JRS (2022+)

 Journal of Refugee Studies

This page highlights JRS articles that are Open Access, either via the "green" route (eprints deposited in online repositories or on author sites) or via the "hybrid" route (articles in subscription journals are immediately made OA upon payment of a fee). The list includes OA articles published online as "Advance Articles" as well as those assigned to issues published as of 2022. For earlier OA articles, see the pages for JRS (2014-2021) and JRS (2004-2013).

Current publication fee for publishing a hybrid open access article in JRS = €4421 

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Advance Articles

"Survivalist mobilities: freedom of movement and the economic lives of settlement refugees in Uganda," by Yotam Gidron
- officially published online as Open Access 16 Dec. 2024
- Author = Belgium/UK

"UNHCR–state relations: transfer of authority over refugee status determination," by Derya Ozkul & Natalie Welfens
- officially published online as Open Access 22 Nov. 2024
- Authors = UK (lead), Germany

"Towards black methods in research with refugees," by Mariam Rashid
- officially published online as Open Access 14 Nov. 2024
- Author = US

"Climate risks for displaced populations: a scoping review and research agenda," by Sonja Fransen, Alexander Hunns, Tarek Jaber & Teresa Janz
- officially published online as Open Access 27 Oct. 2024
- Authors = Netherlands

"Transnational belonging and disrupted care relationships," by Hanna Svensson
- officially published online as Open Access 30 Aug. 2024
- Author = New Zealand

"Refuge in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean: Spaces of containment or places of choice?," by Dawn Chatty
- officially published online as Open Access 14 Aug. 2024
- Author = UK

"Liminality and transactional sex among queer refugees: Insights from Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, and Switzerland," by Shirin Heidari, Ryan Whitacre, Jinan Usta, Meric Caglar, Thanasis Tyrovolas, Aesha Rajan & Monica A Onyango
- officially published online as Open Access 22 July 2024
- Authors = Switzerland (2, incl. lead), Lebanon (1), Turkey (1), Greece (1), US (2)

"Stuck in a whirlpool? The role of hope and despair in dealing with risks during Afghan migration journeys," by Eda Kiriscioglu & Anja Van Heelsum
- officially published online as Open Access 9 July 2024
- Authors = Netherlands/Turkey (lead), Netherlands

"Withholding the letter: Transgender asylum seekers, legal gender recognition, and the UNHCR mandate," by B Camminga
- officially published online as Open Access 8 July 2024
- Author = UK/South Africa

"Extrajudicial border enforcement against LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers," by Adriana Espinosa, Kathryn Hampton, Nishin Nathwani, Kimahli Powell, Monique Sereneo & Curtis Wackett
- officially published online as Open Access 30 May 2024
- Authors = Canada (4, incl. lead), US (1)

"Private sponsorship prefigured: Religious groups and Canada’s Cold War refugee policy," by Geoffrey Cameron
- officially published online as Open Access 30 May 2024
- Author = Canada

"‘If I Knew How to Speak English…’: How language shapes refugee mothers’ perceptions of past, present, and future in Canada," by Laila Omar
- officially published online as Open Access 23 May 2024
- Author = US

"The 2021 UNHCR-IE SOGI Global Roundtable on Protection and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Forced Displacement: Toward a New Vision for LGBTIQ+ Refugee Protection," by Eirene Chen
- officially published online as Open Access 17 April 2024
- Author = France

"The Borders of Migrant and Refugee Activism in South Africa," by Kudakwashe Vanyoro
- officially published online as Open Access 22 Jan. 2024
- Author = South Africa

"Fadh, Sharaf and Respectable Passing as New Frameworks for Understanding Transmasculinity in the MENA Region: Case Studies of Transmasculine Refugees in Lebanon," by Nisrine Chaer
- officially published online as Open Access 23 Nov. 2023
- Author = Netherlands

