10 November 2021

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Webinar: The EU Pact on Migration: A New Framework for Predicting and Anticipating ‘Crises’?, 16 November 2021 [info]

Call for registration: ECRE Annual General Conference 2021, Brussels, 8-9 December 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Breaking (Into) Fortress Europe: Are Bottom-Up Migration Policies Still Possible? (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Europe’s weak protections for refugees leave Central Asian dissidents at extreme risk (openDemocracy, Nov. 2021) [text]

The forest for the trees: trouble at the Poland-Belarus border (The Interpreter Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]
- See also related post on The Conversation and Lawfare blog post.

"How better migration management is reducing xenophobia in the Canary Islands," The New Humanitarian, 4 Nov. 2021 [text]

Living in Limbo: The Impact of Greece’s Safe Third Country Policy on Afghan Asylum Seekers (Just Security Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Migration Diplomacy in Ceuta: How a 45-Year-Old Conflict Can Hamper EU Border Management (Border Criminologies Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

Safe Passage for Afghans? The EU’s response towards Afghans at risk in light of the Global Compacts (Protect Project Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

UNHCR and IOM Call for immediate de-escalation at the Belarus-Poland border (Nov. 2021) [text]

Will the Taliban takeover trigger a new refugee crisis for Europe? (Development Aid, Oct. 2021) [text]

**For more news & developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.

Books & book chapters:

The EU and Crisis Response
(Manchester Univ. Press, Nov. 2021) [open access]
- "This is a start-of-the-art consideration of the European Union’s crisis response mechanisms. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to examine how and why the EU responds to crises on its borders and further afield. The work is based on extensive fieldwork in among another places, Afghanistan, Libya, Mali and Iraq." Chapter 8 focuses particularly on the "migration" crisis.

"Fences and fictions: lessons from schemes of responsibility-sharing for refugees in Europe," Chapter in The Protection of General Interests in Contemporary International Law: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry (Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2021) [preprint]

Stuck and Exploited: Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles (Edizioni Ca'Foscari, 2021) [open access]
- "This volume analyses exclusion processes, segregation dynamics and the forms of discrimination of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy, where the reception system is marked by opaqueness and arbitrariness and is becoming increasingly similar to the model of 'camps'. The numerous vibrant contributions present a fully-fledged system of inferiorization, characterised by labour exploitation, housing discomfort, meagre rights and control strategies, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to a sharp worsening of the health, work, housing and administrative conditions. A framework that has found opposition in the daily resistance and in the struggles of asylum seekers."

Reports: 

Detection of vulnerabilities in the international protection procedure (European Migration Network, Oct. 2021) [text via Statewatch]

*Heading into a wall: the EU response to the migration crisis at the Belarus border (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2021) [text]

How Will We Survive? Steps to preventing destitution in the asylum system (British Red Cross and Refugee Survival Trust, Oct. 2021) [text]

Public narratives and attitudes towards refugees and other migrants: UK country profile (ODI, Oct. 2021) [text]

Relocation from Greece: Lessons learned and looking ahead (Terre des hommes et al., Nov. 2021) [text]

A Seamless Link? ECRE's Analysis of Human Rights Risks and Broader Implications Linking Asylum and Return Procedures, Policy Note, no. 38 (ECRE, Nov. 2021) [text]

VULNER Project: Vulnerabilities Under the Global Protection Regime [access]
- "The concept of 'vulnerability' is increasingly used as a tool that allows decision-makers to identify migrants in need of special assistance and protection... . Yet, there is no solid understanding of the concrete meanings, practical consequences, and legal implications of 'vulnerability'. ...In response to this research gap, the VULNER project aims to produce scientific data and analysis to support evidence-based policy-making... ." The European countries included in the analysis are Belgium, Germany, Italy & Norway. Check out the project's research reports and policy briefs for more info.

*UPDATED

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