Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Press:

"Backroom aid: The groups helping behind the scenes," The New Humanitarian, 11 Oct. 2022 [text]

"How the humanitarian sector can learn from its past," The New Humanitarian, 6 Oct. 2022 [text]

Reports:

Humanitarian Accountability Report 2022: Accountability is Non-Negotiable (CHS Alliance, Sept. 2022) [text]

Humanitarian negotiations, diplomacy and the ethics of border control (Open Access Government, Sept. 2022) [text]

Learning from disruption: ALNAP 2021 Meeting Study (ALNAP, Sept. 2022) [text]

Lessons of lessons: A window into the evolution of the humanitarian system (ALNAP, Sept. 2022) [text]

The meanings of humanitarian innovation: Reflections from the Community-Led Innovation Partnership using a postcolonial lens (ELRHA et al., Sept. 2022) [text]

Risk Sharing in practice: Success stories, enablers, and barriers to risk sharing in the humanitarian sector (Govt. of Netherlands & ICRC, June 2022) [text]

Triple Nexus in Fragile Contexts: Next Steps, CSS Policy Perspectives, vol. 10/9 (Center for Security Studies, Sept. 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"Humanitarian aid NGOs’ accountability towards large donors: the case of the European Union’s DG ECHO," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:20 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

"Measuring results of humanitarian action: adapting public health indicators to different contexts," Conflict and Health, 16:54 (Oct.2022) [open access]

"Mental health and spiritual well-being in humanitarian crises: the role of faith communities providing spiritual and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:21 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

"System dynamics approach for food inventory policy assessment in a humanitarian supply chain," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 81 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Is ‘decolonised aid’ an oxymoron? (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast, Oct. 2022) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (28 Sept. 2022)

Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

"A Canadian court considers whether the U.S is a safe place for asylum-seekers," NPR, 7 Oct. 2022 [text]

Safety risks in the Darien Gap and assistance needed among refugees and migrants (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2022) [access]

- Follow link for infographic in English and Spanish.

Symbolic refugee protection: why Latin America passed progressive refugee laws never meant to use (LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre Blog, Oct. 2022) [access]

- Follow link for text in English and Spanish.

Open access book:

(Re)pensando el vínculo entre migración y crisis: Perspectivas desde América Latina y Europa (CALAS & CLASCO, 2021) [open access]

- "¿Por qué se sigue vinculando la movilidad humana a la idea de un evento extraordinario de la modernidad? ¿La migración es una consecuencia de la crisis o una causa? ¿Cómo construyen los distintos gobiernos y organismos internacionales el concepto de crisis migratoria? Buscando responder a estos y otros interrogantes, los capítulos reunidos en este volumen colectivo coeditado junto a CALAS ofrecen una mirada crítica al vínculo entre migración y crisis e invitan a repensar los límites del propio concepto de crisis migratoria a través de doce estudios de caso organizados en torno a las categorías analíticas políticas, medioambiente e identidades."

Reports & journal articles:

"Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Colombia using respondent-driven sampling (RDS)," BMJ Open, vol. 12, no. 10 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

"En la migración: ¡ninguna persona es ilegal!," Iuris Tantum, vol. 36, no. 35 (2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Central Americans in Mexico.

"Migración centroamericana y pandemia: las (des-)razones de la seguridad," Iuris Tantum, vol. 36, no. 35 (2022) [open access]

Nota Concepto: Viviendas abandonadas de refugiadas y migrantes de Venezuela (R4V, Oct. 2022) [text]

"Policy Change, Threat Perception, and Mobility Catalysts: The Trump Administration as Driver of Asylum Migration to Canada," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 13 Oct. 2022 [open access]

RMNA 2022: Refugee and Migrant Needs Analysis (R4V, Oct. 2022) [access]

- Focuses on Venezuelans. See also related joint UNHCR/IOM press release.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (5 Oct. 2022)

Opportunities: More Oct. & Nov. 2022

Webinar: Externalizing EU Migration Management Policies: Responsibility and Justice for Human Rights and Refugee Protection Violations, 20 October 2022 [info]

Call for applications: 2nd Online Course on Refugee Law for Journalists and Media, 7-25 November 2022 [info]

- Submission deadline is 21 October 2022.

Call for tenders: Evaluation of the coverage of statelessness in Home Office country information products, IAGCI [info]

- Submission deadline is 21 October 2022.

Job announcement: Senior Editor, Inclusive Story-telling, The New Humanitarian [info]

- Apply by 23 October 2022.

