Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

As Money Goes out for Climate-Related Loss and Damage, Displaced Communities Stand to Benefit (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also video recording of related event.

COP30 and displacement: Limited political momentum but strategic opportunities for 2026 (IDMC Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Disaster- and climate-related human mobility in the Americas: A decade of progress since the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda (Nansen Initiative +10 Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The United Nations Conference on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters (EJIL: Talk Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

Adapting to change: climate displacement, gendered (women) challenges, and pathways to empowerment in Iraq, LSE Middle East Centre Paper, no. 101 (LSE Middle East Centre, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Beneath the Waves: The Ability of Artificial Islands to Generate Maritime Entitlements in Light of Sea Level Rise," Chapter in New Zealand Yearbook of International Law Online, vol. 21, no. 1 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Introduction: A research agenda for an evolving branch of law," Chapter in A Research Agenda for Disaster Law (Edward Elgar, Nov. 2025) [free full-text]

Journal articles:

"Climate Displacement and the European Refugee ‘Crisis’ Narrative," International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Latest Articles, 1 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Displacement in the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on Climate Change," Environmental Policy and Law, OnlineFirst, 12 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Economic burden of drought using the life satisfaction approach: A case study of slum dwellers in southeast Iran," PLoS One 21(1): e0340300 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Fleeing the Climate: The Need for Protection of Climate Refugees in the Light of International Law," Pace International Law Review, vol. 37, no. 2 (2025) [full-text]

"From threat to justice: rethinking the securitisation of climate-induced migration from the Global South," The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies, vol. 114, no. 6 (2025) [ResearchGate]

"Rethinking vulnerability and humanitarian assistance in the pastoral drylands: insights from northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

- Note: Part of a special collection in progress on "Resilience in protracted crises: navigating uncertainty in the drylands." 

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (18 Dec. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Education

Short pieces:

How UNESCO Qualifications Passport holders build mutual support in Uganda and Zambia (UNESCO, Jan. 2026) [text]

Refugee Children: Right to Education Not Guaranteed in Many Arrival Centers (Bremen Univ., Dec. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Germany.

Social Justice is Localization: What Refugee-Led Education Initiatives Teach Us (INEE Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & book chapters: 

Localisation and education in conflict and protracted crisis contexts (ERICC Consortium, Dec. 2025) [text]

Palestinian Education Still Under Attack: Restoration, Recovery, Rights and Responsibilities in and through Education (Univ. of Cambridge & Centre for Lebanese Studies, Jan. 2026) [access via INEE]

"Quality Indicators for the Vocational Education and Training of Refugees: Acceptance of German Vocational School Principals," Chapter in Opportunity Structures in Vocational Education and Training: National Studies and International Discussions (Springer, Dec. 2025) [open access]

Journal articles:

"Adapting Mobile Technology to Enhance Access to Quality, Equitable and Inclusive Education in Fragile Contexts: The Case of Kakuma Refugee Camp Primary Schools," Journal of the Kenya National Commission for UNESCO, vol. 6, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"The Impact of the War in Gaza on Children’s Right to Education: A Qualitative Study of Local and International Social Work Interventions," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

"Jordanian teachers of refugee students: street-level bureaucrats and decision-making through practices of care," Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Latest Articles, 15 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"Language learning through sport in refugee sites: reflections based upon an ethnographic study of a refugee site in Niger," International Journal of Multilingualism, Latest Articles, 22 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Migration-Related Differences in Academic Outcomes: Insights from the Italian Higher Education System," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 18 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"The pedagogical relationship lost in translation? Insights from a segregated Ukrainian refugee school in Norway," European Educational Research Journal, OnlineFirst, 18 Dec. 2025 [open access]

PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment, no. 9 (2025) [open access]

- Thematic issue on "PLA Responses to Urgent Social Realities: Access to Education and Work for Refugee, Migrant, Displaced, and Stateless People."

