Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Revolutionizing refugee registration: The Digital Gateway in Egypt (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

[Stories re. UNHCR/Vodafone Foundation Instant Network Schools (INS) Program] (UNHCR, March 2025) 

- Digital learning opportunities brighten futures for refugees in South Sudan [text]

- Vodafone Foundation and UNHCR expand digital learning for displaced and host community learners in Mozambique [text]

Students use AI to aid United Nations in Ukrainian refugee response (RIT News, March 2025) [text]

UNHCR Malaysia and TNG Digital Empower Refugees with Financial Access through TNG eWallet (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Unlocking potential: How digital jobs are changing the lives of refugee women (UNHCR Innovation Service, March 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Jordan.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"AI Use in the Asylum Procedure in Germany: Exploring Perspectives with Refugees and Supporters on Assessment Criteria and Beyond," Chapter in Participatory Artificial Intelligence in Public Social Services: From Bias to Fairness in Assessing Beneficiaries (Springer, March 2025) [open access]

Journal of Interactive Media in Education, vol. 2025, no. 1 (March 2025) [open access]

- Special collection on "Connected Learning in Contexts of Forced Displacement": "This special collection is designed to capture some of the experiences of those engaging in connected learning programmes for refugees and displaced communities; to begin to identify if, and how, these approaches can address some of the underlying assumptions that connected learning carries; and potentially surface more nuanced conceptualisations of what is actually connected in connected learning."

"The Perceptions about the Immigration Phenomenon Communicated Through Social Media Platforms in Italy," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 18 March 2025 [open access]

"Privacy in Displacement: Data Protection for Refugees in Sudan," Journal of Intellectual Property and Information Technology, vol. 4, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Social Media, Digital Resilience, and Knowledge Sustainability: Syrian Refugees' Perspectives," Journal of Intercultural Communication, vol. 25, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Syrian refugees in Jordan and Türkiye.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (28 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas

Opportunity:

Talk: Mapping Scenarios: Responding to the Current Migration Patterns in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, Baltimore, MD, 8 April 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Brazil Advances in Building a National Policy for Refugees and Migrants (Refugees International, Feb. 2025) [text]

Costa Rica: Allow Deported Migrants to Seek Asylum (Human Rights Watch, March 2025) [text]

"Migration Flows Shift South as Trump Hardens Border," Latin America Brief, 14 March 2025 [text]

"They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trump, they’re stuck in Panama," AP News, 12 March 2025 [text]

"The US lines up Latin American cooperation for migrant deportations," AP News, 26 Feb. 2025 [text]

Violence Triggers Record Displacements in Port-au-Prince: Over 60,000 People in a Month (IOM, March 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

Análisis de los indicadores de gobernanza de la migración a nivel regional (IOM, 2025) [text]

Análisis regional de necesidades de ayuda legal: Colombia, México, Perú, Venezuela, Guatemala y Honduras, Nov. 2023-Oct. 2024 (Danish Refugee Council, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Haiti: Haitians deported to Haiti — Profiles, migration experience and intentions of Haitians deported in 2024 (IOM, March 2025) [text]

- Also available in French.

Internal Displacement Caused by Violence Perpetrated by Organised Criminal Gangs and Networks: Drivers and Dynamics (Researching Internal Displacement, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Second contribution in a series on "Internal Displacement in the Context of Organised Criminal Violence."

Tendencias del desplazamiento forzado en Colombia en ocho años de posacuerdo (2016-2024), CODHES Informa, no. 118 (Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento, Feb. 2025) [text via Refworld]

Tendencias del desplazamiento forzado en Costa Rica: Logros del ACNUR en 2024 (UNHCR, 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Immigrants’ Barriers to Accessing Social Policy in Argentina and Chile," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 26 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Latin American Perspectives, vol. 52, no. 2 (March 2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Latin Americans Seeking Asylum in North America: Documenting the Crisis as Researchers and Expert Witnesses." The original CFP provides additional information.