Call for participants: Refugee-Led Research Hub Graduate Application Support Scheme for scholars affected by displacement, Univ. of Oxford [info]

- Application deadline is 24 October 2022.

CFP & registration: Workshop on "6 Years after the Agenda for Humanity: humanitarianism challenged," 25 November 2022 [info]

- Submit proposals by 25 October 2022.

Discussion forum: The power to welcome: Supporting refugee students in our midst, 27 October 2022 [info]

Call for applications: 1st International Forum on Complementary Pathways for Admission to Third Countries, 7-25 November 2022 [info]

- Submission deadline is 31 October 2022.

Call for applications: 10° Curso virtual sobre el desplazamiento interno, 21 November-16 December 2022 [info]

- Submission deadline is 1 November 2022.

Call for applications: 23rd Online Course on International Refugee Law, 21 November-16 December 2022 [info]

- Submission deadline is 1 November 2022.

Seminar: Local Integration: A Durable Solution in Need of Reinvigoration?, London, 8 November 2022 [info]

Seminar: The secret life of energy in refugee camps: uncovering spaces of power and principles of governance within humanitarian energy, Oxford, 8 November 2022 [info]

CFP: Researching Forced Migration in the Middle East, Emerging Scholars Workshop 2023, Glasgow, 23-24 March 2023 [info]

- Submit proposals by 11 November 2022.

Seminar: Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education, Oxford, 15 November 2022 [info]

CFP: 2023 Migration Politics Residential Fellowships, Univ. of Amsterdam [info]

- Submit proposals by 15 November 2022.

Workshop: Advancing Forced Migration Scholarship by Centring Global South Authors, Side event to the International Studies Association Conference, Montréal, 14 March 2023 [info]

- Application deadline is 15 November 2022.

Seminar: Voluntary statelessness, Oxford, 29 November 2022 [info]

CFP: Yearbook of International Disaster Law [info]

- Contributions sought for a themed issue on "Human Rights and Disasters." Submit abstracts by 30 November 2022

Related post:

- Opportunities: Even More Oct. 2022 & New Nov. 2022

Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunity:

Webinar: Externalizing EU Migration Management Policies: Responsibility and Justice for Human Rights and Refugee Protection Violations, 20 October 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

EU migration policy: Between 'spectacular change' and 'lack of solidarity' (InfoMigrants, Oct. 2022) [text]

We can respond flexibly to the arrival of refugees – if we want to (Univ. of Helsinki, Oct. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Displacement from Ukraine: the EU’s financial response (PICUM & ECRE, Oct. 2022) [text]

"The European Union's migration management aid: Developing democracies or supporting authoritarianism?," International Migration, Early View, 17 Oct. 2022 [open access]

"'I do not trust any of them anymore': Institutional distrust and corrective practices in pro-asylum activism in Finland," Current Sociology, OnlineFirst, 14 Oct. 2022 [open access]

The Implementation of the Temporary Protection Directive: Six Months On (UNHCR, Oct. 2022) [text]

Latvia: Return home or never leave the woods (Amnesty International, Oct. 2022) [text]

 

Temporary Protection of Ukrainians in the European Union (Japan Institute of International Affairs, Oct. 2022) [text]

Study on Language Assessment for Determination of Origin of Applicants for International Protection (EUAA, Sept. 2022) [text]

The Ukrainian Refugee Situation: Lessons for EU Asylum Policy (Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, Sept. 2022) [text]

"'We have nothing to hide': Legitimacy narratives, researcher positionality and the ethics of accessing the Dutch deportation apparatus," International Migration, Early View, 14 Oct. 2022 [free full-text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (12 Oct. 2022)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (12 Oct. 2022)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Blog posts & press:

A Balancing Act: Challenges to Pakistan’s Refugee Management (South Asian Voices, Oct. 2022) [text]

Caught between two stools: humanitarian aid in the Sri Lanka crisis response (HPN Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

"Discussion needed on refugee law," Taipei Times, 13 Oct. 2022 [text]

"Don't Send Uyghurs Back to China, UN Says in Xinjiang Report," Newsweek, 1 Sept. 2022 [text]

The Geopolitics of India’s Refugee Policy (South Asian Voices, Sept. 2022) [text]

"Hasina’s Pitch for Solving the Rohingya Crisis," The Diplomat, 11 Oct. 2022 [text]

- Focuses on Bangladesh.

India’s Flip-flop on Rohingya Refugees: Need to Address Majoritarian Tendencies in Recent Asylum Policies (RLI Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

The Rohingya issue requires a regional solution (The Interpreter Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

*There are eight million displaced people across our region: what can Australia be doing? (The Intel, Sept. 2022) [text]

"Unable to Leave: The Afghans Stuck in Afghanistan," The Diplomat, 12 Oct. 2022 [text]

Workshop to Help Participants Better Understand Asylum and Refugee Protection (Govt. of Fiji, Sept. 2022) [text]

- See also related speech.

