Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Allocating time in asylum systems: a dilemma between efficacy and equal treatment," Comparative Migration Studies, 6 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"A crisis of human rights: litigation as governance at the border," Handbook on Migration and Human Rights (Edward Elgar, Sept. 2025) [preprint]

"Establishing (Un)Certainty: Language and Reproducing Suspicion in Forensic Medical Evaluations," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 41, no. 2 (2026) [open access]

"On the Nation’s Doorstep: How the Ninth Circuit Ruled Against Metering and Redefined the Border for Asylum Seekers," San Diego Law Review, vol. 62, no. 4 (2025) [full-text]

"Picturing Bad Refugees: Haiti, Vietnam, and the Racial Politics of Refugee Photography," Journal of American Studies, FirstView, 11 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Reclaiming Interpretation: PSGs, Asylum Law, and the Post-Loper Bright Landscape," Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, vol. 15, no. 1 (Fall 2025) [full-text]

*"Seeking meaning in US asylum adjudications: aspirations, affect, and morality on the frontlines of the state," Social Forces, Advance Articles, 15 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Ukrainian Immigrants in the United States," Migration Information Source, 12 Feb. 2026 [text]

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, vol. 32, no. 1 (2025-2026) [full-text]

- Special issue on "Decriminalizing Migration: Reforming Immigration Law to Protect Undocumented Communities."

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (19 Feb. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 2 (Other Countries)

Short pieces:

Algeria: Detention and Deportation in an “Informal Corridor of Expulsion” (Immigration Detention Monitor, July 2025) [text] 

‘Crimmigrant other’ narratives fail to capture diversity among immigration detainees: the case of Hong Kong (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2025) [text]

‘The Ministry of Migration is not a hotel’: The Greek Government’s Admission of Inhuman Detention Conditions (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2025) [text]

"‘We just sit here’: the broken men Australia’s offshore detention regime left behind in Papua New Guinea," The Guardian, 6 June 2025 [text]

Journal articles:

"Comparative analysis of detention centres in Spain and Italy 2018-2023: Addressing systemic deficiencies and human rights compliance = Análisis comparativo de los centros de detención en España e Italia 2018-2023: Abordar las deficiencias sistémicas y el cumplimiento de los derechos humanos," Open Research Europe, 5:124 (July 2025) [open access]

"The culture of (border) control in Britain: Staff, precarity and distress," Criminology & Criminal Justice, OnlineFirst, 21 June 2025 [open access]

- "In this paper, we describe key findings from a survey of ‘staff culture’ that we designed and then administered to 170 private-sector custodial officers employed on the immigration detainee escorting contract in the United Kingdom in 2023."

"Deter, detain, deport and demonise: should others follow the Australian crimmigration model?," Australian Journal of International Affairs, Latest Articles, 13 June 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

The limits of immigration detention after NZYQ, 12 June 2025 [access]

- Focuses on Australia.

Related post:

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

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (United Kingdom)

Short pieces:

Go Back to Where You Came From: Channel 4’s social experiment makes a spectacle of empathy for refugees (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

Immigration rules keep changing, and the confusion can cause real problems for migrants (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2024-25, Research Briefing (UK House of Commons Library, Feb. 2025) [text via EIN]

- See also related blog posts on Border Criminologies and Free Movement. Note: This also bill repeals the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024; see Border Criminologies blog commentary here and here.  

"Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing," Theoretical Criminology, OnlineFirst, 27 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"The experiences of undergoing medico-legal assessments when seeking asylum in the UK: an interpretive phenomenological analysis," Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Latest Articles, 3 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"Reconsidering the Asylum Lottery: Refugee Determination and the Structure of Luck," Social & Legal Studies, OnlineFirst, 2 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"Rethinking Freedom of Information Research: Selective Flows of Information in Borders and Migration Studies," Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences, vol. 5, no. 2 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

UK Public Opinion toward Immigration: Overall Attitudes and Level of Concern (Migration Observatory, Jan. 2025) [text]

Unauthorised migration in the UK (Migration Observatory, Jan. 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (8 Feb. 2025)

Round-up: Asylum & Migration Bureaucracies

Note: This listing is not comprehensive! Most items date from 2020, but a few earlier studies are also included.

Books/book chapters/reports:

Asylum Matters: On the Front Line of Administrative Decision-Making (Springer, 2021) [open access]

"Beyond the ‘Migration Crisis’: The Evolving Role of EU Agencies in the Administrative Governance of the Asylum and External Border Control Policies," Chapter in The Role of EU Agencies in the Eurozone and Migration Crisis: Impact and Future Challenges (Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming Feb. 2021) [preprint]

- See also related chapter.

