Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

"Editorial: El Darién - una selva de esperanza, dolor e incertidumbre," Panamá: Balance Humanitario 2024 (ICRC, April 2024) [text]

"Latin America makes it harder for Venezuelan refugees as xenophobia mounts," The New Humanitarian, 17 April 2024 [text]

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

Reports:

Análisis del Sistema de Monitoreo de Fronteras y Caracterización de Flujos en Ecuador (GTRM &R4V, April 2024) [text]

Guatemala: Monitoreo de movimientos mixtos - Informe anual 2023 (ACNUR, April 2024) [text]

México: Esperanza de un nuevo hogar - Principales resultados de ACNUR México en 2023 (ACNUR, April 2024) [text]

La persistencia del estado de cosas inconstitucional a veinte años de la Sentencia T-025 de 2004: IV Encuesta Nacional de Verificación de Goce Efectivo de Derechos de la Población Desplazada por el Conflicto Armado en Colombia (CODHES, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Violencia, desesperanza y abandonoen la ruta migratoria: El impacto médico-humanitario en una crisis sin precedentes en México y América Central (Médecins Sans Frontières, April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

Displaced Voices: A Journal of Migration, Archives and Cultural Heritage, vol. 3, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

- "Chile @ 50: A Special Issue of Displaced Voices to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Coup d’état in Chile."

"In Search of Strategies to Address Violence in Central America," Univ. of San Francisco Law Review, vol. 58, no. 3 (Forthcoming, 2024) [full-text]

Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies, vol. 12, no. 1 (2023) [contents]

- Special issue on "Venezuelan Migrations, Journeys, and Trajectories across the Americas." The introduction and two articles are open access.

"Keeping the 'public machinery' running: notions of crisis and efficiency in the administration of waiting by the National Committee for Refugees (CONARE)," Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, vol. 21 (2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Brazil.

"National Assimilation and/or Cosmopolitan Transnationalism? Impending Transnationalism among the Upwardly Mobile Children of Refugees," Sociology, OnlineFirst, 14 April 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Canada.

Multimedia:

Asylum seekers from Gaza and Sudan face prejudiced policies and bureaucratic hurdles (Don’t Call Me Resilient Podcast Series, April 2024) [access]

- Focuses on Canada.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Americas (12 April 2024)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Climate Change, the Displacement of Puerto Ricans and the Problem of Representation (RID Blog, April 2024) [text] 

"Colombian Court Recognizes Environmental Refugees," AFP, 23 April 2024 [text]

- Note: The text of the ruling is available below.

Escaping Extremes: Climate Change's Role in Displacement and Migration (Human Rights First Blog, April 2024) [text]

In-depth Q&A: How does climate change drive human migration? (Carbon Brief, April 2024) [text]

UNHCR launches fund to shield refugees and other displaced people from climate shocks (UNHCR, April 2024) [text]

Waiting for Godot No More: The Climate Crisis and the New European Asylum Pact (Oxford Human Rights Hub, April 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Corte Constitucional de Colombia: Sentencia T-123 de 2024 (April 2024) [text via Refworld]

- "Desplazamiento forzado interno por factores ambientales, incluidos hechos asociados al cambio climático."

"Disaster Year In Review 2023," CRED Crunch Newsletter, no. 74 (April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Environmentally driven migration in EU discourse: norms, policies and realities," UCL Open Environment, vol. 6 (March 2024) [open access]

Mechanisms and sources of data on human mobility in the context of climate change, disasters and environmental degradation in South America (IOM, March 2024) [access]

- Available in English, Portuguese and Spanish. 

"The Rising Tide of Rights: Addressing Climate Loss and Damage through Rights-Based Litigation," Transnational Environmental Law, vol. 12, no. 3 (Nov. 2023) [open access]

Sea-level rise in relation to international law, UN Doc. No. A/CN.4/774 (UN General Assembly, Feb. 2024) [access]

- Available in the six UN languages. This paper supplements and further develops issues that were discussed in an earlier paper (A/CN.4/752), specifically "statehood" and "the protection of persons affected by sea-level rise."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (29 March 2024)

News: New Edition of AI's Annual Report on Human Rights

Amnesty International has published the latest edition of its (slightly re-named) flagship annual publication, The State of the World's Human Rights: Amnesty International’s Annual Report 2023/24. From the press release:

"The world is reaping a harvest of terrifying consequences from escalating conflict and the near breakdown of international law, said Amnesty International as it launched its annual The State of the World’s Human Rights report today, delivering an assessment of human rights in 155 countries. ...

