23 November 2024

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Seminars: RLI 15th International Refugee Law Seminar Series, 10 October 2024-21 March 2025 [info]
- The theme is "Moments in Refugee History and the Development of the Modern Refugee Regime: Understanding refugee law and policy today." 

Call for applications: Arthur C. Helton Fellowship Program [info]
- Apply by 17 January 2025.

CFP: "Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures," RLI 15th Anniversary Conference, London, 2-4 June 2025 [info]
- Submit proposals by 27 January 2025.

Short pieces:

Egypt hosts Africa Chapter of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges (IARMJ) Conference (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]

Global Roundtables on International Protection of Refugees: Exploring Laws on Climate-Induced Displacement and Refugee Travel Documents with Essex Law School and the UNHCR (Essex Law Research Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Seminar on the European Convention on Human Rights and international refugee law compliant procedures at state borders (Council of Europe, Oct. 2024) [text]

New open access books:

Between Protection and Harm: Negotiated Vulnerabilities in Asylum Laws and Bureaucracies (Springer, Oct. 2024) [open access]
- "This open access book dissects the current narratives of ‘vulnerability’ in asylum laws and policies, by unpacking the meanings, productions, and performances, of ‘vulnerability’ in different contexts, from countries of first asylum in the Global South to Europe and Canada. ...[It] examines existing legal and bureaucratic approaches to refugees’ vulnerabilities, which it confronts with the refugees’ experiences and understandings of their own life challenges. It analyses the perspectives from state actors, humanitarian organisations, and social and aid workers, as well as the refugees themselves. By emphasizing how these perspectives relate and feed into each other, the book unpacks the humanitarian replies from states and the international community to refugee movements – including in their implied exclusionary dimensions that generate contestations and implementation difficulties which, if not tackled and understood properly, risk exacerbating and/or producing vulnerabilities among refugees."

Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role: Rights and Responsibility in the Implementation of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees (Springer, Dec. 2024) [open access]
- "This book analyses the characteristics and impacts of existing and emerging asylum governance instruments and their practical implementation in selected countries hosting large communities of refugees around the world. Particular focus is given to the cases of Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Jordan, Niger, Serbia, South Africa and Turkey. Attention is put into regional and country-specific asylum instruments and actors from the perspective of their effectiveness, fairness and consistency with refugee protection and human rights standards as well as the UN GCR commitments. By doing so, the book identifies key lessons learned and offers a critical view on policies framed as 'promising practices' so as to inform future steps in the UN GCR implementation and asylum governance more generally."

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