Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

The Missing Child in the Chișinău Declaration (RLI Blog, June 2026) [text]

Ukrainian families have been torn apart by the war – reunifying them is no easy task (The Conversation, June 2026) [text]

US immigration policies interfere with prenatal care and parenting choices, hurting people and communities (The Conversation, June 2026) [text]

Reports: 

Beyond Return: Child and Family Wellbeing among Refugee and IDP Returnees in Ukraine and Syria (World Vision, June 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Children’s Right to Family Life in the Context of Migration and Asylum Policies (Women's Refugee Commission, June 2026) [text]

- Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants regarding "Children’s right to family life in the context of migration and asylum policies."

Enforcing the Rights of Children in Migration: Final Report (International Law Association, 2026) [text]

Explainer for Parents and their Helpers Seeking Family Reunification (Women's Refugee Commission, June 2026) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

Family Reunification: A right, not a privilege (Caritas Europa, June 2026) [text via InfoMigrants]

A ripple effect of suffering: Children and young people’s experiences of parental immigration detention and deportation (Australian Human Rights Commission, July 2026) [access]

- See also related post on The Conversation.

Their Future, Their Voice: Centering Displaced Children in Global Protection and Policy (US Committee for Refugees & Immigrants, June 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Criminalización de menores migrantes no acompañados: una comparativa entre México y España," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, no. 34 (2026) [open access]

"The Impact of Intergroup Collaboration on In-Group Bias Between Rohingya Refugee and Bangladeshi Host Community Children," Developmental Science, vol. 29, no. 4 (July 2026) [open access]

"Normalization of abuse and barriers to reporting among adolescents and young people in settings of displacement in Nigeria," Conflict and Health, 8 June 2026 [open access]

"Syria, the Homeland. Feeling at Home in Rotterdam? The Multiple Feelings of Belonging of Resettled Syrian-Born Youngsters with a Refugee Background," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. 24, no. 2 (2026) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (11 June 2026)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

The administration has detained 400,000 immigrants: What do we know about their children? (Brookings Institution, May 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

A Changing World: Time and the Impact of Aid Reduction on IDP Children (RID Blog, May 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the Philippines.

Legal Gaps in Protecting Children's Mental Health in Armed Conflicts (OpinioJuris, June 2026) [text]

What do Home Office reforms mean for refugee children growing up in poverty? (LSE British Politics Blog, June 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Reports:

The Office of Refugee Resettlement Needs to Improve Its Monitoring of Unlicensed Unaccompanied Alien Children Program Care Providers’ Compliance with Background Check Requirements (U.S. DHS Office of Inspector General, June 2026) [text]

When Aid Disappears, Childhoods Disappear Too - Fifteen Years of Lessons in Somalia: Why Global Solidarity Must Return in 2026 to Protect Children (Save the Children, 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Coping among Afghan Former Unaccompanied Refugee Children in the UK: A Qualitative Study Exploring Barriers and Influences Over Time," Transcultural Psychiatry, OnlineFirst, 13 May 2026 [open access]

"Eroding Protections, Expanding Enforcement: Transformations in the Policies and Practices Governing the Treatment of Unaccompanied Children in the United States under the Second Trump Administration," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 4 June 2026 [full-text]

"Exposure to intimate partner violence against women and its association with experiences and perpetration of violence among children and youth in refugee camps in Ethiopia," Conflict and Health, 12 May 2026 [open access]

"'The Glucksman is like home': young asylum-seekers, belonging and the right to the city," Journal of Youth Studies, Latest Articles, 5 June 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Ireland.

"Refugee rights, family reunification, and the protection of child refugees under the Refugee Convention at 75," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 5 June 2026 [open access]

"The role of family dynamics in (return) migration aspirations among Ukrainian protection holders in Germany," Comparative Migration Studies, 14:32 (May 2026) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (8 May 2026) 

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

How 1980s Children’s Books Framed Vietnamese Refugees (JSTOR Daily, May 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Influencing international policy around child marriage practices (King's College London, May 2026) [text]

Research contributes to child-oriented justice in asylum appeals (Ghent Univ., April 2026) [text]

Ukrainian Children and Youth Abroad: Number, Factors and Prospects of Return, Risks for the State (Govt. of Ukraine, May 2026) [text]

- Note: The attached report is in Ukrainian.

