Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Assessing the domestic political impacts of Turkey’s refugee commodification," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 28 March 2024 [open access]

"Asylum Marginalisation Renewed: ‘Vulnerability Backsliding’ at the European Court of Human Rights," International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 20, no. 1 (March 2024) [postprint]

"'The asylum system is completely broken': An analysis of justifications and resistance for the UK Government's Rwanda policy in parliamentary debates," CADAAD Journal, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Effects of blast exposure on anxiety and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among displaced Ukrainian populations," PLOS Global Public Health 4(4): e0002623 (April 2024) [open access]

"European voluntary sport clubs’ enabling and constraining effects on refugees’ social inclusion: an integrative review," Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, Latest Articles, 4 April 2024 [open access]

"Hope in the Ruins of Home: Narrative Meaning-Making of Forced Displacement, Place Attachment, and Deferred Future Resettlement in Varosha," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 37, no 1 (March 2024) [open access]

"'It’s not about the information, it’s about the situation': understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants’ narratives," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 29 March 2024 [open access]

"A mile in their shoes: understanding healthcare journeys of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK," International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, EarlyCite, 1 April 2024 [postprint]

"Refugees and (Im)Migrants: (Re)Conceptualizing and (Re)Contextualizing Migration in the Media," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 4 April 2024 [open access] 

"Risk perception and desire in decision-making: the case of Syrians’ sea migration to Europe," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 30 March 2024 [open access]

"'We can't help you – it doesn't concern us': the legal consciousness of young people seeking asylum in Sweden who report violent crime," Journal of Law and Society, vol. 51, no. 1 (March 2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (16 April 2024)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

"Adoption of EU Pact on Migration and Asylum," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 12 April 2024 [access]

- Follow link to access the legislative files that comprise the Pact and next steps. 

Leaving the European convention on human rights won’t stop the boats – but it will create other problems for the UK (The Conversation, April 2024) [text]

UK’s Rwanda Bill: Stopping the boats or setting a precedent (Raisina Debates, April 2024) [text]

Why EU information campaigns are failing to deter migrants (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

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

Reports & book chapters:

Country Report: Bulgaria (AIDA, April 2024) [text]

- Updated profile.

EU-Turkey Deal (Stichting Bootvluchteling, April 2024) 

- Documenting Conditions in the Greek Hotspots 2016-2023 [text via ReliefWeb]

- Visualising Data from the Greek Hotspots 2016-2023 [text via ReliefWeb]

How London’s local councils build proactive responses to asylum (LSE, March 2024) [text]

- See also related blog post.

"'Judicial Passivism' in EU Migration and Asylum Law Revisited," Chapter in Revisiting Judicial Politics in the European Union (Edward Elgar, March 2024) [preprint]

Please wait: Barriers to access the procedure for international protection in Italy (International Rescue Committee, April 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for report in English and Italian.

Seeking Protection: Afghan Asylum Applicants in the EU, Policy Note, no. 45 (ECRE, March 2024) [text]

Social Assistance and Refugee Crime, Working Paper, no. 11051 (CESifo, April 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Switzerland.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (25 March 2024)

Thematic Focus: Education - Pt. 2

New open access book:

Peer Relationships at School: New Perspectives on Migration and Diversity (Bristol University Press, Feb. 2024) [open access]

- "Drawing on research from two UK schools, this book reveals how migration, language, ethnicity, religion and precarity shape youth relationships. Using Buber's model, it analyses 'I-It' and 'I-Thou' interactions, showcasing their power to reshape differences. It offers a pragmatic and hopeful view of the dynamics of diversity in everyday life."

Journal articles:

Comparative Education Review, vol. 68, no. 1 (Feb. 2024) [contents]

- Includes a special section on "Providing for the Education of Migrant and Refugee Learners in a Fraught Global Context." 