"Later Is a Cis-Hetero Patriarchal Time Zone: Narratives of Resistance to LGBTQI+ Inclusion amongst Humanitarian Practitioners," by Ilaria Michelis
- officially published online as Open Access 12 Oct. 2023
- Author = UK

"The Convent Camp: Sacred Places in Palestinian Refugee History," by Clayton Goodgame
- officially published online as Open Access 6 Oct. 2023
- Author = US

"Sayed’s Journey to Encampment: Examining Sites and Scenes of Economic Migrant Displacement in Mandate Palestine," by Lauren Banko
- officially published online as Open Access 4 Sept. 2023
- Author = UK

"Refugee Mobilization in the Nepal–India Borderlands: Porosity as Opportunity," by Susan Banki
- officially published online as Open Access 8 Aug. 2023
- Author = Australia

"Psychological Research Evidence in Refugee Status Determination," by Jane Herlihy, Hilary Evans Cameron & Stuart Turner
- officially published online as Open Access 23 July 2023
- Authors = UK (2, incl. lead), Canada 

"What Becomes a Refugee Camp? Making Camps for European Refugees in North Africa and the Middle East, 1943–46," by Katherine Mackinnon & Benjamin Thomas White
- officially published online as Open Access 13 July 2023
- Authors = UK

"Understanding the Politics of Refugee Law and Policy Making: Interdisciplinary and Empirical Approaches," by Daniel Ghezelbash & Keyvan Dorostkar
- preprint via SSRN
- Authors = Australia

"'On the Border, I Learned How to Advocate': Borderlands as Political Spaces for Burmese Women’s Activism," by Elisabeth Olivius & Jenny Hedström
- officially published online as Open Access 15 June 2023
- Authors = Sweden

"Boundary-Making and Political Activism in Protracted Exile: Second-Generation Tibetan Refugees in India," by Natalia Bloch
- officially published online as Open Access 20 April 2023
- Author = Poland

"Older Refugee Perspectives on Death, Remembrance, and Burial: The East Timorese in Indonesia," by Victoria Kumala Sakti
- officially published online as Open Access 23 March 2023
- Author = Germany

"Data-Driven Futures of International Refugee Law," by William Hamilton Byrne, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Sebastiano Piccolo, Naja Holten Møller, Tijs Slaats & Panagiota Katsikouli
- preprint via SocArXiv
- Authors = Denmark

"Challenging the 'Youth Gaze': Building Diversity into Refugee and Asylum Reception and Integration Programmes," by Caroline Oliver, Karin Geuijen & Rianne Dekker
- officially published online as Open Access 16 Jan. 2023
- Authors = UK (lead), Netherlands (2)

"Ethnographic Approaches and International Refugee Law," by Maja Janmyr
- officially published online as Open Access 2 Aug. 2022
- Author = Norway

"Older Refugees and Internally Displaced People in African Countries: Findings from a Scoping Review of Literature," by Anita Böcker, Alistair Hunter
- officially published online as Open Access 10 May 2022
- Authors = The Netherlands (lead), UK

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vol. 37, no. 3, Sept. 2024

"The ‘inherent vulnerability’ of women on the move: A gendered analysis of Morocco’s migration reform," by Kelsey P Norman & Carrie Reiling
- officially published online as Open Access 28 May 2024
- Authors = US

"Cross-effects of cultural and gay capitals in access to refugee status on the grounds of SOGI in France: Study of the formal and informal preparations of West African men for asylum trials Get access Arrow," by Cyriac Bouchet-Mayer & Sylvain Ferez
- preprint via HAL
- Authors = France

"Understanding key priority areas of mental health among queer asylum seekers and refugees in Australia through the lens of structural violence: A modified Delphi method study," by Satrio Nindyo Istiko, Andrian Liem, Edwin Adrianta Surijah & Ignacio Correa-Velez
- officially published online as Open Access 13 Aug. 2024
- Authors = Australia/UK (lead), Malaysia/Indonesia (1), Australia/Indonesia (1), Australia (1)

