Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

The Escalating Threat of Third Country Deportations (The Asylumist Blog, July 2026) [text]

FIFA World Cup 2026: Americans Welcomed the World Despite Restrictive Immigration Policies (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2026) [text]

An immigration law error in the court’s asylum decision threatens immigration courts (SCOTUSblog, July 2026) [text]

Key Trump Deportation Strategies: Removing, Replacing, and Pressuring Immigration Judges (Just Security, July 2026) [text]

Trump’s New Anti-Legal Immigration Rules Target Students, Spouses of US Citizens (CATO At Liberty Blog, July 2026) [text]

US: Haitians Set to Lose Protections, Risk Return to Violence (HRW, July 2026) [text]

- See also related article in The New Humanitarian and post on Immigration Impact.

Why It’s Wrong to Involuntarily Mobilize Reserve JAGs for Immigration Cases (Just Security, July 2026) [text]

- Note: JAGs = Judge Advocates General

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

Reports:

Agents of Chaos and Cruelty: How the Trump Administration's National Deportation Policing Force Has Attacked American Communities (ACLU, July 2026) [text]

Immigration Militarization, WashU Law Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 26 (Washington Univ. in St. Louis, June 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Albanians from Kosovo in the United States: To Stay, Migrate, or Return," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 9 July 2026 [open access]

"Comparative Visions for a U.S. Group-Based Asylum Proposal," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 57, no. 3 (2026) [full-text]

"Estimates of the Size and Composition of the Undocumented Immigrant Population in the U.S. in 2024," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 16 July 2026 [full-text]

"Third-Country Deportations: Legal and Ethical Problems," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 17 July 2026 [full-text]

"The Trump Effect: US Immigration Policy and Transit Migrants in Central America," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 12 July 2026 [full-text]

Multimedia:

“My Freedom was Taken from me.” Exposing Trump’s Shady Third Country Deportation Deals, Forced from Home Podcast Series, no. 6 (Refugees International, June 2026) [access]

Related posts:

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

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (7 July 2026)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Abandoning Principles: Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Mullin v. Al Otro Lado Denying Asylum to Arriving Migrants (Just Security, June 2026) [text]

The Founders Lived Through—and Loved—High Immigration Rates (CATO At Liberty Blog, July 2026) [text]

How do US “third country removals” work and are they legal? (Amnesty International, June 2026) [text]

- See also related Just Security post on the recent US-Central African Republic deportation agreement.

"I Helped Write the Refugee Act. Trump is Trampling It," Time Magazine, 9 June 2026 [text]

Immigration in the Supreme Court, 2025 Term (ImmProf Blog, July 2026) [text]

Incompetence and Laziness in Immigration Court (The Asylumist Blog, June 2026) [text]

Rumors of Asylum’s Death Have Been Greatly (Somewhat? Slightly?) Exaggerated (The Asylumist Blog, June 2026) [text]

- See also related ImmProf blog post.

Sanitized and Unreviewable: Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Mullin v Doe on Ending Temporary Protected Status for 1.3m Noncitizens (Just Security, June 2026) [text]

- See also related post on the CATO At Liberty blog.

"The State Department Really Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Office of Remigration," Wired, 27 May 2026 [text]

States Advance ICE Masking Bans, Data Protections, and Immigration Enforcement Guardrails in 2026 (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2026) [text]

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

Resource:

Immigration Habeas Tracker: Government Obstruction, Judicial Trust, and Accountability (Just Security) [access]

- "This searchable resource tracks U.S. federal immigration habeas cases filed on or after Jan. 20, 2025, with a specific focus on federal judges’ findings of government misconduct toward the courts."