"A Migratory Ecosystem: Legibility, Visibility, and the Role of Organizations in Ecuador," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 26 Feb. 2025 [free full-text]

"'Operation Welcome': Humanitarian Pathway and Admission Applied to the Reception of Venezuelan Migrants in Brazil," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Resettlement vs. spontaneous applications: Canadians’ attitudes to asylum policy in a comparative perspective," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 25 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (24 Feb. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2 (24 Feb. 2025)

New Issues of AJIL Unbound, Disasters, EMHJ, Humanity, ICRC Rev., IJMHSC, IMR, Intervention, JEMS, JHA, JID, JIRS, JEiE, JMHS, Lat. Am. Pesp., Leo Baeck Inst. Yrbk., QRP

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

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

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AJIL Unbound, vol. 119 (2025) [open access]

- Theme is "Transdisciplinary Approaches to Migrant Solidarity in Theory, Law, and Praxis."

Disasters, vol. 49, no. 2 (April 2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles. Note that Disasters adopted a continuous publication model as of 2025, so articles will continue to be added to this issue presumably until the next one is posted (update: The July 2025 issue has just been posted!).

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, vol. 31, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

- Thematic issue on "A roadmap for healing Gaza’s battered health system"; first of a 2-part series.

Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, vol. 15, no. 2 (Summ. 2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

*International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 21, no. 1 (Feb. 2025) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with one that is open access.

*International Migration Review, vol. 59, no. 1 (March 2025) [contents]

- Includes special sub-sections on "Using Organic Data in Migration Research," "Migration Motivations and Intentions," "Migration and Education," and "Migrant Families," with 10 articles total that are open access. The 10 book reviews are also freely available. 

*International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 106, no. 927 (Dec. 2024) [free full-text]

- Thematic issue on "IHL & Peace." While all content is free to read, 12 items are open access.

Intervention: Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Areas, vol. 22, no. 2 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 5 (2025) [contents]

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

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 6 (2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Transnational Youth Mobility through Trajectories and Temporalities." The introduction is freely available and six articles are open access.

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 6, no. 1 (March 2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Southern Responses to Displacement."

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. 23, no. 1 (2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Migration Governance through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives." The introduction and seven articles are open access.

Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 15, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Climate Change and Environmental Displacement: A Call for Comprehensive Action."

Journal on Education in Emergencies, vol. 10, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- "The articles in this issue of JEiE present evidence that underscores the need for education systems that are flexible, inclusive, and responsive to the social, cultural, and political conditions in which they operate."

*Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 13, no. 1 (March 2025) [full-text]

- Special issue on "The Right to Stay, Migrate and Return." 

*Latin American Perspectives, vol. 52, no. 2 (March 2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Latin Americans Seeking Asylum in North America: Documenting the Crisis as Researchers and Expert Witnesses." The original CFP provides additional information.

Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, vol. 69, no. 1 (2024) [contents]

- Special section on "Navigating In-Betweenness: Jewish Refugees in Global Transit." The introduction and one article are open access.

QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"'Fortress New Zealand': examining refugee status determination for 11,000 asylum claimants through integrated data," Policy Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"The governmentality of funding: Cultures of audit and compliance in Australian refugee and asylum seeker support organisations," TAJA: Australian Journal of Anthropology, Early View, 2 March 2025 [open access]

*"Healthcare, solidarity, and moral community in Myanmar's humanitarian crisis and revolution," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 3 (July 2025) [open access]

"The lawful presence element in the International Criminal Court: why Myanmar’s domestic laws should not be relied upon in a case for deportation or forcible transfer," Griffith Law Review, Latest Articles, 19 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"Patron-client relationship in the Rohingya camps: recent trends and impact on refugee governance," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:5 (March 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Bangladesh.

"Political or environmental refugees? Re-examining the flight of the Vietnamese boat people, 1975-1995," Migration Politics, 13 March 2025 [preprint]

"Still a Negative Case? Japan's Changing Refugee Policy in the Face of New Geopolitical Challenges," Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 22, no. 6 (June 2024) [full-text] 

"What does it mean to conduct ethical research after disasters? A case study of the 3.11 disaster in Japan," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 2 (April 2025) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (18 March 2025)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

*Pakistan: Forced Returns Expose Afghans to Persecution, Destitution (Human Rights Watch, March 2025) [text]

- See also related BBC News article.

"Thailand deports Uyghur asylum seekers to China after more than a decade in detention," The New Humanitarian, 27 Feb. 2025 [text]

- See also related UNHCR press release.

Thousands of Rohingya find refuge under Malaysia’s informal refugee policy (Asia Media Centre, Feb. 2025) [text]

"'We are simply going to starve': UN chief visits Rohingya refugees amid aid funding shortfall," Reuters, 14 March 2025 [text]

- See also related articles in DW and The New Humanitarian.