"Direct and vicarious administrative burden: Experiences of UK public services as Homes for Ukraine host," by Joe Tomlinson, Eleana Kasoulide, Jed Meers & Simon Halliday
- officially published online as Open Access 23 May 2024
- Authors = UK

"Mismanagement and misinterpretations in asylum interviews: Perspectives from South Africa and Sweden," by Lisa Ottosson, Pineteh Angu & Kristina Gustafsson
- officially published online as Open Access 9 July 2024
- Authors = Sweden (2, incl. lead), South Africa

"Self-generated asylum evidence: Scripting, staging and desperation in the assessment process," by Ben Laws
- officially published online as Open Access 9 July 2024
- Author = UK

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vol. 37, no. 2, June 2024

"Beyond victim and hero representations? A comparative analysis of UNHCR’s Instagram communication strategies for the Syrian and Ukrainian crises," by David Ongenaert & Claudia Soler
- officially published online as Open Access 11 May 2024
- Authors = Netherlands

"Adaptive religious coping with experiences of sexual and gender-based violence and displacement," by Sandra Pertek
- officially published online as Open Access 27 March 2024
- Author = UK

"Child marriage and displacement: A qualitative study of displaced and host populations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq," by Kara Hunersen, Allison Jeffery, Luqman S Karim, Katherine Gambir, Janna Metzler, Ali Zedan & W Courtland Robinson
- officially published online as Open Access 3 April 2024
- Authors = US (5, incl. lead), Iraq (2)

"Multilevel Governance ‘from Above’: Analysing Colombia’s System of Co-Responsibility for Responding to Internal Displacement," by Melissa Weihmayer
- officially published online as Open Access 28 Oct. 2023
- Author = UK

"How do perceptions, fears, and experiences of violence and conflict affect considerations of moving internally and internationally?," by Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Marcela G Rubio & Marta Bivand Erdal
- officially published online as Open Access 9 April 2024
- Authors = UK/Norway (lead), UK, Norway

"Refugee livelihood perspectives: post-traumatic growth in histories of Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Tamil Refugees in Australia," by Sarah Green, Anh Nguyen Austen & Niro Kandasamy
- officially published online as Open Access 29 March 2024
- Authors = Australia

"South African attitudes towards refugee settlement: Examining the importance of threat perceptions," by Steven Lawrence Gordon
- officially published online as Open Access 25 April 2024
- Author = South Africa

"Multi-scalar and diasporic integration: Kurdish populations in Europe between state, diaspora and geopolitics," by Fiona B Adamson, Veysi Dag & Catherine R Craven
- officially published online as Open Access 10 May 2024
- Authors = UK

"The EU’s normative justifications of refugee resettlement," by Natalie Welfens
- officially published online as Open Access 28 March 2024
- Author = Germany

"Coproducing a film resource for asylum seekers in the UK—A field reflection," by Petra Mäkelä, Zoe Given-Wilson, Kenan Al Berkdar, Zaina Aljumma & Rahman Mostafanejad
- officially published online as Open Access 23 March 2024
- Authors = UK

"Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues," by Ahmad Albtran, Pinar Aksu, Zuhair Al-Fakir, Heidar Al-Hashimi, Helen Baillot, Azad Izzeddin, Hyab Johannes, Steve Kirkwood, Bulelani Mfaco, Tandy Nicole, Muireann Ní Raghallaigh, Gordon Ogutu, Zoë O’Reilly & Angham Younes
- officially published online as Open Access 25 March 2024
- Authors (14) = UK (7, incl. lead), Ireland (7)


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vol. 37, no. 1, March 2024

"'Enjoying Time Alone': Exploring Solitude as a Positive Space for Refugee Wellbeing," by Amber Kale
- officially published online as Open Access 28 Aug. 2023
- Author = New Zealand