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (2 June 2026)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Cessation and the ‘temporary turn’ in asylum law and practice," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 24 June 2026 [open access]

"Changing tracks in the map of migration and asylum law: an analysis of (im)mobility across multiple legal statuses within the ‘transit migration’ phenomenon," International Journal of Law in Context, FirstView, 17 June 2026 [open access]

"Countries Are Pushing Borders Outward to Expand Deterrence and Protection Alike," Migration Information Source, 18 June 2026 [text]

"Credibility as a fuzzy concept in refugee law: a systematic literature review," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 52, no. 11 (2026) [free full-text]

"A Duty from a Bygone Era? On UNHCR’s Promotion of New Accessions to the Refugee Convention," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 6 June 2026 [open access]

"Solidarity and Accountability: Can the Global Compact on Refugees Enforce Refugee Protection Obligations?," Journal of African Law, FirstView, 28 May 2026 [open access]

"'Standing on the shoulders of giants': the relationship between the African and global refugee conventions," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 5 June 2026 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (3 July 2026)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The Chișinău Declaration in the Data: Non-Refoulement and States’ Insatiable Appetite for a Restrained Court (EJIL: Talk Blog, June 2026) [text]

Commission proposes to extend temporary protection of people fleeing Ukraine for an additional year (European Commission, June 2026) [text]

Externalising Return: The Austria–Uzbekistan Migration Agreement and the Future of EU Return Governance (RLI Blog, June 2026) [text]

*The Future of Reintegration Is a Key Missing Piece in Europe’s Focus on Returns (MPI, June 2026) [text]

IOM-UNHCR: EU Pact offers hope for better migration management and fairer asylum systems (June 2026) [text]

Myths & Realities about Return Hubs under the Return Regulation (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, June 2026) [text]

New migration and asylum rules enter into application: what is changing? (European Commission, June 2026) [text]

Refugee Protection in the unique context of Northern Ireland: an introduction (RLI Blog, July 2026) [text]

- New blog series.

UN Human Rights Chief concerned about new EU returns law, urges consistency with human rights and refugee law (OHCHR, June 2026) [text]

Why public attitudes to immigration don't respond to falling migration (LSE British Politics Blog, June 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

New open access books:

Fragmented Lives in Times of War: Displacement within and from Ukraine (transcript Publishing, June 2026) [open access]

- "What are the challenges faced by forced migrants within and from Ukraine due to the Russian invasion? The interdisciplinary contributors shed light on the lives of displaced persons, which are divided ‒ in terms of time, space, and social context ‒ into a 'before' and 'after' the war. They analyse the uncertainties faced by war migrants and those who have decided to remain in Ukraine, and how people navigate these uncertainties in everyday life. The volume presents case studies from various European countries that make an important contribution to the growing literature on forced migration from Ukraine and provides new insights into the under-researched areas of internal displacement and voluntary immobility in Ukraine."

Visas in Migration and Asylum Law: The Key that Opens the Door (Routledge, June 2026) [open access] 

- "This book explores and discusses the different perspectives stemming from the visa as a tool of international mobility. A visa has a multifaced nature. It is a 'key' which allows foreign nationals to reach the door of the State. It is also a tool for the State to govern migration and border control. In humanitarian and international protection terms, it is also a tool for human rights protection. Against this background, this book assesses the legal and socio-political implications arising from the multipurpose nature and scope of visas. It is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the visa as an instrument for migration control, contextualizing the rationale behind its invention and the legal challenges it raises. The second part focuses on the visa as a tool for asylum, examining its use for humanitarian purposes, including resettlement schemes and emergency-related evacuation initiatives put in place in different legal systems." Part 1 focuses particularly on the EU.

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Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (9 June 2026)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (9 June 2026)

New Issue of IJRL

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (IJRL) has been published. Contents of vol. 38, no. 1, March 2026 include:

• Refugee law-making, state sovereignty and the paradox of non-independent territories [abstract]
• The changing landscape of immigration detention in Australia: preventive ‘crimmigration’ and the legislative response to NZYQ [open access]
• A more just social group test for the US [abstract]
• The removal of international protection as a process of administrative rebordering [abstract]

In addition, readers will find freely available case law summaries; two book reviews; and the following items from the 76th session of UNHCR's Executive Committee meeting: 1) Opening remarks by the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection; 2) the High Commissioner's opening statement; and 3) the text of the Note on International Protection.

