Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Access denied: Undocumented migrants across Europe missing out on healthcare services (InfoMigrants, May 2026) [text]

Council of Europe foreign ministers adopt political declaration on the ECHR and migration (COE, May 2026) [text]

- Includes link to text of Chișinău Declaration. See also related Amnesty International comment.

Falls in net migration, small boat arrivals and asylum claims as just under one-in-five in the UK are foreign born (Migration Observatory, May 2026) [text]

- See also related expert comment.

"State of Play of Pact Implementation," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 28 May 2026 [text]

- *See also related EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy blog post.

**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.**

Reports:

Between War and Return: Scenarios for the Future of Ukraine and Its Refugees (Clingendael, April 2026) [text]

Country Report (AIDA, May 2026)

- Updated profiles available for Hungary, Slovenia & Switzerland.

Framing Effects on Public Support for Undocumented Immigrant Regularization, GLO Discussion Paper, no. 1758 (Global Labor Organization, 2026) [text]

- See also related post on The Conversation.

National implementation of EU hidden safeguards for irregular migrants, PRIME Research Paper (European University Institute, May 2026) [text]

- See also related MPC Blog post.

UNHCR’s Recommendations for the Multiannual Financial Framework, 2028-2034 (UNHCR, May 2026) [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (14 May 2026)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (14 May 2026)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Bearing witness to asylum seekers in an era of misinformation: the transformation of pro bono direct legal services into social change activism," Law & Society Review, FirstView, 27 April 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on "the U.S.–Mexico border and immigration detention."

"Deportation in the Deep State," Stanford Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Dicta's Danger: The Lingering Nuisance of Abel v. United States," Univ. of Miami Law Review, vol. 81, no. 1 (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal [access]

- The following issues were recently published online: 1) vol. 39, no. 2 (Winter 2025); 2) vol. 39, no. 3 (Spring 2025); 3) vol. 40, no. 1 (Fall 2025); and 4) vol. 40, no. 2 (Winter 2026). All articles can be accessed via the a/m link.

"Protection Over Procedure: Why the Law Requires Divergent Burdens of Proof in Asylum and Withholding of Removal Claims," Washington Univ. Journal of Law & Policy, vol. 80, no. 1 (2026) [full-text]

Multimedia:

Understanding the U.S. Undocumented Population: New 2024 Estimates from CMS, 5 May 2026 [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (7 April 2026)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Mix of articles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Short pieces:

Collaborating to safeguard children’s identity rights amid global challenges (ENS Blog, March 2026) [text]

Statelessness in Iran: Understanding the Challenges of Nationality and Gender Discrimination (Maastricht Univ. Blog, March 2026) [text]

Study: Americans divided on immigration, but support birthright citizenship (Univ. of Rochester, March 2026) [text]

- See also related NPR article and Pew Research post.

Why North Macedonia needs a Statelessness Determination Procedure (ENS Blog, March 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Building Statelessness-Sensitive ID Systems (World Bank, Feb. 2026) [text]

"Citizenship Revocation as Punishment," Chapter in Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe (De Gruyter, Forthcoming June 2026) [preprint]

"Denaturalization's Missing Limit," Northwestern Univ. Law Review Online (Forthcoming) [preprint]

- Focuses on the US.

Featured Issue: Threats to Citizenship and Naturalization (AILA, April 2026) [access]

- Focuses on the US.

Toolkit to identify statelessness in Scotland (European Network on Statelessness, March 2026) [access]

Multimedia:

Africa’s new treaty on statelessness and the right to a nationality: How to make it work?, 4 February 2026 [access]

Identifying and protecting displaced stateless people in Europe: What needs to happen next?, 23 March 2026 [access]

Resource:

Legal Atlas on Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws (Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights) [access]

- "An online interactive tool that presents a map of countries with gender discriminatory nationality laws and provides country specific details on the legal and policy framework of the discrimination, including constitutional provisions and international obligations."

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (6 March 2026)

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2 (6 March 2026)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

2025 was the 2nd Safest Year for Border Patrol and ICE Agents (CATO AT Liberty Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

The Categorical Approach to Removal Post Loper-Bright (ILJ Online, Dec. 2025) [text]

*Collection: ICE and CBP Operations in Minnesota and Other States (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [access]

Dirty (Baker’s) Dozen: 13 Harmful Trump 2.0 Administration Immigration, Citizenship, and Refugee Policies, as of January 20, 2026 (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2026) [text]

ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related OHCHR press release.