   'Amnesty International’s report paints a dismal picture of alarming human rights repression and prolific international rule-breaking, all in the midst of deepening global inequality, superpowers vying for supremacy and an escalating climate crisis', said Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard.

   'Israel’s flagrant disregard for international law is compounded by the failures of its allies to stop the indescribable civilian bloodshed meted out in Gaza. Many of those allies were the very architects of that post-World War Two system of law. Alongside Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, the growing number of armed conflicts, and massive human rights violations witnessed, for example, in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar – the global rule-based order is at risk of decimation'.”

The complete report is available in English, French and Spanish, while summaries in multiple languages can be accessed via the drop-down menu located at the bottom of the three full-text language pages. 

Previous editions are available via the report archive.

News: 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

The U.S. Department of State has published the 48th edition of the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The reports detail human rights violations in close to 200 countries and territories, replying "on information available from a wide variety of credible sources, including foreign government officials; victims of alleged human rights abuses; academic and congressional studies; and reports from media, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)." More info is provided in briefings by the Senior Bureau Official for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Secretary of State.

No translations are currently available but when they are, they will be linked to the main report page. (See, e.g., the list of translations for last year's reports.)

To retrieve reports from previous years, use the drop-down menus on the right side of the page; reports as of 1999 are available.

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Bridging the digital divide: addressing digital inequalities among climate refugees (Media@LSE Blog, April 2024) [text]

"The Grim High-Tech Dystopia on the US-Mexico Border," Jacobin, 28 March 2024 [text]

"The problem with emergency aid’s growing reliance on corporations," The New Humanitarian, 15 April 2024 [text]

"Risky business of using algorithms in immigration detention," LSJ Online, 15 April 2024 [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Reports & journal articles:

"Between Empowerment and Surveillance: Forced Migration and Information and Communication Technologies," HUMANITAS, vol. 12, no. 23 (2024) [full-text]

"Exploring Dynamics in the Co-Production of Monitoring Technologies for Refugee Accommodations in Germany," Chapter in Interdisciplinary Migration Research with a Focus on New Technologies and Multiple Crisis: Relating Birds of Passage to Social Policies (Berlin Universities Publishing, March 2024) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 56.

"Investigations with Digital Open-Source Information and the Stabilization of International Norms: Protecting the Principle of Non-Refoulement," Chapter in International Law and Technological Change: Testing the Adaptability of International Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming 2024) [preprint]

"National Security Creep in the Use of Modern Technologies at the EU’s External Borders," Transnational Legal Theory (Forthcoming, 2024) [preprint]

"The Role of Social Media Networks in the Labor Market Integration of Migrants and Refugees: The Example of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany," Chapter in Interdisciplinary Migration Research with a Focus on New Technologies and Multiple Crisis: Relating Birds of Passage to Social Policies (Berlin Universities Publishing, March 2024) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 80.

Resource:

Artificial Intelligence in Humanitarian Action (ReliefWeb) [access]

- New topic page on ReliefWeb: "The presence of Artificial intelligence (AI) is growing in the humanitarian field. It is used for data analysis, to help develop sustainable solutions in climate action and is utilized in the development of chatbots for vulnerable populations. While AI can make an positive impact in humanitarian efforts, the technology raises concerns around ethics, governance and technological inequality." For more info., see this blog post.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (21 March 2024)

Regional Focus: MENA

Focus on Gaza:

(listed in chronological order)

• "In-depth: Israeli attempt to circumvent UN contributes to Gaza aid chaos," The New Humanitarian, 1 April 2024 [text]
• Israeli strike on World Central Kitchen aid convoy shows growing danger of humanitarian work in conflict zones (The Conversation, 3 April 2024) [text]
• More than 200 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, making famine more likely (The Conversation, 4 April 2024) [text]
• Gaza, Forced Displacement, and Genocide (EJIL: Talk Blog, 5 April 2024) [text]
• Rebuilding Gaza was seen as a ‘Herculean’ task before Oct. 7; six months of bombing has led to crises that will long outlive the war (The Conversation, 8 April 2024) [text]
• "Six months of war in Gaza: A collection of our recent coverage," The New Humanitarian, 8 April 2024 [access]
• Gaza Needs Humanitarian Assistance Now as Famine Sets in (Nanyang Technological Univ., 9 April 2024) [text]
• Explainer: 3 things to know about displacement in Gaza (Kaldor Centre, 11 April 2024) [text]
• "Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started," The Guardian, 12 April 2024 [text]
• "UN refugee chief says outflow of Gazans into Egypt would make conflict resolution impossible," Reuters, 12 April 2024 [text]
• Palestinians in Gaza: do they have a right to seek asylum elsewhere? (United Against Inhumanity, 16 April 2024) [text]
• "Israeli strikes on Rafah kill 18, as Gaza death toll tops 34,000," Politico.eu, 21 April 2024 [text
• Independent Review of Mechanisms and Procedures to Ensure Adherence by UNRWA to the Humanitarian Principle of Neutrality (UN, 22 April 2024) [access] (see also related Guardian and UN news stories) 
• Manufacturing Famine: Israel is Committing the War Crime of Starvation in the Gaza Strip (B'Tselem, 22 April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Short pieces:

