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19 February 2026

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Administrative Warrants, Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment (CATO At Liberty Blog, Feb 2026) [text]

The Army Clause: A Forgotten Constitutional Check on ICE, CBP, and the Pentagon (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

Board of Imitation Appeals (The Asylumist Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy (The Conversation, Feb. 2026) [text]

Nearly 17% of Team USA Has Direct Immigrant Ties, Research Shows (America's Voice Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

When ICE sweeps a community, public health pays a price – and recovery will likely take years (The Conversation, Feb. 2026) [text]

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

Reports:

At What Cost? Inside the Trump Administration’s Secret Deportation Deals (US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Feb. 2026) [text via The Hill]

How ICE Went Rogue: A Brief Analysis of the Legal Authorities Governing ICE and CBP Operations — and How They’re Being Undermined and Violated by Policy and Practice (American Immigration Council, Feb. 2026) [text]

ICE Arrests across Trump's First and Second Terms: Variation in Targeting, Method, and Geography, Working Paper, no. 34794 (NBER, Feb. 2026) [text]

A Profile of the Growing Black Immigrant Population in the United States (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2026) [text]

Resource:

ICE Map [access]
- This site "tracks ICE-related news incidents in individual counties, as well as immigrant detention facilities with documented health and security inspection failures." Read more about it in this Rice Thresher article.

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28 April 2025

Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

Empowering development through data on forced displacement (Data Blog, April 2025) [text]

Europe Sanitizes, Africa Exposes: The Visual Politics of Irregular Migration (MPC Blog, April 2025) [text]

Pope Francis, tireless defender of migrants around the world (InfoMigrants, April 2025) [text]

Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi to the Security Council (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

Reports:

2024 Public Health Global Review (UNHCR, April 2025) [access]

Annual Global Overview of Migration Routes 2024 (IOM, April 2025) [text]
- This report "aims to provide a global snapshot of migration in 2024 from a route-based perspective. This approach investigates routes across national and regional boundaries, requiring a multi-country perspective and holistic view of human mobility, which considers people at origin, in transit, and at their destinations."

Bibliometric Analysis of Refugee Policy Research: Mapping the Subfield (LERRN, April 2025) [text]

Strengthening the Participation of Internally Displaced Persons: Workshop Report (McGill Univ. et al., April 2025) [access via LERRN]
- Available in English, French, Spanish, and Ukrainian; also links to videos of the IDP leaders who presented at the workshop.

Journal articles:

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Special issue on "Migration Research and Policy: Bridging the Divide in an Era of Complexity."

"The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s," The Historical Journal, FirstView, 17 April 2025 [open access]

"Why Should Organizational Scholars Study Migration," Organization Science, Ahead of Print, 22 April 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

ECOSOC Special Meeting on "Forced Displacement and Refugee Protection," 24 April 2025 [access]
- Follow link for the agenda, concept note, statements, and a video recording of the meeting. 

Global South Perspective on Internally Displaced Persons, 13 Feb. 2025 [access]

Refugee Protection and the Narrative of Possibility: A Talk with Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 10 April 2025 [access]
- See also related KCL news release.

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15 November 2024

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Reports:

The Biden Administration’s Revised Proclamation and Final Rule, “Securing the Border” (Congressional Research Service, Nov. 2024) [text]

Current Inadmissibility Decisions at U.S. Ports of Entry (TRAC, Nov. 2024) [text]

Fact-checking Over 12,000 of Donald Trump’s Statements About Immigration (Marshall Project, Oct. 2024) [text]

Fleeing Terror in Southern Mexico: Why Numerous Guerrero Refugees Qualify for Asylum (Seattle Univ., Oct. 2024) [text]

Navigating the Border: San Diego’s and Tijuana’s Migrant Reception Efforts (Rice Univ., Oct. 2024) [text]

Needs Assessment: Wellbeing of Asylum Seekers in New York City and the Washington, D.C. Area (HIAS, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Permanent Legal Immigration to the United States: Policy Overview (Congressional Research Service, Nov. 2024) [text]

What is Affirmative Asylum? (Congressional Research Service, Oct. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Administrative Violence in Immigration Law," Arizona Law Review, vol. 66, no. 3 (2024) [full-text]

"The Afterlife of 'Title 42': Autopsy and Reformation," Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Explaining the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Stalemate in Congress," Catholic Univ. Law Review, vol. 73, no. 3 (2024) [full-text]

Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 12, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [full-text]
- Special issue on "Forced Migration, Deterrence, and Solutions to the Non-Natural Disaster of Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border and Beyond." All articles are free to read, but two are also open access.

"Migrant Deaths in California’s Borderlands, 2018–2023," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 12 Nov. 2024 [full-text]

*"What Congress Needs to Break the Immigration Reform Stalemate," Catholic Univ. Law Review, vol. 73, no. 4 (2024) [full-text]
- This is the "second article of a series that began with an analysis of why immigration reform has been unsuccessful over the past 30 years despite bipartisan support." See above for the first article.

