Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces & reports:

Commission presents a five-year strategy on migration (European Commission, Jan. 2026) [text]

Frontex’ Responsibility for Human Rights Violations: The CJEU and Certain Aspects of the International Responsibility of International Organisations (EJIL: Talk Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

‘We ran from monsters’: Once welcomed by Germany after IS genocide, Yazidis are now deported to a life of limbo in refugee camps (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

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

New open access book:

Thinking Like a Route: Counter-geographies of Informal Migration in the Balkans (Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026) [open access]

- "This timely book posits the idea of a ‘route perspective’ as a multi-scalar methodology for studying informal migration. ...Presenting a novel approach to researching the complex spaces of the Balkan Route, chapters first trace the key elements of the route’s formal infrastructure from a state perspective, including camps, border walls, and asylum systems, which highlights, in-turn, what is made invisible by the official state gaze. The authors then use their empirical findings at key sites to underscore the tenacious counter-geographies of people-on-the-move."

Reports:

*Concept Note - Route-based approach operationalization: Western Balkan (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

*Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights: Legal requirements and proposals for reform (European Parliament, Feb. 2026) [text]

Transitioning into Adulthood: Improving the transition experience for applicants for international protection (EU Agency for Asylum, Feb. 2026) [text]

Multimedia:

Human rights law under threat in Europe: Restricting rights in asylum and migration cases, 15 Jan. 2026 [access]

Resource:

Atlas of Migration 2025 (European Commission, Dec. 2025) [access]

- "The Atlas of Migration 2025 guides policymakers by offering a comprehensive, data-driven analysis of migratory movements across the 27 EU Member States and 171 countries and territories worldwide. It has 3 sections: migration in EU, migration in non-EU countries, and a thematic section...which provides an examination of the drivers, dynamics and human consequences of conflict-induced displacement, shedding some light on trajectories of mobility and immobility, as well as the decisions, constraints and data behind them." See also related news release. Note: A digital version will be launched in December 2026.

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Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (23 Jan. 2026)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (23 Jan. 2026)

Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Contested future-making in containment: temporalities, infrastructures and agency," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:54 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

*"COVID-19, migrants, and world large urban areas: a thematic policy brief," Journal of Public Health Policy, vol. 45, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

Ethics and Literary Practice II: Refugees and Representation (MDPI, Dec. 2024) [open access]

- Note: This is a reprint of a special issue that was published in Humanities."

"The Neoliberal Understanding of Human Rights and the Failure to Protect Refugees," Journal of Law and Political Economy, vol. 4, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"A New Life, or Shadows of the Past? Everyday Emotional Experiences of Forcibly Displaced Kurdish Immigrants," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 15, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Recovering African contestation and innovation in global politics: Francis Deng and sovereignty-as-responsibility," International Theory, vol. 16, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"Threats, Victims, and Survivors: The Racialized Gendering of Syrian Refugees and Literary Contestations of Dominant Media Narratives," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 40, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"The United States, Europe, and the Global Compacts: Honoring the Right to Remain and the Right to Migrate," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 18 Dec. 2024 [full-text]

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1 (19 Dec. 2024) 

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

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

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

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

Reports & journal articles:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource:

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

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

Related post:

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

New Issue of IJRL

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (IJRL) has been published. Contents of vol. 35, no. 1, March 2023 include: 

• Editorial: Turning Points in International Protection: Onwards and Upwards, or U-Turns and Roundabouts? [abstract]
• Risk and the Reasonable Refugee: Exploring a Key Credibility Inference in Canadian Refugee Status Rejections [abstract] [SSRN]
• A Requirement of Shame: On the Evolution of the Protection of LGB Refugees [open access]
• Applying the ‘Ceased Circumstances’ Cessation Clause: More Politics than Law? [open access]
• Evaluating the Indian Refugee Law Regime: How Has the Judiciary Responded to Refugee Claims in Light of International Law Obligations, and How Can It Do Better? [abstract]
• Dignity Deployed: An Examination of Refugee Rights through Domestic Dignity Jurisprudence [abstract]

In addition, readers will find 1) case law summaries; 2) the texts of the High Commissioner's and Assistant High Commissioner's statements to the 73rd session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme (EXCOM); and 3) two book reviews.

