11 March 2025

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The coercive control of human mobility in Europe: A criminological reading of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2025) [text]
- First post in a new "thematic series dedicated to analyzing the criminological implications of the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum by providing an overview of how the newly approved legislative instruments redefine the catalogue of coercive migration control tools that will be available to EU Member States." A second post focusing on Finland is also available.

From the EU-Belarus Border to Strasbourg: The Cases on ‘Migrant Instrumentalisation’ Before the ECtHR (Verfassungsblog, March 2025) [text]

Monitoring migrants’ human rights at the EU borders: EU law v the UN OPCAT? (EJIL: Talk Blog, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Editorial: Weaponisation of refugees in the Trump era – you ain’t seen nothing yet," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 27 Feb. 2025 [text]

Repression without compassion: the state of forced migration governance in Malta (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

Aid for Asylum Hosting: Time to Act (Center for Global Development, March 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

ECRE Comments on a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (ECRE, March 2025) [text]

Latest Asylum Trends 2024: Annual Analysis (EU Agency for Asylum, March 2025) [text]
- See also related press release.

The Narrative Construction of Migrant Irregularity in the United Kingdom: Representation and Narratives in Media, Politics, and Civil Society (Univ. of Birmingham, March 2025) [text]

Phasing out temporary protection? Shaping EU policies through national experiences (International Centre for Migration Policy Development, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Ukraine.

Protection Brief: Bulgaria - International Protection Procedures (UNHCR, Jan. 2025) [text]

Trapped between borders: The life-threatening consequences of increased militarisation at the Poland-Belarus border (Médecins Sans Frontières, March 2025) [text]

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