Regional Focus: Americas

Funding opportunity:

NGO Programs Benefiting Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons from Colombia [info]
- Proposal submission deadline is 7 April 2017.

Publications:

Age & Generation in Canada’s Migration Law, Policy, & Programming, RRN/CRS Policy Brief (Refugee Research Network & Centre for Refugee Studies, Dec. 2016) [text]

'Are you afraid to go home?': Venezuelans Top List of US Asylum Seekers as Thousands Flee (The Conversation, March 2017) [text]

"By Any Means Necessary: Refugees Fleeing Violence in Central America Hope for Asylum in Mexico," The Intercept, 12 March 2017 [text]

Forced Displacement Growing in Colombia Despite Peace Agreement (UNHCR, March 2017) [text]

Greater Cooperation Needed to Protect Refugees in Central America, UNHCR Says (UNHCR, March 2017) [text]
- See also joint statement between the Secretary of Foreign Relations and UNHCR.

The Humanitarian-Development Nexus: Opportunities for Canadian Leadership, RRN/CRS Policy Brief (Refugee Research Network & Centre for Refugee Studies, Dec. 2016)

The Impact of the Safe Third Country Agreement on Canada’s Legal Obligations (Canadian Law School Research-a-Thon, March 2017) [text via Google Drive]
- See also related Metro News article.

Irregular Migration Flows to the Americas from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean (OAS & IOM, March 2017) [text]

(No) Access T.O.: A Pilot Study on Sanctuary City Policy in Toronto, Canada, RCIS Working Paper, no. 2017/1 (Ryerson University, Feb. 2017) [text]

Non-refoulement under the Inter-American Human Rights System, RLI Working Paper, no. 20 (Refugee Law Initiative, 2017) [text]
- Scroll to p. 104.

"Seeking a Rational Approach to a Regional Refugee Crisis: Lessons from the Summer 2014 'Surge' of Central American Women and Children at the US-Mexico Border," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017) [open access]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: United States & Canada (8 March 2017)
- Regional Focus: Americas, incl. U.S. (3 March 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

News: RSC Conference to be Live Streamed

The Refugee Studies Centre will host an international conference in Oxford from 16 to 17 March 2017. The aim of the conference, "Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies," is to "reinvigorate scholarly debate on ways in which we can conceive of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. By bringing together a range of reflective thinkers and their work, alongside policy-makers and practitioners, our hope is to develop a research agenda and scholarly community that can engage meaningfully with the long-term challenges of forced displacement."

The programme is available here.

Anyone who is not able to attend the conference in person can watch the proceedings via live stream.

Tagged Events & Opportunities. 

Open Access Round-up: 15 March 2017

Below is a listing of Open Access literature that I have referenced on this blog since 14 Feb. 2017. If you are not familiar with Open Access, please visit my other blog for an introduction.

Green Open Access [info]

"Information Behaviour of Refugees: Viewing Refugee Integration through an Information Science Lens," ASIS&T Bulletin, vol. 43, no. 3 (2017)
- Postprint version of article.

"Is the Chinese Exclusion Case Still Good Law? (The President Is Trying to Find Out)," Nevada Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2017)
- Preprint version of article.

"The Protection of Asylum Seekers in Australian-Pacific Offshore Processing: The Legal Deficit of Human Rights in a Nodal Reality," Human Rights Law Review, vol. 17, no. 1 (March 2017)
- Note: The postprint is currently under embargo.

"Securing the Borders against Syrian Refugees: When Non-Admission Means Return," Yale Journal of International Law (Forthcoming; posted March 2017)
- Preprint version of article.

"Why Do Majority Members Prefer Immigrants Who Adopt the Host Culture? The Role of Perceived Identification with the Host Nation," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 55 (Nov. 2016)
- Preprint version of article.

Gold Open Access [info]

Articles, health-related:

"Mental Health of African Asylum-seekers and Refugees in Hong Kong: Using the Social Determinants of Health Framework," BMC Public Health, 17:153 (Feb. 2017)

"The Mental Health Status of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Attending a Refugee Health Clinic Including Comparisons with a Matched Sample of Australian-born Residents," BMC Psychiatry, 17:76 (Feb. 2017)

"Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Resulting from Torture and Other Traumatic Events among Syrian Kurdish Refugees in Kurdistan Region, Iraq," Frontiers in Psychology, 20 Feb. 2017

"Psychosocial Interventions for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Refugees and Asylum Seekers Resettled in High-income Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis," PLoS ONE 12(2): e0171030 (Feb. 2017)

"The Role of Social Capital in Explaining Mental Health Inequalities between Immigrants and Swedish-born: A Population-based Cross-sectional Study," BMC Public Health, 17:117 (Jan. 2017) 

