Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

"I asked criminologists about immigration and crime in the US. Their answers may surprise you," CNN, 15 Feb. 2024 [text]

Immigration reform has always been tough, and rarely happens in election years - 4 things to know (The Conversation, Feb. 2024) [text]

New Immigration Court Data Show Sharp Drop in New Cases, Increase in Case Closures (TRAC News, Feb. 2024) [text]

U.S. Policies Punish Refugees at the Border (Human Rights First Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]

USCIS Reduces Its Backlog for the First Time in Years (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking," Policy Sciences, vol. 57, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Dismantling the Due Process Dichotomy in Crimmigration Cases," Cornell International Law Journal, vol. 56 (Forthcoming, 2024) [preprint]

How Americans View the Situation at the U.S.-Mexico Border, Its Causes and Consequences (Pew Research, Feb. 2024) [text]

"How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging," American Political Science Review, First View, 23 Oct. 2023 [open access]

Outmatched: The U.S. Asylum System Faces Record Demands (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2024) [text]

Project 2025: Unveiling the far right’s plan to demolish immigration in a second Trump term (Niskanen Center, Feb. 2024) [text]

The Supplemental: Refugee-Related Considerations as Congress Navigates the Latest Funding Fight (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

U.S. Border and Asylum Policies Harm Black Asylum Seekers (Human Rights First, Feb. 2024) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (9 Feb. 2024)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Call for registration: UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts: Spring School 2022, Online (1st day) & Glasgow (2nd & 3rd days), 11-13 May 2022 [info]

- Register by 10 May 2022.

Webinar: Implementation of the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) in all EU Member States, 13 May 2022 [info]

Call for applications: 2022 Odysseus Summer School on Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, Brussels/Online, 4-15 July 2022 [info]

- This year's summer school will focus on the New Migration & Asylum Pact and the temporary protection of Ukrainian refugees. Note: 1) Scholarships are available for students who are beneficiaries of international protection; 2) A PhD Seminar will also take place during the summer school; four grants are available to PhD students for this component. The deadline for all the aforementioned applications is 15 May 2022. 

Call for applications: Executive Master in European Law on Migration and Asylum, Online, 2 September 2022–14 July 2023 [info]

- A new offering from the Odysseus Network! Note: Registration fees for the Executive Master will also cover participation in the 2022 Summer School to give students "the possibility to acquire a sound base of knowledge" before undertaking the Executive Master course. The application deadline is 1 July 2022.

Blog posts & press:

Asylum 2021: asylum decisions and unaccompanied minors (Eurostat News, May 2022) [text]

A Bleak Week for Rights in the UK (Human Rights Watch, April 2022) [text]

Can Rwanda Be the Solution? Europe’s Cooperation on Migration with Third Countries (MPC Blog, May 2022) [text]

Danish plans to outsource asylum to Rwanda 'likely' to fail: migration expert (InfoMigrants, May 2022) [text]

Food shortages, millions of refugees, and global price spikes: the knock-on effects of Russia’s Ukraine invasion (The Conversation, May 2022) [text]

Generous, but Equal Treatment? Anti-Discrimination Duties of States Hosting Refugees Fleeing Ukraine (EJIL Talk Blog, May 2022) [text]

New monthly asylum report: January 2022 (Eurostat News, May 2022) [text]

"Small boat asylum seekers undeterred by Rwanda plan, survey finds," The Guardian, 2 May 2022 [text]

Some Refugees are Welcome, Others Not So Much: Revisiting the ‘Myth of Difference’ (Völkerrechtsblog, April 2022) [text]

The Tried and Failed Business of Exporting Asylum (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2022) [text]

"Welcoming Ukrainian Refugees: Challenges and Uncertainties," Eurasia Review, 4 May 2022 [text]

Multimedia:

Human Rights Defenders: challenges on the ground, at the sea and in camps, 27 Jan. 2022 [access]

Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe, 19 April 2022 [access]

Quo Vadis Refugee Protection in the EU: legal obligations and their shortcomings, 16 Dec. 2021 [access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (29 April 2022)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (29 April 2022)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Asylum and Mass Detention at the U.S.- Mexico Border during COVID-19," Journal of Latin American Geography, Ahead of Print, 27 May 2020 [Academia]

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 34, no. 2 (2020) [full-text]
- Mix of articles, including "The Boundaries of Habeas: Due Process, The Suspension Clause, and Judicial Review of Expedited Removal Under the Immigration and Nationality Act," "'Speak Anglish:' Language Access and Due Process in Asylum Proceedings," "The One-Two Punch to Asylum Seekers: How the Trump Administration Would Change Asylum as We Know It," and "Migrant Protection Protocols and Due Process," among others.

