Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Conference: The Refugee Convention at 75: Perspectives Within and Beyond, Oslo, 22-23 June 2026 [info]

- Note: While registration details for the overall conference are not yet available, the plenary keynotes and roundtable have been opened up to the public to attend.

Short pieces:

75 years of lives changed (UNHCR, April 2026) [access]

- "Throughout 2026, a series of national, regional and global dialogues will ask a fundamental question: how can the international protection system respond more effectively to the realities of displacement today?" See also related announcement.

Blog Forum: Safe Third Country (Externalizing Asylum, April 2026) [access]

- The contributions can be accessed via the a/m link for via the editorial.

Complying with IHL in large-scale conflicts: movement, mass displacement and maintaining family links (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, April 2026) [text]

Enforced disappearances: universal responses to a worldwide phenomenon (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, May 2026) [text]

- Note: See also the blog authors' recent open access book on enforced disappearances.

Reports: 

Call for input for thematic report on international humanitarian law challenges for internally displaced persons (OHCHR, April 2026) [access]

- The call is now closed; the inputs received are available via the a/m link.

International Protection Considerations with Regard to Asylum-Seekers from the Syrian Arab Republic (UNHCR, May 2026) [text]

Rescue at Sea: A guide to principles and practice in the context of refugee and migrant movements (UNHCR, International Maritime Organization & International Chamber of Shipping, May 2026) [access]

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

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (9 April 2026) 

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2 (9 April 2026) 

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

EU Member States saw a 27% drop in first-time asylum applications in 2025 (European Commission, April 2026) [text]

Legal aid for asylum seekers is hard to come by – it’s no wonder criminal advisers are taking advantage (The Conversation, April 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

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

Reports:

“I wouldn’t wish this journey on my worst enemy”: Realities for refugees and migrants in transit through Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2025 (Mixed Migration Centre, April 2026) [text]

Mixed migration routes to Italy: Findings from IOM's survey data in 2025 (IOM, April 2026) [text]

National Asylum Developments 2026 (EU Agency for Asylum, April 2026) [text]

Operational Standards and Indicators on Reception including Vulnerability-related Aspects (EU Agency for Asylum, April 2026) [text]

Operationalising the Pact on Migration and Asylum: Experiences from the hotspot approach (EU Fundamental Rights Agency, April 2026) [text]

Overview of the Role of UNHCR in EU+ Countries, Who is Who in International Protection in the EU+, no. 11 (EU Agency for Asylum, April 2026) [text]

Safe countries of origin and safe third countries: criteria for identifying and examining applications considering the new Asylum Procedure Regulation (EU) 2024/1348 (European Migration Network, April 2026) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (8 April 2026)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (8 April 2026)

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Philadelphia’s 40-year history of protecting undocumented immigrants began with churches hiding refugees from El Salvador (The Conversation, April 2026) [text]

Trump Restrictions on Legal Immigration Could Sharply Reduce U.S. Population Growth (MPI, April 2026) [text]

U.S. Third-Country Deportation Agreements Are More About Fear than Numbers (MPI, March 2026) [text]

USCIS Ends Some “Holds,” Including on Certain Asylum Seekers (The Asylumist Blog, April 2026) [text]

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

Journal articles:

"Advice without Lawyers? Immigrants, Legal Deserts, and Reflections on Who Can Practice Law," William & Mary Law Review, vol. 68 (Forthcoming, 2027) [preprint]

"Best Practices for Community-Engaged Research: Navigating Trust and Resistance in Challenging Sociopolitical Contexts," International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 14 March 2026 [open access]

- "This methodological article synthesizes ethical challenges, safety concerns, and field-informed strategies for conducting qualitative, community-engaged research with migrant populations during periods of heightened immigration enforcement."

"Desirable Mootness: How 'Making Moot' is a Tactic in Immigration Mandamus Claims," UC Davis Social Justice Law Review, vol. 29, no. 2 (Summer 2025) [full-text]

"Drones, Drugs, and Deportations: The New War on Terror," West Virginia Law Review, vol. 129 (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Protection as Punishment: Victim Relief in the Crimmigration State," California Law Review, vol. 115 (Forthcoming, 2027) [preprint]

"Punitive Exile," Denver Law Review (Forthcoming, 2027) [preprint]

Multimedia:

Is the Dignity Act "Amnesty"? My Conversation with Ashley DeAzevedo and Rebecca Shi, 10 April 2026 [access]

Resources:

Immigration Court Data: Latest Outcomes for Immigrants in Court (Mobile Pathways) [access]

- Provides information and data relating to court appearances, asylum applications, immigration judges, and removal orders.