Tagged Periodicals.

New Issue of RSQ

A special issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) has been published. The theme of vol. 42, no. 3, Sept. 2023 is "The Influence of the Global Refugee Regime in Africa." Contents include:

• The Influence of the Global Refugee Regime in Africa: Still “Akin to a Distant Weather Pattern”? [free full-text]
• On Idle Possibilities and Missed Chances: Refugee Rights in Egypt [abstract]
• The Political Work of Migration Governance Binaries: Responses to Zimbabwean “Survival Migration” at the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border [open access]
• Article III of the OAU Refugee Convention in Context: the Emergence of Subversion in the African Inter-State System [abstract]
• “Staying in Tanzania or Returning to Burundi is all the Same”: Re-Imagining the Reintegration of Burundian Returnees [abstract]
• Borders and Boundaries in Daily Urban Mobility Practices of Refugees in Cape Town, South Africa [open access]

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

Call for applications: 10° Curso virtual sobre el desplazamiento interno, 21 November-16 December 2022 [info]

- Submission deadline is 1 November 2022.

Call for applications: 23rd Online Course on International Refugee Law, 21 November-16 December 2022 [info]

- Submission deadline is 1 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.

Blog posts:

Draft Evaders and Refugee Protection (RLI Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Externalisation and the Socio-economic Rights of Refugees: What are the Obligations of Destination States? (RLI Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Which Russians Fleeing Military Service Should be Recognized as Refugees? The Answer is More Complicated and More Interesting Than Politicians Think (EJIL: Talk Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Lost in Translation? The Promises and Challenges of Integrating Empirical Knowledge on Migrants’ Vulnerabilities into Legal Reasoning," German Law Journal, vol. 23, no. 7 (2022) [open access]

"The Mandate and Practice of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants: Some reflections in the light of international law," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 61, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Movilidad humana: perspectiva de Protección Internacional," Iuris Tantum, vol. 36, no. 35 (2022) [open access]

Note on international protection, UN Doc. No. A/AC.96/1222 (UN General Assembly, July 2022) [text]

"Race, Borders, and Jurisdiction," Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, vol. 82, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"Rejection at the Frontier and Human Rights: The UN Treaty Bodies and European Practice," Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, vol. 82, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"'Time' in Refugee Status Determination in Australia and the United Kingdom: A Clear and Present Danger from Armed Conflict?," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 14 Sept. 2022 [postprint]

Multimedia:

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

- Follow link for video recordings of keynote and panel presentations.

Refugee Protection “Here” or “There”: Reflections on a Non-ideal World, 12 Oct. 2022 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (20 Sept. 2022) 

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Briefing: What rights do refugees have under the Refugee Convention? (Free Movement, June 2022) [text]

The Refugee Law Initiative responds to the challenges of transferring refugees to third countries by launching new public statement on their legal rights (June 2022) [text]

Roadmap to a human right-based refugee protection system  (PROTECT Project, June 2022) [text]

Reports:

Dilemmas Project: The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas (Migration Policy Centre) [access]

- "In addition to providing new research and thinking, Dilemmas aims to facilitate debates with a wide range of policy-makers and civil society actors, to discuss the core ethical dilemmas that arise in migration and refugee policy-making."

- Two "dilemmas" have been posted in June 2022: 1) Refugee Protection: “Here” or “There”? and 2) What are the moral dilemmas posed by sea rescue?

- Follow each of the links for a kick-off paper and responses.

Is There an Obligation to Do More than the Fair Share? European Inter-State Solidarity and Global Human Rights-Based Solidarity, European Society of International Law Working Paper, no. 3 (EUI, 2022) [text]

Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OHCHR, June 2022) [text]

Joint evaluation of the protection of the rights of refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic (COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition, May 2022; launched July 2022) [text]

- See also related press release and brief. The companion website provides additional background information and documents.

Refugee Recognition and Resettlement (ASILE Project, May 2022) [text]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (2 June 2022)

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

Opportunities: Last Minute June & More July 2022

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

- Still time to register!