*UPDATED

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29 September 2023

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Ukraine and Sudan Receive TPS Extensions, Redesignations as Global Displacement Continues to Rise (Immigration Impact Blog, Aug. 2023) [text]

US Chooses Shameful Hypocrisy in Forcibly Returning Haitians (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2023) [text]

What Does the Looming Government Shutdown Mean for Our Immigration System? (Immigration Impact Blog, Sept. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Attitudes about refugees and immigrants arriving in the United States: a conjoint experiment," Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 46, no. 10 (2023) [preprint]

Borderline Ambiguity: Major Questions and Immigration Law, Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 218 (Roger Williams Univ., Aug. 2023) [text]

Fact Sheet: Data from First Six Months of Parole Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans Shows That Lawful Pathways Work (US Dept. of Homeland Security, July 2023) [text]

"Evangelical attitudes toward Syrian refugees: are evangelicals distinctive in their opposition to Syrian refugees to the United States?," Politics and Religion, FirstView, 24 Aug. 2023 [free full-text]

"New York and Other U.S. Cities Struggle with High Costs of Migrant Arrivals," Migration Information Source, 27 Sept. 2023 [text]

"Process as Suffering: How U.S. Immigration Court Process and Culture Prevent Substantive Justice," Albany Law Review, vol. 86, no. 3 (2023) [full-text]

"The Right to Asylum during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Legal Review of the Power to Expel Noncitizens under Title 42," Albany Law Review, vol. 86, no. 3 (2023) [full-text]

"US Asylum Lawyering and Temporal Violence," Law & Social Inquiry, FirstView, 4 Sept. 2023 [open access]

Multimedia:

U.S. Asylum Process: Improving Our Humanitarian Protection System with Efficiency and Integrity, 14 Sept. 2023 [access]

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17 February 2023

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times
(Springer, Feb. 2023) [open access]
- "How do migration and integration change when ‘crisis becomes normalcy’? This open access book investigates this question in the present context of turbulent times when, instead of dealing with one crisis, migrants, governments and whole societies have to cope within a complex web of multiple unsettling events that create anxieties about migration. Emphasising a plurality of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, as well as a variety of geographical settings in Europe and beyond, the chapters bring new insights into migrations produced by global political events, national political shifts, economic downturns and the Covid-19 pandemic."

Journal articles:

"Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, OnlineFirst, 31 March 2022 [open access]

"Beyond Agency as Good: Complicity and Displacement after the Siege of Sarajevo," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 35, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [free full-text]
- Note: This article is the winner of the 2022 JRS Early Career Researcher Prize.

"The effects of traumatic experiences during transit and pushback on the mental health of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants," European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 14, no. 1 (2023) [open access]
- Focuses on Serbia.

"The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, OnlineFirst, 4 Feb. 2023 [open access]

*"The EU external border as a site of preventive (in)justice," European Law Journal, Early View, 19 Oct. 2022 [open access]
- See related media below.

"The evolution of EUropean border governance through crisis: Frontex and the interplay of protracted and acute crisis narratives," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, OnlineFirst, 4 Feb. 2023 [open access]

*"Flexible Solidarity in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum: A New Form of Differentiated Integration?," European Papers, vol. 7, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

"Health Emergency and Asylum Law in the European Union," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 17 Feb. 2023 [open access]

Multimedia:

*The European Union’s External Border as a Site of Preventive Injustice, 28 June 2022 [access]

Ukrainian Displacement in Europe, One Year Later, 14 Feb. 2023 [access]

*UPDATED

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30 January 2023

Regional Focus: United States

Opportunity:

Public talk: Making Sense of Immigration Data: A Conversation with TRAC, Washington, DC, 17 February 2023 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"Courts Set to Shape US Immigration Policy in 2023," VOA News, 12 Jan. 2023 [text]

How the Humanitarian Parole Program at the Border Can Serve as a Template for Further Relief Under the Broken Immigration System (The Insightful Immigration Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]

Monthly encounters with migrants at U.S.-Mexico border remain near record highs (Pew Fact Tank, Jan. 2023) [text]

"Trump v Biden: how different are their policies on the US-Mexico border?," The Guardian, 22 Jan. 2023 [text]
- See also related Human Rights First fact sheet.

What’s Next for Title 42? The Policy Still Has the Border in Its Grip (Immigration Impact Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]

Reports:

Inequity at the US-Mexico Border: Ukrainians Seeking Safety and Implications for US Asylum Processing (Women's Refugee Commission, Jan. 2023) [text]

Leading by Example, Honoring Commitments: Recommendations for the Biden Administration to Uphold Refugee Law at Home (Human Rights First, Jan. 2023) [text]

Primer: Immigration Enforcement Mechanisms at the U.S. Border (American Bar Association, Dec. 2022) [access via ImmigrationProf Blog]

Journal articles:

"Biden at the Two-Year Mark: Significant Immigration Actions Eclipsed by Record Border Numbers," Migration Information Source, 26 Jan. 2023 [text]

"A Constitutional Right to Asylum? A Comparative Analysis Could Ground the Design of Better Protection for Asylum Seekers," Univ. of Dayton Law Review, vol. 48, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]

"Fleeing the Land of the Free," Columbia Law Review, vol. 123, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 37, no. 1 (Fall 2022) [full-text]
- Mix of articles.