Third Country Deportation Watch (Human Rights First & Refugees International) [access]

- "This tracker explains the U.S. third country transfer agreements, the political and financial motives behind them, and the harms they have caused – as well as relevant lawsuits and other efforts to challenge them." See also related AP article.

Third Country Deportations Tracker (USCRI) [access]

- "This page compiles publicly available information on third country deportations from the United States, and Asylum Cooperative Agreements (ACAs) and their impact on asylum seekers."

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (United States)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (2 April 2026)

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

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Community Resistance: Immigration Law in the Face of Mass Deportation & Repression, UC Davis Immigration & Nationality Law Review Symposium, Davis, CA, 17 April 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

Affirmative Asylum Cases Dismissed and Sent to Court Without an Interview (The Asylumist Blog, April 2026) [text]

American Immigration Attitudes by the Civic Health Institutions Project (ImmProf Blog, March 2026) [text]

"Explainer: How the Trump administration is undermining legal immigrants," The Guardian, 21 March 2026 [text]

*A First Look at the Latest ICE Arrest Data Published by the Deportation Data Project (Austin Kocher Substack, March 2026) [text]

A German Right-Wing Influencer Has Requested Asylum in the U.S. Does She Have a Case? (The Asylumist Blog, March 2026) [text]

Government Defrauds Legal Immigrants and US Sponsors Who Paid $1 Billion in Fees (CATO At Liberty Blog, March 2026) [text]

How Secretary Mullin Can Reform DHS (Just Security, March 2026) [text]

Interview with an Immigration Judge: Larry Burman (The Asylumist Blog, March 2026) [text]

Two-Thirds of Open Somali Cases Placed on "Somali Rocket Docket" (bklg Blog, March 2026) [text]

US Supreme Court to hear landmark asylum case on border ‘turnbacks’ (UNSW, March 2026) [text]

- See also related posts on Just Security, Lawfare, and SCOTUSBlog. 

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

Reports:

Asylum Cooperative Agreements: Denial of Due Process and Risks of Return to Danger (CGRS, March 2026) [text]

Temporary Protected Status (TPS): An Overview (American Immigration Council, March 2026) [text]

- See also related SCOTUSBlog post.

Resource:

Cuban Migration Projection Dashboard (Niskanen Center, March 2026) [access]

- "This dashboard projects monthly Cuban migration encounters at US borders under three scenarios using a scenario-conditional model calibrated against historical data. It does not use time-series forecasting or machine learning. Each projection is the output of a structured set of assumptions about route accessibility, enforcement posture, and regime behavior."

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (9 March 2026)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Debate: Fortress Europe 2.0? The New EU Migration Pact, London, 24 March 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

EU Council gives final greenlight to new EU asylum measures (InfoMigrants, Feb. 2026) [text]

- "The Council of the European Union has now formally adopted the first EU-wide list of safe countries of origin, to be used in asylum application cases, as well as a revision of the safe third countries concept."

Major overhaul of asylum system introduces 30-month refugee leave under ‘core protection’ model (EIN, March 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Neither innovative nor smart: externalisation as a migration policy path of human rights risk (COE Commissioner for Human Rights, Feb. 2026) [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. 2026) [access]

Forced displacement from Ukraine: The potential role of migration in Ukraine's future reconstruction (Danish Institute for International Studies, Feb. 2026) [text]

Guidance Note on Albania (UNHCR, Feb. 2026) [text]

Latest Asylum Trends 2025: Annual Analysis (EU Agency for Asylum, March 2026) [text]

Observations on the new EU returns framework (COE Commissioner for Human Rights, March 2026) [text]

Practical Guide on Access to the Asylum Procedure (EU Agency for Asylum & Frontex, Feb. 2026) [text]

- See also related leaflet, poster and pocketbook.