Reports: 

Addressing Statelessness and Displacements in Southeast Asia: Workshop Report, January 23-24, 2025 (Centre on Gender and Forced Displacement et al., Feb. 2025) [text]

Community perceptions & information needs of people at risk of irregular migration: Evidence from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia & Thailand (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2025) [text]

Socio-Economic Conditions of Forcibly Displaced and Stateless Populations in Asia and the Pacific: A comparative analysis based on the data from UNHCR Results Monitoring Surveys 2022-2024 (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (20 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Age determination of unaccompanied migrant children: An appraisal of the jurisprudence of the Committee on the Rights of the Child," Nordic Journal of Human Rights, vol. 43, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Europe.

"A dual dilemma: protecting children’s rights in the context of COVID-19 and conflict," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:4 (March 2025) [open access]

"Exposure to Natural Disaster and Polytrauma Among Somali Youth in Urban Kenya," Global Social Welfare, Latest Articles, 27 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"Family Against the Odds: The Psychological Impact of Family Separation on Refugee Men Living in the United Kingdom," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 3 (March 2025) [open access]

"Host and Refugee Children’s Definition of Happiness: 'Give Me a Room'," Child Indicators Research, Latest Articles, 27 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

"Intersections of Peace: Refugee Children’s Unique Perspectives Through Storytelling and Arts-Based Methods," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 22 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on sub-Saharan refugee children in Algeria.

*"The sexual abuse of adolescent boys in humanitarian emergencies: A qualitative study of how international humanitarian organisations are responding," Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 163 (May 2025) [open access]

"'What other option did I have?' The effect of conflict and displacement on child marriage and early childbearing among displaced Rohingya adolescents," Conflict and Health, 19:16 (March 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Bangladesh.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (17 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

State, Federal Policies Escalate Attacks on Immigrant Children (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

New open access book:

Precarious Motherhood: Navigating Relationships and Support Post-migration in the UK (UCL Press, March 2025) [open access]

- "Precarious Motherhood explores the experiences of racially minoritised mothers living with insecure immigration status and financial hardship in London, UK. It exposes the impact of hostile immigration policies and precarity on mothers’ interpersonal relationships and access to support. The author draws attention to how mothers manage the constraints they face and enact belonging. She then explores the impact on mothers’ couple relationships, friendships, adult kin relationships and faith-based networks. The book underlines the vital role of personal relationships in providing access to resources and support, but also demonstrates how precariously positioned mothers must carefully navigate relational tensions in their everyday lives. It highlights how social infrastructure facilitates relational practices, helping mothers to sustain their children’s wellbeing and their own."

Reports & book chapters:

Challenges for the Rights of Refugee Children in Thailand under the UN Convention and the Reservation Withdrawals: Inclusive Policy, Exclusive Practice (Chiang Mai Univ., Feb. 2025) [text]

Detained or Deported: What About My Children? (Women's Refugee Commission, updated Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Eclectic resilience: child migration through children’s eyes," Chapter in Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices: Perspectives from the Past and Present (UCL Press, Feb. 2025) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 45.

Expert Meeting on Alternative Care and Guardianship for Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC) in Bulgaria: Report and Recommendations (UNHCR, Jan. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Ukrainians.

Hidden hardships: The immigration system and child poverty (Institute for Public Policy Research, March 2025) [text via EIN]

- Focuses on the UK.

Indicators for Children on the Move: A guideline (International Data Alliance for Children on the Move, March 2025) [text]

Lost Childhoods: The consequences of flawed age assessments at the UK border (Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium, March 2025) [text]

Recommendations for fulfilling the rights and respecting the best interests of unaccompanied and separated children displaced from Ukraine (Kids in Need of Defense, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Vulnerability and Child Participation: A Reflection on the Involvement of Refugee Children in Asylum Procedures," Chapter in Perspectives on Children, Rights, and Vulnerability (Scandinavian Univ. Press, 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on The Netherlands.

"Vulnerability and Discrimination: The State’s Responsibility towards Asylum-Seeking Children’s Right to Health and Care to Prevent Discrimination against Children," Chapter in Perspectives on Children, Rights, and Vulnerability (Scandinavian Univ. Press, 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Norway.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (23 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

"Aid efforts in Gaza slow as millions of promised USAID dollars do not arrive, agency officials say," AP News, 7 March 2025 [text]

"Gaza in-depth: Israel’s new aid blockade leaves an even deeper humanitarian crisis," The New Humanitarian, 6 March 2025 [text]

- See also related MSF press release.