ICE, Lies, and Videotape (The Asylumist Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related Just Security posts (here and here). 

In light of harsh repression in Iran, the US should grant Temporary Protected Status to Iranians already here (Niskanen Center, Jan. 2026) [text]

Most of the 1 million Venezuelans in the United States arrived within the past decade (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

New Ban Bars Half of Legal Immigrants, Even Citizens’ Spouses & Kids (CATO AT Liberty Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related CGD Blog post.

Noncitizens Were Underrepresented in Welfare Fraud Convictions in 2024 (CATO AT Liberty Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Show Your Work: Visualizing the Deportation Data Problem (Austin Kocher Substack, Jan. 2026) [text]

Trump’s immigration crackdown faces growing disapproval from voters (The Hill, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related CS Monitor article.

Trump’s Remigration Agenda and Its Implications (RLI Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

The Two Million Deportation Myth: How Aggressive ICE Enforcement Distorts Immigration Data (Center for Migration Studies, Jan. 2026) [text]

‘We want you arrested because we said so’ – how ICE’s policy on raiding whatever homes it wants violates a basic constitutional right, according to a former federal judge (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

What a Proper Investigation of Alex Pretti’s Killing Would Look Like (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [text]

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

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (13 Jan. 2026)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (13 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Asylum vs. Temporary Protection: The paradox of legal protection in Latin America (Oxford Human Rights Hub, Nov. 2025) [text]

Central America: Displaced face increasing abandonment​ (NRC, Dec. 2025) [text]

Heredia Declaration at the VIII Annual Meeting of the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework (MIRPS): Regional Action and concrete results to respond comprehensively to displacement in coordination with all sectors of society, Heredia, Costa Rica, November 25, 2025 [text via Refworld]

Local Solutions, Global Impact: The Chile Plan of Action and Cities of Solidarity in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text]

Las reformas en materia de seguridad en Ecuador deben representar un primer paso, no el último (MPI, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Also in English.

The Struggle for Documentation in Mexico’s Asylum System: The Human Impact of Withholding the TVRH (USCRI, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Trump’s halting of asylum claims prompts fresh calls to suspend Safe Third Country Agreement," The Globe and Mail, 2 Dec. 2025 [text]

- Focuses on Canada. See also related NYT news story.

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

Reports: 

Actualización de Protección: Colombia (ACNUR, Dec. 2025) [text]

- "Herramientas para la incidencia global y regional para la protección y las soluciones para las personas refugiadas, desplazadas y apátridas."

"Beyond the Build: Migration as a Tool of Hemispheric Partnership," Section in Beyond the Build: A New Canadian Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean (Canadian Council for the Americas, Nov. 2025, pp. 43-50) [access]

- Available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Desplazamiento interno y otras situaciones de violencia en contextos de criminalidad organizada en América Latina: Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras y México (ProLAC, Nov. 2025) [text]

- See also related NRC press release.

Regional Protection Analysis for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2025 (R4V, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Also in Spanish.

RMRP 2026: Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP) (R4V, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related press release.

Study on the reintegration of deported migrants in Haiti: Insights from the first round of panel surveys (IOM, Aug. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Who Changed Their Minds? Two Shifts in Canadian Public Opinion on Immigration: 1995-2005 and 2023-24, Data Brief, no. 5 (Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation et al., Dec. 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (17 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities: 

GRF Progress Review 2025: Linked events, 9-19 December 2025 [info]

- A number of independently organized events have been organized around the Global Compact on Refugees' objectives. Some are in-person, hybrid and invitation-only. Follow the link above for details.

CFP: "Eroding Solidarity? Forced Migration, Protection, and Inclusion in a World Beyond Order," 6th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies, Hildesheim, Germany, 28-30 September 2026 [info]

- Submission deadline is 9 January 2026.

Short pieces:

The Courage to Welcome: solidarity in a divided world (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Text of the High Commissioner's "One People Oration" at Westminster Abbey.

"Election? What today’s UN leadership vacancies say about the system," Inklings Newsletter (27 Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on UNHCR.

Fact check: Why "85% of refugees are Muslim" is false (DW, Nov. 2025) [text]

Geneva gathering to reaffirm solidarity and deliver new results for refugees (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

- The Global Refugee Forum Progress Review will meet next week in Geneva from 15-17 December 2025.

Humanitarian heroes celebrated with UNHCR Nansen Refugee Awards (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

- See also related press release.

