New Book Titles

Please visit my Forced Migration Library blog for a two-part listing of references to new books. Part 1 highlights new books due out in May 2024, as well as additional titles published in April 2024, while Part 2 lists new open access texts.

Round-up: OA Articles Published by Global South Authors (30 April 2024)

This is a round-up of open access materials produced by authors based in the Global South (GS) and other geographic areas that are less well-represented in the domain of scholarly forced migration literature. Generally, articles are included if either the lead author or at least half of the co-authors are based in the GS. These references are organized by type of open access. The OA items herein were previously referenced on either this blog or the Forced Migration Library blog as of 30 April 2024.

Bronze OA:

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

- Authors (2) = Bangladesh (lead), Japan

"Lessons from Colombia’s Response to Venezuelan Forced Displacement," Albany Law Review, vol. 87, no. 1 (2024)

- Authors (4) = US (2, incl. lead), Mexico (1), Colombia (1)

"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)

- Authors (2) = Brazil

"Sustainable Education for Refugees Children: A Literature Review," International Journal of Care Scholars, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024)

- Authors (4) = Malaysia (3, incl. lead), Indonesia (1)

Diamond OA:

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

- Author = Cuba

"Deportabilidad, género y violencia legal: una revisión bibliográfica sobre deportaciones y políticas antitrata," Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, no. 133 (2023)

- Authors (3) = Argentina

"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)

- Authors (3) = Indonesia

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

- Author = India

"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)

- Author = Brazil

"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)

- Authors (3) = Uganda

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

- Author = Philippines

"Trayectorias de migrantes LGTB+ hacia Chile: violencias interseccionales y ciudadanía," Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, no. 133 (2023)

- Authors (3) = Chile

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

- Authors (2) = Jordan

Gold OA:

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

"Determinants Associated with Low Dietary Diversity among Migrants to Morocco: A Cross Sectional Study," Scientific Reports, 14: 8361 (April 2024)

- Authors (6) = Morocco (5, incl. lead), Togo (1)

- APC = USD 2590

"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)

- Authors (8) = US (3, incl. lead), Jordan (2), Lebanon (3)

- APC = USD 3190

"Estimating the Incidence of Venezuelan Migration and Other Socioeconomic Factors on Urban Growth in Colombia," PLoS ONE 19(4): e0301552 (April 2024)

- Authors (8) = Colombia 

- APC = USD 2290

"Experiences of Teachers and Students on School Closures and its Consequences during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania," PLOS Global Public Health 4(3): e0002917 (March 2024)

- Authors (9) = Tanzania (5, incl. lead), UK (3), US (1)

- APC = USD 2400

"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)

- Authors (22) = Finland (4, incl. lead), Nigeria (18)

- APC = USD 3190

"Latin American Immigration and Refugee Policies: A Critical Literature Review," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:15 (March 2024)

- Authors (2) = Germany (lead), Peru (1)

- APC = USD 1390

"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)

- Authors (7) = Brazil (6, incl. lead), UK (1)

- APC = USD 3190

"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

- Authors (2) = Ethiopia

- APC = USD 1285

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

- Authors (12) = US (4, incl. lead), 8 (Colombia)

- APC = CHF 2900

"Residency and Citizenship in the Gulf: Recent Policy Changes and Future Implications for the Region," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:16 (March 2024)

- Authors (2) = Qatar

- APC = USD 1390

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

- Author = Netherlands/Fiji/Guam

- APC = USD 3450

Books/Book chapters:

African Perspectives on South–South Migration (Routledge, March 2024) 

- Lead editor is based in Ethiopia; most of the authors are based in the Global South.

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

- Preprint version available via SSRN

- Author = Bangladesh

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

- Author = South Africa

"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) 

- Scroll to p. 157.

- Author = Bangladesh

Related post:

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

News: New Statelessness Resource

Introducing StatelessHub, the Institute on Statelessness & Inclusion's newly-launched information and research platform! 

Upon entering the website, visitors can begin exploring the issue of statelessness and the right to nationality both thematically, via a series of 10 topics, and geographically. Each thematic page introduces a concept relevant to statelessness (e.g., refugees & migrants, nationality deprivation, etc.), provides links to further reading, and then directs readers to the library feature of the hub to access additional resources. Geographic pages are available for all regions as well as 18 countries.

