18 July 2025

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Short pieces:

"Exiles from Uganda’s harsh anti-gay laws now fear ‘moral panic’ legislation could follow them," The Guardian, 7 July 2025 [text]
- Focuses on Kenya.

Fleeing One Danger to Face Another: The Hidden Crisis of SOGIESC Migrants (Refugee Watch Online, July 2025) [text]

Key Facts About the Experience of LGBTIQ+ Migrants (WOLA, June 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US and the Americas.

The State of Trans Rights Across the Americas: Recognition, Contradiction, Violence, and Backsliding  (WOLA, June 2025) [text]

"Trans Refugees Fear Abuse, Death as Kenya Plans to Integrate Camps," Context News, 23 May 2025 [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Don’t bracket the queers! Comment on Patti Lenard’s 'Resettling (LGBTQ+) refugees'," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Latest Articles, 3 June 2025 [open access]

"Interpreting for LGBTIQ+ Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands: Challenges and Policy Recommendations," Frontiers in Communication, 3 June 2025 [open access]

"Intersecting marginalisations: violence against LGBTQ+ refugees and ethnic minorities in Turkey," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 11 July 2025 [open access]

"LGBTQI+ Asylum Cases in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals," Sexes, vol. 6, no. 3 (July 2025) [open access]

"Networks of South–South Queer Forced Migration: LGBTQ+ Venezuelans in Northern Brazil During COVID-19," Global Networks, vol. 25, no. 3 (July 2025) [open access]

"Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives and a Recognizable ‘Transgenderness’," Chapter in Breaking and Making Models (ICI Berlin Press, 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Africa.

Related post:

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

"Back to ruins: The displaced Congolese forced home by M23 rebels," The New Humanitarian, 9 July 2025 [text]

"Rights, not rations: How human relationships can reshape refugee policy," The New Humanitarian, 11 July 2025 [text]
- Focuses on Uganda.

Sudan War Series (African Arguments, July 2025) [access]
- In this blog series, "through a number of themes that explore the intersections of war, displacement, identities and capital, Sudanese researchers, many of whom are themselves displaced, highlight their own experiences, the unique dynamisms within the larger communities affected by war, and readings of their possible futures." Follow the link to view the latest contributions.

Trump’s Africa summit: outsourcing America’s immigration problem? (ISS Today, July 2025) [text]

‘We don’t want to stay here’: UN accused of abandoning refugees in Niger," The Guardian, 27 June 2025 [text]

Reports:

Étude sur l'utilisation des foyers améliorés par les populations déplacées dans les sites autour de Goma (UNHCR & AIDPROFEN, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Evaluation of UNHCR's multi-country L3 Emergency Response to the Sudan Situation, EVO/2025/02 (UNHCR, July 2025) [access]
- Follow link for report, brief, executive summary, and podcast. The management's response will be posted where it becomes available.

Peace Agreement Between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda, 27 June 2025 [text]
- See also related commentary on The Conversation and the US Institute of Peace.

Journal articles:

"Forgotten and Neglected, War-Torn Sudan Has Become the World’s Leading Displacement Crisis," Migration Information Source, 16 July 2025 [open access]

"Leveraging Cash Transfers to Mitigate Energy Poverty Among Refugees in Uganda: Distributional Insights and Gendered Lens," Sustainable Futures, In Press, 12 July 2025 [open access]

"Medical xenophobia and healthcare exclusion of refugees and migrants in Africa: A scoping review," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 12 (2025) [open access]

"Predictors of Immigrant Acceptance in Africa: A Multi-Sample Analysis of Contact Hypothesis and Neighbourhood Violence," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Researching migration in West Africa: A systematic and reflexive review," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:52 (July 2025) [open access]

"Tensions and coexistence: host narratives of refugee presence in Nakivale, Uganda," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 14 July 2025 [open access]

Related post:

17 July 2025

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues

Short pieces:

Armed groups and forced migration of women (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, July 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the Americas.

Reports: 

Age, Gender and Diversity Accountability Report 2024: Leveraging the power of forcibly displaced women and girls (UNHCR, June 2025) [access]

A Cut Too Deep: US Foreign Aid Withdrawals and the Collapse of Protection for Women and Girls in Honduras (Women's Refugee Commission, July 2025) [text]
- See also related press release.

*Evaluación intermedia del programa conjunto: "Empoderando mujeres y niñas afectadas por la migración irregular y el desplazamiento forzado en El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras" (IOM & UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

Gender Alert: Gendered Needs and Challenges of Afghans Returning from Iran and Pakistan (UN Women, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Gender Analysis Report on the Dynamics of Forced Displacement in the IGAD Region (IGAD, July 2025) [access]
- Available in English and French.

SUpporting STronger Access to INnovative Energy Solutions in Displacement Settings (SUSTAINED) (Mercy Corps et al., July 2025) [access]
- Focuses on Uganda.

Journal articles:

"Examining Types of Domestic Violence Against Afghan Women in Mashhad, Iran," Gender and Sustainability in the Global South, Ahead of Publication, 3 July 2025 [open access]

"Gendered Migration Patterns and Fertility Among Refugees En Route," Population, Space and Place, vol. 31, no. 5 (July 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Eritrean and Syrian Refugees in Germany.

