New Issue of IJRL

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (IJRL) has been published. Contents of vol. 37, no. 2, June 2025 include:

• Towards a Theoretical Account of the Refugee in International Law [open access]
• ‘Forced’ Refugees versus ‘Voluntary’ Migrants: Deconstructing a Binary through SOGIESC Claims of Asylum [abstract] [embargoed postprint]
• Bordering Asylum: Examining the EU’s Border Procedures under the Asylum Procedures Regulation (EU) 2024/1348 [open access]
• Internally Displaced Persons and Exclusion Clauses [open access]

In addition, readers will find freely-available case law summaries; a freely-available overview of "International Protection for People Displaced across Borders in the context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Practical Toolkit" and the texts of two UNHCR documents: "Guidelines on International Protection No. 14: Non-penalization of refugees on account of their irregular entry or presence and restrictions on their movements in accordance with Article 31 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees" and "Legal considerations on asylum and non-refoulement in the context of ‘instrumentalization’; as well as two book reviews.

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Lessons from the Chile Declaration: What the US Can Learn about Climate and Migrant Justice from Latin America and the Caribbean (IRAP, Dec. 2024) [text]

Winter Workshop 2024 Explores Climate-Induced Displacement and Gendered Vulnerabilities in the Global South (LERRN, Jan. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Climate resilience and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus in contexts of protracted displacement: Lessons from Jordan (CGIAR, Dec. 2024) [text]

Implementing the Commitments Related to Addressing Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation (IOM, 2024) [text]

- See also the executive summary.

Navigating climate change, disasters and displacement in Pakistan: a case study of Rahim Yar Khan (CGIAR, Dec. 2024) [text]

Pensemos en el mañana, actuemos hoy: El futuro de la movilidad humana y el cambio climático, Diálogo Internacional sobre la Migración, no. 36 (IOM, 2024) [text] 

Resolución sobre movilidad humana inducida por el cambio climático (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Dec. 2024) [access]

Water, climate, and refuge across Afghanistan and the sub-region (Asia Displacement Solutions Platform & Samuel Hall, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"American Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants: Findings from a Conjoint Experiment," PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 57, no. 4 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

"Displaced by Rising Tides: Legal Insights and Policy Imperatives for Climate Refugees in the Sundarbans Region of India," Cambridge Journal of Climate Research, vol. 1, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Ebb and Flow: The Prospects and Constraints of Climate Migrants," PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 57, no. 4 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on the Federated States of Micronesia.

"Intergenerational and Intragenerational Responsibility: How Does Environmental Law Deal with the Principle of Non-refoulement?," Italian Sociological Review, vol. 14, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"A Looming Crisis: Exploring the Precarious Legal Status of ‘Climate Refugees’ Under International and Human Rights Law," Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, no. 27 (2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Mobility and Climate Change, 21 Nov. 2024 [access] 

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (21 Dec. 2024) 

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

Evacuations in Armed Conflict: A Fine Line Between a Life-Saving Measure and Forced Displacement (EJIL: Talk Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Keynote address at the Refugee Law Initiative Annual Conference, 3 June 2024 [text]

- Theme is "Reinforcing rights and legal principles in the face of global challenges: the Global Compact on Refugees."

Reports & journal articles:

AJIL Unbound, vol. 118 (2024) [open access]

- Theme is "Symposium on Unsettling the Sovereign 'Right to Exclude'," with a preface and seven articles.

Interim Report: The Right to Enter (ILA Committee on International Migration and International Law, 2024) [text via Refworld]

Legal considerations on asylum and non-refoulement in the context of ‘instrumentalization’ (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

- "The term ‘instrumentalization’ has been used, including in some national and supra-national legislation, to describe movements of persons which are forced, encouraged or facilitated with the aim of disrupting essential State functions."

