text]

"Educate the Masses to Change Their Minds": China’s Coercive Relocation of Rural Tibetans (Human Rights Watch, May 2024) [text]

Guidance Note on the International Protection Needs of People Fleeing Myanmar (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

Protection Interventions for Afghan Returnees from Pakistan: April 2024 to December 2025 (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

"We thought we were safe": Repression and refoulement of refugees in Thailand (Human Rights Watch, May 2024) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (9 May 2024)

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2 (9 May 2024)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Call to Action on Climate Change and Forced Displacement IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement: 2023 Global Refugee Forum (LERRN, Dec. 2023) [text]

Five things to consider on the climate-refugees nexus (Development for Peace Blob, Dec. 2023) [text]

Homeward bound: How migrants seek out familiar climates (VoxEU Column, Jan. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Loss and Damage and Human Mobility at COP 28: An Emerging Architecture to Avert, Minimize and Address Displacement? (RLI Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

Reporting Back from the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (PDD Update, Dec. 2023) [text]

The Security Problem with Climate Migration isn’t the Migration (Just Security Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Climate change impacts and cross-border displacement: International refugee law and UNHCR’s mandate (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

The link between disaster displacement and migration intentions, JRC Technical Report (European Commission, Jan. 2024) [text]

Options for humanitarian packaging reuse, repurposing and recycling (Joint Initiative for Sustainable Humanitarian Assistance Packaging Waste Management, July 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protection of persons displaced across borders in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change (Platform on Disaster Displacement & UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate Change and Cross-Border Displacement: What the Courts, the Administration, and Congress Can Do to Improve Options for the United States," Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, vol. 56 (Forthcoming, 2024) [preprint]

"Drought and Human Mobility in Africa," Earth’s Future, vol. 11, no. 12 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

"Drought exposure decreases altruism with salient group identities as key moderator," Nature Climate Change, vol. 13, no. 8 (2023) [open access]

- "Survey responses were collected for refugees from Syria and Iraq residing both inside and outside of refugee camps in Turkey during 2017." See also related blog post.

"Exploring temporal and topical dynamics of research on climate/environment–migration nexus: A critical comparative perspective," Migration Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

PNAS, vol. 121, no. 3 (Jan. 2024) [open access]

- Includes a special feature on "Migration and Sustainability." See also related post on The Conversation.

"Revisiting 'Refugee' in a Changing Climate: How Migrants Impacted by Climate Change and the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste Fit into Existing Refugee Policy," Seton Hall Law Review, vol. 53, no. 4 (2023) [full-text]

Related posts:

- News: Climate Mobility Hub Launched (7 Dec. 2023)

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (6 Dec. 2023)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Eastern DRC’s peace plans must prioritise humanitarian aid (ISS Today, March 2023) [text]

The Hurdle of Debt on Returnees’ Journey to Sustainable Reintegration (IOM Blog, Feb. 2023) [text]

The hurdles facing migrant protection in South Africa (Wits Univ., Feb. 2023) [text]

"'I just want to return home': Displaced Congolese on the M23 conflict and the need for peace," The New Humanitarian, 13 March 2023 [text]

A Shadow of Fear: The Situation of IDPs and Returnees in Afgoye (REF Blog, Feb. 2023) [text]

The Termination of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit: A Direct Violation of the Principle of Non-refoulment? (African Law Matters Blog, Feb. 2023) [text]

Unequal Partners: Understanding the AU-EU Migration Partnerships (Samuel Hall Stories, Feb. 2023) [text]

Will asylum-seekers and refugees in Rwanda be mistreated? What we can learn from Rwandan law, policy, and practice today (African Law Matters Blog, March 2023) [text]

Reports:

Addressing Refugees’ Core Protection Needs Amidst Resource Limitations and Mass influxes in Uganda, VULNER Policy Brief (VULNER Project, March 2023) [text]

The impact of the drought on migration from Ethiopia to Djibouti: Migration triggers and household decision-making (Mixed Migration Centre, Feb. 2023) [text]

The impact of the drought on migration from Ethiopia to Somalia: Migration triggers and household decision-making (Mixed Migration Centre, Feb. 2023) [text]

Response to increased environmental degradation and promotion of alternative energy sources in refugee hosting districts in Uganda, Brief Series, no. 1 (World Agroforestry et al., Feb. 2023) [text]

- See also related forest landscape management plan.