Reports & journal articles:

"Afghanistan: Conflict and internal displacement under the Taliban regime," Routed Magazine, no 20 (Sept. 2022) [text]

Basic Information for Asylum-seekers in Sri Lanka (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

"Challenges and dilemmas of social cohesion between the Rohingya and host communities in Bangladesh," Frontiers of Human Dynamics, 31 Aug. 2022 [open access]

DRIVE Report 2022: Pakistan Documentation Renewal and Information Verification Exercise (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

- See also related Q&A.

"Exit regulation in the People's Republic of China: Law, policy and practice," International Migration, Early View, 23 Sept. 2022 [open access]

Protection risks of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2022) [text]

"Role of Biogas in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh," Sustainability, 20 Sept. 2022 [open access]

South Asia Consultations: Media, Information, and Participation in Displacement and Migration Settings - How free is the media? A report on findings and recommendations (Deutsche Welle & Calcutta Research Group, May 2022) [text]

"Taiwan-Hong Kong Refugee Crisis Since the 2019 Hong Kong-Beijing Crackdown," McGill Journal of Refugee and Migration Studies = Revue des Études sur les Réfugiés et la Migration de McGill, vol. 2 (2021-2022) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 23.

*UPDATED

Related posts:

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

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2 (19 Sept. 2022)

News: EXCOM 2022

The 73rd session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme ran from 10-14 October 2022. Video recordings have been posted for the general debate in eight parts. Also available are:

- the High Commissioner's opening [text, video] and closing statements (along with a related news story here); 

- the Deputy High Commissioner's statement; 

- the statement [text, video] of the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection (and related UNHCR news story);

- the text of the EXCOM Conclusion adopted on mental health and psychosocial support (see also related press release);

- NGO statements on the general debate and international protection;

- a report on the 2022 UNHCR Consultations with NGOs

Visit the session's webpage for background documentation, regional overviews, and written statements from other department heads.

In addition, the Nansen Refugee Award ceremony took place the evening of 10 October. The 2022 Global Laureate is Dr. Angela Merkel, the Former Federal Chancellor of Germany. Regional winners were also announced; more information can be found on the Nansen page and video recordings are available here.

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Examination of the Effects of Deportation as a Result of Revocation of Status Upon the Rights to Non- Discrimination, Family Unity, and the Best Interests of the Child: An Empirical Case from Norway," Human Rights Brief, vol. 25, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]

"The impact of viral diseases on the rights of vulnerable population: Covid-19 and the Nigerian internally displaced child," Social Sciences & Humanities Open, vol. 6, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Pathways to Statelessness and Parent-Child Separation among Uyghurs in Turkey," Journal of the Council for Research on Religion, vol. 3, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"The Right to Family Reunification of Children Seeking International Protection under the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Misplaced Reliance on Travaux?," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 20 Sept. 2022 [open access]

"Social work in shelters for unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors: challenging the traditional model of social work and the call for critical and political reflexivity," Critical and Radical Social Work: An international journal, Early View, 13 Sept. 2022 [free full-text]

- Focuses on Greece.

"Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well-being of asylum-seeking children in a phase of liminality," Children & Society, Early View, 5 Sept. 2022 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (15 Oct. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Repatriations from Syrian camps:

Australia is well-placed to make the long-overdue repatriation of Islamic State women and children work (The Conversation, Oct. 2022) [text]

"Australia Plans to Rescue Citizens Stranded in Syrian Camps," VOA News, 5 Oct. 2022 [text]

"First British woman and her child repatriated to UK from Syrian camp," The Guardian, 13 Oct. 2022 [text]

For the traumatised Australian children escaping Syrian detention camps, help here will be life-changing (The Conversation, Oct. 2022) [text]

European Court Tackles the Thorny Issue of Family Repatriation from Northeast Syria (Just Security Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

HF and Others v France: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction without Duty to Repatriate IS-Children and their Mothers (EJIL: Talk Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

What is the Controversy on Repatriations from Syria About? (Lawfare Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Other posts:

"'A Failure on All Our Parts': Thousands of Immigrant Children Wait in Government Shelters," ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022 [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Keeping our promises: Stronger data for children on the move (UNICEF Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

The need for child welfare experts at the border (Niskanen Center Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Reports:

A Child’s Best Interests? Rights Violations in the Absence of Presumption of Minority (Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid, Oct. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Greece.