The Bureaucratic Production of Difference: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations (Transcript, April 2020) [open access]

Dismantling and Reconstructing the U.S. Immigration System: A Catalog of Changes under the Trump Presidency (Migration Policy Institute, Aug. 2021) [access]

"Drivers of Expenditure Allocation in the IOM: Refugees, Donors, and International Bureaucracy," Chapter in The International Organization for Migration: The New ‘UN Migration Agency’ in Critical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) [Academia]

- Scroll to p. 75.

Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria (Springer, 2018) [open access]

"Introduction," Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity (Duke Univ. Press, 2020) [full-text]

Re-Cording Lives: Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve (transcript Verlag, 2021) [open access]

Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe (Manchester Univ. Press, 2020) [open access]

- See also related post on The Conversation.

Journal articles:

"Ambiguous goals, uneven implementation: how immigration offices shape internal immigration control in Germany," Comparative Migration Studies, 8:10 (Feb. 2020) [open access]

"Bureaucratic Barriers to Social Protection for Refugees and Asylum Seekers during the COVID-19 Disaster in South Africa," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 7, no. 2 (May-Aug. 2021) [full-text]

"A Case Study of Government and Civil Societies’ Collaboration and Challenges in Securing the Rights of Congolese Refugees Living in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa," South African Journal of Science, vol. 116, nos. 3/4 (2020) [open access]

"Explaining sentiment shifts in UN system annual reporting: a longitudinal comparison of UNHCR, UNRWA and IOM," International Review of Administrative Sciences, OnlineFirst, 20 July 2021 [open access]

- Note: Included in a forthcoming special issue on "International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System."

"Family lives on hold: Bureaucratic bordering in male refugees’ struggle for transnational care," Journal of Family Research, vol. 32, no. 3 (2020) [open access]

"‘Finland kills with a pen’: asylum seekers’ protest against bureaucratic violence as politics of human rights," Citizenship Studies, vol. 24, no. 8 (2020) [open access]

"Greece’s Discriminatory Migrant Regime: Volunteers, Informal Street-Level Bureaucrats, and Moral Rationalities," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 2 (June 2021) [open access]

"How Bureaucracy Conceals Obligations to Afghan Refugees," Sapiens, 9 Sept. 2021) [text]

"How Do Refugees Navigate the UNHCR’s Bureaucracy? The Role of Rumours in Accessing Humanitarian Aid and Resettlement," Third World Quarterly, Latest Articles, 14 June 2021 [open access]

"Immigration, Bureaucracies and Policy Formulation: The Case of Quebec," International Migration, vol. 58, no. 1 (Feb. 2020) [open access]

Journal of Legal Anthropology, vol. 3, no. 2 (Dec. 2019) [contents]

- Special issue on "Governing Migration through Paperwork." The introduction is freely available.

"Navigating Patchwork Governance: Somalis in Kenya, National Security, and Refugee Resettlement," African Studies Review, vol. 63, no. 1 (2020) [Academia]

"The Permission to be Cruel: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Harms Against People Seeking Asylum," Critical Criminology, Latest Articles, 12 June 2020 [free full-text]

"Regular matters: credibility determination and the institutional habitus in a Swiss asylum office," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:4 (Jan. 2021) [open access]

"The Role of Somali Kinship in Sustaining Bureaucratic Governance around Dagahaley Camp in Kenya," Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Latest Articles, 11 June 2020 [Maseno Univ. IR]

- Follow this link for a related podcast.

"Shaping migration at the border: the entangled rationalities of border control practices," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:5 (Feb. 2021) [open access]

"'What isn't in the files, isn't in the world': Understanding state ignorance of irregular migration in Germany and the United Kingdom," Governance, vol. 34, no. 2 (April 2021) [open access]

"Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection," Anthropologie & Développement, no. 51 (2020) [open access]

"Zealous Administration: The Deportation Bureaucracy," Rutgers University Law Review, vol. 72, no. 3 (Spring 2020) [full-text]

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

EU cooperation on migration with partner countries within the New Pact: new instruments for a new paradigm? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Europe is in desperate need of a ‘Schumanian moment’ for EU asylum politics (EUROPP Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Legal Pathways to Protection: Towards a Common and Comprehensive Approach? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

"'No More Morias': How the World’s Worst Refugee Camp Was Destined to Fail," e-International Relations, 4 Dec. 2020 [text]

Researchers highlight major flaws in EU refugee policy (Uppsala Univ., Dec. 2020) [text]

Trying to stay afloat without drowning: migrants reopen route to the Spanish Canary Islands (openDemocracy, Dec. 2020) [text]

"What’s driving the deadly migrant surge from Senegal to the Canary Islands?," The New Humanitarian, 7 Dec. 2020 [text]

Books & book chapters:

Asylum Matters: On the Front Line of Administrative Decision-Making (Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2020) [open access]

- "This...book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic study of asylum decision-making in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration, the book shows how regularities in administrative practice and ‘socialised subjectivity’ are produced. It argues that asylum caseworkers acquire an institutional habitus through their socialisation on the job, making them ‘carriers’ of routine practices."

