20 January 2024

Regional Focus: Europe

Updates on UK-Rwanda Arrangement:
  • Rwanda bill voted through Commons and heads to Lords as International Agreements Committee says UK-Rwanda treaty not ready to be ratified (EIN, 17 Jan. 2024) [text]
  • "Rwanda president: efforts to implement asylum plan cannot ‘drag on’," The Guardian, 17 Jan. 2024 [text]
  • ‘Safe’ Rwanda is refusing LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, Home Office was told in 2022 (openDemocracy, 17 Jan. 2024) [text]
  • Scrutiny of International Agreements: UK–Rwanda Agreement on an Asylum Partnership (UK House of Lords International Agreements Committee, 17 Jan. 2024) [text]
  • "Asylum seekers sent by UK to Rwanda report sexual abuse and harassment," The New Humanitarian, 15 Jan. 2024 [text]
  • UNHCR Analysis of the Legality and Appropriateness of the Transfer of Asylum-Seekers under the UK-Rwanda arrangement: an update (UNHCR, 15 Jan. 2024) [text]
  • "Sunak’s Rwanda treaty ‘unlikely to satisfy supreme court’, say legal experts," The Guardian, 13 Jan. 2024 [text]

Short pieces:

Most Ukrainians now identify as Europeans: Reshaping identity in times of war (MPC Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

"African Migrants in the Ukraine War," Special section in Shock (Im)mobilities series (Mobility Lab Blog, June 2023) [access]
- This post provides more information.

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

Reports:

Recommendations to the Belgian and Hungarian Presidencies of the Council of the European Union in 2024 (IOM, Jan. 2024) [access]

UNHCR's 2024 Recommendations for the Belgian and Hungarian Presidencies of the Council of the European Union (EU) (UNHCR, Jan. 2024) [access]

Journal articles:

"After Being Granted or Refused Asylum in Norway: Relational Migration Journeys among Afghan Unaccompanied Young Men," Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 1 (Jan. 2024) [open access]

"Contested Appropriations: Informal Migrant Settlements as Ambiguous Spaces Beyond Temporal Borders," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 6 Jan. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Italy.

"Expansion without mandates: Border and asylum agencies in European Union migration governance," Governance, Early View, 12 Jan. 2024 [open access]

"'Living, that’s what we do': an ethnographic account of time and leisure in the British asylum system," Leisure Studies, Latest Articles, 12 Jan. 2024 [open access]

"Narratives of Symbolic Objects: Exploring Relational Wellbeing of Young Refugees Living in Scotland, Finland, and Norway," Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 1 (Jan. 2024) [open access]

"Re-thinking policy and (multi-level) governance failure: What went wrong and why in the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Italy?," Governance, Early View, 8 Jan. 2024 [open access]

"Refugees’ (In)dependency Conundrum: Obstructed Social Reproduction Activities and Unpaid Labour in Refugee Camps," Antipode, Early View, 10 Jan. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Greece.

"Why bother? Local bureaucrats’ motivations for providing social assistance for refugees," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 16 Jan. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Turkey.

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