"Hope in the Ruins of Home: Narrative Meaning-Making of Forced Displacement, Place Attachment, and Deferred Future Resettlement in Varosha," by Nafia Akdeniz
- officially published online as Open Access 3 Oct. 2023
- Author = Turkey

"On Becoming an Artist Anew: Refugees’ Arrival in the Field of Cultural Production in Austria," by Michael Parzer
- officially published online as Open Access 4 Nov. 2023
- Author = Austria

"Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK," by Daisy Pollenne
- officially published online as Open Access 25 Nov. 2023
- Author = UK

"Self-selection of Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons in Europe," by Frank van Tubergen, Irena Kogan, Yuliya Kosyakova & Steffen Pötzschke
- officially published online as Open Access 6 Dec. 2023
- Authors = Netherlands (lead), Germany

"Intangible cultural heritage and the protection of refugees and refugee camps," by Alice Neikirk, Ray Nickson & Shekhar Rijal
- officially published online as Open Access 20 Dec. 2023
- Authors = Australia (2), US

"Context Matters: The Implications of the Mode of Service Provision for Structural and Relational Integration of Refugees in Ghana and Ethiopia," by Samuel K M Agblorti, Abis Getachew, Jana Kuhnt & Abdirahman A Muhumad
- officially published online as Open Access 28 Oct. 2023
- Authors = Ghana (lead), Ethiopia (2), Germany (1)

"Standard Involvement Is Not Enough: A Mixed Method Study of Enablers and Barriers in Research Meetings with Forced Migrants," by Elin Inge, Anna Sarkadi, Antónia Tökés & Georgina Warner
- officially published online as Open Access 6 Sept. 2023
- Authors = Sweden

"Displacement in Place and the Financial Crisis in Lebanon," by Ali Ali
- officially published online as Open Access 24 Oct. 2023
- Author = UK

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vol. 36, no. 4, Dec. 2023

"Creating Educational Borderlands: Civic Learning in a Syrian School in Lebanon," by Vidur Chopra, Joumana Talhouk, Sarah Dryden-Peterson & Carmen Geha
- postprint via Harvard Univ. IR embargoed until 15 June 2025
- Authors = US (2, incl. lead), UK (1), Spain (1)

"Constructions of Multiple Deservingness Frames towards Refugees in Everyday Work Life in İzmir," by Selin Siviş, Ayselin Yıldız
- officially published online as Open Access 3 July 2023
- Authors = UK (lead), Turkey

"Who is a Refugee in Jordan? Hierarchies and Exclusions in the Refugee Recognition Regime," by Lewis Turner
- officially published online as Open Access 23 Nov. 2023
- Author = UK

"Transforming Lost Time into Migration Capital: Hazara Refugee Social and Cultural Capital Development in Indonesia," by Lucy Fiske
- postprint via UTS IR embargoed until 31 Oct. 2025
- Author = Australia

"Methods for the Future, Futures for Methods: Collaborating with Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan," by Birgitte Stampe Holst, Andreas Bandak, Anders Hastrup & Tareq al-Dilaijim
- officially published online as Open Access 31 Aug. 2023
- Authors = Denmark (3), Jordan (1)

"Do Work Permits Work? The Impacts of Formal Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Jordan," by Laura Peitz, Ghassan Baliki, Neil T N Ferguson & Tilman Brück
- officially published online as Open Access 17 Sept. 2023
- Authors = Germany

"2021 Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford: The Afterlives of Return and the Limits of Refugee Protection," by Heath Cabot
- officially published online as Open Access 26 July 2023
- Author = Norway

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vol. 36, no. 3, Sept. 2023

"Introduction: Irregularized Humanitarian Migrants—Policies, Rationales, and the Search for More Durable Solutions," by Marieke van Houte, Zeynep Kaşlı & Arjen Leerkes 
- officially published online as Open Access 3 Oct. 2023
- Authors = Netherlands