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: United States

Opportunity:

Webinar: The Changing Landscape of Immigration Law: Expanding Limits and Shrinking Protections, 5 June 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

The Administration’s Attack on I-730 Petitions (The Asylumist Blog, May 2026) [text]

Dangerous Speech in Disguise: The White House’s New “Aliens” Website Is Not a Joke (Just Security, June 2026) [text]

Democratic Republic of Congo: US Third-Country Deportations Amidst a Human Rights Crisis (Immigration Detention Monitor, May 2026) [text]

DHS Quits Granting Green Cards—Almost Entirely (CATO At Liberty Blog, May 2026) [text]

- See also related post on The Asylumist blog.

New ICE Arrest Statistics Shed Light on Who the Agency is Targeting in American Communities (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2026) [text]

New York Considers Measures to Rein in ICE (HRW, May 2026) [text]

"Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off from Jobs, Health Care and Housing," New York Times, 30 May 2026 [text]

- See also related post on Paul Krugman's Substack.

U.S. Department of State: The United States Rejects International Migration Review Forum (ImmProf Blog, May 2026) [text]

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

Reports:

Immigration Research: ICE Arrests and Enforcement (UCLA) [access]

- Follow link for a series of  analytical briefs that "document disproportionate impacts on Latinos and rising arrests among Asians, revealing how politics, race, and state policies shape enforcement practices. Together, they provide evidence of bias and raise urgent questions about equity, justice, and democracy in the United States."

Particular Social Groups in Review: A Bright Future, Research Paper, no. 2026-14 (Belmont Univ. College of Law, May 2026) [text]

Restoring Credibility and Humanity: A New Framework for Immigration Enforcement (American Immigration Council, May 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Attacked as 'De Facto Amnesty,' U.S. Temporary Protected Status is Abruptly Eroded," Migration Information Source, 28 May 2026 [text]

"Brazilian Immigrants in the United States," Migration Information Source, 14 May 2026 [text]

Idaho Law Review, vol. 61, no. 3 (2026) [full-text]

- Symposium issue on "Immigration Law and the Shifting Border of American Federalism."

"The Immigration Habeas Deluge: Adjudicating Mass Government Torts," Indiana Law Journal, vol. 102 (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]

Rutgers University Law Review, vol. 77, no. 5 (2025) [full-text]

- Symposium issue on "Law, Belonging, and Exclusion: The Dual Role of Immigration and Citizenship Law."

SMU Law Review, vol. 79, no. 1 (2026) [full-text]

- Symposium issue on "Immigration and the Constitution: Evolving Doctrines and Emerging Conflicts."

"Still about race: white supremacy, immigration politics and Trumpism," Race & Class, OnlineFirst, 21 April 2026 [open access]

Multimedia:

Supreme Court (Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times Podcast Series, season 2) [access]

Related posts:

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

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (7 May 2026)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Does 'Undeserving' Last Forever?," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 19 April 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on the "consequences of refugee exclusion under Article 1F(a) of the Refugee Convention for individuals associated with core international crimes (CICs)... ."

"The forensic evaluation of torture in asylum seekers: international literature comparison and inter-rater agreement analysis," Legal Medicine, vol. 83 (May 2026) [open access]

"Quantitative Data and Methods for Comparative Immigration Law," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming) [preprint]

- See also earlier related working paper.

"Survive the Journey Only to Succumb to International Refugee Law," Chapter in Chapter in Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialized Boundaries (Oxford Univ. Press, April 2026) [open access]

- See also related OpinioJuris post.

"Temporary protection in Turkey and Colombia: state interests, entangled migration realities, policy diffusion and the global erosion of refugee protection standards," Comparative Migration Studies, 21 May 2026 [open access]

Multimedia:

Displacement in a Changing World: Global Dialogue Across Campus and Continents, April-May 2026 [access]

- First part of a series of events marking the 75th anniversary of the refugee convention, each focusing on refugee protection in a different region.