"'I am a young Venezuelan woman who left her country': exploring the drivers of Venezuelan migration and how the migration experience impacts adolescent girls’ aspirations," BMC Public Health, 25:2410 (July 2025) [open access]

"The refugee waves and the continuum of violence experienced by Ukrainian refugee women in Bulgaria," Frontiers in Sociology, 14 July 2025 [open access]

"Sexual health of Syrian women in protracted forced displacement: the syndemic interplay of violence, war trauma, poor mental health and food insecurity," BMJ Public Health, vol. 3, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Transgression: Afghan Refugee Women as gelumjum," SAGE Open, 7 May 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Pakistan.

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Related posts:

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Calibrating AI/d talk: framing perceptions, reframing policy, and deframing knowledge," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:11 (July 2025) [open access]

"Digital Inequality and Resilience in Humanitarian Refugee Organizations," International Journal of Communication, vol. 19 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

"The Digital Infrastructures of Illegal Border Crossings: Solidarity Actors and Networks in the Arabic and Persian Speaking Virtual Spheres," Critical Criminology, vol. 33, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- "While the migration studies literature often focuses on state use of digital technology for border surveillance, its role in facilitating unauthorized crossings is emerging. Through digital ethnography on Arabic- and Persian-speaking virtual platforms where people discuss European border crossings, this paper challenges conventional perspectives on smugglers and solidarity within these networks."

"Digital technologies and migration: behind, beyond and around the black box," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 8 July 2025 [open access]
- Introductory article to a forthcoming special issue. The seven articles that are included are all open access and available online: "Aspirational place-making and digital practices of refugees in the Netherlands"; "Constructed objectivity in asylum decision-making through new technologies"; "Digital internal bordering: surveillance, data-sharing, and the fate of sanctuary cities"; "Encountering the digital border: smartphone screening in the Dutch asylum procedure"; "Keeping people out of camps: biometric technologies, contested sovereignty, and border practices within humanitarian spaces"; "'Online business does not demand who you are': the case of Congolese refugee YouTubers in Nairobi"; and "Societies of immigration control: the transactional subject of British borders after Brexit." 

"Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Digital Health Literacy in Forced Migrant Populations: Mixed Methods Systematic Review," Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27:e69880 (June 2025) [open access]

"Migrant Data Extractivism: Tech and Borders at the Limit of Rights," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

"Rethinking Mass Influx and Derogation in the Age of AI: The Role of New Technologies in Redefining Crisis, Protection and State Obligations," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 14 July 2025 [open access]

"Technologies of life-making in the British refugee camps of the Southern Levant," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 15 July 2025 [open access]

"'Which Data Am I?': The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on the French-Italian border.

Related post:

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Community-driven digital literacy for self-reliance (UNHCR Innovation Service, July 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the Americas.

Durable Solutions in the Digital Age: Decentralised Finance, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Return in Syria (RLI Blog, July 2025) [text]

Entrepreneurial project to make online learning more accessible offers courses for a thousand refugees (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, July 2025) [text]

How can we protect refugees from growing digital threats? (UNHCR, July 2025) [text]

How ReliefWeb’s Digital Transformation is Shaping the Future of Humanitarian Information (ReliefWeb Blog, July 2025) [text]

In a fast-moving world, refugees can’t afford to be unconnected (ITU Blog, June 2025) [text]

LISA: transforming refugee verification through self-service (UNHCR Blog, July 2025) [text]

Reports & resources:

Artificial intelligence in asylum procedures in the EU (European Parliament, July 2025) [text]

Does the United Nations need agents? Testing the role of AI agent generated personas in humanitarian action (UNU-CPR, May 2025) [text]
- See also related blog post.

Information Integrity Toolkit (UNHCR, 2025) [access]
- "This toolkit is designed to help humanitarians understand, respond to and help prevent the harmful impact of risks to information integrity on digital platforms, such as misinformation, disinformation and hate speech, with a consistent approach. It is developed with a focus on contexts where such risks on digital platforms cause harm to forcibly displaced communities and stateless people and humanitarian organizations working with and for them."

Related posts:

16 July 2025

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

"Could (and should) private investors make up for US aid cuts in Afghanistan?," The New Humanitarian, 2 July 2025 [text]

"Desperate Afghan refugees return to an unfamiliar home," UN News, 11 July 2025 [text]
- See also related UNHCR briefing note.

Rohingya Facing Risks Everywhere, at All Times (Human Rights Watch, June 2025) [text]

Thailand’s refugee system puts publicity over protection (East Asia Forum, July 2025) [text]

UNHCR: Bangladesh has welcomed 150,000 Rohingya refugees in last 18 months (UNHCR, July 2025) [text]

Reports & book chapters: 

Between Diplomacy and Displacement: The Contradictions of the Rohingya Repatriation Discourse (Observer Research Foundation, July 2025) [text]

"I’ll Never Feel Secure": Undocumented and Exploited: Myanmar Nationals in Thailand (Human Rights Watch, July 2025) [access]

"Lives in translation: Listening to the voices of asylum seekers," Chapter in Field Research on Translation and Interpreting (Benjamins Publishing Co., May 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Hong Kong.