"The Case of the Eight Turkish Military Personnel who Sought Asylum in Greece after the Failed 2016 Coup in Turkey: Fair Trial as a Reason Precluding Non-Refoulement and (Stricto Sensu) Proportionality," Chapter in Human Rights in Times of Illiberal Democracies: Liber Amicorum in Memoriam of Stavros Tsakyrakis (Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2020) [preprint]

"The Evolution of EU Law on Refugees and Asylum," Chapter in The Evolution of EU Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

Journal articles:

*"Covid-19 Using Border Controls to Fight a Pandemic? Reflections From the European Union," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 30 Nov. 2020 [open access]

"Engagement without recognition as a way of protecting refugees in unrecognized states: a comparison between the ROC and the TRNC," International Social Science Practice and Research, vol. 1, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

- Note: ROC = Republic of Cyprus; TRNC = Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

"Forced Displacement from Ukraine’s War-Torn Territories: Intersectionality and Power Geometry," Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, vol. 48, no. 4 (2020) [postprint]

"To help ‘brotherly people’? Russian policy towards Ukrainian refugees," Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 72, no. 3 (2020) [postprint]

- Note: Access to this text is embargoed until 20 Sept. 2021.

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (2 Dec. 2020)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (2 Dec. 2020)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Event:

17th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference, 21-22 September 2020 [info]
-Will be held virtually. Register by 15 September 2020.

Blog posts & press:

AG Barr Reopening Asylum Case Using Certification Power (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2020) [text]

"Americans Back Trump on Immigration — But Only to Stop COVID-19, Poll Finds," NPR, 5 Aug. 2020 [text]

Asylum Seekers Need Pro Bono Lawyers Now More than Ever (The Asylumist, Aug. 2020) [text]

COVID-19 and the Chance to Reform US Refugee Policy (Order from Chaos Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

"How Language can be a Deadly COVID-19 Complication for US Immigrants," The New Humanitarian, 30 July 2020 [text]

Legal Victory Brings Hope to Asylum Seekers Turned Away at the Border (Immigration Impact Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

"Perspective: From Icebox to Tinderbox — A View from the Southern Border," New England Journal of Medicine, 5 Aug. 2020 [text]

"Poll Shows Growing Disconnect over Trump's Hard-line Immigration Policies," USA Today, 12 Aug. 2020 [text]

"Scorched Earth: Anti-immigration Hardliners Pursue a Policy of Wanton Destruction," The Baffler, 10 Aug. 2020 [text]

This is the Best Explainer on Trump's Census Memo (Immigration Law Blog, July 2020) [text]

"The Trump Administration Aims to Cut Off Asylum at the Southwest Border Permanently," NPR, 5 Aug. 2020 [text]
- See also additional related NPR story.

"The Trump Administration is Preparing to Treat Asylum-Seekers as Security Threats," BuzzFeed News, 14 Aug. 2020 [text]

"United Nations Refugee Agency Blasts US Asylum Limits," CNN, 13 Aug. 2020 [text]

Updates to USCIS Policy Manual Give Broad Discretion to Issue More Denials (Immigration Impact Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

USCIS New Fee Schedule Rule [access]
- Follow link for Twitter thread. See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

Selection of comments submitted on the July 9 Proposed Rules on Security Bars and Processing:
- Columbia Univ. Mailman School of Public Health [text]
- Human Rights First [text]
- Human Rights Watch [text]
- Insightful Immigration Blog [text]
- Refugees International [text]
- Round Table of Former Immigration Judges [text]

Related posts:

- News: New MPI Report on US Immigration Policy (3 Aug. 2020)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (29 July 2020)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (29 July 2020)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Event:

Odysseus Network: 2019 Yearly Conference, Helsinki, 24-25 October 2019 [info]

Blog posts & media:

"EU Sees Spike in Afghan Migrants as Many Leave Sanctions-stricken Iran," Reuters, 15 Oct. 2019 [text]

Forms and Outcomes of Citizens’ Mobilisations During Europe’s Refugee Reception Crisis (The Conversation, Oct. 2019) [text]

"Launch of Initiative on Eastern Mediterranean Route as Further Displacements Loom," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 11 Oct. 2019 [text]

"Reporter’s Diary: Four Years of Growing Callousness in the Central Mediterranean," The New Humanitarian, 17 Oct. 2019 [text]

New books:

At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean (Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2019) [info]
- See also related Border Criminologies blog post.