"The Immigration Shadow Docket," Northwestern Univ. Law Review, vol. 117, no. 4 (2023) [full-text]

"Judicial Deference to Incomplete Asylum Analysis," Ohio State Law Journal Sixth Circuit Review, vol. 83 (2022) [full-text]

"Kafka’s Bureaucracy: Immigration Administrative Burdens in the Trump Era," Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, vol. 5, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Maryland Journal of International Law, vol. 37, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]
- Includes contributions to 2022 MJIL Symposium on “Race, Sovereignty, and Immigrant Justice.”

"Persecution in Punjab: The Hidden Story of Sikh Asylum," Notre Dame Law Review Reflection, vol. 97, no. 3 (2022) [full-text]

Resource:

Freedom of Information Act Reading Room (Executive Office of Immigration Review) [access]
- Searchable database of unpublished Board of Immigration Appeals' decisions. More info is provided in this blog post.

Related post:


13 December 2022

Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1

Opportunity: 

Model UN Refugee Challenge for 2023 [access]
- Follow link for more info and a link to the registration form. "MUN organizers should register for the Challenge at least 6 weeks before the start of their MUN conference."

Blog posts & press:

More countries are including refugees in national health systems, and development partnerships are key to the process (UNHCR Blog, Dec. 2022) [text]

A year from 2023 Global Refugee Forum, UNHCR announces co-convenors (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

Book chapters & articles:

"2021 Harrell-Bond Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford: Empire’s Refugees," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 35, no. 4 (Dec. 2022) [free full-text]

"Methodological Quandaries of Studying Post-Soviet Displacements: An Invitation to Consider ‘Global Postcoloniality’ in Forced Migration Studies," Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 60 (2022) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 1.

"Migrants’ Protection and Assistance in the Face of a Changing World: Taking Stock of the Challenges and Responses," Chapter 14 in Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism (Brill, Nov. 2022 [open access]

"Restricting Human Movement During the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Research Avenues in the Study of Mobility, Migration, and Citizenship," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 15 Nov. 2022 [free full-text]
- See also related MPC Blog post.

"A Systems Approach to Displacement, Chapter 1 in The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach (Polity Books, Dec. 2022) [access via FM List] 

"Top 10 Migration Issues of 2022," Migration Information Source, 2 Dec. 2022 [access]

Multimedia:

High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges: Development Cooperation, 7-8 Dec. 2022 [access]
- See also related news story.

Social cohesion policies in displacement-affected contexts: promoting solidarity or preserving the protection space?, 18 Oct. 2022 [access]

Related post:

08 November 2022

New Issues/Opportunities: APMJ, Cah. l'EDEM, Comp. Pop. Stud., Hist. Econ. & Soc., IJMHSC, Intervention, J. Am. Hist., JEMS, JIRS, JIANL, Migr. Stud., REMHU, Zeitgeschichte

Opportunities: 

CFP: 2023 Migration Politics Residential Fellowships, Univ. of Amsterdam [info]
- Submit proposals by 15 November 2022.

Call for applications: Book Review Editor, Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees [info]
- Submission deadline is 30 November 2022.

CFP: Yearbook of International Disaster Law [info]
- Contributions sought for a themed issue on "Human Rights and Disasters." Submit abstracts by 30 November 2022.

CFP: Frontiers in Human Dynamics [info]
- Contributions sought for a research topic on "Forms and Functions of Soft Norms and Informal Law-Making in International Migration Law: A Different Frontier." Submit abstracts by 2 December 2022.

New issues:

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

*Asia and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 31, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "The Politics of Sanitization: Pandemic Crisis, Migration and Development in Asia-Pacific." The introduction is freely available and two articles are open access.

Cahiers de l'EDEM (UCLouvain) [access]
- Les Cahiers "se proposent de présenter quelques arrêts récents d’une juridiction nationale ou internationale dans ses domaines d’études, à savoir la mise en Å“uvre du droit européen de l’asile et de l’immigration en droit belge." Special issues in July and August 2022 include articles on immigration and asylum issues in Europe.

Comparative Population Studies, vol. 47 (2022) [open access]
- Special issue on "Refugee Migration to Europe: Challenges and Potentials for Cities and Regions." 

Histoire, économie & société, no. 1 (2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "Les déplacements de population en Europe dans les années 1940." The introduction is freely available.

*International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 18, no. 2 (2022) [contents]
- Mix of articles, with one open access article.

*International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 18, no. 3 (2022) [contents]
- Mix of articles.

Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict, vol. 20, no. 2 (July-Dec. 2022) [open access]
- Mix of articles.