"An Identity Quandary in Lebanon," GJIA Online, 16 April 2024 [text]

"Syrians in Lebanon stay indoors as fears of xenophobic violence grow," The New Humanitarian, 22 April 2024 [text]

"Syrians who are not 'displaced' could face forced repatriation under new government proposal," L'Orient Today, 2 April 2024 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Defensive national identity relates to support for collective violence, in contrast to secure national identity, in a sample of displaced Syrian diaspora members," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 99 (March 2024) [open access]

"Determinants associated with low dietary diversity among migrants to Morocco: a cross sectional study," Scientific Reports, 14: 8361 (April 2024) [open access]

"The emergence and regression of political priority for refugee integration into the Jordanian health system: an analysis using the Kingdon’s multiple streams model," Conflict and Health, 18:30 (April 2024) [open access]

Improving the Response to Internal Displacement: How IDPs in Iraq, Syria & Yemen Experienced Access to Services & Aid Assistance during Displacement (Danish Refugee Council et al., Aril 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Journalistic and reception mechanisms of remote threat domestication: EU asylum seekers in Israeli media," Media, Culture & Society, OnlineFirst, 9 April 2024 [open access]

Localized Knowledge Ecosystems in East Africa and the Middle East (American Univ. of Beirut, July 2023) [access]

- Follow link to access outputs of this project; most of the reports focus on Jordan and Lebanon.

"On Idle Possibilities and Missed Chances: Refugee Rights in Egypt," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3 (Sept. 2023) [full-text via CMRS]

Prospects for Resolving Displacement in Areas of Limited and No Return in Sinjar District and Qahtaniya Subdistrict (IOM, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (31 March 2024)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

From “time and again” to “never again”: Refugee Law and International Criminal Law contributions to preventing genocide (RLI Blog, March 2024) [text]

‘Strength to strength’: New leader to take Kaldor Centre into second decade (UNSW, March 2024) [text]

Books & book chapters:

"International Migration Law," Chapter in Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach (Routledge, March 2024) [open access]

"Investigations with Digital Open-Source Information and the Stabilization of International Norms: Protecting the Principle of Non-Refoulement," Chapter in International Law and Technological Change: Testing the Adaptability of International Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming 2024) [preprint]

Migrants and Human Rights Protections (MDPI, March 2024) [open access]

- This reprint of a special issue "delves into human rights law’s enduring struggles to extend protections to migrants. The contributions engage with this subject-matter from a wide range of perspectives that bring to the fore both the universal and particular in migrants’ experiences of human rights protection regimes across countries and continents. This Special Issue also reminds of the value of developments in the Global South."

"Mobility," Entry in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming 2024) [preprint]

"Ukrainian Racial Contracting and the Geopolitics of Welcome in International Refugee Law," Chapter in Race, Racism & International Law (Stanford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2024) [preprint]

Reports & journal articles:

"European Migration Law Between 'Rescuing' and 'Taming' the Nation State: A History of Half-hearted Commitment to Human Rights and Refugee Protection," European Papers, vol. 8, no. 3 (2023) [open access]

Global Asylum Governance and the European Union’s Role: Rights and Responsibilities in Implementing the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees (CEPS, March 2024) [text]

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. A postprint is available for yet another article.

MOBILE Working Paper Series (Univ. of Copenhagen) [access]

- Series published by the Center of Excellence on Global Mobility Law.

"Three approaches to the 1951 convention: The case for a dialectical approach," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 25 March 2024 [free full-text]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (Legal aspects) (19 April 2024)

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (2 March 2024)

Thematic Focus: Children & Families

Short pieces:

"Border Patrol must care for migrant children who wait in camps for processing, a judge says," PBS Newshour, 4 April 2024 [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"How European countries wrongfully classify children seeking asylum as adults," The New Humanitarian, 10 April 2024 [text]

Reports:

Equal Justice for Migrant Children: Towards a Specialist Court for Unaccompanied and Separated Migrant Children (Refugee Law Initiative & Methoria, March 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

The Effects of Irregular Migration on Child Labor: The Situation of Migrant Children in Türkiye (Turkish Red Crescent, April 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Available in English & Turkish.