"Experiences of teachers and students on school closures and its consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nyarugusu refugee camp, Tanzania," PLOS Global Public Health 4(3): e0002917 (March 2024) [open access]

"An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education," British Educational Research Journal, Early View, 15 March 2024 [open access]

"North Korean refugee students’ strategy of school engagement and its impact on identity in South Korea: 'aspiration towards an inter-Korean identity through a process of being one of them'," Multicultural Education Review, vol. 15, no. 4 (2023) [open access]

“Sustainable Education for Refugees Children: A Literature Review,” International Journal of Care Scholars, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Who is responsible for refugee education? A multilevel analysis of integration and localization in Colombia," International Journal of Educational Development, vol. 107 (May 2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education - Pt. 1 (15 April 2024)

Thematic Focus: Education - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Education Across Borders: Ukrainian Refugees' Perceptions of German Schools, Spotlight on Ukraine, no. 5 (Centre for East European & International Studies, March 2024) [text]

NSW Schools Provide Safety, Support for Refugees (NSW Govt., March 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Vastria CCAC: Provision of adequate education – a distant dream for minor asylum seekers (RLI Blog, March 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Greece.

The world’s largest humanitarian cash transfer programme reduces child labour and increases schooling among refugee children (VoxEU, April 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

Reports:

Breaking down barriers: increasing girls’ access to and completion of secondary education in Kakuma (Jesuit Refugee Service, March 2024) [text via INEE]

Displaced learners in Japan: student evacuees and policy liminality, Policy Brief, no. 21 (European Univ. Institute, Dec. 2023) [text]

Hometown conflict and refugees’ integration efforts, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 16862 (Institute of Labor Economics, March 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

Out of School: Assessment on barriers to school enrolment for Ukrainian refugee adolescents in Poland (CARE, IRC & Save the Children, Feb. 2024) [text]

Political economy and (in)coherence of the education system in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (ODI, Jan. 2024) [text]

- See also related policy brief.

Protecting and Ensuring Safe Access to Education: The ICRC’s Experience and Approach in Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence (ICRC, Feb. 2024) [text]

Refugee Education Financing: Key Facts and Findings: Insights into the Financing of Refugee Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 10752 (World Bank, April 2024) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (16 March 2024)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"COVID-19 vaccine uptake among non-US-born populations in the United States, 2020–2022," Vaccine, In Press, 11 April 2024 [open access]

"External and Internal Migration," Southern California Journal of Law and Social Justice, vol. 33, no. 3 (Forthcoming April 2024) [preprint]

"A Faster Way to Yes: Re-Balancing American Asylum Procedures," Georgetown Law Journal (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States," Migration Information Source, 13 March 2024 [text]

Howard Law Journal, vol. 66, no. 3 (Spring 2023) [full-text]

- Symposium issue with articles that "examine the effects of recent immigration policies on marginalized communities and the future of immigration equity legislation and litigation."

"Immigration Law After Relentless," New York Univ. Law Review Online, vol. 99 (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"The Limits of the Go-It-Alone Approach: U.S. Migration Management Increasingly Requires Other Countries’ Cooperation," Migration Information Source, 27 March 2024 [text]

"Making Protection Unexceptional: A Reconceptualization of the U.S. Asylum System," Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, vol. 55, no. 1 (Fall 2023) [open access]

"The Problem of Competency in Immigration Court," Northwestern University Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (15 April 2024)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Biden’s approach to migration management in the Americas (Mixed Migration Centre, April 2024) [text]

Differences in State Sunshine Laws Can Threaten Transparency Around Immigration Detention and Enforcement (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2024) [text]

FY 2024 Government Funding Package is a Mixed-Bag on Immigration (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2024) [text]

- See also related post.

How Temporary Protected Status has expanded under the Biden administration (Pew Research, March 2024) [text]

Immigration in the 2024 Presidential Election (ImmigrationProf Blog, March 2024) [text]

Texas’ SB4 & the Rights of Asylum Seekers (RLI Blog, March 2024) [text]

Through the Darién Gap: A New Path for Chinese Asylum Seekers to the United States (Wilson Center, March 2024) [text]

- See also related post on The Conversation.

"Trump says migrants are fueling violent crime. Here is what the research shows," Reuters, 12 April 2024 [text]

U.S. Christians more likely than ‘nones’ to say situation at the border is a crisis (Pew Research, March 2024) [text]

Reports:

The Backlash to the Backlash: The Moral and Electoral Failure of Anti-Immigrant Political Campaigns in the U.S. 2018-2023, CLALS Working Paper, no. 46 (American Univ., Feb. 2024) [text]

Border Security: Border Patrol's Missing Migrant Program (GAO, March 2024) [access]

No Right to Life: Lives Lost and the Legalized Violence That Shaped a Humanitarian Crisis in the Arizona Borderlands, CLALS Working Paper, no. 44 (American Univ., Nov. 2023) [text]