Caught in Between Borders: Citizens, Migrants and Humans -  Liber Amicorum in Honour of  Prof. Dr. Elspeth Guild, Wolf Legal Publishers, Sept. 2019 [open access]

Reports:

Asylum Authorities: An Overview of Internal Structures and Available Resources (AIDA, Oct. 2019) [text]

Making the CEAS Work, Starting Today, Policy Note, no. 22 (ECRE, Oct. 2019) [text]

Note on the ‘Messina Model’ Applied in the Context of ad hoc Relocation Arrangements Following Disembarkation (European Asylum Support Office, Sept. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Progress Report on the Implementation of the European Agenda on Migration (European Commission, Oct. 2019) [access]
- Follow link for report and seven factsheets. See also related ECRE comment.

*"Sea of Troubles: Inside the Effort to Rescue Europe’s Unwelcome Immigrants," The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019 [text]

*"Variation in Policy Success: Radical Right Populism and Migration Policy," West European Politics, vol. 42, no. 3 (2019) [preprint]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe (9 Oct. 2019)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Innovation

Analysing Refugee-Host Community Narratives on Social Media in Lebanon (UNDP, Feb. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Biometric Refugee Registration: Between Benefits, Risks and Ethics (LSE International Development Blog, July 2019) [text]
- See also related New Humanitarian story.

Digital Developments: Harbingers of Humanitarian Change?, World Refugee Council Research Paper, no. 15 (Centre for International Governance Innovation, June 2019) [text]

"A Digital Nation for the Stateless Rohingya?," The Diplomat, 2 July 2019 [text]

Head to Head: Biometrics and Aid (The New Humanitarian, July 2019) [text]
- Two experts respond to six questions on the use of biometric data in aid delivery.

Global Virtual Summit on Digital Identity for Refugees: Envisioning a Digital Identity Ecosystem in Support of the Global Compact on Refugees [access]
- Recordings of the three virtual events that took place in May and June can now be viewed via the link.

How to Use Video Games for the Greater Good (UNHCR Innovation Service Blog, July 2019) [text]

Innovation at UNHCR (UNHCR, July 2019) [text]
- "What does innovation mean? And more importantly, what does it mean to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and how does it relate to your work? We hope this small booklet serves as not only a guide for innovation basics at UNHCR but also a map of stories that connects you to other colleagues who are seeking to create change inside and outside of our organization."

Media and Communication, vol. 7, no. 2 (2019) [open access]
- Special issue with 13 articles on "Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes."

*"New Technologies in Migration: Human Rights Impacts," Forced Migration Review, no. 61 (June 2019) [open access]

Peoples under Threat 2019: The Role of Social Media in Exacerbating Violence (Minority Rights Group International, June 2019) [text]
- Text includes links to Peoples under Threat data map and briefing.

Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age: Q&A With Dr. Glenda Cooper (Humanitarian News Research Network Blog, June 2019) [text]

Surveillance Company Cellebrite Finds a New Exploit: Spying on Asylum Seekers (Privacy International, April 2019) [text]

Tech can Empower Refugee Communities – If They’re Allowed to Design How It Works (The Conversation, June 2019) [text]

"Understanding Government Social Media Users: An Analysis of Interactions on Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Twitter and Facebook," Government Information Quarterly, In Press, 17 June 2019 [abstract]
- See also earlier related article and conference paper.

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (29 May 2019)

Tagged Publications. 

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Event:

The U.S. Asylum System in Crisis: First Steps for Rescue, Webinar, 27 September 2018 [info]
- "This webinar will mark the publication of an important MPI report that analyses the factors that have brought the U.S. asylum system to a crisis point and proposes common-sense steps that can be implemented now to jump-start rescuing it."

Blog posts & commentary:

The Beat Goes On: Attorney General Reviews More BIA Rulings (ImmigrationProf Blog, Sept. 2018) [text]

Blueprint: How to Address the Global Refugee Crisis and Safeguard U.S. National Security (Human Rights First, Sept. 2018) [text]

 In a Speech to New Immigration Judges, Attorney General Sessions Attacks Immigration Lawyers and Judicial Independence (Immigration Impact Blog, Sept. 2018) [text]
- See also related NYT article.

An Open Letter to the “Complicit” Asylum Officer (The Asylumist Blog, Sept. 2018) [text]

People Leave Footprints: Millions More Unauthorized Immigrants Cannot Be ‘Hidden’ in Data Estimates (Migration Policy Institute, Sept. 2018) [text]

Revoking Status from Those Who Fled Violence (Centre for International Governance Innovation, Sept. 2018) [text]

Audiovisual media:

Let Me Count the Ways (This American Life, Sept. 2018) [access]
- Discusses the "quiet bureaucratic war that’s even targeting legal immigrants." Follow link for audio and transcript.

Tempest Tossed Podcasts (Zolberg Institute, 2018) [access]
- "In-depth conversations what’s happening on the ground and how to understand current policy debates” in the U.S.