 

Discussion panel: Aid vs. solidarity: the role of humanitarian aid in national responses to Ukrainian refugees, 29 June 2022 [info]

Final event: Showcasing the Comparative Network on Refugee Externalisation Policies (CONREP), 29 June 2022 [info]

Webinar/practitioner exchange: Learning for Ukraine: Challenges and Opportunities for Change, 5 July 2022 [info]

Call for applications: ASILE Training School – Containing refugees and migrants? Allocating and Attributing Responsibility for Human Rights Violations, Florence, Italy, 18-20 October 2022 [info]

- Submission deadline is 6 July 2022.

High-level learning event: Refugee rights and protection during COVID-19: hard lessons & concrete actions, Online, 8 July 2022 [info]

Request for concept notes: Capacity Development and Strengthening of Domestic Refugee Resettlement [info]

- Focuses on the US. Proposal submission deadline is 11 July 2022.

Call for applications: Refugee-led Innovation Fund [info]

- Deadline is 17 July 2022.

Call for submissions: Call for Evidence: UK-Rwanda Memorandum of Understanding [info]

- Submission deadline is 20 July 2022.

Call for registration: 22éme Cours en Ligne sur le Droit International des Réfugiés, 29 Août-23 Septembre 2022 [info]

- Registration deadline is 29 July 2022.

Call for registration: 9th Online Course on Internal Displacement, 29 August-23 September 2022 [info]

- Registration deadline is 29 July 2022.

Call for book review essays: International Migration Review [info]

- Submission deadline is 30 July 2022.

Related post:

- Opportunities: Even More June 2022 & New July 2022

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

Launch events: The Refugee in International Law, 4th ed. [info]

- Note that two events are scheduled: 29 September 2021 and 9 November 2021.

Short course: International Migration and Refugee Law, Online, 4 October-1 November 2021 [info]

Seminar series: Asylum after Covid-19: The UK 'New Plan for Immigration' in a Global Context, 12th International Refugee Law Seminar Series [info]

- The first seminar will be held on 6 October 2021.

*Call for registration: International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition, Ghent, March 2022 [info]

- Registration deadline is 20 October 2021.

Blog posts & press:

Guy Goodwin-Gill's reflections on The Refugee in International Law: Then and now (Kaldor Centre, Sept. 2021) [text]

Is turning back migrants at sea compatible with international law? (UK House of Commons Library, Sept. 2021) [text]

- See also related post on The Conversation.

Realising the Right to Leave during Externalised Migration Control (EJIL Talk Blog, Sept. 2021) [text]

*Right to asylum: Bye-bye (The Hill, Sept. 2021) [text]

"Whose Suffering Matters?," Boston Review, 22 Sept. 2021 [text]

Reports/books & journal articles: 

Beyond Borders: The Human Rights of Non-Citizens at Home and Abroad (Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2021) [open access]

- "States have long denied basic rights to non-citizens within their borders, and international law imposes only limited duties on states with respect to those fleeing persecution. But even the limited rights previously enjoyed by non-citizens are eroding in the face of rising nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism. Beyond Borders explores what obligations we owe to those outside our political community."

"Killing asylum softly or leaving no one behind? The New York declaration and global compacts in a divided world," Globalizations, Latest Articles, 16 Sept. 2021 [open access]

Migration in the Time of COVID-19: Comparative Law and Policy Responses (Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2021) [open access]

- "This collection offers a comparative study of law and policy around human mobility in the face of the pandemic. Several papers in this collection examine the impact of the pandemic on EU free movement law. Others assess destination states’ responses to COVID-19 from the perspective of migration law and policy, and consider how they build upon prior exclusionary regimes, offering suggestions for reform of domestic laws in the wake of the pandemic." The collection is now available as an E-Book.

- Note: A launch event will take place 8 October 2021.

"Technology, Displaced? The Risks and Potential of Artificial Intelligence for Fair, Effective, and Efficient Refugee Status Determination," Law in Context, vol. 37, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

Resources:

Forced Displacement Legal Assistance (PILnet) [access]

- "Launched in 2021 on World Refugee Day, the forced displacement legal assistance matching mechanism is a coordination and referral platform that aims to facilitate access to free legal assistance for civil society organizations, associations, clinics, refugee-led organizations, and legal service providers working with refugees and forcibly displaced persons in a fair and equitable way."

Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights [access]

- "The Council forms at a time when the rights of people on the move – including more than 20.7 million refugees – are under attack around the world. With a founding membership of twenty-eight groups and individuals drawn from every world region, the Council will serve as a hub for activists seeking to use strategic litigation and related legal advocacy to advance the protection of refugee rights and the consistent and progressive development of international law worldwide. The Council is the first of its kind to undertake coordinated transnational legal advocacy on the rights of refugees or other migrants." Follow link for concept note and opportunity to join. 

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (6 Sept. 2021)

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Blog posts & press:

 

Artificial Intelligence and International Refugee Law (Modern Diplomacy, Sept. 2021) [text]

Biometrics in humanitarian action: a delicate balance (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, Sept. 2021) [text]

Expanding the Eurodac database: MEPs must put rights first (Statewatch, Sept. 2021) [text]

How we created a humanitarian data resource in just nine months (ReliefWeb Blog, Sept. 2021) [text]

Technology is key for refugees starting new lives in Australia. But women and children don’t have equal access (The Conversation, Sept. 2021) [text]

*Uncovering Challenges and Solutions to Data Privacy and Sharing (UNHCR Innovation Service, Sept. 2021) [text]

Why are you a Refugee? Afghans and the US Identity Database (PROTECT Blog, Sept. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Crisis de la caravana de migrantes: Algunas realidades sobre el discurso público en Twitter," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 12 (2021) [open access]

"From Refugee to Resident in the Digital Age: Refugees’ Strategies for Navigating in and Negotiating Beyond Uncertainty During Reception and Settlement in The Netherlands," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 16 Sept. 2021 [open access]

"Internet and social media uses, digital divides, and digitally mediated transnationalism in forced migration: Syrians in Turkey," Global Networks, Early View, 27 Aug. 2021 [open access]

"Privacy Harms and Persecution," Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2022) [preprint]

- Provides an in-depth analysis of privacy harms in the context of asylum adjudications in the United States.”

Routed Magazine, no. 15 (June 2021) [full-text]

- Theme is “Empowering global diasporas in the digital era.” The issue is also available in French and Spanish.

Unlocking the Power of Digital Technologies to Support “Learning to Earning” for Displaced Youth (UNICEF, Aug. 2021) [access]

- Follow link for text of full report and summary.

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (2 Sept. 2021)

Thematic Focus: General

Blog posts & press:

Is COVID-19 an opportunity to achieve the rights of refugees? (openDemocracy, Feb. 2021) [text]

Refugees and responsibility-sharing: An emerging trend in the face of record numbers of forcibly displaced people (VoxEU, Feb. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

DPCE Online, no. 4/2020 [access via RESPOND Project]

- Special issue on "Governing through uncertainty? Migration law and governance in a comparative perspective." Features a "selection of the papers discussed in the occasion of the RESPOND conference 'Unpacking the challenges & possibilities for migration governance', held in Cambridge, Newnham College, 17-19 October 2019."

"Every Map is an Act of Creation and not a Mirror of the World: Some rhetorical issues about migration mapping," The Large Glass: Journal of Contemporary Art, Culture and Theory, no. 29/30 (2020) [full-text]

"Forced Migration Magnitude and Violence in International Crises: 1945–2015," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 33, no. 2 (2020) [free full-text]

"Research in forced displacement: guidance for a feminist and decolonial approach," The Lancet, vol. 397, no. 10274 (Feb. 2021) [free full-text]

"A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:8 (Feb. 2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

Empowering emerging scholars in forced migration: A UNHCR and UNSW signing ceremony and discussion, 10 Nov. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for more info and video recording.

Protection in Mixed Movements: Policy Workshop on Protection Challenges on the Central & Western Mediterranean Routes, 15-17 Feb. 2021 [access]

- Follow link for recordings and background materials.

What’s the Role of UNHCR? (Talking Migration, Feb. 2021) [access]

- Follow link for podcast.

What is the Second Refugee Crisis? (Talk Migration, Feb. 2021) [access]

- Follow link for podcast.