Racial Logics of Irregular Migration in Europe: Policy, Perception, and Precarity (I-CLAIM, Feb. 2026) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (18 Feb. 2026)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Deportation as gendered violence: Afghan women’s experiences at the Iran-Afghanistan border (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Everyday Effects of Displacement and Conflict on Mothers: A Survey of Myanmar and Manipur Women FDPs in Mizoram (RLI Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Fragile Gains: Why Women Must Be at the Center of Gaza’s Relief and Recovery Efforts (Women's Refugee Commission Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

SIPRI advances gender-responsive humanitarian action in eastern Chad (SIPRI, Feb. 2025) [text]

Reports: 

Access to justice for refugee women in the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Refugee-led Research Working Paper, no. 9 (Refugee Studies Centre, Nov. 2025) [access]

- Focuses on Uganda. Scroll down to access report and executive summary.

Access to land and resilience of Sudanese refugee women in Chad: Systemic issues and local perceptions (SPARC, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Also in French.

Gender Matters Bulletin (UN Women, 2025) [via ReliefWeb]

- No. 1 (April 2025): No Relief in Sight: The impact of escalating hostilities, repeated displacement orders and the ongoing aid blockade on women, girls, men and boys in Gaza

- No. 2 (Oct. 2025): Nowhere to call home: The impact of displacement on the shelter needs of women and girls in the West Bank

- No. 3 (Aug. 2025): Leading in times of crisis: The role of Women’s Organizations in the Humanitarian Response in Palestine

- No. 4 (Oct. 2025): Sustaining families alone: The experiences of crisis-affected and displaced women-headed households in Gaza

The impact of foreign assistance cuts on women’s rights and women-led organizations in Ukraine (UN Women, Feb. 2026) [text]

The Impact of ‘Safe Country’ Concepts on Women Seeking Asylum in the UK (Women in Refugee Law & Asylos, Jan. 2026) [text]

Lessons for research funders from locally led action research on women’s empowerment among pastoralists (SPARC, Sept. 2025) [text via ODI eLibrary]

- Focuses on Nigeria and South Sudan.

Participatory Action Research: A How To Guide by Researchers with Lived Experience (Women for Refugee Women, Feb. 2026) [text via WiRL]

Multimedia:

A Year of Harms, 10 Feb. 2026 [access]

- Recording of a panel discussion on the global impact of humanitarian funding cuts on women and girls.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues (4 Feb. 2026)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

Accompaniment in protracted urban displacement: learning from a community-based response to Venezuelan displacement in Peru (HPN, Jan. 2026) [text]

Catatumbo’s ‘Care-Land’: how local initiatives sustain humanitarian relief amid escalating violence in Colombia’s borderland with Venezuela (The Conversation, Feb. 2026) [text]

Development-Induced Displacement of Indigenous Communities in Ecuador (RID Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Displaced by Violence, Excluded from Healthcare: Compounding Injustices Facing Colombia’s IDPs (RID Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Tras Maduro, un enfoque mesurado de la migración venezolana es más esencial que nunca (MPI, Feb. 2026) [text]

- Also available in English.

Reports & journal articles:

Overlooking Lived Experiences: Access to Asylum & Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement (Univ. of British Columbia, Jan. 2026) [text]

Rapport d’analyse: Cohabitation personnes déplacées internes – communautés hôtes, impacts socio-économiques, historique de déplacement et intentions de retour (IOM, Feb. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Reformando la frontera vertical? De las deportaciones a la contención al interior del territorio mexicano," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 17 (2026) [open access]

"Theorizing participation in the migrant caravans: Perspectives from migration and social movement studies," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2026) [open access]

"The ‘vulnerability paradox’: how institutional legacies shaped Colombia's response to Venezuelan displacement," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 2 (April 2026) [open access]

Multimedia:

Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants: Current Developments and Likely Futures, 17 Feb. 2026 [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (3 Feb. 2026)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

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

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

Board of Imitation Appeals (The Asylumist Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

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

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

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

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

Reports:

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

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

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

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

Resource:

ICE Map [access]

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

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (9 Feb. 2026) 

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Reports:

Frequently Asked Questions: Route-Based Approach to Mixed Movements (UNHCR & IOM, Jan. 2026) [text]

Overview of Practices in Relation to Country of Origin Information and Country Guidance (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

Rescue at Sea: A Guide to Principles and Practice in the Context of Refugees and Migrants Movements (International Maritime Organization & UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Also available in French and Spanish.