"A Systematic Review of Studies with a Representative Sample of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Living in the Community for Participation in Mental Health Research," BMC Medical Research Methodology, 17:37 (March 2017)

Articles, other topics:

"The 2,000 Mile Wall in Search of a Purpose: Since 2007 Visa Overstays have Outnumbered Undocumented Border Crossers by a Half Million," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017)

"After Coming in, Settling in: An Analysis of Early-Stage Acculturation Preferences of Male Syrian and Iraqi Asylum Seekers in Belgium," International Review of Social Psychology, vol. 30, no. 1 (Feb. 2017)

"Bottom-up Salvation?: From Practical Cooperation towards Joint Implementation through the European Asylum Support Office," European Papers: A Journal on Law and Integration, vol. 1, no. 3 (2016)

"Deciding Who's Legitimate: News Media Framing of Immigrants and Refugees," International Journal of Communication, vol. 11 (2017)

"The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017)

"Migrant, Refugee or Minor? It Matters for Children in Europe," Forced Migration Review, no. 54 (Feb. 2017)

"Responding to a Refugee Influx: Lessons from Lebanon," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017)

"Risks Encountered after Forced Removal: The Return Experiences of Young Afghans," Forced Migration Review, no. 54 (Feb. 2017)

"Seeking a Rational Approach to a Regional Refugee Crisis: Lessons from the Summer 2014 'Surge' of Central American Women and Children at the US-Mexico Border," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017)

"Statelessness Determination: The Swiss Experience," Forced Migration Review, no. 54 (Feb. 2017)

"'They Need to Give Us a Voice': Lessons from Listening to Unaccompanied Central American and Mexican Children on Helping Children Like Themselves," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017)

"Who Will Resettle Single Syrian Men?," Forced Migration Review, no. 54 (Feb. 2017)

"Working Together: Building Successful Policy and Program Partnerships for Immigrant Integration," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017)

"Vulnerability and Climate Change Induced Human Displacement," Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, vol. 17, no. 1 (2017)

Journals:

Both gratis and libre OA periodicals are included.

African Human Mobility Review, vol. 2, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 2016)

European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 8, no. 1 (2017)
- A number of articles published 25 Jan. 2017 focus on refugees; browse through contents to locate.

TESL Canada Journal, vol. 33, no. 10 (2016)
- Special issue on "Refugees in Canada: ESL for Resilience and Empowerment."

Two Homelands, no. 45 (2017)
- Focus is on the "refugee/migrant crisis" in Europe. A number of articles focus on Slovenia.

Law Review Articles

"The Fact of Xenophobia and the Fiction of State Sovereignty: A Reply to Blocher and Gulati," Columbia Human Rights Law Review Online, 14 March 2017

"Non-Refoulement in the ILC Articles on Expulsion of Aliens and Its Practical Value for U.S. Immigration Law," Michigan State International Law Review, vol. 25, no. 1 (2017)

"Refugee Roulette: A Comparative Analysis of Gender-related Persecution in Asylum Law," DePaul Journal of Women, Gender & the Law, vol. 6, no. 1 (Fall 2016)

"The Shibboleth of Discretion: The Discretion, Identity, and Persecution Paradigm in American and Australian LGBT Asylum Claims," Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, vol. 31, no. 2 (2016)

Related post:
- Open Access Round-up: 14 Feb. 2017

Tagged Publications.

Regional Focus: Europe

Funding opportunity:

NGO Programs Benefiting Afghan, Iraqi, and Other Non-Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Turkey [info]
- Proposal submission deadline is 7 April 2017.

Publications:

"Aid Groups Fear Mass Expulsion of Western NGOs from Turkey," VOA News, 10 March 2017 [text]

The Anniversary of the EU-Turkey Agreement (RI Blog, March 2017) [text]

Corrective Allocation or Effective Solidarity? The Slovak Presidency Non-paper on the Revision of the Dublin System (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, March 2017) [text]

European Court of Human Rights Upholds UK Policy of Taking Away Citizenship of Terror Suspects (Just Security Blog, March 2017) [text]

Fleeing for Freedom, Eritrean Refugees are Being Abandoned by Europe (The Conversation, March 2017) [text]

The Migration Crisis is Over: Long Live the Migration Crisis (Migration Policy Institute, March 2017) [text]

One Year on from the EU-Turkey Deal: Challenging the EU's Alternative Facts (MSF, March 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protecting Migrants while Maintaining Security in Ceuta (Human Rights Brief, March 2017) [text]

Refugee Talks: Lessons from the Refugee Response in Greece, Online discussion panel, 14 March 2017 [info]
- Follow link for video.