"'Nowhere home'," London Review of International Law, vol. 12, no. 2 (July 2024) [open access]

- "This essay explores the concept of home in international law, the role of international law in the global regime of homemaking, and the prospects and limits of criminalising the destruction of home." Focuses on Gaza.

"A Primer on Trauma-Informed Practice in Refugee Law," Bond Law Review, vol. 36, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Toward a Taxonomy of Freedom of Movement Claims: Identifying Rights-Based Pathways for Today’s Refugees Beyond the 1951 Refugee Convention," Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 65, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]

Resource:

Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR) [access]

- "The Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights brings together independent human rights experts from the UN and regional systems to address areas of concern and cooperate on joint initiatives to enhance the protection and promotion of human rights of refugees and asylum-seekers." This press release provides more info.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (9 Sept. 2024)

Correction: Yearbook of International Disaster Law

I referenced the latest Yearbook of International Disaster Law volume in my last round-up of new periodical issues, but included the wrong URL for it. The correct one leads to the online version, which clearly indicates the open access content that is included.

So here is the reference I *should* have provided!

Yearbook of International Disaster Law Online, vol. 5 (2022; publ. April 2024) [contents]

- Features a thematic section on "Human Rights and Disasters." 

- The following articles are open access: 1) YIDL Dialogues with Practitioners #2: Dr Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; 2) Emergencies in the Inter-American Human Rights System: The Example of Ecuador in Times of COVID-19; and 3) A Human Rights-Based Approach to Disaster Risk Management in Greenland: Displacement, Relocation, and the Legacies of Colonialism

- The "International Disaster Law in Practice" section also includes several entries that are open access, including the update on "Law and Human Mobility."

Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

Joint Statement: Tunisia is neither a safe country of origin nor a place of safety for those rescued at sea (Statewatch, April 2023) [text]

Non-Syrian refugees refused humanitarian aid in Jordan (openDemocracy, April 2023) [text]

Reports:

Guidance on establishment and managing reception centers in Northwest Syria (CCCM Cluster, March 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Humanitarian Assistance under International Law: Guidance on the legal framework regulating the delivery of humanitarian assistance to earthquake-affected areas in Syria (Diakonia International Humanitarian Law Centre, March 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Reimagining Reintegration: An Analysis of Sustainable Returns after Conflict (IOM, March 2023) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Iraq. Follow link for report and key findings.

Journal articles:

 

"Forced migration governance in Tunisia: Balancing risks and assets for state-making during independence and democratization," Mediterranean Politics, Latest Articles, 12 April 2023 [open access]

"'How Can I Trust People When They Know Exactly What My Weakness Is?' Daily Life Experiences, and Resilience Strategies of Stateless Afghans in Iran," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 18 April 2023 [open access]

"Militarized urbanism in the cold war era: The resettlement of the refugees in Khan Younis," Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, OnlineFirst, 17 April 2023 [open access]

"Mobility control as state-making in civil war: Forcing exit, selective return and strategic laissez-faire," Migration Politics, vol. 2, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

- Based on fieldwork conducted in Syria, Lebanon, Libya, and Tunisia.

"Patterns of Refugees’ Organization Amid Protracted Displacement: An Understanding from Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 11, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]

"Sense of Community and Conflict-induced Displacement: A Study among Iraqi IDPs in Camps," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 13, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

Resource:

La révélation et l'identification des besoins de protection internationale dans la region du Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord: Module de formation (UNHCR, April 2023) 

- Includes five modules; access via ReliefWeb: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] 

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (7 April 2023)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

Call for applications: 2nd Online Course on Advocacy for Protection, 13 June –1 July 2022 [info]

- Apply by 13 May 2022.

Job announcement: Departmental Lecturer in Human Rights and International Refugee Law, Refugee Studies Centre [info]

- Apply by 20 May 2022.

Call for applications: 21st Online Course on International Refugee Law, 4-29 July 2022 [info]

- Apply by 3 June 2022.

Launch: RLI Declaration on Externalisation and Access to Asylum, 29 June 2022 [info]

- See registration details below.