Raising the Credible Fear Screening Standard Will Endanger Lives But Won’t Fix the Border (Human Rights First, March 2024) [text]

Safe Mobility Offices: Awareness, Migrants’ Interest, and Potential Influence on Mixed Migration Dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2024) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (11 March 2024)

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

Can ‘the West’ be trusted? The future of European humanitarian aid (ODI Insights, March 2024) [text]

Community reflections on the State of the Humanitarian System report: returning findings to research participants (ALNAP Blog, March 2024) [text]

"Griffiths steps down as relief chief," The New Humanitarian, 26 March 2024 [text]

"How to fund refugee-led aid," The New Humanitarian, 2 April 2024 [text]

Imagining a feminist humanitarian system: reflections from co-organizing a panel on feminist approaches to humanitarian action (Bliss Blog, March 2024) [text]

Islamic philanthropy grows amid record emergencies and funding shortfalls (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Access, Power, Trust: Lessons from Humanitarian Aid in Protracted Displacement, Policy Brief, no. 1 (PRIO, 2024) [text]

Case Study: ICVA and INTERSOS’ Leading Role in the Development of the COVID-19 Vaccination in Humanitarian Settings Action Plan (ICVA & INTERSOS, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Distributional impacts of cash transfers on the multidimensional poverty of refugees: The Emergency Social Safety Net in Turkey," World Development, vol. 179 (July 2024) [open access]

Humanitarian Diplomacy: A Tool to Rebuild Trust in the Humanitarian Sector, IDSS Paper, no. 32 (Nanyang Technological Univ., March 2024) [text]

Independent review of the humanitarian response to internal displacement: Summary report (ODI, March 2024) [text]

Learning from Red Cross Red Crescent Assistance in Protracted Crises and Complex Emergencies (IFRC, March 2024) [text]

Raise the Bar: A blueprint for EU leadership in a world of escalating crises (International Rescue Committee, March 2024) [access]

- Follow link for report and executive summary.

Social cohesion in displacement: when aid actors should step back (ODI, March 2024) [text]

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024: Marking Ten Years of the Humanitarian Data Exchange (OCHA, Feb. 2024) [text]

UNHCR Programme Handbook for Partners (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

Multimedia:

How Does Cash Assistance Work? (Points of Clarity Video Series, April 2024) [access]

Why Does UNHCR Provide Cash Assistance Instead of Physical Supplies? (Points of Clarity Video Series, Feb. 2024) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (21 Feb. 2024)

News: New Edition of COI Training Manual

An updated edition of the "Researching Country of Origin Information: Training Manual" was launched last month. 

First published in 2004 and revised in 2013, the current volume "outlines the role and standards of COI in refugee status determination (RSD) procedures or in procedures relating to other forms of international protection. There is general consensus that COI has an integral and indispensable role in decision-making on international protection. While the core COI quality standards set out in the 2004 version of the manual are now widely recognised and accepted, there have been developments in COI research and presentation. This revised edition aims to describe these developments and explain how they apply to those using and carrying out COI research."

The publisher, the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin Information & Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD), regularly holds COI trainings - check on this page for upcoming opportunities. ACCORD also manages the ecoi.net database, the principal resource for undertaking country conditions research.

Related post:

- Revised Edition of COI Training Manual (21 Nov. 2013) 

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Short pieces:

For trans migrants forced to flee their homes, the violence continues at our border (HRF Blog, March 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US-Mexico border.

Queer Asylum History: Forced Displacement and Statelessness (Refugee Action, Feb. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on North Africa.

Revisiting CEDAW Committee’s decision in A.S. v Denmark: Legalization of Homophobia in Uganda and the Need for a Rights-Based Assessment of Asylum Application (RLI Blog, March 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Développer des voies sûres et légales pour les réfugié·e·s LGBTQI+: Un état des lieux en Allemagne, en France et en Italie (Synergies Migrations, April 2024) [text]

"Event(ual) Queer Crafting of Dublin Regulated SOGIE Refugees," Italian Sociological Review, vol. 14, no. 95 (2024) [open access]

"Queer asylum: Between hostility and incredibility," International Migration, vol. 62, no. 2 (April 2024) [open access]

"Queer Digital Migration Research: Two Case Studies," Chapter in Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday (Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2024) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 215