A Syrian Refugee Family’s Year-long Greek Odyssey (IRIN, March 2017) [text]

The UK’s Aid Response to Irregular Migration in the Central Mediterranean (Independent Commission for Aid Impact, March 2017) [text]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Europe - General (10 March 2017)
- Regional Focus: Europe - Indiv. Countries (10 March 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Regional Focus: Syria

As War Enters 7th Year, UNHCR Warns Syria is ‘at a Crossroads’ (UNHCR, March 2017) [text]
- See also related UN News Centre article which notes that the Syrian conflict was "triggered on 15 and 16 March 2011, when authorities clamped down on demonstrations in Damascus, setting off massive anti-Government protests."

*Access Denied: UN Aid Deliveries to Syria’s Besieged and Hard-to-Reach Areas (Physicians for Human Rights, March 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Before Trump Order, Syrians Already Faced Shrinking Spaces for Refuge (Refugees Deeply, March 2017) [text]

Customs and Traditions: Connectors or Dividers for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon?, Syrian Voices Paper, no. 1 (House of Peace, March 2017) [text via UNHCR]
- See also related IIHA blog post

*De Facto Safe Zones Already Exist Along Syria’s Borders (Refugees Deeply, March 2017) [text]

The Evacuation of Eastern Aleppo: Humanitarian Obligation or War Crime? (EJIL: Talk Blog, March 2017) [text]

*The Gaps in Lebanon’s New Refugee Policy (Human Rights Watch, March 2017) [text]

Human Rights Abuses and International Humanitarian Law Violations in the Syrian Arab Republic, 21 July 2016- 28 February 2017, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/34/CRP.3 (Human Rights Council, March 2017) [text via Refworld]

*Lebanon's Refugee Policy Reform is Too Little, Too Late (openDemocracy, March 2017) [text]

The Lives and Livelihoods of Syrian Refugees: A Study of Refugee Perspectives and Their Institutional Environment in Turkey and Jordan (ODI, March 2017) [text]
- Note: Focus is on Syrian refugees living outside of camps.

*Syria: Six Years of Crisis - The Challenge of Our Time, 2011-2017 (Human Appeal International , March 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Syrian Migrant Crisis You’ve Never Heard of—and Why It Matters Today," Pacific Standard Magazine, 9 March 2017 [text]

Syrian Refugee Crisis in Historical Context, Montreal, 30 Nov. 2016 [access]
- Follow link for video.

What You Need to Know about "Safe Zones" (Intercross Blog, Feb. 2017) [text]

What’s the Magic Word? Humanitarian Access and Local Organisations in Syria (ODI, March 2017) [text]

"Why Syrian Refugees Living in Informal Settlements Need the Same Research Protections as US Prisoners," International Journal of Evidence-based Healthcare, vol. 15, no. 1 (March 2017) [free full-text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Middle East, incl. Syria (2 March 2017)

Tagged Publications.

Regional Focus: United States

Event:

Remote Control of Asylum Seekers: The US Experience, Sydney, 11 April 2017 [info]
- Discussion of "US efforts towards ‘remote control’ of asylum seekers – on sea, land, air, and in countries of origin – and the role of law, norms and politics in limiting them."

Publications:

Betraying Family Values: How Immigration Policy at the United States Border is Separating Families (Women's Refugee Commission, LIRS & KIND, March 2017) [text]

"Citizens-in-Waiting, Deportees-in-Waiting: Power, Temporality, and Suffering in the U.S. Asylum System," Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, vol. 45, no. 1 (March 2017) [free full-text]

Former U.S. Officials Reject Revised Refugee Ban Executive Order (Human Rights First, March 2017) [text]

In Trump Presidency, Nearly 2,500 Refugees Have Entered U.S. from Six Travel-restricted Countries (Pew Research, March 2017) [text]

Inhumane Proposal to Separate Women and Children Fleeing Violence Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers (IntLawGrrls Blog, March 2017) [text]

Iraq Is Off the Travel Ban List, but Iraqis Most in Need Not Helped by Trump’s New Order (Just Security Blog, March 2017) [text]

"Is the Chinese Exclusion Case Still Good Law? (The President Is Trying to Find Out)," Nevada Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2017) [preprint via SSRN]

Largest Deportation Campaign in US History is No Match for Trump's Plan (The Conversation, March 2017) [text]

The Legality of the 3/6/17 Executive Order, Part I: The Statutory and Separation of Powers Analyses (Lawfare Blog, March 2017) [text]

The Legality of the 3/6/17 Executive Order, Part II: The Due Process Clause Analysis (Lawfare Blog, March 2017) [text]