Journal articles:

"Assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene services within nineteen Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in 2022," BMC Health Services Research, 25:814 (June 2025) [open access]

"Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit," Modern Asian Studies, FirstView, 23 June 2025 [open access]

"Diaspora by another name: the making of refugees in Cold War China," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:49 (July 2025) [open access]

"Encampment policy and public perception: a cross-country analysis of host community responses to Rohingya refugees," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:48 (July 2025) [open access]

"Living Through Food Rations: A Culture-Centered Study With Rohingya Refugees," International Journal of Communication, vol. 19 (2025) [open access]

*"The practice of gender and protection mainstreaming in health response in humanitarian crisis: A case study from the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh," PLoS One 20(7): e0310878 (July 2025) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

15 July 2025

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

Tackling forced labour in Malaysia begins with re-examining its migration model (The Interpreter Blog, May 2025) [text]

Threat of enslavement hangs over reported plans to deport migrants from US to Libya (The Conversation, May 2025) [text]

Reports:  

At Risk Twice Over: Displacement and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia (USCRI, April 2025) [text]

Criminalization of Smuggling of Migrants and Related Conduct: A Global Overview (UNODC, 2025) [text]

The Facilitation Proposal: assessing the EU’s response to the smuggling of migrants (Sieps, March 2025) [text]

Migrant domestic workers and trafficking in persons: prevention, rights protection and access to justice - Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/59/56 (UN Human Rights Council, April 2025) [access]

Smuggling dynamics en route to and within Türkiye: Insights from Afghans, Syrians & Pakistanis on their journeys (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2025) [text]

Victims of Human Trafficking in Asylum and Reception, Fact Sheet, no. 34 (EUAA, July 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 43, no. 3 (May 2025) [contents]
- Theme issue is "Contested Geographies of Trafficking Borders." Six of these articles are open access, including the introduction.

"Iranians' Unauthorized Mobility Projects to Europe: A Digital Ethnography of Smuggling and Solidarity," Partecipazione e Conflitto, vol. 18, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Petro-politics, Gender Violence and Human Trafficking in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region," Migration Politics, 4:3 (2025) [open access]

"Re-framing European Union (EU)-United Kingdom (UK) Cooperation to Address Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling," Border Crossing, vol. 15, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

Related post:

14 July 2025

Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

Short pieces:

"Comment: War-related trauma and displacement in Gaza: the impact on the health and longevity of older adults," The Lancet Healthy Longevity, vol. 6, no. 5 (May 2025) [open access]

Reports:

Adaptation in Adversity: The Impact of Drought on the Livelihood Adaptive Strategies of Refugee Youth with Physical Disabilities in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Refugee-led Research Working Paper, no. 4 (Refugee Studies Centre, Dec. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Inclusive practices for supporting older persons and persons with disabilities in humanitarian settings: A compilation of good and promising practices from the Republic of Moldova (OHCHR, April 2025) [text via UNHCR]
- Focuses on Ukrainians. Also available in Russian.

Mainstreaming disability inclusion in early childhood development for crisis-affected children in the Middle East (International Rescue Committee, May 2025) [text]

*Protection Analysis Update: Risks and barriers faced by persons with disabilities and older persons (Protection Cluster, July 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related UNRWA brief.

Protection of older persons, including those with disabilities, in the context of evacuations: Advocacy note for RC/HC (Protection Cluster, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Ukraine.

Journal articles:

"A comparison of modifiable risk factors for dementia among South Asian migrants and non-migrants aged 50 or older in Tasmania, Australia," BMC Public Health, 25:2362 (July 2025) [open access]

"How inclusive is disaster risk reduction? Perceptions and predicaments of persons with disabilities during disaster in Assam, India," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 4 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

"Return Migration and Ageing," Special collection in International Migration [access]
- Five articles are open access and the introduction is freely available.

"Social Determinants of Health and Well-Being Among Older People from Refugee Backgrounds in Australia: A Longitudinal Study," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 16 June 2025 [open access]

"Vulnerabilities of people with different types of disabilities in disasters: a rapid evidence review and qualitative research," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 3 (July 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Vietnam.

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Related post:

Thematic Focus: General

Event: 

Global Refugee Forum Progress Review 2025, 15-17 December 2025 [info]
- Follow link for concept note and roadmap. More details to come.

Short pieces:

Launch of UNHCR’s Statistical Quality Assurance Framework (SQAF) (UNHCR Blog, July 2025) [text]

Media Framing Fuels Refugee Stigma (Psychology Today Blog, July 2025) [text]

Refugees’ Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political (Migrant Knowledge Blog, June 2025) [text]

"UNHCR forced to make deep cuts, despite rising needs worldwide," UN News, 16 June 2025 [text]

Books & book chapters:

Knowledge, Power, and Migration: Contesting the North/South Divide (McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, June 2025) [access]
- Note: This book has been made "available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South, where the majority of forced migration unfolds, whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books, as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book, or the resources needed to purchase these publications." Please refer to the access conditions in the bibliographic record.