The gap between temporary refuge and asylum: How international refugee law entrenches crisis, 28 April 2026 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (26 May 2026)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Everyday cosmopolitanism of refugee entrepreneurs," International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, vol. 32, no. 11 (Dec. 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

"Institutional Ethnography of Mismatched Paths: Refugee Professionals’ Struggles to Reintegrate into Their Former Professions in Norway," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 7 May 2026 [open access]

"The Meaning of Work for Venezuelan Refugees in Brazil: Job Crafting as a Strategy for Inclusion and Professional Development," Social Sciences, vol. 15, no. 5 (May 2026) [open access]

"Mental well-being among Syrian refugee workers in Lebanon: a multidimensional approach," Journal of Global Health, vol. 16 (2026) [open access]

"Situated agency in precarious labor: intersectional insights from women in Lebanon’s informal economy," Gender in Management, EarlyCite, 4 May 2026 [open access]

"Unequal returns: gendered and origin-based disparities in initial refugee employment trajectories in Germany," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 10 May 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on refugees from Ukraine and MENA.

"Work Authorization as a Due Process Interest in Property: How Procedural Due Process Can Be Used to Protect the Work Authorization of Beneficiaries of the Temporary Protected Status Program," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 40, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1 (19 May 2026)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Short pieces:

Beyond Progressive Law: Ethiopia’s CRRF Commitments, Protracted Displacement, and the Structural Limits of Durable Solutions (RLI Blog, May 2026) [text]

"Fifty years on, Lam Tac Tam reflects on life in Australia as the first Vietnamese refugee to arrive by boat," The Guardian, 25 April 2026 [text]

Not Without Housing, Security, and Social Stability: What Quantitative Modeling of Return Movements across Three Crisis Contexts Tells Us about Resolving Internal Displacement (RID Blog, May 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Iraq, Syria, and Sudan.

Reports:

"The End of Refugee Resettlement," The New Yorker, 14 May 2026 [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Feedback on "Australia’s Humanitarian Program 2026-27"

- The Australian government undertakes an annual consultation process regarding its humanitarian program. Here are examples of two submissions for the current year, from the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law  and the Refugee Council of Australia. To view many more, simply search on >submission Australia’s Humanitarian Program 2026-27<.

Transitioning from Temporary Protection: Projected Stay, Legal Pathways, and Policy Options for Refugees from Ukraine (UNHCR, May 2026) [text]

"Ukrainian Refugees in Europe," Ukrainian Analytical Digest, no. 18 (Center for Security Studies et al., 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Hidden Structure of Support: The Role of Vertical Bonding Ties for Refugees," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 14 May 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on North Korean refugees in London.

"The Relationship Between Structural Deregulation and Social Regulation: A Case Study of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 40, no. 2 (Winter 2026) [full-text]

"Settlement intentions of Ukrainian refugees in Germany: Adhering to social status back home or restarting again abroad?," Demographic Research, vol. 54 (March 2026) [open access]

"Teoría y praxis de la regularización de migrantes: un esquema y un caso para su comprensión dinámica y crítica," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 34 (2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Venezuelans in Argentina. 

"The United Kingdom’s Ukraine Schemes and the Case for a Safe Passage Visa: At-Risk People, So-Called ‘Safe and Legal Routes’, and the Refugee Convention," Laws, vol. 15, no. 2 (April 2026) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (28 April 2026)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

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

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

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

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

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal [access]

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

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

Multimedia:

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

Related post:

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

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

About half of Americans continue to say Trump administration is doing ‘too much’ on deportations (Pew Research Center, May 2026) [text]

Data: Eligible Immigrant Voters Play a Key Role in Elections in Hundreds of Swing Districts (American Immigration Council, April 2026) [text]

‘The farther away, the better’ is the problematic logic behind U.S. third‑country deportations (The Conversation, May 2026) [text]

Fluctuating Hallucinations: On the Boundaries of Immigration Judges’ Discretion in the Determination of Asylum Based on Political Opinions (Immigration Law Blog, April 2026) [text]

New–and Dangerous–Questions at the Asylum Office (The Asylumist Blog, April 2026) [text]

Trump Has Cut Legal Immigration More Than Illegal Immigration (CATO At Liberty Blog, April 2026) [text]

- See also related blog post.