High Commissioner’s statement at the Brussels Syria Conference (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Lessons from Libya for Addressing Syrian Displacement (USCRI, March 2025) [text]

Policy Recommendations for Addressing Food Insecurity of Sudanese Refugees in Egypt (RLI Blog, March 2025) [text]

Revolutionizing refugee registration: The Digital Gateway in Egypt (UNHCR Blog, March 2025) [text]

"US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza," AP News, 14 March 2025 [text]

What does Egypt’s plan to rebuild Gaza involve and what challenges does it face? (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

- See also related BBC News article.

Reports:

Internally Displaced Persons in Lebanon: Perspectives on Return and Future Intentions (IOM, March 2025) [text]

*Northwest Syria IDP Intention Survey: Key Findings (CCCM Cluster, REACH & UNHCR, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related UNHCR briefing note.

Return Practices of Syrians in Türkiye (Innovation Consulting & Solutions, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Socioeconomic Survey of Palestine Refugees in Lebanon 2023 (UNRWA, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, vol. 31, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "The Medical Risks and Public Health Implications of the War in Gaza"; first of a 2-part series. A PDF version is available here.

"Fluid Borders, Temporary Refuge: The Cyclical Nature of Displacement between Lebanon and Syria," Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"The impact of nationality status and place of residency on health-related social needs and quality of life among Palestinian Refugees in Jordan," Heliyon, vol. 11, no. 4 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"Reducing attrition in phone-based panel surveys: best practices and semi-automation for survey workflows," Political Science Research and Methods, FirstView, 7 March 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians in Lebanon.

"Resilience for Whom? Resiliency Humanitarianism and Everyday Resistance in a Carceral Camp," Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Latest Articles, 19 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians in Jordan.

"Role of resilience in general health and mental wellbeing among Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: a mixed methods study," Conflict and Health, 19:15 (March 2025) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (28 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"The Contemporary Role of the Global Refugee Regime: Analysis of Equal Protection Under South Africa’s National Refugee Regime," Obiter, vol. 45, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

*"Healthcare accessibility, utilization, and quality of life among internally displaced people during the Sudan war: a cross-sectional study," Conflict and Health, 9:11 (March 2025) [open access]

"Privacy in Displacement: Data Protection for Refugees in Sudan," Journal of Intellectual Property and Information Technology, vol. 4, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"'The Problem is a Lack of Firewood': Charcoal briquettes for cooking energy in refugee and host communities," Social Sciences & Humanities Open, vol. 9 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Kenya.

"The right to adequate housing under African regional human rights law: exploring the extent of protection accorded to refugees," African Human Rights Yearbook, vol. 8 (2024) [open access]

"Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) for rainwater harvesting and stormwater management in temporary humanitarian settlements," Nature-Based Solutions, vol. 7 (June 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Ethiopia.

"Through the Localization Looking Glass: Seeing Subaltern Power in the Refugee Regime," Global Studies Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

- Analyzes "localized responses to Burundian refugees in Tanzania."

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (14 March 2025)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

East, Horn, and Great Lakes of Africa: Leveraging Data for Sustainable Refugee Responses (UNHCR Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Sudan mutual aid groups face survival battle amid army abuse and US aid freeze," The New Humanitarian, 26 Feb. 2025 [text]

Reports:

[ACAPS Reports on Implications of USAID Cuts and Funding Freeze]

- Democratic Republic of Congo

- Ethiopia

- Sudan

Emergency Food Assistance in Ethiopia: Gaps in USAID’s Award Administration, Monitoring, and Incident Reporting Hindered Its Ability to Detect Widespread Food Diversion (USAID Office of Inspector General, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Enhancing community-based social protection for sustainable use of aid in South Sudan: Guidance for conflict and context sensitive aid (Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Les impacts de l'afflux de déplacés sur les 'centres urbains': analyse des dynamiques plurielles dans les chefs-lieux de commune et région (Danish Refugee Council, Jan. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Removing Red Tape to Get Kenya’s Refugee Act Right (Refugees International, March 2025) [text]

Rôles du HCR et du CNAR dans la détermination du statut de réfugié (UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

UNHCR Position on Returns to North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Update IV (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (19 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

Domestic debate, Global Strategy: Revisiting immigration in U.S. foreign policy (Niskanen Center, March 2025) [text]

"Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States," Migration Information Source, 12 March 2025 [text]

"Mapping American Attitudes Towards Refugees and Immigrants: Insights into Anti-Refugee and Anti-Muslim Sentiments," Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 3 (March 2025) [open access]

Terrorism and Immigration: 50 Years of Foreign-Born Terrorism on US Soil, 1975–2024, Policy Analysis, no. 991 (Cato Institute, March 2025) [text]

- See also related blog post.