"Migration and Wellbeing: A policy review," Chapter in Wellbeing and Policy: Evidence for Action (Routledge, June 2025) [open access]

Reports:

Age, Gender and Diversity Accountability Report 2024 (UNHCR, June 2025) [access]

Building solutions for the world’s 83 million internally displaced persons: Recent lessons on how (IOM, July 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Immobility in Fragile Contexts: Between Dignity, Rootedness, and Migration: A Comparative Study in Latin America and Africa (Ayuda en Acción, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugia: a reflection five years on, RSC Working Paper, no. 143 (Refugee Studies Centre, July 2025) [text]

Transregional Responses to Displacement: Aid, Advocacy and Accountability (UCL, June 2025) [access]
- This report posits "the importance of paying greater attention to past, present and future transregional responses to conflict and displacement as developed by states and organisations with varying degrees of income and of relative geopolitical power. To do so, the report focuses on responses developed to date by state and non-state actors from (in alphabetical order) Brazil, Cuba, Indonesia, Japan, South Africa, South Korea and Malaysia, noting that these initiatives reflect  long histories of transregional support which include, but also transcend, financial or material donations."

Journal articles:

"Collective trauma in the forced migration context: A scoping review," Transcultural Psychiatry, OnlineFirst, 8 July 2025 [open access]

"Deployment and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and migrants in regular and irregular situations: a mixed-method multicountry study," BMJ Open, vol. 15, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- "A mixed-method study was conducted in two phases in Ecuador, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and Rwanda."

"Neglected intersections: a view from the South," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:45 (July 2025) [open access]

"Performing geographies of disappearance: migration and the case of the Saharan knowledge claim," Social & Cultural Geography, Latest Articles, 29 May 2025 [open access]
- See also related EU Observer article.

"Refugees and preppers: Anticipatory practices in the face of uncertain futures," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 3 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

Multimedia:

Countering Misinformation About Refugees and Migrants, 2 July 2025 [access]

*Statistical inclusion of forcibly displaced and stateless persons in support of inclusive socio-economic policies, 20 May 2025 [access]

Resource:

On Immigration: Essential Reading from University Presses (Association of University Presses, June 2025) [access]
- A collection of reading lists and individual works from 38 university presses. See also related Publishing Perspectives post.

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Related posts:

11 July 2025

Opportunities: More July & August 2025 and New September 2025

Meeting: Cartagena +40 Stocktaking meeting 2025, Santiago, Chile, 15-16 July 2025 [info]

Call for applications: Editorial Fellow, AILA Law Journal [info]
- Candidates sought for two volunteer positions; apply by 19 July 2025.

Request for tenders: Mapping exercise to identify persons who are stateless or at risk of statelessness in selected districts of the Republic of Moldova [info]
- Deadline for submission of tenders/offers is 23 July 2025.

Call for registration: 2025 Regional Consultations with NGOs in Europe, Geneva/Online, 23-24 September 2025 [info]
- Registration deadline is 31 July 2025.

CFP: Contested Categories: Rethinking Labels, Recognition, and Protection [info]
- Submit abstracts by 31 July 2025. Note: "The special issue is contingent on acceptance by Journal of Refugee Studies or Refugee Survey Quarterly. Full papers will be invited only if the proposal is accepted."

CFP: Journal of International Migration and Integration [info]
- Contributions sought for special issue on "Navigating New Horizons: Ukranian Refugee Migration to Germany and the United States after Russia’s 2022 Invasion." Submission deadline is 31 July 2025.

CFP: The Role of Law and Courts in Migration Politics, Lüneburg, Germany, 13-14 November 2025 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 31 July 2025.

CFP: AILA Law Journal, Fall 2025 Edition [info]
- Submission deadline is 1 August 2025.

Call for applications: Researching Country of Origin Information (COI) [info]
- A blended learning course with online training from 8 September-3 October 2025 and a face-to-face meeting on 8 October 2025 in Vienna. Apply by 11 August 2025.

Call for applications: Expert Witness Training Course, London, 22 September 2025 [info]
- Apply by 28 August 2025. (Note that two additional courses will be held, in December 2025 and February 2026, respectively.)

Call for registration: Refugees and Migrants in Our Common Home: Mobilizing Academic Communities, Rome/Online, 1-3 October 2025 [info]
- Ticket sales end 1 September 2025. Virtual attendance is free!

CFP: Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales [info]
- Contributions sought for special issue on "Geographies of Vulnerability: Assessing Protection in the Screening and Resettlement of Refugees." Submit abstracts by 1 September 2025.

CFP: 2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference, Liège, Belgium, 16-18 March 2026 [info]
- The theme is "Governing and Experiencing Migration in Contentious Times." Submit papers by 5 September 2025.

CFP: Research collection on "Human mobility and environmental change" [info]
- Submission deadline is 7 September 2025.

Call for applications: "Harnessing migrants’ skills in the EU," 10th European Migration Forum, Brussels, 27-28 November 2025 [info]
- Apply by 8 September 2025.

Call for participants: Workshop for Prospective International Journal of Refugee Law Authors, Online, December 2025 (specific dates TBD) [info
- Submit abstracts by 12 September 2025.

Call for registration: 2025 Immigrant Integration Convening, New York, 14-16 September 2025 [info]
- The theme is "Supporting Migrants and Refugees: Finding Hope in a Time of Peril."

Call for registration: Statelessness Essentials Online Course, 16 September-18 November 2025 [info]
- This is tuition-free course. Participants may sign up for individual sessions or enroll in the full 10-week programme. Register by 16 September 2025.

Related posts:

Thematic Focus: Education - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Border times: welfare workers navigating the temporal intersections of migration law and the education system," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 9 June 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on the Upper Secondary School Act in Sweden.