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (6 Sept. 2018)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (6 Sept. 2018)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (Matter of A-B-)

Matter of A-B- Analysis & Commentary:

See this earlier blog post for background on the Attorney General's decision in Matter of A-B-. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has now issued guidance to asylum officers for "determining whether a petitioner is eligible for asylum or refugee status in light of the Attorney General’s decision in Matter of A-B-."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has also prepared guidance for its attorneys who will litigate "asylum and statutory withholding of removal claims in the wake of the Attorney General’s precedent decision in Matter of A-B-."

*"Domestic Violence, Asylum and the Unraveling of Women’s Rights," Law on the Margins, 5 July 2018 [text]

Jeff Sessions is Pushing Asylum Officers to Reject More Migrants. Will They Go Along? (Vox, July 2018) [text]

Matter of A-B- Being Misapplied by EOIR, DHS (Jeffrey S. Chase Blog, July 2018) [text]

Practice Alert: AG Sessions Issues Matter of A-B-, Overruling Matter of A-R-C-G- (AILA, July 2018) [access]
- Provides tips and resources for legal practitioners.

A Review of the Attorney General’s Review(s) (RefLaw Blog, July 2018) [text]

"Trump Administration to Turn Away Far More Asylum Seekers at the Border under New Guidance," CNN, 11 July 2018 [text]

USCIS is Redefining Who Qualifies for Asylum in This New Guidance (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2018) [text]

Why Pereira v. Sessions Bodes Well for Overturning Matter of A-B- (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2018) [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (24 July 2018)
- News: New Legal Decision on Domestic Violence (15 June 2018)

Tagged Publications.

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Les Dispositifs d'Aide à l'Accueil des Personnes Migrantes en France: Etat des Lieux des Outils de Recensement des Services Disponibles (CartONG, June 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Horst Seehofer’s Migration Plan for Germany: Another Nail in the Coffin of Europe’s Asylum System? (Migration Policy Institute, June 2018) [text]

Hotspots at EU External Borders: State of Play (EPRS, June 2018) [text]

Implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement: EU Hotspots and Restriction of Asylum Seekers’ Freedom of Movement (Part 1) (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, June 2018) [text]

Mass Deportations of Afghans from Turkey: Thousands of Migrants Sent Back in a Deportation Drive (Afghanistan Analysts Network, June 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

MCOF: Migration Crisis Operational Framework - IOM Turkey, 2018-2019 (IOM, June 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

On World Refugee Day, Hungary Makes It Illegal to Help Refugees and Migrants (Open Society Foundations, June 2018) [text]

"Positive and Negative Behavioural Intentions Towards Refugees in Turkey: The Roles of National Identification, Threat, and Humanitarian Concern," Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, Early View, 21 June 2018 [open access]

*Sociology, vol. 52, no. 3 (June 2018) [free full-text]
- Special issue on "Migration and Crisis in Europe." Includes articles on Latin Americans in Spain, Moroccan and Bangladeshis in Italy, refugees in Germany, anti-immigrant sentiment in Hungary, among others.

Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Beyond the Numbers (Order from Chaos Blog, June 2018) [text]

Unpicking the Asylum Scandal That Shook Germany (Refugees Deeply, June 2018) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (26 June 2018)

Tagged Publications. 

Regional Focus: United States

Deconstructing the Invisible Wall (AILA, March 2018) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

"Even as Congress Remains on Sidelines, the Trump Administration Slows Legal Immigration," Migration Information Source, 22 March 2018 [text]

"Getting it Righted: Access to Counsel in Rapid Removals," Marquette Law Review (Forthcoming) [full-text via SSRN]

"How America Fell Behind the World on Immigration," Politico Magazine, 19 March 2018 [text]

"Leveraging Social Science Expertise in Immigration Policy," Northwestern University Law Review, vol. 112 (Forthcoming, 2018) [preprint]

On the Brink of Deportation (NRC, March 2018) [text]

"The President's Immigration Courts," Emory Law Review (Forthcoming, 2018) [full-text]

Senate Confirms Kevin McAleenan as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Immigration Impact, March 2018) [text]

Tips from a Former Asylum Officer (The Asylumist Blog, March 2018) [text]

The U.S. Immigration Debate: Backgrounder (Council on Foreign Relations, updated March 2018) [text]

"When ICE Tries to Deport Americans, Who Defends Them?," New Yorker, 21 March 2018 [text]

Related posts:
- News/Funding Opportunities: U.S. State Department (16 March 2018)
- Regional Focus: United States (16 March 2018)

Tagged Publications. 

News/Publications: European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

Here is Refworld's entry for EASO, with a description of its activities and links to many of its publications.