Journal of American History, vol. 109, no. 2 (Sept. 2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "The 1921 and 1924 Immigration Acts a Century Later: Roots and Long Shadows." The introduction and epilogue are freely available.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 16 (2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "Temporary Migration: Category of Analysis or Category of Practice?." The introduction is freely available and one article is open access.

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. 20, no. 4 (2022) [contents]
- Mix of articles, with four open access articles.

Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law [contents]
- Follow link to view article listings for recent issues.

Migration Studies, vol. 10, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas." The introduction and four articles are open access.

REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 30, no. 65 (2022) [open access]
- Features a dossier on "Migrant domestic workers: invisibility, care, and struggles." Texts of articles are provided in either English, Portuguese or Spanish.

Zeitgeschichte, vol. 49, no. 3 (2022) [contents]
- Special issue on “Migrants and Refugees from the 1960s until Today.” The editorial is freely available.

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Blog posts & press:

Forced returns to Myanmar must stop immediately, says Türk (OHCHR, Oct. 2022) [text]
- See also related UNHCR news comment and briefing note.

Malaysia: Surge in Summary Deportations to Myanmar (Human Rights Watch, Oct. 2022) [text]

"Malaysia Mulls Closing UN Refugee Agency Office, Sparking Refoulement Fears," VOA News, 1 Nov. 2022 [text]

October 2022 Budget: What it says about refugee issues (Kaldor Centre, Oct. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

"Thailand Sets Long-Awaited Rules for Vetting Asylum Seekers," VOA News, 23 Oct. 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Affective borderings: Sovereignty and Tibetan refugee placemaking at the Nepal/China borderlands," Political Geography, vol. 99 (Nov. 2022) [extended abstract]
- See also related dissertation.

Asia and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 31, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "The Politics of Sanitization: Pandemic Crisis, Migration and Development in Asia-Pacific." The introduction is freely available and two articles are open access.

Coping with Shocks: Migration and the Road to Resilience (World Bank, Nov. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on South Asia.

"Mental Health and Perceived Social Support of Humanitarian Workers in Bangladesh During the COVID-19 Pandemic," Intervention, vol. 20, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"Ordering the Repatriation of the Rohingya," Virginia Journal of International Law Online, vol. 62 (2021) [full-text]

"The role of interviewer ethnicity on survey responses: A case study in refugee camps in Bangladesh," Survey Practice, 29 Sept. 2022 [open access]

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31 October 2022

Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

The Biden Administration Cracks Down on Venezuelan Migrants — What You Need to Know (Immigration Impact Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]
- See also a related statement from UNHCR, IOM & UNICEF and commentary from The Hill and Human Rights Watch.

Biden administration further expands Temporary Protected Status to cover Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ukraine (Pew Fact Tank, Oct. 2022) [text]
- Note: Ethiopia was also just designated for TPS.

Media messages that humanize outgroups don’t combat prejudice, new BYU study finds (Brigham Young Univ., Oct. 2022) [text]

Public Records Requests Uncover Details About Flights of Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard (Immigration Impact Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Record-Breaking Migrant Encounters at the U.S.-Mexico Border Overlook the Bigger Story (MPI Commentary, Oct. 2022) [text]
- See also Spanish version.

"Top CDC scientist said COVID-era health policy used to expel migrants unfairly stigmatized them," CBS News, 17 Oct. 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Amid Record Venezuelan Arrivals, Biden Administration Embraces Border Expulsions Policy," Migration Information Source, 27 Oct. 2022 [text]

Backgrounder: European Migrant Reception Center Models (Women's Refugee Commission, Oct. 2022) [text]
- "With the United States government exploring the use of reception centers to process migrants at the US-Mexico border, the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) examines asylum processing in Europe to identify crucial lessons for US policymakers considering the introduction of European-style reception centers in the distinct regional context of the Western Hemisphere."

Judge-by-Judge Asylum Decisions in Immigration Courts, FY 2017-2022 (TRAC, Oct. 2022) [access]

Pretense of Protection: Biden Administration and Congress Should Avoid Exacerbating Expedited Removal Deficiencies (Human Rights First, Aug. 2022) [text]

Taking Migration Seriously: Real Solutions to Complex Challenges at the Border (Center for American Progress, Oct. 2022) [text]

"Volunteering in humanitarian non-governmental organizations: Reflective solidarity and inclusion work as mechanisms of social transformation," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 61, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

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20 October 2022

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Press:

"Backroom aid: The groups helping behind the scenes," The New Humanitarian, 11 Oct. 2022 [text]

"How the humanitarian sector can learn from its past," The New Humanitarian, 6 Oct. 2022 [text]

Reports:

Humanitarian Accountability Report 2022: Accountability is Non-Negotiable (CHS Alliance, Sept. 2022) [text]

Humanitarian negotiations, diplomacy and the ethics of border control (Open Access Government, Sept. 2022) [text]

Learning from disruption: ALNAP 2021 Meeting Study (ALNAP, Sept. 2022) [text]

Lessons of lessons: A window into the evolution of the humanitarian system (ALNAP, Sept. 2022) [text]