President Trump’s Immigration Ban: Unlawful Executive Orders and Bureaucratic Resistance (Forced Migration Forum, March 2017) [text]

Sanctuary 101, Part I: What Trump’s Executive Order Doesn’t Do, Cannot Do, and Has Little to Do with (Lawfare Blog, March 2017) [text]

Sanctuary 101, Part II: What is a “Sanctuary Jurisdiction”? Let's Stop Mystifying the Answer (Lawfare Blog, March 2017) [text]

"Seeking a Rational Approach to a Regional Refugee Crisis: Lessons from the Summer 2014 'Surge' of Central American Women and Children at the US-Mexico Border," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017) [open access]

Speaking Truth to Justice: APLA/PoLAR Respond to the Trump Executive Order on Immigration (Association for Political and Legal Anthropology/PoLAR, Feb. 2017) [access]
- Series of "commentaries from scholars working on the politics and law of borders and migration." 

The 'Travel Ban' Executive Order as Separation-of-Powers Test Case (Just Security Blog, March 2017) [text]

Trump’s Revised Travel Ban Still Mired in Prejudice (Human Rights Watch, March 2017) [text]

Visas and Politics in the Age of Trump (Just Security Blog, March 2017) [text]

What We Know about Illegal Immigration from Mexico (Pew Research, March 2017) [text]

What's Wrong with Trumped-Up Immigration Enforcement Measures, Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 438 (Boston College Law School, March 2017) [text]

"Where Trump Gets His Fuzzy Border Math," New Republic, 10 March 2017 [text]
- Discusses role played by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) in helping to shape anti-immigration public policy.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: United States & Canada (8 March 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Statelessness

Event reminder:

Conference: Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention, Budapest, 4-5 May 2017 [info]
- Registration deadline is 15 March 2017.

Publications:

Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2017 (UNHCR, March 2017) [text]

Child Refugees without Nationality: A Short Overview of Statelessness Policy and Practice in Spain (ENS Blog, Feb. 2017) [text]

CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child, Quick Reference Guide: Statelessness and Human Rights Treaties (UNHCR & Unicef, Jan. 2017) [text]

"Ending Statelessness through Belonging: A Transformative Agenda?," Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 30, no. 4 (Jan. 2016) [free full-text]

Handbook on Statelessness in the OSCE Area: International Standards and Good Practices (OSCE & UNHCR, Feb. 2017) [text]

ICCPR International Covenant on Civil And Political Rights, Quick Reference Guide: Statelessness and Human Rights Treaties (UNHCR, Oct. 2016) [text]

"Living in Limbo: Latvia's 'Non-citizen' Policy Leaves Thousands Feeling Stateless," Vice News, 15 Feb. 2017 [text]

Mapping Statelessness in Austria (UNHCR, Jan. 2017) [text]

Stateless Persons’ Entitlement to Citizenship and Denmark’s Call for Dilution of State Obligations (ENS Blog, March 2017) [text]

"Statelessness Determination: The Swiss Experience," Forced Migration Review, no. 54 (Feb. 2017) [open access]

The Sustainable Development Goals and Addressing Statelessness (UNHCR, March 2017) [text]

"There is an Unlikely Legal Loophole That Lets Stateless Undocumented Immigrants Stay in the US," Quartz, 22 Feb. 2017 [text]

Using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to Help Protect Children from Statelessness in Serbia (ENS Blog, Feb. 2017) [text]

Will Nepal Give Equal Citizenship Rights to Women? (openDemocracy, March 2017) [text]

New network:

Statelessness Network Asia Pacific [access]
- "Our goal is to promote collaboration and information sharing on statelessness in Asia & the Pacific." See also related ENS blog post.


Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Statelessness (3 Feb. 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

"Contentious Entry: LGBTQ Refuge and Asylum," SSA Magazine (Winter 2017) [full-text] [pdf]

"Deported Gay Afghans Told to 'Pretend to be Straight'," The Guardian, 25 Feb. 2017 [text]

France: Series of Decisions on Asylum Claims Related to Sexual Orientation (EDAL, Feb. 2017) [text]

'I am not safe': On the Run as a Gay Man in Afghanistan (openDemocracy, March 2017) [text]

LGBT Refugees and President Trump’s Refugee Ban Executive Order (Human Rights First, March 2017) [text]

"LGBTQ Refugees Seek Better Future in Europe," VOA News, 6 March 2017 [text]

*LGBTQ+ Refugees in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres (The Interpreter Blog, March 2017) [text]

"Needs of a Silent Minority: Mexican Transgender Asylum Seekers," Health Promotion Practice, OnlineFirst, 10 Feb. 2017 [abstract]

Protecting LGBTI Refugees: The Role of Cities (UNU, Jan. 2017) [text]