The library houses "over 1000 resources on statelessness and the right to nationality. Each resource is tagged by geography, author, and topic, making it easier than ever to find new information on your area of interest."

More information on this resource is provided in ISI's launch announcement.

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

Kidnapping of Migrants and Asylum Seekers at the Texas-Tamaulipas Border Reaches Intolerable Levels (Washington Office on Latin America, April 2024) [text]

- Also available in Spanish.

Mediterranean Corridors: Tracing the Footsteps of Organized Crime Groups (OCGs) in Migrant Smuggling (Praxis: Fletcher Journal of Human Security, April 2024) [text]

"Research Findings on Migrant Smuggling in Southeast Asia," Modern Diplomacy, 16 April 2024 [text]

Reports: 

Cases of criminalisation of migration and solidarity in the EU in 2023 (PICUM, April 2024) [access]

- See also related Verfassungsblog blog post.

Comparing Smuggling Dynamics from Myanmar to Malaysia and Thailand (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2024) [text]

Enjeux juridiques relatifs aux femmes et aux filles victimes de traite des êtres humains, réfugiées ou migrantes, au Canada: étude croisée en droit des réfugiés et en droit criminel (Univ. de Sherbrooke, June 2023) [text]

Modern Slave Risks among People Lacking Official Documentation: A Global Evidence Review (Freedom Fund, April 2024) [text]

Secondary Actors: the role of smugglers in mixed migration through the Americas (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"An Image is Worth a Thousand Words: Exploring Visual Imagery about Trafficking in the Online Domain: An Italian Case Study," Journal of Human Trafficking, Latest Articles, 19 April 2024 [open access]

"'Route Causes' and Consequences of Irregular (Re-)Migration: Vulnerability as an Indicator of Future Risk in Refugee Law," International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 20, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- "Based on an analysis of trafficking-based asylum claims from the UK and Germany, the article shows that both re-trafficking and irregular re-migration result from vulnerabilities which converge to preclude reintegration in the country of origin and access to livelihood options."

"Strategic choices of migrants and smugglers in the Central Mediterranean sea," PLoS ONE 19(4): e0300553 (April 2024) [open access]

"La trata de seres humanos con fines de explotación sexual en el marco del derecho de asilo europeo y español," Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (28 March 2024)

Regional Focus: Europe

Update on UK's “Safety of Rwanda” Bill:

• "UK Parliament approves Rwanda deportation bill, ending weeks of legislative stalemate," AP News, 22 April 2024 [text]
• UK: Airlines and aviation authorities should not facilitate unlawful removals to Rwanda, UN experts say (OHCHR, 22 April 2024) [text]
• The obstacles that could still stop flights to Rwanda from taking off (The Conversation, 23 April 2024) [text]
• Passing of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill met with wave of criticism (EIN, 23 April 2024) [text]
• The UK Again Attempts to Bend Truth on Rwanda (Human Rights Watch, 23 April 2024) [text]
• UK-Rwanda asylum law: UN leaders warn of harmful consequences (UNHCR & OHCHR, 23 April 2024) [text]
• Rwanda explained: From politics to human rights to migration (InfoMigrants, 24 April 2024) [text]
• Cost, chaos and human misery: the impact of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the Rwanda Plan (Refugee Council, 25 April 2024) [text]
• Focus on Rwanda’s safety is a distraction from the dangerous conditions for asylum seekers in the UK (The Conversation, 26 April 2024) [text]
• "Let us press on with UK migrant plan, Rwanda tells critics," Reuters, 26 April 2024 [text]

Short pieces:

EU migration overhaul stresses fast-track deportations and limited appeal rights for asylum seekers (The Conversation, April 2024) [text]

Offshore Processing Offers False Hope for United Kingdom (Australian Outlook, April 2024) [text]

“Pass Go” Directly to the Grand Chamber: The Relinquishment of Jurisdiction in the Case Mansouri v. Italy (RLI Blog, April 2024) [text]

UK: Government considers 'Rwanda-like' deals with four other countries (InfoMigrants, April 2024) [text]

- Note: The other countries are Armenia, Botswana, Costa Rica and Côte d'Ivoire.