Resources:

Discussing Displacement [info]

- Provides "short and accessible articles on topics, authors and themes that crop up in Refugee Studies."

MAGYC (Migration Governance and asYlum Crises) Project [access]

- "Seeks to assess how migration governance has been influenced by the recent 'refugee crises' and how crises at large shape policy responses on migration. The general objective of the project is to appraise policy responses in light of the ‘crisis’ and assess their efficiency for the long-term governance of migration."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (4 Feb. 2021)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

 Journal articles:

"Cooking with refugees and migrants: Performing authenticity and traditionality for Warsaw's culinary tourists," Ethnologia Polona, vol. 41 (2020) [open access]

"Crises as driver of policy accumulation: Regulatory change and ratcheting in German asylum policies between 1975 and 2019," Regulation & Governance, Early View, 3 Jan. 2021 [open access]

"The End of Protection: The Danish ‘Paradigm Shift’ and the Law of Cessation," Nordic Journal of International Law (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Limitations of the Right to Have Rights: The Case of Denmark," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 1 Nov. 2020 [Academia]

"Re-examining public opinion preferences for migrant categorizations: 'Refugees' are evaluated more negatively than 'migrants' and 'foreigners' related to participants’ direct, extended, and mass-mediated intergroup contact experiences," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 80 (Jan. 2021) [free full-text]

- Focuses on Slovakia.

"'Street-level' agents operating beyond 'remote control': how overseas liaison officers and foreign state officials shape UK extraterritorial migration management," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 47, no. 1 (2021) [open access] 

Multimedia:

Cessation of refugee status in the Nordic region: developments & dilemmas, 10 Dec. 2020 [info]

- Follow the "view webinar" link to access a recording of this discussion.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (12 Jan. 2021)

Opportunities: More December 2020

Seminar: Ethics of Photography in International Development Work, 7 December 2020 [info]

Virtual session: Preparing for Protection and Solutions in the Future, 9 December 2020 [info]

- Note: This is the final session of the High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges. 

Webinar: Cessation of Refugee Status in the Nordic Region: Developments & Dilemmas, 10 December 2020 [info]

Webinar: The United Nations of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Conversations with UNHCR Personnel, 10 December 2020 [info]

Online conference: Conflicting Responses to Refugees and Migrants in Covid-19 Europe: Vulnerability, Hostility and the Prospects of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, 11 December 2020 [info]

Virtual conference: Refugee Women: Unpacking Gender-based Violence, 11 December 2020 [info]

Webinar: Two Years into the Life of the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration: A Status Check, 11 December 2020 [info]

Job announcement: Researcher/Adviser on Refugee Migrant Rights, Amnesty International London [info]

- Apply by 13 December 2020.

CFP: Journal of Social Sciences [info]

- Contributions sought for special issue on "Crises, im/mobilities and young life trajectories." Submit abstracts by 15 December 2020.

Job announcement: Research Officer, UNHCR Geneva [info]

- Note: Search on job id no. 23362 to locate the job description. The application deadline is 17 December 2020. 

Job announcement: Deputy Director, Center for Migration Studies, New York [info]

- Apply by 31 December 2020.

Related post:

- Opportunities: December 2020 

Tagged Events & Opportunities. 

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Ephemeral geopolitics: Tracing the role of refugees in Syria's transnational opposition," Political Geography, vol. 84 (Jan. 2021) [free full-text]

"The impact of social adjustment policy on Syrian refugees," Journal of International Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (2020) [open access]

- Focuses on Jordan.

"Smugglers, Migrants, and Refugees: The Iran–Iraq Border, 1925–1975," International Journal of Middle East Studies, First View, 16 Sept. 2020 [free full-text]

"Syrian refugees’ perspectives and service providers’ viewpoints on major needs and future plans in Jordan," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 5:14 (Nov. 2020) [open access]

Multimedia: 

Book Panel Discussion: Palestinian Refugees in International Law, 13 Nov. 2020 [access]

Comparing Crises: "Migration Crises" in the Middle East and North Africa, Webinar, 27 Oct. 2020 [access]

Refugee Entitlements in Egypt: A Presentation of the Project's Findings, Webinar, 9 Nov. 2020 [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1 (20 Nov. 2020)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunity:

Call for registration: New Frontiers of Refugee Law in a Closed World, 17-20 November 2020 [info]

- "UNSW’s Kaldor Centre Conference 2020 brings together leading thinkers from around the world with diverse perspectives to explore what the post-pandemic world will look like for refugees and other forced migrants." The conference will be online.