"Capturing degrees of centring of refugees in an academic literacy course in post-Apartheid South Africa: A retrospective look at course design through the lens of Actor-network Theory," Perspectives in Education, vol. 43, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Creating Educational Borderlands: Civic Learning in a Syrian School in Lebanon," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 36, no. 4 (Dec. 2023) [postprint]
- Note: The embargo period for accessing this article has now ended.

"Educational strategies across borders: the proactive, the reliant, and the disconnected," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 16 June 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Ukrainians in Sweden.

"From students to refugees: students’ (im)mobility in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 19 June 2025 [open access]
- "This article examines how the war shaped the mobility experiences of displaced African students who took refuge in Germany."

"The Importance of Educational Policy Reforms for Supporting Refugees in India," Journal of World Affairs: Voice of the Global South, OnlineFirst, 2 July 2025 [free full-text]

"Institutional conditions and acquisition of language skills among young refugees: Investigating the German context," Acta Sociologica, OnlineFirst, 26 June 2025 [open access]

"'It makes you feel like you’re at home, you’re safe, you’re happy in here': Enacting culturally responsive and enabling pedagogies with refugee students in a university pathway program," Australian Educational Researcher, vol. 52, no. 2 (April 2025) [open access]

"Mapping the educational landscape for forced migrants in Norway, Ireland and Japan," Frontiers in Education, 17 June 2025 [open access]

"A qualitative exploration of the barriers asylum-seeking students face when accessing higher education in the UK," Globalisation, Societies and Education, Latest Articles, 26 June 2025 [open access]

"Relational accountability dynamics in refugee-led education systems," Fennia: International Journal of Geography, vol. 203, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Kenya.

"School Success for Migrant and Refugee Children: A Systematic Literature Review," SAGE Open, 20 June 2025 [open access]

Related post:

Thematic Focus: Education - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Bridging classrooms: teacher-led innovations on the front line and global lessons on refugee education (UNHCR, July 2025) [text]

"The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France," Politico, 1 July 2025 [text]

"Global South universities have much to teach on refugee inclusion," Times Higher Education, 10 June 2025 [text]

How refugee schools in Malaysia are reimagining adolescent wellbeing (Monash Univ. Lens, June 2025) [text]

In Trumponomics, Banning Foreign Students Hurts Trump’s Own Economic Success Metric: Trade Deficit (CGD Blog, June 2025) [text]

New report demonstrates impact of programme preparing refugees for academic life (Univ. of Leicester, June 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Reports:

Movilidad, migración y el derecho a la educación superior en América Latina y el Caribe: mapeo de rutas hacia la educación superior para personas refugiadas y migrantes venezolanas (UNESCO, June 2025) [access]

Refugee Education Research Digest (UNHCR, July 2025) [text]

Refugee Higher Education Global Newsletter, vol. 5 (June 2025) [text]
- Previous volumes can be accessed here.

Unlocking Potential: Enhancing teacher certification pathways for refugees in East Africa (Save the Children, June 2025) [text]
- A recording of the report launch webinar is available here.

Multimedia: 

World Refugee Day Spotlight: Gaza, displacement, and the right to education, 19 June 2025 [access]

Related post:

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

New open access books:

Civic Refugee Support: The Shifting Landscape of Pro-Refugee Communities in Germany After 2015 (transcript Verlag, July 2025) [open access]
- "What became of the upsurge in civic action that saw millions of volunteers rally in support of migrants during the 2015/16 refugee reception crisis in Germany? Clara van den Berg examines the aftermath of that unprecedented mobilization, exploring how pro-refugee communities evolved in Germany. Drawing on interviews, observations, and document analysis, she finds that some pro-refugee communities managed to survive. The study provides fresh insights into how mobilization periods impact the local structure of civil society and its networks, and offers a new perspective on the role of solidarity with refugees and migrants today."

Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance (Univ. of California Press, June 2025) [open access]
- "Based on four years of ethnographic research, Undoing Nothing recounts the untold story of Italian asylum seekers' struggles to produce relevance—that is, to carve out meaning, control, and direction from their legal and existential liminality. Their ways of inhabiting space and time rest on a deeply ambivalent position: together and alone, inside and outside, absent and present. Their racialized bodies dwell in their assigned residence while their selves inhabit a suspended translocal space of moral economies, nightmares, and furtive dreams. This book illuminates a distinctly modern form of purgatory, offering both a perceptive critique of state responses to the so-called refugee crisis and nuanced psychological portraits of a demographic rarely afforded narrative depth and grace."

Journal articles:

"The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill," Medicine, Science and the Law, OnlineFirst, 30 June 2025 [free full-text]

"Doing Things Differently? Potentialities and Limitations for Enacting Radical Cosmopolitanism Among Citizen-led initiatives for Refugees in the Netherlands," Critical Sociology, OnlineFirst, 25 June 2025 [open access]

"Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 38, no. 2 (June 2025) [postprint]

"How Transit Countries Become Refugee Destinations: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Humanitarian Corridors from War Zones for Vulnerable People and Those Under International Protection: An Example of Safe Migratory Flow Management in Italy," Healthcare, vol. 13, no. 13 (June 2025) [open access]

"The impact of the EU–Turkey agreement on the number of lives lost at sea," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12:869 (June 2025) [open access]
- See also related InfoMigrants article.

