15 January 2022

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Deconstructing Border Walls in the EU (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

EU and UNHCR raise alarm over pushback methods in Poland, Latvia and Lithuania (InfoMigrants, Jan. 2022) [text]

The EU must not become a lawless zone – appeal of European academics (EU Law Analysis, Jan. 2022) [text]

"How Denmark’s hard line on Syrian refugees is an aid group’s ethical dilemma," The New Humanitarian, 11 Jan. 2022 [text]

"How sports help refugees survive harsh conditions in Greece," The New Humanitarian, 10 Jan. 2022 [text]

Rights of the Defence Non-Existent for Migrants when National Security is Involved? (RLI Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Cyprus, Hungary and Poland.

"UK Borders Bill increases risks of discrimination, human rights violations," UN News, 14 Jan. 2022 [text]

*The UK government is looking to profit from closing borders to asylum seekers (openDemocracy, Dec. 2021) [text]

New books:

Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union
(Univ. of Michigan Press, Jan. 2022) [open access]
- This book "explores the politics of migration in the European Union and explains how the EU responded to the 2015–17 refugee crisis. Based on 86 interviews and fieldwork in Greece and Italy, Nicholas R. Micinski proposes a new theory of international cooperation on international migration. States approach migration policies in many ways—such as coordination, collaboration, subcontracting, and unilateralism—but which policy they choose is based on capacity and on credible partners on the ground. Micinski traces the fifty-year evolution of EU migration management, like border security and asylum policies, and shows how EU officials used “crises” as political leverage to further Europeanize migration governance."

Deployment and Distress: Legal Issues Confronting Danish Navy Vessels in Connection with Search and Rescue of Migrant Boats in the Mediterranean (Djøf Forlag, Jan. 2022) [full-text]
- "The present report offers an integrated analysis of the relevant international legal obligations which implicate Danish naval forces in SAR operations in the Mediterranean. Beyond the political context, it argues that the current situation is a result of gaps and shortcomings in the existing international legal SAR framework, attenuated by the growing politicisation of the issue of boat migrants in the Mediterranean."

Multimedia:

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

The Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure, 13 Dec. 2021 [access]
- Focuses on Italy.

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