Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunity:

Legal Researchers, ECRE [info]
- "ECRE is looking for eight national legal researchers to undertake a study on the application of the concepts of 'internal protection alternative' and of 'actors of protection' in asylum claims at initial and appeal stages in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden."  Follow the link for more information. Applications are due 18 February 2013.

Publications:

"Asylum Legal Framework and Policy of the Slovak Republic," Jurisprudence, vol. 19, no. 4 (2012) [open access text]

"Cultural Identity as a Specific Dimension of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics: Refugees in Temerin," Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, vol. 6, no. 2 (Autumn/Winter 2012) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 55.

Enhancing Intra-EU Solidarity Tools to Improve Quality and Fundamental Rights Protection in the Common European Asylum System (ECRE, Feb. 2013) [text]

Feeling Like an Outsider: A Case Study of Refugee Identity in the Czech Republic, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 251 (UNHCR, Jan. 2013) [text]

Event after the fact:

EU Asylum Legislation: The Establishment of a Common European Asylum System - Seminar for Journalists, Brussels, 30 Jan. 2013 [info]
- Revisit the seminar via: video 1, video 2; see also a background note on the EU Asylum Package.

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