Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunities:

Call for contributors: Refugee Rights Europe Blog [info]
- No deadline indicated.

Call for evidence: "An Inspection of Asylum Casework," Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, UK [info]
- Submissions due by 14 August 2020.

Call for participants: Advanced ELENA Course: Asylum in Europe: Ensuring Protection and Fundamental Rights Compliance, Marseille, 30-31 October 2020 [info]
- Register by 24 August 2020.

Course: Odysseus Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, Brussels, 24 August-4 September 2020 [info]
- Note: The application deadline has been extended to 31 July 2020. Refugees and other recipients of protection are encouraged to apply; a crowdfunding campaign to support 10 participants is currently under way. A PhD seminar will be also be held during the summer school, with four grants available to cover fees; the application deadline for these is the same: 31 July 2020.

Blog posts & press:

First Trial in Italy over 'Migrant Pushback' to Libya (InfoMigrants, July 2020) [text]

"Home Office Breaking Law by Leaving Destitute Asylum Seekers Homeless," The Independent, 23 July 2020 [text]

"'How can I find a home?' Promise of Athens Turns to Despair for Refugees," The Guardian, 23 July 2020 [text]

Italy May Face an Inquiry under Article 20 UN Convention against Torture for Its Role in the Systematic Torture of Migrants “Pulled Back” to Libya (OMCT Blog, July 2020) [text]

UNHCR Calls on Poland to Ensure Access for People Seeking Asylum (UNHCR, July 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Between Fear Mongers and Samaritans: Does Information Provision Affect Attitudes towards the Right of Asylum in Germany?, MAGKS Discussion Paper, no. 31-2020 (Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2020) [text]

"'Between heaven and hell': Subjective Well‐being of Asylum Seekers," International Journal of Social Welfare, Early View, 6 July 2020 [open access]
- Focuses on Finland.

Collective Expulsions Documented in the Aegean Sea: March-June 2020 (Legal Centre Lesvos, July 2020) [text]
- Note: See list of other related reports on pushbacks by Greece.

Country Report: Germany (AIDA, July 2020) [text]

Ensuring an Inclusive Recovery for All: ECRE and PICUM Comments on the Next Generation EU Package and REACT-EU, Policy Note (July 2020) [text]

Fundamental Rights Report 2020 (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, June 2020) [access]
- Includes a chapter on "Asylum, migration, borders and integration." Follow link for main report as well as country studies.

Limits to Access to Asylum Along the Balkan Route (Refugee Rights Europe, July 2020) [text]

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

"Politics of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Turkey: Limits and Prospects of Populism," Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics (Oxford Univ. Press, July 2020) [Academia]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (9 July 2020)
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (9 July 2020)