Urbanisation and Displacement in Mogadishu: Developments, Actors, and Interests (African Cities Research Consortium, March 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Tchad: Mouvements mixtes (UNHCR, Feb. 2023) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (15 Feb. 2023)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Annual Thematic Course on International Protection: Climate Change and Forced Displacement, Online, 3-21 October 2022 [info]

- Register by 2 September 2022.

Blog posts & press:

Leveraging household surveys to boost research on climate migration (Let's Talk Development Blog, July 2022) [text]

New Ministerial Declaration on Migration, Climate Change & Environment is endorsed by Presidents and Ministers from the East and Horn Africa, in Kampala, Uganda (IOM, July 2022) [text]

- The text of the declaration is here.

One million people displaced by drought in Somalia (UNHCR & NRC, Aug. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Beyond Panic: Exploring Climate Mobilities in Senegal, Guatemala, Cambodia and Kenya - Case Study Report (WeWorld-GVC, Aug. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Desplazados climáticos: evolución de su reconocimiento y protección jurídica, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas Serie Doctrina Jurídica, no. 921 (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2021) [text]

Guiding Principles for Children on the Move in the Context of Climate Change (UNICEF et al., July 2022) [access]

Mapeo sobre Migración, Medio Ambiente y Cambio Climático en América del Sur (IOM & PDD, 2022) [text]

Migration, Environment, and Climate Change in Iraq (IOM, Aug. 2022) [access]

Movilidad Humana en Contextos de Desastres, Degradación Ambiental y Cambio Climático en Costa Rica: Análisis de Evidencia y de Políticas, Migración, Serie de Notas de Políticas, no. 2 (IOM & PDD, June 2022) [text]

Movilidad Humana en el Contexto del Cambio Climático y Desastres en Centroamérica: Una Perspectiva de Derechos Humanos (IIDH, PDD & RESAMA, 2022) [text]

Policy Brief on Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Ukraine (IOM, April 2022) [text]

The Responsibility of the International Community in Situations of Human Mobility Due to Environmental Causes, Working Paper, no. 1 (Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, July 2022) [text]

Articles:

"Discovery of Oil Could Bring Migrant Labor Opportunities and Climate Displacement Challenges for Guyana," Migration Information Source, 27 July 2022 [text]

"Does Changing the Narrative Improve Host Community Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 9 Aug. 2022 [preprint]

"Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru," American Anthropologist, Early View, 26 July 2022 [open access]

"Political ecologies of resettlement in river deltas," Geography Compass, vol. 16, no. 6 (June 2022) [open access]

Routed Magazine, no. OMC22 (June 2022) [full-text]

- Section 3 of this special issue focuses on "Climate Change and (Im)mobility."

Multimedia:

Strengthening Governance to Reduce Disaster Displacement Risks, Session at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Indonesia, 26 May 2022 [access]

- Follow link for video recording, related documents, and background materials.

Resource:

Geneva Technical Hub (GTH) [access]

- Contributes "to the Second Pillar of the UNHCR’s Strategic Framework for Climate Action and its recently launched Operational Strategy by studying solutions to support the conservation of the natural environment and mitigate environmental degradation." Read an overview of the GTH here.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (21 July 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

"African governments must do more to protect citizens caught up in Ukraine’s war," The New Humanitarian, 18 May 2022 [text]

The noose is tightening around refugees and migrants in West Africa (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2022) [text]

"Refugees in Kenya’s Kakuma and Dadaab camps are still in limbo," Al Jazeera, 28 May 2022 [text]

New open access book:

Migration in Southern Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader, Springer, May 2022 [open access]

- "This open access Regional Reader proposes new ways of theorizing migration in Southern Africa by arguing that traditional western forms of theorizing do not adequately fit the South-South migration context.  It explores the existing definitions of a ‘migrant’ with a view to conceptualise a definition which will speak to the complexities, envisioning a more inclusive Southern African region."