Queering Displacement: The State of the Ukrainian LGBTQ+ Community During the Russian Full-Scale Invasion (Global Public Policy Institute, April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Sixth Ground: Why Adding Gender/Sexuality to the Grounds for Asylum Would Better Serve the Needs of LGBT Asylum Seekers," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 38, no. 1 (Fall 2023) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

Transgender Immigrants in California (UCLA, Jan. 2024) [text]

Multimedia:

Ep 6: Queer and Trans African Mobilities (Curated Conversations: Exploring the Politics of Migration Through Ideas Podcast, Feb, 2024) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (15 Jan. 2024)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

The Glas Case: Diplomatic Asylum Returns to the ICJ? (EJIL: Talk Blog, April 2024) [text]

"Venezuelans increasingly stuck in Mexico, lowering illegal crossings to US," VOA News, 31 March 2024 [text]

**Visit the weekly Americas Migration Brief for a much more extensive round-up of news and publications.

Reports:

Análisis regional de necesidades de ayuda legal: Colombia, México, Perú, Venezuela, Guatemala y Honduras (Danish Refugee Council, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Declaración de la IX Reunión Plenaria del Proceso de Quito: "Construyendo un sistema integral para la respuesta a las crisis migratorias y humanitarias en América Latina y el Caribe," Santiago, 22-24 Nov. 2023 [access]

- Text available in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Diagnóstico Participativo 2023: Percepciones de la población refugiada y otras personas desplazadas por la fuerza sobre la inseguridad y violencias en Ecuador (UNHCR, Feb. 2024) [text]

Neglected in the Jungle: Inadequate Protection and Assistance for Migrants and Asylum Seekers Crossing the Darién Gap (Human Rights Watch, April 2024) [Eng. text] [Sp. text]

Nota metodológica: predicciones de víctimas y probabilidad de desplazamientos masivos e individuales 2024 (Blumont, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Colombia.

Perfil de los refugiados y los migrantes venezolanos en la República Dominicana (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, May 2023) [text]

The Politics of Immigration Arrives in Canada (Wilson Center, March 2024) [text]

Primera Consulta Temática del Proceso de Cartagena+40: Protección de las personas en situación de movilidad humana y apátridas, Ciudad de México, 4 y 5 de abril de 2024 [access]

- Follow link for concept note in Spanish and English. See also related press release in Spanish and English.

Refugee Relocation Can Be a Positive Experience (Baker Institute, March 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Mexico and Brazil.

*Riesgos y protección en las zonas más peligrosas de las rutas de tránsito migratorio por Centroamérica y México (IOM, April 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Design and implementation of an intensive panel survey with refugees and other migrants in need of protection in Costa Rica," PLoS ONE 19(3): e0301135 (March 2024) [open access]

"Estimating the incidence of Venezuelan migration and other socioeconomic factors on urban growth in Colombia," PLoS ONE 19(4): e0301552 (April 2024) [open access]

"Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:15 (March 2024) [open access]

"Lessons from Colombia’s response to Venezuelan forced displacement," Albany Law Review, vol. 87, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Persistent Food Insecurity and Material Hardships: A Latent Class Analysis of Experiences among Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Urban Colombia," Nutrients, vol. 16, no. 7 (April 2024) [open access]

"A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis," Media and Communication, vol. 12 (2024) [open access]

- "Over 3,000 articles from 2012–2022 in Spanish and English across the US, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras were manually coded to better understand how refugees in crisis were framed in both home and destination countries."

"Vulnerability of Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants in Toronto," Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, First View, 5 April 2024 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (15 March 2024)

Opportunities: More April & New May 2024

CFP: Special issue of Refuge on the role of vulnerability criteria in the resettlement process [info]

- Submit abstracts ASAP to accommodate tight deadlines!

Call for applications: International Online School in Forced Migration, 17-21 June 2024 [info]

- "Offers are made on a first-come, first-served basis to suitably qualified and experienced applicants. Each school has a maximum of 50 spaces."

Talk: Liberating Language Skills: Critical Pedagogy for Refugee Empowerment in Employment, Online, 17 April 2024 [info]

Lecture: Leaving the legal kitchen: Insights from socio-legal studies on migration law, Maastricht/Online, 18 April 2024 [info]

Conference: Artistic Encounters in War and Violent Conflict, Oslo, 22-23 April 2024 [info]

Lecture: Practical and Compassionate Alternatives to Detention, Online, 23 April 2024 [info]

Call for registration: Surviving in Conflict: How can humanitarian arrangements contribute to the protection of civilians in armed conflict and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance?, London/Online, 24 April 2024 [info]

Call for registration: Research funding across the North-South divide: towards equity in knowledge production, Cambridge, UK, 29 April 2024 [info]

Call for contributions: Mixed Migration Review 2024: Short Essay Competition – Alternative Perspectives [info]

- Submit abstracts by 3 May 2024.