Now more than ever, the world must support UNHCR to continue its life-saving work (Kaldor Centre & Refugee Council of Australia, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Joint statement on UNHCR’s 75th anniversary. See also related Pearls & Irritations post.

Refugia revisited five years on: reflections on the launch of a French language edition (COMPAS Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Sweden’s push for an ex-IKEA CEO to lead UNHCR signals a new refugee order," Al Jazeera, 11 Dec. 2025 [text]

To the New High Commissioner: IDPs Must Remain a Global Priority (RI Commentary, Nov. 2025) [text]

Türk says human rights under attack, yet undeterred, in 2025 (OHCHR, Dec. 2025) [text]

"What if … the United Nations was disbanded next Friday?," Al Jazeera, 7 Nov. 2025 [text]

Reports:

Cities as key policy actors: strengthening urban responses to displacement in the global South (Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Nov. 2025) [access via IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement]

Refugee-Led Responses and Agency in East Africa, the Middle East, and South America: Synthesis of research findings and policy recommendations (LERRN, Dec. 2025) [access]

Journal articles:

"Bayesian Projection of Extant Refugee and Asylum Seeker Populations," Demography, Advance Publication, 5 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Decision-Making Mistakes in Asylum Policy: A Comparative Study of Public Opinion," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 5 Dec. 2025 [open access]

- "This study relies on web survey data from 26 countries, selected as a function of their overall immigration regimes, proximity to migrant-sending countries, citizenship regimes, status as a host or transit country, and response to the United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration."

Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, no. 44 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Retour à la normale? Déplacés et réfugiés face aux normes de la sortie de guerre (1945-1951) = A Return to the Normal? Displaced Persons, Refugees and Postwar Norms (1945-1951)."

"Editorial: Refugees and Humanitarian Support in the Global South: Challenges in Repatriation and Social Cohesion," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 25 Nov. 2025 [open access]

- Discusses the articles included in the research topic of the same name.

"Prioritizing global equity in migration research," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 6 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Systematic literature reviews in migration studies: approaches to context-sensitive synthesis," Comparative Migration Studies, 22 Nov. 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025: Migration and displacement: My grandmother, Lausanne, and some lessons for the present, Oxford, 5 Nov. 2025 [access]

Attacking health: Understanding the dynamics and broader impacts of violence against healthcare, 19 Nov. 2025 [access]

Displacement, solidarity, counter-government, 22 Oct. 2025 [access]

Human rights elites at the United Nations: Felix Ermacora and the first human rights fact finding missions (1967-1993), 29 Oct. 2025 [access]

Towards a New Response to Forced Migration through Local Engagement Refugee Research Network, 12 Sept. 2025 [access]

- See also related press release.

Who wants to be the new UN refugee chief (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series, Nov. 2025) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (20 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Webinar: U.S. Immigration Courts at a Crisis Point, 24 November 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Americans Caught Between Trump's Cruelty and Democrats' Chaos (Third Way, Oct. 2025) [text]

Can Undocumented Immigrants Get SNAP or Medicaid? The Truth About Federal Benefits (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Let’s Meet the New Temporary Immigration Judges (The Asylumist Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Soldiers in Robes: Why Military Lawyers Can Not and Should Not Serve as Immigration Judges (Just Security, Nov. 2025) [text]

Supreme Court agrees to hear case on border crossings (SCOTUSblog, Nov. 2025) [text]

- See also related American Immigration Council press release.

Trump Administration Conducts 10,067 Immigration Enforcement Flights in Less Than 10 Months (Austin Kocher Substack, Nov. 2025) [text]

US: ICE Abuses in Los Angeles Set Stage for Other Cities (HRW, Nov. 2025) [text]

"US has sent $7.5m to Equatorial Guinea to accept noncitizen deportees," The Guardian, 10 Nov. 2025 [text]

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

Reports: 

Breaking the Cycle of Dysfunction at the U.S. Immigration Courts (Migration Policy Institute, Nov. 2025) [text]

- See also info re. related webinar above.