Ukrainian Children under Russian Control: Why Tracing, Return, Reintegration, and Justice Must Be Addressed Together (Just Security, April 2026) [text]

Reports:

Advancing the Rights of Children in Migration: Priorities for the 2026 International Migration Forum (UNICEF, May 2026) [text]

- See also related press release.

Life in the shadows: protection and assistance needs of Afghan children and youth in Pakistan (Mixed Migration Centre, UNHCR & International Data Alliance, April 2026) [text]

Nutritional Status of Refugees and Host Children in Kenya (2025): Survey findings on child nutrition and immunization among refugee and host communities in Turkana Country and urban areas of Nairobi (UNHCR, April 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Compassion as a Social Emotion in Ethnographic Research with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 16, no. 3 (2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

"Hospitality and Agency in Young Refugees’ Everyday Relationships: A Study of Mutual Becoming," Global Networks, vol. 26, no. 2 (April 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

"Living separated from family: the socioeconomic resources and mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors in young adulthood," International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 22, no. 2 (April 2026) [free full-text]

- Focuses on Finland.

"Refugee Rights, Family Reunification, and the Protection of Child Refugees under the Refugee Convention at 75," International Journal of Refugee Law (Forthcoming) [postprint]

"'Their suffering also plagues us': a narrative ethnographic exploration of humanitarian healthcare workers’ moral experiences of providing pediatric palliative care in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 11:13 (May 2026) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (7 April 2026)

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (7 April 2026)

New Issues of Disasters, Env. & Planning E, EJML, Hum. Alt., IMR, JEMS, Migr. Stud., Persp. on Pol., Yrbk. Intl. Hum. Law

*Reminder: Postprints of articles published in the journals below that are marked with an asterisk can be archived/deposited in a repository immediately after publication (like the Forced Migration Research Archive) - i.e., there is no embargo period! This allows authors to provide open access to their scholarly journal articles without having to pay costly publication fees. Please refer to this earlier blog post for more information. 

Authors of open access articles in these journals are also encouraged to deposit their work in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA). The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website.

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Disasters, vol. 50, no. 2 (April 2026) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with eight that are open access.

*Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, vol. 9, no. 1 (Feb. 2026) [contents]

- Theme issue is "Colonial Pasts, Alternative Futures: Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change Resettlement and Inhabitation in the Global South." The introduction and four articles are open access.

*European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 28, no. 1 (March 2026) [contents]

- Mix of articles.

Humanitarian Alternatives = Alternatives Humanitaires, no. 31 (March 2026)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]

- Issue theme is "Humanitarian action and social action: a common front? = Action humanitaire et action sociale: même combat?"

International Migration, vol. 64, no. 2 (April 2026) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with five that are open access.

*International Migration Review, vol. 60, no. 1 (March 2026) [contents]

- Features a special collection on "Migration, Advanced Digital Technologies, and the Future of Work," and sub-sections on "Migrant and Diasporic Social and Political Identities and Actions" and "New Research on Public Opinion on Immigration and Migrants." A total of 15 articles are open access and all book reviews are freely available.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 52, no. 7 (2026) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 10 that are open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 52, no. 8 (2026) [contents]

- Special issue on "Families on the Move – Latin American Perspectives." The introduction is freely available and two articles are open access.

Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2026) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 12 that are open access.

*Perspectives on Politics, vol. 24, spec. issue no. 1 (March 2026) [free full-text]

- Highlights political science research on refugees and migration via 1) a series of critical dialogues and book reviews, which are presented and discussed in this editorial introduction (the reviews themselves are all freely available elsewhere in the issue); and 2) a Review Symposium on Nele Kortendiek’s Global Governance on the Ground: Organizing International Migration and Asylum at the Border, that comprises a review and four commentaries (here is the editors' introduction).

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, vol. 27 (2024; published in 2026) [contents]

- The volume's theme is "International Humanitarian Law under Pressure." 

