Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunity:

Call for applications: 2018 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, Brussels, 2-13 July 2018 [info]
- Places are still available!

Publications:

Access to Asylum and Detention at France’s Borders (ECRE, May 2018) [text]

Annual Report on Migration and Asylum 2017 (European Migration Network, May 2018) [text]

Britain's Hostility to Those Seeking Refuge Didn't Start with Theresa May – It Dates Back a Century (The Conversation, June 2018) [text]

"Cross‐cultural Differences in Object Recognition: Comparing Asylum Seekers from Sub‐Saharan Africa and a Matched Western European Control Group," Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29 May 2018 [open access]
- Concludes that "Our findings elucidate cultural differences in responding on an object recognition test. Judges, juries, and immigration officials would be wise to take these differences into account when evaluating recognition performance in cross‐cultural contexts."

"Editorial: Asylum in Europe - Where Do We Go Now?," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 8 June 2018 [text]

"Five Myths about the Refugee Crisis," The Guardian, 5 June 2018 [text]

Fundamental Rights Report 2018 (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, June 2018) [text via Refworl]

Ireland’s Response to Recent Trends in International Protection Applications, ESRI Research Series, no. 72 (Economic & Social Research Institute, June 2018) [text]

Italy’s Dangerous Direction on Migration (Human Rights Watch, June 2018) [text]

The Living Conditions of Asylum-Seekers in Cyprus (UNHCR & Univ. of Nicosia, 2018) [text]
- See also related Joint statement on the growing problem of homelessness among asylum-seekers in Cyprus.

Mind the Gap: Homelessness amongst Newly Recognised Refugees (No Accommodation Network, June 2018) [text]
- See also related Independent article.

This is Moria… (The Migrationist Blog, June 2018) [text]

"To Share or Not to Share Responsibility? Finnish Refugee Policy and the Hesitant Support for a Common European Asylum System," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 7 June 2018 [open access]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (4 June 2018)
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (4 June 2018)

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