05 January 2023

Regional Focus: Europe

Blog posts & press:

*Diplomatic Ties, Financial Incentives and a Narrowing of International Legal Obligations: A Reading of the UK High Court’s Decision on the ‘Rwanda Policy’ (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2022) [text]

*Greece: Migrant Rescue Trial to Begin (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2022) [text]

Italy introduces new rules for NGO sea rescues (InfoMigrants, Dec. 2022) [text]

The Legal Duty of the EU to Criminalise Failure to Rescue at Sea (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Dec. 2022) [text]

The misguided allure of deterrence policy (Free Movement Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]

"UK's Rwanda asylum seeker deportation plan is lawful, court rules," Reuters, 19 Dec. 2022 [text]
- See also related comments from UNHCR UK and Amnesty International UK.

"UN human rights chief says UK should rethink plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda," The Guardian, 21 Dec. 2022 [text]

Open access book:

Migrants and Welfare States: Balancing Dilemmas in Northern Europe, Edward Elgar, Oct. 2022 [open access]
- This book "explores how Northern European countries have sought to balance their welfare states with increased levels of migration from low-income countries outside the EU. Using case studies of the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, leading scholars analyse the varying approaches to this so-called ‘progressive dilemma’."

Reports & journal articles:

Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto = Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 6 (2022) [open access]
- Special issue on "The EU Migration, Border Management and Asylum Reform in the Aftermath of the 'Refugee Crisis': Towards an Effective Enforcement."

"Departing or Being Deported? Poland’s Approach towards Humanitarian Migrants," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 24 Dec. 2022 [open access]

"National Identity and Migration Policy Dynamics: Analysing the Effect of Swedish National Identity on Its Granting Asylum Policy to Syrian Refugees in 2013," Hasanuddin Journal of Strategic and International Studies, vol. 1, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Pour une redéfinition de la notion de 'retour': Le cas des diasporas congolaise et rwandaise de Belgique," African Diaspora, vol. 14, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

Public narratives and attitudes towards refugees and other migrants: Denmark country profile (ODI, Dec. 2022) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and Danish. See also related ODI blog post.

Vetting and registration of volunteers and volunteer organisations supporting the Ukraine refugee response (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

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