"The Shibboleth of Discretion: The Discretion, Identity, and Persecution Paradigm in American and Australian LGBT Asylum Claims," Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, vol. 31, o. 2 (2016) [full-text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (10 Jan. 2017)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Children

Event: 

Conference: Separated Children in Judicial Proceedings, Dublin, 30-31 March 2017 [info]

Publications:

British Media Suspicion of Child Refugees Goes Back to the 1930s (The Conversation, March 2017) [text]

Committed to Children: 2016 Syria Crisis Response Annual Review (World Vision, March 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Current Legal Issues in Migration: Unaccompanied Minors – What Have We Learned? (Border Criminologies, March 2017) [text]

Hitting Rock Bottom: How 2016 Became the Worst Year for Syria's Children (Unicef, March 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Institutional Child Abuse in Offshore Processing on Nauru (Border Criminologies, March 2017) [text]

"Is Strategic Litigation a Way of Ensuring that the Rights of Unaccompanied Minors are Fully Considered in Law, Policy and Practice?," Rights in Exile Newsletter, no. 79 (March 2017) [text]

Joint Press Release: New European Union Returns Policies Put Children at Risk (OHCHR et al., March 2017) [text]

Longing to Feel 'Safe and Comfortable': Literature on Unaccompanied Minors from Central America and Mexico - Annotated Bibliography (ISIM, March 2017) [text]

"Migrant, Refugee or Minor? It Matters for Children in Europe," Forced Migration Review, no. 54 (Feb. 2017) [open access]

Protecting Children Affected by the Refugee Crisis from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Council of Europe, March 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Very British Tug of War over Europe’s Child Refugees (openDemocracy, March 2017) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Children (1 March 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: General

Event:

UN panel: Women Caught in the Global Refugee Crisis, New York, 21 March 2017 [info]

Publications:

Evidence-informed Decision-making in a Complex World, London, 6 March 2017 [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

Gaps in Global Advocacy for the Protection of Migrants’ Rights (openDemocracy, March 2017) [text]

The Graduation Approach: The Key to Sustainable Livelihoods for Refugees in Countries of First Asylum? (Forced Migration Forum, March 2017) [text]

How Poor Countries Foot the Refugee Bill (Project Syndicate, Feb. 2017) [text]

Pope Francis, Migration, and the Journey to Human Development and Peace (Huffington Post, March 2017) [text]

Quand les Camps Deviennent des Villes (MSF Crash, March 2017) [text]

"Removing Unauthorised Immigrants is Difficult and Expensive," The Economist, 2 March 2017 [text]

Seeking Refuge: Faith-Based Approaches to Forced Migration, Princeton, NJ, 3-4 March 2017 [info]
- Follow link for summary of conference.

Watch List 2017 (International Crisis Group, Feb. 2017) [text]

"Why the Refugee Crisis is not a Refugee Crisis," Peace in Progress, no. 29 (Nov. 2016) [full-text via Cosmos]


Related post:
- Thematic Focus: General (3 March 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Regional Focus: Europe - Indiv. Countries

Event: 

Conference: Spaces & Places of the Journey to the UK: Assessing the Legal Framework for People Fleeing Conflict, Lincoln, UK, 10 April 2017 [info]
- No registration deadline indicated.

Publications:

Country Reports (AIDA, March 2017)
- Updated reports are now available for Croatia, Ireland and Sweden.

The Dutch Aren’t Turning against Immigration: The Salience of the Immigration Issue is What Drives Wilders’ Support (LSE EUROPP Blog, March 2017) [text]

"La France vue par les réfugiés," La Libération, 6 March 2017 [text]

Greece: Reject EU Pressure on Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch, March 2017) [text]

Home Office Ends Policy of Automatic Settlement for Refugees after Five Years (Free Movement Blog, March 2017) [text]
- See also related Guardian article.

Ignore Donald Trump: These are Sweden’s Real Refugee Integration Challenges (The Conversation, Feb. 2017) [text]

Instrumentalising the Influx of Refugees for Boundary-Change? The Turkish Community in the Pursuit of Social Acceptance in Germany, Working Paper, no. 91 (Sussex Centre for Migration Research, Jan. 2017) [text]

Poland: Draft Amendment to the Law on Protection of Foreigners – Another Step to Seal Europe’s Border (Polish Helsinki Committee, March 2017) [text via ECRE]

Two Homelands, no. 45 (2017) [full-text]
- Focus is on the "refugee/migrant crisis" in Europe. A number of articles focus on Slovenia.