The meanings of humanitarian innovation: Reflections from the Community-Led Innovation Partnership using a postcolonial lens (ELRHA et al., Sept. 2022) [text]

Risk Sharing in practice: Success stories, enablers, and barriers to risk sharing in the humanitarian sector (Govt. of Netherlands & ICRC, June 2022) [text]

Triple Nexus in Fragile Contexts: Next Steps, CSS Policy Perspectives, vol. 10/9 (Center for Security Studies, Sept. 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"Humanitarian aid NGOs’ accountability towards large donors: the case of the European Union’s DG ECHO," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:20 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

"Measuring results of humanitarian action: adapting public health indicators to different contexts," Conflict and Health, 16:54 (Oct.2022) [open access]

"Mental health and spiritual well-being in humanitarian crises: the role of faith communities providing spiritual and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:21 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

"System dynamics approach for food inventory policy assessment in a humanitarian supply chain," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 81 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Is ‘decolonised aid’ an oxymoron? (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast, Oct. 2022) [access]

Related post:

11 October 2022

Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

Beyond Deportation (Lawfare Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

In Weaponizing Asylum Seekers, DeSantis & Abbott Unwittingly Demonstrate the Possibility of Safe Transit Policies for Migrants (Just Security Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

"Minus the Politics, Migrants Often Use Buses, Planes to Reach Shelter," Stateline, 4 Oct 2022 [text]

"Two Russians Fleeing Military Service Seek Asylum in the US," Reuters, 6 Oct. 2022 [text]

Was DeSantis Shipping Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard a Crime? (Just Security Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Busing and Flights of Migrants by GOP Governors Mark a New Twist in State Intervention on Immigration," Migration Information Source, 28 Sept. 2022 [text]

"Charitable Legal Immigration Programs and the US Undocumented Population: A Study in Access to Justice in an Era of Political Dysfunction," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 10, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

"A Heritage of Bias: From Naturalization and Immigration Laws in the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries to Contemporary Bias Against Muslims and Latines," Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, vol. 10, no. 2 (2022) [full-text]

"The (In)discretion of Border Security Threats," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (OUP, Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Judicial Illiberalism: How Captured Courts Are Entrenching Trump-Era Immigration Policies," Lex (Sept. 2022) [full-text via SSRN]

"The New Border Asylum Adjudication System: Speed, Fairness, and the Representation Problem," Howard Law Journal, vol. 66, no. 3 (Forthcoming, 2023) [preprint]

"Persecuted and Removed: Migrants’ Potential Challenges to Expulsion under the U.S. Public Health Code," International Law in Domestic Courts (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Root Causes of Migration, Development, and US Aid to Northern Triangle States," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 10, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

"Turn Asylum on its Head and Presume Eligibility," University of San Francisco Law Review Forum, vol. 57 (2022) [full-text]

Multimedia:

19th Annual Immigration Law & Policy Conference, 20 Sept. 2022 [access]
- Video recordings of two keynotes are currently available; more videos will be posted in Nov. 2022.

Related post:

03 August 2022

Regional Focus: United States

Opportunity:

Call for registration: 19th Immigration Law and Policy Conference, Washington, DC/Online, 20 September 2022 [info]
- Note: There is a limited supply of in-person tickets.

Blog posts & press:

"The Biden Administration Still Hasn't Ended 'Remain in Mexico' Despite Court Win. Here's Why," Time Magazine, 29 July 2022 [text]
- See also related CRS report.

Ending Title 42 won’t cause immigration mayhem — It will restore order (The Hill, July 2022) [text]

How anti-immigrant groups are misrepresenting border data (Niskanen Center Blog, July 2022) [text]

Welcoming and Inclusive State Policies: A Midyear Review of State Legislative Sessions in 2022 (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"2020 American Community Survey: Use with Caution, An Analysis of the Undercount in the 2020 ACS Data Used to Derive Estimates of the Undocumented Population," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 10, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

Federal Agency Rule Expands Asylum Officers’ Authority (Congressional Research Service, July 2022) [text]

Fewer Immigrants Face Deportation Based on Criminal-Related Charges in Immigration Court (TRAC, July 2022) [text]

The Missing Link: Connecting Eligible Asylees and Asylum Seekers with Benefits and Services (Migration Policy Institute, July 2022) [text]

Rhetoric vs Reality: End Dangerous Narratives and Failed Policies, Restore Asylum at Ports of Entry (Human Rights First, July 2022) [text]

"Taming Immigration Trauma," Cardozo Law Review (Forthcoming, Winter 2022) [preprint]
 
Resource:

Villanova Interdisciplinary Immigration Studies Training for Advocates [access]
- "VIISTA...is a new, 100% online interdisciplinary educational program that trains students to become immigrant advocates ready to serve migrants and refugees. Unlike criminal proceedings in which defendants have constitutional rights to representation, in the United States, migrants are not entitled to court appointed lawyers. Six out of 10 migrants confront the immigration system without a lawyer, and many of these migrants are children. The consequences of this are substantial." See also related blog post. The next VIISTA information session is 8 August 2022.

