19 September 2025

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Advanced ELENA Course 2025, Sliema, Malta, 7-8 November [info]
- Register by 29 September 2025.

Short pieces:

After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works (The Conversation, Sept. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Anti-migrant vigilante groups patrolling Europe – what to know (InfoMigrants, Sept. 2025) [text]

Asylum seekers in the UK: common questions in 2025 (UK House of Commons Library, Sept. 2025) [text]

Migration and Activism on the Maltese Archipelago (Border Criminologies Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

"State of the Union 2025," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 11 Sept. 2025 [text]

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

Reports:  

Ad hoc Report: Situation in Ukraine and Displacement to the EU+: Trends, Drivers and Future Prospects (EU Agency for Asylum, Sept. 2025) [text]

Asylum in Europe: The situation of applicants for international protection in 2024 (AIDA, Sept. 2025) [text]

Country reports: (AIDA, Sept. 2025)
- Updated profiles for Greece and Portugal. Note: A listing of 2024 updates is provided in the 12 Sept. 2025 issue of the ELENA Legal Update.

Latest Asylum Trends: Mid-Year Review 2025 (EU Agency for Asylum, Sept. 2025) [text]

Expanding the Grounds for Asylum: A Response to Hadj Abdou and Kollar (2024) (Migration Policy Centre, 2025) [text]
- The article this author is commenting on is "Why failed asylum seekers should have a conditional right to stay: an ethical guideline for policy debates," Comparative Migration Studies, 12:14 (March 2024).

Journal articles (just focusing on the UK; additional articles are listed in part 2):

"Art and the asylum seeker: effects on public attitudes of viewing paintings created by individuals applying for political asylum in the UK," Cogent Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"'Fighting Him': Following Distress in Hostile Housing Regimes," Social Science & Medicine, In Press, 12 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"From Solidarity to Exclusion: The ‘Safe Country’ Concept in UK Asylum Law and the Irony of Borders," Laws, vol. 14, no. 5 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

"The Shifting Sands of Legal Aid Deserts: Access to Justice for Asylum in 2022–24," Laws, vol. 14, no. 5 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

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