09 March 2022

Regional Focus: Europe

Note: Coverage relating to the invasion of Ukraine is provided in separate posts here and here.

Blog posts & press:

Briefing: the (sorry) state of the UK asylum system (Free Movement Blog, March 2022) [text]

Echoes of the Past in Europe's Two-Tier Approach to Refugees (Refugee Research Online, March 2022) [text]

Everyday Violence and Resistance in Europe’s ‘Migration Management’ during the Covid-19 Pandemic (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb.-March 2022) [access]
- Blog series "dedicated to ten unique research and practice-inspired blog posts exploring everyday violence and resistance at Europe’s borders." Check the "see also" menu on the right for posts.

Frontex leaders concealed pushbacks, watchdog reports (InfoMigrants, March 2022) [text]

The Legal Obligation to Recognize Russian Deserters as Refugees (Just Security Blog, March 2022) [text]

Post-Pandemic Cooperation between Africa and Europe: Five Ways to Improve the Partnership on Migration and Mobility (African Arguments, March 2022) [text]

New open access books/book chapters:

Coping with Migrants and Refugees: Multilevel Governance across the EU (Routledge, March 2022) [info]
- "This book provides a comparative overview of asylum seekers’ reception throughout Europe by adopting a theoretical framework based on an analytical approach to the notion of multilevel governance (MLG)." Five chapters are open access; follow the link above or this OAPEN link (scroll to the bottom of the page) to access them.

Identifying Security Logics in the EU Policy Discourse: The "Migration Crisis" and the EU (Springer, Feb. 2022) [open access]
- This volume "investigates the complexity and the modalities of securitization of migration and border control at the EU level. It discusses and compares how different EU institutions and agencies have been deploying different logics of security, e.g. humanitarianism or management of risk, while framing increased migratory flows and so called migration crisis as a security problem."

Reforming the Common European Asylum System: Opportunities, Pitfalls, and Downsides of the Commission Proposals for a New Pact on Migration and Asylum (Nomos, 2022) [open access]
- "Timely and profound collection of high-quality contributions, written by experts from across Europe, on the ongoing policy debate on the reform of Common European Asylum System. ...The edited volume allows readers to understand the complex rules and to identify overarching challenges defining European asylum policy at this juncture."

"The solidarity constitution in the EU: refugees and asylum as litmus test," Chapter in Law, Solidarity and the Limits of Social Europe: Constitutional Tensions for EU Integration (Edward Elgar, 2022) [open access]

Journal articles:

"The Albanian Migration to Greece and the Refugee Crisis of 2015 from the Greek Perspective," Studia Europejskie = Studies in European Affairs, vol. 25, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

"Before the Convention: The Spanish Civil War and Challenges for Research on Refugee History," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 25 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"Explaining attitudes toward refugees and immigrants in Europe," Political Studies, vol. 70, no. 1 (2022) [postprint]

Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 91, no. 1 (Feb. 2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "Nordic Visions of International Migration and Refugee Law." The introduction and two articles are freely available.

"Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos," BJPsych International, First View, 4 March 2022 [open access]

*"Transnational welfare within and beyond the nation-state: civil society responses to the migration crisis in Greece," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

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