Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Blog posts & press:

Addressing human trafficking among refugees and internally displaced persons in Uganda: a role for human rights treaty bodies? (Irish Centre for Human Rights Blog, July 2022) [text]

Hidden in Plain Sight: Trafficking in Forced Displacement Contexts (Irish Centre for Human Rights Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

"How European courts are wrongfully prosecuting asylum seekers as smugglers," The New Humanitarian, 1 Sept. 2022 [text]

"How many Ukrainian refugees have been trafficked? We won’t know for years," Washington Post, 22 July 2022 [text]

Tackling the Climate Change-Migration-Human Trafficking Nexus in the East and Horn of Africa: Signs of Promise in the Kampala Declaration on Migration, Environment and Climate Change? (RLI Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, 30 July 2022 [info]

- The theme was "Use and abuse of technology." See also related UNHCR press release.

Reports:

At risk: exploitation and the UK asylum system (UNHCR & British Red Cross, Aug. 2022) [text via EIN]

Contact between smugglers and refugees and migrants in West and North Africa (Mixed Migration Centre, Aug. 2022) [text]

Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage (ILO, IOM & Walk Free Foundation, Sept. 2022) [text]

- See also related press release; executive summaries are also available in English, Chinese, French, Italian and Spanish.

Mapping of Protection Services for Vulnerable People on the Move, Including Victims of Trafficking, on Routes Toward the Central and Western Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic (UNHCR, July 2022) [text]

North Korean Female Defectors in China: Human Trafficking and Exploitation (E-International Relations, Aug. 2022) [text]

Trafficking in Persons Report 2022 (US Dept. of State, July 2022) [access]

- The introductory essay focuses on "Survivor Engagement in the Anti-trafficking Field: History, Lessons Learned, and Looking Forward." 

Multimedia:

Challenging Smuggling Myths on the U.S. Mexico Border: A Podcast with Anthropologist Gabriella Sanchez (Border Chronicle, Sept. 2022) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (20 July 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

How migrants who move between Zimbabwe and South Africa access healthcare in border towns (The Conversation, Sept. 2022) [text]

Migrants in South Africa have access to healthcare: why it’s kicking up a storm (The Conversation, Aug. 2022) [text]

Who are the ‘returnees’ in South Sudan? (Research & Evidence Facility Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Access to Clean Energy for refugees: Rwanda Case Studies (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

- See also related leaflet.

Access to Clean Energy for refugees: Uganda Case Studies (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

- See also related leaflet.

Reaching internally displaced persons in Mangalla settlement through an integrated response: The journey continues to enhance resilience (World Vision, Sept. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Region on the Move 2021: East and Horn of Africa (IOM, Aug. 2022) [text]

Ripping off the Band Aid: Putting people at the centre of the humanitarian system (Christian Aid, Aug. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on East Africa.

Journal articles:

"The African Union's humanitarian policies: A closer look at Africa's regional institutions and practice," International Review of the Red Cross, FirstView, 7 Sept. 2022 [full-text]

"COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among non-refugees and refugees in Kenya," PLOS Global Public Health 2(8): e0000917 (Aug. 2022) [open access]

"Destination Substitution and Social Networks among Urban Refugees in Kampala, Uganda," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 8, no. 2 (May-Aug. 2022) [full-text]

"Picking Up the Pieces: Social Capital, Psycho-Social Support and Livelihood Recovery of Displaced Populations in Northeast Nigeria," Journal of Development Studies, vol. 58, no. 6 (2022) [postprint]

- Note: Access to the complete text is currently under embargo until 27 Aug. 2023.

"Refugees welcome? Inter-group interaction and host community attitude formation," World Development, vol. 161 (Jan. 2023) [open access]

- Focuses on East Africa.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (25 Aug. 2022)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

Asia-Pacific Migration Data Report 2021 (IOM, Aug. 2022) [text]

Future Ready: Opportunities to reform the Bali Process (Centre for Policy Development, July 2022) [text]

Health Access and Services for Urban Refugee Communities During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Community Findings (Asylum Access, Sept. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Thailand.

