04 September 2020

Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunity:

Call for participants: Advanced ELENA Course: Asylum in Europe: Ensuring Protection and Fundamental Rights Compliance, Marseille, 30-31 October 2020 [info]
- Note two changes: The course is now also available online and the registration deadline has been extended to 10 September 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Asylum Reception during the Pandemic: How Can Systems Become More Resilient? (TRAFIG Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

"COVID-19 Fallout Drives Tunisians to Italy Despite Deportations," The New Humanitarian, 1 Sept. 2020 [text]

Greece: First COVID-19 Case at Moria Migrant Camp (InfoMigrants, Sept. 2020) [text]

"Greece Has a Deadly New Migration Policy – and All of Europe is to Blame," The Guardian, 27 Aug. 2020 [text]

"Hundreds of Migrants Still Dying in Med Five Years since 2015," BBC News, 1 Sept. 2020 [text]

"Italy’s Lampedusa: Back on the Migration Front Line," The New Humanitarian, 31 Aug. 2020 [text]

Judicial Dialogue about the Return Directive: Which Role for Courts in an Era of Executive Governance? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

The Proposed Recast of the EU Returns Directive: Voluntary Return under Threat? (EU Law Analysis Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

UNHCR and IOM Call for Urgent Disembarkation of Rescued Migrants and Refugees in Central Mediterranean Sea (Aug. 2020) [text]

UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioners Visit Greece, Discuss Refugee Protection Challenges and Urge More Support (UNHCR, Sept. 2020) [text]

Which Connection Between the Greek-Turkish Border, the Western Balkans Route and the ECtHR’s Judgment in ND and NT? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Beyond Humanitarian Logics: Volunteer-Refugee Encounters in Chios and Paris," Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, vol. 11, no. 2 (Summer 2020) [postprint]

"The Conceptual Limits of the ‘Migration Journey’: De-exceptionalising Mobility in the Context of West African Trajectories," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 2 Sept. 2020 [open access]

European Insights, no. 6 (June 2020) [access]
- Theme is "What evolution of asylum policies in European countries since 2015?"

"Evolution of Migration Trajectories and Transnational Social Networks Over Time: A Study among Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Europe," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 2 Sept. 2020 [open access]

Top 5 Nationalities Interviewed in Italy in 2019, Analysis: Flow Monitoring Surveys (IOM, July 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR Updated Recommendations to the European Union Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (Aug. 2020) [text]

Well-founded Fear: Credibility and Risk Assessment in Danish Asylum Cases (Refugees Welcome, 2020) [text]
- See also related ECRE Weekly Bulletin op-ed.

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