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

USCIS Cut Green Card Approvals in Half to Help ICE Arrest Legal Immigrants (CATO At Liberty Blog, April 2026) [text]

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

Reports:

Mapping the Undocumented & Temporary Status Populations: Understanding current undocumented and temporarily protected populations in the United States (FWD.us, April 2026) [access]

Temporary Protected Status protects families while also boosting the U.S. economy (FWD.us, April 2026) [access]

- See also related summary with links to additional resources.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (11 April 2026)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

Beyond Participation: Why Refugee-Led Organizations Matter in the Rohingya Response (Refugee Watch Online, April 2026) [text]

How China-Myanmar Relations Impact the Rohingya Crisis (Refugee Research Online, April 2026) [text]

Migrant Asia: Book Release and Discussion – A Report (Refugee Watch Online, April 2026) [text]

Two Sides of Japan’s Immigration Policy: Welcoming Migrant Workers and Excluding Asylum Seekers (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, April 2026) [text]

UNHCR: 2025 was deadliest year yet for maritime movements of Rohingya refugees (UNHCR, April 2026) [text]

Reports:

Compounding returns: A study on remittance loss and the cost of deportations (Samuel Hall & World Vision, March 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Cost of Waiting: Intergenerational impacts of protracted Rohingya displacement (International Rescue Committee, April 2026) [access]

The Impact of Temporary Migration Status on Access to Refuge in Victoria: Barriers to Safety and Support (Univ. of Melbourne & Australian Catholic Univ., March 2026) [text]

It's Time for Australia to Grant Permanent Residence for Long-term Refugees and People Seeking Asylum (Univ. of Melbourne et al., March 2026) [text]

Returning to uncertainty: The situation of Afghan returnees (INTERSOS, April 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Ethical Conduct of Research with Migrants and Refugees: A Systematic Qualitative Review of Ethics Guidelines," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Latest Articles, 14 April 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

"Irregular and Forced Migration within Asia: Governance, Marginality, and Labor," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 15 April 2026 [open access]

- Introduction to forthcoming special collection.

"Language Choices among Ukrainian Refugees in Japan: An Interview Study," Slavia Iaponica = Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, vol. 29 (2026) [open access]

"On the Move away from 'Rohingya': (Barmaiyya) and the 'Settlers'," Bulletin of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol. 28, no. 1 (2026) [full-text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (3 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."

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Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (9 March 2026)

Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

Asylum Interviews in Southern Italy: Narratives, Credibility and Consequences (NCCR On the Move Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

A Draconian Return System: High Humanitarian Cost of the Forthcoming Return of Irregular Migrants (Verfassungsblog, Feb. 2026) [text]

*Spain's new migrant regularization explained (InfoMigrants, Feb. 2026) [text]

- See also related post on The Conversation.

The Steering Committee’s ‘Preliminary Draft Text’ for the Chișinău Declaration: Nothing is Wrong with the ECtHR’s Migration Case-Law (EJIL: Talk Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

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

Reports:

Budgeting for Asylum, Migration and Inclusion in Europe after 2027 (ECRE, Feb. 2026) [text]

Mixed movements in South-Eastern Europe: Understanding Diverse Motivations and Intentions (UNHCR, Feb. 2026) [text]

Routes in flux: Is EU migration policy working? Falling arrivals, shifting routes, and the EU’s new migration strategy (Mixed Migration Centre, Feb. 2026) [access]

- Follow link for texts of report and related article.

