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A set of political and media-validated scripts play out to inform Western assumptions of what a refugee is and that excludes the “non-deserving.” The construction of “the refugee” as a “forced” “non-Western” object without will or socio-cultural history, to be rescued by the benevolent West is the central point of overlap between racialization and refuge in the contemporary context of refugee reception. Each of the articles featured in this special issue grapples with what the authors refer to as the “Racialized Refugee Regime.” “Race” is not thought of as a discrete variable for consideration but as part of an embedded structure of oppression in which the racialized refugee regime is generated and reproduced. - Introduction: The racialized refugee regime. Christopher Kyriakides, Dina Taha, Carlo Handy Charles and Rodolfo Torres. 2019.

This paper aims to contribute to the reflection on effective practices to address protracted displacement, in support of the GP20 Plan of Action roll-out. It expands on the research conducted by Walter Kälin and Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat for the 2017 OCHA-commissioned study Breaking the Impasse: Reducing Protracted Internal Displacement as a Collective Outcome. That study provided a comprehensive picture of the impact of protracted internal displacement, as well as five country case studies in contexts of conflict and disasters.It also offered a road map for addressing such displacement through seven steps, including conducting joint analysis and defining collective outcomes. - Reducing protracted internal displacement: A snapshot of successful humanitarian-development initiatives. OCHA policy and studies series. June 2019.

New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlight the need for increased, sustained investment in the development of mental health services in areas affected by conflict. - The Lancet: One in five people living in an area affected by conflict has a mental health condition. EurekAlert. 11 June 2019.

Africa

Displacement continues to drive high assistance needs with 4.1 million refugees in the region - 25% of the total global refugee population. South Sudan and Burundi are the main sources of origin for refugees in ESA, while Uganda, Ethiopia, Angola, Tanzania and Rwanda are the main host countries. Armed conflict and political instability in South Sudan, Burundi and the DRC has led to growing humanitarian needs for children and their families, who have been forced to flee into neighbouring countries. Almost 60 percent of the refugee population are children across the region. - UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Humanitarian Situation Report - Quarter 1, 2019. UNICEF. 24 May 2019.

LIBYA

Libya is still so dangerous that the International Detention Coalition staff members can’t travel there – as a small international NGO, they can’t get insurance to work there, as most governments advise against all but the most essential travel. So in February, they travelled to Tunis instead to run a six-day training session for a group of Libyan and sub-Saharan African humanitarian professionals. The participants are working on the ground everyday in Libyan detention centres, and represent various United Nations agencies and aid organisations. - On the ground in Libya: Implementing alternatives to detention. Jerome Phelps. International Detention Coalition. 6 June 2019.

SOUTH SUDAN

The proportion of food insecure people as projected for May-July 2019 is the highest ever and the food insecurity situation is driven by household food shortages that are typical of a lean season, but have been exacerbated by delayed rainfall, the persistent macro-economic crisis, population displacements, additional needs from returnees, prolonged years of asset depletion, and the generally eroded livelihoods due to continued years of conflict – all of which continue to compromise a majority of the households’ capacity to access enough food during the ongoing lean season. - IPS acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition analysis: South Sudan. IPC. 14 June 2019.

SUDAN

While Sudan has not currently rolled out the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF), the strategy for out-of-camp assistance which follows a similar approach: It has an aim towards improved humanitarian development “nexus” approaches to support in addressing the additional demand on existing services in refugee hosting areas. This is guided by UNHCR’s country-level inter-agency “out-of-camp” paper, finalized in October 2017. The paper emphasizes the need to avoid establishing parallel systems, and seeking instead to enhance the capacity of local services and existing public facilities, as well as self-reliance through livelihoods and promoting refugee access to income generating initiatives. - Sudan refugee response plan for South Sudanese: January 2019 - December 2020. UNHCR. 3 May 2019.

Nearly 65% of refugees in Sudan are children. Many experience trauma prior to and during their journey to Sudan, putting children at higher risk of abuse, exploitation and violence. - Fast fact Sudan. UNICEF. May 2019.