Identity Crisis: How the age dispute process puts refugee children at risk (Refugee Council UK, Sept. 2022) [text]

Punishing Trauma: Incident Reporting and Immigrant Children in Government Custody (Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights & National Immigrant Justice Center, Sept. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Reuniting Families: Opportunities and Challenges for Refugees in Turkey (Refugee Solidarity Network, Sept. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Wherever We Go, Someone Does Us Harm": Violence against refugee and migrant children arriving in Europe through the Balkans (Save the Children & Univ. of Sarajevo, Sept. 2022) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (8 Sept. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Education

Opportunities:

Webinar: Belonging for Refugee and Immigrant Students and Families, 19 October 2022 [info]

Discussion forum: The power to welcome: Supporting refugee students in our midst, 27 October 2022 [info]

Webinar: Social Emotional Learning and Wellbeing: Cornerstones of Refugee/(Im)migrant Education, 15 November 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Are education recovery systems including the forcibly displaced? (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

- Discusses data findings collected via the COVID-19 Global Education Recovery tracker. 

‘I have seen first-hand how children’s education has suffered’ (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Uganda.

On the Move, Out of School: Upholding the rights of migrant and displaced children in the classroom (UNICEF Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Why the expressive arts, led by teachers in schools, matter for refugee children (The Conversation, Sept. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

New open access book:

Education, Migration and Development: Critical Perspectives in a Moving World (Bloomsbury, Sept. 2022) [open access]

- "This open access book looks critically at how education, migration and development intersect and interact to shape people, communities, societies, ideas, values, and action at local, national and international levels. Written by leading scholars and practitioners based in Belgium, China, Columbia, Ethiopia, India, Lebanon, Mongolia, South Africa, the UK and the USA, the book introduces the reader to how such interactions play out through a series of case study examples drawn from across the globe. It explores education in all its forms and raises critical questions about its purpose and value in different low- and middle-income contexts and settings, in the context of migration."

Reports & journal articles:

All Inclusive: The Campaign for Refugee Education, 2022 UNHCR Refugee Education Report (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

Can Higher Education be a Pathway to Repatriation for Youth Living in Displacement? A Study of the Career Trajectories of Master of Education Students from Dadaab Refugee Camp, LERRN Working Paper, no. 19 (Carleton Univ., Sept. 2022) [text]

"A Corpus-Based Comparison of Inclusiveness in L2 Reading Materials for Refugee Children," IAFOR Journal of Education, vol. 10, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Turkey and New Zealand.

"Education of Afghan refugee children in Iran: A structured review of policies," Children & Society, Early View, 11 Aug. 2022 [open access]

INEE Guidance Notes on Teacher Wellbeing in Emergency Settings: Contextualization Tools (INEE, Sept. 2022)

- Contextualizations are available for Soacha, Colombia; Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya; Myanmar; and Palestine. 

"Integrating and welcoming: access for Haitian refugees and immigrants to universities," Educação e Pesquisa, vol. 48 (2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Brazil.

"Syrian Refugees’ Participation in Language Classes: Motivators and Barriers," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 38, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Canada.

"Thinking with Perplexities in the Context of Social Inclusion, Refugees, and Schools: Methodological Learnings," Qualitative Inquiry, OnlineFirst, 6 Sept. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Canada.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (29 Aug. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Detention

Blog posts & press:

Immigration Detention Monitor Blog [access]

- This newly re-launched & updated blog set up by the Global Detention Project tracks "the latest developments in migration-related detention practices and policies, urgent appeals, and emerging situations across the globe."

Legal Service Providers Sue to Remove Barriers to Access to Counsel in Immigration Detention (Immigration Impact Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

One Year Since Greece Opened New "Prison-Like" Refugee Camps, NGOs Call for a More Humane Approach (Refugees International et al., Sept. 2022) [text]

Quasi-Detention: The Expansion of Dehumanising Border Spaces (Border Criminologies Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Reports & journal articles:

Asylum Detention under the European Convention on Human Rights, Cuadernos Deusto de

Derechos Humanos, no. 102 (Universidad de Deusto, 2022) [full-text via SSRN]

"Australia: The promise and disappointments of ‘indirect’ constitutional limits on immigration detention," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (OUP, Forthcoming) [preprint] 

"Detention Policy and Practice of the United States," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (OUP, Forthcoming) [preprint] 

"Governing Through Ignorance: Swedish Authorities’ Treatment of Detained and Non-deported Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic," Feminist Legal Studies, vol. 30, no. 3 (Nov. 2022) [open access]