Fabricating the Crime of Undocumented Presence (SSRN, Nov. 2025) [text]

Immigration beyond the extremes: A blueprint that actually works (Niskanen Center, Nov. 2025) [text]

Immigration Court Asylum Grant Rates Cut in Half (TRAC, Nov. 2025) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (7 Nov. 2025)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (7 Nov. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Fragile Masculinities and Bangladeshi Labour Migrants in the UAE (COMPAS Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

New Poll: Two-Thirds of U.S. Voters Back Asylum for Women and Girls (CGRS, Oct. 2025) [text]

Refashioning Strength Through Virtue: How Displaced Syrian Men Have Configured Masculinity in Istanbul (COMPAS Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

"Reading Climate into the Refugee Convention: Lessons from the Unfinished Business of Gender-Based Asylum," Chapter in Climate Change, Migration, Gender, and the Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming) [preprint]

- "This chapter traces the incomplete evolution of international refugee law with respect to protection claims related to gender. It examines the similarities and differences between such claims and the emerging area of climate-related displacement law and draws out lessons from the ongoing struggle to see gender as central to the notion of international protection."

Working with women-led organizations including those led by forcibly displaced and stateless women: A How-To Guide for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Operations (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [text]

Journal articles (socio-legal aspects):

"Examining the Impact of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 on Refugee Women," Laws, vol. 14, no. 6 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Gender-based and intersectional violence in migration and refugee contexts: A contextual global approach," International Sociology, OnlineFirst, 1 July 2025 [open access]

"Gendered Violence of Asylum Reporting Requirements," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 56, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Toward a feminist geo-legal reading: US country-of-origin information in asylum adjudication," Area, Early View, 30 Oct. 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (27 Oct. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (27 Oct. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

News: US sets level for FY 2026 refugee admissions at record low of 7,500

For the US, a 180-Degree Turn on Refugees - Looming Reversal in Who and How Many Get Resettled (HRW, Oct. 2025) [text]

How America's Retreat from Refugee Protection Undermines Global Stability (Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Oct. 2025) [text]

Strong Majority of U.S. Voters Support Refugee Resettlement as Administration Plans to Slash Program by Nearly 95 Percent (Refugees International, Oct. 2025) [text]

"Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People," New York Times, 15 Oct. 2025 [text]

- See also related Time Magazine article and statements from IRAP, Refugees International & USCRI.

Short pieces:

"Refugees to face longer route to UK settlement rights," BBC News, 2 Oct. 2025 [text]

Securing solutions together: reflections from the 2025 Consultations on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [text]

Solving the Rohingya crisis could provide a new Refugee Repatriation Model (Global Policy Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

Reports:

The Integration of Migrants in Egypt: Lessons from Research, Stakeholders and International Experiences (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Draws on case studies from Morocco and Jordan.

Is return always a durable solution? Examining the relevance, reality and durability of voluntary repatriation in 2025 (ICVA, Oct. 2025) [text]

The role of physical leisure activities in refugees’ structural integration, Discussion Paper, no. 15 (Institute for Employment Research, 2025) [access]

- Focuses on Germany.

Journal articles:

"Belonging beyond Borders: The Cultural Integration of Yemeni Refugees in Jeju," Anthropology of the Middle East, vol. 20, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Challenges regarding integration and well-being of African Ukrainian war refugees in Germany: a qualitative exploration," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 16 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"Complementary Pathways at the Crossroads Between Migration and Asylum: Enhancing or Diluting the International Refugee Regime?," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 27 Oct. 2025 [open access]

- This article "takes three examples of pathways to Spain to illustrate this nexus: a labour mobility pathway, a combined resettlement and labour mobility pathway and an education mobility pathway."

"The impact of the absence of cross-border pension portability (CBPP) scheme between developed and developing countries on migrant experiences and return decisions: evidence from Ghanaians in the US," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:80 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

"Successful Refugee Cohabitation with Host Families: A Concept Analysis and Model Development," Journal of Holistic Nursing, vol. 43, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"'They Can’t Do That; This Is MY Iowa': Refugees and Belonging in the Midwest," Genealogy, vol. 9, no. 4 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1 (13 Oct. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2 (13 Oct. 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

"Belize signs ‘safe third country’ agreement as part of Trump’s immigration crackdown," PBS Newshour, 21 Oct. 2025 [text]

Displacement in Haiti Reaches Record High as 1.4 Million People Flee Violence (IOM, Oct. 2025) [text]

*Five Lessons for the World Bank to Strengthen Migration Response in the Americas (Refugees International, Oct. 2025) [text]

Joint statement: Bill C-12’s introduction solves none of Bill C-2’s problems (Amnesty International, Oct. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

Tapachula: Once a transit hub, now a dead-end border town (MSF, Oct. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Mexico.

