Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces & reports:

Boroughs warn of rising refugee homelessness amid ‘dangerous winter conditions’ (London Councils, Dec. 2023) [text]

"Editorial: Asylum reforms: Parliament fights its corner," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 8 Dec. 2023 [text]

Finland’s recent eastern border closure follows a predictable pattern of responses to unwanted migration (RLI Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

*How the bill to declare Rwanda a ‘safe’ country for refugees could lead to a constitutional crisis (The Conversation, Dec. 2023) [text]

Intoxicating Sovereignty: From Brexit to The UK Supreme Court Judgment on Rwanda as a safe country for asylum seekers (RLI Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

Migration: toujours plus de morts du fait de l’inaction des États européens (Médecins Sans Frontières, Dec. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Rising tensions at the EU’s External Borders with Russia: The Unwanted Return of Instrumentalised Migration and Problematic Responses (EJIL Talk Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill 2023-24 (UK House of Commons Library, Dec. 2023) [text]

"'This is inexcusable': What's behind deteriorating conditions in Greek island asylum camps?," The New Humanitarian, 4 Dec. 2023) [text]

*Who counts as a refugee? Four questions to understand current migration debates (The Conversation, Dec. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Multimedia:

The Weaponization of Time and Migration Governance in Europe (Thinking Global, Dec. 2023) [access via E-International Relations]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (1 Dec. 2023) 

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Displacement in Sudan: Worse than the Worst-Case Scenario (CHA Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Europe’s migration deals in the Sahel must be revised (ISS Today, Nov. 2023) [text]

Kenya’s Bold New Shirika Refugee Plan is Model for Future (RI Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Pan-African responses to Europe’s restrictive immigration regime (African Arguments, Nov. 2023) [text]

South Africa’s immigration proposals are based on false claims and poor logic – experts (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]

‘You reach a point where you have nothing. You will just die’: In East African refugee camps, food scarcity is a mortal concern (The Conversation, Dec. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Bridge over troubled waters: migration governance and rule of law in Kenya and Ethiopia (Institute for Security Studies, Nov. 2023) [text]

Conflict Trends in Africa, 1989–2022, Policy Brief, no. 5 (PRIO, 2023) [text]

Equal Partnerships: African Intermediary Cities as Actors and Partners in Urban Migration Governance (Samuel Hall, Nov. 2023) 

- City reports have been issued for Kumasi, Ghana, Saint Louis, Senegal and Gulu, Uganda.

"Factors associated with health-seeking patterns among internally displaced persons in complex humanitarian emergency, Northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional study," Conflict and Health, 17: 54 (Nov. 2023) [open access]

A ground breaking opportunity to increase access for registration of community groups in Dadaab (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]

"How Freedom of Movement Infringes on the Right to Leave," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 22 Nov. 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on the "ECOWAS area, drawing on original research material collected mainly in Abuja, Nigeria, but also in Senegal, Guinea, and The Gambia."

Invisible: The regional displacement crisis triggered by the Sudan conflict (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2023) [text]

Landless and displaced: The struggle for housing, land and property rights in eastern DR Congo (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2023) [text]

*Mutual aid in Sudan: the future of aid? (Humanitarian Practice Network, Oct. 2024) [text]

*"My Life, My Plans and My Dreams are Falling Apart": Voices from the Sudan Conflict (IOM, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Oxfam’s Engagement with Refugee-led Organisations in West Nile (Uganda): Lessons on opportunities and challenges (Oxfam, Dec. 2023) [text]

Somali refugees in Kenya: increasing camp-urban mobility (IIED, Nov. 2023) [text]

Multimedia:

Kenya’s refugee policy: Towards coherence? (Curated Conversations: Exploring the Politics of Migration through Ideas, Nov. 2023) [access]

- More episodes in this podcast series are available here.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (16 Nov. 2023)

Opportunities/New Issues of Alt. Hum., Border Cross., ERS, Eur. J. Life Writ., GILJ, Intl. Migr., ICRC Rev., JEMS, JHA, Migr. & Div., Migr. Stud., REMI

Opportunities: 

Call for applications: Deputy and Associate Editors, Migration Studies [info]

- Apply by 2 January 2024.

CFP: Journal of Global Diaspora and Media [info] 

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Researching gender and digital media in migration and diaspora settings."

- Submit abstracts by 30 January 2024.

Call for proposals: Agenda setting papers for Migration Politics [info]

- Opportunity to participate in a ‘Virtual Residency’ to help authors develop papers that "substantially move forward or initiate a particular debate or field of inquiry." Submit proposals by 31 January 2024.

CFP: Journal of Humanitarian Affairs [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Facets of everyday humanitarianism: transnational humanitarian action in global ‘crisis’." Submit papers by 31 January 2024.

