06 February 2024

Regional Focus: Europe

Opportunity:

Online Briefing: Shaping Tomorrow: The Role of Refugee and Migrant-led Organisations and Communities in the 2024 European Parliament Elections, 28 February 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

The 2024 Commission work programme and its priorities in the field of migration and home affairs (European Commission, Jan. 2024) [text]

Albania court approves Italy migration agreement to establish migrant processing centers (Jurist, Jan. 2024) [text]

House of Lords votes against blocking the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill (EIN, Jan. 2024) [text]

Refugee protection at Europe’s borders: problems and proposals for change (RLI Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

The space for bias in the assessment of converted and apostate asylum seekers (The Religion Factor, Jan. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the Netherlands.
 
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Reports & journal articles:

EU Lawlessness Law at the EU-Belarusian Border: Torture and Dehumanisation Excused by 'Instrumentalisation', MOBILE Working Paper, no. 18 (Univ. of Copenhagen, Dec. 2023) [text]

European Papers: A Journal on Law and Integration, vol. 8, no. 2 (2023) [open access]
- Features special section on "The Externalisation of EU Migration Policies in Light of EU Constitutional Principles and Values."

"The geopolitics of fear: Pro-refugee resistance to Europe's racial security," Political Geography, vol. 109 (March 2024) [open access]

"Historical Layers of Refugee Reception in Border Areas of Italy: Crossroads of Transit and Temporalities of (Im)mobility," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 29 Jan. 2024 [open access]

Humanitarian Visas in a Hostile Environment: historical legacies, geopolitical ties and everyday experiences, MIGZEN Research Brief, no. 5 (Univ. of Birmingham, Jan. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the UK. See also related post on The Conversation.

"Mapping EU Externalisation Devices through a Critical Eye," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 26, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

On the Reform of France’s Asylum and Immigration Law (IRAP, Jan. 2024) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and French.

Pushbacks at Europe's Borders: A Continuously Ignored Crisis, Protecting Rights at Borders Report, no. VIII (Danish Refugee Council, Jan. 2024) [text]

"When aerial surveillance becomes the Sine Qua Non for interceptions at sea: mapping the EU and its member states’ complicity in border violence," Chapter in European Yearbook on Human Rights 2023 (Intersentia, Dec. 2023) [open access]

Multimedia:

Nordic Asylum Practice in relation to Religious Conversion: Insights from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 13 Dec. 2023 [access]
- Discussion of the findings and implications of new report.

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