Call for registration: Improving the Global Refugee Regime: From Theory to Practice?, RLI 6th Annual Conference, Online, 29 June-1 July 2022 [info]

- Registration for this conference is ongoing and a draft programme is now available. No deadline is indicated.

Blog posts & press:

Rights in Exile’s digital platform now located on AMERA International’s website (AMERA, April 2022) [text]

What Ukraine, Afghanistan and Syria Have Taught Us about the Political Will Behind International Refugee Law (RLI Blog, May 2022) [text]

Free book content:

A Network Society Communicative Model for Optimising the Refugee Status Determination System (Editora da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2022) [open access]

- "The refugee status determination (RSD) system is very complex. It includes the roles of and interaction among some implementing partners, such as the UNHCR, sovereign states, local and international NGOs, as well as refugees and asylum seekers. Not all of them are thoroughly regulated by the international regime and the sphere of their legal competences sometimes  clash. A proposed solution is a network society formed by all above-mentioned implementing partners and based on a dialogical model inspired by a communicative action."

Refugee Law (Bristol Univ. Press, April 2022) [info]

- "This concise and engaging book follows the structure of the Convention to explore international refugee law. Including an introduction to the historical and legal context, Colin Yeo draws on his experience as an immigration barrister to explain the present-day legal framework for global refugee protection." Note: The first three chapters can be read for free. More details about the book provided in this blog post.

"Solidarity as Normative Rationale for Differential Treatment: Common but Differentiated Responsibilities from International Environmental to EU Asylum Law?," Chapter 11 in Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2020: Global Solidarity and Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (Springer, Forthcoming 2022) [preprint]

Reports & journal articles:

"Crossing Borders: The Overlap and Conflict of International and Domestic Laws Regarding Refugees and Asylum Seekers," Brigham Young University Prelaw Review, vol. 36 (2022) [full-text]

Customary International Law and the Shifting Patterns of Refugee Migration (SSRN, April 2022) [text]

Ending Exclusion under Article 1F of the Refugee Convention and Advancing International Justice, Working Paper, CARFMS Working Paper, no. 1 (Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, April 2022) [text]

Internally displaced persons and international humanitarian law (ICRC, April 2022) [text]

Keynote Speech, 1st Annual Conference of the Global Strategic Litigation Council on Refugee Rights, 12 April 2022 [text]

- Note: A video recording is also available via the link.

Managing Mixed Migration, Yale Journal of International Law Symposium, 18 April 2022 [access]

- "The essays collected in this Symposium survey the law, politics, and history of mixed migration. They reveal how states have interpreted the term and showcase the promise and perils of migrant categorization. Above all, they tell a story about how governments rely on the mixed character of migrant flows and the mixed motives of people on the move to draw categories, force emigration, and constrain immigration."

Of Course, but Maybe: The Absolute Prohibition of Refoulement and Threats to National Security and Public Safety - Legal and Practical Effects of Undesirable but Unreturnable Refugees, Thesis (Uppsala University, 2022) [text]

"Unpacking Temporary Protection of Refugees: Failure of Durable Solutions and Uncertainties," Inonu University Law Review, vol. 13, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

From the Geneva Convention to the Future: What are Main Challenges Refugee Protection Faces in the Coming Decades?, 17 Feb. 2022 [access]

- Final session in the lecture series on "70 years of Geneva Convention – a reason to celebrate?" Video recordings for all sessions can be accessed here.

The Global Spread of Safe Country Policies: Political Science and Legal Perspective, 23 March 2022 [access]

Refugee and Asylum Law: Towards the Centrality of Human Rights = Derecho de refugiados y asilo: hacia la centralidad de los derechos humanos (Audiovisual Library of International Law) [access]

- Audio and video recordings of this lecture are available in English and Spanish.

Resource:

Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) [Twitter]

- "The Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) is a network of senior and early career scholars, practitioners, policy-makers & asylum seeking and refugee women."

