26 April 2024

Regional Focus: Europe

Update on UK's “Safety of Rwanda” Bill:
  • "UK Parliament approves Rwanda deportation bill, ending weeks of legislative stalemate," AP News, 22 April 2024 [text]
  • UK: Airlines and aviation authorities should not facilitate unlawful removals to Rwanda, UN experts say (OHCHR, 22 April 2024) [text]
  • The obstacles that could still stop flights to Rwanda from taking off (The Conversation, 23 April 2024) [text]
  • Passing of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill met with wave of criticism (EIN, 23 April 2024) [text]
  • The UK Again Attempts to Bend Truth on Rwanda (Human Rights Watch, 23 April 2024) [text]
  • UK-Rwanda asylum law: UN leaders warn of harmful consequences (UNHCR & OHCHR, 23 April 2024) [text]
  • Parliament passes bill declaring Rwanda safe – but can it really be called a law at all? (The Conversation, 24 April 2024) [text]
  • Rwanda explained: From politics to human rights to migration (InfoMigrants, 24 April 2024) [text]
  • Cost, chaos and human misery: the impact of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the Rwanda Plan (Refugee Council, 25 April 2024) [text]
  • After the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill (Border Criminologies Blog, 26 April 2024) [text]
  • Focus on Rwanda’s safety is a distraction from the dangerous conditions for asylum seekers in the UK (The Conversation, 26 April 2024) [text]
  • "Let us press on with UK migrant plan, Rwanda tells critics," Reuters, 26 April 2024 [text]

Short pieces:

EU migration overhaul stresses fast-track deportations and limited appeal rights for asylum seekers (The Conversation, April 2024) [text]

Offshore Processing Offers False Hope for United Kingdom (Australian Outlook, April 2024) [text]

“Pass Go” Directly to the Grand Chamber: The Relinquishment of Jurisdiction in the Case Mansouri v. Italy (RLI Blog, April 2024) [text]

UK: Government considers 'Rwanda-like' deals with four other countries (InfoMigrants, April 2024) [text]
- Note: The other countries are Armenia, Botswana, Costa Rica and Côte d'Ivoire.

Why the Armenians of Artsakh Surrendered: Takeaways from Interviews with Refugees (Georgetown Security Studies Review, April 2024) [text]

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

Reports & journal articles:

"Assessing the quality of data on international migration flows in Europe: The case of undercounting," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

Country Reports (AIDA, April 2024) 
- Updated profiles for Sweden and the UK.

The Evolving Nature of the Vulnerability Concept in European Union Asylum Law, Prague Law Working Paper, no. 2024/I/3 (Charles Univ., April 2024) [text via SSRN]

The externalisation of European refugee protection: A legal, practical and political assessment of current proposals, SWP Comment, no. 13 (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, March 2024) [text]

"Housing and temporary legality: The evictability and settlement of refugees in Swedish municipalities," Critical Social Policy, OnlineFirst, 23 April 2024 [open access]

"Navigating the legal liminalities of a de facto state: Migrant precarity and placeholder identity papers in Northern Cyprus," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]

"A scoping review of academic and grey literature on migrant health research conducted in Scotland," BMC Public Health, 24:1156 (April 2024) [open access]

Resource:

Migration and asylum in Europe – 2023 interactive publication (Eurostat) [access]
- "Provides key data and trends on migration and asylum. It looks at topics such as people migrating to, within and from the EU, international protection of non-EU nationals, and irregular migration." More info is provided here.

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