Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

Addressing the “Root Causes” of Irregular Migration: Four Lessons for the EU-AU Summit (CGD Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

IMISCOE Bulletin, no. 12 (June 2025) [text]

UNHCR High Commissioner’s statement to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text]

- See also related UN News story.

Reports: 

2025 Global Compact on Refugees: Indicator Report (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [access]

- "Tracks progress towards achieving the four objectives of the GCR." Follow link for report and companion webpage.

Event Report: The Marketplace on Forced Displacement Research, September 18-19, 2025, Sanremo, Italy (IIHL & Joint Data Center, Oct. 2025) [access]

- "The Marketplace will provide a transparent, virtual space where stakeholders (policymakers, practitioners, donors, etc.) can post research needs related to forced displacement, while researchers will be able to assess and propose relevant solutions. It will function as a platform with entries from entities seeking evidence-based recommendations, allowing researchers to navigate and address the posted needs." Follow link for report and JDC's presentation.

Global Appeal 2026 (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [access]

- Follow link for the publication as well as a companion webpage that provides an overview of funding needs and that lets you view information by country, region and emergency.

Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Nazila Ghanea - Freedom of religion or belief of people on the move, UN Doc. No. A/80/205 (UN General Assembly, July 2025) [access]

International Migration Outlook 2025 (OECD, Nov. 2025) [access]

- "The 2025 edition of International Migration Outlook analyses recent developments in migration movements and the labour market inclusion of immigrants in OECD countries. It also monitors recent policy changes in migration governance and integration in OECD countries." Available in English and French.

Mixed Migration Review 2025: Migration in the context of geopolitical turmoil (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2025) [access]

- This report "offers...timely insights and intervention. Through thematic essays, feature interviews with leading migration thinkers, voices from the Global South, 4Mi survey data and deeply personal migrant narratives, this review paints a nuanced – and ultimately human – picture of realities of migration amid geopolitical turmoil."

Overcoming Misinformation about Migration and Migrants (Tufts Univ. & Club de Madrid, Aug. 2025) [access]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, UN Doc. No. A/80/212 (UN General Assembly, July 2025) [access]

- Available in multiple languages. See also related press release.

Should Rejected Asylum Seekers Stay? A Response to Hadj Abdou and Kollar (2024) (EUI Migration Policy Centre, Sept. 2025) [text]

- Note: This is the original article and the collection it is a part of.

Journal articles:

"Critical transitions in migration studies: Comparative Migration Studies’ 10th anniversary issue," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:83 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

- Editorial introducing the special anniversary issue and the articles that are a part of it.

"Geopolitical Uses of Organised Forced Migration," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 6 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"IDP Perspectives on IDP Participation," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 14 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"The nature and extent of migrants, immigrants, and refugees' trust in the social institutions of their host countries: A scoping review," Frontiers in Political Science, 29 Sept. 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 1 (4 Nov. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: General - Pt. 2 (4 Nov. 2025) 

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Aid workers who support migrants on trial in Italy and Tunisia (InfoMigrants, Oct. 2025) [text]

Displacement, Emplacement, and Reintegration: IDP Experiences in Ukraine, 2014-2021 (RID Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

"European Commission delays decision on asylum seeker quotas," Euronews, 14 Oct. 2025 [text]

- Note: The European Annual Asylum and Migration Report (EAAMR) referenced in the article was supposed to have been issued on 15 October 2025. See also related EC's description of "Implementing the Pact on Migration and Asylum."

Forgotten Displacement: The Struggles of Internally Displaced Persons in Serbia (RID Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

"German media bias falsely inflates crime by foreigners," DW, 20 Oct. 2025 [text]

Legal Walls, Silent Violations: How Germany and Greece Are Quietly Redefining EU Asylum Norms (Border Criminologies Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

Netherlands to send rejected asylum seekers to Uganda (InfoMigrants, Oct. 2025) [text]

"The Pact for the Mediterranean," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 23 Oct. 2025 [text]

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

Reports:

All Packed-Up and Ready? Assessment of the State of Play on Pact Implementation, Policy Note, no. 49 (ECRE, Oct. 2025) [text]

EU Migration and Asylum at a Crossroads: Planning for Uncertainty (European Policy Centre, Oct. 2025) [text]