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (30 March 2022)

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2 (30 March 2022)

Opportunities: Even More March 2021 & New April 2021

Discussion panel: Desde el desplazamiento al desarrollo: Retos y oportunidades para refugiados y migrantes en Perú, 11 March 2021 [info]

Job announcement: Supervising Lawyer, Refugee Law Clinic, Univ. of London [info]

- Apply by 14 March 2021.

Call for applications: 9th Online Course on International Refugee Law, 5 April – 30 April 2021 [info]

- Registration deadline is now 15 March 2021.

Call for participation: NALSAR-UNHCR Public International Law Moot Court Competition, 15-16 May 2021 [info]

- Team registration deadline is 15 March 2021. Memorial submission deadline is 15 April 2021.

Seminar series: Deprivation of Citizenship in the UK: A Litigator's Perspective, 15 March 2021 [info]

*Roundtable discussion: Education for Internally Displaced Children and Young People, 18 March 2021 [info]

Call for proposals: Support to the production of documentaries on the reporting and the access to information on migration in West and Central Africa - Terms of reference, UNESCO [info]

- Apply by 19 March 2021.

*CFP: Borders and Justice, Annual Oxford Migration Conference, 10-15 May 2021 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 20 March 2021.

Seminar: The Landscape of LGBTQI Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, 23 March 2021 [info]

*Webinar: Annual state of play assessment on statelessness in Europe, 24 March 2021 [info]

Webinar: BHER Research – Breaking Down Barriers to Inclusivity in the Dadaab Refugee Camp, 31 March 2021 [info]

Job announcement: Research Fellow, Migration Policy Centre [info]

- Apply by 1 April 2021.

Call for applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship on Sponsorship and Integration [info]

- Apply by 5 April 2021.

Call for applications: Short term Media Grants: What Happened to the Refugees and Migrants in the Covid Year of 2020, Calcutta Research Group [info]

- Deadline for submissions is 10 April 2021.

Call for applications: ISI Statelessness Summer Course, 12-23 July 2021 [info]

- Apply by 11 April 2021.

Call for applications: 4th Online Course on Internal Displacement, 17 May – 11 June 2021 [info]

- Apply by 12 April 2021.

Seminar: Growing up Under Forced Displacement: Evidence from Bangladesh and Jordan, 13 April 2021 [info]

*Call for applications: Migration and the Pandemic: Taking Stock and Thinking Ahead, 17th Migration Summer School, 28 June – 9 July 2021 [info]

- Apply by 15 April 2021.

Webinar: Understanding solidarity under international and EU refugee law: Between a rock and a hard place?, ESIL Research Forum, 15 April 2021 [info]

Call for applications: 1st Online Course on Advocacy for Protection, 24 May – 4 June 2021 [info]

- Apply by 19 April 2021.

Seminar: The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar, 27 April 2021 [info]

Call for applications: Scholarships, African Centre for Migration & Society, Wits Univ. [info]

- Available for four MA/PhD students accepted in the Migration & Displacement programme in 2022. Apply by 30 April 2021.

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Opportunity: Corrected Details for Short Course on Palestine Refugees & Intl. Law

- Opportunities: A Few More Feb. & March 2021

Tagged Events & Opportunities.

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Survey: 2021 Appeal for information: COVID-19 and Statelessness [access]

- Please submit responses by 15 March 2021.

Call for applications: ISI Statelessness Summer Course, 12-23 July 2021 [info]

- Apply by 11 April 2021.

Call for applications: 1st Online Course on Statelessness, 21 June-16 July 2021 [info]

- Apply by 17 May 2021.