News & developments:

Agent of Protection? Shaping the EU Asylum Agency (ECRE, Jan. 2017) [text]
- "ECRE's analysis of the potential and risks contained in the proposal to transform EASO into an EU Asylum Agency."

"Anti-fraud Office Investigates EU Asylum Agency Director," Politico, 24 Jan. 2018 [text]

"EASO Preparing for Transformation into European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)," EASO Newsletter (Oct. 2017) [text]

"A New Form of Delegation in EU Asylum: Agencies as Proxies of Strong Regulators," JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 56, no. 1 (Jan. 2018) [free full-text]
- Examines the role of Frontex and EASO in EU asylum policy.

Publications:

As part of its training remit, EASO prepares professional development materials for members of courts and tribunals, and 2) develops practical tools and guidance to support Member States' implementation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS).

While I have included references to a number of these publications and resources in past posts, I realized there were also some I had overlooked. So here is a complete list of 1) judicial analyses, 2) titles in the Practical Guides Series, and 3) other guidance/tools.

1. Judicial Analyses (chronological order):

• Article 15(c) Qualification Directive (2011/95/EU) (Dec. 2014) [text]
• Exclusion: Articles 12 and 17 Qualification Directive (2011/95/EU) (Jan. 2016) [text]
• Introduction to the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) for Courts and Tribunals* (Aug. 2016) [text]
• Ending International Protection: Articles 11, 14, 16 and 19 Qualification Directive (2011/95/EU)  (Dec. 2016) [text]
• Qualification for International Protection (Directive 2011/95/EU)* (Dec. 2016) [text]

* = produced by the International Association of Refugee Law Judges - European Chapter.

Additional language versions can be found here.

Three forthcoming titles to watch for:

• Asylum Procedures and the Principle of Non-Refoulement: A Judicial Analysis
• Evidence and Credibility Assessment in the Context of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS): A Judicial Analysis 
• Judicial Practical Guide on Country of Origin Information 

2. Practical Guides (chronological order):

• Tools and Tips for Online COI Research (June 2014) [text]
• Personal Interview (Dec. 2014) [text]
• Evidence Assessment (March 2015) [text]
• Researching the Situation of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Persons (LGB) in Countries of Origin (April 2015) [text]
• The Implementation of Article 15(c) QD in EU Member States (July 2015) [text]
• Family Tracing (March 2016) [text]
• Exclusion (Jan. 2017) [text]

Additional language versions can be found here.

3. Other Guidance/Tools:

• Age Assessment Practice in Europe (Dec. 2013) [text]
• Access to the Asylum Procedure Toolkit (March 2016) [access]
• Guidance on Reception Conditions: Operational Standards and Indicators (Sept. 2016) [text]
• Tool for Identification of Persons with Special Needs (April 2017) [access]

4. Other Publications:

EASO also produces monthly Asylum Trends reports, country of origin information reports, and Annual Reports on the situation of asylum in the EU, among others.

Tagged Publications. 

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Publications:

The Application of the “One Central Reason” Standard in Asylum and Withholding of Removal Cases (Congressional Research Service, Dec. 2017) [text]

Border Patrol Termination Rates: Discipline and Performance Problems Signal Need for Reform, Policy Analysis, no. 825 (Cato Institute, Nov. 2017) [text]

"Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants in the United States," Migration Information Source, 10 Jan. 2018 [text]

"MS-13 as a Terrorist Organization: Risks for Central American Asylum Seekers," Michigan Law Review Online, vol. 116 (Oct. 2017) [full-text]

"The Muslim Ban and Separation of Powers Doctrine in Trump's America," Chapter in State, Religion and Muslims: Between Discrimination and Protection at the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Levels (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Non-Discrimination in Refugee and Asylum Law (Against Travel Ban 1.0 and 2.0)," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 31, no. 3 (2017) [SSRN]

USCIS v. EOIR: Jurisdiction over Asylum Applications for Individuals Who Were in Expedited Removal Proceedings or Issued Notices to Appear: Practice Advisory (American Immigration Council, Dec. 2017) [text]

"When Deportation is a Death Sentence," The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2018 [text]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (16 Jan. 2018)
- Regional Focus: United States (4 Jan. 2018)

Tagged Publications.

Regional Focus: United States

Publications:

"Battle Emerging Inside Trump Administration Over Who Controls Immigration and Refugees," Washington Post, 9 July 2017 [text]
- See also related Lawfare blog post, "What Sort of Issue is Immigration?"

