Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

News from the Mediterranean:

"Almost 500 Migrants Brought Back to Libya after Foiled Attempts to Reach Italy," Reuters, 22 Jan. 2019 [text]

"How We Made an Invisible Crisis at Sea Visible," New York Times, 23 Jan. 2019 [access]
- Includes video.

Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 4,883; Deaths Reach 203 (IOM, 22 Jan. 2019) [text]

UNHCR Appalled at News of Refugee and Migrant Deaths on Mediterranean Sea (UNHCR, 19 Jan. 2019) [text]

UNHCR Appeals for Urgent Action as New Mediterranean Mid-winter Deaths Reported (UNHCR, 22 Jan. 2019) [text]


EU journal articles & reports:

The Affective Border: Missing Migrants and the Governance of Migrant Bodies at the European Union’s Southern Frontier," Journal of Refugee Studies, 15 Jan. 2019 [open access]

"Commissaire Général Aux Réfugiés et Aux Apatrides v. Mostafa Lounani (C.J.E.U.)," International Legal Materials, vol. 57, no. 6 (Dec. 2018) [free full-text]
- Discussion of case involving exclusion clause.

Cut Adrift in the Mediterranean (Amnesty International, Jan. 2019) [text]
- Analysis "outlines how the outsourcing of European border control to the Libyan authorities, in combination with a system which fails to share responsibility for asylum-seekers fairly across Europe, has created a situation where people are frequently stranded in the Mediterranean. It also sets out steps to ensure situations like the stranding of the Sea-Watch and Sea-Eye rescue ships, and the blocking of Proactiva Open Arms, do not happen again."

Fit for Purpose? The Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Humanitarian Assistance to Irregular Migrants: 2018 Update (European Parliament, Dec. 2018) [text]

"Frontex and the Convergence of Humanitarianism, Human Rights and Security," Security Dialogue, vol. 49, no. 6 (2018) [free full-text]

How a Visa for Asylum Seekers Could Grant Safe Passage to Europe (Refugees Deeply, Jan. 2019) [text]

"Migrant Rescue as Organized Hypocrisy: EU Maritime Missions Offshore Libya Between Humanitarianism and Border Control," Cooperation and Conflict, OnlineFirst, 6 June 2018 [open access]

No Escape from Hell: EU Policies Contribute to Abuse of Migrants in Libya (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2019) [text]

Refugees’ Self-selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?, Working Paper, no. 289 (CESifo, Jan. 2019) [text]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (4 Jan. 2019)
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (4 Jan. 2019)

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