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

Reports:

Age as a verdict: Harmful age assessments of unaccompanied migrant children in Poland (Médecins Sans Frontières & Save the Children, March 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Age Assessment Practices in EU+ Countries (EU Agency for Asylum, March 2026) [text]

*Displaced Again: The compounding impact of repeated displacement on children in Lebanon (International Rescue Committee, April 2026) [text]

A Generation at Risk: Protecting Children in Conflict Zones (IMPACT Initiatives, March 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Guidance on Child Marriage: Programming for married girls and girls at risk of child marriage in forced displacement and crisis settings (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

“I am still looking for my daughter”: crimes against humanity committed by Russian authorities against children from Ukraine, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/61/CRP.8 (UN Human Rights Council, March 2026) [access]

- This paper complements the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine’s latest report to the Human Rights Council. Available in English, Russian and Ukrainian. 

Inaccessible legal pathways: Reuniting child relatives with family members with protection status in the UK (King’s College London, March 2026) [access]

Indefinite Separation: What Asylee Families Are Facing (USCRI, March 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Practical guide on the best interests of the child in the framework of international protection (EU Agency for Asylum, March 2026) [text]

What About My Children: Family Separation Among Parents Deported to Honduras (Women’s Refugee Commission & Physicians for Human Rights, March 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the US. See also related blog posts (here and here) and the recording of an interview with one of the authors.

Willing Accomplices: Gazprom and Rosneft’s Role in the Transport and Indoctrination of Ukraine’s Children (Yale Univ., March 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Russia. See also related Reuters article.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (7 April 2026)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Protecting children on the move: What you need to know about the numbers, causes and rights of children affected by migration and displacement (UNICEF, March 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Capability Approach as the Ethics of Social Work with Child Refugees," Child & Family Social Work, Early View, 1 April 2026 [open access]

"Evidence on interventions that promote the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeker children and adolescents in transit: a scoping literature review," International Journal for Equity in Health, 25:76 (March 2026) [open access]

"Evaluating the implementation of intercultural awareness training for the workforce supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children," British Journal of Social Work, Advance Articles, 10 March 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"The involvement of refugee families in a children’s 'Family Hour' program at a regional Australian museum: opportunities and challenges," Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: Studies of Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival, Latest Articles, 30 March 2026 [open access]

"Mapping the situation of unaccompanied and separated children in Greece: A scoping review," Children and Youth Services Review, In Press, 12 March 2026 [open access]

"Multilevel correlates of childhood violence in refugee settings: findings from the Ethiopia humanitarian violence against children and youth survey," Global Health Action, vol. 19, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

- The authors of this study also published a related article in Child Protection and Practice.

"The Rights and Needs of Children During Times of War and Conflict," Frontiers in Psychology, 16 March 2026 [open access]

- Editorial for the research topic on "The rights and needs of children during times of war and conflict."

"Safe but Broken: A Critical Review on Psychological Risks of Childhood in Refugee Camps," Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 17 (March 2026) [open access]

"Understanding outcomes and resilience factors among refugee and immigrant youth exposed to domestic violence in host countries: A scoping review," Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 175 (May 2026) [open access]

"'Well, there went that playing buddy …': Retrospective narratives about displaceability among children fearing deportation in Denmark and Sweden," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 April 2026 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (9 March 2026)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (Americas)

Short pieces & reports:

Orientaciones para la preparación ante el cierre o interrupción de servicios y programas de protección de la niñez y adolescencia (Child Protection Area of ​​Responsibility, Jan. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Venezuela.

UN experts alarmed by child rights violations in USA immigration procedures (OHCHR, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related UN News story.

Journal articles:

"Families on the move – Latin American perspectives," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Jan. 2026 [free full-text]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"Framing child refugee deaths across water borders: media narratives of Alan Kurdi and Valeria Martínez-Ramírez in Turkey and Mexico," Comparative Migration Studies, 2 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Health status and living conditions of north-bound migrant minors in Mexico at place of origin and during the migration journey: A cross-sectional, mixed-methods study," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 13 (2026) [open access]

"Is there a right to family reunification for refugees in Latin America?," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Motherhood on the move: new evidence of vulnerability for central American mothers migrating with children," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"'They See It in My Eyes': How Undocumented Mothers Experience and Transmit Immigration-Related Far," Affilia, 23 Jan. 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

"Traveling Together, Traveling Alone: Experiences of Violence and Danger for Migrating Children and Families in the US–Mexico Borderlands," Social Sciences, vol. 15, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (10 Feb. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces & reports:

"Repatriating children from Syria’s IS camps is the right thing and the smart thing to do," The New Humanitarian, 3 Feb. 2026 [text]

Violence against Children and Youth in Humanitarian Settings: Findings from a 2024 survey of refugee camps in Ethiopia (Baobab Research Programme Consortium et al., Dec. 2025) [text]

- See also related video recording of the report's launch event.