Casablanca—a Refugee Story Par Excellence—Celebrates its 75th Birthday (Forced  Migration Forum, June 2017) [text]

Ending Deportation Priorities Breaks Away from Decades of History and Sound Policy (Immigration Impact, July 2017) [text]

"Enforcement, Integration, and the Future of Immigration Federalism," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 2 (2017) [open access]

"Forever Barred: Reinstated Removal Orders and the Right to Seek Asylum," Catholic University Law Review, vol. 66, no. 3 (2017) [full-text]

In First Months of Trump Presidency, Christians Account for Growing Share of U.S. Refugee Arrivals (Pew Research, July 2017) [text]

Immigration Cases in the 2017 Term of the Supreme Court (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2017) [text]

Scrubbing Away Transparency and Our Immigration Resources (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2017) [text]

Trump Administration Ends Prosecutorial Discretion? All Undocumented Immigrants Threatened with Removal? (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2017) [text]

"Trump Administration Targets Parents Who Paid to Smuggle Children into U.S.," McClatchy, 29 June 2017 [text]

"US Deportations of Europeans Could Exceed Last Fiscal Year," ABC News, 11 July 2017 [text]

Why are the Immigration Courts so Backlogged? Government Findings May Surprise You (Immigration Impact, June 2017) [text]

More on the latest "travel ban" developments

First, read this Asylumist blog post to get a better understanding of "The 'New' Travel Ban and How It Affects Asylees and Refugees."

Second, this Refugee Center Online blog post provides information on the Supreme Court decision in 18 languages.

Here is additional commentary (org. chronologically):

• Seriously? The Court Intended to Exclude Grandmas from the Preliminary Injunctions? (Take Care Blog, 29 June 2017) [text]
• Factsheet: Information Regarding the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (U.S. Dept. of State, 30 June 2017) [text]
• Implementing the Refugee EO: Add Grandparents (Lawfare Blog, 30 June 2017) [text]
• An Updated Guide to Our Analyses of the Travel Ban (Take Care Blog, 30 June 2017) [text]
• The EO Stay: The Government Doubles Down on Excluding Grandparents and Refugees (Lawfare Blog, 4 July 2017) [text]
• This Iraqi Interpreter was Just Blocked by Trump’s Refugee Ban (UN Dispatch, 5 July 2017) [text]
• The Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Travel Ban Cases Does Not Bode Well for Civil Liberties (Just Security Blog, 6 July 2017) [text]
• Most Americans Disagree with Trump Admin’s Enforcing Travel Ban against Grandparents (Just Security Blog, 7 July 2017) [text]
• Crossing the “t”s and Dotting the “i”s: Back to Square One in the Hawaii Entry Ban Dispute (Just Security Blog, 8 July 2017) [text]

In addition, the SCOTUSblog is running a "Summer Symposium on Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project and Trump v. Hawaii, with multiple blog posts.

Web resource:

The Refugee Center Online [access]
- "The Refugee Center Online uses technology to help refugees and displaced individuals build new lives in the United States." Education and Resources for Refugees and immigrants."

Related post:
- Regional Focus: United States (29 June 2017)

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

Regional Focus: United States

"An Afghan Family, with Visas in Hand, is Detained in Los Angeles," New York Times, 4 March 2017 [text]

"Boost Visas for Foreign Entrepreneurs," Nature, vol. 543, no. 7643 (March 2017) [free full-text]

"Drop in Foreign Applicants Worries U.S. Engineering Schools," Science Magazine, 14 Feb. 2017 [text]

Higher Education in the Crosshairs of Trump’s Travel Ban (Medium, Feb. 2017) [text]

"How the Fallout from Trump's Travel Ban is Reshaping Science," Nature, 2 March 2017 [text]

"Mem Fox on Being Detained by US Immigration: 'In that moment I loathed America'," The Guardian, 28 Feb. 2017 [text]

"Legal Reversal of Trump Travel Ban May Not Quell Academic Concerns," Neurology Today, vol. 17, no. 5 (March 2017) [full-text]
- See also related article in The Lancet (free registration required).

"The National Death Wish," New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017 [text]

"Refugees in White Coats: How Immigration Ban Could Affect U.S. Health Care," Yahoo News, 22 Feb. 2017 [text]
- See also related NPR story.

"Travel Ban Throws Research, Academic Exchange into Turmoil," Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2017 [text]

"Travel Industry Experts Warn US Tourism Could Take Major Hit under Trump," Fox News, 1 March 2017) [text]
- See also related articles from the NYT and The Economist.

Unfit for the Constitution: Nativism and the Constitution, from the Founding Fathers to Donald Trump, Research paper, no. 174 (Roger Williams Univ. School of Law, Feb. 2017) [text]

What the Travel Ban Could Mean for Scientific Meetings (PCMA Convene, Feb. 2017) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas, incl. U.S. (3 March 2017)

Tagged Publications.

New Book Titles

Please visit my Pinterest page to learn about new books due out in January 2017. I have also included additional titles in the December 2016 and New Legal Texts book boards.

If you are not a member of Pinterest, these new titles are listed below for your reference (organized by title).