Safe Third Country Agreements: What is Happening to International Refugee Law? (ILJ Online, Jan. 2026) [full-text]

The Weakening Foundation of International Protection (Baker Institute, Feb. 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Annual Conference 2025 Keynote Address: The Role of History in International Law Scholarship: A Personal Reflection," Australian Year Book of International Law Online, vol. 43, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"The ICRC and academia: An untold story about preserving humanity in war through international humanitarian law," International Review of the Red Cross, First View, 6 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Protecting People or Promoting Ideologies? Insights from the Constitutional Asylum Dataset," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 19 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Redefining the mobility paradigm in international law," International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 21, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Rethinking the Refugee: From Migrant Hierarchies to Migration as a Human Right," Seton Hall Law Review, vol. 56, no. 3 (2026) [full-text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (6 Feb. 2026)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Cyprus Presidency includes focus on effective migration management and ProtectEU (European Comm., Jan. 2026) [text]

English lessons shouldn’t be an immigration test – why the UK’s new policy risks deepening exclusion (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

From tourist visa to immigration: What is the size of overstaying flows in the Schengen Area? (MPC Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

The Mass Deportations of Lithuanians during the Two Soviet Occupations (RID Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

UNHCR urges Cypriot and Irish EU Presidencies to strengthen asylum systems, external aid and protection as displacement remains at critical levels (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

Ziobro’s Asylum in Hungary: Accountability, Mutual Trust, and Autocratic Legalism (Verfassungsblog, Jan. 2026) [text]

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

Reports:

CCBE Guide for Bars & Lawyers on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Also available in French.

Overview of the Implementation of Safe Country Concepts, Situational Update, no. 24 (EU Agency for Asylum, Jan. 2026) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (12 Jan. 2026)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (12 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Asylum Cooperative Agreements and the Fiction of the Safe Third Country (The Asylumist Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related CBS News article.

DOJ’s Dangerous Silence in the Face of Federal Immigration Agents’ Violent Tactics (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related listing of "use of force policies issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol, and the Department of Justice" and a Marshall Project report on the repeated use of deadly force by immigration agents. 

The Most Important Immigration Stories of 2025 (CATO At Liberty Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

No Hearing Necessary: Pretermission and Third-Country Deportations in Immigration Court (bklg Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Racial profiling by ICE agents mirrors the targeting of Japanese Americans during World War II (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

Trump v. Illinois: A Narrow Supreme Court Decision with Broad Implications (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the federalization of National Guard forces in response to protests against ICE.

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

Multimedia:

Year in review: Trump's immigration policy (NPR Politics Podcast, Dec. 2025) [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (19 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Commission welcomes political agreement on first EU list of safe countries of origin and new rules to facilitate the application of the safe third country concept (EU Commission, Dec. 2025) [text]

Countdown to Chișinău: The Risk of Politicising the ECHR over Migration (EJIL: Talk Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The EU’s migration policies – An overview of developments in 2025 (EPRS, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Reporters’ diary: IOM uses UN immunity to avoid scrutiny of Greek returns," The New Humanitarian, 22 Dec. 2025 [text]

Journal articles:

"Art, agency, and access: refugee experiences and resistance in the context of EU’s migration management," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 9 Jan. 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Greece.

"Chessboard politics: the contested emergence of EU return and readmission norms," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 Jan. 2026 [open access]

Contemporary European History, vol. 34, no. 4 (Nov. 2025) [contents]

- Features a special section on "Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949," with seven open access articles.

"The geopolitics of asylum from the part of those seeking it: Refugee subjects and freedom as possibility," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Syrian asylum seekers in Greece.

"Trauma, Post-migration Factors, and Ulysses Syndrome in Refugees in Host Countries," Quaderns de Psicologia, vol. 27, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Spain and Ireland. 

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (18 Dec. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (UK) (18 Dec. 2025)

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)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

ACNUR y OFIS firman convenio para promover la inclusión de personas refugiadas en los sistemas de protección social del Perú (ACNUR, Nov. 2025) [text]

Canadian immigration policy has become a moving target (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

*Displaced Venezuelans experiences of navigating temporary protection in Latin America (Refugee Studies Centre, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Este es el acuerdo con el que Ecuador recibirá desde EE.UU. migrantes que solicitan asilo," Bloomberg Línea, 14 Nov. 2025 [text]

- Note: The US-Ecuador Safe Third Country agreement was negotiated in July but was just posted in the Federal Register today.