Multimedia:

Unlocking Futures: Realizing the Right to Education for Stateless Persons, Knowledge Webinar, no. 5, 18 Dec. 2025 [access] 

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (8 Dec. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Short pieces: 

Addressing statelessness in a changing world – using the 2025 GRF Progress Review to assess progress made since the 2024 High-Level Segment on Statelessness (ENS Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Heritage Doesn’t Make Somebody an American (CATO At Liberty Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Statelessness in the Spotlight: Key GRF Progress Review Highlights (Global Alliance to End Statelessness, Dec. 2025) [text]

Taking Responsibility for those who belong to Australia including women and children from Syrian camps (CSS Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Thailand resolves legal status of over 100,000 stateless people (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"All country summary and recommendations related to the right to a nationality and the rights of stateless persons," Universal Periodic Review, 51st Session, 4th Cycle, 19 – 30 January 2026 (Institute on Statelessness & Inclusion, Jan. 2026) [access]

- Follow link for this report and country summaries on Lebanon, Oman and Mauritania.

"Del territorio sumergido a la apatridia: lagunas normativas y soluciones jurídicas," Revista Estudios Jurídicos Segunda Época, 25:e9952 (2025) [open access]

Ending Statelessness in Asia and the Pacific: Achievements and Opportunities (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

"'How can you appeal something you don’t know about?' Enforced ignorance within UK citizenship deprivation cases involving 'ISIS-associated' individuals," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 18 Dec. 2025 [open access]

Lessons for Birthright Citizenship from Suspension of Deportation (SSRN, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Migrations Société, no. 202:4 (2025) [contents]

- Features a dossier on "Sans nation, sans protection: les apatrides."

"Statelessness & Innovation: Building Power Through Collective Action," Statefree & ENS Conference, 5-7 Nov. 2025 [access]

- Follow link for a joint newsletter sharing conference highlights.

Statelessness in the Context of International Protection, Fact Sheet , no. 41 (EU Agency for Asylum, Dec. 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

Knowledge Webinar 4: Addressing Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws and Policies, 2 Dec. 2025 [access]

"Terror & Fear": Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery (War & Peace Report, Dec. 2025) [access]

- See also related Brennan Center article.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (12 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific

Short pieces:

Afghanistan: Forced returns to Taliban rule must end as latest figures reveal millions unlawfully deported in 2025 (Amnesty International, Dec. 2025) [text]

Genealogies of Planned Relocation: Revisiting ‘Cluster Villages’ as a Settler-Colonialist Project in Bangladesh (RID Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

A New Digital Gateway Opens for Refugees in India (UNHCR Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Harmonizing Afghan Refugees and Host Communities in Urban Slums in Pakistan for Peaceful Coexistence and Social, Gender- positive Inclusiveness (UN-HABITAT, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Unveiling the "Shadow Report" on Human Rights Violations Against Refugees in Thailand (Asylum Access, Jan. 2026) [access]

- Discusses the Coalition for the Rights of Refugees and Stateless Persons' report prepared for the UN Committee against Torture, which was submitted Oct. 2024.

Journal articles:

"Differences in healthcare access between Rohingya refugees and their host community in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh," Frontiers in Public Health, 10 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"From Finding to Making Jari: The Return of Burmese Political Refugees from South Korea," Population, Space and Place, vol. 32, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Humanitarian Response and Dynamics of Community Security: Insights from Rohingya Refugee Camps and Host Communities in Ukhiya and Teknaf, Bangladesh," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

Migrations Société, no. 200:2 (2025) [contents]

- Features a dossier on "Politiques migratoires et défis ethnoraciaux en Corée du Sud et au Japon."

"Population Displacement and State Building: The Legacies of Pashtun Resettlement in Afghanistan," International Organization, vol. 79, no. 4 (Fall 2025) [open access]

"Rebel responses to disasters in conflict zones: a case study of Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Short Stories of Refugeedom: Encounters between Refugees, UNHCR, and the Australian Government, 1951–1975," Australian Journal of Politics & History, vol. 71, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (10 Dec. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2 (10 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

Seminar: The Anatomy of Displacement, Copenhagen, 28 January 2026 [info]

- See related report below.