Why the Armenians of Artsakh Surrendered: Takeaways from Interviews with Refugees (Georgetown Security Studies Review, April 2024) [text]

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

Reports & journal articles:

"Assessing the quality of data on international migration flows in Europe: The case of undercounting," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

Country Reports (AIDA, April 2024) 

- Updated profiles for Sweden and the UK.

The Evolving Nature of the Vulnerability Concept in European Union Asylum Law, Prague Law Working Paper, no. 2024/I/3 (Charles Univ., April 2024) [text via SSRN]

The externalisation of European refugee protection: A legal, practical and political assessment of current proposals, SWP Comment, no. 13 (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, March 2024) [text]

"Housing and temporary legality: The evictability and settlement of refugees in Swedish municipalities," Critical Social Policy, OnlineFirst, 23 April 2024 [open access]

"Navigating the legal liminalities of a de facto state: Migrant precarity and placeholder identity papers in Northern Cyprus," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

"A scoping review of academic and grey literature on migrant health research conducted in Scotland," BMC Public Health, 24:1156 (April 2024) [open access]

Resource:

Migration and asylum in Europe – 2023 interactive publication (Eurostat) [access]

- "Provides key data and trends on migration and asylum. It looks at topics such as people migrating to, within and from the EU, international protection of non-EU nationals, and irregular migration." More info is provided here.

Related posts:

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

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (16 April 2024)

Correction: Yearbook of International Disaster Law

I referenced the latest Yearbook of International Disaster Law volume in my last round-up of new periodical issues, but included the wrong URL for it. The correct one leads to the online version, which clearly indicates the open access content that is included.

So here is the reference I *should* have provided!

Yearbook of International Disaster Law Online, vol. 5 (2022; publ. April 2024) [contents]

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

- The following articles are open access: 1) YIDL Dialogues with Practitioners #2: Dr Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; 2) Emergencies in the Inter-American Human Rights System: The Example of Ecuador in Times of COVID-19; and 3) A Human Rights-Based Approach to Disaster Risk Management in Greenland: Displacement, Relocation, and the Legacies of Colonialism

- The "International Disaster Law in Practice" section also includes several entries that are open access, including the update on "Law and Human Mobility."

Thematic Focus: General

Opportunities:

Consultancy: Academic Content Development and Facilitation, Refugee-Led Research Hub [info]

- Submit application materials by 5 May 2024.

Call for participation: One-day Writing Workshop and Evening Panel Discussion, London, 25 October 2024 [info]

- Submit applications for the writing workshop by 17 May 2024.

Short pieces:

The Politics of Forced Displacement and How States Respond (RID Blog, April 2024) [text] 

Power dynamics, arm twisting and migrant rights: the many (ugly) faces of migration diplomacy (Mixed Migration Centre, April 2024) [text]

Why many policies to lower migration actually increase it (The Conversation, April 2024) [text]

Reports:

Inclusive urban solutions: City actors engaging with displaced communities (IIED, April 2024) [text]

Longitudinal evaluation of the implementation of UNHCR’s age, gender and diversity (AGD) policy: Final report, EVO/2023/16 (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

- The annexes were published separately. See also year 1 and year 2 longitudinal evaluations.

The State of Global Mobility in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Migration Policy Institute, April 2024) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"How integration of refugees into national health systems became a global priority: a qualitative policy analysis," Conflict and Health, 18:31 (April 2024) [open access]

"State Interests and the Global Response to Forced Displacement: How Can We Move Forward?," Chapter in Global Governance and International Cooperation: Managing Global Catastrophic Risks in the 21st Century (Routledge, March 2024) [open access]

"Unsettled Hearing, Responsible Listening: Encounters with Voice after Forced Migration," Applied Linguistics Review, Ahead of Print, 16 April 2024 [open access]

Multimedia:

A Conversation with Amy Pope, 11 March 2024 [access]

- IOM's director general "discusses her work...and the UN role in addressing climate mobility, legal frameworks for migration, and the present humanitarian crisis."

We Were Here (UNHCR) [access]

- Three-part series that just won the "people’s choice award in the documentary category of the Webby Awards. The series pairs popular content creators with refugees in Jordan, Germany and Uganda who share the same passions for music, food, and innovation."

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: General (11 April 2024)

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.