Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunity:

Call for applications: Summer School 2020: Refugee Rights & Migration, Skopje, 24-28 August 2020 [info]
- Course will be offered online via Zoom.

Blog posts & press:

"Far-right Italian Leader Facing New Trial for 'Illegally' Keeping Rescued Migrants on Boat for 19 Days," SBS News, 30 July 2020 [text]

Migrants in Spain in the Time of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities (MPC Blog, July 2020) [text]

Reaching the Dead-end: M.N. and Others and the Question of Humanitarian Visas (Strasbourg Observers Blog, July 2020) [text]

What Does the New EU Budget Have in Store for Migration and Asylum? The Effect of Crises on EU Spending (PROTECT Project, July 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Concerns and Confusion: Afghan Refugees and Migrants in Turkey Face COVID-related Challenges Every Day (Mixed Migration Centre, July 2020) [text]

- See also related briefing paper.

*"Détresse en Mer en Période de Pandémie: Des Navires de Croisière à la Recherche d'un Port d'Accueil," Revue Générale de Droit International Public, vol. 124, no. 2 (2020) [free full-text]
- Scroll to p. 261.

The European Asylum System: A Necessary Case of Differentiation, EU IDEA Policy Paper, no. 3 (Istituto Affari Internazionali, July 2020) [text]

Fundamental Rights, Accountability and Transparency in European Governance of Migration: The Case of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex (Respond Migration, July 2020) [text]

Greece: Regulation of NGOs Working on Migration and Asylum Threatens Civic Space (Amnesty International, July 2020) [text] 

IDPs: Life Before and During the Coronavirus (US Dept. of State, Aug. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Ukraine.

Migration: Key Fundamental Rights Concerns, Quarterly Bulletin, no. 3 (EU Fundamental Rights Agency, July 2020) [access]

"Testing Three Measures of Verbal–Visual Frame Interplay in German News Coverage of Refugees and Asylum Seekers," International Journal of Communication, vol. 14 (2020) [open access]

"Who Deserves Compassion? The Moral and Emotional Dilemmas of Volunteering in the 'Refugee Crisis'," Sociology, OnlineFirst, 19 June 2020 [open access]

Multimedia:

MPC Webinar Series: Migration and Mobility during COVID19 (Migration Policy Centre) [access]

- Follow the link for 7 video recordings of webinars in this series.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (24 July 2020)