Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

A Way Forward on Migration under the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union?, 5 February 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Financial Implications of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Will the Next MFF Cover the Costs? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

The Lipa Crisis: The Predictable Culmination of a Deteriorating Emergency (Refugee Rights Europe, Jan. 2021) [text]

Migrants and Refugees at Sea: 2020 Review (Human Rights at Sea, Jan. 2021) [text]

The Slow Violence of Deportability (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

- Focuses on Finland.

UNHCR warns asylum under attack at Europe’s borders, urges end to pushbacks and violence against refugees (UNHCR, Jan. 2021) [text]

Reports:

Moving on with the EU Asylum Agency, Policy Note, no. 31 (ECRE, Jan. 2021) [text]

Routes Towards the Western and Central Mediterranean Sea (UNHCR, Jan. 2021) [access] 

Transforming Eurodac from 2016 to the New Pact: From the Dublin System’s Sidekick to a Database in Support of EU Policies on Asylum, Resettlement and Irregular Migration, Working Paper, no. 13 (ECRE, 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"Coping in Limbo? The Moderating Role of Coping Strategies in the Relationship between Post-Migration Stress and Well-Being during the Asylum-Seeking Process," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

- Focuses on Sweden.

"How Assad changed population growth in Sweden and Norway: Syrian refugees’ impact on Nordic national and municipal demography," PLoS ONE 16(1): e0244670 (Jan. 2021) [open access]

"Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration - Persona grata: le concept humain d'hospitalité envers les immigrants et les réfugiés," Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, vol. 29 (2021) [open access]

- Focuses on an exhibition in Paris.

"The politics of migrant dispersal: Dividing and policing migrant multiplicities," Migration Studies, vol. 8, no. 4 (Dec. 2020) [free full-text]

- Includes specific focus on France and Italy.

"Regular matters: credibility determination and the institutional habitus in a Swiss asylum office," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:4 (Jan. 2021) [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (22 Jan. 2021)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (22 Jan. 2021)