Blog posts:

Refugee Rights Across Regions: A Comparative Overview of Legislative Good Practices in Latin America and the EU (RLI Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Views of Legal Recognition and its Consequences for Their Integration (RLI Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

*"The World Needs a New Refugee Convention," Foreign Policy, 11 Oct. 2020 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Anomaly upon Anomaly: Refugee Law and State Disintegration," International Journal of Refugee Law (Forthcoming) [preprint]

- Draws on the Libyan example.

"Complementary Protection and Encampment," Human Rights Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"COVID-19: A Watching Brief," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 32, no. 2 (2020) [free full-text]

- This section four updated and freely available analyses that were originally published on the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law's ‘COVID-19 Watch’ blog, the aim of which is "to examine the role of international law in protecting refugees, asylum seekers, and other displaced people during the pandemic." 

"Forced Displacements of Refugees Caused by the States of Origin at the ICJ: The Role of Diplomatic Protection as a Vehicle to Advance Human Rights," Chapter in Migraciones, Seguridad y Derecho: Una relación compleja en busca de un difícil equilibrio (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & UNESCO, 2019) [text via SSRN]

- Uses the situation of the Rohingya as a case study.

Guide on How to Establish a Refugee Law Clinic (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Aug. 2020) [access]

- Updated guide available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.

The Responsibility to Protect at 15: A Promise Unfulfilled (Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"A Short History of International Refugee Law: The Early Years," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Understanding the Crisis of Refugee Law: Legal Scholarship and the EU Asylum System," Leiden Journal of International Law, First View, 2 Oct. 2020 [open access]

Multimedia:

Imprisoning Schindler: Responding to the Legal Vulnerability of Those Who Aid Refugees, Presentation at the ASIL Virtual Annual Meeting, 25-26 June 2020 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

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Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (11 Sept. 2020)

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2 (COVID-19) (11 Sept. 2020)

New Issue of RSQ

The latest issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) has been published. Contents of vol. 39, no. 3, Sept. 2020 include:

• “Biting Our tongues”: Policy Legacies and Memories in the Making of the Syrian Refugee Response in Jordan [open access]
• Understanding and Measuring the Social Inclusion of Syrian Refugees in Istanbul: The Case of Zeytinburnu [abstract]
• Refugee Rights Across Regions: A Comparative Overview of Legislative Good Practices in Latin America and the EU [free full-text]
• Hosting Asylum-Seekers and People Transiting through Milan as an Opportunity for Social Innovation [abstract]
• The Reinvention of Immigration Detention in Italy in the Aftermath of the “Refugee Crisis”: A Study of Parliamentary Records (2013–2018) [abstract] [Academia]

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

How the Pandemic Changed Migration Governance as We Knew It, 25 August 2020 [info]

Info Session on MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies, 25 August 2020 [info]

High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges, 2020 [info]
- This year's theme is “Protection Challenges during Pandemics.” The structure will be slightly different: "From October to December, UNHCR will host a series of four virtual sessions and one hybrid in-person/virtual session related to the theme of the Dialogue, drawing upon" the topics outlined in the concept note.

Blog posts:

Border Justice in the Age of Pandemic (Just Security, Aug. 2020) [text]

The Efficacy of Lockdowns for COVID-19: Humanising the Law of Derogation (OpenGlobalRights, July 2020) [text]

The Impact of the Global Compact on Refugees on the Legal Protection of Refugee Rights: What Now for the 1951 Refugee Convention? (Protect Project Blog, June 2020) [text]

Registration and Refugee Status Determination: A Missing Link (RLI Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

Multimedia:

From Investigating to Litigating Border Violence at Sea, 3 July 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video. See also related Communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

Researching Migration & Law, 19 Aug. 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video. See also related Univ. of Bergen news story.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (7 July 2020)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Biogeopolitics of COVID‐19: Asylum‐related Migrants at the European Union Borderlands," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie = Journal of Economic and Social Geography, Early View, 1 July 2020 [open access]

