01 December 2023

Regional Focus: Europe

Commentary & analysis re. the recent UK Supreme Court decision on the UK-Rwanda policy and the government's next steps:

AAA and Others (2023-4): Judging Rwanda (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]
- The Good Faith Dilemma: Analysis of Rishi Sunak’s Asylum Plan to Rwanda (RLI Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]
- The Human Impact of the Illegal Migration Act and the Rwanda Plan (UK Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [access] (follow link for research report, two related briefings and press release)
- Panel discussion: Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) - Panel 1: International Refugee Law and Safe Third Countries, Online, 22 November 2023 [access]
- The Supreme Court rules the UK-Rwanda policy unlawful (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]
- Supreme Judgecraft: Non-Refoulement and the end of the UK-Rwanda ‘deal’? (Verfassungsblog, Nov. 2023) [text]
- UK’s failed asylum deportation plan puts Rwanda’s human rights and refugee struggles in the spotlight (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]

Short pieces:

Enforcing Migration Control on Mountains (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

How a small organisation can influence EU migration policies: lessons for the research-policy nexus (MPC Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Latest on migration [What Think Tanks are thinking] (EPRS, Nov. 2023) [access]

Refugees unwelcome: Increasing surveillance and repression of asylum seekers in the “new Moria” refugee camp on Lesvos (NCHS Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Top EU court makes it easier to deport refugees to other EU states (InfoMigrants, Dec. 2023) [text]

UNHCR urges Finland to protect the right to seek asylum (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

Reports:

Bridging the Gap: Migration Policies and People’s Policy Perspectives in Balti and Cahul (Republic of Moldova) (IOM, Nov. 2023) [text]

Migrant and refugee movements through the Central Mediterranean sea: Joint Annual Overview 2022 (IOM & UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

"No one came to our rescue”: The new normal of EU migration policies in the Central Mediterranean (Médecins Sans Frontières, Nov. 2023) [text]

Residence permits and travel documents for third-country nationals in the context of asylum (EUAA, Nov. 2023) [text]

Streamlining the Asylum Process: An Evaluation of Recent Reforms (Univ. of Nottingham, Oct. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Journal articles:

"An Analysis of Greece's Potential Violations of the Refugee Convention and the Rome Statute in its Treatment of Refugees," UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, vol. 27, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]

"Emotions, perceived threat, prejudice, and attitudes towards helping Ukrainian, Syrian, and Somali asylum seekers," PLoS ONE 18(9): e0290335 (Sept. 2023) [open access]

"Governing through bureaucratically imposed waiting: on stuckedness among asylum seekers and refugees waiting for residence permits in Sweden," European Journal of Social Work, Latest Articles, 16 Nov. 2023 [open access]

"The Italy-Libya Memorandum: stripping away the right of asylum in the Italian legal system," UNIO – EU Law Journal, vol. 9, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

"Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 25 Nov. 2023 [open access]

"Voter Preferences for EU Asylum Policies: The Role of Government Cues," Government and Opposition, FirstView, 20 Nov. 2023 [open access]

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