New issues:

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 24 (Nov. 2023) [full-text]

- Issue theme focuses on "Central America: A forgotten subcontinent?"

Border Crossing, vol. 13, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

- Mix of articles. Note: The journal is currently not charging a publication fee to publish.

Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 46, no. 11 (2023) [contents]

- Special issue on "Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents." The introduction is freely available.

European Journal of Life Writing, vol. 12 (2023) [open access]

- Issue includes a "cluster" on the Refugee Tales project.

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 37, no. 2 (Winter 2023) [contents]

- Mix of articles.

International Migration, vol. 61, no. 6 (Dec. 2023) [contents]

- Mix of articles and commentaries, with 14 of the former and two of the latter open access.

International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 105, no. 924 (Dec. 2023) [full-text]

- Themed issue on "Protection of the Environment During Armed Conflict."

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 49, no. 19 (2023) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with four that are open access and one that is freely available.

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2 (Nov. 2023) [open access]

- Special issue on "The Future of Humanitarian Medical Data Studies: Theory and Applications."

Migration & Diversity, vol. 2, no. 3 (2023) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Migration Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (Dec. 2023) [contents]

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

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 39, no. 4 (2023) [delayed open access]

- Features a thematic dossier on "Les intermédiaires de la migration." Articles become open access after a year. 

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Reports:

Conducting Country of Origin Information Research on Statelessness: Training Handbook (Asylos, Nov. 2023) [text]

Digital Exclusions: Legal Identity, Identification, and the Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia, MOBILE Working Paper, no. 15 (Univ. of Copenhagen, Dec. 2023) [text]

Ending Statelessness for Displaced Children: Impact on Early Childhood Education, Working Paper No. 401 (iFo, Aug. 2023) [text]

Malaysia’s proposed amendments to citizenship provisions in its Federal Constitution: The potential for progress being overshadowed by regression (McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Oct. 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Citizenship Outside the Courts," UC Davis Law Review, vol. 57, no. 1 (Dec. 2023) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Estonia's 'Return to Europe': The relationship between neoliberalism, statelessness, and Westward integration in post-independence Estonia," Political Geography, vol. 108 (Jan. 2024) [open access]

"Much room for change: access to surgical care for stateless individuals in Pakistan," Globalization and Health, 19:93 (Nov. 2023) [open access]

Multimedia:

Protecting Futures: Addressing Lack of Access to Education for Children without Legal Identity, 28 Nov. 2023 [access]

“Writing Saved Me”: A Journalist’s Experience as a Stateless Refugee, 6 Nov. 2023 [access]

- The speaker is a stateless Rohingya refugee in the US.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (11 Dec. 2023)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Global Refugee Forum Linked Event: Multi-Stakeholder Approaches Towards Ending Statelessness, 12 December 2023, Online, 12 December 2023 [info]

Call for registration: 2024 World Conference on Statelessness, Kuala Lumpur, 26-29 February 2024 [info]

- Note: Tickets are going quickly!

News: Marking the 9th anniversary of the decade-long #IBelong campaign 

- UNHCR issued various press releases and news stories including:

1) UNHCR reports progress on tackling statelessness (4 Nov. 2023) [text]

2) UNHCR reports steady progress on tackling statelessness [focuses on Africa] (4 Nov. 2023) [text]

3) Central Asian Network on Statelessness prepares for GRF 2023 (13 Nov. 2023) [text]

4) On the 9th anniversary of the #IBelong campaign, the Americas advances towards preventing and reducing statelessness (20 Nov. 2023) [text]

5) UNHCR calls for improved access to birth registration to confirm legal identity and prevent statelessness in Ukraine (1 Dec. 2023) [text]

Short pieces:

Can EU help Belarusians who face the choice between statelessness and prison? (openDemocracy, Oct. 2023) [text]

Colombia: IACHR Commends New Nationality Law (OAS, Nov. 2023) [text]

Home at last: How Niger is working towards the eradication of the risk of statelessness (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

‘I have no rights’: what happens to stateless people in Australia after the High Court’s ruling? (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]

Our Hands Extended: International Calls to End Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws (ENS Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Reconstructing statelessness (UNHCR Innovation Service, Nov. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Italy.

Stateless in Germany 'denied the right to have rights' (InfoMigrants, Oct. 2023) [text]

The stateless paradox: Island Nations Caught in the 'Lost States' Narrative (Völkerrechtsblog, Oct. 2023) [text]

Stocktake of Critical Statelessness Studies to date (2020-2023): Renewing the Call for Innovative Contributions to the Field (CSS Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Surrogacy Arrangements: Can Article 8 of the ECHR Combat Child Statelessness? (ENS Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

"Ten Years After a Fateful Court Decision, the Dominican Republic Still Has a Statelessness Problem," CMS Migration Update, 23 Oct. 2023 [text]

UNHCR and Viet Nam convene discussions to prevent, end statelessness in the region (UNHCR, Oct. 2023) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (20 Oct. 2023)

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Let Us Not Forget That Asylum is a Human Right (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Dec. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Mid-sized cities are clamoring for migrants (Niskanen Center Commentary, Dec. 2023) [text]

UNHCR and UC Law San Francisco Announce First Sergio Vieira De Mello Chair in the United States for International Refugee Law (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

What We Know About the Senate Negotiations That Could Wreck Asylum in the US (Immigration Impact Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

- See also earlier related WOLA commentary.