If You Build It, ICE Will Fill It: The Link Between Detention Capacity and ICE Arrests (ILRC, CERES, & Detention Watch Network, Sept. 2022) [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

Immigrants Monitored by ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program Vary by Nationality, Gender, and State (TRAC, Oct. 2022) [text]

"Tactics of Empathy: The Intimate Geopolitics of Mexican Migrant Detention," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 20 Feb. 2022 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (11 Aug. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Lecture: Living Stateless: In Conversation with Fadi Chalouhy, Melbourne, 17 October 2022 [info]

Discussion panel: Improving protection for stateless refugees, Brussels, 27 October 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

For Valentin, statelessness meant ‘a lifetime proving I exist’ (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

Understanding How Patriarchy and Xenophobia Work Together to Undermine the Struggle for Citizenship: The Case of Nepal (CSS Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Addressing the Risks of Statelessness among Children in Migration in Europe (European Network on Statelessness, Oct. 2022) [text]

- See also related editorial.

The Campaign to End Statelessness in Egypt (Boston Univ., 2022) [text]

- See also Arabic version.

The Campaign to End Statelessness in Iraq (Boston Univ., 2022) [text]

- See also Arabic version.

*Mapping Statelessness in Slovakia (UNHCR, 2022) [text]

Statelessness and Risks of Statelessness in Iraq: Faili Kurd and Bidoon Communities (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

- See also Arabic version.

Understanding statelessness among Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Norwegian Refugee Council, Aug. 2022) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Climate Change and the Specter of Statelessness," Georgetown Environmental Law Review, vol. 35 (Forthcoming, 2023) [preprint]

"The common sense of expert activists: practitioners, scholars, and the problem of statelessness in Europe," Dialectical Anthropology, Latest Articles, 23 Aug. 2022 [open access]

"Discretion in Immigration Law: A Partial Remedy for Stateless People in the United States," Northeastern University Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Stateless Status and Expulsion from Italian Territory: Some Remarks on the Recent Case Law of the Corte di Cassazione," Italian Review of International and Comparative Law, vol. 2, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Statelessness and the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019: The Case of Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees," Socio-Legal Review, vol. 17, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"Tackling statelessness: the fundamental importance of stateless people’s voices," Forced Migration Review, no. 70 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

"A tale on belonging in Africa: an analysis of the African approach to statelessness," Chapter in Exploring African Approaches to International Law: Essays in Honour of Kéba Mbaye (Pretoria Univ. Law Press, 2022) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (22 Aug. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Blog posts & press:

10 takeaways from new data on who signed up to sponsor displaced Ukrainians (Niskanen Center Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

*"Australia-New Zealand refugee deal: UN blames mental health toll after just 36 people take up offer," The Guardian, 30 Sept. 2022 [text]

Biden Administration Sets High Refugee Cap for 2023 After Failing to Come Close This Year (Austin Kocher Substack, Oct. 2022) [text]

"DHS announces new program for Venezuelan migrants aimed at easing pressure at U.S.-Mexico border," Politico, 12 Oct. 2022 [text]

Nearly 6,000 Congolese refugees return home from Zambia with UNHCR support (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

The UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme is failing both refugees and their hosts – here’s why (The Conversation, Oct. 2022) [text]

The Ukrainian parole policy in historical perspective (Niskanen Center Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

US Leadership in Refugee Resettlement: Beyond the Numbers (CGD Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Why refugee resettlement is a crucial part of US migration strategy (Order from Chaos Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Afghanistan Impact Stories: Area-based Approaches for Return, Reintegration, Resilience & Solutions (UNHCR, 2022) [text]

"Bridging the gap between new refugees' integration processes and their future mobility intentions," Chapter in Migration and Ethnic Relations: Current directions for theory and research (Utrecht University, 2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians in the Netherlands.

The Challenges of Settlement and Integration: Exploring Canada’s Response to Venezuelan Migration, Working Paper, no. 10 (Toronto Metropolitan Univ., Sept. 2022) [text]

*"The development and significance of marketisation in refugee settlement services," Chapter in Designing Social Service Markets: Risk, Regulation and Rent-Seeking (ANU Press, Sept. 2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

"Migrant Integration and Assimilation Policy (United States)," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (OUP, Forthcoming) [preprint]

Safe and legal routes to the UK for people seeking protection (House of Commons Library, Oct. 2022) [text]

"A Strategy of Restricting Immigrants? Assimilation Policy and Immigrant Integration of China," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (OUP, Forthcoming) [preprint]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1 (23 Sept. 2022)

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2 (23 Sept. 2022)

Thematic Focus: General

Blog posts & press:

20th Anniversary of the Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation (RSC, Oct. 2022) [text]

Merkel says Nansen prize honours all those who welcome refugees (UNHCR, Oct. 2022) [text]

- Note: Regional winners are highlighted in this press release.