Transitioning to What? Legal Statuses Available After Temporary Protection for People Displaced from Ukraine (ECRE, Feb. 2026)

- Paper 1: Germany, Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Republic of Moldova

- Paper 2: Belgium, France and Spain

- Paper 3: Poland and Italy

Journal articles:

"Field reflections from training Finnish asylum officials," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 8 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"'No Safe Haven' and the Politics of Accountability: The Extradition and Exclusion of Rwandan Genocide Suspects," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 12 Feb. 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on The Netherlands.

"Organisational determinants of administrative decision-making quality in European asylum offices: a qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)," Comparative Migration Studies, 10 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Still Deserving? Social Construction of Ukrainian Refugees Changing Over Time," Nationalities Papers, FirstView, 3 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"'They are lovely men': Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation," British Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 65, no. 2 (April 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Ireland.

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Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (4 Feb. 2026)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (4 Feb. 2026)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

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

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

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

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

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

- See also related OHCHR press release.

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

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

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

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

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

- See also related CGD Blog post.

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

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

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

- See also related CS Monitor article.

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

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

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

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

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

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Related posts:

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

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

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (UK)

Short pieces:

Asylum Discourse in the Media (and Beyond) (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Invisibility, Impartiality and Inconsistency in Interpreter-Mediated Asylum Interviews (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Temporary protection: the UK’s new policies on asylum and returns (Migration Observatory, Dec. 2025) [text]

Why some minds change on Immigration — and others don’t (MPC Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Wicked indeed for good: the latest UK asylum policy proposals (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Navigating Statutory Homelessness Support: Impacts of Asylum and Refugee Policy (Y-Pern, Nov. 2025) [access]

Public Understanding and Attitudes to Irregular Migration in the UK (Univ. of Birmingham, Dec. 2025 [access]

Systems-wide evaluation of homelessness and rough sleeping: Interaction with the asylum system (UK Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Dec. 2025) [text]

"You can't stay but you can't go": State violence at the UK-France border (Humans for Rights Network, Dec. 2025) [text via EIN]

Journal articles:

"Interpreters in UK Asylum Appeals: Evidence and Impact," International Journal for the Semiotics of Law = Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Latest Articles, 8 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Perceived credibility of asylum claimants: the role of decision-maker affect and asylum seeker’s emotions," Psychology, Crime & Law, Latest Articles, 5 Dec. 2025 [open access]

Related post:

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

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

‘I have to talk about it so that the world can know what happened to women and girls in Sudan’ – rape and terror sparks mass migration (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

Immutable Suffering: How the BIA’s Decision in Matter of K-E-S-G- Complicates Asylum for Victims of Gender-based Persecution (Immigration Law Blog at PennState Law, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Where Return Is a Beginning: Female-Headed Households and Gendered Struggles for Recovery in South Lebanon (RID Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Women and girls fleeing El Fasher describe widespread RSF sexual violence," The New Humanitarian, 21 Nov. 2025 [text]

Reports: 

East, Horn of Africa and Great Lakes (EHAGL) Region Gender Equality Promising Practices 2024 (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text]

Migrant Women: Narratives and perceptions (UN Women, Dec. 2025) [text]

Publications focusing on Ukrainians:

New open access book:

Women War Refugees from Ukraine: Two Years Since the Invasion (Peter Lang, Nov. 2025) [open access]

- "Research on Ukrainian war refugees residing in Poland demonstrates the challenges currently faced by most Western countries. It offers insights into the mechanisms of immigrants’ integration processes into a new socio-cultural environment. This publication presents the results of research on the living conditions of Ukrainian forced migrants residing outside their home country. The conducted research aims to show the nature of their adaptation and integration, and to identify the factors facilitating these processes. To this end, longitudinal research was conducted, involving two CAWI surveys. The first survey was carried out in the initial period following the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the second after two years of ongoing conflict. The book is a valuable source of knowledge on the migration of Ukrainians following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. It also shows what life abroad looks like from a two-year perspective and demonstrates the changes taking place within the studied population."

