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    The role of soft law in ensuring durable solutions for children displaced by climate change in Africa
    (Pretoria University Law Press, 2025-06-01) Fox, Bryony Elizabeth
    As global temperatures rise, the frequency and intensity of sudden and slow-onset climate impacts are increasing, disproportionately affecting African children. These impacts drive cross-border displacement, creating an urgent need for durable solutions that protect the rights of displaced children. However, the current international refugee regime does not recognise children displaced by climate change impacts as refugees unless they have experienced some form of individual persecution. Consequently, climate-displaced children are often excluded from the traditional durable solutions of voluntary repatriation, local integration and resettlement to a third state provided under this legal regime. Further, even if they were to have access to these durable solutions, such solutions may not be appropriate in the context of climate change displacement. To address this gap, the article explores the potential of international and regional soft law instruments as a means to protect the rights of climate-displaced children. Although soft law instruments show promise in the protection of climate-displaced children and their rights in Africa, the article concludes that the instruments fall short of fully supporting states in fulfilling their obligations to such children under key legal frameworks, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. This stems from a distinct lack of recognition of the need for access to durable solutions for children, generally, or for children whom climate change impacts have displaced and are who not refugees, more specifically. The findings suggest that while international and regional soft law may offer a bridge for some protection gaps, there is still a need for stronger legal mechanisms and practical measures to fully protect the rights of climate-displaced children in Africa.
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    Restricting boat refugees at sea – rescuing the sovereign? The response to boat refugees across time and space, 1979–2001
    (Sage Journals, 2026-01-27) Glynn, Irial
    This article considers how notions of sovereignty and solidarity influenced the response to boat refugees at sea between 1979 and 2001. It argues that states responded with prolonged solidarity when helping boat refugees served to support their foreign policy goals and fitted with the moral zeitgeist. When such conditions did not exist, states successfully used the legal ambiguity of the sea to intercept, repatriate and in some cases strategically confine boat refugees to offshore detention centres located beyond the reach of national courts. Restricting boat refugees on the high seas served to bolster governments’ claims that they could control unwanted immigration and, in doing so, rescue their territorial sovereignty. Yet this created a notable paradox: by allegedly preserving territorial sovereignty in their dramatic and very visible border spectacles with boat refugees, governments felt it necessary to cheat national and international law.
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    Enjeux et limites des catégorisations dans le contexte des migrations forcées. L’exemple des réfugiés palestiniens et syriens au Liban depuis 2011
    (Université de Poitiers, 2025-11-01) Aumond, Florian; Doraï, Kamel
    Cet article, croisant les approches géographiques et juridiques, vise à relire de façon critique les catégorisations dans le cadre des migrations contraintes, plus précisément dans des contextes de conflits et de déplacements multiples et secondaires. Il s’appuie sur trois populations : les réfugiés palestiniens du Liban et de Syrie et les réfugiés syriens déplacés au Liban depuis 2011. Ces trois groupes relèvent de deux agences de l’ONU : l’UNRWA et l’UNHCR. Toutes deux exercent dans un pays, le Liban, non-partie à la Convention de Genève de 1951 relative au statut des réfugiés et qui a produit depuis 1948 son propre cadre national de gestion des réfugiés. Il a ainsi adopté sa propre définition de cette catégorie et induit de facto une distinction dans le traitement des populations concernées. Cet article se base sur une analyse des textes et documents officiels produits par les deux agences onusiennes et l’État libanais ainsi que sur des données collectées auprès des trois populations concernées au Liban depuis 2011.
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    Understanding maternal perspectives of skin-to-skin contact for the management of acute pain in very and extremely preterm infants
    (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc, 2025-12-15) Hashemi, Haleh; Cohen, Estreya Rachel; Garvey, Nichaela; Lebovic, Andrea; Bacchini, Fabiana; Johannsson, Lesley; Cheng, Carol; Shah, Vibhuti; Riddell, Rebecca Pillai
    Skin-to-skin care (SSC) and skin-to-skin contact for procedural pain (SSCP) are recognized for their physiological and emotional benefits in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), including pain reduction in preterm infants. However, little is known about how birthing parents of very and extremely preterm infants (<32 weeks gestational age), a significantly more challenging preterm infant population to enact SSCP, perceive this intervention. This study aimed to explore birthing parents' experiences and perceptions related to the use of SSC and SSCP in the NICU with their very and extremely preterm infants. In partnership with a national preterm parent organization, virtual interviews were conducted with 38 mothers of very or extremely preterm infants from across Canada, who had been admitted to the NICU within the past 5 years. Data were synthesized into 8 primary themes relating first to SSC broadly and then SSCP. In addition, mothers' opinions about a priori concepts and potential interventions (generated from pilot data) were also vetted. Important actionable facilitators and barriers related to fears and interventions to support SSCP with parents of very and extremely preterm infants were discerned. Although most found their experience rewarding, barriers such as limited instruction, inconsistent staff support, procedural challenges, and emotional strain often hindered the use of SSCP. Enhancing staff training, standardizing protocols, offering mental health support, and adopting flexible, family-centered policies appear key to improving SSCP engagement with the youngest preterm infants.
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    Developing a Researcher Identity: Commonplace Books as Arts- Informed Reflective Process
    (Nova Southeastern University, 2018-03-06) Shuman, Layal; Shabtay, Abigail; McDonnell, Maggie; Bourassa, Nicole; El Muhammady, Fauzanah
    This article shares the processes of five emerging researchers as they trace their journeys in becoming researchers and examine their identities through the qualitative, arts-informed method of “commonplace book” creation. It positions commonplace books as “living document” that explore the ongoing processes of identity development we experience as novice scholars in the field of education. Using this article, we extend our artistic processes, inviting readers to join the conversation and reflect on why and how they engage in academic work, as well as the potential this method has for reflection, meaning-making and dissemination. We highlight the use of commonplace books as an arts-informed reflective method and a valuable performance in the journey of becoming/being academic researchers.