January 2017:

Vamik D. Volkan, Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology, Karnac Books, Jan. 2017

S. Deborah Kang, The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2017

Olga Jubany, Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief: Truths, Denials and Skeptical Borders, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2017

Ruvi Ziegler, Voting Rights of Refugees, Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2017

December 2016:

Eeva Puumala, Asylum Seekers, Sovereignty, and the Senses of the International: A Politico-corporeal Struggle, Routledge, Dec. 2016

John R. Campbell, Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System, Routledge, Dec. 2016

Aida Alayarian, Children of Refugees: Torture, Human Rights, and Psychological Consequences, Karnac Books, Dec. 2016

Gisela Holfter & Horst Dickel, An Irish Sanctuary: German-speaking Refugees in Ireland 1933–1945, De Gruyter, Dec. 2016

Anika Walke, Jan Musekamp & Nicole Svobodny, eds., Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age: Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia, Indiana University Press, Dec. 2016

Raffaela Puggioni, Rethinking International Protection: The Sovereign, the State, the Refugee, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2016

Nina Maadad & Grant Rodwell, Schooling and Education in Lebanon: Syrian and Syrian Palestinian Refugees Inside and Outside the Camps, Peter Lang Publishing, Dec. 2016

New Legal Texts:

Marion Tissier-Raffin, La Qualité de Réfugié de l’Article 1 de la Convention de Genève à la Lumière des Jurisprudences Occidentales, Bruylant, Dec. 2016

Aoife McMahon, The Role of the State in Migration Control: The Legitimacy Gap and Moves towards a Regional Model, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2016

Laura Van Waas & Melanie Khanna, eds., Solving Statelessness, Wolf Legal Publishers, Jan. 2017

John Cerone, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen & Stephanie Lagoutte, eds., Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2017

Tagged books.

Regional Focus: Americas

Event:

Refugee Rights Day, 4 April 2016 [info]
- "[A]nniversary of the Supreme Court's 1985 Singh decision, which recognized that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects refugees' fundamental rights."

Publications:

Average Wait Time in Immigration Court Rises to 667 Days (TRAC, Feb. 2016) [text]

"Deported Roma Family is Allowed to Return to Canada in Groundbreaking Decision," Rights in Exile Newsletter, no. 68 (March 2016) [full-text]

The Easiest Office to Win Asylum, and Why You Shouldn’t Apply There (The Asylumist Blog, Feb. 2016) [text]

"A Guinean Refugee's Odyssey: In Re Jarno, the Biggest Asylum Case in U.S. History and What It Tells Us about Our Broken System," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 23, no. 4 (2009) [full-text via ImmigrationProf Blog]
- Part of the blog's "Throwback Thursday" series.

"Increased Central American Migration to the United States May Prove an Enduring Phenomenon," Migration Information Source, 18 Feb. 2016 [text]

They are Refugees: An Increasing Number of People are Fleeing Violence in the Northern Triangle (Center for American Progress, Feb. 2016) [text]

Understanding the Central American Refugee Crisis: Why They are Fleeing and How U.S. Policies are Failing to Deter Them (American Immigration Council, Feb. 2016) [text]

Why a Single Question Decides the Fates of Central American Migrants (NPR, Feb. 2016) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (11 Feb. 2016)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Detention

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tagged Publications. 

Regional Focus: Americas

Event:

Discussion: Twenty Five Years Later: Reflecting on the Immigration Act of 1990, Washington, DC, 8 December 2015 [info]

Publications:

Brazil Plan of Action: One Year of Implementation (UNHCR, Dec. 2015) [text]

Central America’s Violent Northern Triangle, CFR Backgrounder (Council on Foreign Relations, Dec. 2015) [text]

"El Reconocimiento y el Derecho a la Ciudadania en los Desplazados por el Conflicto Armado en Colombia = The Recognition and the Right to Citizenship in People Displaced by the Armed Conflict in Colombia," Nova et Vetera, vol. 23, no. 67 (2014; posted Dec. 2015) [full-text via SSRN]

"Fear and (In)Security: The Canadian Government’s Response to the Chilean Refugees," Refuge, vol. 31, no. 2 (2015) [open access]

Fighting Syrian Refugees… with Lies (The Asylumist Blog, Dec. 2015) [text]

The Power of Sharing Knowledge Helps Countries Tackle Forced Displacement (World Bank, Dec. 2015) [text]

"Recognizing and Confronting State Subjectivity in Asylum Adjudications," Refuge, vol. 31, no. 2 (2015) [open access]

US Humanitarian Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis (EPRS, Dec. 2015) [text]

Web sites:

 Humans of New York [access]
 - Will begin featuring Syrian refugees who are resettled to the U.S.

 Immigrant Success [access]
- "A place for immigrants to the US to share their stories of success."

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas, incl. U.S. Admission of Syrian Refugees (1 Dec. 2015)

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