Reports & book chapters:

Drivers and aspirations of Ethiopians impacted by the Tigray conflict: Data from Somalia and Sudan (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2022) [text]

Environmental Resource Scarcity and Peaceful Co-existence between Refugees and Host Communities in Uganda, NRE Discussion Paper, no. 1 (May 2022) [text via ResearchGate]

The Eritrean practice of the issuance of identity-proving documents with particular focus on the case of returnees from Ethiopia, Refugee Law Clinic Briefing Paper, no. 1 (Univ. of London, March 2022) [text]

Migration and Health: Addressing Current Health Challenges of Migrants and Refugees in Africa - From Policy to Practice (African Union, May 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

No One is Safe Until Everyone is Safe: A Study of Migrant Experiences with COVID-19 in South Africa (Brenthurst Foundation, May 2022) [text via SIHMA]

"Refugee Policy as Infrastructure: The Gulf Between Policy Intent and Implementation for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa," Chapter in Migration in Southern Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader (Springer, May 2022) [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (18 May 2022)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (18 May 2022)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Call for applications: "Climate Migration, Disaster, Displacement and the Role of Media," CRG Short Term Media Fellowship 2022 [info]

- Submit application materials by 31 May 2022.

Blog posts & press:

[Thread on recent YouGovAmerica opinion poll] (Twitter, April 2022) [access]

- Poll results are available here.

UNHCR raises alarm over Mozambique’s “invisible” crisis as climate shocks worsen displacement (UNHCR, May 2022) [text]

Reports: 

2021 Disasters in Numbers (CRED, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Assessing the Evidence: Migration, Environment and Climate Change Nexus in Uganda (IOM, April 2022) [access]

Implementing the Commitments Related to Addressing Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation: A Baseline Analysis Report Under the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (Platform on Disaster Displacement, April 2022) [access via IOM]

- Follow link for full report and ten insights.

Mitigating Mental Health Impacts of Climate-Related Migration (US Committee for Refugees & Immigrants, May 2022) [text]

Submissions for the Report on the Impact of Climate Change and the Protection of the Human Rights of Migrants (Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants) [access]

- Follow link for inputs from member states, UN institutions, civil society organizations and academia.

Journal articles:

"Addressing the United States Climate Crisis and Climate Displacement: A Transition from the 'Otherization' of Climate Change to a Focus on Domestic Solutions," California Law Review, vol. 110, no. 2 (2022) [full-text]

"Building back better in the Caribbean: An introduction," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 3 May 2022 [open access]

- Introductory article for a forthcoming special issue on "Building back better? Lessons from disaster recovery in the Caribbean."

"Climate Change, Drought, and Potential Environmental Migration Flows Under Different Policy Scenarios," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 7 April 2022 [ResearchGate]

- See also related blog post.

"Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 24 May 2022 [open access]

- Introductory article for a  "Climate Mobilities: Migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate."

"Disasters in the Anthropocene: A Storm in a Teacup?," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 17 May 2022 [open access]

"Migration Theory in Climate Mobility Research," Frontiers in Climate, 10 May 2022 [open access]

"The missing subject: Enabling a postcolonial future for climate conflict research," Geography Compass, vol. 16, no. 5 (May 2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Facilitating Safe and Regular Migration Pathways in a Changing Climate: Lessons from GCM Implementation, 18 May 2022 [access]

- Follow link for video recording as well as related concept note and policy brief.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (15 April 2022)

Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria

Blog posts & press:

98 Migrants Returned to Libya after Being Rescued by Commercial Ship (InfoMigrants, May 2020) [text]

Libya and Its Migrants Confront New Threats (Future Development Blog, May 2020) [text]

"'Like a ship about to sink': Refugees in Jordan Voice Pandemic Despair," The New Humanitarian, 14 May 2020 [text]

Locked Up with No Escape: Refugees and Migrants in Libya Face Bombs, Virus and Everything in Between (openDemocracy, May 2020) [text]

Multi-focal Power in Refugee Research (Ammodi Blog, May 2020) [text]
- Focuses on Sudanese in Israel.