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

Reports:

Canadian public opinion about immigration and refugees (Environics Institute & Toronto Metropolitan Univ., Oct. 2025) [access]

Internal Displacement in Ecuador: Establishing a Baseline on the Impact of Violence and Internal Displacement in Ecuador (2022–2024) - Executive Summary (Defensoría del Pueblo de Ecuador & UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [text]

Migración extracontinental en tránsito por las Américas: caracterización, necesidades y retos (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Amazon, humanitarian crisis and logistics: the military intervention of Venezuelan migration in Brazil as a war of conquest," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 33 (2025) [open access]

"Beyond Cooperation: The Role of Origin Countries in Deportation Efforts, Evidence from Mexico (1942 to 1964)," Migration Politics, Accepted Submission, 14 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"Characterization of international migration movements toward Chile: A scoping review of scientific articles and official reports," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 12 (2025) [open access]

"Proving Fear: the corporeal witness and its role in asylum seeking," Journal of Somaesthetics, vol. 11, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on "Central American asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border."

"Refuse to Let Die: Humanitarian Pastoral Powers and Biopolitical Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, vol. 15, no. 2 (Summer 2024) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (13 Oct. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Afghans in US face uncertainty after the cancellation of their humanitarian relief (The Conversation, Aug. 2025) [text]

Dishonest State Department Reports Seek to Undermine Asylum Claims (The Asylumist Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]

Do You Have a Pulse? Congratulations! You’re Qualified to be an Immigration Judge! (The Asylumist Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

"Donald Trump's immigration approval rating falls to second-term low: Poll," Newsweek, 3 Sept. 2025 [text]

In Congress, a Welcome, and Well-Executed, Next Step to Stop Trump’s Transfers to Torture (Just Security, Aug. 2025) [text]

Legal immigration in numbers: August 2025 status update (Niskanen Center, Aug. 2025) [text]

*Rethinking deportations from the US: from lose–lose to win–win (ODI Insights, Aug. 2025) [text]

Sanctuary cities in the US were born in the 1980s as Central American refugees fled civil wars (The Conversation, Aug. 2025) [text]

The Trump Administration’s Actions Against Afghan Allies: A Breakdown (IRAP, Aug. 2025) [text]

Understanding key terms swirling around Alligator Alcatraz and immigration enforcement in the US (The Conversation, Aug. 2025) [text]

United States: UN experts alarmed by detention and imminent deportation of four Venezuelans at risk (OHCHR, Aug. 2025) [text]

- See also related ImmigrationProf blog post.

"U.S. immigration policy: Mental health impacts of increased detentions and deportations," Monitor on Psychology, vol. 56, no. 6 (Sept. 2025) [text]

What the data says about immigrants in the U.S. (Pew Research Center, Aug. 2025) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (6 Aug. 2025)

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2025) [text]

Commission set launch date of the Entry/Exit System to 12 October 2025 (EU Commission, July 2025) [text]

Home Away from Home: How Digital Spaces are Bringing Refugees Together (Borders and Limitations: The IMS Blog, July 2025) [text]

Refugees and Migrants Missing from the Table: Mapping AI Policy Gaps and Proposing an Inclusive Agenda in the Arab Region (Borders and Limitations: The IMS Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]

Book chapters:

"Migration and technologies dilemmas," Chapter in Technology and Forced Migration: Ukrainian Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Preface," Chapter in Technology and Forced Migration: Ukrainian Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Social media and public opinion: Sweden's policy shift on Syrian refugees," Chapter in Towards Resilient Societies: The Synergy of Religion, Education, Health, Science, and Technology (Routledge, July 2025) [open access]

Journal articles:

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 29 (July 2025)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]

- Issue theme is "Communication challenges in the era of fake news and 'post-truth' = Communication : les défis à l’ère des fake news et de la 'post-vérité'."

"Bodies, Biopolitics and Biometrics: Refugee/Asylum Seeker Management in the Digital Humanitarian Age," LSE International Development Review, vol. 4, no. 4 (2025) [open access]

"Examining the applicability of hard data protection law on demographically identifiable information (DII): the case of humanitarian UAV/drone images in Malawi," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:12 (July 2025) [open access]

"Making Digital (Non)Citizens: Digital Identity, Non-Knowledge and Statelessness in Cambodia," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 31 July 2025 [open access]

"Migration, Advanced Digital Technologies, and the Future of Work," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 21 July 2025 [open access]

"Responsible artificial intelligence in international migration management: Legal and practical considerations," Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIV, no. 2 (June 2025) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 44.

