18 December 2025

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Bridging the Gaps: Albania takes steps to improve access to documentation for refugees, with support from UNHCR under the EU4Migration Project (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

Germany’s plan to deport Syrian refugees echoes 1980s effort to repatriate Turkish guest workers (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]

Justice and Home Affairs Ministers agree position on key migration laws and security policies (European Commission, Dec. 2025) [text]
- See also related ECRE editorial.

What makes people welcome or reject refugees? What research in Germany reveals (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]

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

Reports:

ECRE Comments on the Qualification Regulation (EU) 2024/1347 (ECRE, Dec. 2025) [text]

To Leave or Stay? Examining the Role of Counseling and Reintegration Assistance in the Return Decision-Making of Migrants Ordered to Leave the Netherlands (Migration Policy Institute, Dec. 2025) [text]

Union support for asylum, migration and integration (European Parliament, Dec. 2025) [text]

"You can't stay but you can't go": State violence at the UK-France border (Humans for Rights Network, Dec. 2025) [text via EIN]

Journal articles:

"Just Like Us? 'Sameing' Ukrainian Refugee Migration," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 11 Dec. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"'Migrant data can never be accurate': studying migration and borders through the notion of data quality," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 10 Dec. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Greece.

"One century, two refugee crises in Greece: de-nationalising the past/de-naturalising the present," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 9 Dec. 2025 [open access]

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