Journal articles:

"Challenges and Strategies in the Daily Lives of Children from Migrant and Refugee Backgrounds in Australia: The Voices of Children and Parents," Journal of Child and Family Studies, vol. 35, no. 2 (Feb. 2026) [open access]

"Framing child refugee deaths across water borders: media narratives of Alan Kurdi and Valeria Martínez-Ramírez in Turkey and Mexico," Comparative Migration Studies, 2 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Problematizing Child-Led Participatory Research in Refugee Contexts: Reflections from a Photovoice Study in Uganda," International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Reassessing Age Assessment: When the Violence of Age Meets the Violence of the Border," Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1 (Feb. 2026) [postprint]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (20 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

Catatumbo, Colombia: 100,000 displaced after a year of brutal conflict (NRC, Jan. 2026) [text]

CEJIL Boletín (Jan. 2026) [text]

- "Resumen anual 2025 - Políticas migratorias, fronteras y caminos." 

El Salvador: ACNUR apoya el fortalecimiento de la respuesta ante emergencias con el lanzamiento del Sistema Logístico de Asistencia Humanitaria (SILAH) (ACNUR, Enero 2026) [text]

IOM Praises Brazil for Welcoming and Supporting Migrants (IOM, Jan. 2026) [text]

Venezuela after Maduro: mixed migration implications of a sudden regime rupture (Mixed Migration Centre, Jan. 2026) [access]

- Available in English & Spanish. See also related TNH article and Univ. of Oxford feature.

Venezuela in Exile: Refugee Stories (USCRI, Jan. 2026) [text]

**Visit the weekly Americas Migration Brief for a much more extensive round-up of news and publications.

Reports & book chapters: 

Document forgery and identity theft in the context of irregular migration in Central America, Mexico and the Dominican Republic (International Organization for Migration, Jan. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

“Introduction,” The Borders of America: Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean (Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2026) [access]

Panorama de Desplazamiento Interno Forzado en Honduras, Enero-Septiembre 2025 (Norwegian Refugee Council, Feb. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Families on the move – Latin American perspectives," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 Jan. 2026 [free full-text]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"Governance Through Uncertainty and the Making of Mixed-Status Venezuelan Families in Chile and Colombia," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 21 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Health status and living conditions of north-bound migrant minors in Mexico at place of origin and during the migration journey: A cross-sectional, mixed-methods study," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 13 (2026) [open access]

"Pushed into Precarity: Costa Rican Anti-Asylum Decrees and Nicaraguan Migrant Labor," Journal of International Service (Fall 2025) [open access]

"Understanding Transit Migration Through the Push-Pull Plus Framework: Evidence from Casa del Migrante, Honduras," Social Sciences, vol. 15, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (13 Jan. 2026) 

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

In Parents’ Own Words: Documenting the Stories of Separated Families in Honduras (Women's Refugee Commission, Dec. 2025) [text]

Trump Administration Public-Charge Rule Would Amplify Harms to Immigrant Families (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & book chapters: 

"Environmental Justice, Climate Change and Food Security: Interventions with Refugee Children in Western Uganda," Chapter in Climate Justice in Action: Activism and Adaptation in Eastern Africa (Bristol Univ. Press, Jan. 2026) [open access]

Practical Guide on Age Assessment (EU Agency for Asylum, Nov. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Assessing quality of life in displaced children on Lesvos using PROMIS: a mixed methods study," Quality of Life Research, 35:30 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Atención a NNA migrantes en Sonora: experiencias desde las OSC y el Estado," Frontera Norte, vol. 37 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Mexico. Available in English and Spanish.

