26 April 2023

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

"An assault on asylum? Experts raise alarm," Al Jazeera, 11 April 2023 [text]

Exploring freedom of movement in the context of forced return to transit countries (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, April 2023) [text]

Give Refugees Access to the Agreements That Govern Them (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Asylum Application Processes (Law Library of the Library of Congress, June 2022) [text]
- "This report surveys the asylum application processes, in particular processes involved in determining whether an asylum seeker is in need of international protection, in nine selected jurisdictions, namely, Canada, Germany, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom (UK), and the European Union (EU)." See also related blog post.

"Cultural Expertise and Asylum and Refugee Laws," Chapter in Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights (Routledge, 2023) [open access]

Data Driven Futures of International Refugee Law, MOBILE Working Paper, no. 1 (Univ. of Copenhagen, 2023) [text]

"Decision Making in Asylum Law and Machine Learning: Autoethnographic Lessons Learned on Data Wrangling and Human Discretion," Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 92, no. 1 (April 2023) [open access]
- Note: This is included in a special issue on "Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making and International Law."

"Exit Rights, Seamless Borders and the New Carceral State," International Migration (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Humanitarian Assistance under International Law: Guidance on the legal framework regulating the delivery of humanitarian assistance to earthquake-affected areas in Syria (Diakonia International Humanitarian Law Centre, April 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Internally Displaced Persons: Ordeals and Analyses of the Possible Regimes of Legal Protection Frameworks," St. Mary's Law Journal, vol. 54, no. 2 (2023) [full-text]
- "This Article compares the IDP legal regimes in Africa—the Nigerian Draft National Policy on IDPs and The Kenyan IDP statute."

"Missing the Global Turn: Italy, the 1951 Refugee Convention, and the Belated Removal of the Geographical Limitation," European History Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 2 (2023) [postprint]

"Nationality Status Determination in Asylum Procedures under the CEAS and the Potential Impact of the ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 26 April 2023 [open access]

"Non-Refoulement during a Pandemic – with a Contextual Analysis of Border Closures Imposed by the EU, the US and India," ILI Law Review (Summer 2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Externalisation and Outsourcing of Asylum Law, 31 March 2023 [access]

US and UK to asylum-seekers: Apply elsewhere, 24 March 2023 [access]

Resource:

Migrant Rights Database (Migrant Rights Initiative) [access]
- "Evaluates how countries protect and implement 17 categories of rights according to 65 standardized indicators, based on the Initiative’s International Migrants Bill of Rights (IMBR)." See also this news release.

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