"Trump Administration Bends U.S. Government in Extraordinary Ways Towards Aim of Mass Deportations," Migration Information Source, 27 Feb. 2025 [text]

The Trump Administration’s Registration Requirement for Immigrants (American Immigration Council, March 2025) [text]

- See also related Axios article.

Multimedia:

Covering immigration stories in 2025: Expert insights and reporting advice, 25 Feb. 2025 [access]

Resource:

Deportation Data Project [access]

- This resource "collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets. We use the Freedom of Information Act to gather datasets directly from the government, and we also post datasets that the government has posted proactively or in response to others’ requests."

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (14 March 2025)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Catholic Social Teaching and Work with Migrants and Refugees at a Time of Uncertainty, Online, 24 March 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Can You Be Deported to a Third Country If You Have Withholding of Removal? (The Asylumist, March 2025) [text]

"'The Entire System Will Collapse': Inside the Purge of US Immigration Courts," Mother Jones, 6 March 2025 [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

"Lawsuit challenges Trump's end to Haitian, Venezuelan deportation protections," Reuters, 3 March 2025 [text]

“Massacre” at the BIA Portends Bigger Changes at EOIR (The Asylumist Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

The Number of Immigrants in the US Increases Yearly – and That’s a Good Thing (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

Politically Motivated Deportations: The Mahmoud Khalil Test Case (Cato At Liberty Blog, March 2025) [text]

- See also related posts on The Conversation, ImmigrationProf Blog, Just Security and Lawfare. 

"Trump cutoff of humanitarian parole for immigrants from Ukraine, 6 other countries challenged," AP News, 1 March 2025 [text]

Trump Administration Moves to Encourage, Ease Self Deportation -- Unveils CBP Home App (ImmigrationProf Blog, March 2025) [text]

*"Trump Claims Dictatorial Powers on Immigration. Everyone Should Be Scared," US News & World Report, 14 March 2025 [text]

"Trump's early immigration enforcement record, by the numbers," Reuters, 5 March 2025 [text]

*"Trump’s Pressure on Countries and International Organizations Erodes Protections for Asylum-Seekers," ProPublica, 12 March 2025 [text]

What to Read on the Alien Enemies Act (Just Security Blog, March 2025) [text]

While Federal Firings Focus on Immigration Processing, Funding for Immigration Enforcement Expands (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2025) [text]

"Why Has Migration Slowed at the U.S.-Mexico Border?," Latin America Advisor, 6 March 2025 [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (25 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Social Network Analysis and Resettled Refugees: A BSA Social Network Analysis Study Group (SNAG) Online Symposium, 27 March 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Afghan refugees in 2025: The far-reaching impact of US aid cuts (Raisina Debates, March 2025) [text]

Christians Fleeing Persecution Now Blocked from US Entry by White House (Cato At Liberty Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

I study refugees, and here are the facts on the history and impact of refugee resettlement in the US (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

Mexico marks a milestone: 50,000 refugees and asylum-seekers find stability and rebuild their lives (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

"Prefoulement" is still refoulement (OpenGlobalRights, March 2025) [text]

Three years since the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive: from emergency to longer-term solutions - Joint Statement (Oxfam et al., March 2025) [text]

U.S. Dept. of State Ends Historical Agreement with Resettlement Agencies, Putting into Question Promised 90 Day Review (Documented NY, Feb. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Policies for Belonging: A Global Comparison of Refugee Resettlement Programs, Dissertation (American Univ., July 2024) [text]

Refugee Integration Policies in Eastern Africa: Local, National and Global Perspectives - Summary Report (ICVA, Jan. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Adaptation models of Ukrainian refugees in Germany," Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, vol. 38, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Beyond shelter: a scoping review of evidence on housing in resettlement countries and refugee mental health and wellbeing," Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Latest Articles, 5 March 2025 [open access]

"Integration as a totalizing institution: a moral economy of street-level knowledge production on immigrant integration," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 5 March 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Switzerland.

"Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe: A Scoping Review of Interventions," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 1 March 2025 [open access]

"Life's trajectory: aid, support and humanitarian efforts for Ukrainian refugees," Policy Studies, Latest Articles, 27 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Slovakia.

Refugee Survey Quarterly,  vol. 44, no. 1 (March 2025) [contents]

- Special issue on "Refugee Resettlement: A Durable Solution at a Crossroads." The introduction is freely available and four articles are open access.

"Resettlement as a temporal border: infrastructural promises and future-making among migrants and officials in Niger," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:14 (March 2025) [open access]

"Stressors faced by forcibly displaced Ukrainians in England within 6 months of arrival: A qualitative study," Social Science & Medicine, vol. 371 (April 2025) [open access]

"Waithood and creativity in the absence of resettlement: evidence from 'residual' Liberian refugees in Nigeria," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 12 March 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1 (27 Feb. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2 (Ukrainians) (27 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunities:

2025 Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks, 17-28 March 2025 [info]

- Note: "The first week (17 – 21 March) will be held remotely, the second week (24 – 28 March) will be organised face-to-face at the CICG in Geneva." See also more info via ODI.

Short pieces:

"Aid and Policy," The New Humanitarian [access]

- See recent opinion pieces and news reports relating to the state of humanitarian aid and the impact of the US aid freeze.

Burden-shedding: the unravelling of the OECD aid consensus (Devpolicy Blog, Match 2025) [text]

Frontline workforce: challenges, contributions and the path forward (Humanitarian Practice Network, March 2025) [text]

Is this the end of aid as we know it? (The Interpreter Blog, March 2025) [text]

Protecting frontline humanitarians: Australia’s role as a middle power (The Interpreter Blog, March 2025) [text]

Protection of civilians in armed conflict at sea: developing a humanitarian maritime coordination system (Humanitarian Practice Network, Feb. 2025) [text]

Rubio announces that 83% of USAID contracts will be canceled (Goats & Soda Blog, March 2025) [text]

- See also earlier related AP News article.

Supreme Court denies Trump request to block $2 billion foreign-aid payment (SCOTUSBlog, March 2025) [text]

TNH Inklings Newsletter (Feb. & March 2025) 

- The problem with aid salaries and aid cuts [text]

- What’s the humanitarian gameplan? [text]

- Why are NGOs cutting staff faster than the UN? [text]

"Trump overstepped his constitutional authority in freezing Congress’ funding for USAID, judge says," AP News, 11 March 2025 [text]

- See also 

U.S. Foreign Aid Freeze & Dissolution of USAID: Timeline of Events (Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2025) [text]

- See also related NYT article.

Reports & journal articles:

[ACAPS Reports on Implications of USAID Cuts and Funding Freeze]

- Democratic Republic of Congo

- Ethiopia

- Sudan

Beyond the Targets: An ambitious agenda to put aid back on track (Oxfam, March 2025) [text]

Closing programs whilst continuing to keep people safe: what to consider (Bond, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Lives on the Line: The human impact of US Foreign Aid Shifts (ICVA, March 2025) [text]

- See also ICVA's related resource page.

"Transmission in interprofessional humanitarian teamwork: a scoping review," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:3 (March 2025) [open access]

USAID Funding Freeze and Its Impact on the Humanitarian Response in Syria (Northwest Syria NGO Forum, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

The Aid System is Collapsing. Now What? (The Horn Podcast Series, March 2025) [access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 1 (22 Feb. 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 2 (22 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues

Short pieces:

Amid funding crunch, UNHCR issues urgent call to protect women and girls from surging violence (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

A Dangerous Journey?: The Good Character Requirement, Naturalisation, Trafficking, and Discrimination against Women (ILPA Blog, March 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Horror and hope in migration: voices of women on the move (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2025) [text]

Refugee Laws Typically Work Against Women—These Examples Promise a Shift (USCRI, March 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Agencia comunicativa de mujeres migrantes centroamericanas en su tránsito por territorio mexicano = Central American Migrant Women Communicative Agency in their Transit through Mexican Territory," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]

- Available in English and Spanish.