Journal articles:

"Astronauts and Asylum: Investigating the Intersection Between Outer Space and Immigration," Univ. of Pittsburgh Law Review, vol. 84, no. 3 (2023) [full-text]

- "This Note explores the emerging intersection of outer space and immigration, specifically whether the United States can lawfully adjudicate asylum claims from astronauts."

*"The End of Asylum Redux and the Role of Law School Clinics," Yale Law Journal, vol. 133 (2023) [full-text]

"Lessons from Vietnam: Informing Refugee Policy in Haiti and Afghanistan from Post-Vietnam United States Policy," Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, vol. 37, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]

Reports:

Asylum Ban Strands Asylum Seekers and Migrants in Mexico and Returns Them to Danger (Human Rights First, Nov. 2023) [access]

- Follow link for fact sheet and Tracker of Reported Attacks Against Asylum Seekers and Migrants Stranded in Mexico due to the Asylum Ban; see also related press release.

Asylum Processing at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Univ. of Texas at Austin, Nov. 2023) [text]

New census projections show immigration is essential to the growth and vitality of a more diverse US population (Brookings Institution, Nov. 2023) [text]

Opportunities for Welcome: Lessons Learned for Supporting People Seeking Asylum in Chicago, Denver, New York City, and Portland, Maine (Women's Refugee Commission, Nov. 2023) [text]

An Unprecedented Migration Crisis: Characterizing and Analyzing its Depth (The Dialogue, Nov. 2023) [text]

The Urgent Need for (Re)Designating El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Nepal, and Guatemala for Temporary Protected Status (FWD.us, Nov. 2023) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (15 Nov. 2023)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises: Innovations and Lessons from the Global South (Routledge, Nov. 2023) [open access]

- "The long-term consequences of COVID-19 have been tough for children around the world, but even more so for young children already in humanitarian crisis, whether due to conflict, natural disasters, or economic and political upheaval. This book investigates how organizations around the world responded to these dual challenges, identifying solutions, and learning opportunities to help to support young children in ongoing and future crises. Drawing on research and voices from the Global South, this book showcases innovations to mobilize new funds and re-allocate existing resources to protect children during the pandemic. It provides important evidence on understudied and overlooked vulnerable populations, recognizing that researchers from the Global South are best positioned to fill these research gaps, contextualize findings, and support the uptake and adoption of recommendations by local decision-makers and practitioners in those same contexts."

Journal articles & book chapters:

"'The Best Risky Point': Agency and Decision-Making in Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers' Stories of Leaving Home and Travelling to Australia," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 39, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"Coercive measures against minors in the Swedish asylum process: legal uncertainty, ambivalence and experiences of intrusiveness," Nordic Journal of Social Research, vol. 14, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"COVID‐19 vaccination of children with refugee backgrounds in Western Australia: a retrospective observational study," Medical Journal of Australia, OnlineFirst, 4 Dec. 2023 [open access]

"Family-like Relationships and Wellbeing of Young Refugees in Finland, Norway, and Scotland," Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 12 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

"Problematizing Early Marriages: Development Narratives and Refugee Experiences in Jordan," Chapter in Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life (Leuven University Press, Nov. 2023) [access]

- Scroll to p. 61.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (8 Dec. 2023)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Kindertransport’s complex legacy: saving children from the Nazis while leaving their families behind (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]

Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: Hotel Accommodation, Removal from Child Welfare System and Risk of Trafficking (RLI Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Reports:

Belarus' Collaboration with Russia in the Systematic Deportation of Ukraine's Children (Yale Univ., Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Centrality of Children and Their Protection in Humanitarian Action: An Introduction (Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Dec. 2023) [text]

- See also French and Spanish versions.

Comments of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the Proposed Rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Administration for Children and Families) - "Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule" (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

Migration experiences of children on the move through Honduras (Mixed Migration Centre, Centro de Desarrollo Humano & UNICEF, Nov. 2023) [text]

Missing persons and their families: International legal framework (ICRC, Dec. 2023) [text]

Supporting Refugee Girls to Thrive: A Plan International policy brief for the 2023 Global Refugee Forum (Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (7 Nov. 2023)

News: Climate Mobility Hub Launched

Following on from its recently issued "Principles on Climate Mobility," the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law has now launched the Climate Mobility Hub, a digital platform that "amplifies voices of experience and distils decades of research from our scholars, breaking it down into bite-sized pieces. Through beautiful images, short videos, simple explainers and pathways to deeper resources, the Hub is a gateway to greater understanding of this pressing and deeply human concern."