Blog posts:

Critical sociolinguistic ethnography as a lens to statelessness: a case from the Bidoon community in Kuwait (Critical Statelessness Studies Blog, 2021) [text]

Human and child rights advocates benefit from online course on ending child statelessness (UNHCR, Feb. 2021) [text]

Iceland’s accession to UN Statelessness Conventions reminds us how much more still needs to be done across Europe (ENS Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

In Shamima Begum Case, UK Supreme Court Dismisses Rights and Overlooks Potential Victimhood (Just Security Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

Protecting the Rights of the Rightless: The UN Human Rights Committee and the Right to Acquire a Nationality under International Law (EJIL: Talk Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

Representing stateless people in the UK: a practitioner’s view (ENS Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

- See also related ENS blog post.

Reports & journal articles:

"Acquis or not acquis: statelessness in the context of forced migration," DPCE Online, no. 4/2020 [full-text]

EU law and the mutual recognition of parenthood between Member States: the case of V.M.A. v Stolichna Obsthina (Globalcit, Jan. 2021) [text]

- See also related ENS blog post.

The human rights of women in Syria: Between discriminatory law, patriarchal culture, and the exclusionary politics of the regime (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Feb. 2021) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for texts in English and Arabic.

International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS): IROSS Challenges, Opportunities and Progress Paper (Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Statistics, Feb. 2021) [access via side event concept note]

Marginalised and Impoverished in Assam: A Study into the Exclusion of Those at Risk of Statelessness in COVID-19 Responses and Social Security Provisions (Right to Nationality & Citizenship Network, Jan. 2021) [access]

- See also video recording of related webinar.

"A New Law on Earth": Hannah Arendt and the Vision for a Positive Legal Framework to Guarantee the Right to Have Rights (SSRN, Feb. 2021) [text]

- Focuses on the Rohingya.

"Statelessness as Rhetoric: The Case for Revisioning Statelessness in Our Statist World," Berkeley Journal of International Law, vol. 38, no. 2 (2020) [full-text]

"The Sustainable Development Goals and ‘legal identity for all’: ‘First, do no harm’," World Development, vol. 139 (March 2021) [preprint]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (31 Jan. 2021)

Opportunity: Corrected Details for Short Course on Palestine Refugees & Intl. Law

Please note that I neglected to include updated details for the Refugee Studies Centre's short course on "Palestine Refugees and International Law" in my recent MENA post.  First, the course will now be held online. And second, the dates have changed to 23-24 July 2021.  The application deadline is still 29 March 2021.

More information is available here.

Opportunities: Upcoming Online Courses at IIHL

Here is a listing of online courses provided through the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IIHL) that have registration deadlines through March. More info from the IIHL's Dept. of International Refugee Law and Migration Law is available here.

3rd Course for Governmental Training Institutions and Academia: Global Compact on Refugees, 1 March – 26 March 2021 [info]

- Registration deadline is 25 January 2021.

3rd Online Course on International Migration Law, 1–26 March 2021 [info]

- Registration deadline is 25 January 2021.

8th Online Course on International Refugee Law for Postgraduate Students, 29 March – 2 April 2021 [info]

- Registration deadline is 22 February 2021.

9th Online Course on International Refugee Law, 5 April – 30 April 2021 [info]

- Registration deadline is 1 March 2021.

1st Online Thematic Course on the Global Compact on Refugees: Protecting Refugees in Urban Settings, 3 May – 7 May 2021 [info]
- Registration deadline is 29 March 2021.

Tagged Events & Opportunities.

Thematic Focus: Rescue at Sea & COVID-19

News & commentary on recent cases of port closures to refugee boat arrivals:

Europe

Covid-19: Italy is not a "Place of Safety" Anymore. Is the Decision to Close Italian Ports Compliant with Human Rights Obligations? (EJIL Talk Blog, April 2020) [text]

For Refugees at Sea, COVID-19 is Another Border to Safety and Asylum (Refugee Rights Europe, April 2020) [text]

*"How COVID-19 Halted NGO Migrant Rescues in the Mediterranean," The New Humanitarian, 28 April 2020 [text]

*How Malta and EU Authorities Left People to Die at Sea and Returned Survivors to War (Sea-Watch, April 2020) [text]

"Med: 180 Quarantined on Italian Ship While NGO Takes Legal Actions against Maltese Decision-Makers," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 24 April 2020 [text]
- Note: Links to further information are included at the bottom of the page.