"Out of Options: The Obstructions Hindering Victims of Non-State Actor Violence Under Current Asylum Law," Brooklyn Law Review, vol. 85, no. 1 (2020) [full-text]

"Revisiting Immutability: Competing Frameworks for Adjudicating Asylum Claims Based on Membership in a Particular Social Group," Univ. of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, vol. 53, no. 3 (2020) [full-text]

"The U.S. Stands Alone in Explicitly Basing Coronavirus-linked Immigration Restrictions on Economic Grounds," Migration Information Source, 21 May 2020 [text]

Multimedia:

Fletcher Insights: The Impact of Coronavirus on Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 22 May 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video.

U.S. Government Policies at the Border: COVID-19 and Border Expulsions of Asylum Seekers, 29 May 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (10 June 2020)

Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 2 (U.S.)

At Oral Argument, Supreme Court Weighs Immigrant Detention (Lawfare Blog, Oct. 2018) [text]

"A Constitutional Case for Extending the Due Process Clause to Asylum Seekers: Revisiting the Entry Fiction after Boumediene," Fordham Law Review, vol. 87, no. 1 (Oct. 2018) [full-text]

The Flores Settlement and Family Incarceration: A Brief History and Next Steps - Fact Sheet (Human Rights First, Oct. 2018) [text]

How do Immigrant Children and Families Experience Immigrant Detention?, Research Brief (Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, Sept. 2018) [text via ResearchGate]

"Hundreds of Migrant Children Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border," New York Times, 30 Sept. 2018 [text]

Profiling Who ICE Detains - Few Committed Any Crime (TRAC, Oct. 2018) [text]

A Record 13,300 Migrant Children Are Being Detained by the Trump Administration (Immigration Impact Blog, Sept. 2018) [text]

Suits Challenging Confinement of Noncitizens Up (TRAC, Sept. 2018) [text]

"To Free Detained Children, Immigrant Families are Forced to Risk Everything," New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2018 [text]

"Trump Administration’s New Indefinite Family Detention Policy: Deterrence Not Guaranteed," Migration Information Source, 26 Sept. 2018 [text]

Will Sessions Use Indefinite Mandatory Detention to Reduce the Demand for Asylum Hearings? (The Hill, Oct. 2018) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1 (2 Nov. 2018)

Tagged Publications. 

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (in the U.S.)

AAP Statement Opposing Separation of Children and Parents at the Border (American Academy of Pediatrics, May 2018) [text]

"The Equal Protection Doctrine in the Age of Trump: The Example of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children," Brooklyn Law Review, vol. 84 (Forthcoming, 2018) [preprint]

"Federal Agencies Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Migrant Children Placed with Sponsors," New York Times, 26 April 2018 [text]

"Hundreds of Immigrant Children Have Been Taken from Parents at U.S. Border," New York Times, 20 April 2018 [text]

"Protecting Children? Assessing the Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors in the U.S.," Latino Public Policy, no. 2 (April 2018) [full-text]

"Taking Children from Their Parents Is a Form of State Terror," New Yorker, 9 May 2018 [text]

Trump’s Quiet War on Migrant Kids (The Marshall Project, May 2018) [text]

*Undocumented Parents Trying to Reunite with Their Children May Face Deportation under New Proposal (Immigration Impact Blog, May 2018) [text]

Why Don’t More Unaccompanied Children Pursue Refugee Status? (Niskanen Center Blog, April 2018) [text]

“Would The Justice Department Have Prosecuted Anne Frank's Father?,” Forbes, 9 May 2018 [text]

"Young Migrants: Victims of Gangs or Members of Them?," New York Times, 1 May 2018 [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (11 May 2018)

Tagged Publications.

New Issues of Disasters, Europ. Educ., GILJ, Global Pol., GREAT Insights, ICRC Rev., Intl. Migr. JIRS, Reprod. Health, Rts. in Exile

Disasters, vol. 42, no. 2 (April 2018) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including one on disaster resettlement in China that is freely available.