Short pieces:

Another Brick in the Wall: Israel’s Seizure of UNRWA Facilities in East Jerusalem (EJIL: Talk Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Ten Years Later: The Impact of Sudanese Deportations from Jordan (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports: 

The Anatomy of Displacement: Displacement is a strategy, not a humanitarian side effect of a conflict (Danish Institute for International Studies, Dec. 2025) [text]

UNHCR cash assistance for Syrian returnees 2025 (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"The Consequences and Prospects of Israel’s Ban of UNRWA," Cairo Review of Global Affairs, no. 53 (Winter 2025) [full-text]

"Cooperation within Reason: Tunisia’s Approach to Asylum and Readmission," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 26, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

- Note: This article was not open access when the journal issue was initially published.

"The Elusive 'Collectivised Refugee Protection': The Case of the EU-Egypt Migration Cooperation," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 26, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

- Note: This article was not open access when the journal issue was initially published.

"Enjeux et limites des catégorisations dans le contexte des migrations forcées. L’exemple des réfugiés palestiniens et syriens au Liban depuis 2011," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 41, nos. 2&3 (2025) [open access]

"The Influence of Diplomatic and Foreign Policy Considerations in the Making of Migration and Asylum Policy in Morocco," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 26, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

- Note: This article was not open access when the journal issue was initially published.

"Learning from Palestinian refugees: decolonizing knowledge and practice in social work," Critical and Radical Social Work: An international journal, vol. 13, no. 4 (2025) [open access] 

"Making Rafha: explaining the establishment of Saudi Arabia’s first and only refugee camp," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 26 Dec. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Iraqis.

"Who gets to see the sea? Stratified displacement, privilege, and the optics of escape in Lebanon," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2026) [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1 (12 Dec. 2025)

- Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2 (12 Dec. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Short pieces:

Joint statement: EU states must not backtrack on refugee resettlement commitments (ECRE et al., Jan. 2026) [text]

USCIS Announces Launch of Refugee Re-Examination Initiative in Minnesota (AILA, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Note: This initiative is called "Operation PARRIS (Post-Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening)"; see also related Practice Alert.

Reports: 

Area-based approach durable solutions toolkit: Operational guidance document (IMPACT Initiatives & Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related event.

What is refugee resettlement? (International Rescue Committee, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Europe.

Journal articles:

"Drivers of Return Plans Among Ukrainian War Refugees in Czechia: Challenging Common Assumptions and Refining the Theory," Population, Space and Place, vol. 32, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"'I simply cannot live like a guest forever…': the limits of solidarity in the private hosting of Ukrainian refugees in Berlin," Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Latest Articles, 26 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"'The library experience goes far beyond books': Latin American women’s narratives of transcultural embedding and social integration through using public libraries in Helsinki," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2026) [open access]

"'Partial returns': displacement, mobility, and translocal connections in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 13 Jan. 2026 [open access]

"Rebuilding Lives Beyond Traditional Destinations: Dispersal Placement and Typologies in U.S. Refugee Resettlement," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 2 Jan. 2026 [abstract]

- A related dissertation will become available as of 28 April 2027.

"Refugee Housing Access Through Urban Studies and Strategic Digital City Context," Urban Science, vol. 10, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Brazil.

"Refugees and Asylees in the United States," Migration Information Source, 8 Jan. 2026 [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Solutions (20 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

"Decolonizing the migration archive: Haitian refugees at Fort Allen, Puerto Rico, 1981–82," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:94 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Expanded “Travel Ban” to Take Effect January 1, 2026 (US Congressional Research Service, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Global Inequalities in US Visa Rejections: Evidence from Visitor Visa Applications Submitted Between 2006 and 2021," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 30 Dec. 2025 [open access]

Latin American Refugees to the U.S. Experience More Discrimination than Refugees from other Regions (Syracuse Univ., Jan. 2026) [text]

"Migration-Related Trauma Among Asylum Seekers Exposed to the Migrant Protection Protocols," JAMA Network Open, vol. 9, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

- See also related invited commentary; any additional future commentaries will be posted on the right side of the webpage.