From Recognition to Reality: Legal Rights and Practical Obstacles for Venezuelan Migrants in Peru (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

IACHR concerned about reforms in Argentina regarding human mobility and international protection (OAS, Oct. 2025) [text]

- Also available in Spanish.

Países de América Latina y el Caribe acuerdan nuevas acciones para proteger, regularizar e integrar personas refugiadas y migrantes (ACNUR, Nov. 2025) [text]

‘Volviendo a Casa’: Migrants Returning Home (Pulitzer Center, Oct.-Nov. 2025) [access]

- "This project documents the impact of U.S.-funded deportation flights to Tapachula and Panama’s closure of migrant reception camps, which were re-purposed as detention centers."

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

Reports: 

Data Against Fear: What the Numbers Say About Venezuelan Migrants and Crime in Ecuador (Center for Global Development, Oct. 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

The days to come: Modeling refugee flows from Venezuela after U.S. intervention (Niskanen Center, Nov. 2025) [text]

Getting it Right the First Time: Exploring the False Economy of Bill C-12's Refugee Process Shortcuts, Refugee Law Lab Working Paper (Refugee Law Lab & Toronto Metropolitan Univ., Oct. 2025) [text via SSRN]

- Focuses on Canada.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada's 2024–25 Departmental Results Report (Govt. of Canada, Nov 2025) [text]

Retorno y reintegración en Honduras: informe de seguimiento (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Oct. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

*"'Bad hombres' across the border? Experiences of discrimination and exclusion beyond ethno-racial bias among immigrants and return migrants in Mexico," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 18 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Deployment and uptake of COVID-19 Vaccines for Refugees and Migrants in Ecuador," Frontiers in Public Health, 3 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Experiences of Flight and Persecution. Individuals with International Protection Needs Trapped in Tijuana," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]

- Article text available in both English and Spanish.

"Migration in a Context of Securitization: Analysis of the 2023 CNDH México Recommendations," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]

- Article text available in both English and Spanish.

"Nodes of (im)mobility in southern Mexico. Tapachula as the epitome of border externalization," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]

- Article text available in both English and Spanish.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (30 Oct. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Asylum access adjudication: a multi-level framework for socio-legal research," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 9 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"'But we have to be realistic': examining the origins of temporary protection in the USA and European Union," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 38, no. 1 (March 2025) [open access]

"Discursive and behavioural sources of regime erosion: the case of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)," Journal of European Public Policy, Latest Articles, 25 Oct. 2025 [open access]

- See also related supplement.

"Historical Foundations and Limitations of International Refugee Law," Annual Review of Law and Social Science, vol. 21 (2025) [open access]

"To What Extent Do Article 1 and Article 33 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees Prevent Western Countries from Using It as an Immigration Control Tool?," Leeds Student Law and Criminal Justice Review, vol. 5 (Sept. 2025) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 1.

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

"The Twice Displaced: UNHCR's Role in Evacuations," International Journal of Refugee Law (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Unsafe at Any Speed: “Safe Third Country Agreements”—Offshoring and Eroding Legal Protections Owed to Refugees and Asylum Seekers," Fordham Urban Law Journal, vol. 53, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (13 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)

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: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Advanced ELENA Course 2025, Sliema, Malta, 7-8 November [info]

- Register by 29 September 2025.

Short pieces:

After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works (The Conversation, Sept. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Anti-migrant vigilante groups patrolling Europe – what to know (InfoMigrants, Sept. 2025) [text]

Asylum seekers in the UK: common questions in 2025 (UK House of Commons Library, Sept. 2025) [text]

Migration and Activism on the Maltese Archipelago (Border Criminologies Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

"State of the Union 2025," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 11 Sept. 2025 [text]

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

Reports:  

Ad hoc Report: Situation in Ukraine and Displacement to the EU+: Trends, Drivers and Future Prospects (EU Agency for Asylum, Sept. 2025) [text]

Asylum in Europe: The situation of applicants for international protection in 2024 (AIDA, Sept. 2025) [text]

Country reports: (AIDA, Sept. 2025)

- Updated profiles for Greece and Portugal. Note: A listing of 2024 updates is provided in the 12 Sept. 2025 issue of the ELENA Legal Update.

Latest Asylum Trends: Mid-Year Review 2025 (EU Agency for Asylum, Sept. 2025) [text]

Expanding the Grounds for Asylum: A Response to Hadj Abdou and Kollar (2024) (Migration Policy Centre, 2025) [text]

- The article this author is commenting on is "Why failed asylum seekers should have a conditional right to stay: an ethical guideline for policy debates," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:14 (March 2024).