European Education, vol. 49, no. 4 (2017) [contents]
- Thematic issue focusing on "Internationalization in Conflict-Ridden Societies and within Migrant Populations."

European Education, vol. 50, no. 1 (2018) [contents]
- Thematic issue focusing on "Schools, Risk, and Integration: Responding to the EU/Refugee Crisis."

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 31, no. 3 (2017) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including "Non-Discrimination in Refugee and Asylum Law (against Travel Ban 1.0 and 2.0)" and "Protecting Syrian Refugees: Short Term Solution to Unsustainable Burden and The Necessity of Eliciting Aid from the Global North."

Global Policy, vol. 9, no. 1 (Feb. 2018) [free full-text]
- Includes special section on "Migration Governance: Regional Solutions to a Global Challenge."

GREAT Insights Magazine, vol. 7, no. 1 (Winter 2018) [full-text]
- Focuses on "Migration: Moving Backward, Moving Forward?."

International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 98, no. 903 (Dec. 2016) [full-text]
- Focus is on "Detention: Addressing the Human Cost."

International Migration, vol. 56, no. 2 (April 2018) [contents]
- Theme is "Manifestations of Migrant Vulnerability."

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. 16, nos. 1-2 (2018) [contents]
- Special issue on "Mediatization and Politicization of Refugee Crisis in Europe." The introduction is freely available, and two articles are open access, one on Austria and one on Sweden.

Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 25, no. 51 (2017) [open access]
- Special issue on "Humanitarian Crises: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights."

Rights in Exile Newsletter, no. 90 (March 2018) [full-text]
- News and information for refugee legal aid providers.

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: United States

News: 

As noted in this earlier blog post, the revised Executive Order entitled ""Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States" was due to go into effect today. However, two rulings issued by federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland have now prevented the latest travel ban from moving forward. Read more in this New York Times article.

Other ongoing litigation can be tracked via this Lawfare blog page.

A summary of the White House's possible next steps is provided by the Washington Post.

Publications:

Are Puerto Ricans Really American Citizens? (The Conversation, March 2017) [text]

"Creating Cohesive, Coherent Immigration Policy," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017) [open access]

How America's Idea of Illegal Immigration Doesn't Always Match Reality (NPR, March 2017) [text]

"It’s Still a Muslim Ban," New York Review of Books, 11 March 2017 [text]

The Legality of the 3/6/17 Executive Order, Part III: The Establishment Clause (Lawfare Blog, March 2017) [text]

The Nondiscrimination Obligation of Immigration and Nationality Act Section 202(A)(1)(A) (SSRN, March 2017) [text]

Revised Trump Executive Order and Guidance on Refugee Resettlement and Travel Ban (Migration Policy Institute, March 2017) [text]

Sanctuary 101, Part III: Can Trump Condition Federal Funds This Way? (Lawfare Blog, March 2017) [text]

Sanctuary 101, Part IV: Does § 1373 Unconstitutionally Commandeer the States? (Lawfare Blog, March 2017) [text]

US Funding for the UN - in Charts (IRIN, March 2017) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: United States (14 March 2017)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Health

"A Cost-benefit Analysis of a Proposed Overseas Refugee Latent Tuberculosis Infection Screening and Treatment Program," BMC Public Health, 15:1201 (Dec. 2015) [open access]

"Early Motherhood: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Experiences of African Australian Teenage Mothers in Greater Melbourne, Australia," BMC Public Health, 15: 873 (Sept. 2015) [open access]

High-level Meeting on Refugee and Migrant Health, Rome, 23-24 Nov. 2015 [access]
- Follow link for documents related to the conference.

"How Aid Workers Can Stay Healthy – A Psychologist's Guide," The Guardian, 26 Nov. 2015 [text]

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants on the Move in Europe: A Multi-agency Guidance Note (UNHCR et al., Dec. 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Neonatal Outcomes of Syrian Refugees Delivered in a Tertiary Hospital in Ankara, Turkey," Conflict and Health, 9:38 (Dec. 2015) [open access]

"The Principle of Non-Discrimination: An Empty Promise for the Preventive Health Care of Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants?," Groningen Journal of International Law, vol. 3, no. 2 (2015)[open access]

Rebuilding Adolescent Girls' Lives: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict-affected Gaza, Liberia and Sri Lanka (ODI, Oct. 2015) [text]

