Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for applications: Executive Master in European Law on Migration and Asylum, Brussels/Online, 15 September 2021-15 July 2022 [info]

- Apply by 31 August 2021.

Blog posts & press:

"Belarusian Sprinter is Granted Polish Humanitarian Visa after Refusing a Flight Home," NPR, 2 Aug. 2021 [text]

Dividing Labour, Evading Responsibility: Frontex-Hellenic Coast Guard’s Modus Operandi in the Aegean (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2021) [text]

"Poland, Lithuania call for EU help with migration surge at Belarusian border," Reuters, 6 Aug. 2021 [text]

- See also related Washington Post article.

Press Statement on Denmark’s Alien Act provision to Externalize Asylum procedures to third countries (African Union, Aug. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles (asylum-related):

"The Do-Gooders’ Dilemma: Scandinavian Asylum and Migration Policies in the Aftermath of 2015," Chapter in Do-Gooders at the End of Aid: Scandinavian Humanitarianism in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, July 2021) [open access]

"EU Asylum System in and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Disclosing the Weaknesses of the Current Rules and Assessing the Prospects of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum," EU and Comparative Law Issues and Challenges Series, vol. 5 (2021) [open access]

EU Differentiation in Border, Asylum and Police Cooperation: Drivers, Effectiveness and Crisis, EUIDEA Research Paper, no. 11 (EUIDEA Project, July 2021) [text]

"The Map and the Territory: The Use of Country Information in Asylum Assessments," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 5 Aug. 2021 [open access]

- Focuses on Norway.

Re-Cording Lives: Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve (transcript Verlag, July 2021) [open access]

- "Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum."

"Waiting as probation: selecting self-disciplining asylum seekers," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 4 Aug. 2021 [open access]

- Focuses on Austria, Germany and Italy.

"When No One Answers the Call: How the Shipping Industry is Sustaining Search and Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 35, no.3 (Spring 2021) [full-text]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (30 July 2021)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (30 July 2021)