Seminars: RSC Public Seminar Series, Trinity Term, 8 May-5 June 2024 [info]

- Held weekly.

Call for registration: Legal discourses on international and EU migration/refugee law in Central and Eastern Europe: emerging new narratives or business as usual?, Prague, 9-10 May 2024 [info]

- No deadline indicated.

CFP: 3rd Research Conference on Forced Displacement, Abidjan/Online, 19-21 September 2024 [info]

- Submit papers/abstracts by 15 May 2024. 

Call for applications: Advanced Course on Childhood Statelessness and the Child’s Right to a Nationality, Online, 26 September-14 November 2024 [info]

- Apply by 15 May 2024.

Call for applications: Gil Loescher Memorial Fund [info]

- Submit funding proposals by 15 May 2024.

Call for applications: Odysseus Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, Brussels, 1-12 July 2024 [info]

- Refugee scholarships are available and a PhD seminar will also take place during the summer school. All of these have an application deadline of 15 May 2024. 

CFP: Maynooth University Workshop on Internal Displacement Law and Policy, Maynooth, Ireland, 19-20 September 2024 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 24 May 2024.

Call for registration: Summer Course on Forced Migration: Exploring the intersections between forced migration and technology, Toronto/Online, 3-7 June 2024 [info]

- Register by 25 May 2024.

Call for registration: Pacts, Promises and Refugee Protection, 8th Annual RLI Conference, London, 3-5 June 2024 [info]

- Registration closes 27 May 2024.

Workshop: The global governance of migration: What role for the research community?, Toronto/Online, 28 May 2024 [info]

CFP: Forced Displacement in an Urbanizing World, 20th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference (IASFM20), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 21-23 January 2025 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 31 May 2024.

CFP: REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana [info]

- Contributions sought for a dossier on "Human mobility and climate crisis." Submit manuscripts in  English, Italian, Portuguese, French or Spanish by 31 May 2024.

CFP: Return and Integration Prospects of Ukrainian Refugees, Nuremberg, Germany, 26-27 September 2024 [info]

- Submission deadline is 31 May 2024.

Related post:

- Opportunities: A Few More April 2024

Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

Event Report: Migration Research in the Age of Messy Politics Roundtable (LERRN, April 2024) [text]

Most countries do not take a fair share of refugees – here’s how we could incentivise them (The Conversation, April 2024) [text]

New open access book:

Displacement, Emplacement, and Migration: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays (Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2024) [open access]

- This essay collection "examines the impact of the interlocking relationship between displacement, emplacement, and migration. Contributors bring the perspectives of history, art, politics, films, and literature to bear on discussions of belonging, home, dislocation, and identity politics for individuals and groups in the current migration studies landscape."

Reports:

A Decade of Documenting Migrant Deaths: Data analysis and reflection on deaths during migration documented by IOM’s Missing Migrants Project, 2014–2023 (IOM, March 2024) [text]

US Leadership Matters in Addressing Forced Displacement Crisis: Six Major Issues with Recommendations for Refugee Policy and Programming, RAFDI Working Group Report, no. 1 (Wilson Center, March 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"An agent-based framework to study forced migration: A case study of Ukraine," PNAS Nexus, vol. 3, no. 3 (March 2024) [open access]

"Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 25 March 2024 [open access]

"Feminist methodologies in migration research," International Migration, vol. 62, no. 2 (April 2024) [open access]

"How do perceptions, fears, and experiences of violence and conflict affect considerations of moving internally and internationally?," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 9 April 2024 [open access]

"Learning Migration Governance: The Representation and Reception of International Norms in Capacity Building Programs," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 40, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Mapping the evidence on psychosocial interventions for migrant populations: Descriptive analysis of a living database of randomized studies," Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 11:e35 (March 2024) [open access]

"Unsettling expectations of stay: probationary immigration policies in Canada and Norway," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:19 (April 2024) [open access]

"Welcoming, Revitalising, Re-Growing? Refugee Arrival and Urban Development in Shrinking Cities," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 40, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

People Forced to Flee (LERRN Podcast, April 2024) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (19 March 2024)

Admin: Spring Break

This blog will be quiet for a week or so.