Journal articles (just focusing on the UK; additional articles are listed in part 2):

"Art and the asylum seeker: effects on public attitudes of viewing paintings created by individuals applying for political asylum in the UK," Cogent Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"'Fighting Him': Following Distress in Hostile Housing Regimes," Social Science & Medicine, In Press, 12 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"From Solidarity to Exclusion: The ‘Safe Country’ Concept in UK Asylum Law and the Irony of Borders," Laws, vol. 14, no. 5 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

"The Shifting Sands of Legal Aid Deserts: Access to Justice for Asylum in 2022–24," Laws, vol. 14, no. 5 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (3 Sept. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (3 Sept. 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Webinar: On the Move: Rapidly Evolving Migration Trends and Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, 8 September 2025 [info]

- See also info re. this webinar in Spanish.

Short pieces:

"Central America’s protection networks are collapsing. Will anyone notice before it’s too late?," The New Humanitarian, 6 Aug. 2025 [text]

Diplomatic Asylum as Safe Havens? Analysing the Political Crime Exception in Mexico v. Ecuador (RLI Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]

[Dispatches from Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico] (WOLA & Women's Refugee Commission, July/Aug. 2025) [Honduras] [Guatemala] [Mexico]

Meet the Scholars Producing Critical Country Conditions Reports at the Migration & Asylum Lab (Austin Kocher Substack, Aug. 2025) [text]

- "Their lab produces meticulously researched bulletins on conditions in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Venezuela, and Cuba, with recent attention to Ecuador and Nicaragua."

Safe Third Country Agreement with Paraguay (ImmigrationProf Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]

"‘This is no life’: Trump deportees unable to return home left in limbo in Panama," The Guardian, 6 Aug. 2025 [text]

Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts Are Fueling a Crisis for Displaced People in the Americas (Refugees International, Aug. 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Spanish. See also related UNHCR report in Pt. 2 of this post.

"US plans to fund deportations from Costa Rica, document shows," Reuters, 1 Aug. 2025 [text]

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

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (31 July 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

Channel crossings: what is a safe and legal route? (The Conversation, July 2025) [text]

Danish Presidency prioritises tackling irregular migration and ensuring effective control of the EU’s external borders (European Commission, July 2025) [text]

The End of an (Unlawful) Era: On the Danish Supreme Court's judgement concerning the non-penalization of refugees (Verfassungsblog, July 2025) [text]

EU 2028-2034 proposed budget triples funds for migration, border management and internal security (European Commission, July 2025) [access]

- See also related commentary from the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.

Migration policy to tighten following European Interior Minister summit in Germany (InfoMigrants, July 2025) [text]

Warehouse of Souls and City Plaza: The Athenian Fight for Dignified Refuge (RLI Blog, July 2025) [text]

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

Reports: 

Countering the instrumentalisation of migrants and refugees and respecting fundamental rights (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, July 2025) [text]

Creating More "Safe" Countries and Frontloading the Pact, Policy Paper, no. 15 (ECRE, July 2025) [text]

EUAA Overview of the Implementation of Safe Country Concepts, Situational Update, no. 22 (EU Agency for Asylum, July 2025) [text]

Localization Report: The importance and benefits of engaging in, and championing, locally led action across Europe (UNHCR, July 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Experiences of asylum interviews by asylum officials, interpreters and asylum seekers in Finland," Journal of Criminal Psychology, vol. 15, no. 2 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"Human Rights Implications of the European Union Migration and Asylum Pact in Search and Rescue Operations," Peace & Security = Paix et Sécurité Internationales, no. 13 (2025) [open access]

"Instrumentalisation de la migration: assurer un continuum sécuritaire dans la fabrique des politiques migratoires européennes," E-Migrinter, no. 25 (2025) [open access]

"On the deportation charter: using freedom of information research to map the UK’s charter flight operations, 2010–2024," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 15 July 2025 [open access]

"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]

"Sketches of fairness in EU and international law: Focus on the asylum and migration pact," European Law Open, FirstView, 14 July 2025 [open access]

"A study of Ukrainian new speakers and their attitudes toward language policies in Poland," International Multilingual Research Journal, Latest Articles, 11 July 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (11 July 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (11 July 2025)