"Examining suicidality and associated risk factors among refugee children and adolescents in Uganda," BMC Psychiatry, 25:1169 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"The Impact of War on the Social Behaviors of Children and Adolescents in Refugee Camps," Cihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

"Refugees, Family Dynamics, and Resilience: Integrating Systemic Disruptions and Individual Coping Mechanisms," Journal of Family Issues, OnlineFirst, 30 Dec. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Germany.

"Urgent Returns: The Link Between Family and the Remigration Intentions of Deported Central Americans in an Era of Border Externalization," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 4 (2025) [open access]

"Screening for sexual violence against children in humanitarian settings: a feasibility study of a para-social worker-led intervention in Uganda," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:19 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway," Critical Social Policy, OnlineFirst, 13 Jan. 2026 [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (16 Dec. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (16 Dec. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

EU: Unaccompanied children must not be placed in asylum border procedures (ICJ & KIND, Dec. 2025) [text]

"General Assembly demands return of Ukrainian children by Russia," UN News, 3 Dec. 2025 [text]

- See also earlier Yale School of Medicine fact sheet and report.

How new asylum policies will affect child refugees (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Reports:

Beaten by Batons, Bitten by Dogs – The Harsh Realities for Children Travelling the Balkans Route: Spotlight on Pushbacks at the External Border with Croatia (Save the Children, Nov. 2025) [text]

Immigrant Workers and the Childcare Crisis: What’s at Stake for Families and the Economy (American Immigration Council, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Refugee family reunion: Government proposals for change (UK House of Commons Library, Nov. 2025) [text]

So I told myself I couldn’t stay here...: Unaccompanied Children at the Belarusian Border and in the Polish Alternative Care System in 2024 (Save the Children, June 2025) [text]

Traversing Danger: Cumulative risks and psychological harm for children in migration -- Routes-based Trends, Experiences, Protection Risks and EU Involvement on the Sudan-Egypt-Libya-Greece-Balkan Route(s) (Save the Children, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (13 Nov. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (13 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Protecting Children on the Move in South Africa: Legal Frameworks, Lived Realities, and Systemic Challenges (On the Move Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Child alert: Haiti’s children confront a polycrisis (UNICEF, Oct. 2025) [access]

Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2024, Conflict Trends, no. 1 (Nov. 2025) [text]

Children on the Move in North Africa and Along Key Routes: Trends, Vulnerabilities and Experiences of Migrant Children (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Family Reunification for Beneficiaries of International and Subsidiary Protection, Fact Sheet, no. 40 (EU Agency for Asylum, Nov. 2025) [text]

*Family reunification of third-country nationals: State of play of law and practice (European Migration Network, Oct. 2025) [text]

- See also related EMN Inform.

"I Don't Have Family, I'm Not Breathing and I'm Not Alive": The impact of refugee family reunion on the mental health of refugees (Helen Bamber Foundation, Oct. 2025) [text via EIN]

- Focuses on the UK.

'I Returned to Life': Why refugee family reunion must be protected (British Red Cross, Oct. 2025) [access]

The Theory of Change: Prevent and Respond to Child Marriage in Humanitarian and Forced Displacement Settings (Plan International & Save the Children, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (7 Oct. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Education - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Bordering belonging: A qualitative exploration of educational integration for Syrian refugees in Lebanon across perceived value and impact," Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, OnlineFirst, 4 Aug. 2025 [Academia]

"From Theory to Classroom: Implementing Translanguaging Pedagogy for Refugee Learners," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 41, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Malaysia.

"Higher Education Inclusion for Refugees and International Protection Applicants in Ireland through the Universities of Sanctuary Movement—'Today I have the keys, and I am wearing my good coat'," Chapter in Transforming Gender Equality and Inclusion Within Higher Education in Ireland: Contemporary Perspectives (Springer, Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Immigrant Women Students in Higher Education: An Integrative Literature Review of Constraints, Facilitators and Health," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 1 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"Nurturing science learning amidst adversity: a portraiture of science teaching with refugee students in refugee camps," International Journal of Science Education, Latest Articles, 2 July 2025 [free full-text]

- Focuses on "refugee teachers in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh." See also related University World News article.