The Hub includes the following sections:

- Facts: "Research-backed answers to basic questions about climate-related mobility."

- Solutions: "Policies that help people stay in place, when that’s their choice, or enable safe ways to move."

- Voices: "Hear from people affected by the impacts of climate change – sharing what this means for their lives, land, identity and rights."

An extensive listing of resources is also provided, with links to books, journal articles, book chapters, commentary and blog posts.

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Deserving of Assistance: The Social Construction of Ukrainian Refugees," Ethnopolitics, Latest Articles, 4 Dec. 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on the Czech Rep. and Poland.

"Drawing Together in Scotland: The Opportunities and Challenges for Young Refugees within a ‘Relational Wellbeing’ Approach to Integration," Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 12 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

"Nature and Belonging in the Lives of Young Refugees: A Relational Wellbeing Perspective," Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 11 (Nov. 2023) [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

"A need for a tenure arrangement for refugees on customary land," African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, vol. 6, no. 5 (2023) [open access]

- Focuses on Uganda.

"Public attitudes towards co-ethnic migrant integration: evidence from South Korea," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 29 Nov. 2023 [open access]

"Racial Othering and Relational Wellbeing: African Refugee Youth in Australia," Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 11 (Nov. 2023) [open access]

"Spatial Integration of Refugees: Towards a Post-Migrant Approach," Urban Planning, Ahead of Print, 15 Nov. 2023 [open access]

- "The proposed debate is based on collaborative teaching and research activities conducted in 2021 and 2022 in Berlin, Germany, and Irbid, Jordan... ."

*"The Time Politics of Refugee Resettlement and Higher Education in the United States," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 39, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1 (7 Dec. 2023)

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Commitments reaffirmed for safe, dignified and voluntary returns of Congolese and Rwandan refugees (Nov. 2023) [text]

How the Welsh language is being promoted to help migrants feel at home (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]

Modest Proposals for Actors Supporting Third Country Solutions for Refugees (RLI Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Over 30,000 Refugees Resettled from Rwanda (IOM, Nov. 2023) [text]

UNHCR, Governments of Burundi and Tanzania agree to scale up voluntary repatriation to Burundi (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

- Includes link to a Joint Communiqué in French and English.

Reports:

Impacts of Extremist Ideologies on Refugees' Integration: Evidence from Afghan Refugees in Tajikistan, Working Paper, no. 10612 (World Bank, Nov. 2023) [text]

Interiorization strategy: a strategy to support the socio-economic integration of refugees from Venezuela (R4V & Govt. of Brazil, Dec. 2023) [text]

- Also available in Spanish.

The Unmet Potential of Community Consultations in U.S. Refugee Resettlement (Migration Policy Institute, Nov. 2023) [text]

- See also related video recording below.

Multimedia:

Engaging Local Voices: Letting Cities Inform National Refugee Resettlement Goals, 14 Nov. 2023 [access]

The Importance of Community Consultations in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Network, 30 Nov. 2023 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (8 Nov. 2023) 

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

Deportations and Protection Risks in the Americas (Jesuit Refugee Service, Nov. 2023) [text]

The International Community is Failing the Human Rights of Forced Migrants Crossing the Deadly Darien Gap (Connecting Ideas Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

IOM, UNHCR, Partners Seek USD 1.59 bn for Refugees, Migrants from Venezuela and Host Communities (IOM, Dec. 2023) [text]

IOM, UNHCR call for stronger response in the Americas as half a million people cross the Darien jungle (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

USAID Announces Nearly $485 Million in Additional Humanitarian Assistance for the Western Hemisphere (USAID, Nov. 2023) [text]

"The Venezuelan Exodus," Excerpt from Foundations of International Relations (Bloomsbury, 2022; posted Nov. 2023) [text]

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

Reports:

Evaluación Rápida de Evidencia sobre Riesgos de Protección de población migrante en Suramérica (IOM, Nov. 2023) [text]

Flujo Venezolano y Derecho al Refugio en Colombia (Jesuit Refugee Service, Dec. 2023) [text]

IDPs in Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras and Mexico (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

Personas Migrantes y Refugiadas provenientes de Venezuela (OAS, Nov. 2023) [text]

“This Hell Was My Only Option”: Abuses Against Migrants and Asylum Seekers Pushed to Cross the Darién Gap (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2023) [text]

- See also Spanish version.

