15 October 2021

Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Re-imagining migration partnerships: Challenges, opportunities and strategies, Vienna Migration Conference 2021, Hybrid, 19-20 October 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"Biden administration plans to restart Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' policy at border in mid-November," NBC News, 15 Oct. 2021 [text]

Criminalisation and Humanitarian Border Policing in the Channel (Border Criminologies Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

Denmark leading the race to the bottom: Hostility as a form of migration control (RLI Blog, Sept. 2021) [text]

The EU-Turkey deal breakdown: how securitisation narratives are reproduced through externalisation (Refugee Research Online, Oct. 2021) [text]

"Greece says migration crisis over; refugees beg to differ," The New Humanitarian, 5 Oct. 2021 [text]

"In no-man’s land," Inside Story, 1 Oct. 2021 [text]
- "The predicament of refugees at the Polish–Belarusian border evokes deportations to Poland in 1938 and a novel published in 1940."

Passion, bureaucratic violence, and the language of asylum (Refugee History Blog, Sept. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Using refugees as leverage? Greece and the instrumentalisation of the European migrant crisis (EUROPP Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

Why Europe must end limbo for Afghans seeking asylum (Chatham House Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

Reports:

Effective remedies for asylum-seekers at EU external borders: A new pact on migration and asylum (European Parliament, Oct. 2021) [text]

Egypt, the EU, and Migration: An Uncomfortable Yet Unavoidable Partnership, Report no. 18 (German Council on Foreign Relations, Sept. 2021) [text]

Enforced Misery: The Degrading Treatment of Migrant Children and Adults in Northern France (Human Rights Watch, Oct. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also French version.

The implementation of the Dublin III Regulation in 2020 (AIDA, Sept. 2021) [text]

The Right to Know: Comparative Report on Access to Classified Data in National Security Immigration Cases in Cyprus, Hungary and Poland (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Sept. 2021) [text]
- See also related Legal Template.

UNHCR legal observations on the Nationality and Borders Bill, Bill 141, 2021-22  (UNHCR, Oct. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Asylum seekers, refugees and the (slow) path to justice in Ireland," Chapter in This Hostel Life, 2nd ed. (Skein Press, 2021) [preprint]

"Comparing Liberal and Conservative Newspapers: Diverging Narratives in Representing Migrants?," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 6 Oct. 2021 [open access]

"Counter moves: Destabilizing the grand narrative of onward migration and secondary movements in Europe," International Migration, Early View, 13 Oct. 2021 [open access]

"The 'Covid excuse': EUropean border violence in the Mediterranean Sea," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 6 Oct. 2021 [open access

"The dynamics of recent refugees’ language acquisition: how do their pathways compare to those of other new immigrants?," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 12 Oct. 2021 [open access
- Focuses on Germany.

"Stories of courage in a group of asylum seekers for an inclusive and sustainable future," International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Latest Articles, 30 Sept. 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Italy.

Multimedia:

Asylum and politics after COVID-19: is the UK ‘New Plan for Immigration’ an outlier?, 6 Oct. 2021 [access]

Fair and transparent recognition of refugees qualifications towards successful participation in higher education and labour market, 29 Sept. 2021 [access]

Poland/Belarus Border: A protection crisis (Amnesty International) [access]
- A reconstruction of a "suspected illegal pushback of group of 32 Afghan people in August using photogrammetry and spatial modelling techniques."

Talking Migration Podcast Series [access]
- Check out the recent podcasts that focus on Europe, including one on the externalization of asylum in Denmark and another on the UK's new immigration plan.

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