Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunity:

Request for participation: 2023 Global Refugee Forum Legal Community Pledge [info]

- "The 2023 GRF Legal Community Pledge is a multi-stakeholder pledging initiative that aims to unite the legal community around a shared goal of working with refugees and other forcibly displaced people to advance their access to rights, justice and lasting solutions to their displacement."

Short pieces:

Border Dialectics: Progress, Regress, and Resistance (Völkerrechtsblog, Sept. 2023) [text]

Secretary-General Appoints Ruvendrini Menikdiwela of Sri Lanka Assistant High Commissioner, Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UN, Nov. 2023) [text]

Reports:

Asylum Governance Instruments in Canada, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey: Status Determination, Structural Vulnerability and the Right to Work (CEPS, Oct. 2023) [text]

IML Information Note on the Principle of Non-refoulement (IOM, updated Oct. 2023) [text]

Memo on international law and the rules governing the expulsion of non-citizens (Kaldor Centre, Oct. 2023) [text]

- This memo "sets out the international law relevant to the upcoming landmark High Court challenge to the Australian government’s power to hold people in immigration detention indefinitely."

Journal articles:

"Les droits des demandeurs d’asile pendant l’état d’urgence sanitaire: Bilan et perspective pour la réforme à venir de l’asile," Lettres Actualités Droits-Libertés, 25 Sept. 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on France.

"Empirical Consequences of Normative Inadequacies: The Principle of Temporary Refuge and Protection Gaps,"  Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 11 Oct. 2023 [open access]

"'Safe Legal Pathways' or New Colonial Frontiers? A Critical Analysis of European Intervention in the Sahel and the Creation of Anomalous Legal Zones," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 6 Nov. 2023 [open access]

"The Spirit of the Convention and the Letter of the Colony: Refugees Defining States in a British Overseas Territory," International Political Sociology, vol. 17, no. 4 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

"Temporary Protection in the European Union and the United States: Same Words, Vastly Different Meanings," Journal of Law and Public Affairs (Forthcoming) [preprint]

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