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Q1Refuge
About Refuge
Refuge is a scholarly journal published by York University Libraries. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.454 and H-index of 37.
Coverage: 1996-2025. Research categories: Cultural Studies (Q1); Demography (Q2); Geography, Planning and Development (Q2); Political Science and International Relations (Q2); Sociology and Political Science (Q2).
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Topics in published research
Migration, Refugees, and Integration; Migration, Health and Trauma; Migration and Labor Dynamics; Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography; Global Peace and Security Dynamics; Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees.
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“We Mattered”: A Photovoice Project About Resettlement Experiences Following Forced Displacement from the Women of MENA Hope
Tiffani Luethke, Zainab Al-Baaj, Kattie Sadd, Maggie Bruno et al.
2026-09-17 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41790Bilateral Relations Between Refugee-Hosting and Origin Countries: The Case of Turkey and Syria Until the Fall of Assad
Manoug Antaby
2026-09-07 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41786Sally El Hosaini (Director). The Swimmers. Working Title Films and Netflix, 2022, 134 minutes.
Athina Pitta, Serafeim Savvidis
2026-09-02 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41936Physical Activity as a Pathway to Belonging: Resettlement Experiences of Newcomer Women in Canada
El Zahraa Majed, Rasha Fahim, Lucie Lévesque
2026-09-02 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41724Kakuma Is Not Swahili for “Nowhere”: Narratives of the Host Community and the Meaning of a False Translation
Brett Shadle
2026-06-09 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41731Forced Migration in Turkey: Refugee Perspectives, Organizational Assistance, and Political Embedding. By Berna Zülfikar Savcı, Ludger Pries, and M. Murat Erdoğan (Eds.). Routledge, 2024, 298 pp. ISBN: 9781032621715 (paperback); 9781032621708 (hardback); 9
Emel Coskun
2026-06-03 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41932Castaways and Other Writings, 1996–2024. By Diego Bastianutti. Club Giuliano Dalmato di Toronto, 2025, 194 pp. ISBN: 9781069266903 (paperback).
Ananya Bhardwaj
2026-05-21 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41933Sacrificing the Few to Save the Many: The Moral Economy of Resettlement to Norway
Nerina Weiss
2026-05-13 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41744Children and Families’ Experiences with Document Portability, Security and Verification During Forced Migration
Michael Ungar, Nilüfer Kuru, Oksana Tashkinova
2026-05-13 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41796Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics. By Tamirace Fakhoury and Dawn Chatty (Eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 240 pp. ISBN 9780755650156.
Ola G. El-Taliawi
2026-04-21 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41929Supporting Refugees in Rural Canada: Exploring the Strengths and Weaknesses of Settlement Service Models in Smaller Communities
Stacey Haugen, Rachel McNally, Lars Hallstrom
2026-04-02 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41793Leveraging Art to Support Refugee Newcomer Families’ Well-Being: A Qualitative Study
Sherri Dutton, Colleen Davison, Yu Jier Kou
2026-03-27 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41505The Evolution of Vulnerability in Norwegian Refugee Debates: Semantic and Political Changes over Four Decades
Ragna Lillevik
2026-03-11 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41737“We Are Living in Survival Mode”: Lived Experiences of Syrian Refugees and Forcibly Displaced Ukrainians in Northern Ontario
Monika Thakur
2026-02-20 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41385The Construction of Medicolegal Alienation: Physicians’ Lived Experience of Law in Encounters with People Living as Undocumented Migrants in the Context of Medical Humanitarianism
Josephine T. V. Greenbrook, Kjell Reichenberg
2026-02-11 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41089Establishing (Un)certainty: Language and Reproducing Suspicion in Forensic Medical Evaluations
Andrew Chan
2026-01-28 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41698Revisiting the “Imperative of Categories”: Women at Risk in Resettlement Practice
Jessica Schultz
2026-01-28 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41713Temporal Changes of Trust in Institutions among Young Refugees in Germany: Insights from a Longitudinal Survey
Daniel Engel
2026-01-28 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41741Sweden's New Resettlement Policy: Introducing Gender and Gender Equality as Governing Tools in Migration Governance
Brigitte Suter
2026-01-28 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41711Navigating Vulnerability in the Context of Resettlement: Syrian Youth in Türkiye
Pelin Kılınçarslan, Müge Dalkıran, Ahmet İçduygu
2026-01-28 · DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.41721Reviews
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