An Unprecedented Migration Crisis: Characterizing and Analyzing its Depth (The Dialogue, Nov. 2023) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 24 (Nov. 2023) [full-text]

- Issue theme focuses on "Central America: A forgotten subcontinent?"

"Incorporating migrants into National COVID-19 Vaccination Plans in Latin America: A comparative analysis of policies in seven countries," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 9 (2024) [open access]

"Mexicans vs Central Americans: Violented Migrants Crossing Mexico," Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Latest Articles, 30 Aug. 2023 [open access]

"Policy preferences in response to large forced migration inflows," World Development, vol. 174 (Feb. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Venezuelans in Colombia.

"Transnational ambivalence: incorporation after forced and compelled return to Mexico," Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 46, no. 12 (2023) [Academia]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (6 Nov. 2023)

New Issue of RSQ

The latest issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) has been published.  Contents of vol. 42, no. 4, Dec. 2023 include:

• Subtracting Development through the Production of Il/legality of Young Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon [free full-text]
• Making Room for Refugee Interpretation of Labelling: A Case Study from the Turkish–Syrian Border [abstract]
• Where is Home without Legal Status? Understanding the Choice to Stay Among Post-Cessation Liberians in Nigeria [open access]
• Canada’s Implementation of the UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees: Advancing Foreign Policy Objectives and the Status Quo? [open access]
• Australia, Indonesia, and East Timorese Family Reunions [abstract]
• A Critical Analysis of Japan’s Decision to Accept Ukrainians Following the Russian Invasion in 2022 [open access]
• Critiquing Trends and Identifying Gaps in the Literature on LGBTQ Refugees and Asylum-Seekers [open access]

Tagged Periodicals.

Opportunities update!

Just an FYI that I indicated the wrong deadline for the RLI Conference CFP in my earlier "Opportunities" round-up! Here is the corrected information:

CFP: Pacts, Promises and Refugee Protection, 8th Annual RLI Conference, London, 3-5 June 2024 [info]

- Deadline for paper, panel and poster proposals is 29 January 2024.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

10 things to know about climate change and displacement (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]

"1.2 million in Latin America displaced by disasters, study finds," Axios, 28 Nov. 2023 [text]

COP28 – climate mobility: the goal is sustainable adaptation – either in place or on the move (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2023) [text]

COP28: with a ‘loss and damage’ fund in place, protecting climate refugees is more urgent than ever (The Conversation, Dec. 2023) [text]

Human Mobility at COP28 (IOM, Nov. 2023) [access]

- Provides info on the climate migration-related events taking place at COP28.

Refugees and displaced people from climate frontlines call for greater inclusion at COP28 (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

UN Common Messages on Internal Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change for COP28 (UN, Nov. 2023) [text]

UNHCR and UC Law San Francisco Announce First Sergio Vieira De Mello Chair in the United States for International Refugee Law (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

UNHCR calls for urgent global action at COP28, highlighting climate change’s impact on the displacement crisis (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

"What happened on COP28’s big humanitarian day?," The New Humanitarian, 4 Dec. 2023 [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh," Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 50, no. 6 (2023) [open access]

"Health Problems of Increasing Man-Made and Climate-Related Disasters on Forcibly Displaced populations: A Scoping Review on Global Evidence," Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, vol. 17 (2023) [open access]

Reports:

Addressing Climate Change-Related Human Immobilities, Working Paper, no. 54 (KNOMAD, Nov. 2023) [text]

Advances in data collection on the environmental change-migration nexus, Policy Brief, no. 21 (KNOMAD, Nov. 2023) [text]

Aftershock: An assessment of how climate change is influencing migration and vulnerability in Libya (IOM, Nov. 2023) [text]

Bridging the science–policy gap in the climate migration field, Policy Brief, no. 22 (KNOMAD, Dec. 2023) [text] 

Climate Displacement Litigation: Navigating the Human Rights Landscape - A Global Review (Displacement Solutions, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Disaster risks, migration, and forced displacement: Understanding the link between disaster risk, migration and forced displacement in Colombia (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

IASC Guidance on Environmental Responsibility in Humanitarian Operations (IASC, Dec. 2023) [text]

Inadequate and inequitable: water scarcity and displacement in Iraq (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]

Overview of Strategic Plan for Climate Action 2024–2030 (UNHCR, updated Nov. 2023) [text]

Resilience on the move: Migration’s powerful role in creating climate resilience (Climate and Migration Coalition, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Working toward durable local integration solutions for drought-displaced people, Policy Brief, no. 20 (KNOMAD, Nov. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Ethiopia.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (17 Nov. 2023)

Thematic Focus: General

Event: 

Global Refugee Forum 2023, Geneva, 13-15 December 2023 [info]

- The Forum "is designed to support the practical implementation of the objectives set out in the Global Compact on Refugees: Ease pressures on host countries, enhance refugee self-reliance, increase access to third-country solutions and improve conditions in countries of origin. It provides the opportunity for States and stakeholders to announce concrete pledges and contributions, highlight progress made, share good practices and take stock of the challenges and opportunities ahead." Follow the link for the programme, background documentation and access to pledges. The meeting will be livestreamed, and webcasts and speeches will be made available after the fact. See also related news story.