"Safe for Whom? A Human Security Perspective on Nigeria as a ‘Safe Country of Origin’," by Xander Creed, Zeynep Kaşlı, Shyamika Jaysundara-Smits
- officially published online as Open Access 27 March 2023
- Authors = Netherlands

"Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions," by Maybritt Jill Alpes, Kwamou Eva Feukeu, Marieke van Houte & Shahed Kseibi, Belal Shukair
- officially published online as Open Access 19 May 2023
- Authors =  Belgium (lead), Germany (1), Netherlands (1), Lebanon (2)

"De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities," by Iraklis Dimitriadis & Maurizio Ambrosini
- officially published online as Open Access 7 Oct. 2022
- Authors = Italy

"(Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey," by Sibel Karadağ & Deniz Ş Sert
- officially published online as Open Access 10 June 2023
- Authors = Turkey

"Departing or Being Deported? Poland’s Approach towards Humanitarian Migrants," by Witold Klaus & Monika Szulecka
- officially published online as Open Access 24 Dec. 2022
- Authors = Poland

"What Can Data Justice Mean for Asylum Governance? The Case of Smartphone Data Extraction in Germany," by Ivan Josipovic 
- officially published online as Open Access 22 July 2023
- Author = Austria

"‘The Great and Miserable Flight’: The Experiences of Refugees in Newsprint during the Thirty Years’ War," by Thomas Pert
- officially published online as Open Access 16 May 2023
- Author = UK

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vol. 36, no. 2, June 2023

"Autotopographies of Forced Displacement: City Walking Tours as a Path for Political Visibility," by Michal Huss
- officially published online as Open Access 21 Nov. 2022
- Author = Israel

"Is Australia a Model for the UK? A Critical Assessment of Parallels of Cruelty in Refugee Externalization Policies," by Margherita Matera, Tamara Tubakovic & Philomena Murray
- officially published online as Open Access 20 March 2023
- Authors = Australia (2, incl. lead), UK

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vol. 36, no. 1, March 2023

"The Power of Positive Thinking: How Positive Opinions of Refugees’ Impact on the Host Society Generate Positive Behavioural Intentions," by Liliia Korol & Pieter Bevelander
- officially published online as Open Access 23 Dec. 2022
- Authors = Sweden/Ukraine (lead), Sweden

"Iranian Refugee Entrepreneurship and Inclusion in the Netherlands," by Samaneh Khademi, Caroline Essers & Karin van Nieuwkerk
- officially published online as Open Access 8 Dec. 2022
- Authors = Netherlands


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vol. 35, no. 4, Dec. 2022

"Suffering to Save Lives: Torture, Cruelty, and Moral Disengagement in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres," by Jamal Barnes
- officially published online as Open Access 20 July 2022
- Author = Australia

"Food, Care, and Carceral Power: The Politics of Commensality in Australian Immigration Detention," by Michelle Peterie
- officially published online as Open Access 23 April 2022
- Author = Australia

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vol. 35, no. 3, Sept. 2022

"Recovering Refugee Stories: Chilean Refugees and World University Service," by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
- officially published online as Open Access 15 Feb. 2021
- Author = UK

"Journeys to Health: The Case of Chilean Exiles in the UK," by Jasmine Gideon
- postprint via Birkbeck Univ. of London IR 
- Author = UK

"(Re-)Construction of Identity and Belonging after Forced Migration: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach," by Ana Mijić
- officially published online as Open Access 29 April 2022
- Author = Austria

"Displaced Selves: Older African Adults in Forced Migration," by Faith Kilpeläinen & Minna Zechner
- officially published online as Open Access 30 Aug. 2022
- Authors = Finland

"Making ‘The Process’: Sexual Vulnerability and Burundian Refugee Boys and Young Men’ Strategies for Onward Migration from Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda," by Yvette Ruzibiza & Lidewyde H Berckmoes
- officially published online as Open Access 26 April 2022
- Authors = The Netherlands

"Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence," by Anna Papoutsi, Jenny Phillimore, Selin Akyüz, Hannah Bradby, Lisa Goodson & Cathy Vaughan
- postprint via Univ. of Birmingham IR 
- Authors = UK (3, incl. lead), Turkey (1), Sweden (1), Australia (1)

"Refugee Participation through Representative Committees: UNHCR and the Sudanese Committee in Beirut," by Maja Janmyr
- officially published online as Open Access 17 June 2022
- Author = Norway

"Participation as Confrontation: Resistance Within and Outside the Mesas de Participación Established for IDPs in Colombia," by Karen Schouw Iversen
- officially published online as Open Access 4 March 2022
- Author = UK

"When Being a Good Samaritan is Not Good Enough: Church Sanctuary and Privileged Responsibility," by Pieter Dronkers
- officially published online as Open Access 23 March 2022
- Author = The Netherlands

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vol. 35, no. 2, June 2022

"Beyond the partnership debate: localizing knowledge production in refugee and forced migration studies," by Richa Shivakoti & James Milner
- officially published online as Open Access 19 July 2021
- Authors = Canada

"When the Government Comes to the Neighbourhood: Everyday Regulations and Syrian Refugees’ Encounters with Local State Authorities," by Ezgi Irgil
- officially published online as Open Access 24 Feb. 2022
- Author = Sweden

"Excluding livestock livelihoods in refugee responses: A risk to public health," by Dorien H Braam
- officially published online as Open Access 9 Feb. 2022
- Author = UK

"The Affective Border: Missing Migrants and the Governance of Migrant Bodies at the European Union’s Southern Frontier," by Simon Robins
- officially published online as Open Access 22 Oct. 2019
- Author = UK

"Understanding out-mobility and radical-right support as responses to differentiated refugee exposure," by Àlex G de la Prada
- officially published online as Open Access 7 Jan. 2022
- Author = Sweden

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vol. 35, no. 1, March 2022

"A Sense of No Future in an Uncertain Present: Altruism and Risk-Seeking among Syrian Refugees in Jordan," by Nora El-Bialy, Elisa Fraile Aranda, Andreas Nicklisch, Lamis Saleh & Stefan Voigt
- officially published online 25 Sept. 2021
- preprint via EconStor
- Authors = Germany (4 incl. lead), Switzerland (1)

"Memories, Mementos, and Memorialization of Young Unaccompanied Afghans Navigating within Europe," by Moa Nyamwathi LØnning& Ravi K S Kohli
- officially published online as Open Access 28 Sept. 2021
- Authors = Norway (lead), UK

"Between Discipline and Neglect: The Regulation of Asylum Accommodation in Spain," by Lorenzo Gabrielli, Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas & Olatz Ribera-Almandoz
- officially published online as Open Access 5 May 2021
- Authors = Spain

"Gender Differences in Second Language Proficiency: Evidence from Recent Humanitarian Migrants in Germany," by Sarah Bernhard & Stefan Bernhard
- officially published online as Open Access 11 April 2021
- Authors = Germany

"Fleeing as an Activity of Waiting: Visual Representations of the World’s Refugee Situation on Médecins Sans Frontière Sweden’s Website, by Theres Bellander
- officially published online as Open Access 5 June 2021
- Author = Sweden

"Artificial intelligence for a reduction of false denials in refugee claims," by Hilary Evans Cameron, Avi Goldfarb & Leah Morris
- preprint via author site
- Authors = Canada

"Guiding refugee women who have experienced violence: representation of trust in counsellors’ journals," by Lotta Lehti, Simo Määttä & Minna Viuhko
- officially published online as Open Access 27 Sept. 2021
- Authors = Finland

"Informing Hard-to-reach Immigrant Groups about COVID-19—Reaching the Somali Population in Oslo," by Jan-Paul Brekke
- officially published online as Open Access 8 May 2021
- Author = Norway