23 November 2021

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Seminar: Moving the goalposts (yet again): access to justice in the UK asylum system, 8 December 2021 [info]

Belarus-Poland border situation: 

This Global Citizen post provides an explainer and ECRE's latest Weekly Bulletin includes an update. See also the following commentary and analysis for more information:

"Belarus-Poland crisis: Human rights of trapped migrants ‘paramount’," UN News, 12 Nov. 2021 [text]

Poland’s Power Play at its Borders Violates Fundamental Human Rights Law  (EJIL Talk Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Stirring Trouble at the Border: Is Belarus in Violation of International Law? (Just Security, Nov. 2021) [Part 1] [Part 2]
- See also related response.

Trouble on the Belarus-Poland border: What you need to know about the migrant crisis manufactured by Belarus’ leader (The Conversation, Nov. 2021) [text]

Walling off Responsibility? The Pushbacks at the EU’s External Borders with Belarus (ASILE Project, Nov. 2021) [text]

Weaponising Migrants: Belarusian Blackmail and Multilateralism, RSIS Commentary, no. CO21170 (Nanyang Tech. Univ., Nov. 2021) [text]

Blog posts & press:

Denmark’s Legislation on Extraterritorial Asylum in Light of International and EU Law (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Externalising integration: The legal pathways to protection (NCHS Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

From “bogus” asylum seekers to “genuine” refugees; shifting discourses and attitudes towards Afghan migrants (COMPAS Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

"Home Office ‘covering up’ its own study of why refugees come to the UK," The Guardian, 20 Nov. 2021 [text]

Mutual Trust and Fundamental Rights in the Dublin System: A Role for Proportionality? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Refugees in the media: how the most commonly used images make viewers dehumanise them (The Conversation, Nov. 2021) [text]

Relocating asylum seekers or paying someone else to do it for you? What citizens have to say (PROTECT Project Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

An analysis of Channel crossings & asylum outcomes (Refugee Council UK, Nov. 2021) [text]

Data Practices: Making Up a European People (Goldsmiths Press, ) [free full-text]
- See esp. Chapter 4, "Refugees and Homeless People: Coordinating and Narrating" and Chapter 5, "Migrants: Omitting and Recalibrating."

Inspection Report Published: An inspection of asylum casework (Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, Nov. 2021) [text]

Introducing the European Union agency for asylum (European Parliament, Oct. 2021) [text]

Resource:

France-UK Border Research [access]
- “A library of research and primary sources regarding the situation for displaced people at the France-UK border.” This Twitter thread provides a guide to the site.

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