Short pieces:

[2023 Nansen Refugee Award Winners] (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

- Note: The award ceremony will be held the first evening of the Global Refugee Forum, 13 Dec. 2023.

*Chronic Refugees: A Burden on Poor Countries (PRIO Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Meaningful participation of refugees and stateless people in the Global Refugee Forum 2023 and beyond (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

Overlooked and undervalued: tracking funding to refugee-led organisations (Development Initiatives Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

New open access book:

Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience (Univ. of California Press, Nov. 2023) [open access]

- "In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a coveted right and an elusive promise for millions. While conventionally understood as legal protection, it also transcends judicial definitions. In Lived Refuge, Vinh Nguyen reconceptualizes refuge as an ongoing affective experience and lived relation rather than a fixed category with legitimacy derived from the state. Focusing on Southeast Asian diasporas in the wake of the Vietnam War, Nguyen examines three affective experiences—gratitude, resentment, and resilience—to reveal the actively lived dimensions of refuge. Through multifaceted analyses of literary and cultural productions, Nguyen argues that the meaning of refuge emerges from how displaced people negotiate the kinds of safety and protection that are offered to (and withheld from) them. In so doing, he lays the framework for an original and compelling understanding of contemporary refugee subjectivity."

Reports:

2023 Global Compact on Refugees Indicator Report (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [access]

- See also related press release.

The 2023 Global Refugee Forum (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Nov. 2023) [text]

Faith actors and the Global Compact on Refugees: a local role, a global norm?, Working Paper, no. RSC 2023/64 (European Univ. Institute, Nov. 2023) [text]

Mixed Migration Review 2023: Highlights - Interviews - Essays - Data (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2023) [access]

- Follow link for full report, press release and video recording of launch event.

Progress 2023: Periodic Global Report on the State of Solutions to Internal Displacement (IOM, Nov. 2023) [text]

Review of global flow estimates and the identification of major migration corridors, Working Paper, no. 51 (KNOMAD, Nov. 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Effects of Three Facets of National Identity and Other Socioeconomic Traits on Attitudes Towards Immigrants," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 10 Nov. 2023 [open access]

"The inconsistency of immigration policy: the limits of 'Top-down' approaches," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 11 Oct. 2023 [open access]

"Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 Dec. 2023 [open access]

Multimedia:

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture: Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees, Online, 15 Nov. 2023 [access]

Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture: Who Gets Believed? A conversation with Dina Nayeri, 20 Nov. 2023 [access]

Resource:

Refugee and Asylum Seeker Populations by Country of Origin and Destination, 2000-2022 (Migration Policy Institute) [access]

- Map using UNHCR data.

*UPDATED

Related post: 

- Thematic Focus: General (10 Nov. 2023)

Opportunities: More Dec. 2023 & New Jan. 2024

Call for applications: International Online School in Forced Migration, 11-15 March 2024 [info]

- Each school session offers a maximum of 50 spaces. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; however, note that bursary applications must be submitted by 14 January 2024.

Webinar: Access to higher education for forcibly displaced students and scholars, 6 December 2023 [info]

Webinar: MA Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies, 11 December 2023 [info]

- Opportunity to learn more about this programme and how to apply.

Webinar: A Better Approach Toward Reception of People Seeking Asylum, 12 December 2023 [info]

Report launch: Nordic Asylum Practice in relation to Religious Conversion: Insights from Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Copenhagen, 13 December 2023 [info]

Call for applications: Deputy and Associate Editors, Migration Studies [info]

- Apply by 2 January 2024.

Call for applications: MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Univ. of Oxford [info]

- The deadline for applications for entry in 2024-25 is 19 January 2024.

*CFP: Pacts, Promises and Refugee Protection, 8th Annual RLI Conference, London, 3-5 June 2024 [info]

- Deadline for paper, panel and poster proposals is *29 January 2024*. [Note: I originally indicated 19 Jan. as the deadline!]

CFP: From the University to the Grand Chamber: How can Academic Work on Asylum and Immigration have Greater Impact in the European Court of Human Rights?, Egham, UK, 9 May 2024 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 30 January 2024.

CFP: Journal of Global Diaspora and Media [info] 

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Researching gender and digital media in migration and diaspora settings."

- Submit abstracts by 30 January 2024.