"We have nothing else to sell but our teeth" (openDemocracy, March 2017) [text]
- Chechens seeking asylum in Poland.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe - General (10 March 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Regional Focus: Europe - General

Event:

Elizabeth Colson Lecture: Nostalgia and Legitimacy: Understanding the Externalization of European Migration Policy, Oxford, 10 May 2017 [info]

Publications:

Border Deaths in the Mediterranean: What We Can Learn from the Latest Data (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2017) [text]

The EU’s Migration Cooperation with North Africa: Will the Carrot and Stick Approach Work?

European Agenda on Migration: Commission Presents New Measures for an Efficient and Credible EU Return Policy (European Commission, March 2017) [text]

The European Union Temporary Protection Directive: An Example of Solidarity in Law but not in Practice - A Review of Temporary Protection in the European Union (1990-2015), Working Paper, no. 22 (Refugee Law Initiative, March 2017) [text]
- Scroll to p. 176.

Frontex: Cooperation with Non-EU States (Statewatch, March 2017) [text]

Implementation of the 2015 Council Decisions Establishing Provisional Measures in the Area of International Protection for the Benefit of Italy and of Greece (European Parliament, March 2017) [text via CEPS]

Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees (European Commission) [access]
- Part of the Urban Agenda for the EU; the library includes various reports/papers on refugee reception, housing and integration.

The Lounani Case: When Can a Member of a Terrorist Group be Excluded from Refugee Status? (Free Movement Blog, March 2017) [text]


Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe (8 March 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Regional Focus: Africa

Food Security Overview and Impacts of Food Assistance Cuts on the Central African Refugee Population in Eastern Cameroon (WFP & UNHCR, March 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Getting It Right: Protection of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda (Refugees International, March 2017) [text]

ICRC Submits Evidence to UK Inquiry on Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Response in Central and East Africa (ICRC, Feb. 2017) [text]

Journeys on Hold: How Policy Influences the Migration Decisions of Eritreans in Ethiopia, Working Paper, no. 506 (ODI, March 2017) [text]
- See also related infographic.

The Kampala Convention: Time for Ratification (Justice Matters in Africa Blog, Feb. 2017) [text]

Rwanda: UNHCR Gives Refugees $4m to Go Back Home (AllAfrica.com, March 2017) [text]
- See also related UNHCR press release.

"South African Parliament Hears Public Comments on the Refugees Amendment Bill," Rights in Exile Newsletter, no. 79 (March 2017) [text]

Southern Kaduna: A Critical Look (SBM Intelligence, Feb. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Study on the Onward Movement of Refugees and Asylum-seekers from Ethiopia (UNHCR & Danish Refugee Council, 2016) [text]
- Note: The a/m link will take you to chapter 1; links to the remaining chapters are provided in the bibliographic record.

Tripartite Agreement for the Voluntary Repatriation of Nigerian Refugees Living in Cameroon between the Government of the Republic of Cameroon, the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 2 March 2017 [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Africa (1 March 2017)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Event:

Extra-Ordinary IGAD Summit on Durable Solutions for Somali Refugees, Nairobi, 25 March 2017 [info]
- See also info. re. Technical Experts' Meeting held in advance of the Summit.

Publications:

"After Coming in, Settling in: An Analysis of Early-Stage Acculturation Preferences of Male Syrian and Iraqi Asylum Seekers in Belgium," Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale, vol. 30, no. 1 (Feb. 2017) [open access]

Feds Defend Trump Travel Ban's Refugee Cap (Politico's Under the Radar, March 2017) [text]
- Note: The revised U.S. travel ban maintains a cap of 50,000 annual refugee admissions which is expected to be reached by the end of April; to date, 37,323 refugees have been admitted in the current fiscal year.

If the US Won't Take Refugees, Where Do They Go? (The Conversation, Jan. 2017) [text]
- Note: Less than 1% of the world's refugees are ever resettled.

"Information Behaviour of Refugees: Viewing Refugee Integration through an Information Science Lens," ASIS&T Bulletin, vol. 43, no. 3 (2017) [postprint via Univ. of Strathclyde IR]

The Integration of Migrants and Refugees: An EUI Forum on Migration, Citizenship and Demography (European University Institute, 2017) [text]

"No More Excuses on Resettling Refugees, European Commission Warns," CNN, 2 March 2017 [text]
- See also Tenth Report on Relocation and Resettlement; additional annexes and factsheets available via this European Commission press release.

Refugee Resettlement Facts (UNHCR Canada, March 2017) [text]

Resettling Refugees in Asia and Latin America Would Let Europe Abstain from Its Responsibility (The Conversation, Feb. 2017) [text]

"Responsibility Sharing for Refugees: Now Is the Time to Increase, not Decrease, Refugee Resettlement Worldwide," Rights in Exile Newsletter, no. 79 (March 2017) [text]

Tripartite Agreement for the Voluntary Repatriation of Nigerian Refugees Living in Cameroon between the Government of the Republic of Cameroon, the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 2 March 2017 [text via ReliefWeb]
- Note: Other Tripartite Agreements relating to voluntary repatriation are available via Refworld.