"Teachers’ experiences of supporting the mental health needs of refugee students in resource-poor settings: a qualitative study in Iran," European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 16, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education - Pt. 1 (23 Sept. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

*Refugee family reunion route closed in statement of changes: HC 1298 (Free Movement Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

Trump Administration Fails to Lift Flores Settlement (ImmigrationProf Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]

UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum (HRW, July 2025) [text]

Reports: 

The 2025 ICE Detained Parents Directive vs. the 2022 ICE Parental Interests Directive (Women's Refugee Commission, Aug. 2025) [text]

Before ICE: A Guide for Parents at Risk of Deportation or Detention (Documented, July 2025) [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

The Needs of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and Young People Living in London (LSE, Univ. of Bedfordshire & South London Refugee Association, June 2025) [access]

Journal articles:

"Caring at the margins: exploring informal care practices for unaccompanied minors in the Dutch asylum system," International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, vol. 30, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Ethical and Methodological Possibilities and Challenges in Conducting Qualitative Research with Children in Asylum Centers," International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 6 Aug. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Denmark.

"Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families," Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 51 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

"Migration and separation among Latinx asylum seekers: Experiences and relations with anxiety and depression," Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, vol. 21 (July 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

"Nutritional vulnerabilities among Rohingya refugee children in Cox’s Bazar: a cross-sectional analysis," Discover Social Science and Health, 5:125 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Strengthening Parenting Among Refugees in Europe (SPARE): A Collaborative Feasibility and Acceptability Study Among Four European Nations," International Journal of Psychology, vol. 60, no. 5 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (30 July 2025)

New Issues of Confl. & Health, E-Migrinter, ERS, Etudes Can., Hist. J., IMR, JEMS, J. Migr. Hist., Migraciones

*Reminder:  Postprints of articles published in the journals below that are marked with an asterisk can be archived/deposited in a repository immediately after publication (like the Forced Migration Research Archive) - i.e., there is no embargo period! This allows authors to provide open access to their scholarly journal articles without having to pay costly publication fees. Please refer to this earlier blog post for more information. 

Authors of open access articles in these journals are also encouraged to deposit their work in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA). The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website.

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Conflict and Health, vol. 18, suppl. 1 (2024-2025) [open access]

- Theme is "Integration of Refugees into National Health Systems: Enhancing Equity and Strengthening Sustainable Health Services for All." The editors note the following: "In this supplement, we explore issues related to the question of integration by focusing on three countries, Lebanon, Jordan, and Uganda, hosting large refugee populations. Our analyses focus in particular on integration of Syrian refugees who fled Syria after the escalation of the civil war in 2012, and on South Sudanese refugees who fled to Uganda around 2013/14." 

E-Migrinter, no. 25 (2025) [open access]

- Features a dossier on "Environnements et migrations."

Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 48, no. 11 (2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Decolonising Refugee Integration Paradigms: Visions for a new politics of inclusion and participation in Europe and beyond." The introduction is freely available and four articles are open access.

Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 48, no. 12 (2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Refugee Resettlement as an Institution." The introduction is freely available and seven articles are open access.

Études canadiennes/Canadian Studies, no. 98 (2025) [full-text] 

- Special issue on "Regards sur l’approche du Canada à l’égard des réfugiés à travers deux siècles et demi (1770-2023) = Examining Canada’s Approach to Refugees across Two and a Half Centuries (1770-2023)."

*The Historical Journal, vol. 68, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s."

+International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 19 that are open access.

*International Migration Review, vol. 59, no. 2 (June 2025) [contents]

- Features a special collection on "Uprooted Families: Caretaking, Belonging and Inheritance during and after Displacement," and sub-sections on "Refugees and Forced Migration in Society," "Methods and Modeling in International Migration Studies" and "Immigrants as Economic Agents." In total, there are 12 open access articles. 

*International Migration Review, vol. 59, no. 3 (Sept. 2025) [contents]

- Includes sub-sections on "Migration Governance and Policies and Public Attitudes," "New Data and Methods for Migration Research," "Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Age: Socio-Demographic and Intersectional Characteristics of Migrants" and "Revisiting Assimilation, Integration, and Ethnic Enclaves." In total, there are seven open access articles. 

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 12 (2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Two peas in a pod? How to mix methods in ethnic and migration studies." The introduction is freely available and six articles are open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 13 (2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 12 that are open access.

