Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (Indiv. countries)

Short pieces on the UK:

Introducing the blog series ‘UK Borderscapes: sites of resistance and enforcement’ (Border Criminologies, July 2023) [text]

It could cost the taxpayer £169,000 to deport each migrant to Rwanda – and possibly even more (The Conversation, July 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

News Comment: UNHCR welcomes UK Court of Appeal judgment on transfer of asylum-seekers from the UK to Rwanda (UNHCR, June 2023) [text]

- See also two related blog posts on Border Criminologies, here and here.

A short history of refugees coming to Britain: from Huguenots to Ukrainians (Free Movement Blog, June 2023) [text]

UK asylum policy: How did we get here? (RLI Blog, July 2023) [text]

**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.

Reports & journal articles:

"The Colonised Self: The Politics of UK Asylum Practices, and the Embodiment of Colonial Power in Lived Experience," Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 7 (June 2023) [open access]

Country Report: Croatia (AIDA, updated June 2023) [text]

"European Refugee Crisis or European Migration Crisis? How Words Matter in the News Framing (2015–2020) of Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Migrants," Journalism and Media, vol. 4, no. 3 (June 2023) [open access]

- Focuses on Belgium.

"From loss to involuntary liquidity: refugees’ relationships to possessions," Consumption Markets & Culture, Latest Articles, 20 June 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

"Suspicious compassion: On affect and state power in the Dutch asylum procedure," Ethnography, OnlineFirst, 30 June 2023 [open access]

"'They must be escorted back nicely': Disclaimed responsibility and renewed plans for externalising asylum in Denmark and the United Kingdom," Chapter in Danish Foreign Policy Review 2023 (Danish Institute of International Studies, June 2023) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 83. 

"'This is what it is like to be church': the Church of Sweden’s conditions for work with newly arrived refugees," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 26 June 2023 [open access]

"When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 2 (June 2023) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (General + Ukrainians)