*"Analysing the implementation of refugee laws and policies in relation to women and girls: A case of Kampala, Uganda," African Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 24, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Displacement and the Reframing of Reproductive Autonomy: A Case of Rohingya Women in India," Journal of Asian and African Studies, OnlineFirst, 18 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"Domestic and Family Violence Among Migrant, Refugee, and Asylum-Seeking Women in Australia: A Scoping Review of Experiences and Support," Journal of Family Violence, Latest Articles, 26 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"Feasibility, Challenges and Lessons Learned: Photovoice Implementation Among Young Women in the Urban Slums in Kampala, Uganda," International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 4 March 2025 [open access]

"'I have nowhere to go': asylum-seeking mothers’ (im)mobility in Los Angeles," Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Latest Articles, 6 March 2025 [open access]

"Intersectional Impetus: Amplifying Migrant and Refugee Resistance in Lebanon’s Antiracist Feminist Struggle," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 27 Feb. 2025 [Academia]

"The New Abortion Borders for Immigrant Women," Minnesota Journal of Law and Inequality, vol. 43 (Forthcoming) [preprint]

- Focuses on the US.

"Towards a Relational Understanding of Vulnerability: The Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon Through a Feminist Lens," Progress in Development Studies, vol. 25, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Tracing individual experiences to systemic challenges: the (re)production of GBV in migrant women’s experiences in Canada," Frontiers in Sociology, 3 March 2025 [open access]

"War in Ukraine vs. Motherhood: Mental health self-perceptions of relocated pregnant women and new mothers," BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 25:253 (March 2025) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues (16 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Bricolentrepreneuring: A comparative phenomenological study of Ukrainian refugees’ entrepreneurial bricolage practices in the UK and Romania," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Latest Articles, 3 March 2025 [open access]

"Fostering sustainable livelihoods: Evaluating the skillsets of refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia," Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, OnlineFirst, 13 Feb. 2025 [free full-text]

"The liability of refugeeness: Leveraging multiple identities to enact power in a context of displacement," International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, OnlineFirst, 25 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Ukrainian women refugee entrepreneurs in the UK and Romania.

"A trauma-informed approach: Temporal reorientation, identity reconstruction and preventing retraumatisation in refugee entrepreneurship support," International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, OnlineFirst, 26 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"Understanding livelihood strategies and coping mechanisms adopted during COVID-19: A study on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh," World Development Perspectives, vol. 37 (March 2025) [open access]

"Various Domains of Integration of Refugees and Their Interrelationships: A Study of Recent Middle Eastern Refugee Inflows in Austria," European Journal of Population, 41:6 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

- The article "finds an important causal link between social integration and obtaining paid employment and shows that social network effects with Austrians are particularly significant for labour market integration."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1 (11 March 2025)

 

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Launch event: Refugee Employment Platform: Connecting companies with refugee talent, 21 March 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

The fear of deportation hangs over unauthorized workers trying to fight exploitation, but all workers in the US have rights (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

How refugee entrepreneurs are supplying sustainable energy to the camps they live in (The Conversation, Feb. 2025) [text]

Regional Australia needs more workers to rebuild after disasters like Alfred. Skilled refugees could help (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

Three years on, employment opportunities in Poland means hope for refugees from Ukraine (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Training gives Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh camps vital skills for self-reliance (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Reports:

Economic Inclusion of Young Adult Refugees and Vulnerable Host Communities in Turkana County (Jesuit Refugee Service, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Kenya.

From displacement to employment: comparing the labor market integration of Ukrainian women in Poland, Italy, and Germany, MIDEM Policy Paper, no.1 (Migration Policy Centre, Jan. 2025) [text]

A guide for people professionals on hiring refugees (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Feb. 2025) [access]

- Focuses on the UK. Note: Contact details must be provided in order to access the guide.

Immigrant and Native Consumption of Means-Tested Welfare and Entitlement Benefits in 2022, Briefing Paper, no. 184 (CATO Institute, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US. See also related blog post.

Professional Activation of Refugees from Ukraine Residing in Collective Accommodation Centres (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

- In Polish and English.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (17 Feb. 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Against the Odds: On the Arduous Production of Linking Social Capital in Local Refugee Reception," Administration & Society, OnlineFirst, 12 Feb. 2025 [open access] 

"How (Gendered) Media Portrayals of Refugees Affect Attitudes Toward Immigration: The Moderating Role of Political Ideology," Political Communication, Latest Articles, 3 March 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Germany.