"Ukrainian Voices: Surveying the Spatial and Socio-Economic Trajectories of Ukrainian Refugees across Europe," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 30 June 2025 [open access]

"Waiting in uneven geographies of asylum reception and the social mobility of refugees," Urban Geography, Latest Articles, 26 June 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on The Netherlands.

"The Well-Being of Forced Migrants in Finland: A Capabilities Approach-Based Examination," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 4 July 2025 [open access]

"What translation and interpreting practices do: Field research on human differentiation in a German reception centre for refugees," Chapter in Field Research on Translation and Interpreting (Benjamins Publishing Co., May 2025) [open access]

Related post:

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The asylum paradox – yes. But what now? (PRIO Blog, June 2025) [text]

Denmark’s Supreme Court stops illegal sentencing of refugees for entering with false documents (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2025) [text]

How the UK became dependent on asylum hotels (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

Joint statement: EU ‘safe country’ and return proposals would seriously undermine protection and human dignity (HIAS et al., July 2025) [text]

‘Nothing to see here’? Criminalisation, solidarity, and visibility at the Belgian-French border (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2025) [text]

Polish law restricting the right to asylum at borders (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, July 2025) [text]

The Problem is Terrorism, Not Migration (Lawfare, June 2025) [text]

The ruling of the Court of Justice in Kinsa: A first step towards the decriminalisation of the facilitation of unauthorised entry? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, July 2025) [text]

**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.**

Reports: 

Asylum and Migration Overview 2024 (European Migration Network, July 2025) [access]
- See also related European Commission news release.

Country Reports (AIDA, July 2025) 
- See updated profiles for Austria, Poland and Serbia.

Deadly Manoeuvres: Obstruction and Violence in the Central Mediterranean (Médecins Sans Frontières, June 2025) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Available in English and Italian.

The Downfall of Assad: Syrian Refugees’ Settlement Intentions after the Unexpected Regime Change, IAB Discussion Paper, no. 9 (Institute for Employment Research, 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Germany.

Migrants Travelling to Europe by Land and by Sea: Journeys, vulnerabilities and needs of migrants along the Mediterranean, African Atlantic and Western Balkan routes in 2024 (International Organization for Migration, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]
Returning Home from Abroad: Trends, Drivers, and Reintegration Challenges among Ukrainian Returnees from Abroad (IOM, July 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Why Return to Ukraine? An Analysis of Ukraine’s Evolving Return Policies and the Motivations of Refugees to Return (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, June 2025) [text]

Related posts:

10 July 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

Accelerating Refugee Inclusion Amidst Devastating Aid Cuts (CGD Blog, June 2025) [text]

Breaking system inertia: why the humanitarian reset must prioritise civilian protection (HPN, July 2025) [text]

Cuts to USAID: The Fallout Continues (Global Policy Blog, June/July 2025) [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]
- See also related CGD blog post.

How aid cuts may be affecting humanitarian workers (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

["Humanitarian Reset" articles in The New Humanitarian]
- "Beyond the reset: Five priorities for genuine humanitarian transformation," 19 June 2025 
- "Reset, reform, or repeat? Humanitarianism’s reboot searches for the right script," 16 June 2025

The Ongoing Crisis in US Foreign Assistance Delivery (CGD Blog, July 2025) [text]
- See also earlier related blog post.

"Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?," New York Times, 31 May 2025 [text]

The UN Relief Chief Makes a Splash, but is He Right for the Job? (PassBlue, May 2025) [text]

UNHCR steadfast in refugee protection as it completes review of operations, structures and staffing (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]
- Related note: So far, UNHCR has closed/is planning to close field offices in: Constanța, RomaniaSuceava, Romania; Laayoune, Western Sahara; four in MexicoTindouf, Algeria; and Trinidad & Tobago, as well as some UNHCR-supported community centers in Syria.

What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? (VoxDev, June 2025) [text]

Why Humanitarianism Continues Despite the Famine of Resources: The dreadful logic of suffering (International Development Blog, June 2025) [text]

"Why pivoting to local partners is best for one cash-strapped UK charity," The New Humanitarian, 5 June 2025 [text]

Reports:

Costs of Immunization Services in Humanitarian Settings (International Rescue Committee, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Flexible Funding in 2024 (UNHCR, June 2025) [access]

Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2025 (ALNAP, June 2025) [access]
- Follow link for report and launch event recording.

The IASC Humanitarian Reset examined: A strategic briefing for NGOs (ICVA, updated June 2025) [access]
- See also related planning paper.

Lives at Risk: Chaotic and Abrupt Cuts to Foreign Aid Put Millions of Lives at Risk (Amnesty International, May 2025) [access]

Putting the Humanitarian Principles into Practice: A Practical Guide for Humanitarian NGO Leaders (ICVA, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Reckoning and Renewal: A Future-ready Humanitarian System (Grand Bargain Ambassadors, July 2025) [access]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Development of supplier evaluation framework for resilient and sustainable humanitarian supply chains," Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, EarlyCite, 6 May 2025 [open access]

"Evaluating protection, inclusiveness and dignity in humanitarian aid: a systematic literature review," Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, EarlyCite, 24 June 2025 [open access]

"Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis," The Lancet, Online First, 30 June 2025 [open access]
- See also related CNN article.