New Book Titles

Please visit my Forced Migration Library blog for references to new books due out in April 2024, as well as additional titles published in March 2024 and new open access texts.

Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (31 March 2024)

This is a round-up of open access materials produced by authors based in the Global South (GS) and other geographic areas that are less well-represented in the domain of scholarly forced migration literature. Generally, articles are included if either the lead author or at least half of the co-authors are based in the GS. These references are organized by type of open access. The OA items herein were previously referenced on this blog as of 31 March 2024.

Bronze OA:

"'Environmental Refugees': A Case Study of the Chakmas in India," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) 

- Scroll to p. 8.

- Author = India

"Invisible and Excluded: The Plight of Disabled Refugees in International Law," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024)

- Scroll to p. 1

- Author = India

"A Lesson in Creating Community for Educational Rights in Cairo," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) 

- Scroll to p. 71.

- Authors (2) = Egypt

"Socio-economic Integration Strategies of 'Former Rwandan Refugees' in Yaoundé, Cameroon," Journal of Critical Global Issues, vol. 1, no. 1 (2024)

- Author = Cameroon

Diamond OA:

"Application of the Cessation Clauses to the Refugee Problem in Rwanda: Opportunities and Challenges," Rwanda Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Business, vol. 3, no. 1 (2024)

- Authors (4) = Rwanda

"The Association between Intimate Partner Violence and Female Syrian Refugees’ Mental Health," Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry, Ahead of Print, 28 Feb. 2024

- Author = Qatar

"Between Two Worlds: The Role of Bilingual Call Centers in Navigating Post-Deportation Identity among Mexican Returnees," Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, vol. 17, no. 2 (2023)

- Authors (3) = Mexico

"Can Joint Mobility Projects at Universities Promote Safe Transitions for Refugees? The Experience of Jordanian Social Work Students," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1 (2024)

- Authors (8) = Jordan (7, incl. lead), US (1)

"Forced Migration, School Wastage and Refugee Governance: An Empirical Analysis of the Situation of Refugee Children in Cameroon," Annals of the University of Craiova, Series Psychology, Pedagogy, vol. 45, no. 2 (Dec. 2023) 

- Authors (2) = Cameroon

"Historic Transit Migration through Darién, Panama: Qualitative Results of Impact for Local Communities," Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 1 (March 2024) 

- Scroll to p. 18.

- Authors (4) = Affiliated with unspecified Latin American-based org. (lead), US (2), Panama (1)

"Jordan’s Response to Hosting Syrian and Palestinian Refugees: A Comparative Analytical Framework," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1 (2024)

- Authors (3) = Jordan

"The Principle of Substitution: The Argentine Contribution to Private Sponsorship Schemes?," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 39, no. 2 (2023)

- Author = Argentina

"Refugees, Climate Litigation in the Global South and Climate Change: Facing the Gap in the Protection of Climate Refugees in International Law," Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, vol. XXIV (2024)

- Author = Brazil

"Responses to the Question of the Schooling of Refugees in the Commune of Mandjou: Modalities and Evaluation from 2013 to 2023," Annals of the University of Craiova, Series Psychology, Pedagogy, vol. 45, no. 2 (Dec. 2023)

- Authors (3) = Cameroon

"The Role of Regional Integration in Advancing Human Mobility in East and Horn of Africa," Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 1 (March 2024)

- Scroll to p. 12.

- Authors (2) = Kenya (lead), South Africa (1)

"Surviving the Socioeconomic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Migrants in

the Informal Economy in Downtown Bloemfontein, South Africa," Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 1 (March 2024)

- Scroll to p. 49.