Call for proposals: Agenda setting papers for Migration Politics [info]

- Opportunity to participate in a ‘Virtual Residency’ to help authors develop papers that "substantially move forward or initiate a particular debate or field of inquiry." Submit proposals by 31 January 2024.

CFP: Journal of Humanitarian Affairs [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Facets of everyday humanitarianism: transnational humanitarian action in global ‘crisis’." Submit papers by 31 January 2024.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Opportunities: More Nov. 2023 & New Dec. 2023

Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

New open access book:

Disability and Aid: An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee Camp (Brill, Nov. 2023) [open access]

- "At a time when rights are increasingly placed on the humanitarian agenda, this book provides a unique ethnographic account of the dynamics of aid to disabled people in a Ugandan refugee camp. By unraveling the complexities of social, material and institutional interdependencies, the author invites us to rethink conventional notions of dependence and vulnerability. Exploring issues of personhood as they relate to the exchange of material goods and care, the book offers a thought-provoking perspective on the seemingly promising shift towards a rights-based approach. A compelling read for anyone seeking to reshape the humanitarian agenda."

Reports & short pieces:

*Disability-Inclusive EiE: Key concepts, approaches, and principles for practice (INEE, Dec. 2023) [text]

- See also related Mapping and Gap Analysis.

Disabled and displaced: The additional challenges faced by disabled people in the Sudan crisis (Bond Blog, Sept. 2023) [text]

"Everyone has their own story, but it hurts us all the same": Learning from the experiences of older Ukrainian refugees in Poland (HelpAge International & Polish Center for International Aid, Oct. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Guide to Inclusive Education 2023 (Jesuit Refugee Service, Dec. 2023) [text]

South Sudan Protection Analysis Update: Protection risks facing persons with disabilities and older persons (Global Protection Cluster, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

“They live in the dark”: Older people’s isolation and inadequate access to housing amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (Amnesty International, Dec. 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Attitudes toward dementia and cognitive aging among Syrian refugees resettled in Jordan: a qualitative study," BMC Public Health, 23:2307 (Nov. 2023) [open access]

"Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach," Children & Society, Early View, 31 Oct. 2023 [postprint]

- Note: Access to full-text is embargoed until 1 Nov. 2024.

"Subjective well-being of older migrants in the Netherlands: A conceptual and methodological discussion," International Migration, Early View, 9 Oct. 2023 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People (30 Sept. 2023)

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Championing community-driven digital gender inclusion (UNHCR Innovation Service, Nov. 2023) [text]

*Digital literacy in the spotlight (UNHCR Innovation Service, Dec. 2023) [text]

Political accountability at the digital border: Who’s responsible when technology takes over? (Border Criminologies Blog, Oct. 2023) [text]

Using Machine Learning to Help Refugees Succeed (Stanford Univ., Nov. 2023) [text]

What is digital literacy and why does it matter for refugees? (UNHCR Innovation Service, Nov. 2023) [text]

Will Digital ID Help Stateless People? The Threat of Digital Administrative Violence (ENS Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

*"Antiquated U.S. Immigration System Ambles into the Digital World," Migration Information Source, 29 Nov. 2023 [text]

"Current Methodological Approaches in Studying the Use of Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 14 Nov. 2023 [open access]

Digital lifelines: The use of social media networks among Venezuelan refugees and migrants heading north (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2023) [access]

- Follow link for report in English and Spanish.

"Doing Refugee Right(s) with Technologies? Humanitarian Crises and the Multiplication of 'Exceptional' Legal States," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 31 Oct. 2023 [open access]

"'Equitable multilingualism' for equitable access to learning: Addressing the digital and linguistic divide in connected higher education for refugee," Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and Linguistics at York, vol. 3 (2023) [open access]

*Media consumption of Ukrainian audiences in Germany (Forsa Institute for Social Research and Statistical Analysis, Oct. 2023) [text]

"The Role of Twitter in Media Coverage during Humanitarian Crises: Data mining from International News Agencies," Chapter in Information and Communication Technologies, 11th Ecuadorian Conference, TICEC 2023: Proceedings (Springer, Oct. 2023) [ResearchGate]

"Tackling the COVID-19 infodemic among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Development and evaluation of the 'Wikaytek' tool," Digital Health, 30 Oct. 2023 [open access]

Multimedia:

Technology's Influence on the Nature of Warfare and Humanitarian Action, Panel at "Twenty Years On: Humanitarian Action and the Legacy of the Iraq War," 9 Nov. 2023 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (26 Oct. 2023)

Regional Focus: MENA

News/commentary on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza: 

Here are the most recent sitreps from OCHA and UNRWA. Visit ReliefWeb for a much more comprehensive listing of updates and situation reports.