Port Denials and Restrictions in Times of Pandemic: Did International Law Lose its North Star? (EJIL Talk Blog, April 2020) [text]

States Should Ensure Rescue at Sea and Allow Safe Disembarkation during the COVID-19 Crisis (COE Commissioner for Human Rights, April 2020) [text]

Southeast Asia

"Bangladesh Urged to Open Ports to Allow in Rohingya Refugee Boats," The Guardian, 27 April 2020 [text]
- See also related Human Rights Watch report.

COVID-19 No Excuse to Sacrifice Rohingya Lives at Sea (Amnesty International, April 2020) [text]
- See also related APRRN statement and VOA News story.

The COVID-19 Pandemic Should Not be Used as an Excuse to Derogate from International and National Obligations (Malaysian Bar, April 2020) [text]

Malaysia: Allow Rohingya Refugees Ashore (Human Rights Watch, April 2020) [text]

News Comment on Maritime Movements of Refugees and Asylum-seekers, from the UNHCR Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (UNHCR, April 2020) [text]

"SOS Rohingya: Desperate Refugees Adrift," The Diplomat, 25 April 2020 [text]

News: UNHCR Paper on COVID-19

A paper from UNHCR was just posted on Refworld which "sets out key legal considerations, based on international refugee and human rights law, on access to territory for persons seeking international protection in the context of measures taken by States to restrict the entry of non-nationals for the protection of public health in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It reconfirms that while States may put in place measures which may include a health screening or testing of persons seeking international protection upon entry and/or putting them in quarantine, such measures may not result in denying them an effective opportunity to seek asylum or result in refoulement."

Here is my earlier posting on COVID-19.

Thematic Focus: Detention

Blog posts & press:

"Australia's Offshore Detention is Unlawful, Says International Criminal Court Prosecutor," The Guardian, 14 Feb. 2020 [text]

How People in Immigration Detention Try to Cope with Life in Limbo (The Conversation, Feb. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

How Will Conditions in Border Patrol Facilities Change Now That a Judge Has Ruled Them Unconstitutional? (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, Jan. 2020 [Part I] [Part II]
- Focuses on the UK.

Inside Christmas Island: The Australian Detention Centre with Four Asylum Seekers and a $26m Price Tag," The Guardian, 26 Jan. 2020 [text]

Italy: Halt Abusive Migration Cooperation with Libya (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2020) [text]

Judicial Review on Migrants and Asylum Seekers’ Detention Proceedings in Italy (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]

Legal Scholars & UN Experts: Flores Regulations Violate International Law (Immigration Law Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

The Via Corelli Detention Center in Milan: History, Present and Future (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Alternatives: Learning What Works & Why, Monitoring and Evaluation of Alternatives to Immigration Detention, no. 4 (International Detention Coalition, Sept. 2019) [access]
- Follow link for versions in English and Spanish.

"Balancing Factors," Chapter 5 in Judicial Review of Immigration Detention in the UK, US and EU:
From Principles to Practice (Hart Publishing, Jan. 2020) [free full-text]

*"Checking Rights at the Border: Detention of Migrants in International and Comparative Law," Virginia Journal of International Law, vol. 60, no. 1 (2020) [full-text]

Immigration Detention Oversight: Review of the Ombudsman's Activities Overseeing Immigration Detention (Commonwealth Ombudsman, Feb. 2020) [text]

The Implementation of OPCAT in Australia (Australian OPCAT Network, Jan. 2020) [text via Kaldor Centre]
- Chapter 2 addresses "Immigration Detention." This report was submitted to the "UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), ahead of their visits to Australia in 2020."

"Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation in Immigration Detention, 1983–2013," Law & Society Review, vol. 54, no. 1 (March 2020) [free full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

Locked Up Without Rights: Nationality-based Detention in the Moria Refugee Camp (HIAS, Dec. 2019) [text]

Practical Guidance on Alternatives to Immigration Detention: Fostering Effective Results (Council of Europe, Oct. 2019) [text]

- Based on earlier, more in-depth analysis published in 2018. More info in this IDC news story.

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (27 Jan. 2020)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"The Boundaries of Religious Persecution: Refugee Law and the Limits of Permissible Restrictions on Religion," Human Rights: The Journal of Human Rights, vol. 13, no. 2 (Fall 2018/Winter 2019) [open access]

"Can’t be Held Responsible: Weak Norms and Refugee Protection Evasion," International Relations, OnlineFirst, 31 Oct. 2019 [preprint]

"The Children (and Wives) of Foreign ISIS Fighters: Which Obligations upon the States of Nationality?," Questions of International Law, 23 Sept. 2019 [open access]

"Delivering Refugees and Migrants to a 'Place of Safety' Following Rescue by States at Sea," Maritime Safety and Security Journal, no. 6 (2019-2020) [open access]

Enforced Disappearance in the Context of Migration: A Neglected Human Rights Issue (SSRN, Sept. 2019) [text]

"Human Rights, Domestic Politics, and Informal Agreements: Parliamentary Challenges to International Cooperation on Migration Management," Australian Journal of International Affairs, Latest Articles, 11 Oct. 2019 [open access]
- Uses examples from Australia, the EU and Israel.

"Law and Refugee Crises," Annual Review of Law Social Sciences, vol. 15 (2019) [postprint] [free full-text]

"Managing Flow: An Overview of Legal and Policy Developments around the World,” Mixed Migration Review (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2019) [text]
- Scroll to p. 147.

"Protected Groups in Refugee Law and International Law," Laws, vol. 8, no. 4 (Oct. 2019) [open access]

"Transnational Migration Law: Authority, Contestation, Decolonization," Chapter in Oxford Handbook on Transnational Law (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2020) [preprint]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (11 Nov. 2019)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

News:

20th Anniversary of Adoption of First UNSC Resolution on Protection of Civilians

Note: Here is the text of UNSC Resolution 1265 (1999).

Building a Culture of Protection: 20 Years of Security Council Engagement on the Protection of Civilians (OCHA, May 2019) [text]
- See also related Just Security blog post.

"'Great Cause of Concern' UN Chief Tells Security Council, Surveying 'Bleak' State of Civilian Protection," UN News, 23 May 2019 [text]

Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. S/2019/373 (May 2019) [text]
- See also related Just Security blog post.

Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 20 Years on: How It All Started and Where We are Now (United against Inhumanity, May 2019) [text]

Twenty Years of Protection of Civilians at the UN Security Council, HPG Policy Brief, no. 74 (ODI, Maty 2019) [text]

Blog posts & studies:

The 1967 Refugee Protocol and the Challenges of a Regional Agreement in Latin America (Notice & Comment Blog, May 2019) [text]

Displacement in Times of Armed Conflict: How International Humanitarian Law Protects in War and Why It Matters (International Committee of the Red Cross, May 2019) [text]
- See also related launch event.

Innovations in Responsibility Sharing for Refugees, World Refugee Council Research Paper, no. 14 (Centre for International Governance Innovation, May 2019) [text]

New Study Proposes Innovative Framework for Transnational Asylum (Danish Institute for Human Rights, April 2019) [text]

The Role of the “Regional”: Shoring Up Refugee Rights? (RLI Blog, May 2019) [text]

An Unforeseen Pandora’s Box? Absolute Non-Refoulement Obligations under Article 5 of the ILC Draft Articles on Crimes Against Humanity (EJIL Talk Blog, May 2019) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (17 April 2019)

Tagged Publications.