Regional Focus: Europe

Events & opportunities:

Workshop on Legal Implications of European Trends in the Externalisation of Migration Management, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 19 September 2019 [info]
- Register by 12 September 2019.

ECRE Annual General Conference, Brussels, 23-24 October 2019 [info]
- Register by 15 September 2019.

The Need for Evidence-based Policies in Migration Management, The Hague, 18 October 2019 [info]

Blog posts & media:

CONREP Blog [access]
- The CONREP project "researches the impact and effects of the externalisation of refugee policies in two regions: Australia's activities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific; and the European Union and its member states' activities in North Africa." Follow the a/m link to browse a number of recent blog posts that focus on current refugee-related developments in Europe.

The Criminalisation of Solidarity (Refugee Rights Europe Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

"EU-Rwanda Plan: Another Short-sighted Answer to Libya Migration Crisis," The New Humanitarian, 16 Aug. 2019 [text]

Europe’s New Border Guards (NCHS Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

Flexible Borders: The Fiction of Non-entry and Asylum Seekers in Germany (CONREP Blog, July 2019) [text]

From Burdens to Assets, and Back Again: Shifting UK Press Portrayals of EU Migrants (LSE British Politics & Policy Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

The New Polish Migration Policy – False Start (openDemocracy, Aug. 2019) [text]

Solidarity “A La Carte”: The EU’s Response to Boat Migration (OpinioJuris Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

Reports & articles:

The 2019 Participatory Assessment Report of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine (UNHCR, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Does Refugee Status Matter? Medical Needs of Newly Arrived Asylum Seekers and Resettlement Refugees: A Retrospective Observational Study of Diagnoses in a Primary Care Setting," Conflict and Health, 13:39 (Aug. 2019) [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office (Stanford Univ., July 2019) [text]
- Winner of best paper, 2019 APSA Migration and Citizenship Section.

No End in Sight: The Mistreatment of Asylum Seekers in Greece (Refugee Rights Europe et al., Aug. 2019) [text]

"Parochialism, Social Norms, and Discrimination against Immigrants," PNAS, vol. 116, no. 3 (Aug. 2019) [abstract]
- Focuses on Germany. See also related article in Penn Today newsletter.

"Participation and Wellbeing in Urban Greenspace: ‘Curating Sociability’ for Refugees and Asylum Seekers," Geoforum, vol. 106 (Nov. 2019) [open access]
- Focuses on urban areas in Germany and the UK.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe (9 Aug. 2019)

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