20 August 2021

Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunities:

Job announcement: National Expert in Germany, Asylum Information Database (AIDA) [info]
- Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Job announcement: Research and Project Assistant, Odysseus Academic Network [info]
- Apply by 31 August 2021.

Call for applications: Training Seminar on EU advocacy, Brussels, 4-5 November 2021 [info]
- Apply by 19 September 2021.

Blog posts & press:

70th Anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention in the Wake of Pushbacks and Border Violence (Protect Project Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

"As migration is rising, so are border barriers," DW, 13 Aug. 2021 [text]

Conference on the Future of Europe: Migration (EPRS, Aug. 2021) [text]

The E.U. is furious that Belarus allowed more than 4,000 migrants to cross into Europe (Monkey Cage, Aug. 2021) [text]

The first steps of Frontex accountability: Implications for its Legal Responsibility for Fundamental Rights Violations (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

More Power, Less Accountability: The Need for Reform of Frontex Procedures on the Treatment of Asylum-Seekers (RefLaw Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

UK government rejected more than 32,000 Afghan asylum seekers (openDemocracy, Aug. 2021) [text]
- Note: As of 2001.

Reports & journal articles:

"All quiet on the ‘Eastern front’? Controlling transit migration in Latvia and Lithuania," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 47, no. 1 (2021) [postprint]

The EU and Offshore Asylum Processing: Why Looking to Australia Is Not a Way Forward (PRIO, Aug. 2021) [text]

Housing for IDPs in Ukraine: steps towards durable solutions (Norwegian Refugee Council, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

"How Transnationally Effective are the UK Migration Policies in Relation to Missing Migrants?," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 54, no. 2 (2021) [full-text]

"Politics of adjustment: rural mayors and the accommodation of refugees," Territory, Politics, Governance, Latest Articles, 18 Aug. 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Austria, France, Germany and Italy.

Responses to long-term irregularly staying migrants: practices and challenges in the EU and Norway (European Migration Network, July 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report, Flash and Inform.

[UNHCR Regional Dialogues with NGOs]
- Here are the minutes from various virtual consultations between UNHCR and NGOs that took place between July 2020 and May 2021: 6 July 202024 Nov. 20208 Dec. 2020; 18 Feb. 2021; 27 May 2021.

"Urban planners as boundary spanners: Steering perceptions of asylum seeker accommodations in Germany," Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, OnlineFirst, 9 Aug. 2021 [open access]

"Welcoming immigrants in Istanbul: Gendering faith-based and professionalised hospitality," Journal of Sociology, vol. 57, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

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