"Humanitarian observatories: insights for reforming humanitarianism from below," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:10 (June 2025) [open access]

"The impact of US foreign aid cuts on global health," Chapter in The economic consequences of the second Trump administration: A preliminary assessment (CEPR Press, June 2025) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 459.

Multimedia:

An interview with UN relief chief Tom Fletcher (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series, 10 July 2025) [access]

What’s missing is a relationship with the grassroots (Power Shift Podcast Series, 5 June 2025) [access]

Resource:

ReliefWeb Submit: Share Your Updates with the Humanitarian Community [info]
- "A new service that allows UN partners to directly contribute content to ReliefWeb through a simple and secure submission form."

Related post:

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

*"Exploring factors that shaped Syrian refugees integration into Lebanon’s national health system using Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework," Conflict and Health, 18:79 (July 2025) [open access]

"How Turkish citizens perceive Syrian refugees: A source and valence analysis," Current Psychology, Latest Articles, 13 June 2025 [open access]

"The localization of aid in protracted conflicts: rethinking the Triple Nexus through the grounded temporality of Syrian refugees," Fennia: International Journal of Geography, vol. 203, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Turkey.

"Occupation, displacement, and violence in the West Bank: A retrospective analysis of data from 2014–2024," PLOS Glob Public Health 5(6): e0004829 (June 2025) [open access]

"Responsibility to Protect and Syria’s Displacement: Unprotected at Home and Abroad," Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 17, nos. 2-3 (May 2025) [open access]

"Security concerns, ethnic relations, and attitudes toward refugees: evidence from Turkey," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 7 July 2025 [open access]

"Sources of Social Capital Among Syrian Refugees in Informal Tented Settlements in Lebanon," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 5 June 2025 [open access]

"Strengthening Humanitarian Aid: Qatar's NGO-Driven Framework for Supporting Syrian Refugees in Türkiye," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

"What happens when forced migrants and transit state actors meet? Encounters at decision nodal points during the migration journey," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:46 (July 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Eritreans and Sudanese in Israel.

Multimedia:

Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon, 11 June 2025 [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Durable Disillusionment: (Ir)Relevance of Solutions in Protracted Crises (RLI Blog, July 2025) [text]
- Introductory post to new blog series on the "availability of durable solutions for Syrian refugees."

Funding Cuts, Refugee Protection, and Research: Türkiye, Syria, the European Union, and Beyond (RLI Blog, July 2025) [text]

Gaza: Starvation or Gunfire - This is Not a Humanitarian Response (ACT Alliance et al., July 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related stories from Al Jazeera, The GuardianThe New Humanitarian and NPR.

"Hundreds of Thousands of Afghans Forced to Leave Iran Amid Crackdown, UN Says," RFE/RL, 6 July 2025 [text]

In Syria, UNHCR’s Grandi urges more support for refugees returning home (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

IOM Reaches Milestone as 100,000 Migrants Return Home from Libya (IOM, June 2025) [text]

Israel’s destructive West Bank military operation fuels mass forced displacement of Palestinians (Amnesty International, June 2025) [text]

Protracted Palestinian exile and the “right to have rights” (IIED, June 2025) [text]

"Syrian Alawites flee to Lebanon, with little aid to meet them," The New Humanitarian, 4 June 2025 [text]

What does the failure of humanitarianism in Gaza mean? (ODI Insights, June 2025) [text]

Reports: 

Country Report: Egypt (AIDA, June 2025) [text]

Diaspora Humanitarian Engagement in Lebanon: Real-time Review (Diaspora Emergency Action and Coordination & Danish Refugee Council, July 2025) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Available in English and Arabic.

Five months under iron wall: The human toll of prolonged displacement & territorial fragmentation in the West Bank (MSF, July 2025) [text]

Meanings of the South and Refugees’ Views and Critiques of Southern Responses to Displacement, Southern Responses to Displacement Research Note, no. 1 (UCL, June 2025) 
- Focuses on Syrians in Lebanon, Jordan and Türkiye. Available in English and Arabic.

A roadmap for energy access in displacement settings: Jordan (UNITAR et al., June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Six Months Post-Assad: A Safe Return Remains Out of Reach (USCRI, June 2025) [text]

South-South Cooperation: Diplomatic and Humanitarian Responses to Conflict and Displacement (UCL, June 2025) [access]
- Focuses particularly "on responses to displacement in and from Syria, Gaza and Lebanon." Follow link for workshop report and related policy brief.

Transregional Responses to Displacement: Aid, Advocacy and Accountability (UCL, June 2025) 
-  Focuses "primarily on responses to displacement from Syria developed and implemented in Lebanon, Jordan, and Türkiye, as well as historical and contemporary responses to displacement in the broader Middle East, including in relation to Gaza." Access the research report in English and Arabic and the research note in English and Arabic.

Unlocking Rights in Northeast Syria: The Importance of Civil and Legal Documentation (Norwegian Refugee Council, July 2025) [text]

Related post:

09 July 2025

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

"Agile inheritance and vernacular governance – land, legitimacy, and migrant agency in peri-urban Zimbabwe," Discover Sustainability, 6:593 (July 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on stateless Malawians.

Derecho a la nacionalidad y prevención y resolución de la apatridia: observaciones y recomendaciones relativas al estatuto de ciudadanía legal en Uruguay (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

Ending Statelessness Together (UNHCR, Dec. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the Asia-Pacific region.