Refugees want a real say in decisions shaping their lives: here's how that could happen… (Views & Voices Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Renewed as UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Grandi will keep striving for solutions (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Analysis of Refugee Externalisation: The Comparative Network on Refugee Externalisation Policies (CONREP) Blog Compendium (Univ. of Melbourne, Aug. 2022) [text]

Conflict Trends: A Global Overview, 1946–2021 (PRIO, 2022) [text]

International Migration Outlook 2022 (OECD, Oct. 2022) [text]

Migration Governance Indicators Data and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: A Baseline Report (IOM, May 2022) [text]

South-South refugee movements: do pull factors play a role?, RSC Working Paper, no. 60 (EUI, 2022) [text]

Trauma-Informed Anticipatory Action: Considerations for Refugees and Other Displaced Populations (Feinstein International Center, Sept. 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"Anti-sedentarism and the anthropology of forced migration," Suomen Antropologi, vol. 46, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"Attitudes toward immigration and refugee policy: A global study," Quarterly on Refugee Problems – AWR Bulletin, vol. 61, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Celebrity Refugees and Foreign Policy: The Politics of Fame in International Protection," Global Studies Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 3 (June 2022) [open access]

"Colonial continuities and colonial unknowing in international migration management: the International Organization for Migration reconsidered," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 28 Sept. 2022 [open access]

"The ethics of migration policy dilemmas," Migration Studies, Advance Articles, 11 Oct. 2022 [open access]

Routed Magazine, no. 20 (Sept. 2022) [full-text]

- Special issue on "Displacement, governance & human rights": "a collection of articles that explore the history, laws and policies of refuge, as well as the dimensions of gender, identity and representation in displacement."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (26 Sept. 2022)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises: The Case of Greece (Springer, Sept. 2022) [open access]

- "This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe and particularly Greece during the last decade when the economic and refugee crises coincided. It offers new analyses and data on a diverse range of topics concerning new emigrants as well as refugees and mobilities in Greece. The book covers themes which are not only related to refugee and immigrant integration and governance challenges, but also describes host attitudes, solidarity, political and protest claims in the public sphere, as well as the changing emigration environment in Greece within a European context."

Journal articles:

Comparative Population Studies, vol. 47 (2022) [open access]

- Special issue on "Refugee Migration to Europe: Challenges and Potentials for Cities and Regions."

"De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 7 Oct. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Italy.

*"From Conflict Zones to Europe: Syrian and Afghan Refugees’ Journeys, Stories, and Strategies," Social Inclusion, Ahead of Print, 12 Oct. 2022 [open access]

"It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Use It: The Application of Country of Origin Information in Judicial Refugee Status Determination Decisions – A Case Study of Germany," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 11 Oct. 2022 [open access]

"Refugees, race and the limits of rural cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from Ireland and Wales," Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 95 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

"The Symbolic Life of Courts: How Judicial Language, Actions, and Objects Legitimize Credibility Assessments of Asylum Appeals," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 6 Oct. 2022 [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

"'Victims of Democracy' or 'Enemies at the Gates'? Russian Discourses on the European 'Refugee Crisis'," Nationalities Papers, FirstView, 26 Aug. 2022 [open access]

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Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (12 Oct. 2022)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Border Closure and Visa Ban for Russians: Geopolitics Meets EU Migration Law (Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

"Braverman asylum plan may breach refugee convention, says UNHCR," The Guardian, 5 Oct. 2022 [text]

Bulgaria: Study shows positive change in public attitude towards refugees (European Commission, Sept. 2022) [text]

The eternal question: What does “mass influx” really mean? Reflections after the first activation of the Temporary Protection Directive 2001/55 (ASILE Discussion Forum, Oct. 2022) [text]

Reasons for the Activation of the Temporary Protection Directive in 2022: A Tale of Double Standards (ASILE Discussion Forum, Oct. 2022) [text]

Reports:

A British National Refugee Policy (Refugee Studies Centre et al., Oct. 2022) [text]

The Declaration on a Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism and EU Asylum Policy: One Step Forward, Three Steps Back on Equal Solidarity (CEPS, Oct. 2022) [access]

How should Europe respond to Russians fleeing the military mobilisation? (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2022) [text]

Multi-Country Strategic Evaluation of UNHCR's Operations in Northern Europe (Nordic and Baltic Countries), ES/2022/07 (UNHCR, June 2022) [text]

- See also an evaluation brief and annexes, which are available as a .zip file.