"How can humanitarian services provision during mass displacement better support health systems? An exploratory qualitative study of humanitarian service provider perspectives in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 6 (2022) [open access]

"Linking Land and Sea: Intersections between Indigenous Peoples’ Dispossession and Asylum Seekers’ Containment by Australia," Migration and Society, Online First, 1 Sept. 2022 [open access]

Needs and priorities of Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar since 2017: What has changed? (ACAPS, Aug. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

*"A New History of Refugee Protection in Post-World War Two Southeast Asia: Lessons from the Global South," Asian Journal of International Law, FirstView, 26 Aug. 2022 [ResearchGate]

"Refugees in Malaysia: Protection Framework, Challenges, and Implications," Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law, vol. 9, no. 2 (2021) [open access] 

Multimedia:

Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis and the Way Ahead One Year After the Fall, 18 Aug. 2022 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (19 Sept. 2022) 

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

"Afghan Refugees Face Uncertainty in Central Asia," The Diplomat, 8 Sept. 2022 [text]

- See also related UNHCR press release.

"Boosting refugee and migrant voices in South Asia – a path forward," DW, 31 Aug. 2022 [text]

Data and Judicial Impartiality (Australian Public Law Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

"Diego Garcia: Where the Refugee Convention doesn’t apply," The New Humanitarian, 15 Sept. 2022 [text]

- Focuses on Tamil asylum seekers.

"How Australia’s ‘luck of the draw’ asylum system is leaving vulnerable people in limbo for years," The Guardian, 10 Sept. 2022 [text]

"India Needs to Enact a Domestic Refugee Law," The Diplomat, 7 Sept. 2022 [text]

"Japan’s Refugee System on Trial: Treatment of Ukrainians Belies Refugee Protection Principles," Nippon.com, 26 Aug. 2022 [text]

The right tools for a coherent regional response to forced migration (The Interpreter Blog, Sept, 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the Bali Process.

Stateless Rohingya continue to struggle for survival in Myanmar (UN Country Team in Myanmar, Sept. 2022) [text]

Strengthening Grassroots Advocacy in India in the COVID Era (Kaldor Centre, Sept. 2022) [text]

The World Should Protect Afghan Refugees Fleeing the Taliban’s Oppression (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Rohingya Crisis (26 Aug. 2022)

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (17 Aug. 2022)

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2 (17 Aug. 2022)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Navigating the European Migration Regime: Male Migrants, Interrupted Journeys and Precarious Lives (Bristol Univ. Press, Aug. 2022) [open access]

- "Amid the heavy politicisation and problematisation of male migrants in Europe, this ethnographic study casts new light on their experiences, struggles and everyday resistance. The author follows the journeys of those who seek, but have little hope of achieving, permanent residence status in European countries, tracking their successive migrations, detentions and deportations within and beyond the continent. She explores migrants’ tactics, the impact of precarity on their lives and the dual feelings of enduring hope and powerless vulnerability they experience."

Journal articles:

*"Assisted Voluntary Return & Reintegration Policies and Programmes in Four EU Countries: France, Germany, Italy and Spain," Italian Sociological Review, vol. 12, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"A comparison of interpreters’ wellbeing and work-related characteristics in the care of refugees across different work settings," BMC Public Health, 22:1365 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Germany.

"Judicial Interactions on the European Return Directive: Shifting Borders and the Constitutionalisation of Irregular Migration Governance," European Papers, vol. 7, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, vol. 24, no. 3 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Entangled Temporalities of Migration in the Western Balkans. Ethnographic Perspectives on (Im)-mobilities and Reception Governance."

"Print Rights with a Thousand Masks: Migrant Vulnerability, Resistance and Human Rights Law," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 38, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

- Focuses on The Netherlands.

"Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece," European Journal of Social Work, Latest Articles, 1 Sept. 2022 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (8 Sept. 2022)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Advanced ELENA Course 2022: Legal Challenges and emerging opportunities, Riga, 28-29 October 2022 [info] 

- Register by 3 October 2022.

Blog posts:

Making our voices heard against the hostile environment (RLI Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Promotion as migration politics: A dark side of the State’s promotional strategies? (Media@LSE Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Safe in Scotland: A Pandemic-Era Alternative to institutional asylum accommodation (RLI Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Sunak’s “ten-point plan” for asylum: legal illiteracy and policy statements in search of a problem (RLI Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Reports:

The EU Screening Regulation Proposal and the Right to Asylum: Cementing Fortress Europe?, RLI Working Paper No. 64 (Refugee Law Initiative, Sept. 2022) [text]

Impact of Covid-19 on asylum procedures in EU Member States (European Parliament, Sept. 2022) [text]