Fortress in the Sand: EU Externalisation Policies and Trans-Saharan Migration Routes (Médecins Sans Frontières, Oct. 2025) [text]

The importance of refugees and their descendants for understanding population heterogeneity, Stockholm Research Reports in Demography, no. 24 (Stockholm Univ., Oct. 2025) [text]

Protracted Displacement and Precarious Housing: Access to Adequate and Affordable Accommodation in Ukraine (IOM, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Synthesis of evaluative evidence on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine (IASC et al., Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR Comments on the European Commission’s Proposal to Amend the Safe Third Country Concept (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (10 Oct. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (10 Oct. 2025)

New Issue of RSQ

The latest issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) has been published. As introduced in this issue, three "Perspectives on Displacement" thought pieces are featured, followed by a mix of original articles. Contents of vol. 44, no. 2, June 2025 include:

Perspectives on Displacement: Responses to "From Forced Migration to Displacement?"

• Displacement as Decolonial Praxis: Centring Intersectionality in Forced Migration Studies. A Response to Owen’s ‘From Forced Migration to Displacement?’ [open access]
• Towards Global Displacement Studies?: A Response to Owen’s ‘From Forced Migration to Displacement?’ [open access]
• Refuting State-Centric Framings: Response to David Owen’s ‘From Forced Migration to Displacement?’ [free full-text]

Articles:

• Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges [abstract]
• Criminalisation and Control: Mediterranean Maritime Search and Rescue Workers’ Perceptions of Uses of Law [open access]
• Fairness and Efficiency in the Review of Asylum Decisions: Data-Driven Insights and Lessons From Australia’s Failed Fast Track Process [abstract] [preprint]
• Failing Asylum-Seekers: Limited Judicial Review of Refugee Status Determination Decisions in Brazil [open access]
• Mind the Empathy Gap: An Analysis of Agency and Emotional Encounters in the Asylum Appeals of Former Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors [open access]
• Navigating a Paradox: Well-Being and Dimensions of (Non-)Belonging of Syrian Refugees in Austria [open access]

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

Commission proposes to facilitate the application of the safe third country concept (EU Commission, May 2025) [text]

- See also related comments from Amnesty International and ECRE.

Empathy in Action: How Perspective-Taking Shapes Public Support for Ukraine in Eastern Europe (Standford Univ., May 2025) [text]

The European Commission’s Proposal for a Return Regulation: A Perplexing Expulsion Exercise (RLI Blog, May 2025) [text]

- See also related journal article below.

Rejected asylum seekers in Europe: are ‘return hubs’ the right response? (RLI Blog, May 2025) [text]

- See also related post on The Loop.

Starmer announces migration ‘return hubs’ on Albania visit, but Albania doesn’t want them – what’s going on? (The Conversation, May 2025) [text]

- See also related BBC News article.

[Un]Wanted People: Internal Displacement in Russia caused by the Russo-Ukrainian War (RID Blog, May 2025) [text]

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

Reports: 

Country Reports (AIDA, May 2025) 

- See updated profiles for Hungary and The Netherlands.

For when the war ends: prospects and policy options for Ukrainian refugees, CEPS Policy Brief, no. 1 (Centre for European Policy Studies, May 2025) [text]

*Four million people, one crossroads: Charting the future of temporary protection - Policy Paper (ICMPD, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Guidance on Remote Interviews (EU Agency for Asylum, May 2025) [text]

Strength in numbers: The UK refugee and migration sector in 2025 (Migration Exchange, May 2025) [text via EIN]

UNHCR Recommendations on the continued use of Temporary Protection and Guiding Principles for Transition in relation to the Ukraine Refugee Situation (UNHCR, May 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"The ‘Borders of Berlin’: West African protests and the coloniality of Euro-African deportation cooperation," Geoforum, vol. 161 (May 2025) [open access]

"Denmark’s Turn to Temporary Protection Has Made It a Pioneer in Restrictive Immigration Policies," Migration Information Source, 21 May 2025 [text]

"The European Union, ‘Expulsion of aliens’ and the Return Directive: a repressive or protective framework?," Griffith Law Review, Latest Articles, 21 May 2025 [open access]

- See also related blog posts above.

