28 March 2021

Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunities:

Webinar: A Pact with the Devil? Robust Border Management and the EU’s New Pact on Migration, 31 March 2021 [info]

Job announcement: Research Fellow for “E-MINDFUL: Enhancing European Migration Narrative to Develop Further Union Long-term actions” Project, Migration Policy Centre [info]
- Apply by 1 April 2021.

Lecture: Asylum in the EU and Rule of Law Backsliding, 8 April 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

A first look at the “New Plan for Immigration” (Free Movement Blog, March 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the UK. See also related comment.

First-time asylum applicants down by a third in 2020 (Eurostat, March 2021) [text]

Why Priti Patel’s plans to overhaul the asylum system make no legal sense  (The Conversation, March 2021) [text]

New open access book:

The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in Light of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees: International Experiences on Containment and Mobility and their Impacts on Trust and Rights
(European Univ. Institute, March 2021) [open access]
- "The Chapters that follow assess the new components and policy priorities laid down in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum from different multidisciplinary perspectives and world regions experiences. They explore the rights and international protection implications, enshrined both in the foundations of the UN GCR and the EU Treaties as well as policy and governance arrangements both domestically and internationally. They address the implications of these policy and governance approaches for the geopolitics of international law, paying attention to the relations that the Pact seeks to promote between states and other relevant international and regional actors, and also how its proposed policy roadmap can be expected to transform or reconfigure these relations." 

Reports: 

Asylum Statistics (UK House of Commons Library, March 2021) [text]

Country Reports (AIDA, March 2021) 
- Updated profiles available for Spain and the United Kingdom.

From the Migration Crisis to the New Pact on Migration and Asylum: The Status Quo Problem, Working Paper, no. 11 (BRIDGE Network, Feb. 2021) [text]

Inventory and Typology of EU Arrangements with Third Countries: Instruments and Actors (ASILE Project, Jan. 2021; posted March 2021) [text]
- "The working paper hones in on EU cooperation with Turkey, Serbia, Niger and Tunisia, with  particular attention afforded to arrangements since the European migrant and refugee ‘crisis’ of 2015."

Key findings and recommendations on focus group discussions on the request of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Internal Displacement (UNHCR, March 2021) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Available in English and Ukrainian See also related reports from IOM and NRC.

Latest asylum trends: January 2021 (EASO, March 2021) [access]
- See also related analysis.

Maritime Migration to Europe: Focus on the Overseas Route to the Canary Islands (IOM, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Strategy on Reception (EASO, March 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 23, no. 1 (2021) [contents]
- Special issue on "Revisiting Ruiz Zambrano: A Never Ending Story?" The editorial and three articles are open access.

"Polarization in attitudes towards refugees and migrants in the Netherlands," European Journal of Social Psychology, Accepted Articles, 16 March 2021 [open access]

"Refugee Reception Re-examined: A Quantitative Study on the Impact of the Reception Period for Mental Health and Host Country Language Proficiency Among Syrian Refugees in the Netherlands," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 28 March 2021 [open access]

"'What isn't in the files, isn't in the world': Understanding state ignorance of irregular migration in Germany and the United Kingdom," Governance, vol. 34, no. 2 (April 2021) [open access]

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