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14 July 2022

Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

The Absurdity and Destruction of the Push to Force Title 42 Continuation (Just Security Blog, July 2022) [text]
- See also related Lawfare blog post.

Asylum Office Finally Releases New-ish Statistics (The Asylumist Blog, July 2022) [text]

The Border Within: Interior enforcement and the current state of immigration (Up Front Blog, July 2022) [text]

Immigration in the Supreme Court, 2021 Term (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2022) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

Letter from Human Rights Groups to Presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Joe Biden (Human Rights Watch et al., July 2022) [text]

San Antonio migrant tragedy: 53 deaths down to criminals and a failed US migration system (The Conversation, July 2022) [text]

Some Important Reforms at the US Border: Amid Rampant Abuses, New Policies Bring Hope of a Fairer Immigration System (Human Rights Watch, June 2022) [text]

Supreme Court Permits Biden to Terminate ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2022) [text]
- See also related posts on The Conversation and Lawfare.

New open access text:

Immigration Law: An Open Casebook
 (Kit Johnson) [open access]
- This volume is "the first open-source/open-access casebook on U.S. immigration law. It is designed to serve as the principal text for a broad-based immigration law course as well as a specialty course on crimmigration. The book provides explanations and primary source readings regarding immigration law in the United States. Topics include the constitutional bases for regulating immigration, the contours of the immigration bureaucracy, the admission of immigrants and nonimmigrants into the United States, undocumented migration, the deportation and exclusion of noncitizens, refugee and asylum law, immigration detention, federal and state immigration crimes, border and interior immigration enforcement, and the law concerning citizenship and naturalization."

Reports & journal articles:

"Do Anti-immigration Voters Care More? Documenting the Issue Importance Asymmetry of Immigration Attitudes," British Journal of Political Science (Forthcoming) [preprint]
- See also related Monkey Cage post.

The Challenges of the Current USCIS Fee-Setting Structure (Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, June 2022) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

"COVID-19 vaccination intention and behavior in a large, diverse, U.S. refugee population," Vaccine, vol. 40, no. 9 (2022) [PubMed

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 36 (2021-2022) [access]
- Browse through freely available articles in the most current volume of this law review.

"When Does Mental Health Coercion Constitute Torture?: Implications of Unpublished U.S. Immigration Judge Decisions Denying Non-Refoulement Protection," Fordham International Law Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (2022) [full-text]

Related post:


27 June 2022

Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

Immigrants are only 3.5% of people worldwide – and their negative impact is often exaggerated, in the U.S. and around the world (The Conversation, June 2022) [text]

"New US Asylum Guidance Takes Effect on a Limited Basis," VOA News, 2 June 2022 [text]

Title 42 is a Failure Yet Still Dominates U.S. Border Policy (Just Security Blog, June 2022) [text]

"U.S. is rejecting over 90% of Afghans seeking to enter the country on humanitarian grounds," CBS News, 20 June 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

5,000 Asylum-Seekers Added to the Migrant Protection Protocols 2.0, Few are Granted Asylum (TRAC, June 2022) [text]

"COVID-19, asylum seekers, and migrants on the Mexico–U.S. border: Creating states of exception," Politics & Policy, Early View, 20 June 2022 [free full-text]

COVID-19’s Effects on U.S. Immigration and Immigrant Communities, Two Years On (Migration Policy Institute, June 2022) [text]

"News media impact on sociopolitical attitudes," PLoS ONE 17(3): e0264031 (March 2022) [open access]

The Nightmare Continues: Title 42 Court Order Prolongs Human Rights Abuses, Extends Disorder at U.S. Borders (Human Rights First, June 2022) [text]

"Refugees Under Duress: International Law and the Serious Nonpolitical Crime Bar," Belmont Law Review, vol. 9, no. 2 (2022) [full-text]

"Ukrainian Immigrants in the United States," Migration Information Source, 22 June 2022 [text]

Visa Regimes: A Threat to Migrants’ Access to Safety and Asylum (Women’s Refugee Commission, June 2022) [text]

Resource:

Featured Issue: Assisting Haitian Migrants and Asylum Seekers (AILA, June 2022) [access]

Related posts:


01 June 2022

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Webinars: Center for Gender and Refugee Studies Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) Series [info]
- Includes the following trainings: 1) Strategies for Maximizing CGRS Technical Assistance in Fear-of-Return Claims, 6 June 2022; 2) Using Universal Expert Declaration in Immigration Court, 13 June 2022; 3) What to Do When You Get a Decision from the Ninth Circuit, 31 Aug. 2022; and 4) Breaking Down the Record in a Ninth Circuit Petition for Review, 21 Sept. 2022.