"The European Union’s responsibility to protect refugees," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Latest Articles, 21 May 2025 [open access]

"Gatekeepers or agents of change? The political agency of lawyers in the Dutch family migration regime," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 16 May 2025 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (16 May 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (16 May 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

10 years since the largest loss of life in the Mediterranean, UNHCR urges decisive action to save lives (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

A Decade of Progress: 10 years of the EU Regional Support to Protection-Sensitive Migration Management Systems in the Western Balkans (Frontex, EUAA, IOM & UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

"EU tightens asylum rules with list of 7 safe countries," DW, 16 April 2025 [text]

UNHCR examines third-country return hubs for failed asylum seekers as UK reported to be considering partnerships in the Balkans (EIN, April 2025) [text]

Reports:

Between "voluntary" and "forced" return: rethinking deportation in the Netherlands (Finding Agreement in Return Project, April 2025) [access]

Country Report: Cyprus (AIDA, April 2025) [text]

Joint NGO analysis and recommendations: Ensuring a fair and rights-based solidarity mechanism under the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (International Rescue Committee et al., April 2025) [text]

The moral conflict underpinning public perceptions of fairness in asylum decision-making, Working Paper, no. RSC 2025/11 (European Univ. Institute, April 2025) [text]

Not as innocent as it seems? The effects of "neutral" messaging on refugee attitudes, Working Paper, no. 11 (UNU-MERIT, April 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Germany.

UNHCR renews its call to strengthen community-based MHPSS interventions across Europe (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (8 April 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (8 April 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The Colombian-German Migration Agreement: An Insufficient Strategy (Fluchtforschung Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

German party leaders are united against immigration – but there is little evidence for a key part of their argument (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

Post-Conflict Resettlement in Karabakh: Rebuilding Livelihoods (RID Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

The Vanishing Archive: UNHCR Archives’ Recovery and Preservation of the Records from the Former Yugoslavia (UNHCR Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

Country Guidance: Explained (EU Agency for Asylum, Feb. 2025) [text]

How Social Capital and Support Structures Shape the Experiences of People Affected by the War in Ukraine: The Case of Ukraine, Poland, and Germany (International Rescue Committee, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Mixed Movements in South-Eastern Europe: Challenges Along the Route and Drivers of Onward Movements (UNHCR, Dec. 2024) [text]

Pushed, Beaten, Left to Die: European Pushback Report 2025 (11.11.11 et al., Feb. 2025) [text]

Return or regularization? A temporal analysis of rejected asylum seekers in Germany, RSC Working Paper, no. 6 (European Univ. Institute, Feb. 2025) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Ukraine Emergency Three Years On: 2025 Update (UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (8 Feb. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (United Kingdom) (8 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Administrative control mechanisms in the descent-based family reunification of refugees," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 1 May 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Germany. 

"Empowering young voices: Using action research to combat xenophobia through children’s initiatives," Conflict Trends, no. 4 (2023) [text]

- Focuses on South Africa.

"Facilitating trauma-informed SEL with refugee youth in Uganda via an international research-practice partnership: Lessons learned from The Wellbeing Club," Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, vol. 3 (June 2024) [open access]

"Factors Contributing to Child Marriage among Syrian Refugees in Domiz Camp, Kurdistan Iraq," Journal of International Studies, vol. 20, no.1 (April 2024) [open access]

"Precariousness, Sport Participation and Hope among Young People after Rejections in the Swedish Asylum Process," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 14, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"Protecting Youth: The Dismantling of Youth as a Particular Social Group in Contemporary Asylum Law," Chapter in Critical Geographies of Youth: Law, Policy, and Power (West Virginia Univ. Press, 2023) [SSRN]

- Focuses on the US.

*"'We Hold on and Have Patience': Perspectives and Experiences of Migrant Fathers in Belgian Asylum Centres," Child & Family Social Work, Early View, 15 May 2024 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (17 May 2024)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Access to Work for Those Seeking Asylum: Concerns Arising from British and Swedish Legal Strategies," Industrial Law Journal, Advance Articles, 12 March 2024 [open access]

"Barriers to Entrepreneurial Refugees’ Integration into Host Countries: A Case of Afghan Refugees," Sustainability, vol. 16, no. 6 (March 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Pakistan.