"Screening for Infectious Diseases among Newly Arrived Migrants: Experiences and Practices in Non-EU Countries of the Mediterranean Basin and Black Sea," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 12, no. 12 (Dec. 2015) [open access]

State of World Population 2015 - Shelter from the Storm: A Transformative Agenda for Women and Girls in a Crisis-prone World (UNFPA, Dec. 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Vitamin D Status and Associated Metabolic Risk Factors among North Korean Refugees in South Korea: A Cross-sectional Study," BMJ Open, 5:e009140 (Nov. 2015) [open access]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Health (2 Dec. 2015)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Central American Unaccompanied Minors

The Border Children: They are not Criminals and They Need Counsel (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2014) [text]

Border Crisis Lesson: Reform Deportation Policies Toward Gang Bangers (Huffington Post, July 2014) [text]

Interactive Map: Undocumented, Unaccompanied and Underage (Wilson Quarterly, July 2014) [access]

Law Professors Call for Fair Treatment for Unaccompanied Central American Children (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2014) [text]

'Life Ended There': Rare Interviews with the Children of America’s Border Disaster (Politico Magazine, July 2014) [text]

Organized Criminal Groups, U.S. Protection, and the Principle of Non-Discrimination (RI Blog, July 2014) [text]

Possible U.S. Policy Change on Unaccompanied Minors and the International Legal Obligation of Non-refoulement (IntLawGrrls, July 2014) [text]

An Urgent Need: Unaccompanied Children and Access to Counsel in Immigration Proceedings (American Bar Association, July 2014) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas, esp. Unaccompanied Minors (14 July 2014)

Tagged Publications.

New Publications

Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming Forward Plan 2011‐2016 (UNHCR, Sept. 2011) [text]

- See also related AGDM documents.

Draft Report of the 51st Meeting of the Standing Committee (21-23 June 2011) (EXCOM Standing Committee, Sept. 2011) [text]

- See other documents from the 52nd meeting, which took place 20-21 September 2011.

The HESPER: WHO’s Measurement Answer to the Problem of Identifying Needs within Displaced Populations (Andrew Rasmussen's Blog, Sept. 2011) [text]

"Research Priorities for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Settings," PLoS Medicine, 8:9 (2011) [open access text]

World Disasters Report (IFRC, Sept. 2011) [access]

- This year's focus is "Hunger and Malnutrition."

Tagged Publications.

New Publications

Disaster-conflict Interface: Comparative Experiences (UNDP, 2011) [text via PreventionWeb]

Exploding the Myths: UNRWA, UNHCR and the Palestine Refugees (Ma'an News Agency, June 2011) [text via PRRN Blog]

Global Phenomenon, Invisible Cases: Human Trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP Observatory on Migration, Feb. 2011) [text]

Memorandum of Understanding between the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, June 2011) [text]

Navigating the Refugee Fact Free Zone (Centre for Policy Development, June 2011) [text]

Shelter from the Storm: A Real-time Evaluation of UNHCR’s Response to the Emergency in Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia, PDES/2011/07 (UNHCR, June 2011) [text]

UNHCR's Contribution to the Secretary-General's Report on Progress and Implementation of the General Assembly Resolution 64/169 on the Initiatives Contributing to the Activities in the Framework of the International Year for People of African Descent (UNHCR, May 2011) [text]

Tagged Publications.

Publications: Asylum/Israel, Detention, Mortality/Darfur, Non-Discrim. & Compl. Protection, Unaccomp. Minors

The Issue of Immigration Detention at the UN Level: Recent Developments Relevant to the Work of the International Detention Coalition (IDC) (Jan. 2011) [text]

A Matter of Definition: On 'Infiltrators' and 'Asylum Seekers' in Israel (bepress Legal Repository, Jan. 2011) [text]

Mortality in Darfur: Lessons for Humanitarian Policy, Policy Briefing, no. 7 (MICROCON, Jan. 2011) [text]

"Treating Like Alike: The Principle of Non-Discrimination as a Tool to Mandate the Equal Treatment of Refugees and Beneficiaries of Complementary Protection," Melbourne University Law Review, vol. 34, no. 1 (2010) [open access text]

"Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: A Growing Phenomenon with Few Easy Solutions," Migration Information Source (Jan. 2011) [text]

Tagged Publications.