28 September 2021

Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunities:

Seminar series: Asylum after Covid-19: The UK 'New Plan for Immigration' in a Global Context, 12th International Refugee Law Seminar Series [info]
- The first seminar will be held on 6 October 2021.

CFP: Migration Working Group [info]
- Contributions sought from researchers to be presented at monthly seminars. Proposal deadline is 15 October 2021.

Call for registration: Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU: Theoretical, Interdisciplinary, and Practical Perspectives, 22 October 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Asylum applications by Afghans approaching those by Syrians (EASO, Sept. 2021) [text]

The camp and the city: Insights from a multi-stakeholder community consultation in the port of Lavrio in Attica (Greece) (TRAFIG Blog, Sept. 2021) [text]

Inside new refugee camp like a ‘prison’: Greece and other countries prioritize surveillance over human rights (The Conversation, Sept. 2021) [text]

Turning back migrant boats: what does the international law of the sea say? (The Conversation, Sept. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the UK. See also related news article.

UNHCR: UK asylum bill would break international law, damaging refugees and global co-operation (UNHCR, Sept. 2021) [text]

UNHCR and IOM shocked and dismayed by deaths near Belarus-Poland border (UNHCR, Sept. 2021) [text]
- See also related post on openDemocracy.

New open access book:

Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe: Debating solidarity across borders (Routledge, April 2021) [open access]

Journal articles:

"Breaking the legal link but not the law? The externalization of EU migration control through orchestration in the Central Mediterranean," Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 28, no. 6 (2021) [open access]

Crisis Magazine: Revisiting Europe’s 'Migration Crisis' [access]
- This new publication "critically examines the causes and wider implications of migration to Europe by giving voice to informed analytical perspectives. These not only cover European politics and migrants’ lives in Europe, but also connect to the contexts from which they have migrated. We seek to spark debate and inform thinking among left-oriented progressives who are invested in the connection between ideas and grass-roots action." Two issues have been published so far.

"Guilt by association? The criminalisation of sea rescue NGOs in Italian media," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 23 June 2021 [open access]

"Refugees or Illegal Immigrants: The Problem of the Group in Refugee Protection," Global Studies Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 3 (Sept. 2021) [open access]
- Examines "the case of Jewish refugees in Cyprus between 1946 and 1948."

"The Refugees We Are: Solidarity, Asylum, and Critique in the European Constitutional Imagination," German Law Journal, vol. 22. no. 4 (2021) [open access]

"Vietnamese refugees in Britain: Language, translation, and the politics of protection in camp life and beyond," Interpreting and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

The European Union’s response to the refugee situation in Afghanistan, 17 Sept. 2021 [access]

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