"The Cruel Optimism of Work Permits: Vulnerabilities and Deportability Among Rejected Asylum-Seekers and International Students Pursuing Track Changes in Sweden," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 27 March 2024 [open access]

"Does country of resettlement influence the risk of labor market marginalization among refugees? A cohort study in Sweden and Norway," Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment, and Health, OnlineFirst, 25 March 2024 [open access]

"Economic and labour market impacts of migration in Austria: an agent-based modelling approach," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:18 (March 2024) [open access]

"(Hidden) in Plain Sight: Migrant Child Labor and the New Economy of Exploitation," Arkansas Law Review (Forthcoming, June 2024) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Investigating refugees’ negotiation of professional possible selves," Career Development Quarterly, Early View, 21 March 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Switzerland.

"Refugees as Entrepreneurs? A Challenge to HDP Programmes," International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, Latest Articles, 25 March 2024 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1 (30 March 2024)

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities:

Panel discussion: People Forced to Flee, Ottawa, 20 March 2024 [info]

Call for registration: 2024 Global Conference on Internally Displaced People, Washington, DC/Online, 18 April 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Deadliest Year on Record for Migrants with Nearly 8,600 Deaths in 2023 (IOM, March 2024) [text]

Ethics and Intellectual Harm in Research with Refugees (Kujenga Amani, Feb. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

89th meeting of the Standing Committee, 13-15 March 2024 [access]

- Follow link for documents and resources. See also related NGO statements.

"The International Organization for Migration as a Counterweight to States? The 2030 Agenda, the GCM, and the Strategic Vision of IOM," Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, vol. 29, no. 4 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

"Managing forced migration: Overt and covert policies to limit the influx of Ukrainian refugees," World Affairs, vol. 187, no. 1 (Spring 2024) [open access]

Lessons from COVID-19: Managing Borders in the Next Global Public-Health Crisis (Migration Policy Institute, March 2024) [text]

Migration Governance Insights: Informing People-centred Migration Policies (IOM, March 2024) [access]

- Follow link for report and executive summary.

Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 1 (March 2024) [open access]

- This issue provides "insights on the short- and long-term impacts of migration."

"Why failed asylum seekers should have a conditional right to stay: an ethical guideline for policy debates," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:14 (March 2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Forced Displacement Amid Global Conflict (Baker Briefing Podcast Series, March 2024) [access]

Resource:

IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement [access]

- New website of the IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement, "a collaborative project between thirteen research institutions around the world."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (4 March 2024)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Asylum policies and international tensions," European Economic Review, vol. 151 (2023) [postprint]

"'The Great and Miserable Flight': The Experiences of Refugees in Newsprint during the Thirty Years’ War," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 16 May 2023 [open access]

"'I Live in Agony': the Everyday Insecurity of Rejected Somali Asylum-seekers in Finland," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 20 May 2023 [open access]

"The Role of Flag States of NGO Vessels under Italy’s New Migration Policy," Italian Review of International and Comparative Law, vol. 3, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"Support for Ukrainian refugees after Russia's invasion of Ukraine: aid structure and resilience factors. Case studies of Lublin and Lutsk," European Societies, Latest Articles, 14 May 2023 [open access]

"Where does the buck stop? UK Home Office and other statutory body responses to allegations of human rights violations in two Serco-run hotels housing people seeking asylum," Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Early View, 10 May 2023 [free full-text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (21 May 2023)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises: The Case of Greece (Springer, Sept. 2022) [open access]

- "This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe and particularly Greece during the last decade when the economic and refugee crises coincided. It offers new analyses and data on a diverse range of topics concerning new emigrants as well as refugees and mobilities in Greece. The book covers themes which are not only related to refugee and immigrant integration and governance challenges, but also describes host attitudes, solidarity, political and protest claims in the public sphere, as well as the changing emigration environment in Greece within a European context."

Journal articles:

Comparative Population Studies, vol. 47 (2022) [open access]

- Special issue on "Refugee Migration to Europe: Challenges and Potentials for Cities and Regions."

"De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 7 Oct. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Italy.