The Global State of Citizenship 2025: Gender Equality, Immigrant Inclusion, and Security of Status (European University Institute, 2025) [access]
- "No matter where or to whom we are born, we all have the right to be recognised as a citizen of at least one country. Even so, we live in a world where over four million people are stateless, because their citizenship remains denied or unrecognised. Living up to the promise of eradicating statelessness is challenging, because each state decides on how its citizenship can be acquired and lost. In this report, we map the variety of ways in which states regulate citizenship. In so doing, we identify the obstacles that individuals face in being recognised as citizens that arise from different and uncoordinated approaches of states around the world."

"The shifting of traditional understanding of citizenship due to international migration," Frontiers in Sociology, 20 May 2025 [open access]

"Street-Level Bureaucrats Manufacturing Migrants: An Implementation Study of Policy Measures to Address Statelessness in the Dominican Republic," Social Policy & Administration, Early View, 24 June 2025 [open access]

"Suspended identity: statelessness, citizenship challenges and the impermanence of identity status faced by Pakistani Bengalis," Citizenship Studies, Latest Articles, 3 July 2025 [open access]

Related post:

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Statelessness Essentials Online Course, 16 September-18 November 2025 [info]
- This is tuition-free course. Participants may sign up for individual sessions or enroll in the full 10-week programme. Register by 16 September 2025.

Short pieces:

Branded an "extremist", denied a passport: a stateless entrepreneur in democratic Europe (ENS Blog, July 2025) [text]

Citizenship Act (Second Amendment): Elaborating existing rights or granting new rights? (ISI, July 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Nepal.

Prevención de la apatridia en Uruguay: “Hemos dado un paso gigante; queríamos ser parte de la solución” (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Stateless by Decree: Kuwait's Escalating Citizenship Stripping Crisis (ISI, July 2025) [text]

Stateless Kurds of Syria in Germany and Sweden (ENS Blog, June 2025) [text]

Statelessness among Roma in the Western Balkans: progress, gaps, and the road ahead (ENS Blog, June 2025) [text]

UNHCR applauds Mali's adoption of landmark law to protect stateless people (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

United States:

The DOJ’s new denaturalization push explained (The Dispatch, July 2025) [text via Niskanen Center]
- See also related AP News and Axios articles.

Hanging "Like a Guillotine": Trump v. CASA and the Risk of Statelessness (Just Security, July 2025) [text]

Policy Alert on Rescission of the USCIS Statelessness Policy (USCIS, June 2025) [text via AILA]

U.S. public is split on birthright citizenship for people whose parents immigrated illegally (Pew Research Center, June 2025) [text]
- undocumented migrants,

"US tries to deport stateless Palestinian woman again despite judge’s order," The Guardian, 2 July 2025 [text]

What Does the Supreme Court Ruling on Birthright Citizenship Mean? (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2025) [text]

Related post:

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Migración, Estado y políticas: Dinámicas de los movimientos y organizaciones de migrantes y respuestas gubernamentales (CLASCO, May 2025) [open access]
- "Fruto de la convocatoria 'Migración, Estado y políticas: dinámicas de los movimientos y organizaciones de migrantes y respuestas gubernamentales', impulsada por CLACSO, este libro reúne seis investigaciones realizadas por equipos de Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, México y Perú. Los capítulos abordan, desde múltiples disciplinas, los cruces entre migración, políticas públicas, discursos hegemónicos y formas de resistencia. Desde el corredor del Darién hasta las rutas migratorias haitianas, pasando por los discursos electorales andinos y las transformaciones normativas en Costa Rica, el volumen ofrece una cartografía crítica de las dinámicas migratorias actuales."

Reports:

Desplazamiento forzado y confinamiento en el contexto de inseguridad, criminalidad y violencias en el Ecuador (UNHCR, May 2025) [text]

Guía para la cobertura mediática del desplazamiento forzado interno en contextos de violencia generalizada (UNHCR, June 2025) [access]
- Focuses on Honduras.

Housing use of immigrants and non-permanent residents in ownership and rental markets (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada & Statistics Canada, May 2025) [text]

Key Considerations for Future Temporary Protection and Regularization Programs in Latin America (Migration Policy Institute, June 2025) [access]
- "This report analyzes and compares different temporary protection and regularization initiatives, drawing examples from 11 countries/regions in and beyond Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, the European Union, Morocco, Peru, Spain, Turkey, and the United States)." Available in English and Spanish.

Migration Dynamics & Protection Risks in North–South Return Movements in the Americas: Impacts of changes in United States migration policy (Mixed Migration Centre & ProLAC Initiative, June 2025) [access]
- Available in English and Spanish.

Report on Misconduct and Wrongdoing at Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (Fiscal Year 2023-2024) (Govt. of Canada, June 2025) [text]

Situación humanitaria en Colombia: 2024, CODHES Informa, no. 119 (Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Strengthening the Refugee Status Determination Process in Guatemala (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Tendencias Nacionales: El desplazamiento forzado en Ecuador 2025 (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]
- See also related press release.

Tendencias y desafíos del desplazamiento forzado en México: Reporte del monitoreo de protección en México 2024 (UNHCR et al., June 2025) [text]

Related post: