Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

Asylum chaos triggers fresh tensions over how to manage Ireland’s post-Brexit border (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]

A new generation of Vietnamese migrants is protesting against their home government (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Russia Distances Itself from Neighboring Afghan Refugees (International Affairs Review, May 2024) [Part One] [Part Two]

Sergio Vieira de Mello academic network: the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Nicolae Testemitanu" partnered with UNHCR to join the international academic network focused on refugee protection (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Moldova.

UK Home Office grants asylum to a Palestinian citizen of Israel amid fears of persecution in the context of an institutionalised apartheid regime (RLI Blog, May 2024) [text]

"UNHCR Flags Issues in Icelandic Immigration Law Amendments," Iceland Review, 10 May 2024 [text]

Use of force: what is it like and what is at stake? (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Reports & journal articles:

"'Bringing order to the border': liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 10 May 2024 [open access] 

Counting the dead 2020–2021: A new report on the migrants dying on Europe’s borders (ICRC, May 2024) [text]

Country Report: Cyprus (AIDA, May 2024) [text]

- Updated profile.

Delayed Asylum: The Impact of the Exclusion Clause Test (Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Greece.

[ECRE Comments on the Regulation on Asylum and Migration Management] (ECRE, May 2024) [text]

The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: reducing or reinforcing the inhumanity at Europe’s borders? (United Against Inhumanity, April 2024) [text]

"Migrant Death and Disappearability at Sea: Mediterranean Necropolitics as a European Strategy of Migration Deterrence," Journal of Public and International Affairs, 22 April 2024 [text]

"'We Want Our Freedom Back, That's Our Only Need': A Qualitative Study of Health and Social Needs Among Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants Crossing from Belarus to Lithuania," Frontiers in Public Health, 1 May 2024 [open access]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (6 May 2024)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (6 May 2024)