*"From Conflict Zones to Europe: Syrian and Afghan Refugees’ Journeys, Stories, and Strategies," Social Inclusion, Ahead of Print, 12 Oct. 2022 [open access]

"It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Use It: The Application of Country of Origin Information in Judicial Refugee Status Determination Decisions – A Case Study of Germany," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 11 Oct. 2022 [open access]

"Refugees, race and the limits of rural cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from Ireland and Wales," Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 95 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

"The Symbolic Life of Courts: How Judicial Language, Actions, and Objects Legitimize Credibility Assessments of Asylum Appeals," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 6 Oct. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

"'Victims of Democracy' or 'Enemies at the Gates'? Russian Discourses on the European 'Refugee Crisis'," Nationalities Papers, FirstView, 26 Aug. 2022 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (12 Oct. 2022)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Lecture: The European Union’s External Border as a Site of Preventive Injustice, Online/London, 28 June 2022 [info]

Report launch: EUAA Asylum Report 2022, Online/Brussels, 28 June 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Briefing: The real state of the UK asylum system (Free Movement Blog, June 2022) [text]

Despite Enforced Destitution, Refused Afghan Asylum-Seekers Continue to Resist Return (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2022) [text]

Europeans welcome Ukrainian refugees but governments need to show they can manage (MPC Blog, June 2022) [text]

Forcibly displaced Ukrainians: Lessons from Syria and beyond (Future Development Blog, June 2022) [text]

Reconsidering Resilience: The EU and Premature Refugee Returns in Lebanon (LCPS Blog, June 2022) [text]

"Refugees previously despatched to Rwanda now in Europe," BBC News, 23 June 2022 [text]

"UK deportations to Rwanda: What you need to know," DW, 15 June 2022 [text]

UN expert urges UK to halt transfer of asylum seekers to Rwanda (OHCHR, June 2022) [text]

"UK unveils bill to overrule European human rights decisions," DW, 22 June 2022 [text]

**More news is available via ECRE's Weekly Bulletin.

Journal articles:

"Beyond Advice Deserts: Strategic Ignorance and the Lack of Access to Asylum Legal Advice," Amicus Curiae, vol. 3, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

"COVID-19 Vaccination and Ukrainian Refugees in Poland during Russian–Ukrainian War—Narrative Review," Vaccines, vol. 10, no. 6 (June 2022) [open access]

"Experience of discrimination during COVID-19 pandemic: the impact of public health measures and psychological distress among refugees and other migrants in Europe," BMC Public Health, 22:942 (May 2022) [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (15 June 2022)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (15 June 2022)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

"Compassionate Border Securitisation? Border Control in the Scandinavian News Media during the ‘Refugee Crisis’," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 12, no 1 (2022) [open access]

Country Report: Hungary (AIDA, updated April 2022) [text]

The Danish Bill L-226 : Offshoring Asylum, Outsourcing Hope (McGill Journal Of Political Studies, April 2022) [text]

"EU border externalisation and security outsourcing: exploring the migration industry in Libya," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 13 April 2022 [open access]

"From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants," Migration Studies, Advance Articles, 8 April 2022 [open access]

"Humanitarian Help and Refugees: De-Bordering Solidarity as a Contentious Issue," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 15 April 2022 [open access]

"The Judicial Assessment of ‘Expert Evidence’ in the United Kingdom’s Immigration and Asylum Chamber," Laws, vol. 11, no. 2 (April 2022) [open access]

Mapping potential elements of an Independent Border Monitoring Mechanism in Greece (International Rescue Committee, April 2022) [text]

"Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 6 April 2022 [open access]

Poland: Cruelty Not Compassion, at Europe’s Other Borders (Amnesty International, April 2022) [text]

"Strategic Cruelty: Legitimizing Violence in the European Union's Border Regime," Global Studies Quarterly, vol. 2, no 2 (2022) [open access]

"The UN Global Compacts and the Common European Asylum System: Coherence or Friction?," Laws, vol. 11, no. 2 (April 2022) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (16 April 2022)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Covid-19 pandemic: the reproduction and contestation of securitisation of asylum seekers, immigrants and Afro-descendants in the Portuguese media," From the European South, no. 9 (2021) [open access] 

