Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

*Seminar: The impact of European policy on the migration crisis, 19 January 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Briefing: New UK approach to refugees and safe third countries (Free Movement Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

"Death on the Central Mediterranean: 2013-2020," The New Humanitarian, 12 Jan. 2021 [text]

GCM Implementation: Regional Review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Belgium (RLI Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

"How COVID-19 made it harder to find safety in the EU," The New Humanitarian, 7 Jan. 2021 [text]

"The Impact of the Second Wave of Lockdowns on the Position of People on the Move," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 11 Dec. 2020 [text]

- Includes links to an updated ECRE information sheet and EASO report on COVID-19.

The New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Human Rights challenges to border procedures (RLI Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

Unpacking the new EU approach to asylum and migration (Rethinking Refuge, Jan. 2021) [text]

New open access book:

Contested Solidarity: Practices of Refugee Support between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism (transcript, 2020) [open access]

- "In the summer of 2015, an extraordinary number of German residents felt an urge to provide help to refugees. Doing good, however, is not as simple and straightforward as it might appear. Practices of solidarity are intertwined with questions of power. They are situated, relative and contested, unfolding in an ambivalent space between humanitarianism and political activism. This ethnographic account of the German 'welcome culture' provides insights into the contested practices, imaginaries, interests and politics of refugee solidarity. Drawing on works from critical migration studies to social anthropology, Larissa Fleischmann develops an empirically grounded understanding of solidarity in migration societies."

Reports:

Black Book of Pushbacks, 2 vols. (Border Violence Monitoring Network, Dec. 2020) [access]

- Note: Also available via Statewatch.

Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration, 3rd ed. (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Dec. 2020) [access]

- Available in four languages.

Migration: Fundamental rights issues at land borders (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Dec. 2020) [text]

Relying on a Fiction: New Amendments to the Asylum Procedures Regulation (ECRE, Dec. 2020) [text]

- See also related ECRE comments.

Screening out rights? Delays, Detention, Data concerns and the EU’s Proposal for a Pre-entry Screening process (ECRE, Dec. 2020) [text]

- See also related ECRE comments.

Ukraine: Adapting Pre-Existing Housing Schemes to Meet IDPs’ Specific Needs (Global Protection Cluster, Dec. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR's Recommendations for the Portuguese and Slovenian Presidencies of the Council of the European Union (EU) (UNHCR, Jan. 2021) [text]

- See also two related press releases, here and here.

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (22 Dec. 2020)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (22 Dec. 2020)