17 March 2020

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Events & opportunities:

Job announcement: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Global Asylum Governance and European Union's Role (ASILE) Project, Univ. of Oslo [info]
- Apply by 26 March 2020.

CFP: Changing Visions of Nordic Migration Policy and Law, Oslo, 26-27 May 2020 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 6 April 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Fast Facts on How Greeks See Migrants as Greece-Turkey Border Crisis Deepens (Pew's Fact Tank Blog, March 2020) [text]

Germany Can Protect Refugees and the European Asylum System. Here’s How (GPPI Commentary, March 2020) [text]

Greece: Violence against Asylum Seekers at Border - Detained, Assaulted, Stripped, Summarily Deported (Human Rights Watch, March 2020) [text]

IOM Alarmed by Return of Migrants to Libya from Maltese Waters (IOM, March 2020) [text]

Learning the Lessons from the EU–Turkey Deal: Europe’s Renewed Test (ODI Blog, March 2020) [text]

*New EU Pact on Migration and Asylum Should be Firmly Underpinned by Human Rights, Effective Solidarity and Responsibility Sharing (COE Commissioner for Human Rights, March 2020) [text]

Sharing the Burden: Revisiting the EU-Turkey Migration Deal (ICG Commentary, March 2020) [text]

"Violations Continue in Greece, EU Says Asylum Procedures Cannot be Suspended," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 13 March 2020 [text]
- See also related Human Rights Watch news story.

"Weekly Editorial: EU is Crossing the Red Line by Preventing Refugees from Crossing its Borders," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 6 March 2020 [text]

Wilful Blindness: How the EU Should Revise Its Refugee Deal with Turkey (ECFR Commentary, March 2020) [text]

Reports:

Chasing Efficiency: Can Operational Changes Fix European Asylum Systems? (Migration Policy Institute, March 2020) [text]

Country Reports (AIDA, 2020)
- Updated profiles are available for Bulgaria and Hungary.

*Migration Policy Scoreboard: A Monitoring Mechanism for EU Asylum and Migration Policy, Policy Brief, no. 2020/11 (European Univ. Institute, March 2020) [text]

Mixed Migration Flows in the Mediterranean: Compilation of Available Data and Information,  January 2020 (IOM, March 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Punishing Compassion: Solidarity on Trial in Fortress Europe (Amnesty International, March 2020) [text]
- See also executive summary.

Serbia: Report on the Right to Asylum in 2019 (Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, March 2020) [text via ECRE]

Strategies and Interventions on Preventing and Responding to Violence and Injuries among Refugees and Migrants: Technical Guidance (WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2020) [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (3 March 2020)
Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (3 March 2020)

Tagged Events & Opportunities. 

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