Preparing for the Unpredictable: Ensuring the Protection and Inclusion of Refugees from Ukraine in Romania and Moldova (Refugees International, Oct. 2022) [text]

QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy [access]

- The two latest project reports are "The Determinants of Refugees’ Destinations: Where Do Refugees Locate within the EU?" and "Migration Pathways into Europe: An Assessment of Drivers and Policies."

Report on Migration and Asylum 2022 (European Commission, Oct. 2022) [access]

- Follow link to access the 2022 and 2021 annual reports, along with annexes and factsheets.

The temporary turn in Norwegian asylum law and practice, CMI Report, no. 5 (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Sept. 2022) [text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (30 Sept. 2022)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (30 Sept. 2022)

Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

Beyond Deportation (Lawfare Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

In Weaponizing Asylum Seekers, DeSantis & Abbott Unwittingly Demonstrate the Possibility of Safe Transit Policies for Migrants (Just Security Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

"Minus the Politics, Migrants Often Use Buses, Planes to Reach Shelter," Stateline, 4 Oct 2022 [text]

"Two Russians Fleeing Military Service Seek Asylum in the US," Reuters, 6 Oct. 2022 [text]

Was DeSantis Shipping Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard a Crime? (Just Security Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Busing and Flights of Migrants by GOP Governors Mark a New Twist in State Intervention on Immigration," Migration Information Source, 28 Sept. 2022 [text]

"Charitable Legal Immigration Programs and the US Undocumented Population: A Study in Access to Justice in an Era of Political Dysfunction," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 10, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

"A Heritage of Bias: From Naturalization and Immigration Laws in the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries to Contemporary Bias Against Muslims and Latines," Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, vol. 10, no. 2 (2022) [full-text]

"The (In)discretion of Border Security Threats," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (OUP, Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Judicial Illiberalism: How Captured Courts Are Entrenching Trump-Era Immigration Policies," Lex (Sept. 2022) [full-text via SSRN]

"The New Border Asylum Adjudication System: Speed, Fairness, and the Representation Problem," Howard Law Journal, vol. 66, no. 3 (Forthcoming, 2023) [preprint]

"Persecuted and Removed: Migrants’ Potential Challenges to Expulsion under the U.S. Public Health Code," International Law in Domestic Courts (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Root Causes of Migration, Development, and US Aid to Northern Triangle States," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 10, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

"Turn Asylum on its Head and Presume Eligibility," University of San Francisco Law Review Forum, vol. 57 (2022) [full-text]

Multimedia:

19th Annual Immigration Law & Policy Conference, 20 Sept. 2022 [access]

- Video recordings of two keynotes are currently available; more videos will be posted in Nov. 2022.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (23 Sept. 2022)

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Blog posts & press:

LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Still Facing Grave Dangers Due to Title 42 (Human Rights First Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"The situation as a Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugee in Kenya is as terrible as you can imagine," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 17 Aug. 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 19 (2022) [open access]

- Special issue on "Migration, Sexuality, and Gender Identity." Includes the following articles:

1) 'Not A Sufficient Reason': LGBTQ asylum seekers in the Russian asylum system

2) Queering Protracted Displacement: Lessons from Internally Displaced Persons in the Philippines

3) Queerness, Sex Work, and Refugee Status in Nairobi: A conversation with Queer Sex Workers Initiative for Refugees

4) 'They Kill Us Trans Women': Migration, informal labour, and sex work among trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Brazil during COVID-19

Expert Convening on LGBTQI+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Summary and Recommendations (UCLA School of Law, June 2022) [text]

"LGBTQI+ accessibility and visibility in a Dutch asylum seeker centre," Routed Magazine, no. OMC22 (June 2022) [text]

LGBTQI+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A review of research and data needs (UCLA School of Law, July 2022) [text]

- See also related press release.

"A Particular Social Group: The Inadequacy of U.S. Asylum Laws for Transgender Claimants," Human Rights Brief, vol. 25, no. 2 (2022) [full-text]

"Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities," Disasters, vol. 46, no. 4 (Oct. 2022) [free full-text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (11 July 2022)

Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

"As numbers rise, the hardships of migration through Mexico multiply," The New Humanitarian, 21 Sept. 2022 [text]

International community shows solidarity with efforts to enhance protection and find solutions for people forced to flee and host communities in Central America and Mexico (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]

Mexico: UN expert urges law to protect Internally Displaced Persons' human rights (OHCHR, Sept. 2022) [text]

- See also related "End of Mission" statement in Spanish.