"The European Union Current Asylum Policy: Selected Problems in the Shadow of COVID-19," International Journal for the Semiotics of Law = Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique, Latest Articles, 2 July 2020 [open access]

"In Search of Recognition: The Political Ambiguities of Undocumented Migrants’ Active Citizenship," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 8 June 2020 [open access]

"Mutual (Dis-)Trust in EU Migration and Asylum Law: The Exceptionalisation of Fundamental Rights," Chapter in Fundamental Rights in the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"'Street-level' Agents Operating Beyond 'Remote Control': How Overseas Liaison Officers and Foreign State Officials Shape UK Extraterritorial Migration Management," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 29 June 2020 [open access]

Multimedia:

Asylum Governance in Europe: Legal Frameworks, Adjudication, and New Technological Challenges, Webinar, 17 June 2020 [info]
- A video recording is available here.

Rethinking and Restarting: What Should the Returns Process Look Like Post-Pandemic?, Webinar, 25 June 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video recording and podcast.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (9 July 2020)

Forthcoming Resource: Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law

[Note: This post was updated Feb. 2024.]

The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law isn't due to be published until March 2021, but in the interim, readers can begin to explore some of the discussions to come via the following preprint versions of chapters that have been posted on SSRN (organized by chapter):

"A Short History of International Refugee Law: The Early Years," Chapter 1 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Race, Refugees and International Law," Chapter 2 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"The Architecture of the UN Refugee Convention and Protocol," Chapter 9 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, 2021) [Univ. of Michigan IR]

"Moving towards an Integrated Approach of Refugee Law and Human Rights Law," Chapter 11 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [SSRN]

"International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Protection," Chapter 12 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"National Constitutions and Refugee Protection," Chapter 14 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Regional Refugee Regimes: Middle East," Chapter 18 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Regional Regimes: Europe," Chapter 19 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Protection at Sea and the Denial of Asylum," Chapter 26 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Extraterritorial Migration Control and Deterrence," Chapter 27 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [SSRN]

"The Internal Protection Alternative," Chapter 38 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Stateless Refugees," Chapter 44 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"The Right to Liberty," Chapter 52 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"The Right to Work," Chapter 53 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"The Digital Transformation of Refugee Governance," Chapter 56 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [Academia]

"Refugee Naturalization and Integration," Chapter 58 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Resettlement," Chapter 60 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Border Crimes as Crimes against Humanity," Chapter 65 in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

The Free Movement of Persons within the African Union and Refugee Protection (RefLaw Blog, May 2020) [text]

How Africa can Reduce COVID-19’s Impact on Displaced Persons (ISS Today, May 2020) [text]

How South Africa is Denying Refugees Their Rights: What Needs to Change (The Conversation, May 2020) [text]

Neglected Refugees Find Themselves Even More Neglected during COVID-19 (African Arguments, May 2020) [text]
- Focuses on Uganda.

*New Research on African INGOs’ Editorial Power (Humanitarian News Research Network, May 2020) [text]

Niger: The Other EU-financed Migrant Hub of Africa (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2020) [text]

*Soap Maker in Kenya Refugee Camp Lowers Prices to Fight COVID-19 (UNHCR, May 2020) [text]

*Self-help Project in Niger Churns out Hygiene Products in Fight against Coronavirus (UNHCR, May 2020) [text]

Urban Refugees Struggling to Survive as Economic Impact of COVID-19 Worsens in East, Horn and Great Lakes of Africa (UNHCR, May 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"Khat Use and Intimate Partner Violence in a Refugee Population: A Qualitative Study in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia," BMC Public Health, 20:670 (May 2020) [open access]

"Refugee Protection in the Era of Complex Migratory Flows: A Reflection on Ubuntu and Social Work Practice," African Journal of Social Work, vol. 10, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

"Somali Refugees’ Wellbeing: The Role of Socio-culturally Mediated Agency," Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, vol. 6, no. 2 (2019; published May 2020) [open access]
- Focuses on Somalis in Uganda.

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (6 May 2020)
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (6 May 2020)