Americas

CANADA

This paper is a companion piece to the report, Making Social Housing Friendly for Resettling Refugees. It aims to understand the relationships between cost of housing, suitability of housing, and the resettlement process. In many respects, the parameters and conditions of resettlement vary from family to family and individual to individual. However, for many former refugees, resettlement trajectories will involve important considerations like employment, social supports, acculturation, family reunification, language acquisition, education and employment training, establishing new forms of community, and providing care for self and family (including family that remains overseas). This paper includes the accounts of nine interviewees who have desired to have, applied for, or attained social housing. - Resettling refugees' social housing stories. Ray Silvius, Hani Al-ubeady and Emily Halldorson. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. June 2019.

By forcing a vulnerable population to return to a hostile territory where they are likely to face persecution, the Migrant Protection Protocols abandons our tradition of providing a safe haven to the persecuted and violates our international and domestic legal obligations. Moreover, the MPP is entirely unnecessary, as our immigration system has the foundation and agility necessary to deal with the flow of migrants through our Southern Border. - Brief of Amicus Curiae Local 1924 in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees’ answering brief and affirmance of the district court’s decision. US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 26 June 2019.

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has been a lifeline to hundreds of thousands of individuals already in the United States when problems in a home country make their departure or deportation untenable. This fact sheet provides an overview of how TPS designations are determined, what benefits TPS confers, and how TPS beneficiaries apply for and regularly renew their status. - Temporary Protected Status: An overview. American Immigration Council. 21 May 2019.

This special issue considers critical questions about displacement, resistance, and bordering practices throughout the region. What is innovative about the framing of this special issue is the cross-regional approach to the study of borders, and the transversal connections it draws across indigenous and migration studies. While the individual authors in this special issue address specific bordering practices, the goal in this introduction is to bring them into discussion. This special issue aims to contribute to broader theoretical and practical debates about border control policies, bordering practices, and indigenous and migrant rights advocacy. - Dis/placing the borders of North America. Julie Young, Johanna Reynolds and Peter Nyers. International Journal on Migration and Border Studies. 2019.

In a survey released 12 June 2019, the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) analyzes the impact of Trump administration policies on faith-based organizations (FBOs). While countless media reports have documented the effect of Trump-era policies on immigrants and refugees, CMS’s Federal Enforcement Effect Research (FEER) Survey is notable because it provides the perspective of immigrant-serving FBOs, in this case diverse Catholic institutions, programs, and ministries. - The effect of US immigration and refugee policies on faith-based organizations. Center for Migration Studies. 12 June 2019.

This report explores how social innovation in the field of refugee inclusion has evolved in the three years since the peak of the crisis. Given the successes and limitations of different initiatives thus far, it asks the question: what can social enterprises, funding bodies, and policymakers do to maintain the momentum and turn promising initiatives into broader system change? -Social innovation for refugee inclusion: From bright spots to system change. Liam Patuzzi, Meghan Benton and Alexandra Embiricos. Migration Policy Institute. June 2019

Since its creation, the contemporary immigration court system has been perpetually afflicted by dysfunction. Today, under the Trump administration, the immigration court system - a system whose important work is vital for our nation's collective prosperity - has effectively collapsed. This report explains how the collapse came to be and why the immigration court system cannot be salvaged in its current form. Decades of experience incontrovertibly demonstrate that the immigration courts have never worked and will never work to, as Chief Justice John Roberts says, “do equal right” to those who appear before them. - The Attorney General’s judges: How the US immigration courts became a deportation tool. Innovative Lab and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). June 2019.

In summary, the research shows that US Border Patrol agents and other CBP officers abuse migrants, physically and verbally, with significant frequency. In addition, many resent immigrants in general, and display racism toward Mexicans and other Latin Americans, as well as prejudice on the basis of sexual orientation. This suggests that the proposal to make Border Patrol agents asylum officers could lead to imbalanced and adversarial decision-makers, the opposite of what is called for in law. There was a widespread tone of anger and little restraint in the use of cursing and yelling. We found that Border Patrol threats of physical abuse — such as killing, shooting, and abandonment in the desert — were common, which raises concern over the safety and the handling of traumatized people in an asylum context. Finally, there were numerous threats to use law as a form of punishment, which indicates a problematic attitude among persons that might be tasked with gathering information and making legal decisions. - Why Border Patrol Agents and CBP Officers Should Not Serve as Asylum Officers. Josiah Heyman, Jeremy Slack, and Daniel E. Martínez. Center for Migration Studies (CMS) Essays. 21 June 2019.