*Journal of Migration History, vol. 11, no. 2 (July 2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Histories of Knowledge." The introduction is freely available and one article is open access.

Migraciones, no. 63 (June 2025) [open access]

- Mix of articles in either English or Spanish.

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Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1 (United States)

Detainee population:

65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions (CATO At Liberty Blog, June 2025) [text]

- Provides analysis of nonpublic data provided by ICE.

The Detention of Families Facing Deportation Proceedings (Brennan Center, July 2025) [text]

"ICE holding a record 59,000 immigrant detainees, nearly half with no criminal record, internal data show," CBS News, 24 June 2025 [text]

ICE is Arresting 1,100 Percent More Noncriminals on the Streets Than in 2017 (CATO At Liberty Blog, June 2025) [text]

- Analysis of dataset provided by Depor​ta​tion​Da​ta​.org.

Immigration Detention Quick Facts (TRAC, July 2025) [access]

Detention facilities & conditions:

Budget Bill Massively Increases Funding for Immigration Detention (Brennan Center, July 2025) [text]

Florida is fronting the $450M cost of Alligator Alcatraz – a legal scholar explains what we still don’t know about the detainees (The Conversation, July 2025) [text]

ICE Contractual Capacity and Number Detained: Overcapacity vs. Overcrowding (TRAC, July 2025) [text]

ICE to Oppose Bond for Virtually All Unlawful Entrants (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2025) [text]

"Military bases in New Jersey and Indiana will be expanded to detain immigrants," NPR, 21 July 2025 [text]

"Private prisons and local jails are ramping up as ICE detention exceeds capacity," NPR, 4 June 2025 [text]

"'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls," Wired, 25 June 2025 [text]

‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025 (Human Rights Watch, July 2025) [access]

- Also available in Spanish.

El Salvador updates: 

"El Salvador sends detained Venezuelans home in swap for Americans," Reuters, 19 July 2025 [text]

- See also related American Immigration Council press release.

The Legal Fig Leaf: The US-El Salvador Detainee Diplomatic Notes (Just Security, July 2025) [text]

United Nations Document Contradicts Trump-Vance Administration’s El Salvador Prison Claim (Democracy Forward, July 2025) [text]

- See also related AP News article.

Other third-country removals:

Djibouti: Use of US Military Base for Immigration Detention Purposes Raises Concerns (Immigration Detention Monitor, June 2025) [text]

U.S. Could Vastly Expand Global Immigrant Detention Network (HuffPost, July 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (28 May 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

From Data to Action: OECD-UNHCR Datathon Harnessing Data for Forcibly Displaced and Stateless Children (UNHCR Blog, June 2025) [text]

Strengthening adaptive social protection for children in crisis: The role of implementation science (Protect and Invest in People Blog, June 2025) [text]

World Refugee Day: Prolonged refugee separation is harming families — and Canada’s economy (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

World Refugee Day: The biggest migration routes in the world (UNICEF Blog, June 2025) [text]

Reports: 

Crossing Lines: Realities of migrant children at EU external borders (Save the Children, June 2025) [access]

Denial of Humanitarian Access to Children: A Guidance Note for the Children and Armed Conflict Agenda (UN Office of the SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict & UNICEF, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Hunger, Harm, and Hard Choices: The cost of the humanitarian funding crisis for children (World Vision, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Lives in transit: migration routes in West Africa - Analysis of the movements and risks faced by children and young people (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2025) [text]

Nurturing childhoods in freedom: Promising approaches in Mexico’s residential care for children on the move (International Detention Coalition, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protecting Children in Migration: A Nexus between Migration and Child Protection (IOM, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Through Their Words: Children’s voices in contexts of migration and displacement (UNICEF, July 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (31 May 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

Immigration Enforcement at All Costs: How the Trump Administration is Endangering Unaccompanied Immigrant Children (National Immigrant Justice Center et al., May 2025) [text]

- See also related AP News story.

