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)

New Issues of Comp. Educ. Rev., Howard Law J., Intl. Migr., Japanese Yrbk. Intl. Law, J. Comp. Pol. Analysis, JEMS, Yrbk., Intl. Dis. Law

*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.

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."

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." Focuses on the US.

International Migration, vol. 62, no. 2 (April 2024) [contents]

- Mix of articles, with seven that are open access. Both commentaries are also open access and all book reviews are freely available.

Japanese Yearbook of International Law, vol. 66 (2023) [contents]

- Features a sub-section on "Mobility and Belonging in a Globalized World." 

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, vol. 26, no. 1 (2024) [contents]

- Special issue on "The Global Challenge of Mass Migration and Asylum: Comparative Analysis of Street-Level Organizations at the Front Lines." One article is open access.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 6 (2024) [contents]

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

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 8 (2024) [contents]

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

*Yearbook of International Disaster Law, vol. 5 (2022) [contents]

- Features a thematic section on "Human Rights and Disasters."

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: Africa

Sudan Conflict: One-year anniversary:

- "Sudan is now the country with the largest number of displaced people and the largest child displacement crisis in the world" (IRC).

• "Donors raise more than 2 billion euros for Sudan aid a year into war," Reuters, 15 April 2024 [text] (see also related UNHCR statement)
• "From mutual aid to mass displacement: How we chronicled a year of conflict in Sudan," The New Humanitarian, 15 April 2024 [text]
• One Year of Conflict in Sudan: Visualizing the World's Largest Displacement Crisis (IOM, April 2024) [text]
• The Situation in Sudan After One Year of Conflict (USCRI, April 2024) [text]
• Sudan: A Year of War (International Crisis Group, April 2024) [text]
• Sudan Crisis Report: One Year of Conflict (International Rescue Committee, April 2024) [text]
• Thousands still fleeing Sudan daily, after one year of war (UNHCR, April 2024) [text]

Opportunity:

Consultancy: Research on the Impact of Freedom of Movement on Self-Reliance of Refugees in the East and Horn of Africa, Oxfam [info]

- Apply by 30 April 2024.

Short pieces:

"Crowded camps and local aid: How DR Congo’s M23 conflict is impacting Goma," The New Humanitarian, 4 April 2024 [text]

"How growing hostility in South Africa impacts South-South migration," The New Humanitarian, 9 April 2024 [text]

Nearly 1 million refugees in Ethiopia risk limited assistance due to unprecedented funding crisis, warn UNHCR, RRS and partners (UNHCR, April 2024) [text]

The Verb ‘Enjoy’ in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Application in Africa (Human Rights Here Blog, April 2024) [text]

"Why refugee ration cuts in Uganda risk long-term social damage," The New Humanitarian, 18 March 2024 [text]

New open access book:

African Perspectives on South–South Migration (Routledge, March 2024) [open access]

- "Popular media, government pronouncements, and much of the global research discourse continue to be oriented towards migration from the Global South to the Global North, despite the fact that the vast majority of migration is South-South. This book moves beyond these mischaracterisations and instead distinctly focuses on the agency of African migrants and the creative strategies they employ while planning their routes within and across the African continent. Case studies explore the flow of resources such as people, money, skills, and knowledge throughout the continent, while also casting a light on the lived experiences of migrants as they negotiate their sometimes precarious and vulnerable positions. Underpinned by intensive empirical studies, this book challenges prevailing narratives and provides a new way of thinking about South-South Migration."

Reports:

Africa Migration Report, 2nd ed. - Connecting the threads: Linking policy, practice and the welfare of the African migrant (African Union & IOM, March 2024) [access]

From a Humanitarian to Development Approach: Uganda’s Groundbreaking Journey in the Sustainable Provision of Water to Refugees and Host Communities (World Bank, April 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Improving Psychosocial Wellbeing and Parenting Practices Among Refugees in Uganda: Results of the Journey of Life Effectiveness Trial," Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, vol. 11 (2024) [open access]

"Knowledge, risk perception and uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among internally displaced persons in complex humanitarian emergency setting, Northeast Nigeria," BMC Public Health, 24:634 (Feb. 2024) [open access]

"Patterns of inter-state irregular migration in Africa: insights from Ethiopian migrants to the Republic of South Africa," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 15 March 2024 [open access]

"The socio-economic impact of Covid-19 on refugees and host community’s livelihoods in south western Uganda: a case of Nakivale refugee settlement," Kabale University Interdisciplinary Research Journal, vol. 2, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (14 March 2024)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (14 March 2024)

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2

 Journal articles:

"'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]

"Encountering the hostile environment: Recently arrived Afghan migrants in London," Critical Social Policy, vol. 44, no. 2 (May 2024) [open access]

"The EU’s normative justifications of refugee resettlement," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 28 March 2024 [open access]

"Examining the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Iraqi Refugees in Canada," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 21, no. 3 (March 2024) [open access]

"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]

"Migrant integration in Turkey: Travels of a concept across borders and domains of knowledge production," Migration Studies, Advance Articles, 26 March 2024 [open access]

"Ми з Вами! (We Are with You!): Solidarity Actions towards Ukrainian Refugees in Poland," Innovation in the Social Sciences, vol. 2, no. 1 (March 2024) [open access]

"Refugee livelihood perspectives: post-traumatic growth in histories of Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Tamil Refugees in Australia," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 29 March 2024 [open access]

"Wanted Refugees: The Forming of an Instrument Constituency for Refugee Resettlement in the European Union," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 3 April 2024 [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1 (17 April 2024)

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

2024 CRCP Working Group on Settlement and Integration (Refugee Council of Australia, March 2024) [text]

- Note: CRCP = Consultations on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways (CRCP), formerly the Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement (ATCR).

65,000+ People Sign Up to Sponsor Refugees in the First 3 Months of Welcome Corps Expansion (Niskanen Center Blog, April 2024) [text]

UNHCR promotes the inclusion of Roma refugees in countries of asylum (UNHCR, April 2024) [text]

U.S. Refugee Admissions Program finds new life in FY 2024 (Global Refuge Blog, April 2024) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

Enduring hardships: Ukrainian refugees’ realities in Moldova and Poland two years on (Norwegian Refugee Council, April 2024) [text]

- See also related news release.

A Global Snapshot of Resettlement and Complementary Pathways (Refugee Council of Australia, March 2024) [text]

Keys to the City 2024: Ending refugee homelessness in London (Refugee Council, April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

New Scots Refugee Integration Delivery Project (Scottish Govt., March 2024) [text]

New Voices in the City: Refugee Participation in Warsaw, Gdynia, Wrocław, and Lublin - Review of Mechanisms, Best Practices, and Recommendations (Danish Refugee Council, March 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Prospects-powered solutions: Testing and scaling new approaches to forced displacement (UNICEF, April 2024) [text]

En qué situación están los migrantes en América Latina y el Caribe?: mapeo de la integración socioeconómica (BID, OCDE & PNUD, Oct. 2023) [text via Refworld]

"(Re)making a new home in a new land: The experience of former refugees," Chapter in The Experience of Homemaking in Unaffordable and Precarious Housing (Affordable Housing for Generations, April 2024) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 77. Focuses on New Zealand.

*Supporting Self-Sufficiency: Considerations for Refugees’ Transition out of Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways Programs (Migration Policy Institute, April 2024) [text]

"Voluntary Repatriation as a Durable Solution: The Case of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh," Chapter in Displacement, Emplacement, and Migration: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays (Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2024) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 157.

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1 (21 March 2024)

- Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 2 (21 March 2024)