"Refugees and Asylees in the United States," Migration Information Source, 8 Jan. 2026 [text]

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 4 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "The US Deportation System and Its Aftermath."

"A Workshop on Historical Racism, Police Violence and Know Your Rights with Congolese Refugees: Reflections and Insights on Participatory Programming," Journal of Community Practice, Latest Articles, 8 Jan. 2026 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (13 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Asylum Cooperative Agreements and the Fiction of the Safe Third Country (The Asylumist Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related CBS News article.

DOJ’s Dangerous Silence in the Face of Federal Immigration Agents’ Violent Tactics (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [text]

- See also related listing of "use of force policies issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol, and the Department of Justice" and a Marshall Project report on the repeated use of deadly force by immigration agents. 

The Most Important Immigration Stories of 2025 (CATO At Liberty Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

No Hearing Necessary: Pretermission and Third-Country Deportations in Immigration Court (bklg Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Racial profiling by ICE agents mirrors the targeting of Japanese Americans during World War II (The Conversation, Jan. 2026) [text]

Trump v. Illinois: A Narrow Supreme Court Decision with Broad Implications (Just Security, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the federalization of National Guard forces in response to protests against ICE.

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

Multimedia:

Year in review: Trump's immigration policy (NPR Politics Podcast, Dec. 2025) [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: United States (19 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: Americas

Short pieces:

"5 migration trends in the Americas to watch in 2026," Americas Migration Brief, 18 Dec. 2025 [text]

Building Resilience Through Human Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDP Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The Erosion of Asylum and Due Process in Ecuador’s 2025 LOMH Reforms (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

IACHR and CMW: States must eradicate xenophobia against migrants (OAS, Dec. 2025) [text]

The Psychological Cost of Being Forced to Leave Home (Psychology Today Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

UNHCR: ‘We hope Canada continues to be a champion for fast, fair, and efficient asylum’ (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

- See also related Guardian article.

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

New open access book:

Coping and Adaptation in Times of Exodus: Venezuelan Migration Decisions and Strategies (Routledge, Dec. 2025) [open access]

- This book "offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary exploration of the Venezuelan migration crisis - one of the most significant South-South population movements in recent decades. Drawing on the results of the MICLACAS research project, this book examines how Venezuelan migrants and their families navigate the challenges of displacement. Combining quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with migrants, their families, host communities, and experts, the volume examines the decision-making process behind migration and immobility, the strategies migrants employ to cope and adapt, and the outcomes of integration across diverse socio-political contexts." Focuses on Peru. See also earlier related journal article.

Reports & journal articles:

ACNUR en México, de la emergencia a la institucionalización (2010-2025) (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Beyond Mass Deportation," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 57, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

- "Over four years, our interdisciplinary team interviewed more than 300 Mexican citizens who had been deported (or returned on their own), asking about their economic, social, and cultural reintegration and what advice they would offer to others returning to Mexico."

"La familiarización de las migraciones en los corredores migratorios de América Latina, una aproximación teórico-metodológica," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 16 (2025) [open access]

- Available in both Spanish and English.

"When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers: organized crime violence and risks for migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border," Social Forces, Advance Articles, 4 Dec. 2025 [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (15 Dec. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2 (15 Dec. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunity:

Lecture: Lessons from the Field: Safe Programming and Safeguarding in Humanitarian Work, Cairo, 14 January 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

"2025 Was Uniquely Bad for Poor Countries," Time Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025 [text]

"Abrupt transitions: The Global Humanitarian Overview pushes a dangerous trend," The New Humanitarian, 11 Dec. 2025 [text]

Complying with IHL in Large-scale Conflicts Blog Series (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, 2025) [access]

Update on Lives Lost from USAID Cuts (CGD Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

"US ‘adapt, shrink or die’ terms for $2bn aid pot will mean UN bowing down to Washington, say experts," The Guardian, 1 Jan. 2026 [text]

"What’s shaping aid policy in 2026," The New Humanitarian, 7 Jan. 2026 [text]

**For more updates on developments in this area, sign up for one or more of The New Humanitarian's various newsletter options (such as Inklings and weekly "cheat sheets"), as well as IHSA's weekly selection of humanitarian blog posts.