"Shaping EU borders: an analysis of the technological and institutional developments in border management in the European Union," Peace & Security = Paix et Sécurité Internationales, no. 13 (2025) [open access]

"Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:56 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

"The use and impact of digital interventions on mental health and wellbeing of forced migrants: A systematic review of empirical studies," Computers in Human Behavior, In Press, 24 July 2025 [open access]

"Using machine learning to forecast conflict events for use in forced migration models," Scientific Reports, 15:28202 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 1 (17 July 2025) 

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 2 (17 July 2025)

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Court finds President Trump's Summary Removals under the Alien Enemies Act Unlawful (ImmigrationProf Blog, April 2025) [text]

From the Chinese Exclusion Act to pro-Palestinian activists: The evolution of politically motivated deportations (The Conversation, April 2025) [text]

"Here are the top 5 immigration changes from Trump's first 100 days," NPR, 30 April 2025 [text]

Immigration Court to Asylum Seekers: “Explain Yourself or Die!” (The Asylumist, ) [text]

*Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation case is more about individual rights than the Trump administration’s foreign policy (The Conversation, May 2025) [text]

- See also related OHCHR statement.

*Migration policies of the current US administration (Immigration Lab Blog, May 2025) [text]

New EO: Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens (ImmigrationProf Blog, April 2025) [text]

The New “National Defense Area” at the Southern Border: What You Need to Know (Just Security, April 2025) [text]

"Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say," CNN, 1 May 2025 [text]

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow an end to protected status for Venezuelans (SCOTUSBlog, May 2025) [text]

"Trump is getting negative marks on immigration, polls show," Politico, 26 April 2025 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Chaos & cruelty: 10 compounding assaults on human rights - A review of President Trump’s first 100 days in office (Amnesty International, April 2025) [access]

"Cognitive underpinnings and ecological correlates of implicit bias against non-Americans in the United States," Scientific Reports, 15:15191 (April 2025) [open access]

Illegal Immigrant Incarceration Rates, 2010–2023 (Cato Institute, April 2025) [text]

- See also related blog post.

"Sentencing Immigrants," Southern California Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Triangulating Securitization: Analyzing Media Frames of Refugees in U.S. English and Spanish Press," Journal of Social Science, no. 92 (2025) [open access]

United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act - A Human Rights Argument (Human Rights Watch, May 2025) [access]

"The violence of uncertainty: theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three cases," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:26 (April 2025) [open access]

Resource:

Explainer on Termination of Parole (Refugees International, April 2025) [access]

- This document will be updated on a weekly basis, and is available in multiple languages.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (25 April 2025)

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 1

More on the dismantling of USAID & fallout from the US aid freeze:

News & commentary

• How the gutting of USAID is reverberating around the world: Worry, despair, praise (NPR's Goats & Soda Blog, 11 Feb. 2025) [text]
• Which Countries are Most Exposed to US Aid Cuts; and What Other Providers Can Do (CGD Blog, 11 Feb. 2025) [text]
• "Fifty countries affected by USAID freeze, says WHO," BBC News, 12 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "Thoughts on aid dependency amid the Trump chaos," The New Humanitarian, 12 Feb. 2025 [text]
• The US administration assault on DEIA is an assault on the humanitarian principles of humanity and impartiality (HPN, 12 Feb. 2025) [text]
• Supporting Freedom and a Foreign Aid Freeze are Incompatible — But Perhaps the Point? A Case Study (Just Security Blog, 13 Feb. 2025) [text]
• A judge orders a temporary thaw to Trump's foreign aid freeze. What will that mean? (NPR's Goats & Soda Blog, 14 Feb. 2025) [text]
• "US aid freezes escalate Syria’s crisis," The New Humanitarian, 17 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "Myanmar in 'polycrisis' as US aid freeze compounds long-term donor neglect," The New Humanitarian, 18 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "Why reform isn’t enough: From rethinking to remaking humanitarianism," The New Humanitarian, 18 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "IRC cutting thousands of staff after US aid freeze," The New Humanitarian, 19 Feb. 2025 [text]
• Which Agreements Are Being Terminated by USAID? (CGD Blog, 19 Feb. 2025) [text]
• Why the crisis in global aid is bigger than Trump (ODI Insights, 19 Feb. 2025) [text]
• Humanitarian Reset: Message from Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher to the humanitarian community (OCHA, 20 Feb. 2025) [text]
• The impact of the USAid funding freeze: what we know so far (Bond, 20 Feb. 2025) [text]
• Philanthropists urged to ‘step up’ as emergency funds launch to plug USAID freeze (Alliance Blog, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "Trump administration is flouting an order to temporarily lift a freeze on foreign aid, judge says," AP News, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]
• What’s next for USAID? (The Interpreter Blog, 20 Feb. 2025) [text]
• "Who’s erasing DEI from their websites?," The New Humanitarian, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia," The Guardian, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "In potential showdown, aid groups demand court find USAID, State officials in contempt," NPR, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
• "Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job," AP News, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
• US aid freeze: A catastrophe looming for the Horn of Africa (ECPR, 21 Feb. 2025) [text]
• "U.S. exempts security funds from aid freeze — but little for humanitarian programs," Reuters, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
• ‘We’re Just Keeping Everybody Alive’: The Damage Done by the U.S.A.I.D. Freeze (Refugees International, 21 Feb. 2025) [text]
• "As the U.S. Exits Foreign Aid, Who Will Fill the Gap?," New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 [text]