"Palestinians in Lebanon Say Coronavirus Help is Too Little, Too Late," The New Humanitarian, 27 May 2020 [text]

Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Egypt in the Time of Covid-19 (ERF Forum, May 2020) [text]

UN Agencies Warn Conflict and the COVID-19 Pandemic Present a Significant Threat to Life in Libya: Joint Statement by OCHA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNFPA, WFP, WHO, IOM (May 2020) [text]
- See also related UNHCR news story and briefing note.

Reports & journal articles:

9 Years into Exile: Building Hope and Durable Solutions (CARE, May 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

2019 Annual Report: Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan in Response to the Syria Crisis (UNHCR, April 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"'Biting our tongues': Policy Legacies and Memories in the Making of the Syrian Refugee Response in Jordan," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 23 May 2020 [open access]

Destroying Ma’aret al Numan and Saraqeb Cities and Displacing Their Residents Is a Clear Example of the Syrian Regime’s Tactics in the Recent Military Campaign Since Early December 2019 Until March 2020 (Syrian Network for Human Rights, May 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Egypt's Most Vulnerable and COVID19," Cairo Review, no. 37 (Spring 2020) [full-text]

Guiding Protection Principles and Minimum Standards for Emergency Relocation Support in Northwest Syria (Protection Cluster, May 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"IDPs in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI): Intractable Return and Absence of Social Integration Policy," International Migration, Early View, 27 May 2020 [open access]

*The Impact of COVID-19 on the Mobility of Refugees and Migrants in Libya (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2020) [text]

Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 13145 (Institute of Labor Economics, April 2020) [text]
- Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

Multi-purpose Cash Assistance in Lebanon: Impact Evaluation on the Well-being of Syrian Refugees (Cash Learning Partnership, May 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

*"Voices from the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank Confront the COVID-19 Crisis," Middle East Report Online, 14 May 2020 [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria - Pt. 1 (11 May 2020)
- Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria - Pt. 2 (11 May 2020)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

The Ecological Footprint of Refugees (COMPAS Blog, March 2020) [text]

"New Pact Paves Way for Innovative Solutions to Disaster and Climate Change Displacement in Africa," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 28 Feb. 2020 [text]

"Briefing: South Africa's 'Afrophobia' Problem," The New Humanitarian, 11 March 2020 [text]

Reports:

Burkina Faso: Rapport sur la Mobilité Suivi des Flux de Populations (IOM, March 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related UNHCR briefing note.

Le Burkina Faso et le Nouveau Front du Sahel: Répondre à la Crise de Déplacement la plus Rapide au Monde (Refugees International, March 2020) [text]

Destined to Migrate: Exploring a Culture of Migration in a World of Migration Restrictions - Kayes, Mali (Mixed Migration Centre & REACH, March 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"From Imposing to Engaging: African Civil Society Perspectives on EU Africa Cooperation," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 28 Feb. 2020 [access]
- Follow link for access to a set of papers commissioned by ECRE that provide "Civil Society Input to EU-Africa Cooperation on Migration" regarding 1) EU-AU relations; 2) the following countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Niger, Senegal; and 3) the inclusion of refugees in Kenya.

*Migration and Migration Management on the Ethiopia–Sudan Border (SOAS Research & Evidence Facility, March 2020) [text]

Position on Returns to North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Adjacent Areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Affected by Ongoing Conflict and Violence – Update II (UNHCR, Sept. 2019; posted Feb. 2020) [text]

Securitisation of Migration in Africa: The Case of Agadez in Niger (Institute of Security Studies, March 2020) [text]

Shifting the Narrative on African Migration: The Numbers, the Root Causes, the Alternatives – Get Them Right! (The Nordic Africa Institute, 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (28 Feb. 2020)
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (28 Feb. 2020)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Opportunities: 

Refugee candidates interested in law and human rights, East African Centre for Forced Migration [info]

Agricultural Scholarships for Refugees in Kenya, Earth University [info]
- Apply by 15 February 2020.