"The external dimension of EU migration policy as region-building? Refugee cooperation as contentious politics," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 16 Nov. 2021 [open access]

"Human Rights Activism Among North Korean Refugees in the UK: Hope for a Democratic Future," Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, vol. 6, no. 4 (Dec. 2021) [open access]

"Migration management clientelism: Europe’s migration funds as a global political project," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 17 Nov. 2021 [open access]

"Return Sponsorships in the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum: High Stakes, Low Gains," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 23, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

"Solidarity and Contestation: Local Refugee Reception Practices at the South-Eastern EU Border Islands," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 21 Nov. 2021 [open access]

"'Victims not wrongdoers': the legal consciousness of rejected asylum seekers in Norway," Journal of Law and Society, Early View, 10 Nov. 2021 [open access]

"Warehousing asylum seekers: The logistification of reception," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, OnlineFirst, 10 Nov. 2021 [open access]

Multimedia:

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Refugees and Migrants, 3 Nov. 2021 [access]

Transforming refugee status: definitions and discrimination, 3 Nov. 2021 [access]

- Focuses on the UK.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (23 Nov. 2021)

Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunities:

Job announcement: National Expert in Germany, Asylum Information Database (AIDA) [info]

- Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Job announcement: Research and Project Assistant, Odysseus Academic Network [info]

- Apply by 31 August 2021.

Call for applications: Training Seminar on EU advocacy, Brussels, 4-5 November 2021 [info]

- Apply by 19 September 2021.

Blog posts & press:

70th Anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention in the Wake of Pushbacks and Border Violence (Protect Project Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

"As migration is rising, so are border barriers," DW, 13 Aug. 2021 [text]

Conference on the Future of Europe: Migration (EPRS, Aug. 2021) [text]

The E.U. is furious that Belarus allowed more than 4,000 migrants to cross into Europe (Monkey Cage, Aug. 2021) [text]

The first steps of Frontex accountability: Implications for its Legal Responsibility for Fundamental Rights Violations (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

More Power, Less Accountability: The Need for Reform of Frontex Procedures on the Treatment of Asylum-Seekers (RefLaw Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

UK government rejected more than 32,000 Afghan asylum seekers (openDemocracy, Aug. 2021) [text]

- Note: As of 2001.

Reports & journal articles:

"All quiet on the ‘Eastern front’? Controlling transit migration in Latvia and Lithuania," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 47, no. 1 (2021) [postprint]

The EU and Offshore Asylum Processing: Why Looking to Australia Is Not a Way Forward (PRIO, Aug. 2021) [text]

Housing for IDPs in Ukraine: steps towards durable solutions (Norwegian Refugee Council, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

"How Transnationally Effective are the UK Migration Policies in Relation to Missing Migrants?," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 54, no. 2 (2021) [full-text]

"Politics of adjustment: rural mayors and the accommodation of refugees," Territory, Politics, Governance, Latest Articles, 18 Aug. 2021 [open access]

- Focuses on Austria, France, Germany and Italy.

Responses to long-term irregularly staying migrants: practices and challenges in the EU and Norway (European Migration Network, July 2021) [access]

- Follow link for report, Flash and Inform.

[UNHCR Regional Dialogues with NGOs]

- Here are the minutes from various virtual consultations between UNHCR and NGOs that took place between July 2020 and May 2021: 6 July 2020; 24 Nov. 2020; 8 Dec. 2020; 18 Feb. 2021; 27 May 2021.

"Urban planners as boundary spanners: Steering perceptions of asylum seeker accommodations in Germany," Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, OnlineFirst, 9 Aug. 2021 [open access]

"Welcoming immigrants in Istanbul: Gendering faith-based and professionalised hospitality," Journal of Sociology, vol. 57, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (9 Aug. 2021)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (9 Aug. 2021)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt 1

Opportunity:

Call for participation: European Migration Forum, 27-28 October 2021 [info]

- The theme of this virtual event is "From pandemic to recovery: challenges and best practices in migration management." Submit applications by 20 August 2021.