Blog posts & press:

Federal Judge Blocks Termination of Title 42: What You Need to Know (Immigration Impact, May 2022) [text]

Fewer donors say they’re willing to give to a charity when it supports immigrants – especially if they’re undocumented (The Conversation, May 2022) [text]

"On immigration, advocates say a 'shadow Trump administration' is tying Biden's hands," NPR, 13 May 2022 [text]

"Title 42, the Trump-era border policy dividing Democrats, explained," Vox, 20 May 2022 [text]

UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls on states to lift remaining pandemic-related asylum restrictions (UNHCR, May 2022) [text]

What Title 42 Has Wrought (RI Blog, May 2022) [text]

"Will an Emergency Law Used to Keep Out Migrants Become Permanent?," New Yorker, 25 May 2022 [text]

Reports:

The Biden Administration’s Dedicated Docket: Inside Los Angeles’ Accelerated Court Hearings for Families Seeking Asylum (UCLA, May 2022) [text]

Fact Sheet: Implementation of the Credible Fear and Asylum Processing Interim Final Rule (US Dept. of Homeland Security, May 2022) [text]
- See also related blog post.

A Guide to Title 42 Expulsions at the Border (American Immigration Council, updated May 2022) [text]

USCIS Records Reveal Systemic Disparities in Asylum Decisions (Human Rights First, May 2022) [text]

Multimedia:

Title 42: Refugees (Proyecto 1954 Podcast Series, May 2022) [access via RI]

Related post:

 

02 May 2022

Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

Americans see Afghan and Ukrainian refugees very differently. Why? (WP Monkey Cage, April 2022) [text]

"The Biden Administration Plans to Put Some Deportations on Hold as Immigration Courts Face a Staggering Backlog," BuzzFeed News, 26 April 2022 [text]

Federal Court Orders Biden Administration to Temporarily Halt Title 42 Wind Down (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2022) [text]

How race and religion have always played a role in who gets refuge in the US (The Conversation, April 2022) [text]

Key facts about Title 42, the pandemic policy that has reshaped immigration enforcement at U.S.-Mexico border (Pew Fact-Tank, April 2022) [text]

The Supreme Court Should Stop Individual States from Dictating National Immigration Policy (Just Security Blog, April 2022) [text]

What is President Biden’s Plan for Ending Title 42? (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2022) [text]
- See also related Niskanen Center commentary and Mother Jones article.

Reports & journal articles:

Designation of Ukraine for Temporary Protected Status: Impact and Other Considerations (Congressional Research Service, updated April 2022) [text]

"For Overwhelmed Immigration Court System, New ICE Guidelines Could Lead to Dismissal of Many Low-Priority Cases," Migration Information Source, 27 April 2022 [text]

"How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity with Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border?," AMA Journal of Ethics (April 2022) [full-text]

License to Abuse: How ICE’s 287(g) Program Empowers Racist Sheriffs and Civil Rights Violations (ACLU, April 2022) [text]

"Narratives to Increase Prosociality Toward Refugees," International Journal of Communication, vol. 16 (2022) [open access]

Privacy Impact Assessment for the Unified Immigration Portal (UIP) (US Dept. of Homeland Security, April 2022) [text]

Protection Delayed is Protection Denied: Factsheet on Title 42 Expulsions, Haitian Asylum Seekers in Tijuana, and the U.S. Government’s Ongoing Evasion of Duty (CGRS, Haitian Bridge Alliance & Hastings to Haiti Partnership, April 2022) [text]
- Also available in French.

"Screening for Torture, Asylum, and Trauma among Patients Seeking Care in an Urban Student-Run Free Clinic," Journal of Student-Run Clinics, vol. 8, no 1 (2022) [open access]

Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure (Congressional Research Service, updated April 2022) [text]

"(Un)Veiling Our Biases: Activating Religious, Emotional, and Contextual Cues in News Media Representations of Syrian Refugees," International Journal of Communication, vol. 16 (2022) [open access]

U.S. Immigration Courts and the Pending Cases Backlog (Congressional Research Service, April 2022) [text]

Multimedia from the American Bar Association:

Asylum for Afghans Webinar Series
- Representing Afghan Parolees [access]
- Cultural Humility and Working with Afghan Clients [access]
- Bars to Asylum and Common Concerns [access]
- Anatomy of the Asylum Interview [access]

The Lifeguard is Drowning: Identifying and Combating Burnout and Secondary Trauma in Asylum Practitioners, 7 April 2022 [access]

Mechanics of Immigration Court
- Part 1: The Master Calendar Hearing and Filing Applications for Relief with Immigration Court [access]
- Part 2: Corroboration, Preparing Witnesses, and Working with Experts [access]
- Part 3: The Individual Calendar/Merits Hearing [access]

Related posts:

26 April 2022

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

How a small team of journalists report on one of the biggest refugee camps on earth (Reuters Institute, April 2022) [text]

*"‘My children cry with hunger’: refugees denied UN aid rations at Malawi camp," The Guardian, 25 April 2022 [text]

*South Africa’s COVID relief measures mostly excluded refugees: a neglect of duty (The Conversation, April 2022) [text]

Spiraling costs, surging conflict, and soaring climate disasters create a desperate future for millions of refugees across Eastern Africa (WFP & UNHCR, April 2022) [text]

Xenophobia is on the rise in South Africa: scholars weigh in on the migrant question (The Conversation, April 2022) [text]

Reports: 

After the Coup: Burkina Faso’s Humanitarian and Displacement Crisis (Refugees International, April 2022) [text]
- See also French version.

