04 January 2024

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Countering Instrumentalised Migration: The Case for Border Closure Through a Derogation under the ECHR (EJIL Talk Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

European Migration Forum: Addressing Common Challenges (European Commission, Dec. 2023) [text]

Migration Magnets, Migration Myths: The Pull Factor Mirage (Fluchtforschung Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

"What's in the new EU migration and asylum deal?," Reuters, 20 Dec. 2023 [text]
- See also a press release from the European Commission, commentary from Amnesty International and the Migration Policy Institute, and an IRC explainer.

Why the Safety of Rwanda bill should be concerning for us all (RLI Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

Reports:

Atlas of Migration 2023 (European Commission, Dec. 2023) [access]
- "This Atlas is an interactive tool, providing harmonised and validated data on migration for the 27 EU Member States and 171 countries and territories around the world. This data is presented in individual country profiles, and overviews for continents and sub-continental regions." Includes a thematic section on "Solidarity with people displaced from Ukraine."

‘Economic migrants’, ‘criminal smugglers’ and ‘a burden’: How people seeking asylum were portrayed in political and media discourse during pivotal moments in UK asylum policy and law 1999-2022, RLI Working Paper, no. 68 (Refugee Law Initiative, Dec. 2023) [text]

Guide on conceptual and methodological issues in social work research in the field of human mobility (Global-ANSWER Project, 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Italy, Spain and Sweden.

Reporting on Refugees 2023 (UNHCR Ireland, Dec. 2023) [text]

Seeking Safety in Greece: Recounting The Asylum Seeker’s Odyssey (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Dec. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles (focusing on Ukraine/Ukrainians):

"European attitudes to refugees after the Russian invasion of Ukraine," West European Politics, vol. 47 no 2 (2024) [open access]

"High self-selection of Ukrainian refugees into Europe: Evidence from Kraków and Vienna," PLoS ONE 18(12): e0279783 (Dec. 2023) [open access]
- See also earlier related article.

Movements: Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies, vol. 7, no. 2 (2023) [open access]
- Special issue on "Flucht aus der Ukraine = Escape from Ukraine." Articles are in either German or English.

"Refugees Separated by the Global Color Line: The Power of Europeanness, Whiteness, and Sameness," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 27 Dec. 2023 [open access]
-  Explores "the impact of Europeanness, whiteness, and sameness on people of color fleeing the conflict in Ukraine."

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