Journal articles:

"Managing migration: Female mayors and the intake of refugees," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 240 (Dec. 2025) [preprint]

- Focuses on Germany.

"Manifestations of (Mis)Recognition amongst Germany-based Refugee Women from Ukraine," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 21 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Negotiating racialised and gendered hierarchies of refugee ‘double deservingness’: uncovering hidden grassroots support for Ukrainian women in England as agentic and vulnerable," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Negotiating Temporariness Through Action, Re-action and Non-action: Ukrainian Women Under TPD in Germany," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 23 Nov. 2025  [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (14 Nov. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (14 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Descriptive statistics from penality on the move: Norwegian Penal Aid (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2025) 

- Part 1: Norwegian Penal Aid 

- Part 2: Swedish Penal Aid

- Part 3: Danish Penal Aid

"European Parliament Draft Report on Return Regulation," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 20 Nov. 2025 [text] 

Kosovo, Emerging Partner in Efforts to Outsource Migration Control (Immigration Detention Monitor, Nov. 2025) [text]

Should police reveal a suspect’s racial identity and immigration status in serious crimes? (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Think twice before copying Denmark’s asylum policies (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

UK to overhaul asylum policy – will the new measures work? (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

- See also related EIN and Free Movement posts and BBC News article.

‘We have to regularise them’: Europe’s deportation-first border policy, as told by the judges and police who enforce it (The Conversation, Nov. 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

The Implementation of the Dublin III Regulation in 2024, AIDA Statistical Update (ECRE, Nov. 2025) [text]

Protected No More: Uyghurs in Türkiye (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2025) [text]

Responsibilities and access to rights for beneficiaries of temporary protection (European Migration Network, Oct. 2025) [text via BAMF]

UNHCR recommendations to Norway for strengthened refugee protection in Norway, Europe and globally (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (14 Nov. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (14 Nov. 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Commission launches first Annual Migration Management Cycle under the Pact on Migration and Asylum (European Commission, Nov. 2025) [access]

- The text of the first European Annual Asylum and Migration Report can be accessed below. See also a related At a Glance from the European Parliament and a summary in this week's ECRE Weekly Bulletin. 

How to design an independent asylum appeal body (LSE British Politics and Policy Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Migration Crisis or Crisis of Migration Management? Syrian Refugees’ Rights in the EU and Türkiye (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

“They treat us like criminals”: racism at the France-UK border (Free Movement Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

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

Reports & book chapters:

Asylum policy in Denmark (UK House of Commons Library, Nov. 2025) [text]

European Annual Asylum and Migration Report (European Commission, Nov. 2025) [access]

Practical Guide on the Audio Recording of Personal Interviews (EU Agency for Asylum, Oct. 2025) [text]

"Silver Linings of the EU Migration Pact: Progressive Elements and Binding Solidarity," Chapter in Challenges of European Refugee and Asylum Law and Policy (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2026) [preprint]

Towards a point of no return for fundamental rights? The EC’s proposal for a Return Regulation, Policy Note, no. 50 (ECRE, Nov. 2025) [text]

- ECRE will hold a related online briefing on 24 November 2025. Register by 20 November 2025.

Journal articles (regional-level):

Berlin Geographical Papers, vol. 56 (2025) [open access]

- Thematic issue on "Geographies of the European Border Regime: How borders shape the everyday lives of refugees and asylum-seekers."

"Externally driven integration in EU migration policy: enabling integration through indifference, undermining it through conflictive politicisation," Journal of European Public Policy, Latest Articles, 22 Oct. 2025 [open access]

"The Intra-EU Relocation Scheme of 2015: A Test Run for a Dublin Reform," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 6 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Restrictive, liberal, selective or universal? A cross-national analysis of European countries’ policy response to forced migrants from Ukraine," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 6 Nov. 2025 [free full-text]

-  Introduction to not-yet-published special issue.

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (31 Oct. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (31 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]

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"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)