Beyond the Cessation Clause: Rwandan Refugees in Uganda: From Refugees to East African Citizens?, ASC-TUFS Working Papers, vol. 2 (2022) [text]

Impact of COVID-19 on human settlements, gender, and migrants and refugees in South Africa: methodology report (Human Sciences Research Council, March 2022) [text]

Kenya Analytical Program on Forced Displacement (UNHCR, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugee Mobility and Uncertain Lives: Challenges and Agency of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda, ASC-TUFS Working Papers, vol. 2 (2022) [text]

Social protection and the inclusion of persons of concern: Regional analysis of the inclusion of UNHCR Persons of Concern in government social protection systems and implications for future action (UNHCR, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Evaluation of public health surveillance systems in refugee settlements in Uganda, 2016–2019: lessons learned," Conflict and Health, 16:15 (April 2022) [open access]

"No Hope for the ‘Foreigners’: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 15 April 2022 [open access]

"Return without Refoulement: How States Avoid Hosting Refugees after Recognition,” Geopolitics, Under Review, 20 March 2022 [preprint]
- Focuses on Burundian refugees in Tanzania.

Multimedia:

Localizing Research: Lessons from Sudan, 29 March 2022 [access]

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Related posts:

02 April 2022

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

 Journal articles:

"The Changing Landscape of Asylum and Refugee Laws and Human Rights: The Diminishing Role of the United States?," North Carolina Journal of International Law, vol. 47, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]

"Controversial U.S. Title 42 Expulsions Policy is Coming to an End, Bringing New Border Challenges," Migration Information Source, 31 March 2022 [text]

"Criminal Law & Migration Control: Recent History & Future Possibilities," Daedalus, vol. 151, no 1 (2022) [open access]

"Enforced Invisibility: Toward New Theories of Accountability for the United States’ Role in Endangering Asylum Seekers," UC Davis Law Review, vol. 55, no. 3 (Feb. 2022) [full-text]

"Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States," Migration Information Source, 17 March 2022 [text]

"Gestión desbordada: solicitudes de asilo en Estados Unidos y los mecanismos de espera allende sus fronteras," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 13 (2022) [open access]

"'I Remember When Donald Trump Was Elected. It Broke a lot of Refugees’ Hearts': Refugee Perspectives on the Post-2016 U.S. Political Climate," Advances in Social Work, vol. 21, no. 4 (Fall 2021) [open access]

"The Migrant Protection Protocols: Two Administrations, One Outcome," Immigration and Human Rights Law Review, vol. 4, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]

"One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: How Attorney General Review Undermines Our Immigration Adjudication System," University of Colorado Law Review, vol. 93, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]

"Opportunistic oppression: U.S. migration restrictions and public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic," International Journal of Human Rights, Latest Articles, 28 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"Refoulement as Pandemic Policy," Washington International Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2022) [full-text]

Related post:

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Anatomy of an Asylum Office Inquiry (The Asylumist, March 2022) 
- Part 1 focuses on "expedited requests" and Part 2 focuses on "delayed decisions."

Biden Administration Announces End to Horrific Title 42 Border Policy (Immigration Impact, April 2022) [text]
- Note: The policy will end on May 23. See also related DHS factsheet.

Biden’s New Asylum Process: What You Need to Know (Immigration Impact, March 2022) [text]

Cruelty as Border Policy: The Biden Administration Keeps in Place CBP’s “Consequence Delivery System” (Border Chronicle, March 2022) [text via Immigration Law]

D.C. Circuit Rules That Public Health Law Empowers Government to Expel Asylum-Seekers—But Not to Countries Where They Face Persecution or Torture (Lawfare Blog, March 2022) [text]

The Elusive Concept of Moral Turpitude (Jeffrey Chase Blog, March 2022) [text via Immigration Law]

"New rules aim to decide US asylum cases in months, not years," AP News, 24 March 2022 [text]

Rohingya in America: The Challenge of Language and Culture (RLI Blog, March 2022) [text]

Reports:

The Department of Homeland Security’s “Metering” Policy: Legal Issues (Congressional Research Service, March 2022) [text]

Expedited Removal of Aliens: An Introduction (Congressional Research Service, March 2022) [text]

ICE Annual Report Fiscal Year 2021 (US Immigration & Customs Enforcement, March 2022) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

Immigration's Law's Boundary Problem: Determining the Scope of Executive Discretion, Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 213 (Roger Williams Univ., March 2022) [text]

Lives in Limbo: How the Boston Asylum Office Fails Asylum Seekers (University of Maine et al., March 2022) [text]

Two Years of Suffering: Biden Administration Continues Use of Discredited Title 42 Order to Flout Refugee Protection (Human Rights First, March 2022) [text]

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