Blog posts & press:

After UK asylum bill debate, UNHCR urges MPs to avoid punishing asylum-seekers (UNHCR, July 2021) [text]

Covid-19 and the response of Portugal: choosing an inclusive path (Protect Project Blog, July 2021) [text]

The “New Plan for Immigration” and the UK’s Breach of its Legal Duty of Non-Penalisation (RLI Blog, July 2021) [text]

No happy Anniversary for the Geneva Refugee Convention (Are You Syrious?, July 2021) [text]

On its 70th Anniversary, the Refugee Convention Faces Unprecedented Threats Across Europe (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2021) [text]

Reinterpreting the Refugee Convention: A Recipe for Litigation (RLI Blog, July 2021) [text]

Socio-economic Rights and Migration deals: Obligations and Responsibility of EU Member States (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy, July 2021) [text]

UK Nationality and Borders Bill Q&A: how will it affect migration across the English Channel? (The Conversation, July 2021) [text]

Reports:

Asylum adjourned: the situation of applicants for international protection in 2020 (ECRE, July 2021) [text]

Boosting Asylum in Spain: Making the Most Out of AMIF Funding, Policy Note, no. 37 (ECRE, July 2021) [text]

Floating sanctuaries: the ethics of search and rescue at sea, RSC Working Paper 2021/59 (European Univ. Institute, July 2021) [text]

Migrant deaths on maritime routes to Europe in 2021 (IOM, July 2021) [text]

Safeguarding the integrity of the asylum system and the moral rights of rejected asylum seekers: a conditional right to remain, RSC Working Paper 2021/63 (European Univ. Institute, July 2021) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (11 July 2021)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (11 July 2021)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

 Journal articles & book chapters:

"Children’s Literature in Critical Contexts of Displacement: Exploring the Value of Hope," Education Sciences, vol. 10, no. 12 (Dec. 2020) [open access]

- See also related Toolkit.

"Continuity and Social Support: A Longitudinal Study of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Care Networks," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 31 May 2021 [open access]

- Focuses on Belgium.

"Effectiveness of an Integrated Care Package for Refugee Mothers and Children: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial," JMIR Research Protocols, 10(5): e25047 (May 2021) [open access]

- Focuses on Rohingya in Bangladesh.

"Guilty When Innocent: Australian Government’s Resistance to Bringing Home Wives and Children of Islamic State Fighters," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 6 (May 2021) [open access]

"Legacies of humanitarian neglect: Long term experiences of children who returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda," Conflict and Health, 15:43 (May 2021) [open access]

"Rejected Asylum Claims and Children in International Human Rights Law," Chapter in Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights (E-International Relations, Forthcoming 2021) [text]

"Unaccompanied Migrant Children’s Rights: A Prerequisite for the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals in Spain and Sweden," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 6 (May 2021) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (2 June 2021)

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Blog posts & press:

Fleeing persecution: experience of LGBTI asylum seekers in Australia (International Bar Association, April 2021) [text]

ORAM and Rainbow Railroad Announce Kakuma Refugee Camp Research Project (ORAM, April 2021) [text]

President Biden’s LGBTQI+ Memorandum Protects Refugees & Asylum Seekers: What Else Can Be Done? (Niskanen Center Commentary, March 2021) [text]

"U.N. to boost security for LGBT+ refugees after deadly arson attack at Kenya camp," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 13 April 2021 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Hacia un análisis sistémico del proceso probatorio en materia de asilo por motivo de orientación sexual e identidad de género en el derecho común europeo," Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, vol. XXI (2021) [open access]

LGBT Asylum Claims in the United States (UCLA School of Law, March 2021) [text]

LGBTI+ Asylum Seekers in South Africa: A Review of Refugee Status Denials Involving Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (Legal Resources Centre et al., April 2021) [text]

Sentir que se nos va la vida: Personas LGBTI+ refugiadas y migrantes de Venezuela en Colombia, Ecuador y Chile (R4V, March 2021) [text]

"Territorio mutual: una lectura del proceso de trasformación territorial desde la alteridad de la comunidad LGBTI víctima del desplazamiento forzado en el Quindío," CS, vol. 32 (2020) [open access]

- Focuses on Colombia.

