Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

REGIONAL

Opportunities:

Request for contributions: Input by Civil Society to the EASO Annual Report 2019 [info]
- Complete the online survey by 10 March 2020.

CFP: European Makings of "Good" and "Bad" Refugees: Contestations of the Right to Have Rights, Panel at IUAES Inter-Congress 2020, Šibenik, Croatia, 7-11 October 2020 [info]
- Submit proposals by 23 March 2020.

Blog posts & press:

*Beyond the 'Migration Crisis': Three Key Challenges for Frontex and EASO (EU TARN Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]

*The Contemporary Relevance of Khlaifia and Others v. Italy (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]

EU Turns Its Back on Migrants in Distress: New Naval Mission Designed to Avoid Sea Rescues (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2020) [text]

A Restrictionist Revolution? A Counter-Intuitive Reading of the ECtHR’s N.D. & N.T.-Judgment on 'Hot Expulsions' (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]

New OA book:

Elżbieta M. Goździak, Izabella Main, Brigitte Suter, eds., Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values? (Routledge, Feb. 2020) [access]
- "This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In this volume, philosophers, legal scholars, anthropologists and sociologists, analyze some of these debates and discuss practical strategies to reconcile the values that underpin the European project with multiculturalism and religious pluralism, whilst at the same time safeguarding the rights of refugees to seek asylum. Country case studies in the book are drawn from France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom... ."

Reports & journal articles:

"After Crisis: Health, Politics and Reflections on the European Refugee Crisis," Medicine, Conflict and Survival, vol. 35, no, 5 (2019) [free full-text]

Places of Safety in the Mediterranean: The EU’s Policy of Outsourcing Responsibility (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Feb. 2020) [text via ECRE]

"Spaces of Violence: A Typology of the Political Geography of Violence against Migrants Seeking Asylum in the EU," Political Geography, vol. 79 (May 2020) [full-text via Appal. St. Univ.]

Spanish Yearbook of International Law, vol. 23 (2019) [contents]
- Focus of the articles in this volume is asylum policies in the EU.

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Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (14 Feb. 2020)
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (14 Feb. 2020)

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