Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Note: The latest round-up of coverage relating to the invasion of Ukraine is available here.

News/commentary: UK-Rwanda deal:

The Border is a Colonial Wound: The Rwanda Deal and State Trafficking in People (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2022) [text]

Is it legal to outsource the UK’s refugee responsibilities to Rwanda? (Free Movement Blog, April 2022) [text]

Outsourcing asylum seekers: the case of Rwanda and the UK (The Conversation, April 2022) [text]

"Rwanda asylum plan: How many migrants cross the Channel?," BBC, 15 April 2022 [text]

"UK announces controversial plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda," CNN, 14 April 2022 [text]

"UK Rwanda plan for asylum seekers decried as inhumane, expensive and deadly," The Guardian, 14 April 2022 [text]

UN Refugee Agency opposes UK plan to export asylum (UNHCR, April 2022) [text]

Blog posts & press:

Criminalisation at Europe’s borders: Uncovering the risks faced by those who support asylum seekers (EUROPP Blog, April 2022) [text]

The Danish Bill L-226: Offshoring Asylum, Outsourcing Hope (McGill Journal of Political Studies, April 2022) [text]

Poland/Belarus: New evidence of abuses highlights ‘hypocrisy’ of unequal treatment of asylum-seekers (Amnesty International, April 2022) [text]

Pushbacks in Greece: State Crime, Denial and the Struggle Against Impunity (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2022) [text]

Six Years Since Europe’s Deal with Turkey (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2022) [text]

Temporary Protection: Poland and Hungary Once Again Creating Their Own Rules in Breach of EU Law (Opinio Juris, April 2022) [text]

Which solutions for displaced people? Insights from a multi-stakeholder community consultation in the city of Cuneo, in the Piedmont region (Italy) (TRAFIG Blog, April 2022) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (9 April 2022)