Other resources

• Haiti: Anticipated implications of US funding freeze (ACAPS, 21 Feb. 2025) [text]
• The Impacts of the US Funding Suspension: ICVA Survey Findings (ICVA, 18 Feb. 2025) [text] (see also related Reuters article)
• If not (US) aid, then what?, 19 Feb. 2025 [access]
• US Funding Suspension Resource Page (ICVA, regularly updated) [access]
• What Americans think about foreign assistance: Findings from a new public opinion survey, 18 Feb. 2025 [access]

Related posts:

- Round-up: More on USAID Shutdown & Consequences of Aid Freeze (incl. on the US) (11 Feb. 2025) 

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (30 Jan. 2025)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

Australia is deporting 3 non-citizens from the ‘NZYQ’ group to Nauru. What could it do instead? (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

More refugees risk dangerous sea journeys from Myanmar as crisis worsens (UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Myanmar in 'polycrisis' as US aid freeze compounds long-term donor neglect," The New Humanitarian, 18 Feb. 2025 [text]

New Polling: Majority of voters want compassion, not cruelty, for refugees (ASRC, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Australia. See also related Guardian article.

Reports & book chapters: 

Learnings from our co-leadership between persons with and without lived experience of forced migration - Nearly two years on… (Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, Jan. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Major Powers’ Approaches to the Rohingya Crisis and Their Impact on Bangladesh," Chapter in Handbook of Migration, International Relations and Security in Asia (Springer Nature, Sept. 2024) [ResearchGate] 

- Looks at China, the US and India.

Refugees in The Kyrgyz Republic: Analysis of National Legislation and Practice (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

"The Rohingya Crisis and Its Effect on Bangladesh-Myanmar Bilateral Relations: A Historical Analysis," Chapter in Handbook of Migration, International Relations and Security in Asia (Springer Nature, Feb. 2025) [ResearchGate] 

Journal articles:

"Barriers and drivers to COVID-19 protective behaviours of forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals (FDMN)/Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: A scoping review," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 11 (2025) [open access]

"A Conceptual Model of Refugee Family Dynamics: A Study with Sri Lankan Tamils," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 22, no. 2 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on India.

"An investigation using the Hopkins Symptom Checklist and Post Traumatic Growth Inventory conducted on refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Rohingya in India," Demography India, vol. 53, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"The Mental Health and Wellbeing of Hazara Refugees in Australia: A Scoping Review," Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, OnlineFirst, 13 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"Pakistan’s Judicial Engagement with International Refugee Law," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 1 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"TWAIL, archives, and refugee law," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 37, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

- "This article emphasizes TWAIL’s significance as a methodological tool, and explores India’s refugee hosting practices and resistance to Eurocentric international refugee law through archives."

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (29 Jan. 2025) 

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Are Asylum Seekers Safe from ICE? (The Asylumist Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

Behind the scenes as the ABA reacts to DOJ's order to stop providing legal support to immigrants (ABA Journal, Jan. 2025) [text]

- See also related ABC News article.

Federal threats against local officials who don’t cooperate with immigration orders could be unconstitutional − Justice Antonin Scalia ruled against similar plans (The Conversation, Jan. 2025) [text]

How American Latinos came to embrace Donald Trump’s immigration policy (The Conversation, Jan. 2025) [text]

"How are Trump’s deportation targets reacting to his threats?," Al Jazeera, 28 Jan. 2025 [text]

A Nutshell of Immigration Changes under President Trump, Possible Future Changes (ImmigrationProf Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

- See also related NPR article.