Reports & journal articles:

2025 Global Protection Forum Report (Global Protection Cluster, Jan. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

2026 Emergency Watchlist: New World Disorder (International Rescue Committee, Dec. 2025) [access]

- See also related article.

Humanitarian year in review: shocks and reverberations (ALNAP, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Moral injury among humanitarian aid personnel: a preliminary examination of associations with rumination and mental health," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 11:1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Supporting self-reliance for displaced and host populations: insights from the Self-Reliance Index across 16 countries," BMJ Global Health, vol. 10, no. 12 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

Multimedia:

Humanitarian Assistance in a Time of Deep Foreign Aid Cuts, 9 Jan. 2026 [access]

What we’ve learned so far: Key takeaways for 2026 (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast, Jan. 2026) [access]

Resource:

The Aid Report: Documenting the Real-world Impacts of U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts [access]

- This news site combines "original reporting, verified crowdsourced updates, and curated data and stories from credible sources to provide a clear, evidence-based view of what’s happening on the ground — across sectors, around the world. Our goal is to inform the debate about the future of U.S. international aid. We do that by delivering real-time intelligence on the human and national security effects of aid decisions for policymakers, journalists, researchers, and the general public.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (9 Dec. 2025)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Reports:

Access to Public Services for the Ukrainian Refugees in Moldova, Policy Brief, no. 2 (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text]

Operational Standards and Indicators on the Asylum Procedure (EU Agency for Asylum, Nov. 2025) [text]

- See also companion tool.

Practical Guide on Management of a Reception Centre: Focus on the arrival phase (EU Agency for Asylum, Dec. 2025) [text]

Practical guide on the registration and lodging of applications for international protection (EU Agency for Asylum, Dec. 2025) [text]

Refugee Housing and Homelessness: Scoping Local Authority Approaches (SOAS, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Refugees as humanitarian actors: explaining the creation of organisations led by displaced and stateless persons in Europe, RSC Working Paper, no. 2025/52 (European Univ. Institute, 2025) [text]

Ukraine: One year on the implications of US foreign aid cuts on humanitarian development (ACAPS, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR Observations on "Restoring Order and Control: A Statement on the UK Government's Asylum and Returns Policy" (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

UNHCR Observations on the Legislative Proposals in the Report “The Pact on Migration and Asylum” (UNHCR, Jan. 2026) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (12 Jan. 2026)

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Commission welcomes political agreement on first EU list of safe countries of origin and new rules to facilitate the application of the safe third country concept (EU Commission, Dec. 2025) [text]

Countdown to Chișinău: The Risk of Politicising the ECHR over Migration (EJIL: Talk Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The EU’s migration policies – An overview of developments in 2025 (EPRS, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Reporters’ diary: IOM uses UN immunity to avoid scrutiny of Greek returns," The New Humanitarian, 22 Dec. 2025 [text]

Journal articles:

"Art, agency, and access: refugee experiences and resistance in the context of EU’s migration management," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 9 Jan. 2026 [open access]

- Focuses on Greece.

"Chessboard politics: the contested emergence of EU return and readmission norms," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 Jan. 2026 [open access]

Contemporary European History, vol. 34, no. 4 (Nov. 2025) [contents]

- Features a special section on "Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949," with seven open access articles.

"The geopolitics of asylum from the part of those seeking it: Refugee subjects and freedom as possibility," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Syrian asylum seekers in Greece.

"Trauma, Post-migration Factors, and Ulysses Syndrome in Refugees in Host Countries," Quaderns de Psicologia, vol. 27, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Spain and Ireland. 

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (18 Dec. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (UK) (18 Dec. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

Call for registration: 48th Online Course on International Refugee Law (English), 26 January-20 February 2026 [info]

- Register by 12 January 2026.

