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03 September 2021

Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunities:

Call for registration: Strengthening International Protection in Europe and Thinking Ahead, Advanced ELENA Course 2021, Marseille, France, 1-2 October 2021 [info]
- Registration deadline is 5 September 2021.

Job announcement: Head of Asylum Cooperation and Guidance Unit, EASO [info]
- Apply by 20 September 2021.

Job announcement: Head of Third Country Research Unit, EASO [info]
- Apply by 27 September 2021.

Blog posts & press:

Broad increase in applications for asylum, including by Afghans (EASO, Aug. 2021) [text]

Europe turns away from asylum-seekers (The Interpreter Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Greece.

Migrant Deaths in the Mediterranean and the Failure of the European Union (RefLaw Blog, Sept. 2021) [text]

The Nationality and Borders Bill: Closing Space for Humanitarian Assistance at Sea (EJIL Talk Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Promoting migration whilst preserving the hostile environment: inequality in the UK’s implementation of the Global Compact on Migration (RLI Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

When the Facts Change: The triumph of the Taliban in Afghanistan and fresh claims to protection from refoulement (RLI Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]
- "The University of London (UoL) offers a Refugee Law Clinic that provides pro bono legal advice for refugee clients based on a model of clinical legal education for its diverse student body.  To its work I have contributed an introductory Background Paper on Fresh Claims to Protection from Refoulement.  What follows is an account of some considerations which may arise, for those considering potential fresh claims from Afghans in the United Kingdom.  

Reports & journal articles:

"Altruistic Giving Toward Refugees: Identifying Factors That Increase Citizens' Willingness to Help," Frontiers in Psychology, 9 Aug. 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Beyond here and there: (re)conceptualising migrant journeys and the ‘in-between’," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 47, no. 14 (2021) [open access]
- "This article explores the journeys of Syrians, Nigerians and Afghans drawing on empirical data gathered in Turkey, Greece and Italy during 2015."

*European Law Journal, vol. 26, nos. 3-4 (July 2020) [contents]
- Special issue on "The New Pact on Migration and Asylum: A Fresh Start?," with two sub-sections that focus respectively on "The irregular migration and asylum puzzle" and "Assessing the Blue Card reform: a matter of narrative." Three articles are open access.

"Living in a ‘free jail’: Asylum seekers' and local residents' experiences of discomfort with asylum seeker accommodation," Political Geography, vol. 91 (Nov. 2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Lost in Transition to Adulthood? Illegalized Male Migrants Navigating Temporal Dispossession," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 7 (July 2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Switzerland.

"Migration and the Rule of Law," Article collection in the European Constitutional Law Review (Aug. 2021) [access]
- Three articles are currently included, focusing on "migrating with dignity," "asylum in the EU" and "external border control techniques."

"New migrant activism: Frame alignment and future protest participation," British Journal of Politics and International Relations, OnlineFirst, 19 Aug. 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Greece.

"The Paradox of the Alien Citizen? Access, Control and Entitlements of Belgian Refugees in Birmingham during the First World War," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 1 (March 2021) [postprint]

"Postulados para la consideración europea de la crisis de refugiados del Mar Mediterráneo," Revista Latinoamericana, Estudios de la Paz y el Conflicto, vol. 2, no. 4 (2021) [open access]

"Reactions towards Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands: Associations with Right-wing Ideological Attitudes, Threat and Perceptions of Asylum Seekers as Legitimate and Economic," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 2 (June 2021) [ResearchGate]

Study on best practices in irregular migration awareness-raising campaigns (European Commission, Aug. 2021) [text]

"Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and rescue. The memory of solidarity at the Alpine border," Citizenship Studies, Latest Articles, 14 May 2021 [open access]

"'The War Made Me a Better Person': Syrian Refugees’ Meaning-Making Trajectories in the Aftermath of Collective Trauma," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 16 (Aug. 2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Portugal.

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