"Protests Against Trump's Immigration Polices Erupt Across the Country," Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025 [text]

Support for Mass Deportation Drops Well Below Half as People Consider Other Options (Fulcrum, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Trump officials make plans to revoke legal status of migrants welcomed under Biden," CBS News, 1 Feb. 2025 [text]

Trump’s Deportation Machine Targets U.S. Citizens, Military Veterans, and Children in Reckless Raids (Immigration Hub, Jan. 2025) [text]

What Just Happened: The Framing of a Migration “Invasion” and the Use of Military Authorities (Just Security Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

- See also related blog post and podcast.

Why Do Illegal Immigrants Have a Low Crime Rate? 12 Possible Explanations (CATO At Liberty Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Memos (Immigration Hub) [access]

- Scroll down to view insights re. immigration & citizenship issues, recent policy actions undertaken by the new administration, and incoming staff members.

"Settlement deservingness perceptions of climate change, economic, and political migrant groups across partisan lines," Frontiers in Sociology, 29 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"The Subfederal in Immigration Polarization," Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, vol. 42, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

Resource:

Litigation Tracker (Just Security) [access]

- Select "immigration & citizenship" under the topic drop-down menu to view legal challenges to Trump administration actions.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 2 (United States) (3 Feb. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (30 Jan. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1 (28 Jan. 2025)

- Regional Focus: United States (26 Jan. 2025) 

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Biden Didn’t Cause the Border Crisis (CATO at Liberty Blog, Jan. 2025) 

- Four-part post: Part 1: Summary; Part 2: Did Biden Cut Enforcement?; Part 3: Would Trump Have Stopped the Biden Border Crisis?; Part 4: What Caused the Border Crisis?.

- See also related DHS factsheet, issued under Biden administration.

"Border security is popular – but that may be the limit of US immigration consensus: AP-NORC poll," AP News, 22 Jan. 2025 [text]

DHS Reinstates Migrant Protection Protocols, Allowing Officials to Return Applicants to Neighboring Countries (DHS, Jan. 2025) [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

Diseased Illegal Immigrants Aren’t "Invading" the United States (CATO at Liberty Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

- "We find no statistically significant relationship between the size of the immigrant population, the illegal immigrant population, or the legal immigrant population and the spread of serious communicable diseases on the state level during the 2021–2023 period when America was supposedly being invaded by diseased immigrants."

"Trump empowers deportation agents to target migrants Biden administration allowed into the U.S. legally," CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025 [text]

- See also related ImmigrationProf Blog post and expedited removal order.

Trump’s Day 1 Orders Use Fearmongering to Expand His Immigration Authority (Immigration Impact Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

Trump Will Likely Cut Legal Entries More Than Illegal Entries (CATO at Liberty Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

What Just Happened: Sanctuary Policies and the DOJ Memo’s Empty Threat of Criminal Liability (Just Security Blog, Jan 2025) [text]

- See also related ImmigrationProf Blog post and "Joint Statement from Thirteen State Attorneys General."

Reports & journal articles:

After Day One: A High-Level Analysis of Trump's First Executive Actions (American Immigration Council, Jan. 2025) [text]

"The Evolving Nature of Generalized Prejudice Toward Marginalized Groups in the United States 2004–2020," Social Psychological and Personality Science, OnlineFirst, 23 Jan. 2025 [open access]

- Assessed "attitudes toward Black people, illegal immigrants, gay people, and feminists."

FY2024 EOIR Immigration Court Data: Caseloads and the Pending Cases Backlog (US Congressional Research Service, Jan. 2025) [text]

Reforming Our Immigration System to Maximize America's Potential (Bush Institute, Jan. 2025) [text]

"Seeking the Divine: A Proposed Methodology of Religion to Resolve Adjudications Over the Nexus Inquiry in Religious Asylum Claims," Univ. of Chicago Legal Forum, vol. 2024, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

Trump's Election is Not a Mandate for Cruelty (BlueLabs & ImmigrationHub, Jan. 2025) [text]

- See also related Axios-Ipsos poll results.

"With 'Shock and Awe,' the Second Trump Term Opens with a Bid to Strongly Reshape Immigration," Migration Information Source, [text]

Multimedia:

What Just Happened Series: Trump’s Immigration Executive Orders (The Just Security Podcast, 22 Jan. 2025) [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (22 Jan. 2025)