08 May 2025

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Call for applications: Odysseus Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, Brussels/Online, 30 June-11 July 2025 [info]
- The focus will be on "the new instruments adopted in 2024 under the New Migration & Asylum Pact." Apply by 15 May 2025.

Call for registration: ECRE Annual General Conference (AGC) 2025, Warsaw, 5 June 2025 [info]

Call for registration: EU Asylum at a Crossroads? State of Asylum Conference 2025, Valletta, Malta/Online, 18 June 2025 [info]
- The EUAA Asylum Report 2025 will also be launched.

Short pieces:

Billions made by companies involved in UK border security, study shows (Univ. of York, April 2025) [text]

Europeans have more flexible views on how to respond to irregular migrants than policymakers think (The Conversation, April 2025) [text]

Refugee from one Member State to Another: Towards Automatic Mutual Recognition? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, May 2025) [text]
- Also available in French.

Thousands of Syrian lives on hold amid asylum application freeze (Euro-Med Monitor, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Russia: Weaponising Immigration Policies to Push Migrants into War and Launching a New “Expulsion Regime” (International Detention Monitor, April 2025) [text]

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

Journal articles:

"Assisted return programmes across Europe: Mapping an increasingly obscure landscape," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

"Attribution and Migration: A Survey Experiment," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 2 May 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on The Netherlands.

"Closed borders, closed minds? COVID-related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants," European Journal of Political Research, Early View, 30 April 2025 [open access]

"The New Pact on Migration and Asylum in a shifting political context: Depoliticization and repoliticization in EU external migration policy," Mediterranean Politics, Latest Articles, 1 May 2025 [open access]

"Return governance and diplomacy between Türkiye and Afghanistan," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2025) [open access]

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