Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Laws [info]
- Contributions sought for special issue on "Migrants and Human Rights Protections." Submission deadline is 30 September 2020.

Call for registration: Virtual PILnet Global Forum, 19-21 October 2020 [info]
- Will include sessions on mixed migration flows, legal assistance to unaccompanied minors, and finding solutions for forced migrants. Deadline is 12 October 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Policies Should Better Support People Trapped in Long-term Refugee Situations (The Conversation, Sept. 2020) [text]

Refugee Protection at Risk (United Against Inhumanity Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

*"Seeking Asylum? Not Here!," IPS News, 1 Sept. 2020 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Forensic Medical Reports in Asylum Cases: The View of the European Court of Human Rights and the Committee against Torture," Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 38, no. 3 (2020) [open access]

"The Internal Protection Alternative,"  Chapter in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Intersectionality, Forced Migration, and the Jus-generation of the Right to Flee: Theorising the Composite Entitlement to Leave to Escape Irreversible Harm," Chapter in Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Migration Flows and the Basic Categories of Refugees: The Importance of International Law Protection," Chapter in Direitos Fundamentais e Inovações no Direito (Instituto Iberoamericano de Estudios Jurídicos, 2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 181. Discusses “economic refugees” and “environmental refugees” as new categories of refugees.

"The New Migration Law: Migrants, Refugee, and Citizens in an Anxious Age," Cornell Law Review, vol. 105, no. 2 (2020) [full-text]

"Strengthening the Principle of Non-refoulement," International Journal of Human Rights, Latest Articles, 26 Aug. 2020 [abstract]

Research project:

Refugees are Migrants: Refugee Mobility, Recognition and Rights (RefMig) [access]
- "The RefMig project aims to re-examine the refugee regime through the lens of mobility and migration. ...The project’s premise, that ‘refugees are migrants’ aims to open up for scrutiny those practices that limit refugee flight and onward mobility, to examine how migration control concerns have come to permeate the refugee regime."

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (24 Aug. 2020)
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2 (24 Aug. 2020)