Call for article proposals: FMR Issue on “Dangerous Journeys: Saving lives and responding to missing migrants and refugees”

Forced Migration Review (FMR) will publish an issue on Dangerous journeys: Saving lives and responding to missing migrants and refugeesin May 2025. Dangerous journeys are taken every day by migrants and refugees, often with tragic consequences. This issue of FMR seeks to explore how more lives can be saved on land and sea and how disappearances in migration and displacement can be prevented or resolved. Why are lives being lost? Why and where do migrants and refugees go missing? What can be done to make journeys safer? What can be done to clarify the fate, and support the families, of those who don’t reach their destination? Articles will cover topics related to rescue, humanitarian access, decriminalisation and legal frameworks, the role of States, search and identification of missing migrants and refugees, family separation, and post-rescue support and recovery. The issue will also include articles specifically focussed on the prevention of loss of life along known migration routes.  

Dangerous journeys are taken every day by migrants and refugees, often with tragic consequences. This issue of FMR seeks to explore how more lives can be saved on land and sea and how disappearances in migration and displacement can be prevented or resolved. Why are lives being lost? Why and where do migrants and refugees go missing? What can be done to make journeys safer? What can be done to clarify the fate, and support the families, of those who don’t reach their destination?

Articles will cover topics related to rescue, humanitarian access, decriminalisation and legal frameworks, the role of states, search and identification of missing migrants and refugees, family separation, post-rescue support and recovery. The issue will also include articles specifically focussed on the prevention of loss of life along known migration routes and the creation of safer routes.

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Deadline for submission of article proposals: Monday 11th November 2024 at 23:00 GMT to be published in May 2025.