Trump Administration Moves to End Flores Settlement that Protects Immigrant Children (ImmigrationProf Blog, May 2025) [text]

Reports: 

Children of Immigrants in 2022-23: National and State Patterns (Urban Institute, May 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Dynamics and challenges for child migration in South America (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

Shifting Immigration Policies Jeopardize Immigrant Families with Children (Urban Institute, May 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Journal articles:

"Critical Multimodal Literacy: An Analysis of Young Children’s Picture Books about Refugees," International Journal of Early Childhood, Latest Articles, 21 May 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

"Family Separation Planning Among Undocumented Latina Immigrant Parents with U.S. Citizen Children," Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, OnlineFirst, 1 May 2025 [open access]

"Forced Adoptions of Ukrainian Children from an International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Perspective," Pace International Law Review, vol. 37, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"No One Behind: A Visual Sentiment Analysis of Refugees from Gaza and Ukraine Saving Their Pets," International Journal for the Semiotics of Law = Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Latest Articles, 28 May 2025 [open access] 

"Post-traumatic stress disorder and its associated factors: a cross-sectional study among refugee children and adolescents living in a Ugandan refugee settlement," European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 16, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Protecting Migrant Children in Thailand: Importance of Social Integration and Roles of Civil Society," Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (2025) [full-text] 

"The psychological impact of missing family on forcibly displaced people," Forced Migration Review, no. 75 (May 2025) [open access]

"Separation of children: causes, impacts and mitigation strategies," Forced Migration Review, no. 75 (May 2025) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (20 May 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (20 May 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

6 Books to Help Kids Understand Refugees (Amnesty International Australia, April 2025) [text]

"An Agency Tasked with Protecting Immigrant Children is Becoming an Enforcement Arm, Current and Former Staffers Say," ProPublica/The Texas Tribune, 14 May 2025 [text]

- See also related Guardian article.

Disappearance of migrant children in the EU (EPRS, May 2025) [text]

"Door knocks and DNA tests: How the Trump administration plans to keep tabs on 450,000 migrant kids," AP News, 5 May 2025 [text]

Family Separation in Their Own Words: How Ending Legal Services is Another Step Toward Separating Families Again (Women's Refugee Commission, April 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Reports: 

Accessibility of Protection Systems for Children in the Context of Migration in South-east Asia (IOM, 2025) [text]

Global Impact of Funding Cuts on Children and their Protection in Humanitarian Contexts (Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Practical Guide on Family Tracing (EU Agency for Asylum, April 2025) 

- Part 1: Principles and practices on family tracing in the EU+ and third countries

- Part 2: Tracing and identifying family members under the asylum and migration management regulation

Unaccompanied Children: Risks and violence along the migration route through Mexico (Plan International & Save the Children, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (30 April 2025)

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

Rescued and Contained: Migrant mothers, smuggling, and the 'hidden hell' of the Tunisia-Libya borderlands (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2025) [text]

Trafficking and exploitation in mixed migration (Mixed Migration Centre, April 2025) [text]

- See also related infographic.

The Tunisian state as a human trafficker. Evidence from the report: "State Trafficking: Expulsion and sale of migrants from Tunisia to Libya" (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2025) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

Dismissing Risk: The impact on trafficking survivors of labelling countries of origin as 'safe' (Helen Bamber Foundation, April 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Albanians in the UK.

No Country is Immune: Working Together to End Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking ( Global Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, April 2025) [access]

- See also related news release.

"Trafficked and on the Run: Rights to Residence for Asylum-Seeking Victims of Trafficking in Anti-trafficking Law and Asylum Law," Chapter in Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation around the World: Law, Ideology, and the Experiences of Sex Workers and Clients (Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2-25) [open access]

"Women’s Exclusion from the Migration Pathways and Fair Recruitment Envisaged by the Global Compact for Migration: Evidence from West and Central Africa," Chapter in New Directions in South-South Migration (Springer, April 2025) [open access]

- "This chapter provides an analysis of the cross-cutting issues of women’s migration, smuggling and trafficking using the case of migrants from and within West and Central Africa (WCA)."

Journal articles:

Anti-Trafficking Review, vol. 24 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Family and Community."

"Contested geographies of trafficking borders," Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, OnlineFirst, 1 April 2025 [open access]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"The 'slow-burn effect' of human trafficking following disaster," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 3 (July 2025) [open access]

"The 'Triangle of Shame': interrogating the impact of African Union migration policy frameworks on human trafficking in Africa," SN Social Sciences, Latest Articles, 14 April 2025 [ResearchGate]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (20 March 2025)