Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Disastrous Clamp Down on Migrants Rights in Italy (Human Rights Watch, May 2023) [text]

Joint Statement: Extend the Current Temporary Protection Regime for Displacement from Ukraine until 2025 (ECRE et al., May 2023) [text]

The Migration Managers: How a little-known organization far from public scrutiny is helping to shape Europe's migration policy (FragDenStaat, May 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the ICMPD.

The Special Treatment of Developing Countries:  The EU Legislator’s Migration Controversy (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, May 2023) [text]

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New open access book:

Regularisations of Irregularly Staying Migrants in the EU: A Comparative Legal Analysis of Austria, Germany and Spain (Nomos/Hart, May 2023) [open access]

- This book "compares the system of regularisations in Austria, Germany and Spain. Regularisations constitute an effective alternative to returns because they terminate the irregular residence of migrants, not through deportation, but rather by granting a right of residence. Regularisation is therefore understood as each legal decision that awards legal residency to irregularly staying migrants. As is shown by the examination and comparison of regularisations in Austria, Germany and Spain, differentiated systems of regularisation exist at national level. However, EU regularisations supplementing the present return policy would be more effective at 'combating' irregular migration at EU level."

Reports:

Being Hungry in Europe: An Analysis of the Food Insecurity Experienced by Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Migrants, and Undocumented People in Greece (INTERSOS, HIAS & Greek Council for Refugees, May 2023) [text]

Country Reports (AIDA, May 2023)

- Updated profiles are available for Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Slovenia.

Demographic and household composition of refugee and internally displaced Ukraine populations: Findings from an online survey, Migration Research Series Paper, no. 74 (IOM, May 2023) [text]

Reporting on Refugees 2023: Guidance by and for Journalists (UNHCR, May 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Ireland.

Resurrecting taboo policies? Explaining collective regularisations for unauthorised immigrants during the Covid-19 pandemic in Southern Europe, Working Paper, no. RSC 2023/31 (European Univ. Institute, 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Greece, Italy and Portugal.

Ukraine Response and Red Cross views on the implementation of the TPD (Red Cross EU & Ukrainian Red Cross Society, May 2023) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (10 May 2023)