La infancia en peligro: La niñez migrante en América Latina y el Caribe (UNICEF, Sept. 2023) [text via Refworld]

Insights from OIG’s Work on the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Efforts to Care for Unaccompanied Children (US Dept. of Health and Human Services, March 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Replenish, Disburse, and Deliver: How the World Bank's IDA21 can strengthen education and early childhood development (International Rescue Committee, April 2024) [text]

Steps forward, Steps back: A year’s efforts to combat the labor exploitation of unaccompanied children (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on the US.

Wellbeing in the lives of young refugees in Scotland (Drawing Together Project, April 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Caring for resettled refugee children in the United States: guidelines, challenges and public health perspectives," Frontiers in Public Health, 24 Sept. 2023 [open access]

"Child marriage and displacement: A qualitative study of displaced and host populations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 3 April 2024 [open access]

"Drawing (Across) Borders: Reflections on the Use of Creative Visual Communication in Ethnographic Research with/for Young Refugees," TRAJECTORIA, vol. 5 (2024) [full-text]

- Focuses on Greece.

Enfances Familles Générations, no. 44 (2023) [open access]

- Features thematic section on "Trajectoires de familles migrantes et contributions aux sociétés d’appartenance: réflexions interdisciplinaires et internationales."

"The limitations of Private International Law regarding the protection of unaccompanied migrant children in the European Union," Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Nutritional Challenges among African Refugee and Internally Displaced Children: A Comprehensive Scoping Review," Children, vol. 11, no. 3 (March 2024) [open access]

"Syria, the Homeland. Feeling at Home in Rotterdam? The Multiple Feelings of Belonging of Resettled Syrian-born Youngsters with a Refugee Background," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 9 April 2024 [open access]

"Temporalities in asylum childhoods: time politics and children’s rights in Sweden’s asylum reception and resettlement," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 25 March 2024 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (16 March 2024)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces focusing on the United States:

Do immigrants and immigration help the economy? (The Brink, April 2024) [text]

"Dollars, cents and the migrant story you aren’t reading," Masslive.com, 5 April 2024 [text]

Immigrants Contribute Billions to Federal and State Taxes Each Year (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2024) [text]

"Immigration is Powering the U.S. Economy," Time Magazine, 5 April 2024 [text]

Welcome Corps at Work:  Connecting U.S. Employers with Skilled Refugee Employees (US State Dept., April 2024) [text]

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains (Harvard Business School, April 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Boletín: Medios de vida e inclusión económica (UNHCR, April 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Guatemala.

Do Migrants Displace Native-Born Workers on the Labour Market? The Impact of Workers' Origin, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 16887 (Institute of Labor Economics, March 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Belgium.

"Economic and labour market impacts of migration in Austria: an agent-based modelling approach," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:18 (March 2024) [open access]

Enhancing Job Opportunities and Training, Honduras Best Practices Livelihood Programmes, no. 3 (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

Estudio de Inclusión Económica: Refugiados y migrantes venezolanos en Perú desarrollado en las ciudades de Tumbes, Trujillo, Lima/Callao, Ica y Arequipa (USAID & World Council of Credit Unions, Nov 2023) [text]

"Improving Refugees’ Integration with Online Resource Allocation," Communications of the ACM, Online First, 22 March 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

Reviewing the contribution of the private sector to economic and labour market development in forced displacement contexts, RSC Working Paper, no. 141 (Refugee Studies Centre, March 2024) [text]

Stolen in Plain Sight: Losing Track of Forced Labor in the United States (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

New Study Upends Negative Assumptions about the Economic Impact of Refugees (Need to Know Podcast, March 2024) [access]

- Focuses on the US.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1 (30 March 2024)

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2 (30 March 2024)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (Legal aspects)

Opportunity:

Seminar: Coming in from the Cold? Group-based Refugee Determination for Women at Risk of Gender-based Violence, Online, 29 April 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Advancing Gender and Sex Equality in Asylum Protections (Think Immigration Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Female Genital Mutilation and the Question of Future Persecution when Seeking Asylum in the United States (Immigration Law Blog, Oct. 2023) [text]