Refugee Research Opportunity in Kenya, LERRN [info]
- Apply by 24 February 2020.

Reports & journal articles:

Regional level:

Advancing Multi-stakeholder Engagement to Sustain Solutions: Learning from the Application of the CRRF in East Africa to Inform a Common Agenda Post GRF (Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat, Dec. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The African Union Protocol on Free Movement of Persons in Africa: Development, Provisions and Implementation Challenges," African Human Rights Yearbook, vol. 3 (2019) [open access]

Do the African Union’s Annual Themes Deliver? (ISS Today, Feb. 2020) [text]
- "A review of the 2019 forced displacement theme provides useful lessons about how to get results."

"Refugees and Immigrants in Africa: Where is an African Ubuntu?," Africa’s Public Service Delivery & Performance Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (2019) [open access]

"Vegetation Changes Attributable to Refugees in Africa Coincide with Agricultural Deforestation," Environmental Research Letters, Accepted Manuscript, 20 Jan. 2020 [postprint]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Africa (20 Jan. 2020)

Tagged Events & Opportunities.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & media:

*8 Refugees Fighting for the Planet (Medium, Sept. 2019) [text]

Africa’s Climate Crisis, Conflict, and Migration Challenges (Africa in Focus Blog, Sept. 2019) [text]

'Burning up our future': How Climate Crisis is Triggering Increasing Displacement (InfoMigrants, Sept. 2019) [text]

How Climate Change is Driving Emigration from Central America (The Conversation, Sept. 2019) [text]

IOM Hosts Meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Task Force on Displacement – Key Outcomes and Looking Ahead (IOM, July 2019) [text]

"Leak Suggests UN Agency Self-censors on Climate Crisis after US Pressure," The Guardian, 11 Sept. 2019 [text]

"Migration and the Climate Crisis: The UN’s Search for Solutions," UN News, 31 July 2019 [text]

*Refugees from Rising Seas: No Place to Call Home (Phys.org, Sept. 2019) [text]

"Roundup: The Soaring Humanitarian Costs of Climate Change," The New Humanitarian, 20 Sept. 2019 [text]
- "[O]ur latest coverage on how climate change is already having a humanitarian impact around the world."

Solving Climate Displacement is More Urgent Than Ever - Today the Peninsula Principles Turn 6! (Displacement Solutions, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

The World Isn’t Ready for Climate Refugees (FiveThirtyEight, Sept. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Addressing the Land Degradation-Migration Nexus: The Role of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (IOM, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Border and Migration Controls and Migrant Precarity in the Context of Climate Change," Social Sciences, vol. 8, no. 7 (June 2019) [open access]

"Climate Change Refugees in the Time of Sinking Islands," Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 52, no. 3 (2019) [full-text]

The Climate Crisis, Migration, and Refugees (Brookings Institution, July 2019) [text]

The Cost of Doing Nothing: The Humanitarian Price of Climate Change and How It Can be Avoided (ICRC, Sept. 2019) [access]

"Domestic Evolution: Amending the United States Refugee Definition of the INA to Include Environmentally Displaced Refugees," University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review, vol. 9, no. 1 (2019) [full-text]

Guidance, Standards, and Protocols in the Humanitarian Sector on Reducing Harm to the Environment, K4D Helpdesk Report (DFID, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Migration Influenced by Environmental Change in Africa: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence," Demographic Research, vol. 41, art. no. 18 (Aug. 2019) [open access]

"Not a Security Issue: How Policy Experts De-Politicize the Climate Change–Migration Nexus," Social Sciences, vol. 8, no. 7 (July 2019) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (8 July 2019)

Tagged Publications. 