*Persons Fleeing from the War in Ukraine and the Future of Emergency Protection, Status and Rights (SSRN, July 2022) [text]

Ukrainian Homecoming: A Study of Refugee Returns from Poland, July–August 2022 (Norwegian Refugee Council, Sept. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

"We Had No Choice": "Filtration" and the Crime of Forcibly Transferring Ukrainian Civilians to Russia (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2022) [text]

Who’s Paying the Price? The Human Cost of the Rwanda Scheme (Medical Justice, Sept. 2022) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (26 Aug. 2022)

 

Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

Argentina’s Welcome of Venezuelan Migrants (RI Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

Venezuelan refugees find only misery on the ‘happy island’ of Aruba (openDemocracy, Aug. 2022) [text]

An X-ray of Central American Migration (Latin America & Caribbean Blog, July 2022) [text]

New open access book:

Migration in South America: IMISCOE Regional Reader (Springer, Aug. 2022) [open access]

- "This open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks at conceptual discussions on mixed and survival migration, the link between migration and extractivism, and the specific character of transit migration. A second part examines how these debates have led to transformations in state policies, and the shift in government policies from a human rights-based approach towards more restrictive ones. Finally, the third section revisits the relationship between racism, xenophobia and colonialism in contemporary migrations."

Reports & journal articles:

Capacidad de proyectos a nivel departamental para la atención de población refugiada y migrante proveniente de Venezuela (R4V, Aug. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Colombia.

Crisis de protección en el norte de Centroamérica, México y Panamá, REDLAC Boletín, no. 18 (Norwegian Refugee Council et al., Sept. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Evaluation of the Somos Panas Colombia Communication Campaign, ES/2021/09 (UNHCR, Jan. 2022) [text]

Guide for adequate housing in response to refugees and migrants from Venezuela in Latin America and the Caribbean (R4V, Sept. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Hard Times in a Safe Haven: Protecting Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia, Latin America Report, no. 94 (International Crisis Group, Aug. 2022) [access]

- Follow link for report in English and Spanish.

"Managing Irregularized Migration in Mexico: Rhetoric of a Renewed Approach," Journal of Borderlands Studies, Latest Articles, 25 Aug. 2022 [open access]

Organizaciones de personas migrantes y refugiadas venezolanas en Latinoamérica y Caribe (IOM, 2021) [text]

"Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws," American Political Science Review, FirstView, 6 Sept. 2022 [open access]

UNHCR Country Strategy Evaluation: Mexico, 2017-2021, ES/2022/06 (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

- See also management response (.zip file).

"When the stars aligned: ideational strategic alliances and the critical juncture of Argentina’s 2004 Migration Law," Third World Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 7 (2022) [free full-text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (5 Aug. 2022)

Opportunities: A Few More Sept. 2022 & New Oct. 2022

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]

- Contributions sought for workshop and subsequent thematic issue on "Mobilising for rights in the MENA region." Submit article proposals by 20 September 2022.

Job announcement: MMC Research Assistant, Nairobi [info]

- Focuses on East and Southern Africa. Apply by 21 September 2022.

Launch: Forced Migration Review, 28 September 2022 [info]

- Thematic issue on "Knowledge, Voice and Power."

Call for applications: Fellowship, Migration and Technology Monitor [info]

- Submit expression of interest by 30 September 2022.

Call for applications: Statelessness Intensive Course 2023, 15-21 February 2023 [info]

- Submission deadline is 30 September 2022.

Call for registration: Internal Displacement Conference, Geneva, 24 October 2022 [info]

- Register by 30 September 2022.

Call for proposals: Special Issues of Migration Studies [info]

- Submission deadline is 1 October 2022.

CFP: Statelessness and Citizenship Review [info]

- Submission deadline is 1 October 2022.

Call for registration: Advanced ELENA Course 2022: Legal Challenges and emerging opportunities, Riga, 28-29 October 2022 [info] 

- Register by 3 October 2022.

Event: 73rd Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, Geneva, 10-14 October 2022 [info]

- Note: The session will also be webcast.

Call for proposals: Establishing Research Chairs on Forced Displacement in North and West Africa [info]

- Submission deadline is 14 October 2022.

CFP: Recognising Refugees, Refugee Studies Centre Conference 2023, Oxford, 20-21 March 2023 [info]

- Deadline for submitting panel & paper proposals is 31 October 2022.