"Will asylum for Afghan women cause more migrants to choose Switzerland?," SwissInfo.ch, 10 April 2024 [text]

Journal articles:

"Legal Interpretations of Trauma: The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Gender-Based Asylum Claims," Trauma Care, vol. 4, no. 2 (April 2024) [open access]

"La política del silencio frente a solicitudes de asilo por violencia íntima en España," Revista CIDOB d'afers internacionals, no. 133 (2023) [open access]

"Resisting Domestic Violence," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 1 April 2024 [open access]

*"Vers une protection renforcée des femmes migrantes victimes de violence de genre en Europe," Cahiers de l’EDEM, no. 2 (Feb. 2024) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (19 April 2024)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Reports & journal articles:

"Adaptive religious coping with experiences of sexual and gender-based violence and displacement," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 27 March 2024 [open access]

- Note: Data were "collected in Turkey and Tunisia with thirty-eight Levantine and African women."

Care in Crisis: Failures to guarantee the sexual and reproductive health and rights of refugees from Ukraine in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia (Center for Reproductive Rights, April 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Report available in English and Hungarian.

"Conflict-Induced Displacement of Ukrainian Women, Pregnancy, COVID-19, and the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in Poland," International Studies Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

- Note: The postprint version is currently under embargo and will become available 27 Sept. 2024.

"Does volunteering impact refugee women's life satisfaction, empowerment, and wellbeing? Experimental evidence, local knowledge, and causal reasoning," Social Science & Medicine, vol. 347 (April 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Syrian refugee women in Jordan.

"Migration process of Venezuelan women to Brazil: living conditions and use of health services in Manaus and Boa Vista, 2018–2021," BMC Public Health, 24:1051 (April 2024) [open access]

Revista CIDOB d'afers internacionals, no. 133 (2023) [open access]

- Special issue on "Migraciones y violencias desde una perspectiva de género."

"Trauma-informed care for women who are forced migrants: a qualitative study among service providers," Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, OnlineFirst, 14 March 2024 [open access]

"War and Women: An Analysis of Ukrainian Refugee Women Staying in the Czech Republic," Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 8 April 2024 [postprint]

"What to Pack? The Semiotics of Be-Longing(s) of Syrian Displaced Women," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 39, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

Women Navigating Durable Solutions to Displacement: Experiences from Ninewa Governorate (IOM, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Iraq.

Multimedia:

African Refugee Women and Gendered (In)visibility, 26 March 2024 [access]

Refuge in a cold climate: the impact on women, 27 Nov. 2023 [access]

Women Leading Change in Displacement Settings (LetsTalkIDPs Podcast, March 2024) [access]

- Focuses on Cameroon.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (13 March 2024)

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (Reprod. & Sexual Health) (13 March 2024)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

 

"Un acercamiento a la ciudadanía y a la apatridia desde la teoría social," Revista Científica en Ciencias Sociales, vol. 6 (April 2024) [open access]

"Ambiguous citizenship policies: Examining implementation gaps across levels of legislation in Jordan," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:23 (April 2024) [open access]

"Bordering through legal non-existence: the production of de facto statelessness among women and children through the National Registry of Citizens in Assam, India," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (Forthcoming) [open access]

"Citizenship, Federalism, and Delayed Birth Registration in the United States," Akron Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Citizenship Studies (Forthcoming, 2024) [access]

- Special issue on legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states. Note: The issue has not yet been officially published but the editors discuss and link to the various contributions in the text of a blog post provided above.

"Residency and citizenship in the Gulf: recent policy changes and future implications for the region," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:16 (March 2024) [open access]

"Statelessness in The Philippines: A Contextual Analysis," Scientia: International Journal on the Liberal Arts, vol. 13, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

2024 State of Play Assessment on Statelessness in Europe, 21 March 2024 [access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (18 April 2024)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

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.

Short pieces:

5Qs: Fisher Proposes Partial Solution to Issues of Stateless People (Univ. of Michigan, March 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US. Note: The Stateless Protection Act referenced in the a/m interview was re-introduced on 20 March 2024. 

Are we on the right track to address statelessness in Europe? (European Network on Statelessness, March 2024) [text]

Discussion on Regressive Constitutional Amendments Still Ongoing in Malaysia (Institute on Statelssness & Inclusion, April 2024) [text]

The Finnish reform of the Nationality Act from a statelessness perspective: the good, the bad and the ugly (ENS Blog, April 2024) [text]

Ghost Citizens: Researching the Legal Limbo of Stateless Persons (Univ. of Ottawa, April 2024) [text]

India Activates Discriminatory Citizenship Law (Human Rights Watch, March 2024) [text]

A state of statelessness: The fate of Tamil peoples from Sri Lanka in India (Raisina Debates, April 2024) [text]

Understanding the Zone of Statelessness in Assam (CSS Blog, April 2024) [text]

Reports:

Cote d'Ivoire: Report on Statelessness 2023 (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

- Also available in French.