• Aid workers in war zones like Gaza face impossible choices that can leave them traumatized (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]
• Gaza’s next tragedy: Disease risk spreads amid overcrowded shelters, dirty water and breakdown of basic sanitation (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]
• Humanitarian access to Gaza (EJIL Talk Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]
• In the face of death, destruction and displacement, beauty plays a vital role in Gaza (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]
• "Israel-Hamas truce: How much aid has entered Gaza?," Al Jazeera, 29 Nov. 2023 [text]
• Refugee Law (Articles of War Blog, Nov. 2023) [text] (contribution to the Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium) 
• "What the Scale of Displacement in Gaza Looks Like," New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023 [text]

Other publications:

Equal Partnerships: African Intermediary Cities as Actors and Partners in Urban Migration Governance (Samuel Hall, Nov. 2023) 

- City reports have been issued for Oujda, Morocco and Sfax, Tunisia.

"High-risk drug use among Palestinian adolescent refugees in the North West Bank Palestine," Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, Latest Articles, 12 Sept. 2023 [full-text via An-Najah National Univ.]

Inadequate and inequitable: water scarcity and displacement in Iraq (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]

*"Refugee Networks, Cooperation, and Resource Access," American Political Science Review, First View, 13 Nov. 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan.

Safe, Voluntary, and Dignified Return for Syrian Refugees from Lebanon: A synthesis of ideas and ways forward discussed at a migration policy roundtable in Beirut (UNU, Nov. 2023) [text]

"Saudi Arabia and the International Refugee Regime," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 21 Nov. 2023 [open access]

"Who is a Refugee in Jordan? Hierarchies and Exclusions in the Refugee Recognition Regime," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 23 Nov. 2023 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (16 Nov. 2023)

Regional Focus: Europe

Commentary & analysis re. the recent UK Supreme Court decision on the UK-Rwanda policy and the government's next steps:

- AAA and Others (2023-4): Judging Rwanda (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

- The Good Faith Dilemma: Analysis of Rishi Sunak’s Asylum Plan to Rwanda (RLI Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

- The Human Impact of the Illegal Migration Act and the Rwanda Plan (UK Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [access] (follow link for research report, two related briefings and press release)

- Panel discussion: Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) - Panel 1: International Refugee Law and Safe Third Countries, Online, 22 November 2023 [access]

- The Supreme Court rules the UK-Rwanda policy unlawful (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

- Supreme Judgecraft: Non-Refoulement and the end of the UK-Rwanda ‘deal’? (Verfassungsblog, Nov. 2023) [text]

- UK’s failed asylum deportation plan puts Rwanda’s human rights and refugee struggles in the spotlight (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]

Short pieces:

Enforcing Migration Control on Mountains (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

How a small organisation can influence EU migration policies: lessons for the research-policy nexus (MPC Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Latest on migration [What Think Tanks are thinking] (EPRS, Nov. 2023) [access]

Refugees unwelcome: Increasing surveillance and repression of asylum seekers in the “new Moria” refugee camp on Lesvos (NCHS Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Top EU court makes it easier to deport refugees to other EU states (InfoMigrants, Dec. 2023) [text]

UNHCR urges Finland to protect the right to seek asylum (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

Reports:

Bridging the Gap: Migration Policies and People’s Policy Perspectives in Balti and Cahul (Republic of Moldova) (IOM, Nov. 2023) [text]

Migrant and refugee movements through the Central Mediterranean sea: Joint Annual Overview 2022 (IOM & UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

"No one came to our rescue”: The new normal of EU migration policies in the Central Mediterranean (Médecins Sans Frontières, Nov. 2023) [text]

Residence permits and travel documents for third-country nationals in the context of asylum (EUAA, Nov. 2023) [text]

Streamlining the Asylum Process: An Evaluation of Recent Reforms (Univ. of Nottingham, Oct. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Journal articles:

"An Analysis of Greece's Potential Violations of the Refugee Convention and the Rome Statute in its Treatment of Refugees," UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, vol. 27, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]

"Emotions, perceived threat, prejudice, and attitudes towards helping Ukrainian, Syrian, and Somali asylum seekers," PLoS ONE 18(9): e0290335 (Sept. 2023) [open access]

"Governing through bureaucratically imposed waiting: on stuckedness among asylum seekers and refugees waiting for residence permits in Sweden," European Journal of Social Work, Latest Articles, 16 Nov. 2023 [open access]

"The Italy-Libya Memorandum: stripping away the right of asylum in the Italian legal system," UNIO – EU Law Journal, vol. 9, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

"Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 25 Nov. 2023 [open access]

"Voter Preferences for EU Asylum Policies: The Role of Government Cues," Government and Opposition, FirstView, 20 Nov. 2023 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (17 Nov. 2023)

New Book Titles

Please see a two-part listing of references to new books posted on my Forced Migration Library blog. Part 1 highlights new books due out in December 2023, while part 2 lists new November 2023 and open access titles.