Opportunities:
Meeting: Facilitating Regular Pathways to a better future: Harnessing the power of migration, International Dialogue on Migration, First Session, 21-22 May 2024 [info]
Call for applications: Refugees International Refugee Fellows Program [info]
- Apply by 5 June 2024.
Short pieces:
IOC Refugee Olympic Team to represent more than 100 million displaced people at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]
JDC Newsletter (April 2024) [text]
- Update from the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement.
Zooming in on internally displaced people’s needs to inform better responses (IDMC Blog, May 2024) [text]
New open access books:
Exile/Flight/Persecution: Sociological Perspectives on Processes of Violence (Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2023) [open access]
- "Experiences, processes and constellations of exile, flight, and persecution have deeply shaped global history and are still widespread aspects of human existence today. People are persecuted, incarcerated, tortured or deported on the basis of their political beliefs, gender, ethnic or ethno-national belonging, religious affiliation, and other socio-political categories. People flee or are displaced in the context of collective violence such as wars, rebellions, coups, environmental disasters or armed conflicts. After migrating, but not exclusively in this context, people find themselves suddenly isolated, cut off from their networks of belonging, their biographical projects and their collective histories. The articles in this volume are concerned with the challenges of navigating through multiple paradoxes and contradictions when it comes to grasping these phenomena sociologically, on the levels of self-reflection, theorizing, and especially doing empirical research."
- "Cette institution clé de la gouvernance migratoire a été marquée du début des années 2000 à 2018 par l’extension de son rôle et de ses activités à l’aune de la gestion migratoire. Cet ouvrage mobilise une approche qui mêle économie politique culturelle et analyse critique du discours pour examiner l’évolution d’un imaginaire à partir de l’interaction entre production de sens, capacité d’action des acteurs sociaux, structuration du contexte institutionnel, et technologies gouvernementales. Fort de l’analyse de réunions et documents de l’OIM, l’ouvrage révèle comment divers fonctionnaires internationaux, diplomates et experts ont formulé, diffusé, matérialisé ou encore contesté la gestion migratoire. L’étude de cet imaginaire permet de comprendre la transformation de l’OIM et son rôle dans la constitution d’une nouvelle gouvernance migratoire suite à l’adoption en 2018 du Pacte mondial pour les migrations."
Migration and Cities: Conceptual and Policy Advances (Springer, June 2024) [open access]
- "This open access book brings together different perspectives on migration and the city that are usually discussed separately, to show the special character of the urban context as a territorial and political space where people coexist, whether by choice or necessity. Drawing on heterogeneous situations in cities in different world regions (including Europe, North America, the Middle East, South, Southeast and East Asia and the Asia Pacific) contributions to this volume examine how migration and the urban context interact in the twenty-first century."
Reports & journal articles:
Border Walls and Refugees, Research Brief in Economic Policy, no. 381 (CATO Institute, May 2024) [text]
The Externalities of Immigration Policies on Migration Flows: The Case of an Asylum Policy, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 16935 (Institute of Labor Economics, April 2024) [text]
Global Protection Update: Forced Returns and Relocations (Global Protection Cluster, April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
"Globally, Voting Rights Have Increased for Immigrants and Emigrants," Migration Information Source, 1 May 2024 [text]
"Political Regimes and Refugee Entries: The Preferences and Decisions of Displaced Persons and Host Governments," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]
Revisiting migrants’ contributions from a human rights-based approach: a discussion on facilitating and hindering factors (OHCHR, Forthcoming June 2024) [access]
- Inputs submitted to inform the preparation of this report have been posted online.
A United Nations Agenda for Protection: Strengthening the ability of the United Nations System to protect people through their human rights (OHCHR, March 2024) [text]
- See also related blog post.
Multimedia:
2024 Global Conference on Internally Displaced People, 18 April 2024 [access]
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