From a traditional international law approach to a human rights-based approach to statelessness, Working Paper, no. AEL 2024/05 (European Univ. Institute, 2024) [text]

Launch of two new StatelessnessINDEX countries - Georgia and Türkiye (European Network on Statelessness, March 2024) [text]

- See also related ENS blog post on Turkey.

OSCE-UNHCR Regional Conference on Access to Civil Documentation and Prevention of Statelessness in South-Eastern Europe, Skopje, North Macedonia, 17 October 2023: Final Outcome Document [text]

Statelessness in Kazakhstan: Analysis of National Legislation (UNHCR, June 2023) [text]

- See also related story.

Statelessness in the Kyrgyz Republic: Analysis of National Legislation (UNHCR, May 2023) [text]

Toolkit to identify and address statelessness in Czechia (Organization for Aid to Refugees & European Network on Statelessness, 2024) [access]

- Available in English and Czech.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (8 March 2024)

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2 (8 March 2024)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Opportunities:

Call for applications: "Advancing refugee protection and promoting accountability in Southeast Asia through legal empowerment and refugee leadership (ARPR)," Bangkok [info]

- Volunteer researcher/paralegal/advocate with lived experience of forced displacement sought to join team working on a/m project. Applications considered on a rolling basis.

Seminar: Placemaking in a Polycrisis: The Protection and Survival of Refugees in Malaysia, Stanford, CA, 24 April 2024 [info]

CFP: The Asia Pacific Chapter of the IARMJ Conference, Melbourne, 27-29 November 2024 [info]

- The theme is "Vulnerabilities in Refugee and Migration Law: People, processes, and systems." Submit abstracts by 1 May 2024.

Short pieces:

The consequences of the government’s new migration legislation could be dire – for individuals and for Australia (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

- See also related Kaldor Centre statement and submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into the bill. 

Displacement is on The Rise. Is the Asia-Pacific Ready? (CGD Blog, March 2024) [text]

Gangs, kidnappings, murders: why thousands of Rohingya are desperately trying to escape refugee camps by boats (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

The High Court is hearing another high-stakes immigration case. Can people be forced to assist in their own deportation? (The Conversation, April 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Japan Court Finds Rohingya Ethnicity Grounds for Refugee Status (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2024) [text]

Myanmar: The junta’s forced conscription of Rohingyas (The Interpreter Blog, April 2024) [text]

"Pakistan threatens new wave of Afghan deportations," The New Humanitarian, 10 April 2024 [text]

- See also related article in The Diplomat.

UNHCR and Parliament members conduct thematic meeting on refugee issues in Kazakhstan (UNHCR, April 2024) [text]

- Note: This news story links to "an analysis of national legislation and practices concerning refugees" published in 2021 in English and Kazakh.

"Why the Rohingya are Being Treated the Way They are," The Diplomat, 26 March 2024 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Displaced and Destitute: The Precarious Lives of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh," Bulletin of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol. 26, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

Global Refugee Forum 2023: Outcomes for the Asia-Pacific Region (ICVA, April 2024) [access]

- Follow link for report, data and video recording of launch.

"Hindutva Politics and the Making of Extreme Precarity: BJP Policies against Rohingya Refugees in India," Innovation in the Social Sciences, vol. 2, no. 1 (March 2024) [open access]

"The Humane Yet Ambivalent Attitude Towards Persecuted People: A Potential Threat to Stability?," Chapter in Integrated Approaches to Peace and Sustainability (Springer, 2023) [preprint]

- Focuses on Rohingya in Bangladesh.

"Kashmiri Pandits Amid Conflict-induced Displacement: Facts, Issues, and the Future Ahead," Journal of International Displacement, vol. 14, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Plaintiff S99: Rewriting Refugee Law Through a Trauma-Informed Lens," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 2 April 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Australia.

"In Search of Durable Solutions for Refugees in Indonesia: A State Security and Human Rights Protection Approach," The Age of Human Rights Journal, no. 22 (2024) [open access]

"Transitions without Justice: Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal," International Journal of Transitional Justice, Advance Articles, 21 March 2024 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (20 March 2024)