The UK Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis (House of Commons Library, Feb. 2017) [text]

"Why Do Majority Members Prefer Immigrants Who Adopt the Host Culture? The Role of Perceived Identification with the Host Nation," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 55 (Nov. 2016) [preprint via ResearchGate]

"Working Together: Building Successful Policy and Program Partnerships for Immigrant Integration," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017) [open access]

World Mayor 2016 Honours Mayors for Services to Integration and Refugees (City Mayors, Feb. 2017) [access]
- See also related Guardian news story.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Solutions (9 Feb. 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Assessing the Climate Change Environmental Degradation and Migration Nexus in South Asia (IOM, Jan. 2017) [text]

"A Complex Social-ecological Disaster: Environmentally Induced Forced Migration," Disaster Health, vol. 3, no. 4 (2016) [free full-text]

Famine's Final Blow: Somali Refugees Trapped by Climate (Regional MMS, Feb. 2017) [text]

"How Can Migration Serve Adaptation to Climate Change? Challenges to Fleshing Out a Policy Ideal," The Geographical Journal, Early View, 10 Feb. 2017 [full-text via IOM]

Major Natural Catastrophes in 2016: Economic Impact and Insured Losses Due to Natural Disasters (Willis Re, 2017) [text via PreventionWeb]

"Millions of People Displaced by Environmental Change: Jane McAdam," ABC Australia, 9 March 2017 [access]
- Follow link for podcast and interview transcript.

Positioned for Action: Displacement in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDMC, Feb. 2017) [text]

Trump’s Controversial Views Combine on the Security Issue of Climate Refugees (Lawfare Blog, Feb. 2017) [text]

"Vulnerability and Climate Change Induced Human Displacement," Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, vol. 17, no. 1 (2017) [open access]

"With Millions Displaced by Climate Change or Extreme Weather, Is There a Role for Labor Migration Pathways?," Migration Information Source, 3 Feb. 2017 [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change (31 Jan. 2017)

Tagged Publications.

Regional Focus: United States & Canada

"The 2,000 Mile Wall in Search of a Purpose: Since 2007 Visa Overstays have Outnumbered Undocumented Border Crossers by a Half Million," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, no. 1 (2017) [open access]

*"America’s Forgotten History of Illegal Deportations," The Atlantic, 6 March 2017 [text]

CFR Backgrounder: How Does the U.S. Refugee System Work? (Council on Foreign Relations, Feb. 2017) [text]

"Deciding Who's Legitimate: News Media Framing of Immigrants and Refugees," International Journal of Communication, vol. 11 (2017) [open access]
- Focus is on Canada.

*Deconstructing Trump’s Security Defense of His Immigration Ban (Cato at Liberty Blog, March 2017) [text]

"Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States," Migration Information Source, 8 March 2017 [text]

*"Inside Immigration Court: Are Deportation Hearings in the Bay Area Unconstitutional?," East Bay Express, 7 March 2017 [text]

A New Type of EAD Denial (The Asylumist Blog, March 2017) [text]

"Number of Asylum Claimants Up, but Officials Won’t Call It a Trend: What You Need to Know about What’s Happening at the Canada-U.S. Border," Maclean's, 2 March 2017 [text]

The Real News Behind Negative Polls (Niskanen Center Blog, Feb. 2017) [text]

Refugees in Canada Rely on Welfare, Odd Jobs to Repay Debt to Federal Government (Huffington Post, March 2017) [text]

The Significance and Future of the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement in Donald Trump’s America (TheCourt.ca, Feb. 2017) [text]

"Since Trump, Quiet Upstate Road Becomes a Busy Exit From U.S.," New York Times, 7 March 2017 [text]

*Supposed FBI Investigations into Refugees Shouldn’t Scare You (Cato at Liberty Blog, March 2017) [text]

The Terrorist Tactics of the Anti-Terrorism Executive Order (The Asylumist Blog, March 2017) [text]

TESL Canada Journal, vol. 33, no. 10 (2016) [open access]
- Special issue on "Refugees in Canada: ESL for Resilience and Empowerment."

Trump’s Immigration Executive Orders: The Demise of Due Process and Discretion (The Conversation, March 2017) [text]

*"Trump’s New Ban Leaves Few Spots for Refugees, Even the Hunted," New York Times, 7 March 2017 [text]

*"The Underground Railroad for Refugees," The New Yorker, 13 March 2017 (print issue) [text]

Undocumented Immigrants' State & Local Tax Contributions (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, March 2017) [text]

Violations at the Border: The El Paso Sector (Human Rights First, Feb. 2017) [text]

What the Data Tells Us about Immigration and Terrorism (Brennan Center for Justice, Feb. 2017) [text]

"Why Hawaii Leads the Latest Legal Challenge to Trump's Travel Ban," Christian Science Monitor, 8 March 2017 [text]

Why Mass Deportations are Costly and Hurt the Economy (The Conversation, Feb. 2017) [text]

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Related posts:
- News: Revised U.S. Travel Ban (7 March 2017)
- Regional Focus: Americas, incl. U.S. (3 March 2017)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Publications:

"Are Refugees Good for the Economy?," Global Citizen, 19 Feb. 2017 [text]

EU Rural Development Policy and the Integration of Migrants (EPRS, Feb. 2017) [text]
- Podcast also available via a/m link.

"How Economists are Fueling the Global Debate over Refugees," Bloomberg, 17 Feb. 2017 [text]

Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity, Working Paper, no. 17-064 (Harvard Business School, Jan. 2017 [text]

Immigration Policy as a Jobs Program (Niskanen Center Blog, Feb. 2017) [text]

Improving the Labour Market Integration of Migrants and Refugees: Empowering Cities through Better Use of EU Instruments (Migration Policy Institute, March 2017) [text]

In Search of Work - Creating Jobs for Syrian Refugees: A Case Study of the Jordan Compact (International Rescue Committee, Feb. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Over 200 Economists Say Trump is Wrong on Immigration," CNN, 6 March 2017 [text]

Settling Better: Reforming Refugee Employment and Settlement Services (Centre for Policy Development, Feb. 2017) [text]
- See also related Guardian report.

"Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation," IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 6:4 (Feb. 2017) [open access]
- See also related CGD blog post.

Want a Stronger Economy? Give Immigrants a Warm Welcome (The Conversation, Feb. 2017) [text]

The Work Permit Initiative for Syrian Refugees in Jordan: Implications for Policy and Practice (Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies, Feb. 2017) [text]

Resources:

Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) [access]
- "TERN supports refugees in realising their ambition of starting a business. Whether you have an idea, a plan or an existing business TERN will support you to build, grow and scale-up your business. We aim to help refugees help themselves by becoming self-sustainable." See also related Guardian news story.

StepUp (Danish Refugee Council) [access]
- "A new digital platform designed to link Syrian refugees with potential employers worldwide was launched...[to help] refugees overcome barriers such as language and lack of connections in local job markets."

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (9 Feb. 2017)

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

Regional Focus: Europe

Can't Stay. Can't Go.: Refused Asylum Seekers Who Cannot be Returned (British Red Cross, March 2017) [text]
- See also related ENS blog post.

Comment on Paposhvili v Belgium and the Temporal Scope of Risk Assessment (EJIL:Talk Blog, Feb. 2017) [text]

Country Reports (AIDA, March 2017)
- Six more updated reports are available on Cyprus, Italy, Malta, The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom.

EU Court Leaves the Granting of Humanitarian Visas with Member States (ECRE, March 2017) [text]
- See also related VoxEurop story.

"How Some European Countries are Tightening Their Refugee Policies," CNN, 22 Feb. 2017 [text]

"Introducing Our New Series on Refugees after Their Arrival in Europe," The Guardian, 1 March 2017 [text]

Odysseus Annual Conference 2017: Beyond ‘Crisis’? The State of Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in the EU, Brussels, 10 Feb. 2017 - An Overview (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, March 2017) [text]

The Refugee Archipelago: The Inside Story of What Went Wrong in Greece (Refugees Deeply, March 2017) [text]

Risk Analysis for 2017 (Frontex, Feb. 2017) [text]

"Securing the Borders against Syrian Refugees: When Non-Admission Means Return," Yale Journal of International Law (Forthcoming; posted March 2017) [preprint via SSRN]

Trump’s Immigration Ban and Europe: The Courage to Raise a Mirror and Look Beyond It (Forced Migration Forum, March 2017) [text]

"The Truth Behind the So-called 'Success' of the Migration Partnership Framework," Rights in Exile Newsletter, no. 79 (March 2017) [full-text]

What do Europeans Think about Muslim Immigration? (Chatham House, Feb. 2017) [text]

A Year of Immigration in the White-tops (SubScribe, March 2017) [text]
- I'm not sure what "white-tops" means, but this study looked at "all of last year’s coverage of immigration, race relations and the treatment of foreigners (with some exceptions, detailed on the right) by [the Daily Mail and the Daily Express]."

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe (28 Feb. 2017)

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