27 January 2025

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Seminar: The European Union’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Governing Implementation in the Shadow of Externalisation, London, 6 February 2025 [info]

Call for registration: Training Seminar on Pact on Migration and Asylum, Brussels, 5-6 March 2025 [info]
- Register by 13 February 2025.

Short pieces:

Defunding UNRWA: What Is at Stake? (NCCR On the Move Blog, Dec. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Switzerland.

EU sees 38% drop in irregular border crossings in 2024 (European Commission, Jan. 2025) [text]

Post-Assad Syria: What Lies Ahead for Syrian Refugees in Europe? (NCCR On the Move Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

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

Journal articles:

"Access to asylum in times of crises, force majeure and instrumentalization in the EU: Restrictive trends in asylum law and in the case-law," Freedom, Security & Justice: European Legal Studies, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"Determinants of Enforced Return: A Quantitative Analysis of the Spectrum of (In)voluntariness Among Rejected Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands," Population, Space and Place, vol. 31, no. 2 (March 2025) [open access]

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Forthcoming, 2025) 
- Special issue on "The temporary turn in asylum: Researching the politics of deterrence in practice," which "explores recent deterrence strategies in Denmark and Norway." Currently available are the introduction, an article on Denmark and one on Norway.

"Just and unjust securitization of migration: a comparative analysis of migration to Poland from MENA countries and Ukraine," Frontiers in Political Science, 21 Jan. 2025 [open access]

Migrants’ Trust in the Swedish Migration Agency: Exploring Influencing Factors Through Large-Scale Survey Data," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 18 Jan. 2025 [open access]

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