"The humanitarian border as a violence-producing environment: revisiting aid and anti-migration protests on Lesvos, Greece," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 2 (April 2025) [open access]

"The moral geographies of migration maps: spatial order as a normative basis for border control," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 5 March 2025 [open access]

"No Way Home: Poland and Lithuania’s Asylum Violations in the Belarus Border Crisis," North Carolina Journal of International Law, vol. 50, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 (March 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on the British Empire.

"Welcome Refugees? The Asylum System in Spain," Latin American Perspectives, OnlineFirst, 24 Feb. 2025 [free full-text]

"'You see, it is the skin'—responses to racism by young immigrant refugees in rural municipalities in Sweden with historical extreme right-wing and nationalist roots," Cogent Education, vol. 12, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Yugoslavia is (not) a Refugee Country? Refugees between Transit and Integration in an Ever-Changing Socialist State," Nationalities Papers, vol. 52, no. 1 (March 2025) [open access]

Related post:

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

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The coercive control of human mobility in Europe: A criminological reading of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2025) [text]

- First post in a new "thematic series dedicated to analyzing the criminological implications of the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum by providing an overview of how the newly approved legislative instruments redefine the catalogue of coercive migration control tools that will be available to EU Member States." A second post focusing on Finland is also available.

From the EU-Belarus Border to Strasbourg: The Cases on ‘Migrant Instrumentalisation’ Before the ECtHR (Verfassungsblog, March 2025) [text]

Monitoring migrants’ human rights at the EU borders: EU law v the UN OPCAT? (EJIL: Talk Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Editorial: Weaponisation of refugees in the Trump era – you ain’t seen nothing yet," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 27 Feb. 2025 [text]

Repression without compassion: the state of forced migration governance in Malta (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

Aid for Asylum Hosting: Time to Act (Center for Global Development, March 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

ECRE Comments on a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (ECRE, March 2025) [text]

Latest Asylum Trends 2024: Annual Analysis (EU Agency for Asylum, March 2025) [text]

- See also related press release.

The Narrative Construction of Migrant Irregularity in the United Kingdom: Representation and Narratives in Media, Politics, and Civil Society (Univ. of Birmingham, March 2025) [text]

Phasing out temporary protection? Shaping EU policies through national experiences (International Centre for Migration Policy Development, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Ukraine.

Protection Brief: Bulgaria - International Protection Procedures (UNHCR, Jan. 2025) [text]

Trapped between borders: The life-threatening consequences of increased militarisation at the Poland-Belarus border (Médecins Sans Frontières, March 2025) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (26 Feb. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (26 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

The Applicability of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law in Situations of Violence Linked to Organized Crime (RID Blog, March 2025) [text]

The right to perform secondary movements under international refugee law (EU Law Analysis Blog, Feb. 2025) [text via LinkedIn]

Reports & book chapters:

Global Report on Law and Policy on Internal Displacement: Implementing National Responsibility (Global Protection Cluster, March 2025) [text]

- "This report presents an overview – global and by region - of key law and policy developments related to prevention, protection and solutions for IDPs that occurred since the publication of the first Global Report... . The report then delves more deeply into the implementation of existing frameworks. Drawing evidence from 15 countries addressing displacement (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Georgia, Honduras, Iraq, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Ukraine and Yemen), the research reviews the legal, policy and institutional response by affected States in order to identify challenges, lessons learnt, good practices and opportunities to strengthen implementation and ensure enjoyment of rights."

"International Refugee Law," Chapter in Research Handbook on Constitutional Interpretation (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming 2025) [preprint]

The Protection of Victims of Armed Conflict in Islamic Law and International Humanitarian Law (International Committee of the Red Cross, Feb. 2025) [access]

Journal articles:

AJIL Unbound, vol. 119 (2025) [open access]

- Theme is "Transdisciplinary Approaches to Migrant Solidarity in Theory, Law, and Praxis." 

"Global Compacts and the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration: A Clash Between the Talk and the Walk," Laws, vol. 14, no. 2 (March 2025) [open access]

Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 37, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda." 

"Missing Migrants and the Right to Identification," Nordic Journal of Human Rights, vol. 43, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"The Turkish Council of State’s Engagement with International Refugee Law in Cases Involving ‘Non-European’ Refugees," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 31 Jan. 2025 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (4 Feb. 2025)