- Authors (3) = South Africa

"'They seem so like us': The Discursive Representation of Ukrainian Refugees in Western Media," University Studies in Humanities, no. 15 (2024)

- Author = Lebanon

Gold OA:

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

"Barriers and Enabling Factors for Utilizing Physical Rehabilitation Services by Afghan Immigrants and Refugees with Disabilities in Iran: A Qualitative Study," BMC Public Health, 24:893 (March 2024)

- Authors (7) = Iran (5, incl. lead), UK (1), Switzerland (1)

- APC = USD 3190

"Barriers to Contraceptive Use in Humanitarian Settings: Experiences of South Sudanese Refugee Women Living in Adjumani District, Uganda: An Exploratory Qualitative Study," PLoS ONE 19(3): e0278731 (March 2024)

- Authors (5) = Uganda (4, incl. lead), UK (1)

- APC = USD 2290

"Barriers to Entrepreneurial Refugees’ Integration into Host Countries: A Case of Afghan Refugees," Sustainability, vol. 16, no. 6 (March 2024)

- Authors (5) = Pakistan (2, incl. lead), Pakistan/Saudi Arabia (1), Hungary (2)

- APC = CHF 2400

"Effect of Food Insecurity on Depression, Anxiety, and Stress among Resettled Syrian Refugees in Ontario," PLOS Global Public Health 4(3): e0002571 (March 2024)

- Authors (4) = Canada (2, incl. lead), Saudi (1), Jordan (1)

- APC = USD 2400

"Factors Associated with Family Planning Use among Refugee and Host Populations in Adjumani District, West Nile, Uganda: A Comparative Study," BMC Public Health, 24:754 (March 2024)

- Authors (5) = Uganda 

- APC = USD 3190

"Faith in Humanity: Religious Charitable Organizations Solidarity towards Migrants in the United Arab Emirates," Religions, vol. 15, no. 3 (Feb. 2024)

- Authors (4) = United Arab Emirates

- APC = CHF 1800

"The Hidden Burden of Dysmenorrhea among Adolescent Girls in Palestine Refugee Camps: A Focus on Well-being and Academic Performance," BMC Public Health, 24:726 (March 2024)

- Authors (6) = Palestine/Norway (lead), Palestine (2), Norway (3)

- APC = USD 3190

"A Human Rights-based Approach for Effective Criminal Justice Response to Human Trafficking," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:4 (Jan. 2024)

- Author = Ethiopia/Netherlands

- APC = USD 790

"'I don't want my marriage to end': A Qualitative Investigation of the Sociocultural Factors Influencing Contraceptive Use among Married Rohingya Women Residing in Refugee Camps in Bangladesh," Reproductive Health, 21:32 (March 2024)

- Authors (2) = Bangladesh

- APC = USD 3090

"The Impact of Policy and Policy Communication on COVID-19 Vaccination Inequalities among Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Colombia: A Comparative Cross-sectional Interrupted Time-series Analysis," BMJ Global Health, vol. 9, no. 3 (March 2024)

- Authors (13) = US (6, incl. lead), Colombia (7)

- APC = GBP 3245

"Influence of Socio-economic Factors on the Mental Health of Vulnerable Populations at Risk in Kakuma Refugee Camp," Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 7, no. 2 (2023)

Authors (3) = Kenya

APC = USD 250

"Investigation of COVID-19 Outbreak at a Refugee Transit Centre, Kisoro District, Uganda, June–July 2022," PLOS Global Public Health 4(3): e0002428 (March 2024)

- Authors (14) = Uganda 

- APC = USD 2400

"Perceptions and Attitudes of Rohingya Community Stakeholders to Pregnancy Termination Services: A Qualitative Study in Camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh," Conflict and Health, 18:19 (March 2024)

- Authors (7) = Bangladesh (4, incl. lead), UK (1), US (2)

- APC = USD 3190

"Safeguarding in Practice: Anticipating, Minimising and Mitigating Risk in Teenage Pregnancy Research in Urban Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya," BMJ Global Health, vol. 9, no. 2 (Feb. 2024)

- Authors (9) = Kenya (4, incl. lead), UK (4) = UK/Kenya (1)

- APC = GBP 3245 

"Social Vulnerabilities among Immigrants and Refugees in Emergencies and Disasters: A Systematic Review," Frontiers in Public Health, 6 March 2024

- Authors (3) = Iran

- APC = USD 3295

Green OA:

Note: Authors can now deposit their postprints in the Forced Migration Research Archive (FMRA)! The submission form and guidelines are available on FMRA's website.