Related post:

- Opportunities: More Aug. & Sept. 2022

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Reports:

"An American Catastrophe: The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy," The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2022 [English version] [Spanish version]

- See also related interview.

Child labour within the Syrian refugee response: 2020 Stocktaking Report (UNHCR, May 2021; posted Aug. 2022) [text]

Documenting the Impact of Cross-border Case Management for Children on the Move in Southern Africa (Save the Children, 2022) [access]

- Follow link for report and brief.

"Erroneous age assessment of young asylum seekers," Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, no. 11 (2022) [full-text]

- Focuses on Norway.

Guía operativa para la aplicación del interés superior de la niñez y adolescencia en contextos de movilidad humana (UNHCR et al., July 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"An Intersectional Approach to Alternative Care Models: A Case Study of Asylum-Seeking Children at the Makeni Transit Centre in Zambia," York Law Review, vol. 3 (Summer 2022) [full-text]

"Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey," Citizenship Studies, Latest Articles, 28 July 2022 [open access]

"How do diplomats separate refugee families in Brazil?," Routed Magazine, no. OMC22 (2022) [text]

"Predictors of psychological risk and resilience among Syrian refugee children," Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Early View, 12 July 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Lebanon. See also related news release.

"Promoting an Understanding of Forced Migration Among Host Country Children and Exploring Their Views on Refugee Children’s Needs," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Latest Articles, 24 Aug. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (28 July 2022)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & press:

"The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval," The Guardian, 18 Aug. 2022 [text]

Collaborative Solutions to Protect the Environment and Refugees (UNHCR Innovation Service, Aug. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Bangladesh.

More children are having to migrate because of climate change: Here are 9 principles the UN proposes for protecting them (World Economic Forum Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

Taking Care of the Environment and the Lives That Rely on It (UNHCR Innovation Service, Aug. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Bangladesh.

What Satellite Data Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About Climate-Affected Migration (CGD Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

Why we should abandon the concept of the ‘climate refugee’ (The Conversation, Aug. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Climate change, conflict and displacement: five key misconceptions (ODI, Sept. 2022) [text]

On Whose Door Do We Knock? Preparing for, preventing and reducing climate displacement in coastal cities: A practical checklist for municipal and national officials (Displacement Solutions, Sept. 2022) [text]

Planned Relocation in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change: A Guide for Asia Pacific National Societies (IFRC, Aug. 2022) [text]

The State-of-the-art on Drought Displacement Modelling (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Sept. 2022) [text]

“La tormenta perfecta”: desplazamientos internos por desastres durante la pandemia por COVID-19 en países latinoamericanos y caribeños, en clave de género, RID Working Paper, no. 28 (Researching Internal Displacement, July 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"Analyzing the 27 July 2021 rainfall-induced catastrophic landslide event in the Kutupalong Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh," Geoenvironmental Disasters, 9:17 (Aug. 2022) [open access]

"Exploring the Drivers of Vulnerability Among Disadvantaged Internal Migrants in Riverbank Erosion Prone Areas in North-West Bangladesh," Journal of South Asian Development, vol. 17, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 14 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Climate Mobilities: Migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate." All articles except one are open access.

"The role of environmental factors and other migration drivers from the perspective of Moroccan and Congolese migrants in Belgium," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:36 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (12 Aug. 2022)

New Issues of AHMR, Am. Lit. Hist., Area, Disaster, Intl. Aff., Intl. Comm. Law Rev., Intl. J. Discr. & Law, JEMS, Pallas, Refuge, REMI

*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 - 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.

African Human Mobility Review, vol. 8, no. 2 (May-Aug. 2022) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

American Literary History, vol. 34, no. 3 (Fall 2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees." The introduction is freely available.

Area, vol. 54, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [contents]

- Features a special section on "Camp methodologies: The 'how' of studying camps." The introduction and another article are open access.

Disasters, vol. 46, no. 3 (July 2022) [contents]

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

International Affairs Archive Collection: 100 years of refugees and migration [access]

- "This collection brings together 20 articles that have shaped academia and policy-making on these topics over the course of International Affairs’ first century."

*International Community Law Review, vol. 24, no. 4 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Regime Interaction and 'Unwanted Migration': From Hostility to Emancipation." The introduction is freely available and two articles are open access.

*International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, vol. 22, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Contesting And Undoing Discriminatory Borders." The introduction and two articles are open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 12 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Regions in Global Migration Governance." The introduction is freely available and three articles are open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 13 (2022) [contents]

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

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 14 (2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Climate Mobilities: Migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate." All articles except one are open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 15 (2022) [contents]

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

Pallas: Revue d’Études Antiques, no. 112 (2020) [open access]

- Special issue on “Political Refugees in the Ancient Greek World.” Note that while the publication date is 2020, the issue was published July 2022.

Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 38, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

- Mix of articles and book reviews.

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 38, nos. 1&2 (2022) [delayed open access]

- This issue features a dossier on "COVID-19, migrations et parcours. Des mobilités aux prismes de l’immobilité : paradoxes et réalités." Articles become open access after a year.

Tagged Periodicals.

Thematic Focus: General

Blog posts:

‘On the case’: methodological and ethical challenges of using casefiles as sources for refugee history (Refugee History Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Some refugees stay in temporary status indefinitely – how they still manage to create homes and communities (The Conversation, Aug. 2022) [text]

New open access book:

Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses: The Power of Togetherness (Routledge, Sept. 2022) [open access]

- This volume "explores and promotes the power of groupwork for refugees and survivors of human rights abuses in a range of contexts. Drawing on multiple theoretical approaches, the book features chapters from practitioners running groups in different settings, such as torture rehabilitation services, refugee camps, and reception centres. The voices of participants demonstrate the variety, creativity, and value of group and community approaches for recovery. The editors have gathered chapters into three sections covering: community-based approaches; groups that work through the medium of 'body and soul'; and group approaches that focus on change through the spoken word."

Reports & journal articles:

73rd session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, 10-14 October 2022 [access]

- The draft agenda and some documents have been posted; additional documents will be made available throughout the month.

Directrices y Posiciones de país de ACNUR (UNHCR, April 2022) [text]

"Disentangling entangled mobilities: reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:33 (2022) [open access]

Pallas: Revue d’Études Antiques, no. 112 (2020) [open access]

- Special issue on “Political Refugees in the Ancient Greek World.” Note that while the publication date is 2020, the issue was published July 2022.

"Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:34 (2022) [open access]

- The article looks at "three different locations, namely refugee asylum homes in Germany, hotspots on the Greek islands as well as one refugee camp in Kenya."

"A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:35 (2022) [open access]

Serving and Protecting Together: IOM/UNHCR Framework of Engagement (June 2022) [text]

Multimedia:

Reflections at 100: Refugees and migration (Chatham House, Aug. 2022) [access]

Resource:

Archive Collection: 100 years of refugees and migration (International Affairs) [access]

- "This collection brings together 20 articles that have shaped academia and policy-making on these topics over the course of International Affairs’ first century."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (18 Aug. 2022)

Admin: September Break

Just a head's up that posts will be intermittent this week and on pause the following! Back to a regular schedule mid-month. 

New Issue of RSQ

A special issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) has been published. The theme of vol. 41, no. 3, Sept. 2022 is "Women in Refugee Law, Policy and Practice." Contents include:

• Women in Refugee Law, Policy and Practice: An Introduction to the Refugee Survey Quarterly Special Issue [open access]
• Saving Brown Women from Brown Men? “Refugee Women”, Gender and the Racialised Politics of Protection [open access]
• “Our Wish Is To Be Human Again”: Refugee Women Speaking Up and Taking Space [free full-text]
• Pathways to Refugee Protection for Women: Victims of Violence or Genuine Lesbians? [open access]
• Women Refugees and the Development of US Asylum Law: 1980-present [abstract]
• Non-State Actors of Protection and the Sliding Scale of Protection for Refugee Women [open access]
• “An Unhappy Interlude”: Trivialisation and Privatisation of Forced Marriage in Asylum-Seeker Women’s Cases in the UK [open access]
• Navigating the Intersection of Scepticism, Gender Blindness, and Ethnocentricity in the Asylum Tribunal: the Urgent Case For Empathy Enhancement [abstract]
• Refugee Women and the Gendered Violence of Australia’s Extraterritorial Asylum Regime on Nauru [abstract]
• Concluding Reflections from the former UNHRC Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences (2009–15) [abstract]

Tagged Periodicals.

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 September 2022, while part 2 lists titles published in August 2022 as well as new legal and open access texts.

Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (31 Aug. 2022)

This is a round-up of open access materials produced by authors based in the Global South (GS) and other geographic areas that are less well-represented in the domain of scholarly forced migration literature. Generally, articles are included if either the lead author or at least half of the co-authors are based in the GS. These references are organized by type of open access. The OA items herein were previously referenced on this blog as of 1 Aug. 2022.

Diamond OA:

"El asilo en disputa: estrategias violentas de sujeción durante el gobierno de Donald Trump," Frontera Norte, vol. 34 (2022)

- Author = Mexico

"Claiming Space and Contesting Gendered Refugeehood in Exile: Issues and Factors of Rohingya Refugee Women’s Civic Engagement in Diaspora," International Quarterly for Asian Studies, vol. 53, no. 2 (2022)

- Authors (2) = Germany (lead), Bangladesh

"Genealogía del régimen internacional de asilo: ¿control o protección?," Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, vol. XXII (Jan.-Dec. 2022)

- Author = Mexico

"Habitar en tierra ajena: estudio sobre las condiciones de vida de mujeres migrantes venezolanas en Colombia," Revista Latinoamericana Estudios de la Paz y el Conflicto, vol. 3, no. 5 (2022)

- Authors (2) = Colombia

"Migrar en pandemia y con fronteras cerradas: Trayectos de familias migrantes y solicitantes de asilo hasta Argentina," Cuestión Urbana, no. 11 (2022)

- Authors (2) = Argentina

"Perceptions of Returnees Concerning Their Rehabilitation and Reinstatement in Swat District, Pakistan: An Evaluative Study," Journal of Population and Social Studies, vol. 30 (2022)

- Authors (3) = Malaysia (2, incl. lead), Saudi Arabia (1)

"Repatriation of South Sudanese Refugees from the West Nile Districts, Uganda: What Do We Learn from the Process?," African Health Sciences, vol. 22, no. 2 (2022)

- Authors (2) = Uganda

Gold OA:

Note: Article processing charges (APCs) and other fees are indicated below; waivers are generally offered by gold OA journals but the waiver status of the authors listed below is unknown.

"Cash-like Vouchers Improve Psychological Well-being of Vulnerable and Displaced Persons Fleeing Armed Conflict," PNAS Nexus, vol. 1, no. 3 (July 2022)

- Authors (4) = US (lead), DRC (1), UAE (1), Netherlands (1)

- APC = USD 4000

"Examining the Substance Use, Violence, and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) Syndemic among Urban Refugee Youth in Kampala, Uganda: Cross-sectional Survey Findings," BMJ Global Health, vol. 7, suppl. 5 (July 2022)

- Authors (7) = Canada (2, incl. lead), US/Uganda (2), Uganda (3)

- APC =  GBP 3000 

"Identity, Trust, and the Experiences of Refugees during a COVID-19 Lockdown," PLoS ONE 17(8): e0271977 (Aug. 2022)

- Authors (3) = Malaysia/US (2), Malaysia (1)

- APC = USD 1805

"Self-Confidence of Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneurs in Colombia," Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 7 (July 2022)

- Authors (2) = Colombia

- APC = CHF 1400 

"Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Syrian Refugees in Jordan: A Jordanians’ Perspective," Heliyon, vol. 8, no. 8 (Aug. 2022)

- Authors (2) = Jordan

- APC = USD 1950

"Umma and the Nation-state: Dilemmas in Refuge Ethics," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:17 (Aug. 2022)

- Authors (2) = Turkey (lead), Qatar (1)

- APC = USD 790

"Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Practices and Outreach Services in Settlements for Rohingya Population in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 2018–2021," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 15 (Aug. 2022)

- Authors (13) = Bangladesh

- APC = CHF 2500 

Green OA:

"The Detention of Migrant Children: A Comparative Study of the United States and Mexico," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 32, no. 2 (June 2020)

- Postprint version deposited in the Temple Univ. IR (US) 

- Authors (2) = US (lead), Mexico

Hybrid OA:

Note: Article processing charges (APCs) are indicated below; waivers are not available for hybrid OA APCs.

"Is Translocality a Hidden Solution to Overcome Protracted Displacement in the DR Congo?," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 28 July 2022

- Authors (6) = Netherlands (lead), DRC (5)

- APC = USD 3605

"A Matter of Time and Contacts: Trans-local Networks and Long-term Mobility of Eritrean Refugees," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 28 July 2022

- Authors (3) = Ethiopia (2, incl. lead), Germany (1)

- APC = USD 3605

"Mobility and Legal Infrastructure for Ukrainian Refugees," International Migration, vol. 60, no. 4 (Aug. 2022) 

- Authors (2) = Denmark (lead), Brazil

- APC = USD 3300

"'The war has divided us more than ever': Syrian Refugee Family Networks and Social Capital for Mobility through Protracted Displacement in Jordan," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 28 July 2022

- Authors (3) = Norway (lead), Jordan (2)

- APC = USD 3605

Related post:

- Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (31 July 2022)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Blog posts & press:

"Australia Urged to Speed Up Afghan Humanitarian Resettlement Process," VOA News, 16 Aug. 2022 [text]

How an Afghan refugee’s experience can inform our support for Ukrainian refugees (The Hill, Aug. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Poland’s warm welcome to about 2 million Ukrainian refugees draws global praise, but it might not be sustainable (The Conversation, Aug. 2022) [text]

Will Ukrainian Refugees Return Home? (Focus Ukraine Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Aceptación, adaptación y adopción: La clave para que los refugiados colombianos en Nueva Zelanda superen las barreras de la pertenencia," Pensamiento Americano, vol. 15, no. 29 (2022) [open access]

Asylum and refugee resettlement in the UK (Migration Observatory, Aug. 2022) [text]

"Community and Private Sponsorship of Refugees in the USA: Rebirth of a Model," Journal of Policy Practice and Research, 13 Aug. 2022 [abstract]

- See also related UConn Today article.

The Effects of Sponsorship on Public Attitudes and Social Connection (Univ. of Ottawa, March 2022) [text]

- See also related literature round-up.

Foundations for Belonging 2022 - Insights on newly arrived refugees: Family separation and reunion during the pandemic (Settlement Services International, April 2022) [text]

- See also related news release. Focuses on Australia.

"Mobility and legal infrastructure for Ukrainian refugees," International Migration, vol. 60, no. 4 (Aug. 2022) [open access]

Rebuilding a Principled and Strategic Refugee Program: Response to the Australian Government Discussion Paper on the 2022-23 Humanitarian Program (Refugee Council of Australia, Aug. 2022) [text]

"Repatriation of South Sudanese refugees from the West Nile districts, Uganda: What do we learn from the process?," African Health Sciences, vol. 22, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

UNHCR Appeals for Support as Refugees Needing Urgent Resettlement Exceed 2 Million: Report on Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement, 20-22 June 2022 (Refugee Council of Australia, Aug. 2022) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (15 Aug. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Education

Blog posts & press:

How Schools Welcome Newly Arrived Immigrant and Refugee Students (Immigration Impact Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Refugee voices must drive refugee education (World Vision, Aug. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

Reports:

Background Paper: Distance Education in Emergencies (Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies, Aug. 2022) [text]

The Impact of COVID-19 on Education and Youth Well-Being in the Dadaab Refugee Camps, LERRN Working Paper, no. 18 (Carleton Univ., Aug. 2022) [text]

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Education in Emergencies (EiE): A Compendium of Vignettes for Research & Practice (Columbia Univ., Aug. 2022) [text via INEE]

Reporte de acciones para asegurar el derecho a la educación de los niños, niñas & adolescentes migrantes & refugiados en la región de ALC (UNICEF, Aug. 2022) [access via INEE]

- Follow link for both English and Spanish versions. Focuses on the Americas.

Universities' community engagement in Europe and Southeast Asia: supporting immigrants and refugees, CR&DALL Working Paper, no. 1001 (Univ. of Glasgow, 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Italy and the Philippines.

Journal articles:

"Accommodation, empowerment and disinvestment: Typical second-language learning trajectories of Syrian refugees in Germany," International Migration, Early View, 3 Aug. 2022 [open access]

"Exploring the early years needs of Venezuelan migrant children in Trinidad and Tobago," International Journal of Early Years Education, vol. 30, no. 2 (2022) [ResearchGate]

"The Life of Syrian Asylum-Seeking Children in a Temporary Shelter Centre in Turkey: An Ethnographic Study on Primary School Education," International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, vol. 14, no. 5 (2022) [open access]

"Teachers Can Teach Refugees: Making the Classroom a Welcoming Place for Refugees Through Children’s Literature," TxEP: Texas Educator Preparation, vol. 6 (2022) [full-text]

Resource:

