Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunity:

Campaign launch: Stop the Inhumanity at Europe's Borders, London/Online, 30 January 2024 [info]

- Deadlines for getting tickets: 29 January 2024 (for in-person), 30 January 2024 (for online).

Short pieces:

Ireland’s asylum debate has turned violent thanks to the spread of misinformation and disinformation (The Conversation, Jan. 2024) [text]

The Memorandum of Understanding between the EU and Tunisia: Issues of procedure and substance on the informalisation of migration cooperation (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

"UN rights chief voices concerns over Italy-Albania migrant pact," Reuters, 25 Jan. 2024 [text]

- See also related Amnesty International statement and CEPS report below.

Reports:

*The 2023 Italy-Albania protocol on extraterritorial migration management: A worst practice in migration and asylum policies (CEPS, Dec. 2023) [text]

Extraterritorial processing of asylum claims (European Parliamentary Research Service, Jan. 2024) [text]

Overview of the Role of UNHCR in EU+ Countries, Who is Who in International Protection in the EU+, no. 7 (EU Agency for Asylum, Jan. 2024) [text]

Practical Guide on Evidence and Risk Assessment (EU Agency for Asylum, Jan. 2024) [text]

Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill: HL Bill 41 of 2023-24 (UK House of Lords Library, Jan. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Certifying Credibility: Trajectory of Sub-Saharan Asylum Seekers in Italy," Fuori Luogo: Rivista Di Sociologia Del Territorio, Turismo, Tecnologia, vol. 17, no. 4 (2023) [open access]

"Challenges of Ethnographic Research with War Migrants from Ukraine," Etnografia Polska, vol. 67, nos. 1-2 (2023) [open access]

"The effects of traumatic experiences during transit and pushback on the mental health of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants," European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 14, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

- Focuses on Serbia.

"The Importance of Incorporating Religious, Cultural and Linguistic Evidence in UK Immigration Procedures: An Analysis of the Semiotic Codes of Asylum Seekers," International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Latest Articles, 17 Jan. 2024 [open access]

"Qualifying deportation: How police translation of ‘dangerous foreign criminals’ led to expansive deportation practices in Spain," Security Dialogue, vol. 54, no. 6 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

"Rewarding mobility? Towards a realistic European policy agenda for academics at risk," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:4 (Jan. 2024) [open access]

"Securitizing mobility: Profiling ‘non-core’ Europeans," Security Dialogue, vol. 54, no. 6 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

- Focuses on the Netherlands.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Europe (20 Jan. 2024)