What Happens to “Humanitarian Borderwork” in Transit Countries? The Case of Mexico (Border Criminologies Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Guía Práctica para la protección internacional y regularización de la condición legal en el contexto de movimientos mixtos a gran escala en las Américas (Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Sept. 2022) [text]

Honduras: Análisis de Protección (Protection Cluster, Sept. 2022) [text]

Human mobility in Chile: Coordination and response of UNHCR, partners and donors during 2021 (UNHCR, 2022) [text]

Monitoreo de protección: Situación de las personas refugiadas y otras en movilidad humana en Quito (UNHCR, 2022) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Brazil’s recognition of refugee status: normative, procedural, and political issues," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Canada’s Asylum Policy and Process," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming) [preprint]

"The Colombian Temporary Protection Status for migrants from Venezuela: Novelty and room for improvement," Routed Magazine, no. 20 (Sept. 2022) [text]

"Migrating through the Corridor of Death: The Making of a Complex Humanitarian Crisis," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 10, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

"Temporary protection for forced migrants: A commentary on the Colombian temporary protection status," International Migration, vol. 60, no. 6 (Oct. 2022) [free full-text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (8 Sept. 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2

Journal articles & book chapters:

Africa Today, vol. 69, nos. 1-2 (Fall/Winter 2022) [contents]

- Special issue on "Rethinking Refuge: Processes of Refuge Seeking in Africa."

"Church as NGO? Leveraging Religious Networks to Promote Health Rights for Urban-Displaced Refugees—Lessons from Tanzania," Journal of Human Rights Practice, vol. 14, no. 1 (Feb. 2022) [free full-text]

"Combating Terrorism and Managing Asylum Seekers and Refugees under AU Law," The Emergent African Union Law: Conceptualization, Delimitation, and Application (Oxford Univ. Press, 2022) [ResearchGate]

"Implications and opportunities of the international refugee protection regime for national human rights institutions in Africa," African Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 22, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Incoherent policies and contradictory priorities in Kenya," Forced Migration Review, no. 70 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

"'Let’s manage the stressor today': exploring the mental health response to forced migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa," International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, EarlyCite, 31 Aug. 2022 [open access]

"Measuring social cohesion: lessons from Kakuma Camp," Forced Migration Review, no. 70 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

"The politics of sharing aid with host communities," Forced Migration Review, no. 70 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

"Protection of 'Freedom of Movement' and of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees: Progress Made by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights via its Communication Procedures and Beyond,"  Texas International Law Journal, vol. 57, no. 2 (2022) [ResearchGate]

- Scroll to p. 185.

"Refugee movements, hosting and the paradoxes of border crossing in Africa," Routed Magazine, no. 20 (Sept. 2022) [text]

"The relevance of context and overarching tendencies in refugee-hosting policies worldwide: The case of Namibia," Routed Magazine, no. 20 (Sept. 2022) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (5 Oct. 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

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

- Submission deadline is 14 October 2022.

Job announcement: Director, Refugee Law Project, Makerere Univ. [info]

- Apply by 25 October 2022.

Blog posts:

Counter-Insurgency in Ethiopia: Civil War, Drought and Internal Displacement (African Arguments, Sept. 2022) [text]

We Live in a State of Fear: Eritrean Refugees Keep Bearing the Brunt of the Ethiopian Crisis (AMMODI Blog, Sept. 2022) [text] 

Reports: 

Data and Displacement: Assessing the Practical and Ethical Implications of Data-Driven Humanitarianism for Internally Displaced Persons in Camp-Like Settings (Data and Displacement Project Team, Sept. 2022) [access]

Enhancing refugees' self-reliance in Uganda: The role of cash and food assistance, FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, no. 8 (FAO, Sept. 2022) [text]

Global Compact on Refugees in Nigeria: Inclusion and self-reliance for increased well-being of refugees and their hosts (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

Moments of Negotiated Independence: Localized Knowledge Ecosystems on Forced Migration in East Africa and the Middle East, LERRN Working Paper, no. 20 (Carleton Univ., Sept. 2022) [text]

Refugee-led Organisations in East Africa: Community Perceptions in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania (Refugee-Led Research Hub, Sept. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Responding to Chad’s Displacement Crisis in the Lac Province and the Implementation of the Kampala Convention (Refugees International, Sept. 2022) [text]

Scapegoating in South Africa: busting the myths about immigrants (Institute for Security Studies, Sept. 2022) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (19 Sept. 2022)