10 March 2023

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

"After a year of war, millions of displaced still search for safety within Ukraine," The New Humanitarian, 7 March 2023 [text]

Border Control as Politics (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2023) [text]

"Forty-three times the Conservatives tried (and failed) to tackle Channel crossings," The Guardian, 7 March 2023 [text]

Illegal Migration Bill to be published tomorrow will propose to automatically make asylum claims by Channel crossers inadmissible (EIN, March 2023) [text]
- See analyses of the bill's contents on Free Movement and Border Criminologies; see also UNHCR UK's statement noting that if passed, the bill would amount to a ban on asylum which "would be a clear breach of the Refugee Convention." More commentary is available via The Conversation here, here and here. This EIN post provides access to additional documentation and reactions to the bill.

The Normalization of Denial of Legal Safeguards in the proposed Asylum and Migration Legislation (European Law Blog, March 2023) [text]

Russia’s Forcible Transfers of Ukrainian Civilians: How Civil Society Aids Accountability and Justice (Just Security Blog, March 2023) [text]

Twenty years of Franco-British border agreements (Free Movement Blog, Feb. 2023) [text]

*What happens next? Scenarios following the end of the temporary protection in the EU (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, March 2023) [text]

Which refugees are welcome? How ‘hard’ legal status and ‘soft’ notions of belonging shape the reception of displaced populations (Refugee History Blog, March 2023) [text]

**For even more news, check out ECRE's Weekly Bulletin.

New open access book:

EU Responses to the Large-scale Refugee Displacement from Ukraine: An Analysis on the Temporary Protection Directive and its Implications for the Future EU Asylum Policy
(European University Institute, Feb. 2023) [open access]
- "This Book examines the European Union’s policy responses to large-scale displacement of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine and the activation and implementation of the Temporary Protection Directive from interdisciplinary perspectives. The activation of the EU’s Temporary Protection Directive for the first time in European history to receive nearly 5 million people fleeing the war Ukraine begs the following question: Does it represent a new era or a turning-point in EU asylum policy?"

Reports:

Judicial analysis on evidence and credibility in the context of the Common European Asylum System (EUAA, Feb. 2023) [text]

Migration Outlook Report 2023 (ICMPD, Jan. 2023) [access]

Minding the Gaps: Towards an Equal and Coherent Assessment of Asylum Seekers Vulnerabilities, VULNER Policy Brief, no. 2: Belgium (VULNER Project, Feb. 2023) [text]

Practical Guide on Information Provision: Access to the asylum procedure (EUAA, Feb. 2023) [text]

Providing Temporary Protection to Displaced Persons from Ukraine: A Year in Review (EUAA, March 2023) [text]
- See also related publication from the European Parliament.

Safeguarding the rights of the ‘vulnerable’ asylum seekers in Norway: A Need to Strengthen the Procedural Guarantees, VULNER Policy Brief, no. 2: Norway (VULNER Project, Feb. 2023) [text]

Towards a reception system that recognizes, addresses and reduces the situations of vulnerability of asylum seekers and refugees in Italy, VULNER Policy Brief: Italy (VULNER Project, Feb. 2023) [text]

*UPDATED

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