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & media:

The Role of Regional Organizations in Africa in the Governance of Migration (ISPI Commentary, July 2019) [text]

"Somalia’s Displacement Camp 'Gatekeepers': 'Parasites' or Aid Partners?," The New Humanitarian, 18 July 2019 [text]

Why Would They Stay? (IDMC Blog, July 2019) [text]
- Focuses on Niger.

Reports & journal articles:

AU ECHO Magazine (2019) [full-text]
- Theme is "Giving a Voice to Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa."

Congo, Forgotten: The Numbers Behind Africa’s Longest Humanitarian Crisis (Congo Research Group, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also French version.

Devastation and Displacement: Unprecedented Cyclones in Mozambique and Zimbabwe a Sign of What’s to Come? (Refugees International, Aug. 2019) [text]

"How do Refugees Affect Social Life in Host Communities? The Case of Congolese Refugees in Rwanda," Comparative Migration Studies, 7:33 (Dec. 2019) [open access]

"Impact of Internally Displaced Persons on Forest and Vegetation of Jere LGA, Borno State, Nigeria," Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, vol. 23, no. 5 (2019) [open access]

Revised Regional Protection and Solutions Strategic Framework: Responding to the Protection Crisis in the Lake Chad Basin, 2019-2020 (Protection Cluster, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR Position on Returns to Mali, Update II (UNHCR, July 2019) [text]
- See also related news briefing.

UNHCR Protection Strategy for Internally Displaced Persons Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (UNHCR, July 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (7 July 2019)
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (7 July 2019)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Global Compacts Round-up

GCM: 

The sixth and final round of Intergovernmental Negotiations on the Global Compact for Migration began today and will end on Friday, 13 July 2018. Delegations will spend the first two days discussing the third draft of the Global Compact which was released on 29 June 2018 (this SDG Knowledge Hub article notes some of the changes in the text). A final text will then be circulated on Wednesday, 11 July 2018, for concluding deliberations. As noted in the co-facilitators' letter, "the agreed draft Global Compact [will then be transmitted] to the Intergovernmental Conference for adoption in Morocco on 10 and 11 December 2018."

GCR: 

The final draft of the Global Compact on Refugees was presented at the sixth and final consultation on the Global Compact on Refugees, held 3-4 July 2018. (This SDG Knowledge Hub article highlights some of the remaining issues that needed to be addressed; other comments have been posted on UNHCR's GCR web page. See also the NGO intervention on the final draft.) Here is the HC's statement and the AHC's opening and closing remarks. The latter sets out the subsequent steps to be taken in this process: "We will send out to you all the final proposed global compact ahead of its official submission before the end of July. The official version of the High Commissioner’s report in the six official languages will be made available by the UN Secretariat around mid-September. It will then be considered, in conjunction with the annual omnibus resolution on global refugee matters that will be developed here in Geneva first, by the General Assembly at the end of October."

Publications:

Africa and the Global Compact on Refugees: Inclusive Policy Responses to Forced Displacement (Social Science Research Council, July 2018) [text]

The Global Compact for Migration Needs to Hear from Cities (CityLab, July 2018) [text]

The Global Compacts and Environmental Drivers (People Move Blog, July 2018) [text]

Opinion: The Global Compacts Should Not Fail Refugees and Migrants (ICMC, July 2018) [text]

Statelessness and the Second Revision of the Global Compact for Migration: What Still Needs to be Addressed? (ENS Blog, June 2018) [text]

Tensions as the EU Negotiates the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, July 2018) [text]

Towards a ‘Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration’ (ScienceNordic Blog, July 2018) [text]

Towards a Global Compact on Refugees: Strengthening International Cooperation to Ease the Plight of Refugees in the World (EPRS, June 2018) [text]

Web pages:

Global Compacts (Council of Europe Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees) [access]

Making Sense of the Global Compacts (Kaldor Centre) [access]

Towards a Global Compact for Migration: A Development Perspective (Migration Policy Institute) [access]

The UN Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration (Refugees International) [access]

Related posts:
- News: Final Draft of GCR Posted (26 June 2018)
- Thematic Focus: Global Compacts Round-up (19 June 2018)

Tagged Publications.