Call for applications: Arthur Helton Fellowship, ASIL [info]

- Applications for the 2026 class of Helton fellows must be submitted by 16 January 2026.

Call for applications: Introduction to International Refugee Law, Cairo, 1-5 February 2026 [info]

- Apply by 25 January 2026.

Call for registration: 2nd Online Course on Forced Displacement for Students and Juniors, 9-27 February 2026 [info]

- Register by 26 January 2026.

Call for registration: 8th Online Course on Advocacy for Protection, 2-27 March 2026 [info]

- Register by 2 February 2026.

Call for registration: 20ème Cours en ligne sur le Droit international de la migration, 2-27 Mars 2026 [info]

- Register by 2 February 2026.

Short pieces:

Parody or Death? Refugee Law in Populist Regimes (Opinio Juris, Jan. 2026) [text]

"‘A taboo has broken’: How Western powers are pushing to re-write refugee law," Irish Times, 31 Dec. 2025 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Comparative Overview of Legal Assistance and Representation in the Asylum Procedure (EU Agency for Asylum, Dec. 2025) [text]

"From 'Boat Migration' to Maritime Abandonment: The Logics of Necro-Geo-Legal Control," Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Human Rights at Sea (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2026) [preprint]

Griffith Law Review, vol. 34 (2025) [no. 2 = Part I] [no. 3 = Part II]

- Two-part special issue on "Legal frameworks to discipline out unwantedness: A critical lens on mass deportation of non-citizens." Part I includes five open articles, while Part II includes three.

International Humanitarian Law: Syllabus Supplements (Just Security, Dec. 2025) [access]

- "This international humanitarian law (IHL) syllabus supplement offers curated articles from Just Security’s archives. This resource is intended to be combined with traditional course casebooks and other materials in a law school or other higher education classroom setting where these topics are relevant."

"Intersecting enforced disappearance and migration: The creation of a new legal tool against pushbacks within WGEID and CED," Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 43, no. 4 (2025) [open access]

"Living up to obligations through the International Red Cross? A critique of states’ attempts to shift obligations when addressing missing persons," Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 38, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"Refugee Markets," Virginia Journal of International Law, vol. 66, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

- "Recent years have seen millions of people displaced by major environmental and political upheavals around the world. Yet anti-immigrant sentiments have driven electoral results in the United States and Europe, resulting in hardline shifts in policy. Legal scholars confronting anti-immigrant backlash have advanced sophisticated market models as the next-best solution to the global crisis in refugee protection, on the thought that states in the Global South might be induced to take refugees, for a price, with humanitarian benefits. This Article advocates leveraging existing tools in domestic and international law to resist the normalization of market thinking in international refugee policy."

Soft Skills for International Protection Judges (EU Agency for Asylum, Nov. 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (11 Dec. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Livelihood strategies of Sudanese refugee women in Cairo: recommendations for policy (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The paradox of North Korea’s Overseas Labour Programme (RSC Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports:

Análisis de la contribución fiscal y económica de la migración venezolana (IOM, Dec. 2025) [access]

- See also English version of related press release.

Economic Inclusion and Livelihood Activities of Refugees in Moldova, Policy Brief, no. 1 (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Ukrainians.

Opportunity by design: How states turn immigration into economic advantage (Niskanen Center, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Refugee entrepreneurs as business multipliers: Evidence from Ukrainians in Poland, EBRD Working Paper, no. 310 (European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, Nov. 2025) [text via SSRN]

Journal articles:

"Labor market status (being inactive, unemployed, or employed) and psychosocial characteristics of Ukrainian refugees at their early stage of being refugees in two neighboring countries, Poland and Hungary," Archives of Public Health, 17 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"The permanent few or the temporary many? Evaluating refugee integration obstructors through implementation of the Ethiopia and Jordan Job Compacts," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2026) [open access]

"Prior business experience, entrepreneurial intentions, and intention implementation among refugees: an application of the theory of planned behavior," Future Business Journal, 12:4 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

- Focuses on Uganda.

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- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (17 Dec. 2025)