20 December 2021

Regional Focus: Europe

Blog posts & press:

Afghan Refugees: Asylum Restrictionism and Future of Non-refoulement in Europe (RLI Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]

Asylum by numbers: UK policies on granting refugee status rely too much on statistics (Free Movement Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]

EU solidarity with Poland on migration: a violent response to an imagined threat (The Conversation, Dec. 2021) [text]

Germany as a ‘Modern Country of Immigration‘. Projects of the New Government on Migration (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]

Launching NORCOM, the Norwegian Dissemination and Communication Network of PROTECT (PROTECT Project, Dec. 2021) [text]

Migration: Latest challenges [What Think Tanks are thinking] (EPRS, Dec. 2021) [text]

UK Set to Renege on Fundamental Protections for Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2021) [text]

See also much more on the latest developments in ECRE's Weekly Bulletins.

New OA Book:

RESPONDing to Migration: A Holistic Perspective on Migration Governance
(Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021) [open access]
- "This volume takes up the challenge of providing a comparative understanding of migration regimes and practices and their consequences for ­political systems and the people who have fled their homelands due to conflict, war and poverty between 2011 and 2020. Empirically, the chapters included in this volume are based on an impressive amount of empirical material gathered in 11 countries (Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Germany, the UK and Sweden) within the framework of the Horizon 2020 project, RESPOND."

Reports: 

Afghans seeking protection in Europe: ECRE's compilation of information on evacuations, pathways to protection and access to asylum in Europe for Afghans since August 2021 (ECRE, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related stories of Afghans in Greece and Italy.

Asylum policy preferences among the European publics: conflict configurations at the transnational and domestic level, Working Paper, no. RSC 2021/93 (Migration Policy Centre, 2021) [text]

Figurations of Displacement in Southern Europe: Empirical findings and reflections on protracted displacement and translocal networks of forced migrants in Greece and Italy, Working Paper, no. 9 (TRAFIG, Dec. 2021) [text]

Issue brief: promising practices from working with refugee-led organizations in Europe (UNHCR, Sept. 2021) [text]

Overview of Status Quo Regarding Evacuations, Pathways to Protection and Access to Asylum for Afghans in Europe (ECRE, Dec. 2021) [text]

Periodical articles:

"Arctic Asylum: The Legal Regulation of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Greenland and Svalbard," Nordic Journal of International Law (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Implementation, Impact and Consequences in the Euro-Mediterranean Context," IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2021 [full-text]

"'In the First Place, We Don’t Like to Be Called "Refugees"': Dilemmas of Representation and Transversal Politics in the Participatory Art Project 100% FOREIGN?," Humanities, vol. 10, no. 4 (Dec. 2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Denmark.

"The Instrumentalization of Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Area: Between Past and Present," IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2021 [full-text]

"Ireland's White Paper to End Direct Provision (2021): Migrant Accommodation and Control," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 13 Dec. 2021 [open access]

"Mission Impossible? The Moral Discomfort among Swedish and Norwegian Welfare Bureaucrats Encountering Refugees," Nordic Welfare Research, vol. 6, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

"My values, their values: how value conceptualisations influence attitudes towards immigration," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 14 Dec. 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Austria.

"Resilience in care organisations: challenges in maintaining support for vulnerable people in Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic," Disasters, Early View, 7 Dec. 2021 [open access]

"Return sponsorship in the EU asylum system: a normative assessment," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 23, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

"Theorizing the Life and Death of Moments of Openness toward Refugees in the Global North: The Case of Germany during the 2015–2016 Refugee 'Crisis'," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 6 Dec. 2021 [open access]

Multimedia:

Why are Kurdish people risking their lives to seek asylum?, 6 Dec. 2021 [access]

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