"Predicting Intention to Vaccinate against COVID-19 in Older Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Findings from a Multi-wave Study," Vaccine, In Press, 13 March 2024 

- Preprint version posted on medRxiv

- Authors (8) = Lebanon 

Book chapter:

"Doubtful Citizens: Irregularization and Precarious Citizenship in Contemporary India," Chapter in Statelessness in Asia (Cambridge Univ. Press, Forthcoming Aug 2024) 

- Preprint version posted on SSRN

- Author = India (at the time of writing this contribution)

Related post:

- Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (29 Feb. 2024)

New Issues of Alt. Hum., Disasters, Globaliz., Health Educ. Res., Innov. Soc. Sci., Intl. J. Law Context, Ital. Soc. Rev., J. Ident. & Migr. Stud., Migr. Pol. Pract., QRP, REMI

*Reminder: Postprints of articles published in the journals below that are marked with an asterisk can be archived/deposited in a repository immediately after publication (like the Forced Migration Research Archive) - i.e., there is no embargo period! This allows authors to provide open access to their scholarly journal articles without having to pay costly publication fees. Please refer to this earlier blog post for more information.

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 25 (2024)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]

- Issue theme is "Food crises: what role for humanitarian actors?"

Disasters, vol. 48, no. 2 (April 2024) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with 10 that are open access.

Globalizations, vol. 21, no. 2 (2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "Cities and the Contentious Politics of Migration." The introduction is freely available and one article is open access.

Health Education Research, vol. 39, no. 2 (April 2024) [contents]

- Special theme issue on "Refugee, immigrant, and migrant health." The introduction is freely available and one article is open access.

Innovation in the Social Sciences, vol. 2, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "The Legal Ambiguity of the State Crime and the Making of Statelessness."

*International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 20, no. 1 (2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "Law, Migration and Vulnerability: From the Margins to the Centre." The introduction and two articles are open access.

Italian Sociological Review, vol. 14, no 9S (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Bordering and Debordering Across Time."

Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, vol. 17, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 1 (March 2024) [open access]

- This issue provides "insights on the short- and long-term impacts of migration."

QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 62, no. 4 (2024) [open access]

- This issue "summarizes contributions, discussions, findings and conclusions from the 68th International Conference of the Association for the World Refugee Problem (AWR) on the subject of 'Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Transnational Skill Partnerships'."

QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Includes "a special focus on refugee situations in the Middle East."

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 40, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- Thematic dossier focuses on "Migrations et développement. Enjeux politiques."

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: MENA

Focus on Gaza:

• "Behind the numbers: Gaza’s unprecedented aid worker death toll," The New Humanitarian, 21 March 2024 [text]
• "Days after U.N. Cease-fire Resolution, Has Anything Changed in Gaza?," New York Times, 29 March 2024 [text]
• “Famine is Setting in”: The International Court of Justice Returns to Gaza (Just Security Blog, March 2024) [text]
• Gaza's Famine is Underway (Just Security Blog, March 2024) [text]
• "Hundreds of trucks full of aid sit idle near border with Gaza as crisis deepens," NBC News, 30 March 2024 [text]
• "Japan to resume funding to UNRWA, following Sweden, Finland and Canada," Al Jazeera, 29 March 2024 [text]
• On UNRWA, Palestine Refugees, and International Law (EJIL Talk Blog, March 2024) [text]
• States must adhere to obligations under Genocide Convention to prevent further loss of life in Gaza, says Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese (OHCHR, March 2024) [text]
• "UN Security Council passes Gaza ceasefire resolution," The New Humanitarian, 25 March 2024 [text]

Other publications:

"Covid-19 skepticism and public health norms during refugee assistance: does skepticism always lead to poor safety protocol adherence?," BMC Public Health, 24:881 (March 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on refugees in Lebanon, Türkiye, and Jordan.

"'The Decision to Return to Syria is Not in My Hands': Syria’s Repatriation Regime as Illiberal Statebuilding," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2024) [free full-text]

"Faith in Humanity: Religious Charitable Organizations Solidarity towards Migrants in the United Arab Emirates," Religions, vol. 15, no. 3 (Feb. 2024) [open access]

"Hosting Syrian Refugees through the Development Lens: The Case of Jordan," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 40, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

“Let it stay in the heart and injure, rather than going out and exposing me”: Unpacking cultural concepts of distress among Syrian refugees in Jordan (ELRHA Blog, March 2024) [text]

Refugees in Jordan: a data-driven approach for change (IIED, March 2024) [text]

*"Risk perception and desire in decision-making: the case of Syrians’ sea migration to Europe," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 30 March 2024 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1 (19 March 2024)

- Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2 (19 March 2024)