17 February 2021

Regional Focus: Europe

Blog posts & press:

*EU asylum decisions exceed applications for first time since 2017 due to COVID-19 (EASO, Feb. 2021) [text]

IOM Calls for End to Pushbacks and Violence Against Migrants at EU External Borders (IOM, Feb. 2021) [text]

"Lawyers give EU agency notice over Greece migrant pushbacks," ABC News, 16 Feb. 2021 [text]

Legal migration in the “New Pact”: modesty or unease in the Berlaymont? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

A recent history of camps in French migration policy, part 2: Encampment and eviction (Refugee History Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

Weighting the Crisis: Comparing Media Coverage of Migration-Related Events in the EU (PROTECT Project, Feb. 2021) [text]

Reports:

Civil Society and State Engagement in the Refugee Response in Turkey: Law and Regulations (GIZ, Feb. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Country Report: Bulgaria (AIDA, Feb. 2021) [text]

DTM Europe: Summary of key activities and findings, January-December 2020 (IOM, Feb. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Gateway Re-opens: the growing popularity of the Atlantic route, as told by those who risk it (Mixed Migration Centre, Feb. 2021) [text]

The Living Conditions of Applicants and Beneficiaries of International Protection: Evidence of Greece's Failure to Provide Sustainable Accommodation Solutions (Mobile Info Team, Feb. 2021) [text]

Migration and Asylum Policies Systems: Challenges and Perspectives (Editoriale Scientifica, Dec. 2020) [full-text]
- "According to the aim of MAPS – i.e highlighting key changes and best practices relating to general principles and safeguards of asylum systems, at the same time analysing weaknesses and the compliance with international law obligations to protect asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in general – on 23rd September 2019 the First Workshop, on “Migration and Asylum Policies Systems, challenges and perspectives”, took place at University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Essays included in this volume are excerpts from the lectures given during the Workshop, concerning a critical appraisal of the national legal systems of most of MAPS Partners (in the first Part), to which contributions on topical issues concerning Asylum and Migration under European Law are added (in the second Part), as well as, in the third Part, the speeches delivered at the Workshop in Naples from Antonio Di Muro (UNHCR) and Riccardo Gatti (ONG Open Arms)."

Pushback Report 2020 (Mare Liberum, Feb. 2021) [text]

The Refugee Crisis and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 14084 (Institute of Labor Economics, Jan. 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"Augmenting Social Welfare for Asylum Seekers in Ireland," Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, vol. 42, no. 4 (2020) [preprint]

"The Covid-19 crisis resurrects the public health exception in EU migration law," Frontiers in Political Science, 11 Feb. 2021 [open access]

"Reluctant Refuge: An Activist Archaeological Approach to Alternative Refugee Shelter in Athens (Greece)," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 33, no. 3 (Sept. 2020) [postprint]

"Violence and torture against migrants and refugees attempting to reach the European Union through the Western Balkans," Torture Journal: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, vol. 30, no. 3 (2020) [open access]

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