VENEZUELA

In view of the current situation in Venezuela, UNHCR calls on States to ensure that Venezuelan nationals, stateless persons or individuals who were habitually resident in Venezuela will not be deported, expelled, or in any other way forced to return to Venezuela in accordance with international refugee and human rights law. This guarantee needs to be assured either in the official residence document issued to Venezuelans or through other effective means, such as clear instructions to law enforcement agencies. - Guidance Note on International Protection Considerations for Venezuelans – Update I. UNHCR. May 2019.

The devastating impacts of policies President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime has imposed since 2013 are driving Venezuelans to flee. Once the wealthiest country in Latin America, Venezuela has suffered complete economic and institutional collapse. Hyperinflation of 1 million percent has effectively rendered the currency worthless—and is predicted to reach 10 million percent in 2019. A dramatic decline of social services and the failure of state institutions have generated severe shortages of basic goods, including food, medicine, and vaccines, while political repression, rampant corruption, and widespread violence have created fear and desperation. -A fragile welcome: Ecuador's response to the influx of Venezuelan refugees and migrants. Refugees International Field Report. June 2019.

Asia

AFGHANISTAN

Violence continues to inflict large-scale casualties and fatalities on the civilian population. Indeed, during the first nine months of 2018, more civilians were killed than during any year since 2014. Highlighting the perilous security environment, some analysts are inferring that the conflict in Afghanistan may surpass Syria as the world’s current deadliest. - Afghanistan in 2018: A survey of the Afghan people. The Asia Foundation. 14 May 2019.

MYANMAR

It is not the first time that the Myanmar military has been accused of serious crimes in Rakhine State. As it has been thoroughly documented by the UN, Amnesty International and others, from August 2017 the Myanmar security forces launched a major attack on the Rohingya population in northern Rakhine State. The security forces killed, raped and tortured thousands of women, men, and children and burned down of Rohingya homes. The violence forced more than 730,000 people to flee across the border to Bangladesh. A UN fact-finding team has called for senior military officials to be investigated and prosecuted for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. Despite this, members of the Myanmar military continues to enjoy impunity. Investigations into military violations – where they happen at all – are not credible, independent, or impartial, and prosecutions virtually non-existent. - “No one can protect us”: War crimes and abuses in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Amnesty International. 29 May 2019.

Australia

The Kaldor Centre Principles have been developed with the objectives of ensuring Australia’s compliance with its obligations under international law – including those set out in the 1951 Refugee Convention, its 1967 Protocol and international human rights treaties – and respect for the inherent human dignity of everyone who is displaced and in search of protection. - Kaldor Centre Principles for Australian Refugee Policy. Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. June 2019.

Europe

With a view to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of checks at the external borders, to contributing to prevention and combating illegal immigration and to contributing to a high level of security within the area of freedom, security and justice of the Union, including the maintenance of public security and public policy and safeguarding security in the territories of the Member States, to improving the implementation of the common visa policy, to assisting in the examination of applications for international protection, to contributing to the prevention, detection and investigation of terrorist offences and other serious criminal offences, to facilitating the identification of unknown persons who are unable to identify themselves or unidentified human remains in the case of a natural disaster, accident or terrorist attack, in order to maintain public trust in the Union migration and asylum system, Union security measures and Union capabilities to manage the external border, interoperability between EU information systems, namely the Entry/Exit System (EES), the Visa Information System (VIS), the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), Eurodac, the Schengen Information System (SIS), and the European Criminal Records Information System for Third-Country Nationals (ECRIS-TCN) should be established in order for these EU information systems and their data to supplement each other while respecting the fundamental rights of individuals, in particular the right to protection of personal data. To achieve this, a European search portal (ESP), a shared biometric matching service (shared BMS), a common identity repository (CIR) and a multiple-identity detector (MID) should be established as interoperability components. - Regulation (EU) 2019/818 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2019 on establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems in the field of police and judicial cooperation, asylum and migration and amending Regulations (EU) 2018/1726, (EU) 2018/1862 and (EU) 2019/816. Official Journal of the European Union. 22 May 2019.

UNHCR cautions that harmonization should not lead to a lowering of rights and standards. Rather, it should be viewed as a means to achieve a fairer and more effective asylum system which reflects international standards and fundamental rights. - On the European Commission proposal for an asylum procedures regulation - com (2016) 467. UNHCR. April 2019.

