Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

The Controversial Lifesavers: NGO Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2020) [text]
- First post in a themed series on "Humanitarian Search and Rescue, from the Nordic Perspective." The second post focuses on the "pull factor," the third on the duty to rescue, the fourth on the necessity of search and rescue, and the fifth on the humanitarian imperative of search and rescue.

Five Lessons from an Urban Experiment in Asylum Reception (COMPAS Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the Netherlands.

"A New Quality of Violation of the Law" (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, March 2020) [text]
- Interview re. the EU's handling of the Turkish-Greek border crisis.

Solidarity with Refugees Can’t Survive on Compassion in Crisis-stricken Societies of Greece and Italy (The Conversation, March 2020) [text]

Reports & research papers:

Country Reports (AIDA, March 2020)
- Updates are available for Austria, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.

Do Processing Times Affect the Distribution of Asylum Seekers across Europe?, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 13018 (Institute of Labor Economics, Feb. 2020) [text]

Fundamental Rights of Refugees and Migrants at European Borders (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, March 2020) [text]

Reception Policies, Practices and Responses Working Paper Series (Respond Project, Feb. & March 2020) [access]
- Country reports are available for Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and the UK.

Solidarity in EU Asylum Policy (EU Parliament, March 2020) [text]

UNHCR Recommendations Concerning Asylum-related Cases in the Context of Judicial Reform in the Republic of Armenia (UNHCR, Sept. 2019) [text]

Where Asylum Seekers Come from and Where They Go (EUROSTAT, March 2020) [access]
- Follow link for interactive visual.

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (17 March 2020)
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (17 March 2020)