Remote Learning Packs (UNICEF & World Bank) [access]

- "The seven Resource Packs are designed to support government officials and staff in national and international agencies tasked with designing and implementing effective remote learning opportunities for children in development and humanitarian contexts as well as strengthening existing remote learning programmes. Each pack is meant to cover early learning, primary and secondary with approaches for the most marginalized. They also include guidance and tools to support localized deployment." The distance education modalities covered include radio, print, TV, digital technology, and mobile.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (13 July 2022)

Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunity:

ECRE & UNHCR Roundtable: Taking stock of the EU’s response to the Ukrainian Displacement, 7 September 2022 [info]

Blog post:

Legalising Refoulement: Pushbacks and Forcible ‘Voluntary’ Returns from the Latvian-Belarus Border (RLI Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia have their European prospects confirmed. What does it mean for migration policies? (ICMPD Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

Reports & books/book chapters:

"Conditional Hospitality Toward Internal Refugees: Sweden During the Great Northern War, 1700–1721," Chapter in Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2022) [open access]

Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe: Euroscepticism, Crisis and Borders (Amsterdam Univ. Press, Aug. 2022) [open access]

- See esp. chapters 4, 5, 7, 8 & 9.

Journal articles:

"Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control," Citizenship Studies, vol. 26, nos. 4-5 (2022) [free full-text]

"The EU’s Hospitality and Welcome Culture: Conceiving the 'No Human Being is Illegal' Principle in the EU Fundamental Freedoms and Migration Governance," Human Rights Review, vol. 23, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [free full-text]

"European Divergent Approaches to Protection Claims Based on the Eritrean Military/National Service Programme," International Community Law Review, vol. 24, no. 4 (2022) [open access]

"International Legal Principles, Penal Populism and Criminalisation of ‘Unwanted Migration’: An Italian Cautionary Tale," International Community Law Review, vol. 24, no. 4 (2022) [open access]

"Peripheral Humanitarianism: Ephemerality, Experimentation and Effects of Refugee Provisioning in Paris," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, In Press (Forthcoming) [postprint]

"Shrinking the space for civil society: (De)Politicizing the obstruction of humanitarian NGOs in EU border management," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 4 Aug. 2022 [open access]

"'They tell us to keep our distance, but we sleep five people in one tent': The opportunistic governance of displaced people in Calais during the COVID-19 pandemic," Social & Cultural Geography, Latest Articles, 4 Aug. 2022 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (17 Aug. 2022)

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

Call for proposals: Refugees and Migrants within the Middle East [info]

- Series published by the American University in Cairo Press.

Blog posts & press:

Environmental justice for refugees in host countries: How Syrian refugees are disproportionately harmed by air and water pollution in Lebanon (CMI Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

How displaced Syrians effectively navigated ‘border frictions’ in Lebanon and Turkey (The Conversation, Aug. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Building Back Better: The Politicisation of Disaster and Displacement Response Architecture in Lebanon (Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies, Aug. 2022) [text]

Conceptual Blends and the Representation of the Syrian Refugees in the UNHCR Press Releases between 2011 and 2021 (ResearchSquare, Aug. 20220 [text]

Destination North Africa: Syrians' displacement trajectories to Tunisia (Mixed Migration Centre, Aug. 2022) [text]

The EU externalization of its external border control to North Africa and beyond: Its impact on the people and third countries of the region (American Univ. in Cairo & IOM, Fall 2021) [text]

Historical Backgrounder: Lebanon’s 2014 Refugee Policy Shift, LERRN Working Paper, no. 17 (Carleton Univ., Aug. 2022) [text]

Listening to those we help: A review of findings from October 2020 to May 2021 (IFRC & Turkish Red Crescent, Aug. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Syrians in Tunisia: Routes to Tunisia and destination intentions (Mixed Migration Centre, Aug. 2022) [text]

Youth aspirations versus reality in Jordan: Assessing youth’s pathways towards empowerment and self-reliance in Jordan (Durable Solutions Platform, Danish Refugee Council & Jordan River Foundation, June 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Za’atari Refugee Camp, 10 Years On: Stalled ambitions and lost hope, but durable solutions are possible (Oxfam, Aug. 2022) [text]

Multimedia:

Questioning the Media and Public Discourse and Reshaping Attention and Inclusion Strategies, 7 July 2022 [access]

- See also related news story. Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (10 Aug. 2022)