"Trans*it: Transgender and gender nonconforming asylum claimants’ narratives in Greece," Sexualities, OnlineFirst, 27 April 2021 [open access]

Multimedia:

The Landscape of LGBTQI Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, 23 March 2021 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (1 March 2021)

Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Webinar: Causas Globales del Desplazamiento Forzado Interno, 28 April 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Border Criminologies Blog (April 2021) 

- Additional posts in the themed blog series on "immigration and border control in South and Central America" cover the humanitarian crisis in northern Chile, reception issues in northern Chile, Central Americans transiting through Mexico, and the application of the ICRMW to the Venezuelan exodus.

Network of Academic institutions ramp up support for refugees in Latin America (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]

"No easy solutions for tackling the Central American roots of the migration crisis," The New Humanitarian, 21 April 2021 [text]

Relocations in Brazil offer dignity and hope to thousands of Venezuelans: Joint UNHCR/IOM Press Release (April 2021) [text]

Status for all: Pathways to permanent residency in Canada need to include every migrant (The Conversation, April 2021) [text]

"In northern Mexico, aid efforts struggle to keep pace with soaring migration needs," The New Humanitarian, 14 April 2021 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Colombia Internacional, no. 106 (April/June 2021) [open access] 

- Themed issue on "Pensar las migraciones en clave política: gobernabilidad y democrácia frente a la movilidad humana," with five articles in Spanish, one in English and one in Portuguese that address migration law and policy issues in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.

"La [des]protección de los derechos humanos en contextos de movilidad humana en Chile: expulsiones administrativas y solicitudes de protección internacional," Anuario de Derechos Humanos, vol. 16, no. 2 (2020) [open access]

Diagnóstico de monitoreo de flujos y seguimiento a la movilidad: Mendoza, Misiones y Jujuy - Argentina (IOM, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Laying the Foundation for Regional Cooperation: Migration Policy & Institutional Capacity in Mexico and Central America (Migration Policy Institute, April 2021) [text]

- See also Spanish version.

"Not Just the Luck of the Draw? Exploring Competency of Counsel and Other Qualitative Factors in Federal Court Refugee Leave Determinations (2005-2010)," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 37, no. 1 (2021) [open access] 

Multimedia:

Building Effective Migration Management Capacity in Mexico and Central America, 15 April 2021 [access]

- Follow link for audio recordings.

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (13 April 2021)

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2 (13 April 2021)

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunity:

Webinar: Sampling Respondents in Migration Surveys: Challenges and Trade-offs, 8 October 2020 [info]

Blog posts & press:

5 Reasons Why Sharing Responsibility for Refugees is Smarter than Ever in the Time of COVID-19 (UN Sustainable Development Group Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

The End of the Road? Rejected Asylum Seekers in the Global South (RLI Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

Refugee Deaths and Refugee Lives (Refugee History Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

Resilience of Youth: How Young People are Supporting Displaced Communities Amid COVID-19 (Kaldor Centre, Sept. 2020) [text]

"Three Lessons from the Global South on Combating the Pandemic," The New Humanitarian, 7 Sept. 2020 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

COVID-19 and the Global Compact for Migration: Is a Compact Born in a Crisis Born Again in the Whirlwinds of Three Global Crises? (Mixed Migration Centre, Sept. 2020) [text]

Guidance Brief: How to Maximise the Use of Social Sciences Evidence for Public Health Emergencies in Humanitarian Settings (Anlaytics for Operations Working Group, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Justice for Migrants and Refugees: A Discussion of Gillian Brock’s Justice for People on the Move by the Author of No Refuge," Journal of Global Ethics, 6 Sept. 2020 [free full-text]

Least Protected, Most Affected: Migrants and Refugees Facing Extraordinary Risks during the COVID-19 Pandemic (IFRC, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Public Attitudes Towards Immigration and Immigrants: What People Think, Why, and How to Influence Them, Working Paper, no. 588 (ODI, Sept. 2020) [text]

WorldRiskReport 2020 (Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft & Ruhr University Bochum, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

 - Includes a focus on "Forced Displacement and Migration."

New open access book:

Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing (Transcript, 2020) [access]

- I referenced this title last month, but the text has just been recently posted! 

Multimedia:

COVID-19 and Refugees (UNHCR, Sept. 2020) [access]

- "The maps, stats and facts on how the pandemic has impeded efforts to protect the displaced and affected their access to basic rights."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General  (7 Sept. 2020)