Notwithstanding the severe consequences for the individuals concerned, including destitution and delays in their integration into the host society as well as implications for the country’s reception capacity for newly arriving applicants, the transition out of asylum seeker accommodation post-recognition is not widely researched and remains under the radar of policymakers. - Housing out of reach? The reception of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe. Asylum Information Database. European Council on Refugees and Exiles. April 2019.

Despite recent improvements in data protection mechanisms in the European Union, refugees’ informed consent for the collection and use of their personal data is rarely sought. Using examples drawn from interviews with refugees who have arrived in Europe since 2013, and an analysis of the impacts of the 2016 EU-Turkey deal on migration, this paper analyzes how the vast amount of data collected from refugees is gathered, stored and shared today, and considers the additional risks this collection process poses to an already vulnerable population navigating a perilous information-decision gap.” Two main takeaways from this research are first, the lack of transparency about the asylum process and how it prevents asylum seekers from entrusting the system with the exact information that would likely win them asylum status. The second takeaway is that innovation in the humanitarian sector may inadvertently be causing distrust within the refugee community and disrupting the asylum process. - Data protection and digital agency for refugees. Dragana Kaurin. World Refugee Council Research Paper No. 12. 15 May 2019.

The EU has chosen to perceive migration as a threat, and is focusing its efforts in securing its borders, increasingly depending on the work of Frontex. With its powers and competences constantly growing, and its budget now being counted in billions, Frontex achieves even greater autonomy. Its reach in European border control, even far beyond EU borders, makes questions about its responsibility for breaches of fundamental rights of refugees and other migrants more urgent than ever. - European Border and Coast Guard: The EU force of securitisation in migration governance. Mariana Gkliati. RLI blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration. 24 April 2019.

ALBANIA

This report presents country-of-origin information (COI) on Albania specifically relating to trafficked boys and young men published between 1 January 2016 and 31 March 2019, published by Asylos and ARC Foundation. Legal representatives representing young Albanian asylum seekers in the UK and elsewhere in Europe identified this topic as a major gap in COI relating to young person and child-specific persecution and harm and a common barrier for quality decision making for young Albanian males claiming asylum. - Albania: Trafficked boys and young men. Asylos and ARC Foundation. May 2019.

CZECH REPUBLIC

This article focuses on historical and current migration realities in Czechia, putting them into a broader societal context, and discussing the following key themes: labor migration issues, migration and integration policies, attitudes towards immigrants and immigration, international protection, and emigration. - Migration and integration in Czechia: Policy advances and the hand brake of populism. Dušan Drbohlav and Kristýna Janurová. Migration Policy Institute. 6 June 2019.

HUNGARY

The Commissioner is concerned that the newly adopted and contested inadmissibility ground for asylum has resulted in a systematic rejection of asylum applications and that the applicant is unable to access an effective legal remedy to challenge the decisions. She urges the Hungarian government to repeal the new inadmissibility ground and provide an effective remedy with a suspensive effect on appeal. The Commissioner considers that the systematic and arbitrary detention of asylum seekers in the transit zones raises serious human rights issues. - Report following her visit to Hungary from 4 to 8 February 2019. Dunja Mijatovic. Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe. 21 May 2019.

Middle East

IRAQ

Some 3,000 Yazidis, mostly women and children, reportedly continue to be missing after having been abducted by ISIS in 2014. Since Kurdish forces recaptured Sinjar in mid-November 2015, dozens of mass graves containing the remains of Yazidis have been found. - COI note on the situation of Yazidi IDPs in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. UNHCR. 6 May 2019.

SYRIA

Since 2011, millions of people have fled Syria seeking refuge either in different parts of the country or in neighboring countries, including Lebanon. In July 2018, the Lebanese government announced that they will facilitate the return of refugees to Syria under an agreement with the Syrian government. In March 2019, General Security announced that 172,046 refugees returned to Syria since December 2017 due to easing administrative restrictions and facilitating and organizing returns. In this document, Amnesty International explains the humanitarian situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and why the organized return of refugees back to Syria is not voluntary and premature. - Amnesty International public statement. Amnesty International. 12 June 2019.

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